skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More of an insensitive libertine than a sexist. I cannot control what other people say, think or do. I can only control how I react to those situations. This makes it crucial to self sensor being offended more than being offensive. I agree with a lot of what this thread is about, but also am aware that overcompensation is also present. Being offended to a point as to intend to change someones behavior is a form of exerting moral authority. It is rare that this is not itself a form of discrimination. "I have zero tolerance for intolerant people."

I agree there is a place and time for everything. However, true friends are rarely made in polite company. I prefer to work with friends.
Amazon Prime? Redbox streaming?

It's not clear to me that it makes sense to define Netflix's exact business model as a market. If you look at streaming video in general as the market there are many competitors like Apple, MS, Sony, Hulu, Epix, etc.
Yeah, 3-4 months seems too little to expect some income... This guy just wanted to make it big, and wasn't in the mood of creating new features...

All he was doing is what he wanted with the product, not what the potential customers need... I agree that you cannot do everything that the customer ask for, but from my point of view, this guy doesn't even knew the needs of his target market.
I don't understand what is all the fuss about, when it comes to software developer women in 90% of cases are less efficient than men. (my anecdotal evidence, but also look at github, nobody's stopping women to post open source projects on github) And do you think that for remaining 10% women should be treated equally? Why should I spend more resources looking for women when quality men workers are easier to find? Does my feeling of compassion for the 10% of women who deserve to be hired is enough to compensate for the time I waste on filtering?
> ...without the ethical problems...

I think that is a bit too optimistic. Political battles over robots' rights are inevitable.

Edit: I think this is also relevant: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/
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They will redefine the definition of the terms "surveillance" "citizen" "enemy" "foreigner" "whistleblower" and "leak"

The laws will be reinterpreted around these new definitions and he'll claim victory.
It's easy to tell if this actually happens -- you'll see massive layoffs of IT people when the top secret clouds dissipate.
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My primary complaint with DRM in general is the sucky customer experience, not the DRM itself.

Exactly.

I do think there is a risk that it simply won't be possible to buy a legal permanent copy of a lot of content in a DRM'd era. More limited library subscription or streaming/rental models are likely to be more financially beneficial to content producers, and if the content is valuable enough, people will still pay for it on those terms.

At the moment, I'm leaning towards saying that's OK if the market will bear it. A reasonably priced service where I can listen to just about any music track I want probably does have more value to me than owning a bunch of little plastic discs with a tiny fraction of the same material on them.

At the same time, copyright is supposed to be a two-way street that motivates the creation and distribution of works for the general good. If the content producers can make a reasonable return much faster thanks to DRM, then it's also fair to say copyright terms should be dramatically shortened in this new environment, and maybe some form of positive obligation to release the content into the public domain should exist. This way, works can be produced and profitable faster for the benefit of creators, and then they can become public faster as well.

Part of the trouble today is that the intent of copyright laws has been so distorted that they really do serve more as a means to lock works up than to motivate their distribution. But this was a problem already, legally speaking, so I don't see much downside to highlighting the issue so there is increased pressure to fix the underlying problem.
no, he just like the mow them down
Have you read the specs? A proprietary binary blob is still required. The proposal is only for a standardized interface with that binary blob. If that binary blob is not provided for a particular platform then you are left out in the cold, as before.

> not talking about enabling broad DRM for all the bytes delivered over HTTP internet. We're talking specifically about extensions to HTMLMediaElement

Gee, you think news sites may have multimedia? Naaahhh...
He obviously was a tremendous achiever, but the current Bose products I have heard are terrible sounding.

The signal processing they add to create the "spacy"effect destroys the mix, the balances of the instruments, the placement, it's all lost in a hazy phase fog of sound. I don't get it.

To my ear, even many of the cheap desktop systems from companies like Logictech sound better.

If you're looking for decent sound at a low price, there are many low cost powered studio monitors that sound pretty good, like these from M-Audio:

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family&ID=studi...

I don't think they are good as professional monitors, but for everyday listening pretty damn nice.
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Not very awesome because you lose the ability to restrict access.

The internet makes that unnecessary.
Doesn't that mean having a standardised, open, peer-reviewed system for isolating those onerous parts from the rest of the system would be an improvement?
But it's only a matter of time before someone hacks their browser to ignore those directives.
I would not say they sound like crap, but they do not possess a 'transparent' sound or offer a flat audio response curve that most audiophiles love. Also, the use of noise canceling technology does degrade sound quality to some extent.

