skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix works with EME on Chrome and Firefox. Netflix doesn't block Linux users. They just don't provide customer support for troubleshooting on Linux.
Damn. I was just in one like two weeks ago looking for a laser tag system. The prominent NERF gun display right by the entrance was glorious. NERF has progressed significantly and has also developed a new kind of spherical ammo in case you were wondering. I'll have to buy a few while they're on clearance.
Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible [1][2]. They use a different script and slightly different vocabularies [3]. But because of exposure via Bollywood and other media (my personal experience) most people who speak one can understand the other. Bollywood song lyrics and especially dialogue from movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s are very heavily Urdu-influenced (and in fact the movies even had credits in English, Hindi, and Urdu). Urdu itself is also spoken widely in India.

As someone who learned Hindi in school (i.e. didn't grow up speaking it at home) I'm able to understand Urdu reasonably well, but probably would do a poor job speaking it. I'd have to stop constantly and think of the Urdu equivalent for a certain word before using it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility#Dialect...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi#Comparison_with_Modern_S...
Can you elaborate a bit on the (dis-)advantages of ABCL compared to Clojure?
I read that as the poster being sarcastic-- the logic being that if the W3C made this decision, it must mean that the spirit in which Tim Berners-Lee created the web died some time ago.

So Tim Berners-Lee "must be rolling in his grave," quite aside from the fact that he is still physically alive and doing fine.
Can anybody explain to me what will change because of this decision? DRM has been very much part of the internet since 1995 when RealPlayer was released. DRM has been part of content delivery ever since then. It has not ever seem to have decreased in popularity, quite the opposite. The browsers that 99.9% of people use have already implemented this standard for years anyway. It's not obvious to me that this decision changes anything (it seems this is the status quo already) but maybe there's something I'm missing.

What's going to change from today to tomorrow because of this decision? Or is the meltdown here just people now realizing that the battle is lost, even though it was lost already a long time ago?

One thing I do understand is that this contended decision is a serious break from tradition and apparently a dick move (although I'd need to see some additional sources on that). But that doesn't seem to be the main topic of the discussion in these comments anyway.
Yes. It's amazing how most people can handwave away the health of the biosphere that supports our existence.

The simple fact of the matter is that we are making the planet uninhabitable at a rate that is too low for the average person to understand, while being too fast for species' evolutionary adaptations to kick in.

In a couple of generations we've polluted most bodies of water with some form of pollution, be it microplastics, fertilizer runoff, or a myriad other things whose effects are not understood.

We've altered the Earth's atmosphere to a point where it is, for all intents and purposes, irreversible.

We have no mechanisms to restore fertility and biodiversity to the levels where they used to be before our population explosion. No one would care anyway.
> They're not going to block your ability to share your content without DRM.

Of course not. Then they would block all of YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo along with all other video sharing platforms, not to mention adult ones.

It would hit home too hard to require DRM be installed right away. But on the long run?
If you want the masses to care, the masses will have to lose first. They (not hackers) don't get it, and it's inconceivable that they ever will... Until they notice the closed system.

Is there even a war taking place? Battles are often forgotten.

Yes, we (the hackers) allowed this to happen. We need to think about it now. I feel like the YOU in your comment is slightly misaddressed. What can WE do about it?

jus' trolling the good guys...
Have you ever tried TextMate? Since like me, you don't like "IDE-like features" I can imagine TextMate 2 could be a better fit than Sublime, especially in respect to file management. And a lot of Sublime bundles are compatible with TextMate (and the other way around of course, since these bundles originate from TM)
Hard to save and distribute only lasts until one party figures out how to get the content in an unencumbered format. Even if it was hard/expensive for them to do so, they can distribute it to the world easily.
And we were finally killing them off with the death of Flash, Java Plug-In, and Silverlight, and the adoption of HTML5.
It's time to abandon the major web standards and start devising our own infrastructure. Better stateless protocol, end-to-end encryption on every connection -- no exceptions! -- decentralized encrypted vaults of cached assets (where every user donates a few or few hundred gigabytes of disk space to participiate -- effectively becoming a node in a decentralized CDN).

We've left the corporations run wild for far too long. They've been stupid, slow and it took them A LONG TIME to catch up. And eventually they did. All the while all of us did absolutely nothing. At least myself.

