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> DRM punishes paying customers and does nothing to stop piracy.

I would think DRM stops trivial tools like a Chrome extension that adds a "Download" button on anything you're watching on Netflix.com.

Which is good enough. Because piracy is confusing to most people. Piracy sites are scummy and require tech-savyness just to navigate them and download the right thing.

For example, my girlfriend knows "The Pirate Bay" by name though a torrent client is still confusing to her. First google result for that is https://thepiratebays3.com.

It has a scary and scummy banner at the top: "Official The Pirate Bay Warning. Do NOT download torrent files without hiding your IP! With a VPN you can Hide your IP & stay anonymous, avoid fines and lawsuits, especially in USA. <Link to NordVPN affiliate link>". And searching anything doesn't work for me.

So, I think the war against piracy is more or less won due to how relegated it is to a tiny part of the population that's capable of navigating it.
The point of the interview isn’t to keep good programmers from failing, it’s to make sure bad programmers don’t pass.
Something I couldn’t get about nix by skimming the documentation is how it manages application configuration.
Using traditional systems when you upgrade the package responsible for the network configuration my current configuration is carried thru or merged into the new format if the package changes it’s configuration syntax. How does nixos manage /etc ?
The part they didn't do was the trivial part. My phone has an app that solves Rubik's cubes based on photograph.
It may be inconvenient to free up some disk space (citation needed, anyone on HN has probably got terabytes of free space somewhere), but the inconvenience of certain streaming platforms, or even the total hostility to watching anything ad-free (even paid users) will knock people into the piracy camp. There is no source where I can watch AAA movies that I buy on my laptop legally in 4K as it is illegal to break Blu-ray encryption (and I run Linux). I buy or rent movies I want to watch on my Apple TV in 4K, but what am I supposed to do if I want to watch something on a plane for instance?

Anything that is on Netflix I watch. I can’t watch amazon prime on my Apple TV because their region system is broken (yes, if an amazon employee is reading this, please fix having prime in multiple countries) so battlestar galactica and other shows in their catalogue aren’t available come from other sources.
> Sorry if I'm being such a joy killer. I guess I've been witness to too many failures for not feeling to call this out before someone gets burned.

But you didn't do it in a constructive way. You did it in a condescending way to make yourself appear better. Yolo, amirite? You could have had a constructive comment, explaining the level of support of various technologies, their maturity within nginx, etc. All of that would have been beneficial, discussing real world implications of things.

> Oh right, but no one needs to be told to be careful, right... No one is here to learn anything, as we all already know everything. Makes you wonder what's the point of showing something new in the first place.

No, some people need to be told to be careful. You didn't do that, though. You jerked yourself off. Likewise, the point of showing something new is to get real feedback. Again, which you didn't provide.

> And please spare me the "no-one suggested to replace prod infra with this". Does the readme say anywhere "experimental, not for prod use"?

You're the reason the iron needs to say "Do not iron while wearing clothes"
With that said, there are lots of people that get offers like that without doing 800. (Most people I know have done like < 50 and some claim to have never done any!). I did ~240 and I still struggled when I did new grad interviews. Feels like an IQ test to me quite honestly.
I don't think that we're on the same wavelength and no, we are not at all agreed on what a metric is, but here's a link to a book that might be interesting:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busi...
You're clearly not representative of the average Netflix customer.
OP violates HN guidelines about charitable interpretations and middlebrow dismissals.
It is sometimes referred to as 'vishing - a portmanteau of "voice" and phishing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_phishing
Amazon owns the video, not the user, so you only need a warrant if they demand one. They’re also free to not require one.
I'm starting to think the best way to prepare is to pay a coach to train you up and give feedback. The interviews dont have much to do with reality, if you want to be good at leetcode style whiteboarding you need to get advice from someone who knows how it works on the inside. (yeah I'm bitter)
High turnover because your on-call system sucks causes a pretty significant bump to the cost of doing business.
> Does the readme say anywhere "experimental, not for prod use"?

"Built on the edge, for the edge"

It's pretty obvious it's an experiment.

It's reasonable of the author to assume anyone running serious production infrastructure will be prudent enough to not just blithely go ahead and implement this.

Even if it isn't, you could calmly suggest the author add more warnings to the readme. A project like this is no place for that kind of rage.

