skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to admit discussions on racism and sexism bore the hell out of me. I don't know if that makes me a sexist or a racist.

I'm trying to focus in stuff that I think it will teach me something practical or cover something important to me directly. I think it's mainly because I'm rather short on time these days.
> but you can't have your cake and eat it

This line of reasoning is short-sighted and narrow-minded. Netflix and the iTunes Store flourished just fine with the amount of DRM we have now, why do we need more?
We need to take our human rights wherever we can get them. No one has any extra to spare, least of all Snowden.
Looks like a jewelry store robbery.

SFGate article: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-killed-in-SoMa-jewel...
What? Bose has long been notoriously low-quality for the price. They were the Beats by Dr. Dre of the 1980s, not Apple.
I don't get why Netflix can't just build a native app for each platform. For instance, they do have one for the iOS, shouldn't be too hard to port the core to OS X.
I wouldn't assume that will happen. T-Mobile is a far larger player than Leap, AT&T may well be allowed to buy them. It wouldn't be an entirely bad thing- they have a bunch of spectrum that they aren't using:

http://www.zdnet.com/at-and-t-picks-up-more-spectrum-with-le...

AT&T could certainly argue that they'd make better use of it.
Is there a possibility that long-time users here recognize resubmissions and flag them?
Game theory (and possibly anti-collusion laws) dictates that the best course of action for any one website in a sector is to keep their website up. If I'm Bing, and Google, DDG, Blekko, etc. shut down, that's exactly the time that I want to be up and running. So even though this is a good idea, I don't think it will happen. At least not all at once like this.
It's with "non free" javascript.
In other words the javascript code itself, not the runtime.
> Is encryption only good when it is protecting the freedom of the user, not the producer?

Actually, yes. Your computer should only do what you want it to.
JS codecs are possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5653531

I don't know whether Hollywood would consider JS DRM secure enough; it probably depends how good a negotiator you are.
To give myself as a one man sample:

Bose is the only high quality audio company I can think of.
DRM is power and control.
An important thing to keep in mind however is that since this still requires a proprietary binary, this being included in the standard would not automagically get you Netflix support in Linux.

Chrome supports Netflix on a Linux kernel right now. They only allow it to work in ChromeOS on authorized devices that are not "rooted". There are no technical hurdles to supporting Netflix on normal Linux distributions, it simply is not something that they are interested in doing. If you support this stuff being added to the standard because you want to watch Netflix on your MBP running Debian (or similar), then you are misguided.
Hm. I believe you're suggesting that they somehow recognize me from my photo or my name, neither of which is very likely as I am not at all well-known.

But that does bring up an interesting point - it could be they find me unattractive and thus having a photo is the negative factor (which is still gendered, but in a different way). If this were a true psych study and not one person's curiosity the fake profile should have a photo of a man of a similar age and attractiveness (as judged by a previous study)
Keep in mind that most people under the age of 38 or so won't remember pre-unification Germany at all.
"... if you value freedom?" An over-the-top threat like that makes me want to keep Netflix for spite. Terrible headline.
Definitely detected some unconscious racism (or at least willful ignorance) by apsec112's post. Saying that "this doesn't belong on HN" when HN has anecdotal articles about job/interview experiences and startup hiring stories on its front page every day.
It is a dangerous area around there. I seen a shooting 2 years ago around there and the vehicle just drove off. I see windows broken out of cars all the time. Seen a huge wreck on 6th and Brannan when someone stole a car a wrecked it into a Mazda and then started running down the road. Crazy stuff. I avoid 6th street and 5th street the most.
Time for Money
Wouldn't that still go against the FSF statement? The binary client would still require DRM of some sort.
Another anecdote but a very applicable one: a fellow nerd in high school had terrible grades, before and after starting Vyvanse (re-patented version of Adderall) around the end of sophomore year. However, he was able to focus in the biochemistry class and despite the fact that he still received bad grades for lack of caring, his medication helped him discover that he loved chemistry. A year later he was accepted to an Ivy League on a 3.0 unweighted GPA because he was able to throw a never before possessed focus at an internship at Caltech where he became a published scientist within a year.

