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>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.

No they can't. Physical media is going under. Newspapers and magazines are folding, music is primarily distributed digitally, even TV stations are treating the web as their primary means of content distribution. Media companies have no other revenue paths that will matter over a decade, much less a century, and most no longer have the money, resources or capabilities to do anything else.

>The web needs these media companies more than the media companies need the web.

The web is nothing but a network of networks. It wouldn't even blink if every big media company went bankrupt and took all of their content with them. The web would be a lot less interesting and a lot less fun, and make a lot less money, but it would still exist, and people would just keep distributing and pirating what they have.

Media companies, meanwhile, have bet their entire future on the web, and are only now realizing that it isn't the gravy train they thought it was.

> Just acknowledgement of the fact that artists own their works, and web developers need to kiss their ass if they want artists to publish on the web.

Whether or not artists own their works is orthogonal to the fact that digital content distribution has rendered their works nearly valueless, and opened a nearly infinite competitive market for similar work.

Rights are irrelevant. Morality is irrelevant. What the artists want or feel entitled to is irrelevant. The cultural significance of the corpus is irrelevant. Effective DRM is technically impossible and if that's what artists are depending on to survive in the digital age, then they will lose.

They can die like the dinosaurs, or adapt to the new order and become birds. But they cannot, ever, ever unstrike the meteor that is the web.
sure, if you want to become the wwgnu foundation.

nobody cares about things they perceive as fringe ideological issues until it's too late.

they'll marginalize you by making fun of your personal habits while the open web dies.

only those of us who knew the web before it was closed will really know/care why it was special.
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So it's quite similar to ACA? Everyone buys insurance, with the poorest subsidized. Plus, people are responsible for a deductible for the care provided.
The big guys know that DRM doesn't work. DRM is about putting "color onto the bits" so people can be sued.

Nothing more; nothing less.
Yeah, as pointed above nobody's using ice for ages, your information is pretty outdated. Would also help if you would support your opinion by related research on the current state of the art cryo.
What's the WHATWG's position on EME and particularly these developments?
Well if a guy on the internet says it, it has to be true.
Same thing happened to iHeartMedia (formerly ClearChannel). Bain Capital took it private via the leveraged buyout and now the company is burdened with $18B debt and is likely to declare bankruptcy soon.
Well, in terms of general dietary knowledge, NutritionFacts.org[0] is great. When I first visited it I thought it looked a bit sketchy, but turns out to be a treasure trove.

Yes, Dr. Michael Greger also sells books and DVDs through the site, but you need neither buy anything nor register to get access to all the material on the site.

Most of the videos are basically him summarizing a large number of papers on a specific subject. Each video is accompanied by a transcript, and sources.

[0] https://nutritionfacts.org/
I think we found the guy that regrets not buying any Bitcoin (the author - not manbearpigg)
Thanks for taking the time to answer, and sorry that you got downvoted. I don't see their point either; your response is as constructive as it gets.
Yeah, 3rd party SDKs are a problem for us. We've got a project waiting to go live, but one vendor won't give us an iOS11 "certified" SDK until 2 weeks after iOS11 ships... (And yeah, their current SDK crashes in iOS11... It's almost like they don't even know you can get access to iOS betas...)
I want to reply specifically to this concept and your comment was currently the first one in the thread where I saw it. I'm quite sure if I scroll down a bit I'll find many others.

It is worth understanding that this is what a manager is for.

Imagine that you are working on your own pet project and you are the only person working on it. You are the stake holder. You are the customer. You are the user. You are the developer. In that atmosphere, you can easily spend 100% of your time doing productive work. All of your time is spent either coding or experimenting with different UX designs. Not only that but you are completely free to try different development approaches, different coding ideas, etc, etc, with absolutely no overhead trying to convince anybody else to go along.

Add an external user -- now you have to gather information. Add an external stake holder -- now you have to provide planning information and status updates. Add an external UX designer -- now you have to coordinate UX requirements and development activities. Add another programmer -- now you have to argue about how to indent your code (amongst other things).

A good manager is able to coordinate and facilitate communication and development activities. You can measure how good your manager is by how close you come to putting in 40 hours of real-work with 40 hours of bum-in-chair. Not only that, but it's actually completely quantifiable - real-work / bum-in-chair = management efficiency.

I highly recommend measuring this value and holding your management accountable.

Of course there is a potentially massive downside if your management is relatively bad: they will simply remove all the communication from the project. Then you will be spending all of your time hacking, but getting nothing done because you are working against all your teammates/customers.