> I love the unexplained downvotes

Nobody has to explain their downvotes (and it makes for boring reading when people do). But angrily trashing someone's Show HN experiment is long established as being valid grounds for downvoting.
Please forgive (and remedy?) my ignorance, but are you saying all hardware speakers can be used as microphones?
Well look at it from Netflix's perspective. You are in no way an indicative normal customer. They don't support certain browsers, because there is no need to. Privacy hiding VPNs are used to evade content locking as part of Netflix's business models/licensing agreements, so why would they allow your privacy hiding vpn? I'm not agreeing that they should do these things, but you are approaching a service from a very standpoint, and I can understand why your experience is less than optimal. Being a ubuntu/debian user you must have encountered this before righ ;)
If Boeing (management, or board, or shareholders) wants to give part of the company to the employees, that's their business. But if Sanders makes them, that's taking the company from the shareholders. That's nationalization. The fact that he then gives it to the employees doesn't change the fact that the government took it in the first place.
I've only signed Netflix after my living room TV was able to directly interact with it, smart TVs run Linux. The second question I made was how I would use it on the TVs that didn't run it, and solved it with a chromecast, again, Linux.
Another option is to get one of those media players sold on the internet, again Linux.

What other option is there for people to watch the streaming services? Directly on their computers? I doubt many people will even think about that.
Removing the reasons to infringe copyright is completely different from making it impossible to infringe someone's copyright.

Netflix is a convenient enough service that makes it easy for people to watch what they want to watch. Most people will just pay for it without thinking twice. It's easy enough that most people won't even consider infringing. Netflix's value isn't just in the content it serves, it's also in the fact it frees people from the non-trivial effort required to "pirate". Private torrent trackers have an economy of their own.

Making it impossible to infringe is extremely difficult. Movies and music are really just information. Extremely big numbers. It's trivial to make copies of this stuff and send those copies over the network. In previous centuries, you needed to be a major industry player and own big machines like printing presses in order to infringe on someone's copyright at scale. In the 21st century it's as easy as copy paste or forgetting to close the torrent client. People might not even realize they are doing it.

This is why a fragmented streaming market will push people towards copyright infringement. Instead of pooling their intellectual property and creating one single perfect streaming service with all the content, they are making it difficult and expensive for the consumer by competing with each other. At some point, people are going to wonder if there's a better way. That's when they'll find "piracy".
Check your settings. You can change what the algorithm thinks about you.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.u...
They still refuse to serve users with Cloudflare DNS.
Why would I spend an hour configuring a machine when I don't have to? I don't spend an hour fiddling with a car before it's usable for me. Why should a computer be different?

Why would I want plausible deniability with my encryption? I'm a developer, not a cia agent. I need to keep my company's code safe from random strangers, not governments.
These switches interact with software or programmable, connected components. They don't physically disconnect the hardware in a way that only the switch itself can reverse.
Preliminary steps in designing and implementing a privilege verifier for PMI
Perfectly legal for articles of incorporation. No need for strongarm politics; you can start that company today, or invest in companies that do. It might actually make the company more valuable to greedy bankers, billionaires, and fund managers. I hope you do, and I hope you make a lot of money so that others follow your example.
The poster you are replying to has a very well established HN reputation for a hard-line worldview that assumes government is almost never wrong about anything it does to citizens.
I recently got the Dasung Not-eReader and while it has its quirks it works pretty well overall, especially as mini-screen for my laptop. It is fast enough for me to work in vim without any ghosting. And it allows me to actually do some work outside. But I agree, having an actual eInk laptop would be fantastic.
I can confirm that soft skills are highly valued and useful on the job as well. They are the #1 criteria at most tech companies I've worked at. I'm highly regarded as awesome technically but I've lost jobs based on my poor soft skills alone.

The company I'm working at right now gives out a bonus at the end of the year so long as your work "meets expectations", but they have a specific rule that if they don't like your behavior it doesn't matter how good your work is because your bonus will be set to zero. It's the "no brilliant assholes" rule.
Summary: Why novels are important, by a novelist.

Arguably, novels have been superseded by series. A single fiction book today is a trial balloon. If it sells, sequels, trilogies, and more trilogies follow. Book tours. Merchandise, and a movie or TV deal may follow.

The goal today is to create a brand. The brand may survive the author, as Tom Clancy(tm) has done.

Shakespeare wrote for the box office. Dickens was serialized in newspapers. Real authors sell.
I tend to see this attitude most from people that insist on using a tiny under-specced laptop, rather than a desktop with multiple screens and a proper desk.

I conclude that they either have never been blessed with the opportunity to use proper tools, or that they think that you have to suffer for your art to be truly skilled.

I rather enjoy not suffering from repetitive stress injuries myself, so variety is good.
Smart TV's cost a lot less than they would if Sony/Phillips/Samsung didn't resell your personal data they gather when the TV is plugged into the net.

So buy one of these good deals but don't plug it into the the net. Just get a NUC that you control and use that with one of the 3 or 4 HDMI ports you have.

You get a good deal on the TV, no one is listening to everything that's said in your living room and with a long range (eg Marathon) mouse you have all the remote control you need.
How are you actually going to prove the state of a distributed system in an legally actionable way?
And they may know how to manage devs but they have very little change of being good at , which is what protects the dev team.