^ All of that is an idealistic revolutionist talk, I am aware. Had I had the free time and reserve capital however, I'd be dead-serious about starting such an effort.
that's a very handy site, previously I had mostly been using http://www.ec2instances.info/ and http://www.gceinstances.info/

Thanks for pointing it out!
My question isn't why they blocked Al Jazeera. Why doesn't Saudi Arabia block Snap? Snap has a reputation as a nude pictures app. Saudi Arabians are offended by too much ankle showing under the burka. It seems like Snap should be blocked entirely in Saudi Arabia. The punishment for sending nude pictures in that country is severe. This is a country that beheaded 157 people in 2015.

Why would they allow Snap in their country in the first place? A quick search turns up this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/09/snapchat_saudi_gover...

That seems to answer my question. Snap is a Saudi monitoring platform. It seems only natural they would use their influence to shape opinions by removing Al Jazeera. Sorta like how Facebook removes "fake news" from their site for the US deep state.
Intel is working with Waymo to build fully self-driving cars
Can I make the boot even more verbose than loglevel=7 using kernel parameters?
The Surprising Reason Why Spaniards Eat So Late
Ironically, this very project might help out with funding all sorts of developers.
Clojure Numerics, Part 3 – Special Linear Systems and Cholesky Factorization
WHATWG did not include EME in the WHATWG HTML living standard, and supported EFF's proposal to protect security researchers: https://blog.whatwg.org/drm-and-web-security

Ian Hickson also came out strongly against DRM when this whole debate started: https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2
For what it's worth, Earl Grey has a more lightweight syntax to build HTML, advanced pattern matching, and looks more like Python: http://www.earl-grey.io/ (Disclaimer: I made this).
Can someone explain why it would be loaded up with debt on going private?
Exactly, I don't want a password for my online banking, I actually despise the fact that my bank would ever even ask for one. I want a bank where I can deliver an SSH key.

The tech is here. It's been here all along.
I have come to the conclusion that it is very hard for a specialty businesses to survive in the era of Walmart and Amazon - which does not bode well long term for places like Barnes & Noble and Gamestop. I hope I am wrong.
If I had my druthers only two people would be recognized as individuals with a national holiday in the US: Stanislav Petrov and Norman Borlaug.
This appears to just be some links to AdWords, not much of value here.
Look what you made us do, hackers tell Vevo
...and which no-one will download.

To be clear: if DRM is not implemented in browsers, Netflix and the like will just make native apps, which are far larger vectors of malware attack than the locked down EME standard is.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, but "people should just not watch DRMed video" is not an actual answer to the problem at hand.
I'm not sure if that's correct or not, but either way, that's in complete agreement with what I just said: they are not speaking in terms of cryptography.
In case you don't know it (it's well known in France but not sure about elsewhere) that was the motto of the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin.

The important thing is not to win, but to take part.
For us it will mean we can spin down Bamboo elastic agents much quicker and save money.
They borrowed money to buy their shares back.
>It may seem like a small niche to people who are not members of targeted demographics, though.

I'm not saying it's not important -- but as a request for change it is niche in scope, that is constrained to a small area of life (even if you are one of the targeted demographics).

>What leads you to believe this?*

Well, some internet ranting and rare protesting aside I don't see any alternative lifestyles there (or only very trite ones, the "fair trade coffee" equivalent of politics). It's all business as usual otherwise.

>Anyway, if you want real counter culture that middle aged people will still clutch their pearls over... what about Antifa?

Better in the shocks middle aged people respect, but scores less points on "culture". It's a reaction-based group, not an alternative cultural force.
A [someone who studied the same like I did] is, in my experience, much more intelligent than their [majority of this forum] counterpart.

As someone already stated here, modern philosophy more or less is nothing but a dick measuring contest.

QED
Those toy stores were worthless palaces of consumerist made-in-china crap. I'm happy to see them go.
BLOCKCHAIN TO THE RESCUE... HOPEFULLY
They could have taken out financing to buy back their shares.
Jerry Pournelle wrote once in frustration "I knew I'd be alive to see the first man walk on the moon, but I never imagined I'd be alive to see the last!"
This is how you end up with a dreary, hyper-capitalistic, race-to-the-bottom world where money trumps all and all moral lines are crossed just so a company can increase its profit margin a slight bit. So if North Korea opened its doors just enough for global corporations to exploit North Korean labor, should we just hop in?

Simply selling a product doesn't guarantee that a company will be in good standing with its customers. There are TED talks that even argue for companies to establish an identity beyond what and how they make money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYeCltXpxw
Most kids are just as happy playing with the wrapping paper as with the toy inside.

That is to say: your son will be just as happy with something you two might find or make together.
>Speculation about the mental health of others is neither.

i didn't speculate about her mental state. I stated that described behavior matches behavior exhibited by a psychopath. She may be a psychopath, or may have been just dead drunk/high or the story may be not real, or whatever - i don't know those facts. I commented on described behavior - the described behavior is clearly psychopathic, whether it happened or not.