Grade improvements (along with the possibility that over prescribing is skewing the data) are a terrible metric, and a better one would be interpersonal relationships and how they behave in the classroom, which is much harder to measure. If a child is diagnosed pretty late (late elementary or middle school) they might also have a LOT to really catch up on. Just because they can focus doesn't mean they are prepared to deal with the material given to them.
If the browser doesn't support plugins or extensions, then this would not work either. This is basically nothing more than a standardized interface for plugins meant explicitly for DRM.
"I do believe in the concept of maintaining blacklists against well known cheaters, spammers and other evil doers, and anonymizing names makes you unable to discriminate people by level-of-assholiness ;)"

If there was a protocol\industry agreed standard for doing hashing of names on applications, then you could still do this.
That's perfectly fine, but their business interests don't give them the broad-sweeping and baseless authority to define the standards that will affect everybody that uses the internet.
Airbnb's new headquarters? http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/airbnb-unveils-new-sa...
Rambo was Russian?!
I am not sure I understand their argument. With netflix you are a renter. It is their property why shouldn't they protect it. If they were selling you something then sure it should be freely yours with no DRM. As far as these internet ideals that are violated, well I know copyright infringement drove internet growth for quite a while but I am not sure I would call that an ideal. How about we let consenting adults (legally) exchange information how they like and call that an ideal.
The basic idea was that you can't put a 5kW drive on a 2.5kW motor: it would shove too much power into the motor and break it. This is not quite at all how those systems work.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-killed-in-SoMa-jewel...

Sounds like they got one of the robbers and are searching for a second suspect.
As a personal matter, I've always found Netflix's use of DRM to be superfluous. Half of the reason I use Netflix is so I don't have to manage my own video collection. I don't even want to manage a collection of .avi's and wmv's. (What file format are people actually using for stored video these days?) Trying to save my own copies of their content would be self-defeating (except maybe to view something once on an airplane?)
In theory, I'm super attracted to this model. My only concern is that it puts a lot of eggs in the Firebase basket. And what happens if I need to scale faster than Firebase can handle? Is there a way for me to run an in-house api compatible version of Firebase on my infrastructure and re-point to that? Can I keep a hot-swappable backup in sync? Or can I pay Firebase to do that for me?
So goes the old saying: "No highs? No lows? Must be Bose!"

While that saying might be a tad unjustified, I find that their products are often purchased by people who don't do adequate research into other headphones that might suit them better. I often see people wearing the "QuietComfort" brand headphones in situations where they gain no benefit from active noise cancelling, although for all I know they could be heavy travelers and only own a single pair of headphones. But honestly, a comparable pair from another brand would run them $200 less...
That's specious reasoning. They can distribute as many browsers and apps as they want, but they shouldn't be able to influence the entirety of the HTML standard to fit their narrow business requirements.
I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

So I'll just leave with this comment:

A platform needs content to survive, and customers are clearly demanding content that currently requires native SDKs on other platforms. Therefore, I believe that Mozilla to have a platform that is commercially interesting must be pragmatic and accept that for the good of the platform, they will need some sort of native SDK. Even if that native SDK is severely limited in scope.

With that said, I will readily admit that Mozilla has made amazing progress. But I also strongly believe that is not yet sufficient to eliminate the need for native SDKs.
My reply to this line of reasoning is:

"Yeah, think of the break you're getting - where else could you buy a 400k/year caliber employee for the handful of hours you need them? It's a great bargain!"
This is the part I've never quite understood. What power and control are you speaking of?
Slightly OT: Just today I realized I have a corpus of text that needs sentiment analysis. If you can help please email me at jchris@couchbase.com I need to find the diamonds in the rough in some mailing list archives.
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We actually use Skype at work, but I'd go with IRC if it was up to me.
I doubt it would make much different either way, they will add Linux support when there are hordes of people threatening to throw credit cards at them for it.
If that's eyeroll-inducing, you haven't been paying attention the past decade. Or even the past few weeks.

Virtually every negative effect the likes of RMS and the FSF have predicted when it comes to not using free software has come true.

There's nothing strange about encouraging people to avoid non-free solutions.