It's quite difficult to find ways to keep the communication flow up while at the same time reducing the amount of time spent on communication. The best way is by building processes where the artifacts are obvious: well developed stories, prioritised backlogs, defined sprint commitments, visible code merges, visible acceptance test results, etc, etc. Then the manager must summarise the information in ways that allows all of the workers to coordinate easily without having to spend time searching for information.

More than complaining about overtime, developers should (IMHO) demand that management actually provide value for the premium salary that they receive. Don't accept 20 hours of screwing around in a 40 hour week (some people on HN swear up and down that more than 4 pomodoros a day is impossible -- they really need to find a better job!). Demand that your time is not wasted.
MediaWiki runs on more than 25k websites [1] other than Wikipedia, so I don't see them switching to Hack only.

Also, I run a pretty big MediaWiki site and the last time I tried moving everything to HHVM (~6 months ago, I think) stuff appeared to be working initially but randomly broke from time to time (probably because of Scribunto or some other extension; couldn't manage to pinpoint the exact reason). PHP 7 didn't give me any problem at all; it's fast enough (way faster than PHP 5) and most pages are served by the Redis cache anyway. I suspect that Wikipedia will consider a move back to PHP, they're moving the most expensive logic to Lua modules anyway...

[1] https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page
HN isn't particularly philosophy-friendly. I've talked about how philosophy was crucial in laying down the philosophy of science and working out the scientific method, only to be drowned in a sea of "wasn't necessary, it's self-evident" sorts of comments.
You can still get the EME-free browser. They released both because ultimately, giving those who care a choice is easier than surviving once you alienate the legions of those who demand it for Netflix or the like.
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I kinda want my editor to do that when working with Javascript. Deeply nested callbacks and Promises bend my brain, and it'd be nice to see where one thing ends and another begins. It's easy to bounce back and forth between opening and closing parens/brackets (e.g. % in vim) or have it highlighted, but I often find myself having to sort of scroll back and forth to sort it out in my head.
There is no compelling evidence that market timing works, both in terms of technical analysis and fundamental analysis. In 2015, there was talk about a so-called 'earnings recession'; had you sold, you would have missed out on the 15% rally that followed. For years, people have been attributing the rally to the fed and such, ignoring the fact that the fed ended QE in 2014 yet the market has risen 25% since then. Purported successes of timing are due to various statistical and data mining biases, that cannot be replicated with similar success. IMHO, the market is going a lot a lot higher even if valuations seem kinda high. inflation and interest rates are still historically very low, which makes stocks attractive to bonds and cash, and profits and earnings are also strong.
Likely your second comment was downvoted because it's specifically against the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On newer SSDs, the sanitize command would be preferable for this use over the format command. IIRC, the format command doesn't require quite as strong a security guarantee as the sanitize command: the latter ensures that user data is cleaned from both the flash and all buffers, CMBs, etc.
My employer has traditionally been very good about 40 hour weeks. However, recently everyone on the team has been doing 55-80 hours per week. On about week 4, I pointed out to my manager that the last time we were on an extended stretch of OT, the company put in place a policy to pay us at an hourly rate equal to our annual salary / 2080 for all OT hours worked. He responded "Yeah, but [project x] was on OT for over a year! Besides, OT is expected at most other companies, and none pay for it." (never mind that most at least have bonus programs). It's now been over 3 months of OT for my team, and personally I think there is no end in sight. Of some slight consolation, the less senior team members do get paid for a portion of their OT (usually around 1/2 to 2/3).

Also, our company doesn't do bonuses at all, doesn't offer anything in the form of comp time, and has an unlimited vacation policy that's basically meant 'next to no vacation' for the past half year or so. Some members of my team have hinted to me that they're looking for new jobs, but I don't think management has a clue.
I've inadvertently noticed this quite a bit before, but I didn't realize the solution was so basic though, it's a very simple trick!
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Well it's a bit more complicated. Sucker if you invest, the market crashes, and then either you panic and pull out, or otherwise need that money and pull out, and then don't get to ride it back up again.

OR... your country turns into Japan, where their main index is still below 60% of its 1980s peak...
If the sun never sets on your project, why would you want to shut the instance down?
Whatever Tintin did to get that shiny red rocket of his...
According to that logic, you'd have to call Lisp modern by 1958 standards.
It's easier when you use something like Prettier which formats the code for you, same workflow as coffeescript except less work and possibly more readability.
yeah bitcoin, stock, and real estate portfolio are up a lot for me too
I've never heard of this company before. How do they make money if this is free?
If they fess up to insider trading do they get to keep their golden parachute? If not they wouldn't really have any more incentive to be cooperative.
"Ratings agencies have rushed to cut their credit ratings on Toys “R” Us to reflect the sinking market sentiment...[S&P] had the retailer rated B- just two weeks ago, and Moody’s Investors Service still has a B3 rating and stable outlook for the name."

