skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'business class seats in the upper deck or “bubble” were not sold so everyone can climb up the stairs for a final look-see.'

This is a nice move on their part.

It's sad to see dwindling number of 747 in airline fleet. 747-8 lives on, but it's more popular as a cargo variant.

It will always be the most beautiful passenger jet ever made.
iPhone screens crack and smash just as much as any phone, if not more. I've cracked one, my wife's done 3. (!)

But you can almost always get them repaired for significantly less than the resale value of the phone, so it's worthwhile to do so.
You typically want exactly 0 or 1 instances for testing instances. I don't recall autoscaling groups able to do that.
> The paradox of tolerance is not about tolerating hate speech. It's about tolerating violent actions.

While I can understand the motivation to interpret it this way, it seems directly counter to Popper:

> In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance#Discussio...
To be contrarian, I wonder if anyone's attempted to quantify the number of lives saved by the automotive transportation network. Ambulances seem like the most obvious case, wonder what others are out there.
Perhaps not true THIS time at least...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/equifax-hackers-stole-20...
This isn't recommended. If you quit the company, that shows you obviously do not want to work for them.

If you quit once, what's the likelihood you'll quit again? And how soon? Why waste everyone's time? You'll need to make a seriously good case as to why the company should rehire you.

In Jeremy's case, he wrote a lot of code that a lot of people use around the globe. That adds a lot of value to him. Luckily, for him, the NYT is lenient to bring him back on the job.

Some other companies aren't so nice.
A EME module is basically a proprietary closed source plugin just like silverlight and flash and shares the same potential security issues.
Stupid? The investors are loaning someone else's money. They probably isolate it legally so if the loan defaults they are not personally liable and it doesn't affect any other investments. The money isn't hard earned. It isn't someone's hard sweat-earned savings invested. It is debt. Debt generally just expands the money supply.
People were naively thinking/hoping that once Flash and plugins die, DRM would magically disappear and media companies would start putting all their content on the open web, for anyone to access.

I'm with you, I'd much rather have a clean, secure and well implemented option, rather than each company trying to hack together a solution that will be buggy, insecure and inefficient.

The option of there being no DRM was realistically never on the table, as much as people would've liked it to be.
> average consumer ... complain with the extortionist environments that leads to.

I suppose so, but I wasn't really talking about entities that might be able to control a distribution channel. I was talking about average consumers.

Realistically, the limiting factor in (legally) distributing movies is not the technology, but getting the rights-holders to sell you those rights. This DRM tech does not really change the landscape on that, because a small new entrant already had no shot at making a deal.
The fratboy short. Hilarious.
Does not run offline. Need notes app to work in offline conditions.

Take a cue from Onenote/Evernote/Keep. A notes application MUST run even in shady/non existent internet connection.
Anyone taking bets on how long it will be before CDMs start requiring extensions that allow access to platform Output Protection/HDCP mechanisms?

If nothing else, the standard already allows for the CDM to access the network (albeit managed by the user-agent) which means, for example, it could ping Microsoft to ask about this particular Win10 computer (as identified by user agent, IP address, and/or user account data from the content provider).

Netflix/Microsoft/Hollywood/etc. aren't going to stop until they can close the loop as much as possible, with MS and hardware manufacturers already working to tighten things from the other end (see HDCP and the various frameworks for "protected content" that MS has been working towards).

Either providers will push to integrate those platform-level frameworks, or they'll just stop offering content to web browsers entirely.
>Media companies couldn't give any less fucks about the web. They can go 100 years without publishing on the web, since they have other revenue paths that they're perfectly happy with.

LOL. With what? Their paper? Their DVDs? Their CDs? Their cable channel subscribers?
Tufte is a collector of some good design, but having seen him at a conference and gone through his books, he actually has very little grasp of the general principles at play. I wouldn't recommend him.
That's pretty unlikely. If Flash (and Silverlight) died and browsers didn't have anything built-in, the studios/distributors would just get together and form a company to build a new plugin that does the job. Or worse, we'd have several competing implementations.

Regardless of which of these occurs, you can bet that they wouldn't bother to sandbox the implementations, and we'd end up with the same security issues we had with Flash.

If browser vendors don't want to play ball (NPAPI is dying/dead, PPAPI and NativeClient are Chrome-only, etc.), then forget about in-browser video: they'd just build native apps instead. And maybe that's not a bad outcome for people who want the web to remain pure, but as a practical matter and a person who runs Linux, I like being able to run Netflix on my laptop.

