skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that even an argument? That's a false dilemma. The choice isn't limited to binary blob Flash/Silverlight vs binary blob DRM plugin.
I, too, dislike big honking 5+" smartphones, and while I could see how they replace mini tablets, I don't think they can be used as general-purpose computing device in the way a tablet can.
I don't mean to come across as an asshole; I applaud the effort!

But seeing hierarchical menus just made me close the tab immediately. There are others, much more human-approachable, UI paradigmas.

If we want to push meaningful software to the non-tech-savvy people to make their lives better, we have to start letting go of ancient UX methodologies.
Sure. FWIW i avoid using webmail as much as i can, but that's just because i love my mu4e. Still though, i wonder about what would happen in the (admittedly very unlikely) event that someone compromised my secrets file. (example off the top of my head: seized backup disk at border control)
Who are you saying deserves to go out of business? Netflix? Because I can assure you Linux users that insist on Firefox support instead of just Chrome will not be the difference between them being in business or not. They themselves tend to be pretty understanding of the whole anti-DRM thing and contribute to FOSS technology more than most companies, but they cooperate with DRM content because that actually is the difference between them being in business and not. I get that we don't like DRM, but I've seen speakers who work for Netflix get yelled at on stage at open-source tech conferences over it. Not helping. The same is true if you meant Mozilla deserves to go out of business. This attitude of "anyone who isn't 100% in line with my principles should be removed from society" is just getting taken too far. It's stupid.
It is unlawful for a person to knowingly and willingly make, publish or circulate on an Internet Web site, or cause to be made, published, or circulated in any writing posted on an Internet Web site, a false or deceptive statement designed to influence the vote on either of the following:

(a) Any issue submitted to voters at an election.

(b) Any candidate for election to public office.

Great, if this passes (which there isn't a chance in hell of) we'll have grounds to lock up every politician I've ever seen. (Including those claiming not to be politicians). Many reporters and newspaper publishers as well.
The best quality content I find is almost always someones personal, non commercial writeup. often times this is something as simple as the comment section of a article, or their own blog.

They put no ads and do it because they care about the subject and care about their reputation so they make sure its not spamy.

I have alwasy hoped for a micropayment system I could use to reward this behavior.
Same. I use Facebook for nothing but messaging now, and have every other feature blocked with my adblocker.
> leaving the way open for competitors to offer a first-class web experience as long as they left DRM behind.

Competitors already exist in this area. Here is GoG's listening of DRM-free movies:
https://www.gog.com/movies?sort=bestselling&page=1

It is very rare that I find something I want to watch here, where as the content I generally want to watch, sadly, exists behind a DRM-wall.

Services/competitors are a dime a dozen, but the issue is driving users to your service, and I don't believe users will run to watch content they don't want to watch just because it is DRM free. I also don't feel like we will force content creators to go DRM free since, as we're seeing, everyone is releasing their own streaming service, which would include DRM.
Nope, there's a company in Shenzhen that makes a plug-and-play bypass device: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/warner-bros-sues...
The Emotionally Fit Founder, Part One: What Is Emotional Fitness?
Professor: "We're going to show you a man actually talking to a computer.."
Interviewer: "Surely not with his voice."
> What I would like to see is a APFS/exFAT crossover with COW and data checksums without all the volume mgmt with ports for all possible operating systems so everyone can use it for their SDcards, usb-sticks and external drives without making tradeoffs and using fuse.

+1. Filesystems without bit-rot protection on flash drives are going to become at least as big a problem as optical disc rot.
You want free and open? Go build that yourself. People do build Firefox and chrome without this, go download them and enjoy yourself.
It's true but it doesn't make sense IMO for the buck to stop at Netflix. If Netflix could have talked content providers into allowing them to use an open-source "DRM" that worked for ordinary users but which could probably be circumvented by someone with programming skills, this wouldn't happen. The problem is that legally Netflix could be on the hook for any copyright infringement that may have been facilitated by their service. Crucially, the definition of "facilitated" can include not taking enough precautions to prevent it, and apparently using an open-source script that imperfectly prevents copying is still enough to expose Netflix to liability.

The laws must be ordered in a way that allows streaming video to be sold to users of open-source software. It's not like the current scheme is entirely resistant to pirates anyway. It's very much like the Drug War in that externalities affecting individuals who have done nothing wrong begin to exceed the damage caused by the "crime".
Not sure if it's considered acceptable here or not, but I can't view this article as it's behind a paywall.
> I think we should just abandon the idea that work has to take place on a fixed schedule year-round and adjust things with the seasons.

