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Why don't they just make a binary client ?

How does that help the situation at all?

Either data is DRM-encumbered or it's not. The basic issues of rights of creators vs. rights of distributors vs. rights of consumers are exactly the same.

All you're doing by arguing against a standardised way of using DRM on web sites is leaving lots of little walled gardens. Having all the data you want, in an unencumbered format, in a nice open field where anyone can play, isn't an option that's on the table right now. It won't magically become an option just because you force all the distributors to develop custom schemes for their DRM instead.
It is a meta search engine with lions share of queries answered by Yahoo! BOSS (which is backed by Bing).
Why not? Isn't they fresh?
Because Silverlight is EOL and Netflix wants to continue to have a functioning business after Microsoft kills it?
Ending, or ending and restarting with a new name so they can say "That program was discontinued" without lying?
I'm not sure if this what was originally referenced, and honestly I'd be very surprised if HP storage saw much use in these companies, but the tech support backdoors that have recently been revealed in two HP storage products have caused me personal concern.

My first Google hit, seems somewhat accurate: http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-security/hp-admits-undocumen...
The destructive capabilities of a DRM-encumbered internet far outweigh the contributions that Netflix has made.
It's Friday night here and I'm chillin'. Happens only so often.
Product managers don't implement features. Someone coded and tested this too, and somehow the communication process didn't get far enough to stop it. That's more than one dumb middle manager.
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Never took venture capital or IPO'd; gave his company to MIT.
Not true, my t-shirts are made in Bangladesh. Or Vietnam. Somewhere hella poor anyway.
Bose is what you might call "pro-sumer". Bose products to not hesitate to alter and color the sound of the output, if Bose considers the result pleasing. Audiophiles and audio professionals are generally more interested in high fidelity.
Over several years of comparing, I find DDG results are fine for reasonably common questions and recent stuff. Sometimes when doing deep searches for more arcane topics (especially farther back in history) Google will get to what I'm looking for sooner. But I usually use Google Books for that stuff (which is where they retain a -big- advantage).
The link you provide is not evidence of abuse, but of incompetency.

Sony's rootkit shenanigans were already illegal under numerous laws in numerous jurisdictions, also an example of incompetency.

SOPA and PIPA are examples of abuse on a political level and has little to do with what I'm asking.

What abuse of technology provides what power and control over us when we are discussing DRM in the HTML stack? Even if they did get some type of DRM into the HTML stack (which isn't even happening, we're talking extensions here), you as a consumer still have more power and control by refusing to play their game in the first place.

Again, what abuse of technology are we talking about here?
They can continue functioning on their own, without polluting the HTML standard. There's nothing stopping them from that.
Thanks for writing this. I love the illustration of the concept with the video. I have little knowledge or background in the area so it is very useful.

I got confused where you introduced the objective function though. Is the reader supposed to understand where that comes from or are you just presenting it as a fact? It also doesn't make sense to me that the function is minimised over 'b' but 'b' does not appear in the function?
Searching the current page for links in Firefox (using ') is a great feature and one of the things I miss most when I have to use Chrome.
Well, the many members of the free software movement used to be OK with using websites that did not give you open access to their stuff, since only the site itself was actually using the software and thus it wasn't violating your right to examine, modify and redistribute.
>Very misleading. In fact, the author of this study is a behavioral neurologist, hence studying human behavior relating to diet drinks rather than diet drinks themselves. Drink as much diet soda as you like, if the rest of your diet is healthy then you're fine.

Only people are not Vulcans -- to seperate such things as easy as you put it. For example, who told you that, from a behavioral standpoint, drinking diet soda and having a healthy diet are compatible?

If anything, the "behavioral neurologist" suggests otherwise.

Your idea that diet soda is totally OK (which btw, needs a citation), is based on the premise that people can easily do the healthy diet and still consume diet soda. Which might be true for some, but clearly does not work for most -- not because it is physically impossible, but because other factors (e.g behavioral, psychological, etc) are also into play. Dismissing those as irrelevant does a huge disservice to studying the matter.
If you can't discuss last night's episode of GoT without being seen as a sexist jerk, you might be a sexist jerk. The fact you keep suggesting you have to "put on kid gloves" suggests you might be a sexist jerk.
What would you recommend as an alternative? I tried some Sony ones but the electronics added some other noise.
To your point ; it's ok to do both.

Route 53 supports DNS TTLs as low as 0 seconds. ELB and S3 endpoints both have 60 second TTLs. My experience with flipping names like www.amazon.com doesn't reflect the 15% figure. I've seen about 97% of web traffic honouring the TTL and flipping quickly. Within 5 minutes almost all of the rest too. We also take CloudFront sites in and out of service for maintenance, and in 5 years I've never anything like a 15% straggler effect.