Of course, these are all audiophile nitpickings that a casual user would almost never consider.
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Thanks for everyone! AtomicNote reach first one hundred users! We got a lot of helpful feedback and exciting to building world's simplest note app!
110% agreed.
CompuCast[0] is by some folks at the University of Edinburgh. They cover mostly academic research, but do a good job of making it accessible for people with a basic background in CS.

0: http://computersciencepodcast.com/
So just getting this newsbyte out into the zeitgeist is really what they want. Put out this little sentence - let people latch onto it and carry on as normal.
Is this an argument you actually think that people concerned about this proposal will find satisfying? Or is it just something that you find satisfying to say. You cannot possibly think the first...

(Furthermore, I am able to watch Netflix videos on other devices. The inability to watch Netflix on my primary computer does not bother me. I don't have that support now, I won't in the future, I never had it and I never expected it.)
Yes, precisely! It is possible to prove causation, however, this submission does not do so. Please read this primer:

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...
If people flee Windows they go to a Mac. Most people buying Android/ChromeOS devices are buying them to supplement, not replace, their PCs.
Wow, you just walked the conversion right into jerk territory.
We'll get here eventually:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
I'm one of the Disconnect devs and these definitely aren't stupid questions:

1. Unlike that other "privacy" cough extension, Disconnect doesn't send any data (user or otherwise) to Disconnect servers. In other words, Disconnect doesn't output user data that can be intercepted by a MITM attack. Disconnect does grab a config file on startup (https://disconnect.me/help#syncing), but unlike in the Amazon case, the file is both transferred over HTTPS and encrypted (with the Stanford Javascript Crypto Library). Also unlike in the Amazon case, the file has a limited functional scope (which third-party sites to block) so is less susceptible to being rewritten in an abusive way.

2. One of our other Chrome extensions, Collusion for Chrome, will actually show you requests that are coming from other extensions. The more technical approach, which isn't that hard and I'd like to see more people try, is to run a packet sniffer (recommended: http://www.wireshark.org/) or proxy server (recommended: http://www.charlesproxy.com/).
I'm currently using DDG + Safari with Glims. I would love to switch to Firefox, the only thing that's holding me back is the lack of a good replacement to ClickToPlugin killers.

Those are little js that will remove the flash/silverlight video and replace it with an mp4. This also effectively kills youtube ads.
Got it. I made DDG my default in the awesome bar, but I understand the benefits of the saved keyword approach better now.
I'd like to know about its energy consumption, and how long would it operate with today's best battery technologies. That seems to me to be one of the bigger hurdles for turning this into something operational, but I might be wrong. Still, it's 330 lbs to move on two legs (future versions of course will be lighter, but, being military, it probably can't be all lightweight stuff).
Anyone here with more knowledge about this care to give their opinion?
> What upsets me about this particular instance is that they are moving to make DRM a part of what are supposed to be the open standards of the web

They aren't making DRM part of the standard. They are making an interface to interact with DRM part of the web. Actually, its to interact with encrypted media, which is a superset of DRM. I expect there will be people using it for privacy when sharing media with friends and family.
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Where by job should be understood the best employment option in your opinion, outside of being a founder/co-founder.
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...Other than doing the right thing. But then again, it seems that stopped mattering long ago (Guantanamo, wars etc).
http://i.imgur.com/bLvlwy6.png
Bell, Morse, Land, Kurzweil, Bose, ... the list of Boston associated inventors is never ending. Then again Polaroid or Bose corporation can't compete with the limelight of the web world.

Most audiophiles buy stuff very few people have heard off, and Bose products themselves are on the fence of trying to be audiophile, yet popular ... a tricky space to be in.
...so Yahoo is tracking all employee movements now?

(Just kidding -- I think it's a great perk for Yahoo employees. Too bad they couldn't get purple ones.)
That's a cute troll comment. Like when my mom says "aren't all websites the same?"
It’s true, I hoard a lot of digital things. Keeping a VM sounds like a good solution that allows me to upgrade to the latest OS without permanently losing any programs.

However, I think that the Fountain Music iTunes visualizer (http://binaryminded.com/fountainmusic.html) is actually the program I’ll miss the most after I upgrade. I enjoy listening actively to my music, paying attention to the musical details. And the visuals produced by Fountain Music, unlike every other visualizer I’ve seen, actually reflect the audio very well. It’s not just a mesmerizing screensaver that is theoretically tied to the audio somehow – you can clearly hear a connection between each note playing and each fountain of particles shooting up. The fact that the visuals reflect the music (most of the time) can put me more emotionally into the track, because I’m getting complementary signals through my eyes and ears.