"Core hours" is one way to keep things fixed enough to have meetings and shared office time, while letting employees adjust their own schedules.
NPM package to convert Unix-timestamp to time from now like Instagram or Twitter
I don't think this is true.
Let them release their own video (which they create) DRM-free. Otherwise their disgusting efforts of pushing EME into HTML standard are also backed by stinking hypocrisy, of claiming in not being interested in DRM themselves.
Last time I rewatched this video I tried to start researching the idea of constraints but couldn't find a good starting point. Any recommendations?
You got me. I was reading and thinking, "This person just couldn't be more wrong." Nicely done.
So it's ok to steal things that are easy to steal?
Ask HN: Where is the dev scene is in Denmark?
I just moved to Denmark from Victoria, Canada, and I will be here for one year on a working holiday visa. I have a remote internship with Automattic for the next four months, and I'd like to take this opportunity to seek out some other Danish coders and developers, and find my tribe here. Can anyone recommend some good forums/mailing lists/facebook groups/meetups?

I'm in Sønderborg, not really close to Copenhagen at all, but I have a car to borrow and time to travel a bit.

Thanks! Shannon
That's neat, but it would be even cooler if they sent you the photos online. The fact that they are printing them out and sending them to you in the mail shows just how behind the USPS is when it comes to technology.
> but unfortunately that's unrealistic.

Why is it unrealistic? Hollywood just needs to be pushed harder. It worked for music no?
I lost data on my workstation running brtfs in 2016, but would give it another shot if I knew I could expect reliability from it.

Makes me wonder if anyone's tried something like Jepsen for filesystems.
I have been using Netflix on Firefox under Linux for a long while now. All that was required was changing my user agent...

The only recent change here is that the user agents for Firefox on Linux are finally allowed.
Ah, the old "do-it-for-the-publicity" :)
I dunno what "Languages Services" is. I guess I don't need it?

It doesn't have to be fair to be useful and interesting. Software doesn't have feelings, so we can judge it on all sorts of metrics, fair and otherwise, without causing harm. Performance is a feature I value. So are some of the other things the bigger slower editors do. Having real metrics about their relative differences is useful, IMHO.
I actually like the idea of invented auxiliary languages like Esperanto. I've spent 10% of the time on it that I did on Spanish in HS and understand probably 5x as much due to the grammar. No gendered nouns, suffixes and prefixes on words to keep extraneous vocabulary down...etc. Also, having one sound per letter and no trilling R is nice.
Is it possible to have the navbar fixed as well and not only the content?
> My 7 year old audio interface (E-MU 0404 USB 2.0 for who cares) started making BSODs after upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. The latest manufacturer drivers were for Vista.

I had one of those, and the Vista drivers were never released as a production version. Driver support for it was THE thing that kept me from upgrading from XP to 7, and also what convinced me to never again buy a Creative product.

The matter became moot, and XP took a hike, when it finally crapped out one day. My audio interface is now a Focusrite.
Many polls indicate Alaska as one of the "happiest" states in the US. I would argue that it is what you make of the light and/or activity level that makes a bigger difference. I live in Fairbanks, Alaska, and we have very minimal sun for half the year (3.5 hours at the solstice). Then you don't see darkness from ~April to ~August. Those who bundle up and get out regularly (ski/ice skate/play hockey/fat bike/walk/dog sled/watch northern lights) enjoy even the -40 degree dark winters.
The thought of Uber failing is reminiscent of Myspace shifting to Facebook, Napster shutting down, etc. I don't think they're going to fail, but if they do, I don't think much would really happen. Lyft would get a big boost, other competitors would rise to fill the gap, and there would be a mad scramble of companies to hire the new influx of experienced and talented people on the market. Then the world goes on.
Slippage could be considered a disclaimer about market orders that some people don't realize, but keep in mind that market orders are essential to many exchanges (EDIT: based on the 'maker/taker' model, like GDAX). The market doesn't move/work without market orders, unless you have a limit order matching policy or something.
That's false. DRM doesn't enable business. It's not even needed at all.
Netflix probably also enjoys this, as it presents a barrier to entry. They also don't say anything negative about DRM[1], instead talking about "premium" content. They even go as far as to say:

"This is a requirement for any premium subscription video service" -- this is blatantly false, unless you redefine premium to mean "requires DRM", in which case it's circular.

Also note the use of "protect" as if it was a positive or good thing.

1: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/04/html5-video-at-netflix.h...
Yes or No – StackExchange
I've always thought that without spiders vertebrates would never have had a chance to become dominant.
Isn't that the point of an editor? That I don't have to use a bulky machine just to run it. If I have to run a machine with 16GB of ram to run the editor I am better of just running a full fledged IDE.
https://xkcd.com/1717/
I'll comment on putting together a slide presentation - have developed a strategy based on advice from a few different mentors.

One of the best pieces of guidance I've ever received wrt presentations is to tell the audience what you're going to say, tell it to them, then remind them what you've said. Seems repetitive, but done right it can be much more effective.