That said, we do see a very small number of stragglers. While resolvers over-riding TTLs hasn't shown up as a significant problem, buggy clients can be; we come across clients now and then who either don't re-resolve ever (Various JVMs and their infinite caches are a common cause), or only re-resolve on failures (which is fine for failover, but not great for traffic management).

If you have a distribution time plot for the 15% figure it'd be interesting to see; https://www.dns-oarc.net/ would be a good venue, https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations is the open list. Ignoring TTLs for a week is very concerning; it would very likely break many DNSSEC configurations. Is it possible you were dealing with robots?
Trust me, it gets worse:

All in all, contemporary web sites are static in nature in that they fail to take into consideration the individuality of their visitors and instead present to each visitor a substantially identical audio/visual experience. As a result, visitors to contemporary web sites often become bored with the web site in a relatively short time thereby reducing visitor time on a web site and the possibility of frequent, repeat visits by the user.

It's slightly worrying that patent lawyers and people working at the patent office don't seem to have had access to the internet recently.
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A big issue is that after all these revelations it is clear that the NSA and other branches of government has not been transparent. The trust has eroded and it's hard to take Obama at face value when he says he may end or reduce these programs. They can easily just change them around. I'm hesitant to say it, but more congressional oversight is needed in this area.
DRM was never about piracy, it was about controlling who can distribute what.
Barry Nalebuff of Honest Tea is a professor at Yale. I didn't really know anything about him or his company until I saw him speak yesterday, but both are quite impressive!
Quora has a good writeup on a few reasons why Netflix has been using Silverlight:

1. Cheap licensing terms for DRM:
http://www.quora.com/When-does-Netflix-use-WideVine-DRM-inst...

2. Strong support for CDNs, enabling lower-cost streaming:
http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Netflix-use-Silverlight
Not that much. There is Flash and Silverlight, basically. EME and the various DRM modules for it will increase DRM fragmentation on the web.
Yes, but each account can put apps on a hundred devices. You can buy signing keys for a single iOS device for a few bucks from shady people with developer accounts who are selling their device slots off one by one.
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It's always hard to get a birds'-eye view of these things, but from my vantage point, I think SVMs are much more widely used in applications, but have been surpassed by deep learning as the current hot research area in machine learning. There is still SVM research, but it's plateaued compared to the frenzy of the late 1990s and early 2000s, while deep learning has taken off in the past few years. SVM has instead entered the realm of "standard ML tool", as an off-the-shelf technique with robust and well-documented implementations that can be applied in a reasonably straightforward way.
>Diet products were intended, and advertised, as sugar-free stuff, for people that need sugar-free dietary needs (ie: diabetics mostly)

Nope, they were advertised as the "healthy" choices for people that care about their sillouette. This is obvious from their advertising (not to mention that they also say it explicitly in ads).

Oh, and diet coke in Europe is code "coca cola LIGHT".

So much for the dietary connotation.

(And, yes, people do NOT know the meaning of diet. The majority understands it only in the sense of "weight loss diet").
O.P., thank you very much for this post. As Latin black, now i´m sure i will keep myself very far from U.S. You know, i´m just a small business guy from Brasil, but my dream, until today, was to create an start-up at U.S.
MIPS was started by Stanford people including Hennessy whose CPU architecture book (Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface) is famous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy -- since then he returned, and is now Stanford's president.
Nice, I'm always looking for new things to listen to during my too-long commute. Just one problem, unless I'm missing something, there's no RSS feed - a critical feature for a podcast series.
Surely, you must be joking. Do you really expect someone to work on this - not just one app, but four - without payment, and a hard budget of $1,200?

I'm sorry to sound condescending, but truthfully, what you're asking of any legitimate developer is condescending in and of itself.
"If you're implying that HN would generally prefer more female coworkers and don't really prefer to have more black ones, you may be on to something obvious :)"

I was thinking along the same lines but to put it more plain context, i wonder if HN sees white female > black person? As i was looking at this trend today, i got detoured onto this topic and started to see if there is any evidence of this kind of stuff. Its seems that in South Africa, after apartheid ended the Black government instituted affirmative action for black people and white woman. A few yrs later they dropped white woman from the AA policy and released numbers that showed white females reached their goal quota levels while black male and females hardly made any ground. Therefore it seems like the next best thing after a white male is a white female in a model that stifles white male employment. Very interesting!
The Senator merely said he has "a feeling" that the administration is concerned about bulk phone records collection. As of yet, there's no definitive confirmation that this is true.
This is not actually what happened. What happened was, some music publishers decided they were willing to try offering non-DRM'd music for a higher price, and then Apple did it. Apple did not force a change here. (And even if they had, Netflix is not in Apple's privileged position. The movie studios care a lot less about Netflix than the music guys do about iTunes.)
Going after Netflix is like going after a drug addict hooked on cocaine. Never mind that the addict is buying from someone far more evil on society. The addict is simply an easy target.