I'm completely flabbergasted that people seem to believe that DRM would somehow magically disappear if the W3C hadn't been willing to discuss EME.
@Exuma, totally agree with your comments. I was going to publish the source code on Github, but didnt get time around it to be honest. I have a bitbucket repo for the same, so if you want to get access to code please let me know :).
The suggestion isn’t to use git or a git-like for procedures, but for tracking the text of laws.
So you can't do this with accounting audit, so laws should be updated to make security audits the same!
He's not fired yet.
It's as if the angry mob, the paragon of innocence, never talked behind someone's back... /sarcasm
If that's the case, we must assume then that any recommendations they made were summarily ignored, given the subsequent breach in July?
UnOfficial Chrome extension for Github Dashboard (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-pro/iihgjgn...)
> Because neither of those are actually technically necessary, except to support a business model that depends on some form of DRM.

Well, yes, that's absolutely true. But they have the leverage here (at least for now), whether we like it or not.
Amazon may be local to my state but the small toy store is local to my _city_. The warehouse four hours away means less to me than someone who pays taxes in my city and lives two miles away.
Modern product managers and data science folks have a very inflated view of their ability to anticipate their user's desires, IMO. "Simplicity" has killed so much useful-to-the-user functionality in the past decade, like star ratings (fortunately iTunes still has them, at least), intuitive queues (remember the old Netflix DVD queue?), linear feeds of chronological data (hi Facebook and Twitter)...
Brandon is still CEO, might want to wait until after he leaves. Also wait until it is clear they aren't going to declare bankruptcy because that usually wipes out share holders.
Ultrafast single TCP packet audio/visual experience
So would the TL/DR be:

“Rowley: So, we got a whole bunch of attention, which made us irrational - although Silicon Valley pushes an unhealthy view of business so it deserves some blame too. And without really thinking about whether it would work, it just sort of got away from us and so we did a Kickstarter, a bunch of promo videos and took a whole lot of peoples money. We spent it, without making any real progress. And then, out of nowhere, the money ran out and no-one would give us more.

So yea, I’ve got scars. But at least my next company, Vue, a smart-glasses startup, is benefiting from my scars. We’ve learned to control our messaging - For example: Vue aren’t really smart-glasses. They’re headphones - built into the frame of the glasses. So, see how we did that? Just like the way we rode the 3d-printing wave selling electroloom, now we’re riding the smart-glasses wave to sell headphones!

And we’re doing a Kickstarter...and a bunch of promo videos..”
Pro tip for non-singers like me: Buy one of those karaoke games. Now find out the songs your voice naturally sings reasonably well. Stick to those songs forevermore.
Just having a resource like this available is a great sign for the community's long term health.
Agreed! I am going to put that in the chrome extension description now.
Off the top of my head, "Unconditional Parenting" by Alfie Kohn is a seminal text in the field. "Parenting From the Inside Out" by Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell is wonderful as well.
That's not axiomatic; in fact, it's a normative claim, not a positive one.

The argument is not that there are no consequences, but that DRM is a net positive because those consequences are the trade off for more and better content online.

Why don't you clarify why you think the tradeoff is not worth it, instead of just saying DRM = bad?
But Toys R Us was not a value adding retailer but rather just another big box warehouse store that did as well at lowering costs on big selections as possible before Internet shopping started to dominate big sales on big selections.
Basically they found a way to store the exact peroperties of a light signal in a sound wave.

This means that the quanta of light can be stored in another form and then I assume reconstructed in a reverse process.

This means that the entire information that is stored in it is preserved rather than a sampled approximation.

This sounds like an acoustic delay element (used in electronics, primarily analog electronics for video/audio and other analog signal processing voodoo boxes) for optics.
What "miserable slum", though? Honestly, I find Netflix's Android app an absolute delight to use. Even if I'm sitting on my couch with my laptop, I'll pick up my phone to cast something to the TV before I use my laptop for that purpose.

All in all, average customers (as in, not the majority of the HN crowd) seem perfectly happy with the current experience. Even if they had to install a native app to watch Netflix on their laptop, I doubt that would change their perception much.
Due to DRM it's the only (legal) way I can watch it on my computer.
Thankyou for the additional detail. I'd say that the two arrived at similar outcomes, which isn't surprising given NixOps's roots.
You left out users when you said "everybody".

Yes, this model makes it so content creators actually have to create content or their customers will drop them for a better content creator. That sounds great for users.

I'm not sure why I should care that a few user-hostile rent-seeking entities won't have complete control of the internet anymore.

The API extensions causing vendor lock-in complaint is fairly bogus. Features would be driven by the content renderers, not the content creators. It's that very abdication of power that browsers have given to content creators that the system I'm proposing would avoid.
I came across a "hole" in the design of a vendor I was evaluating. Their fancy Java UI actually just downloaded plaintext root credentials to their MySQL database. All security was client side. As a bonus the root credentials were debug logged to the user's local computer.

Making it worse, they actively sold this as a multi-tenant platform to be used with mutually untrusting parties.