When the smooth talking suits show up and tell their pretty dictions, there aren’t enough people who know how to push back.

But where would you find these classically trained managers who haven’t drunk the Taylor koolaid?
Yes! ‘Synthesis’ is much better than either ‘compiling’ or ‘instantiating’. Thank-you.
I skim because most non fiction books, especially those published in recent years, simply aren't worth reading word for word. Most books I've found can be condensed to a blog post at most.(Fiction can have similar issues. Epic fantasies are the worst offenders of this which sometimes have entire BOOKS of useless filler)

I also feel an internal pressure to make the absolute most out of my time spent doing activity x. If I'm reading a book then every page, every paragraph and every sentence should contribute something to broadening my understanding of whichever topic I'm reading about.

Perhaps this is all a sign of a fractured attention span, but I've found that since skimming books (as well as being able to simply put down a book that I'm not enjoying and not feeling any guilt about it) that I not only spend more time reading but seem to get more out of it.
Kotlin != Java .... unfortunately. Sorry Jetbrains.
> There obviously is a modern left and feminism is a central tenet of it.

Since you seem to be so well-informed on the subject, maybe you can help me with a question about the "modern left" that I have had for several years now: what does John Zerzan have in common with Hillary Clinton?
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I know retail stores in France cannot legally sell anything at a loss, except during government-decided 'sales' periods (twice a year, usually in January then June) which are mostly aimed at emptying stocks for the new 'season' (as if that mattered in the 21st century when most stores are a on a bi-monthly product cycle, but hey, that's the inertia of law/gov).

Not sure about businesses in general but I seem to recall it's a general law for commerce.

The problem is that retail is thus basically unable to compete on price beyond a certain (very mild) degree, notably forbidden to say "I'll sell item X at a loss to attract customers, and then make up for it on other items they buy". It's just illegal to do it in France.

A little bit too reminescent of a planned (communist) economy if you ask me, because it applies to each and every item taken individually, not the store overall or over a certain period of time. Needless to say this doesn't help thwart the collapse of retail versus online shops, especially in the way of services — and consider that foreign online businesses don't even have to follow such regulation, obviously, so...

It's a very, very grey area to regulate, and government being just awful at understanding how business works makes it ill-suited (often misguided) to regulate such things. I think branch negociations (within a given sector) is a much better approach: let actors (businesses) decide how they will compete, and only regulate if there's anti-consumer (cartel) behavior, not prior to any wrongdoing! — it reeks of a view that 'capitalism is bad' yadi-yada (typical French view) and hurts consumers' purchasing power in the end.
"10% of the prison population" is a lot of people. It is approximately equal to 100% of the prison population (per capita) of a European nation.

And that's before couting the anti-deterrent effect you described.
OT: musl is pronounced like 'muscle' or do you spell it out 'm-u-s-l'
>He found out that type make up less than 10% of the prison population.

Wait? What?

I'm from Wisconsin, and my second home is in Texas. In both places, non-violent drug offenders constitute the bulk of inmates by far. About 77000 of roughly 131000 inmates in Texas are in for drugs without theft or violent charges. If you factor out the ones in for big time distribution, it's about 62000 of the 131000.

https://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-prisons/crim...

Are you absolutely certain they said only 10% of people in prisons are drug offenders? In any case, at least where I'm from, drug offenders are, by far, the majority of the incarcerated.

EDIT: Hmm, it just occurred to me, are you only talking about Federal system prisons? Because most of our inmates are actually in the 50 state prison systems.
Here's a dolphin found, more recently, with rear legs/fins

https://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=31071605...
I will take a look at it. Thanks for the feedback.
I love the style of packets organization that they describe. I think it has a name, I have seen it promoted as an alaternative to the typical mess that is "install everything in various parts of /usr/ and /opt/, put things in /etc/ or ~, silently overwrite old versions"
With my investor hat on: convey your deep appreciation by staying focused (and providing transparent updates along the way, especially when it's going poorly). That is plenty.
And the more hours he had them working, the fewer hours they had for drug runs.
Also, this post hasn't aged well at all. Mirror Symmetry, monstrous moonshine, ricci flows have had huge implications in math.
Honestly, I find Rails projects to unupgradeable.

We found it to be easier to just rewrite the project when moving between major versions (Rails 4 to Rails 5 for example). Shoehorning old functionality into a newer Rails just made this inconsistent.
While developing an image, I use layers as much as possible.
But usually, when the image is finished, I prefer to minimize the number of layers, it saves some (or little) storage (I think it will not > 10%).
Found Jeff Goldblum's account.
Agreed.

And when it's the marketing department saying "X" in big print in flashy brochures and ads, and the legal department and their small print saying "not X in ways that kill purchasers expecting X", I'd expect company officers to be facing jail time.