Likewise, Netflix doesn't really care about DRM, and as long as you are paying them monthly, they really don't care what format the content is in. It's the movie and television studios that don't want their content online without DRM.

Netflix is only able to do that deals with these studios if Netflix promises their content will be covered in DRM. No DRM, not content says the big bad studio. So now that Microsoft is sunsetting Silverlight, what are they to do?
Chinese room interviews.
> i assume the variable bitrate uses less cpu, or?

At bitrates higher than about 64 kbps, CBR actually uses less CPU to encode than VBR. This is because the CELT layer was designed to be natively CBR (since for real-time communication you want strict rate control all the time), and VBR is achieved by varying the target CBR rate on a packet-by-packet basis (using additional analysis not required by CBR).

This was a major departure from codecs like Vorbis, which are natively VBR, and implement CBR by encoding at up to 16 different rates and picking the one closest to the actual target, or other codecs which use a "bit reservoir" to shift bits back and forth between frames (increasing delay due to increased buffering requirements).
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Yes, but many people are pitching EME as a solution to that fragmentation. It isn't.
FYI your comment, as written, sounds extremely spammy.
That's usually what it is. I bought a pair of the QuietComfort after getting to use it on an international business flight on AA. It made a huge difference with plane noise so I bought it for travel, and now I use them most of the time since I haven't gotten around to buying another pair of headphones.
If there is no legal recourse for blatant violations of the Constitution, then our rights are already gone. We should not have to rely on the generosity of those in charge.
More ways in which code is being made "approachable" to those who have no business reading code can pretend they have valuable input managing developers.
That's amazing. Upvoted.
With this line of reasoning, why have standards at all? Why not jam every possible idea into HTML because "you don't have to use it"?

My point is that the standards shouldn't be co-opted to fit every want and need that a transient entity has.
It helps because the barrier to entry to creating your own binary client is high. I don't have to worry about my local news station going coo-coo and DRMing their entire site because "Hey, it's easy so why not? Gotta stop those dastardly copy-pasters."
People are remarkably good at picking up on subtle signals that correlate well with their existing biases. Instead of "It seems like a women" they'll subconsciously think "It seems like an even."
This assumes an erroneous loadable funds model where loans are supply driven; loans have always been demand driven. It's the same reason why QE isn't inflationary, just because there's more reserves in the system doesn't magically make creditworthy borrowers show up.
This should be fixed now :-)
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I accidentally deleted a line when I was typing; I meant to write "Male rape is predominately a result of the way the United States does incarceration and needs to be discussed in that context; the parent isn't saying that male rape victims 'don't count' "

Also, you clearly didn't bother to glance over any of the data I provided. You probably should, especially about the extremely well documented gendered pay gap. Denying that such a gap exists when there are mountains of evidence to the contrary only makes you sound ignorant and chauvinistic.

I'd still like citations on the male custody and on this 'forced envelopment' business.
What makes you think this will? This standard would still require proprietary binary blobs to be built for every platform that the DRM creator cares to support.
Which features would convince you that Arc is fast?
It's a fantasy to think that premium video providers are going away. It's also a fantasy to think that they're going to be able to provide content sans DRM anytime in the next decade.

You can either have a standardized way of delivering this content that there is obviously a massive demand for, or you can have everyone that wants to deliver video implement their own shitty browser plugin that will undoubtedly be full of security holes and performance issues and require regular patching. Trading Flash/Silverlight for a proprietary binary plugin per platform sounds genuinely awful to me. It's been a massive uphill battle with Flash/Silverlight - expanding that to a plugin per platform would be a nightmare.

The demand for the product is there. Maybe I'm just more pragmatic than idealistic, but as someone who enjoys these services, I'd really rather than they not suck. My primary complaint with DRM in general is the sucky customer experience, not the DRM itself. For streaming services, the classic issue with DRM ("you don't really own it") doesn't apply, because you already explicitly don't own what you're streaming. As long as it doesn't get in my way, I have no issue with it. Proprietary binaries are a lot more likely to get in my way than a standardized set of HTML5 extensions are.
Pyramid has nice decorators that make building rest services a breeze - there is also cornice project for pyramid which can even make documented apis.
That it says "considered" and not "will be revoked immediately" is incredibly telling.
@taopao, And for a component to be "trusted" it has to be code that was loaded with the operating system, or in this case, the operating environment (the browser)?

It seems to me that quashing tampering or observing of the trusted component is the lynchpin. In JavaScript, there is no way to access unexposed internals of an IIFE, that seems to me to get us half way there.