Once you know what you need to say, grab some blank paper (recycled, of course :) and use one sheet per slide to sketch out what each slide should look like.

I've been told to use a blue background, white text, yellow & red for highlights. I can't say that's been scientifically proven, but I have seen some other awful colors being used - this scheme isn't offensive, at the very least. There should rarely be full sentences on a slide... a few bullet points at most.

Your completed presentation shouldn't mean much to someone who reads it over without hearing your speech - if it does, there is probably too much text on the slides. That said, this means you need to practice... a lot. If you can't read off the slides, you'll need to know what you want to say.

Hope this helps!
HDCP stripping has been a thing for a while now: https://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/remove-hdcp-hdmi-s...

The HDFury devices work great: https://www.hdfury.com/tag/hdcp-stripper/
How about sharing encrypted videos among a private group of people who are not technologically sophisticated?

The conventional way to do so would require recipients to download an encrypted video file, then run a separate program to decrypt the file. Then they could play the file. Then they have to remember to delete the decrypted file if it is something sensitive that should not be lying about unencrypted on their system.

It should be possible to design a system that plugs into EME that greatly simplifies this.
> Because the studios are the ones demanding DRM. I was under the impression that netflix original content is actually far more relaxed on restrictions

Where can you buy it DRM-free?
I like where this series is going...mainly around the thesis that a healthy founder creates a healthy culture.
> Noise – Being a researcher is like standing in the middle of a construction site. Countless papers scream for your attention and there’s no easy way to filter or summarize them.2 We think noise is the main way experts experience research debt.

This is a big part of how I don't understand why some type of annotation standard hasn't taken off for research papers. Everyone does the same duplicative, time-consuming work of turning a paper into knowledge in their own head, so many wheels are reinvented. Where is the GitHub for research ideas?
> This isn't any different from the compatibility issues across desktop operating systems. You wouldn't expect a mac desktop app binary to "just work" when double-clicked on a Windows OS.

It actually is a completely different issue. The web is a standard, browsers implement that standard. It isn't perfect but its not the same intention as different OS architecture.
Why would you prefer letting streaming companies have full code execution on you desktop instead of having browsers mediate?
As far as I can tell, whiteboard/quiz interviews are no better than coin-flipping.

The best technical interviews I've been involved with seem to be mostly conversation about what the candidate has done and likes to do, and what the company wants and is like. Typically the candidate has a general impression of the company from having heard about or read about it (or having friends that work there), and the company has a general impression of the candidate from their resume, cover letter, some public code/etc., and possibly common acquaintances. That seems to produce the best results.

EDIT: More importantly, the key problem in hiring is not finding people that are technically qualified. The key problem is assembling teams of people who mesh well and are productive as a team. The world's companies are filled with teams of brilliant people who don't work well together.
Just jumping on the Emacs bandwagon here to Ask HN: does anyone have tips and tricks for profiling my real-world Emacs setup? Between perhaps a too-large .git repository, and all my loaded extensions, and perhaps spellchecking or font-lock, i'm sometimes not sure what's causing latency, and while i couldn't go back to Vim feature-wise, i do miss its speed.
>That puts the cost of DRM on everyone except the ones who want to freeload on our open tech to take our freedom away.

This argument implicitly assumes that the big cost of DRM is actually implementing the DRM. Everyone knows that isn't true. The social cost of DRM is the effect on the users' freedom, and if the users are using entirely proprietary applets they're probably less free than if they depend on a single proprietary library.
I've always found it fascinating that Windows/Microsoft error messages seem to have some kind of UUID (Error #c101a053 is one I found on my search history from 5 years ago), but you _can't look them up by UUID_ on the MS help pages or even online (and sometimes they don't seem to even be unique). I've always wanted to know what they do with these numbers.
It's just a very heavy page render due to the way asset preloading is implemented; details at [1]. Seems Linux user agents get a legacy method and Windows get a modern one.

You can see it yourself by viewing [2]. OneDrive renders several of those pages simultaneously.

[1]: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/x-B5T7tn...

[2]: https://powerpoint.officeapps.live.com/p/StaticLoad.aspx?wx=...
> Even a corporation has an Agent for Service of Process, a real person to interact with the real world of living persons.
Show HN: Cicada, a hobby chess engine written in Rust
An example that gave (and still gives) me the creeps: A guy seeing videos with lots of blood (vino) and a gang rape (the old in-out)

And then, what do you know, soon our dear old friend, the red, red vino on tap, the same in all places like it's put out by the same big firm, began to flow. It was beautiful. It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. Now all the time I was watching this, I was beginning to get very aware of like not feeling all that well, and this I put down to all the rich food and vitamins, but I tried to forget this, concentrating on the next film which jumped right away on a young devotchka who was being given the old in-out, in-out first by one malchick, then another, then another...When it came to the sixth or seventh malchick, leering and smecking and then going into it, I began to feel really sick.