I think California prohibits videos of animal torture and such detailed description is pretty close to it. I hope somebody reports this story to authorities, either on the grounds of animal cruelty perpetrated or its public description.
You didn't enjoy that when you were a kid? I sure did.

Of course if they didn't let me play with the stuff and instead made me keep it in the box on the shelf, I'd be wealthier today.
Lots of this stuff is so US focused. Any European nation for one will let you reverse engineer stuff you buy or download to your own heart's content in the safety of your own home. I expect many countries in the world are civilized like that.
In another post the blog author mentioned that he reserved team names for a bunch of well-known tech companies.
This was the impression I got as well, and 10 years later, balloon payments to come due, and you've got a real squeeze on your hands.
Yeah, one of the articles linked to discusses that idea: https://hbr.org/2013/09/building-a-minimum-viable-prod

Like the difference between validating the value proposition and validating the business model. Makes for an interesting read.
I think the comparison to perl isn't fair. It's pretty accepted that () => is a function type construct. It mimics lambdas and function calls in many other languages. Perl did really crazy stuff like storing regex results in obscure global variables.

As for () =>, it can make a big difference in scenarios like `myArray.map(a => a.foo)` versus `myArray.map(function(a) { return a.foo })`
Previous parts:

http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/Clojure-Numerics-1-Use-Matri...

http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/Clojure-Numerics-2-General-L...
Instead of creating the right tools for making web apps a lot more native, feature rich and consistent, they just make the favours of a couple media companies like Spotify, Netflix and Google. I hope the W3C dissolves after that._
So you claim that Firefox (and other browsers) should implement malware or a malware interface into their browser so that users don't have a reason to download and install some other malware?
This does not add to the conversation. But it makes me giggle. And I'm not really a Linux user...

I'm assuming you are? And trying to foment a revolution? If I'm wrong see the first sentence.
The parent comment is not the first line of argument, it's the continuation of a years-long argument. Even if you completely ignore the history, the first line of argument is found in the article, not the comments. If you would like to understand the fundamentals of this debate, this comment section is not the right place to start. It's very easy to find arguments and proposals from all sides of the issue elsewhere.
Whoever took it private needed money to buy out the shareholders. They borrow that money using the business itself as collateral. They buy the stock and the company is now private, with all that debt on the books.
There's something to be said for getting rid of excessive waste and unnecessarily large warehouses of "cheap junk", but it's also worth remembering that toys play a very important part in teaching children fundamental skills like hand-eye coordination, simple problem solving, fostering imagination, etc.

It's a game of "what-ifs", but I'm fairly confident in saying I wouldn't be pursuing the career I am now if I had never had the experiences of walking down the Lego aisle at the toy store and falling in love with piecing together toy cities.
Mass psychology supports pricey stock market
what happened with React?
Star Wars action figure? No way. Lets get some paper towel tubes, markers, and glitter and make our own!
To make the private equity people rich. They stiff the suppliers, employees and other creditors.

This is a variant of the 80s era stuff in the movie Wall St. When WalMart was expanding regional players like Ames, Jamesway, etc would do this. You could tell when it was happening because the stores would be stuffed to the brim with stuff before the bankruptcy.
You're entirely right, of course! Evolution certainly does not create anything optimal.

My point is that perhaps we understand evolution better than we understand how to create a mind from scratch.
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It is opt-in AFAIK.
> If you want a text-only web, with no major content producers on it, you already have that.

And that (the web as it is) is exactly what I want. And I want that the media companies who cannot accept that the web is free of DRM to stay away from it.
Motivation Virus
And they implemented it as strictly opt in (they ask before installing it), and fully user controlled:

"Firefox downloads and enables the Google Widevine CDM on demand, with user permission, to give users a smooth experience on sites that require DRM. The CDM runs in a separate container called a sandbox and you will be notified when a CDM is in use. You can also disable a CDM and opt out of future updates by following the steps below. Once you disable a CDM, however, sites using this type of DRM may not operate properly."
Having used CoffeeScript a while back, it's kind of like a weird mix of Ruby, Python, and Perl. With all the good underpinnings of JavaScript, of course.
It's trivial to get almost any media content you want online for free right now.
Potentially, they could still roll this out, because a dot, ".", is currently not an allowed character in a team name.
OS does not serve requests -- applications do. While it may be possible to demo a toy OS+app, real-world applications take seconds if not minutes to start and warm up. Throughput on a cold-cache is a fraction of that on a warm cache.