I'm far from a fundamentalist when it comes to free software, but I'm glad someone is still paying attention and reminds me of the consequences.
Those seem like caricatures of what an HR person would say, rather than what was actually said.

I work at a company notorious for poor work\life balance, and nobody has ever said to me 'we can work <person> harder' in any context.

They say things like 'We value people who are commited to growing the company. If a candidate shows us he's willing to go the extra mile to finish the project he's working on, that's a definite positive indicator."
We already have those, in the form of Flash and Silverlight. It would be good to move to technologies that work on all platforms.
Oh! My understanding so far was that fat gets stored in the body as long-term energy reserve while sugars form short-term energy reserve. Proteins on the other hand make up the muscle mass. So what I have been trying for the last two months is to force my body to eliminate excess fat deposits by practically eliminating fat intake, reducing sugar intake to make the body low on energy and start digesting the fat reserves, and finally also augmenting proteins (with exercise) to build muscle mass.

Are you suggesting that I can continue to consume fat, as far as I do not increase my calorie intake (say by cutting down on carbs correspondingly)?

I'll read the reference as time permits. Thanks for the same.
> I'm surprised that on HN people cannot distinguish between Netflix business need to use DRM in their content delivery system (which is undesirable but defensible), and Netflix nefarious scheming to break the open web in order to make that an easier delivery system for DRM-ed content.

I'm not aware of any portion of Netflix's proposals that would "break the open web." If the open web isn't broken by what Netflix and thousands of other companies are doing right now, how will "Netflix nefarious scheming" break it?
"If they did read further, the next thing they saw (as politeness declared at the time) was a little personal information, and that declared I was married with kids."
Big Data Borat
Her words, not mine. Also, she was talking about greater group dynamics (e.g. nurturing & accepting vs. competitive), not casual sexist remarks.
I really enjoy how you are able to see the "trail", or area explored, in this implementation
Visualization of shot distribution and success rates of NBA players
As far as I can tell, they don't want more DRM. Rather they want different DRM that is easier for them to implement and maintain.

I find this problematic because it would also make it easier for others to do the same. Just imagine if old media websites started using it...

DRM should be a pain in the ass. It should be something you have to dedicate lots of engineer hours to, constantly, so that using it cannot be something you casually decide to do. NPAPI and the like are pretty shitty, and that is the way it should be.
Nobody is arguing they shouldn't be able to protect their business, but the proposed changes to the HTML standard would affect every other business. Their authority to demand technological requirements of other's ends at their own property, and Netflix should have absolutely no ability to impose their business requirements on everybody else.
> Unlike printers, every typewriter had its own individual typing pattern which made it possible to link every document to a particular machine

Many printers have this capability. Researchers cracked and published one of the codes way back in 2005 [1] [2]. Whether the manufacturers would provide the coding scheme to Russian intelligence services is another question.

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/printers

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
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 guess the above explanation is too uncharitable, and people don't believe they're racist but do believe they (or the industry) are sexist. I feel like racism is somehow more evil. I think "low level racism" is a decent label - you shouldn't be surprised that at a superficial level of acquaintance (resume screening), people subconsciously pull expectations of competence/"fit" according to the reference class they see the resume as belonging to (oh, another 25 yr old brogrammer!)

Also, there are more women in the U.S., so if women and blacks were similarly discouraged from coding, we'd want to throw more resources at encouraging women, hypothetically.
Prof. Phil Sharp [1] received the Nobel Prize and founded Biogen, one of the earliest biotech companies. He remains on the faculty at MIT as an Institute Professor, the highest distinction awarded to MIT faculty.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Allen_Sharp
I would prefer a DRM-enabled HTML than a proprietary embedded video player.
DRM isn't possible without cooperation with a "trusted" component. If the decoding is happening in an environment that is available for introspection (e.g. Javascript runtime) then you can trivially tee the decoded bits after they are decrypted.-
>It is just the audiophile hipsters who can't wait to show how much they know by bashing Bose.

Are you implying that Bose headphones and speakers are a great value and quality?