Ratings agencies once again showing how efficient they are at actually rating debt. B3 and stable outlook for a company that has actually field for bankruptcy, you gotta be kidding me.
And you have the options to not use it. You don't get to decide what other people do with their property. That's pretty much against the reasons the web is here.

You can complain, if you want. That doesn't appear to be helping but you're free to do so.

My strategy is to avoid it where reasonably possible. I let other people do what they want with their stuff.
Literally just "not having kids" makes up for the entire extra time and then some.

But really, if you replace things like kids, videogames, netflix, long commutes from the suburbs, spending time with extended families you don't care about, etc, it honestly puts the balance in favor of the person working 60 hours a week.

Now, if they don't ENJOY IT, and they rather be doing those other things, then they should do these other things. Else it is unhealthy, both physically and mentally.

But if I just take my work days + time spent playing videogames + my side projects/blogs/whatever, I come way above 60 hours a week. Sacrifice that and it comes easy.

If it came in the form of additional financial security and it lets you hire someone to clean the house, you might come up even more ahead. The important part is you have to do what you do because you want to.

So the main issue really is that that person will have what other perceive as an unfair advantage, career wise, and THAT's what all of this is all about. People in general are pretty uncomfortable with the idea that someone else is getting ahead of them because they decided to finish that prototype instead of watching Netflix tonight.
Maybe now's the time to abandon the W3C - Maybe we can encourage the EFF to create a "Free Web Consortium." Sort of like "let's encrypt." I think this would better server a free and open web for the 21st Century and beyond. It appears, based on this information from the EFF & their exit from W3c, the W3C has become corrupted at some level.
> But there’s no mistaking the large trend...

You didn’t say that, you said “server side rendering is basically dead”.

Believe it or not, lots of people are still building things without JavaScript front ends.
Bacteriophages lost out to antibiotics in the 1950s. Designing bacteriophages for specific microbes is fairly straight forward so you could design a probiotic loaded with good bacteria to be delivered with a bacteriophage against bad bacteria to quickly adjust the microbiome ecology towards a desired state. The nice thing is that bacteriophages are dietary supplements so you don't need drug approval (unless cure claims are made).
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That's not the primary motivation right now. Much of the investment they're attracting is in support of building the technologies to support products down the road, as best as anyone can tell from the outside. malgorithms can correct me if he's feeling it.

And you've been on HN 3+ years and not seen all the keybase proofs in peoples' profiles? Mine's a good example.
Between this and them lobbying for no-fault for data exfiltration, it keeps getting better and better. My credit has been locked since the OPM fiasco, I'd like to recommend others consider it.
Because even a shitty company-destroying CEO has experience being a CEO.

Not trying to be cynical.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but I'll point out anyway that literally every single feature of the current internet is opt-in. Most of the time it's not even difficult to opt-out.

If you really want a separate internet without the "bad parts", you can still use Gopher. There are still sites around, and you won't even get images, which were the first thing to "ruin" the internet, and were the launching point down the slippery slope to DRM video.

On a side note, it's interesting that so many HN readers are against this kind of DRM, but at the same time there's a large group here who are against ad-blockers. Ad-revenue is the main driver motivating companies to shoe-horn this crap into the web. It's not a coincidence that the biggest ad company in the world also makes one of the most popular web browsers and is a huge media distributor.
One reason would be that the savings is worth the increased latency. Depends on the situation.
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The VLC authors also report that Google tried to pay them quite huge amounts to include Chrome as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWx1P93nS0c&t=48s

With Google’s recent actions, this makes Chrome literally into malware that your system’s AV should automatically detect and remove. If a significant amount of users gets the software without intending to, the install was malicious, and should be removed.
Case in point why everyone should do this:

https://supporters.eff.org/donate
>software they take for free

Software they were given. More cringe:

https://mobile.twitter.com/wesmckinn/status/9098543516944588...

It sounds like Wes has given a gift and now expects something in return for it. r/niceguys anyone?

https://mobile.twitter.com/wesmckinn/status/9097774823830691...

Berating your users publicly is not very becoming. I feel sorry for lebigot. He's really being mobbed now.

Looking at the comments, it reminds me of a poor tourist lady I saw surrounded by San Francisco beggars. She gave one some change out of kindness. She was mobbed by four more, who became upset because she had nothing for them.