From Clockwork Orange
One downside of xkcd style passwords is that they are not accepted everywhere. Many websites have a list of characters you must and must not include in your password.
Nothing you're describing applies to the scenario of "download, then execute" either, which is the alternative to "pipe to bash".

Anyone who's willing to read the script first, or verify PGP keys, or whatnot, is perfectly capable of doing so even if the instructions tell you to pipe to bash. But the overwhelming majority of people don't do that.
I migrated from lastpass to https://www.enpass.io/

It is a cross platform PW manager with Browser extensions (i only use it on macOS with FF and Chromium, though), which does NOT store your passwords in the cloud.

You can sync the database via Cloud storage providers/webdav/usb stick. I really like to be in control of where my passwords are stored.

Sharing of passwords (business usecases!?) is not supported afaik.
DNS lookups can reveal every web page you visit, says German boffin
I'm saying that if CEO you do nothing to prevent piracy then you get blamed for all the piracy. If you're using industry standards, like DRM, to protect the content they can't hold you accountable. It's just a cost of doing business.

If one day the industry recognizes that DRM is useless and it's no longer demanded by content holders, then as CEO of Netflix you can abandon it.

Steve Jobs told the music industry to suck it up and deal, and they did. He was unable to convince the movie/TV industry to do the same.
Wow, that's pretty awesome. What a wake up call lmao
And that's different from a web page that won't allow you to access it without a password, how? In both cases, a business decision by a third party limits what you're able to access.

I understand that you don't want to run code Netflix approves of and that you're not permitted to read in its original source form. And that's fine, a good reason not to subscribe to Netflix. But how is that any more an offense to "the open web" than a subscription-only website?
My parents pulled me out of public school and sent me to a private school that could teach me given my special needs. Best decision for everyone, sucks though that they had to pay my tuition in addition to all the taxes.
In my experience, papers often take more than just two submissions to be published. It's often a question of finding a good community fit. One paper I coauthored took 8 years and probably 10 submissions before it was finally accepted.

Length restrictions can be a bummer, but if you have a publishable result that you simply can't squeeze into 10-20 pages (depending on the venue), typically you split it in to two or more publications. This has the added advantage of ensuring that each published unit is a smaller, tighter piece of work. I don't think it's just pedantry.
`git map` isn't a built-in git command.
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Overwhelming chances are that if you mistype an ipv6 address, it points to somewhere nonexistent. That sounds preferable.
Probably first such machines will operate illegaly in some countries and hire protection from humans for its phyisical assets.
In what sense is Netflix "freeloading"? Where does the free ride stop? Are they allowed to use TCP/IP stacks to deliver DRM? The HTTP protocol? Or is just Mozilla that's the problem?
This way the sum of all ownership sums to 1.

QED, I guess. Meanwhile, down on Planet Earth, we have the perfectly obvious and natural question: when one of those vehicles (inevitably) plunges into a school bus full o' kids, and is found to have done so as a result of criminal negligence -- who's going to jail? Once you've identified those parties -- you know, the human beings who will be held accountable for the aforementioned negligence -- you've identified the "de-facto" owners of these vehicles, by any meaningful definition.

Or if you (truly believe) the answer is "no one" -- as in, "Aw shucks! Nobody owns these cars, you see! Just some blobs of white noise on the blockchain! You can't even trace 'em! BTW sorry 'bout all those poor kids, but you know, stuff happens" -- then at least we've identified the "self-ownership" fad for what it is: just another libertarian smokescreen to maximize the potential for financial gain whilst minimizing (or in this case, voiding entirely) the personal responsibility (and accountability) that otherwise -- in a sane world -- would go hand-in-hand with such activity.
Could we "fork the web" or something?. Someone could create a parallel stack of web standards that is fully free/open. For the most part it would be the same as the conventional web standard, but open source browser developers would have something to base their developments on, something like the "OpenWeb Stack". Sorry for my bad english.
It's important to realize that this is consumption per year, not biomass at any one time. At any given instant, the vast majority of the terrestrial biomass is made up of humans, our pets, and our livestock (estimates go as high as 98%). Most of that is cattle. However, it takes awhile to rear a cow, whereas insect lifetimes can be in the spans of days. So there's much more turn-over in the insect realm, which is how the accumulated number across the entire year grows so large, while still being much smaller than the total human & livestock biomass at any given time.
My solution is a linux router between my home network and the cable modem that intercepts ntp/dns requests and sends them on over several VPN paths to different VM's around the country, each using multiple resolvers that are not google or opendns. It isn't perfect, but my ISP has never seen a single DNS packet from me.
If that's true, why does every major content provider disagree with you?