I'm old fashioned that way too.
Banks deny compensation when hackers steal customers' money
And the Philokalia, which most Westerners seem to be unaware of.
It’s precisely this notion of ‘lowering’, as you call it, that preoccupies me. If unchecked, the idea that all forms of ‘lowering’ through abstraction layers is a form of ‘compilation’ (of sorts) will become the norm, and we’ll no longer have a unique term for what compilation proper actually means. And you’re entirely right in noting that nowadays ‘compiling’ has come to encompass and conflate the conceptually very distinct steps of compilation, linking, and assembly... a process I’m more comfortable with collectively referring to as ‘building’.

It’s entirely possible that I might’ve (accidentally) redefined one or more meanings, and if I have, I apologise. It’s almost four in the morning and insomnia prevents me from sleeping but doesn’t necessarily maintain me at full alertness (tomorrow/today will be hell).
Well, the crime rate depends on local laws.
I don't think this lines up with memory research. It's true that people commonly make source monitoring errors, but generally feeling negative affect toward something enhances memory. People might forget the specific company, but I doubt they would feel more trust toward travel companies in general.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-monitoring_error

https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2011/10/positive-negat...
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This isn't an actual subpoena - a subpoena is an order issued by a court, and requires probable cause. What's happening here is that the cops are asking Amazon for the data, and Amazon is giving it to them, without being legally obligated to do so. Assuming that the user's terms of service say that Amazon can do this, they don't need your permission to do so, or any proof that a crime has occurred.

I assume it's legal for Amazon to give them these videos, since the images they're asking for are things that the cops or anyone else could have seen happening outside your house if they would have been driving by (or that your neighbors could have told the cops). There's no legal expectation of privacy, as there would be inside your house.
I'm talking about the typical consumer, not a HN user. Most people aren't running linux, have legal streaming options available to them, don't have terabytes available to them at any particular moment (maybe they have a few terabytes of portable harddrive in a closet somewhere, but not mounted and ready to roll.)

Are there scenarios where typical consumers turn to piracy? Sure, aboslutely. They generally do that when a convenient legal way isn't an option (e.g. region locks screwing them over.)
This is from 2016. It's hard to say how you can tell without knowing what techniques were used against you specifically,if you have FireEye's network or endpoint products (or any other major vendor) they would provide coverage for any remnants of compromise by that threat actor.
I appreciate the "I know how this looks and sounds 'hoaxy,' but here's why I think I'm right" aspect by the author. (paraphrased of course)
For detecting objects in video, take a look at: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/ls...

It uses SSD object detector (https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02325 , https://lambdalabs.com/blog/how-to-implement-ssd-object-dete...) on each frame, then runs LSTM on top of it to collect information across video frames.

The trained model can be run on mobile devices via Tflite.
I'm trying it out, so far I like it! Thanks!
Reading the comments ( and the article ) I think people are forgetting about the customer causing problems.

For example, what do you do when you and your customer agree on certain features by a certain timeframe and then... that customer turns around and promises something to someone else, then asks you if you can do that _without_ _consulting_ _you_ _first?_

If you refuse, you cause trouble for your customer, and potentially yourself. And then there's cultural considerations. And then your customer gets distracted by this and that, and you lose control of you customer?

This kind of thing happens. Plenty of companies are square in the "customer is always right" camp, which I think is a _bad_ idea. The customer is not always right.

This is why I think planning and estimating is a good thing, but controlling your customer is also important to keep in mind. You have to be willing to compromise, yes, but you also need to say "no" sometimes, or at least say "Well, let's finish this first, get the product out the door, and put that in version 1.5".

However, I feel like a lot of people are too scared to do that.
Most LED fixtures emit a lot of blue, even if the bulb appears a different color. As far as I know, "bug bulbs" are the only ones that actually filter out all the blue- which attracts bugs.
This is not a rebuttal to your graph, whose source ("Better angels.." by Pinker) I know about and understand, but I thought it was useful context for my own understanding:

In the same units as that graph, WWII would likely register as over 1000 in Germany (compare with the less than 2 indicated in the graph).
"Piracy" is inconvenient. It takes knowledge, effort, time and money as well as computing power, storage and network bandwidth to participate in the ratio economies of private torrent trackers. It gets to the point it looks like an enthusiast operation run by people who want the best possible version of everything.

What's truly sad is how so many people find this preferable to paying for the official services. It speaks volumes to the quality of their streaming services. A huge number of people don't even have the choice to pay for the content to begin with: many of the of companies that complain about copyright infringement don't even offer their services outside of the United States. They ignore entire markets and complain when people find a way via unofficial means. It's really hard to feel any sympathy for the copyright industry.