Also, there is rarely such a thing as “substitute games”. That’s what makes games different from other programs – well-made games, even ones in the same genre, have their own unique, irreplaceable features. They are like books and movies in that regard. That’s why emulators for consoles like the SNES and the Dreamcast are still around – people don’t want to give up their favorite old games.
"DRM-enabled HTML" is not what is on the table. The proposal is for a standardized interface for proprietary DRM modules to use. If you are not blessed with the creation of a DRM module for your particular platform then you will be left high and dry, even if your browser fully implements the standard.
Oh, that's a good one. Time to create a new Three Letter Agency.
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Ok, thank you everyone for your feedback. I'll be redoing the job with your input in mind.
and and and the humanitarian requirement is there because the social requirement is that we get the service and that has the contractual requirement! HTML DRM is a humanitarian mission!
I would also like to believe open source makes software more secure

I would think in general that it does, but you also would have to be certain that the software actually running on the official voting system is the same as the "open source" version. I think that's a tough one.
Having read his book, I can say that he's not selling red herrings.

He does make a clear, recurring, point in his book: the fitness and diet industry focuses too much on things that don't matter that much. E.g. low carb diets, avoiding "bad foods", cardio being the key to fat loss, and yes, metabolism.

My belief is that he mentions metabolism on his site to arouse curiosity, or calm worries, on one myth that fasting skeptics have: not eating frequently slows your metabolism, and to the point that it affects weight loss.

In fact, fasting doesn't affect your metabolism that much, if at all. Research shows it stays pretty steady during periods of fasting.

And through that fact, he's able to push your focus away from worrying about metabolism and on to what really matters: calorie consumption.
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Like how Total Information Awareness went away in 2003:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
You would be surprised. I have a fair few fellow students who speak English well enough to hold basic conversations but the moment you need to talk about more than the weather they lack the understanding of the language to put the sentences together (like someone who can piece together code suddenly being asked to synthesize a new program from scratch). A few fair better in technical subjects but at least for one English university, this doesn't appear to be a barrier.

(As an aside, I had a pair of Portuguese TAs who spoke very good English, but had a slight issue with the letters of the alphabet. And a couple of the English letters share names with different Portuguese ones which made for interesting Elementary Logic tutorials.)
Seattle? :)
Sure. Either way, those people are not fleeing to standard PC hardware running "traditional" Linux distros. There is not going to be any great push sometime in the future for Netflix to support "traditional" Linux.
Actually it's a great way to simultaneously design a website AND an api for others to use. It's also a great way to separate concerns. It's also a great way to reduce load on your server. In fact, it's an easy way to have some people code a standard back end with a standard authentication so that some other people can make front ends for the web, iphone, and more. You can use, for example, oauth to authenticate with the back end, from any front end app.

http://www.discourse.org/ is one example of such an approach
Not sure if reddit supports it, but this is how we did our extension at an old startup I worked for.

We allowed users to share post-it note style comments on web sites with their friends; for example, I could leave you a little note on the hackernews front page, and the next time you go to the site you would see the not sitting on top of it.

In order to do this, we had to check every page you visited to see if there was a slide for you on it. We cared about privacy, so we took a hash of each URL and sent it instead of the URL itself. While we would know what site you are on if we happened to get a hit (i.e. you had a note on the page), we wouldn't know what site you were on if there was no note.

Of course, this was all based on the users trusting us to not change our code. There was nothing preventing us from changing how we sent the URLs. The level of access extensions get is SCARY. I don't think users realize what exactly they are allowing when they install them.
This really comes down to the need/demand for the infrastructure. Projects like this do occasionally happen in the US. NYC is getting a 60 mile long, $6B water tunnel. Unfortunately, that tunnel has been under construction for decades, and is still years from completion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No._...
Fair enough: your daughter will be tear gassed[1] under the tethered, direct control of a human operator then.

[1] tased, pepper sprayed, heatblasted, subject to concussion blasts and/or other non-lethal crowd control measures as deemed necessary and appropriate by the exigent circumstances of the moment.
Is Google allowing this Adwords advertiser to misuse/spoof the Mashable brand?
The worst thing about undefined is not its mutability but that it exists in the first place. Trying to retrieve a non-existent attribute should throw an error by default, not fail silently.
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If your "intellectual curiosity" can stand idle when black people are denied access to jobs and opportunies, then it's not worth much in the first place. I'd go as far as to call it dead.

"Intellectual curiosity" is not IDLE curiosity. It either is curiosity about building and changing things (including society) or it's no better than stamp collecting.
"ending"
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Same thing here. I always used Firefox, and never got the hype about Chrome. I like Mozilla goals stated in their manifesto way more than Google's ambiguous "don't be evil" which doesn't even hold up to its promise.
Well, it seems we have incompatible ethics. Either you violate mine or I violate yours.
> Pardon me for being so naive, but why does Netflix have no competition in their market?