When I met with engineering and started to explain, they started smiling and said "this is a known issue and we're going to fix it in our next version."

Quite some time later I ran across people using it in the wild and they had not passed a lot of the glaring holes. Even their newer version had a hidden input field on the edit profile page named "IsAdmin". This did exactly what you think.

They ended up having a successful exit as far as I know and I've never heard anyone speak ill of them security-wise.

Telecom is a mess. These holes are easily exploitable for direct profit. But there's so much more low-hanging fruit, I don't think people bother.
I love it, that's great.

Still trying to get upstairs on a Qantas 747 before they are all gone.. haven't had any luck on upgrades so far :(
I'm guessing you don't have young kids? I say that because if I want to watch any R rated content (like Bojack Horseman for example, which I did last week), the only place I can safely do that is in my office with headphones on, since the toddler tends to creepily sneak up on us in the middle of the night after climbing out of bed.
Managing a Remote Team
I'm guessing they are asking about "attributing your words to others" rather than "claiming another's words as your own".
Uber sues ad agency for click fraud
"astronaut" as a singular vocation that takes years of training is a dead end profession. Future spacecraft will be automated passenger vehicles with WiFi and movies.
So how did they solve it?
I sort of hate the way things are turning out and also am not surprised. When I was 10 years old in the late 80s, everything was open to you if you wanted it.

My next door neighbor has a 10 year old son who wants to learn programming. I gave him an older laptop of mine and offered to do some coaching with him about learning to program on the condition that he always has to do his homework first before we do any programming work. And if he hasn't got his homework done or is having problems with it, I'll help with the homework first.

I had a pretty cool person in my life that did that for me when I was a kid. So I want to pay it back.

But when I think about things, man . . . it was wild as a kid. You could do anything on the internet in the 80s and 90s. It was the wild west.

Now days, I'm in the back yard teaching this next door neighbor's kid, and I'm like, "Yeah, maybe don't do that. That could get you in trouble."

When I was a kid, it was always, "Do it! Can't hurt that much!"

It's different now, I think. People are less free to explore for its own sake.

I could be wrong, but I think there was a golden moment of freedom on the internet that is past. And I'm glad I got to live in that.
Their in-house or contracted native app, of course. Which you bet they'd build if they didn't succeed in getting functional, reliable DRM on the web.

Most of them already have pretty nice mobile apps; writing a decent native desktop app or three wouldn't stretch their capabilities at all.
Do you have a recommendation for a soil-based probiotic? I've been looking recently and found them somewhat hard to research among all the lacto ones.
Oh he loves the boxes his toys come in. I was more looking forward to checking out the new LEGO myself ;)
What if I don't want the encrypted text to appear unencrypted right now?
The covenant would have been a nice step forward and it's unfortunate to see that it didn't happen, but I think you overstate the consequences here.

> You can now for the first time be prosecuted for revealing a flaw in a W3C standard, overriding a browser "feature" on behalf of its user, or making a HTML video accessible without first asking permission of the DRM vendor who obfuscated it.

Presumably you're referring to the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions? Your second two examples are just as illegal now as they were yesterday: EME was already a browser "feature," already being used for HTML video. The only thing that's changed is the "W3C standard" part.

The vendors presumably would have been fine to take EME, already a de facto standard and just leave it as-is, or "standardize" it in another body. Forcing that would have been nice for W3C's purity and image in some circles, and maybe even a good move, but it doesn't seem that it would have made any practical difference.
> I'd argue that the content owners and media companies need to get on board with providing the most seamless, easy to use, and accessible product for consuming their wares

Right, and that's exactly what EME is. Because DRM-free content is a show-stopper for them right now, but they recognize that DRM is a pain point for customers.
It harms anyone who wants to use streaming content offline on devices they control.

I often have slow internet access in my home which limits my ability to stream. If I can download when I have a good connection I can view later when my connection goes to shit. This is not an option with most streaming services (eg Netflix). I pay for these services. I should have control of how and when I view the content.
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> EME is basically Flash 2.0.

That's a gross exaggeration; it's nothing of the sort.

Flash is a generic application framework that gets more or less unfettered access to the network, local machine, and browser state (Chrome's Pepper Flash improved a lot of this, fortunately). EME is a heavily-sandboxed decryption and display engine, and nothing more.
Looks like you also got a PUK, but after a delay. Signature here: https://keybase.io/tanderson/sigchain#9b066b9a96f8d041cf7b55...
The man was shown as an evil psycho, and maybe he is, but just to play the devils advocate part here; as harsh and extreme as this sounds (and I agree that it sounds a lot extreme) to hit your partner is "not a crime" if happens in a private, consensual, adult and freely accepted by all parts contex. Human relationships can get very complicated sometimes.