I wonder if there could be some way to add a "use trusted" pragma to an IIFE such that the browser would not allow debugging or watching the network traffic of that code? There'd have to be some new way to compare a checksum of the trusted code as well. I suppose that that could suffice in a video watermarking scenario, but Netflix could never watermark each and every video transmitted. I think they partner with some ISP's to cache content near to the users as well, so they're not even responsible for broadcasting the last mile of the video.
OK, I didn't explain in that comment why DRM inevitably goes so deep into the technology stack. See my explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035701

Also, DRM gives companies like Netflix, and the developers of the proprietary platforms that Netflix builds on, the power to be gatekeepers.
> This couldn't be further from the truth now more than ever.

You are thinking about this way to philosophical. Netflix would love to start using HTML5 today, DRM or no DRM, but the studios just wouldn't allow it. So...should they just close up shop because they can't have their way, and we can't have ours?
No clue regarding active noise cancellation. If you're okay with passive (aka, they go on your head and keep sound out just by virtue of surrounding your ear), a few popular low-cost options include the Audio Technica ATH-M50s and Sennheiser HD280Pros. Everyone in the audio world has their own opinions on this sort of stuff, but I've owned a pair of each of those and, despite their small flaws, both are decent pairs of cans.

The only time you really want the active stuff is when you're traveling and there exists a lot of low-frequency noise, such as on a train or airplane. Looking around on Hydrogenaudio confirms that the QC are okay if that's all you need, and also that alternatives exist, such as IEMs, which might have a wider range of use as they simply have very heavy passive isolation.
I wonder if Congress didn't support such matters in the first place.
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Why exactly do you care if your local news station DRMs their content?
Virtually every negative effect the likes of RMS and the FSF have predicted when it comes to not using free software has come true.

And yet more people are enjoying more content and more benefits from technology than at any point in human history.

Sometimes content creation industries screw up in how they treat their customers, and it's good to realise that and to fix it when it happens.

Sometimes people take advantage of secrecy, and they should be called on it and punished for it, by market forces or laws or both.

However, the general FSF/RMS/GPL3 "everything must be free" philosophy seems counterproductive to me, because it denies the middle ground where most useful things actually happen and most real progress gets made. They're throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and then the bath after it, and then knocking down the house because it wasn't built with the appropriately sourced bricks and living in a mud hut. How is that going to keep the baby cleaner?
employers should be allowed to discriminate however they wish. forced equality leads to more inequality. but i love the comments saying she should call the justice department because she didn't get a job because "she was black" when all she did was used two different names.
Can you in good conscience support the unilateral imposition of your preferences on everybody else?
A tunnel 76 mi long is "crazy"? Is this the first Chinese infrastructure project the writer has heard about?

108 Chinese Infrastructure Projects:
http://www.businessinsider.com/108-giant-chinese-infrastruct...

There are a couple of projects at the end that are 10X the cost of this tunnel.

$200 Billion (5x the cost of this project) spent in 2012 on roads:
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/world/2013/05/23/china-inf...
I picture exactly this happening. "Oh Trendstone? Yes that project was shelved. It's now called Blackbriar, but as you didn't ask that, so we wont' tell you it's the same thing with a different name."
With all due respect to Dr. Bose, that reputation stuck because it stayed true. To be fair though, Bose gets away with their premium cost because they fill a very important market hole in home audio: they produce top-notch products backed by good design and actual science.

There are a slew of companies slinging absolute crap, and a bunch of other companies selling pseudoscientific nonsense. Audio is a very difficult field for untrained people to judge product quality on the showroom floor--and in this sense, it's somewhat different from Apple's marketing task.

I don't own any Bose products, but hats off to Dr. Bose for blazing his own trail, haters be damned.
>my fellow white people began the search for every possible explanation

contrary to your idea of white people having white guilt or whatever and trying to justify this, the posts in this thread indicate (rightly) that discrimination exists and that you deal with it and get over it.
We (Balanced) are discussing this issue of mass payouts via CSV upload on a Github thread here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues/21#iss...

dylandrop's already commented, but would love to get others' input
This assumes you don't write any tests. In that case your system has more problems than the scope of this article.

There's nothing wrong with using metaprogramming to generate methods, as long as you are writing tests for those methods.

Grepping the application code is usually much less useful than grepping the tests to see how the system is intended to behave.
Why wouldn't it? It's a pretty small acquisition compared to the market size, and there are still three other major players left that completely dwarf Cricket in size.
I definitely understand where you're coming from. On the discovery aspect, maybe that's just not something I notice because I work in ipython so it's interactive anyway.
Is this a serious question? Are you trolling?

Because I like to read it..
Alternatively: "Obama considers preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States."
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