Are you talking about the mail-DVD-rentals-to-your-house market or the stream-video-over-the-internet market. Because they've got plenty of fairly direct competition in the latter and currently more significant market (Amazon, Hulu, and Redbox streaming services, among others) as well as plenty of close substitutes (e.g., cable/satellite TV services which include "On Demand" series and movies) , and, if not a lot of direct competiton in the former market, at a minimum a close substitutes in the form of pervasive rental outlets (particularly Redbox).
OK, how about "greatly reduced ethical problems".

As long as we're still killing and eating animals, we can make robots work for us.

Also, ideally we'll build them to like it. Then it'd be unkind to let them rest.
>What worries me more is the possibility that the oil industry has spies with control over this "secrecy order". The fabled "200 mile per gallon carburetor" type stuff.

>It is quite easy for me to believe that a trillion dollar industry would attempt to protect itself by any means possible.

all the engineering calculations for a car you can make yourself starting from the first principles, like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_dynamics

etc...

It would be very interesting if you can come up for 200mpg goal with better shape or lighter design or better in some other way than that

http://green.autoblog.com/2013/04/01/vw-hints-hyper-efficien...
If we're being cynical, the administration can just announce an "organized" shutdown and give a timeline, say 2 years. All government projects are delayed at least 50%, so let's say 4 years (government math). Four years from now a new president will be in office and can blissfully ignore the timeline and re-open the projects. Look at how long it took to exit Iraq, or how long it's taking to exit Afghanistan, or how long it's taking to shutter Guantanamo.

Hell, if Guantanamo is any indication, the executive will blame the legislative for not passing laws allowing them to shutter the program, and the legislative will blame the executive for not closing the program down. Blame goes in a circle and the populace gets screwed.
Nothing epitomizes Bose so well as their minicube home-theater-in-a-box systems.

Somewhat expensive. Tiny and easy to live with (I believe the audiophile term is "wife-friendly"). Not very good sound quality.

Good audio requires some tradeoffs. A tiny box with tiny drivers and not a lot of power simply can't reproduce lower frequencies well. There just isn't enough cone displacement. Likewise, putting those little cubes in places that are convenient to live around rarely results in placement that makes the most of what little you have! Well placed speakers are usually in the way. These minicube systems were designed for people who consider sound quality to be of secondary importance to unobtrusiveness, and they serve that market well.

Bose realized that not everyone is an audiophile. Some people want to have sound that's "good enough" without huge tower speakers placed several feet away from their walls waiting for children to tip them over. Of course, these people don't want to feel like they're compromising. If you sell them cheap cubes that are marketed as being "good enough", they'll stay away in droves! If you market those "good enough" speakers as audiophile grade and charge a proportionate amount for them, people will buy them. Even more amazingly, they'll be happy with them. Audio is one of those rare sectors in which you can actually make people more satisfied by overcharging them. Bose realized this.

Prioritizing convenience over sound quality and charging premium audiophile prices for compromise-making products is something Bose does indeed have in common with Apple. Mp3's are in no way a step up in sound-quality over CD's, but mp3 players were a tremendous improvement in convenience over portable CD players. There were mp3 players before the iPod, but the iPod was the first "premium" mp3 player. The first iPod's and their crappy buds cost more than a top of the line Sony discman with some rather nice cans, and people bought them in droves!

So, I agree that Apple has taken a page out of Bose's playbook, but I disagree with your statement than Bose was ahead of his time. Bose's timing was perfect and his company was wildly successful as a result.
I'm not following how the counting is done. If all the counter has is a ballot with position 2 checked and the corresponding candidate name torn off, how does that vote get tallied to the proper candidate?
Is this an argument you actually think that people concerned about this proposal will find satisfying?

No, I'm just explaining why a problem of your own making, which will affect a tiny minority of people interested in viewing content on-line, is not reasonable grounds for undermining standards that would probably be in the interests of the overwhelming majority.

Or is it just something that you find satisfying to say.

Satisfying, no, but it is tiresome to watch people campaign for openness with one breath and then complain with the next that they can't access things that are paid for and only available in the closed world they chose not to participate in.
To be fair he wrote one line which in the context of the thread could easily be perceived as defending sexist hiring practices. He may not have said "man or woman" but he responded to a comment I made where I described a manager of mine who was fond of making sexist jokes and refused to take women seriously as job candidates.

In his position if I wanted to make a more general point about the court system I would have burned a few more sentences clarifying my point.