> he was filmed hitting and kicking his girlfriend 117 times

Some parts of the history sound disonant to me. There was a camera in the room? Why? Who was recording the scene and, If a third people, why he/she keep recording instead to stop and try to help her? Why she do not just walked away and left the room at the second hit? Standing 117 hits without leaving the narrow camera angle is anomalous.

Without a minimum context atached to the video history we can't really know if the man is just a psycho, or is another case of steroids fury, or drugs, or somebody tending a trap (unprobable, but not impossible) to suck as many money as possible from a millionaire, or...
I’m not really well versed in the legal side. This also was a regular, well used public info resource, not a singular FOIA request. It just happened to be abused by an individual.
The old Reddit .compact page loads very fast : https://reddit.com/r/.compact

Don't use the mobile web view! It sucks!
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/latest/userguide/sche...
How is Japan not in the discussion?

I am not a specialist in medical issues, but I lived in Japan for many years. The health care was great for me.

Doctors are relatively autonomous. They get paid by the government (single payer?) plus a relatively small co-pay depending on your insurance (mostly based on employer).

Contributions from individuals vary from about $100 a year (for low income) up to maybe 4-5% of income at salaries most Japanese make ($25k to $100k usd). Employers also contribute.

I never felt financially fleeced, unlike the US (with great insurance, no less). I almost never had to wait -- just once for a few days for a minor surgery. The costs for treatment and meds were reasonable. The quality of care seemed comparable to or better than the US (for a young person, at least).

My only complaint was that doctors had a minor (but known) racket. If you had something that required 7 days of meds, they would give you a 3-day prescription and have you come back for a 1-minute second visit to get the other 4 days of prescription. A doctor friend told me that this was allowed and somewhat exploited because doctors were paid per visit. My doctor friend also told me that this was a way to balance payments -- that is, they would take longer on the initial visit to get the right diagnosis, but then they needed you to come in for the minor visits to get paid correctly for the time. Minor inconvenience, imho.

I also have friends who made sure to have their medical stuff done before they left Japan -- child delivery, hip replacement, lots of dental, etc.

Any other Japan folks have positive or negative stories to share? What about other Asian countries?
This is a really important talk, here's the Doctorow article based on it, if anyone wants to read instead of watch: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

It's already happening too, note the way Netflix refuses to send higher quality streams to the PC, except through IE/Edge or the native app (which exhibits strange, tell-tale behaviors on multi-monitor setups).
Could we put a moratorium on just posting cynical quotes that almost everyone has heard without adding something original to the discussion?
It's tricky to strike a balance. I'm on the computer for literally like 14 hours a day so I'm def not a good example. As a kid I had a lot of access too. I'll keep in mind your thoughts.
I was shocked to find they had reserved a bunch of names I wouldn't expect. A friend of mine theorized they may have reserved companies listed on Crunch Base. So far that theory hasn't been proven wrong at least!
This episode of Planet Money (best podcast evah btw) kinda explains why retails like Toys`R'Us was defeated by Amazon.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/26/539552579/episo...
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Cheques don't typically clear immediately (to crudely attempt to prevent overdraft/double spending attempts) and can have a cost associated with their purchase.
But the consequences affect everybody, all the time, even those that do not want to watch DRM'ed stuff online. That price is too high.
Ah. That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

Edit to add: Forgery seems in the ballpark, but doesn't feel quite right.
Are there in PHP, though?
I think the place brick and mortar seems to do well is where the store adds value over just selling merch. You go to Home Depot for expertise as much as for parts. You go to a local boardgame store for recommendations and events. You go to a toy store to get your hands on them and leverage staff expertise and curated inventory.

The only big problem with this approach is showrooming.

Toys r us or best buy carry bad products and are staffed by the lowest bidder. They offer no value over Amazon, so Amazon makes them worthless.
Isn't that what lambda is all about? Sub-second billing?
I have children, a SO that helps me see when I'm being taken advantage of, and I love to code. It augments my career (data scientist/economist), gives me interesting problems to solve related or unrelated to my work field, lets me build a personal brand should I want via github, and opens my eyes to more possibilities in the world.

Were it my job to build code, I would probably focus on the other aspects of my current role (statistics, ML, forecasting, etc.).

Keeps the ax sharp, fun to do, and leads to great friendships and networks.

I guess I could spend _all_ my time outside of family and work doing something like strategy board gaming, which I find enormously fun, but I guess I see such things are more like spice in life.
I think you're conflating "the web" with "the internet". Media companies only need the web for discovery; for display they can release native desktop apps, which can even be launched from the web.

I'm not thrilled with DRM in the browser, but at least it's heavily sandboxed, and is way preferable to a series of native apps that get full access to my desktop.