I doubt she goes back to SF any time soon. Beggars everywhere. I doubt many quants will recommend improvements to Pandas any time soon. Beggars everywhere.
> Not possible on any open-source operating system

So where do you get more than 720p if you don't get it neither on open source operating systems nor on Chrome on Windows? If you get 720p max everywhere, why do you think this has anything to do with DRM?
To be honest, although I haven't been around that long, I have noticed the keybase proofs and still wondered about the purpose of the company as a whole. It seems to have something to do with identity, but other than that I haven't been interested enough to search out more information about them.
What are you talking about? Every popular TV show or movie is hosted on a free platform (free meaning both no cost and allowing freedom). How is that "working in practice"?
You went back to violent metaphors. Those seem far too strong for this issue.

The MPAA is not actively attacking you. They’re putting conditions on how you can view their content.
> Having to cater for only 8 million people surely helps

why is having fewer people more advantageous? to take that to the logical extreme, does a healthcare system that only caters to ONE person make sense? will it be cheaper than a system that serves 50 million?

if there are more patients, the fixed and overhead costs per person should go down, and the variable, healthcare costs per person remains the same but in fact everyone will benefit from risk pooling.
Oh, that's pretty cool. I might look into that then.
A lot of people want you to come in and find a quick answer and fix, rarely allowing a full proper investigation. Many times they're adverse to spending money and want to cut corners where they can. It's actually disheartening. Much like one of the posters above, I've seen people purposely stop investigations because if the investigation reported on known issues it would open up more questions about other wrong doings.

The Irony is their actions on remediation are almost exactly in line with the decisions made that often times lead to the incident. It's cyclical.
The original post was about a 9-month-old. No baby that age cares in the slightest about Star Wars, but they love boxes.
Leadership is a thing. It really matters. An effective leader can be a force multiplier for everyone in the organization that reports to them, directly or indirectly. An ineffective leader can literally bankrupt an organization.
Don't Brazil and South Africa have the same system of healthcare as Switzerland and Sweden? I wonder why they see such different outcomes.
But we’ve always had that. I mean every video tape I ever watched as a child had FBI warnings explaining that there were limits on what you could do with it.

The only difference is that the videotapes can now try and enforce it themselves.
> What kind of changes? I have a hard time searching google about gut health without feeling like none of it's scientific, and all a scam for advertising or selling products.

High fiber, high fat, moderate protein, as few carbs as possible. Water whenever you're thirsty.
Username related; please don't.
I'm not sure what decoupling means, and whether it's of any technical significance beyond bragging rights, but chromium won't support drm out of the box either because widevine is obviously not a part of chromium. You can take the widevine library from chrome and make it work with chromium if you jump through some hoops.
I think it could be a problem if you go to work stoned.
> Linux users could be a bit more screwed if publishers had to move to Windows/Mac apps if interested in desktop/laptop users

There is not any kind of real difference between not having a native app (or whatever WINE patches are needed to run it) and not having some platform-specific EME black box binary.

> What's the difference to a user of opening a Netflix app vs going there in the browser? Basically nothing.

For Netflix? Basically nothing. For the other 99.9% of websites that aren't as big as Netflix? Users balk at installing apps from little known sources, so those websites then won't have DRM.
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> You specifically chose a large dependency with many sub-dependencies, so yes, that will happen.

To clarify, I did NOT choose that package. Because it brought in 690 dependencies...

Javascript didn't even have a pad left in the stdlib until the kik fiasco. Pulling in dependencies isn't really optional unless you want to start from first principles.
Am I saying padding a string is difficult? No. But I am saying it's an incredibly common operation as evidenced by how much broke when it was pulled from NPM.

As as this talk from 2016 shows, the versions that used to be available on NPM don't even pass a reasonable set of tests for a left pad: https://youtu.be/FyCYva9DhsI?t=605 Not even being in the spotlight was enough to catch the bugs there, if you reimplement the world from scratch you're bound to make some errors yourself.
I worked on a breach where during the investigation we found reverse tunnels out of the network (back to the VP's house) where he'd been working on stuff unbeknownst to the firm. They had a VPN to a competitor that a sales engineer had setup when they were exploring collaboration, that had never been closed. Their DMZ was awesome on paper (cool color chart) but was literally non-existent. The final icing on the cake, their network equipment and firewalls were all second hand with existing firewall rules left when new ones were added. After printing out the rules.. at the very bottom ANY/ANY. There wasn't a lack of money, hundreds of millions were dumped in by investors. Everyone there had the i'm an engineer so I don't have to follow rules, that's for the sales guys attitude and that more than did them in from a security perspective.
SSR is table stakes for any reasonably modern web application.
> Next: why shouldn't I use the magic beans the mafia are offering me to protect my content?

You don’t seriously expect people to engage in a discussion like this do you?

As emodendroket pointed out the rest of your comment is the argument against any kind of lock ever. It’s a false dichotomy.
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This is exactly how it works. Passwords can be changed, your personal details can't.