Starting in milli-seconds is not the hard problem. Starting + warming caches in that time is -- that will get you a bunch of awards when you solve it.
One often overlooked aspect of philosophy which HNers would appreciate, I think, is: with varying degrees of upfrontness about it, the aims of philosophers are not solely to deliver truth in the sense which non-philosophers understand it. (This is not in reference to academic scandal, btw.)

When philosophers make this departure from pursuing the usual notion of truth, the motivation derives from an understanding that the adoption of one philosophical idea versus another can have profound impacts on people's lives (just consider how certain religious ideas can make people behave for instance)—so it's often partly about figuring out a set of ideas which would be most beneficial if adopted.

The Pragmatists for instance were quite explicit about this (see William James' redefinition of 'truth' in Pragmatism for example)—and maybe others have been too, but I think the more common thing is to not be up front about it at all (which makes a certain amount of sense since that could impact the effect of their project to begin with).

I haven't seen the details myself, but a philosophy professor friend pointed out to me that even Plato was pretty blatantly doing this.
Where is a good place to start to take a set of lat/long data (e.g., bunch of ride/walk traces) and plot a neat looking map? It seems to be a little harder than hello world, but not worth a full blown GIS stack.
Starting a Robotics Company? Sell a Service, Not a Robot
* Free food disappears
* Hiring suddenly stops
There is no option I have to opt in whether I want a malware interface (EME) installed in my browser or not.
For all the DRM Netflix has pushed down our throats, they still serve many titles (mainly movies and not their own productions) in piss-poor quality with those browsers whose users' freedom they have crippled. And I do mean absolutely awful quality as some titles clock in at less than 1000 kbps which isn't even nowhere near DVD quality.
It's really really difficult to be able to turn on and off instances as needed, like turn a test instance on in the morning when developers come in and turn it off in the evening when they leave.
"Since when did the W3C abandon reason for madness?" -- Gandalf
As an analogy, I visited a weird Ikea experiment like this in Toronto at a popup in an old retail store building. But half the store was some (not very fun) carnival games and some products on display. The products were available to purchase but the variety was (severely) limited and somehow felt like an afterthought. A portion of the retail center was a place to buy the food that is popular at the suburban retail outlets, but a little out-of-place in a downtown area with plenty of alternatives.

I feel like this was a failed approach to this idea.

That said, the try-before-you-buy combined for a primarily eCommerce company with a playground for kids approach makes a lot of sense to me. But I'm doubtful it transfers well to other submarkets. Unless they are living (but welcoming) examples of say a fashion lookbook or home furniture example displays by interior designers, similar to what Ikea has in half their maze-like suburban stores.
"In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” an API whose sole function was to provide a first-class role for DRM within the Web browser ecosystem"

With so much money involved here, it's quite naive to believe the W3C members are virgins here and did this out love for the web and for the consumers.

And:

"It is clear that the W3C allowing DRM technologies to be developed at the W3C is just a naked ploy for the W3C to get more (paying) member companies to join"[0]

0 - https://blog.whatwg.org/drm-and-web-security
Fairly typical large cap PE strategy. Load the company up with debt then sell it off and let the company figure it out after.

Note - not all PE firms do this (big or small) but it is a common strategy that does earn them money.
Wait what, would they expose the raw SSD pci device to your vm? What's stopping you from scraping all the leftover data from the previous customer?
No, I am saying that browser manufacturers should slightly increase their vulnerability surface area (and maybe not at all - I don't know the internals of EME) in order to provide a locked-down feature to users that they would only otherwise get by downloading a native app that has access to their local file system, amongst other valuable things.

It's the same logic that leads to them to support JavaScript.
"This specification does not define a content protection or Digital Rights Management system. Rather, it defines a common API that may be used to discover, select and interact with such systems as well as with simpler content encryption systems. Implementation of Digital Rights Management is not required for compliance with this specification: only the Clear Key system is required to be implemented as a common baseline."

Does not define DRM .. I am seeing a conflict with the title
I don't think so. See my reply to the sibling comment.
> the extortionist environments that leads to.

Media delivery in 2017 is hardly an extortionary environment. Practically speaking, Americans spend very little of their income on the Audible/Netflix/HBO Gos of the world. Netflix costs $120 a year? Against a median household income of $55,000, that is next to nothing.

If anything, it's the opposite: there's a glut of content available to consume, in nearly every possible genre, at very low price points. There is far, far more good television than any person could reasonably watch, all for a couple thousandths of the typical person's annual wages.
Doesn't Toys 'R' Us sell the same "cheap plastic crap" as Amazon?