Otherwise you are basically trying to paint a group of people as hipsters for what is seemingly an illogical reason.
You can't just call everything you disagree with "trolling". This is exactly the lack of diversity of thought OP was asking about. Now we're not even allowed to question the Snowden-worship?
The idea of separation between DRM and the rendering layer is illogical. The dream of all DRM proponents is a leak-proof pipe between the encumbered media and your senses, lest you be able to rip a perfect copy.

For a concrete example, look at how deep the content protection system introduced in Windows Vista goes.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

The proposed Encrypted Media Extensions standard is merely an interface between browsers and systems such as this.
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Isn't DRM highly fragmented as it is?
But their error message starts with "We are sorry"!
> If netflix wants a way to add DRM so people can watch DRMed videos on the Internet let them.

That's fine, nobody is arguing against what Netflix can and should do with their own software and hardware that they distribute -- but the key difference is imposing their business requirements on everybody else.

They have no authority -- be it moral, ethical, or logical -- to impose such a will on everybody.
This is not about the implementation but about Javascript code that is compiled into what is effectively "binary" form from the perspective of free software[1].

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
The interesting irony to me is that the more people who subscribe to Netflix, the less valuable their DRM is to content producers. As Netflix subscribers trend toward infinity, potential pirates of that content trend toward zero.
All DRM is superfluous. If I wanted to pirate The Avengers, Netflix's DRM would not be a major stumbling block because I could just go to The Pirate Bay and get a copy there. The DRM is to satisfy the content providers. I don't think Netflix really cares, except in that satisfying the content providers is crucial to their business model.
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Stallman, Assange and Snowden (Photograph)
Yes, it does, through the use of tracking cookies that persist after you log out. They also track non-users.
Example: I use the letter 'd' for DDG searches in the address bar. In the "Show all bookmarks" window for the DDG bookmark, I've filled in "Location: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s" and "Keyword: d" .

When I enter into the address bar: "d turkey trot [return]"
Firefox turns that into "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turkey trot" and initiates the DDG search.

But you can use the same FF keyword feature to auto-generate a URL for any site. If you go to BoingBoing a lot, you could just enter 'bb [return]'.

[Note: some of the DDG 'bangs' are out of date ... try !js]
No, it doesn't go through default search engine, only one http direct get request to the target search engine.
Yes, because being sceptical of substances that get approved after some hasty testing, with big push from a few large multinationals is "batshit insane".

The sceptic thing is to thing scientists are above human and infallible. And to ignore tons of precedents of BS substances and drugs being brough to the market, only to be recalled a few years or even a few decades later.

Because "science" is a magic word, that somehow overcomes systemic problems in how burecreacies work, how people (including whole teams) react to money, and how judgements can be wrong. To suggest otherwise is "batshit insane".

After all, those doing the safety testing can take their sweet time to study long term results, aren't ever lured by money, and understand all possible effects of the substances they approve equally well as the collective scientific community understands non artificial substances used for centuries or millenia, right?
Yep, with multiple emails when you don't take them up on it. There will be about one a week for a month, then they drop down to about one a month.
If DRM wasn't implemented in the form of an opaque binary blob, would the FSF still object to it? There is no freedom-destroying threat from media itself, only in how it's packaged and distributed. The problem is fundamentally one of license enforcement, although TBH I'm unsure how it can be done a way that renders everything moot and/or objectionable.
That's the same argument that allows Comcast to be the only ISP in my area. There's no competition within my area that allows me to make a conscious decision to reject a company.

If my municipality is making the decision, then there is a politician who can be bribed into keeping that utility into place. Really, a terribly system.
That's something I've always wondered about. It seems like at some point it became trendy to hate on Bose - hence almost every online discussion about them having a dozen people show up to say they're overpriced and sound like crap, yet I don't think I've ever seen one of those threads where someone actually names speakers that are better AND cheaper.

To my (granted mostly non-audiophile...though I am the type who insists that vinyl sounds better...) ears, they've always sounded pretty good and aren't that expensive compared to most high end offerings.
I keep seeing in the comments the assertion that Netflix "cannot" offer DRM-free video, because something-something.

This is exactly what people said about music, until Apple decided to do it, and did.
Yet you are on HN, posting on a thread about racism. I think you have a bit more time than you think.
I think it's better for DRM, which is proprietary by nature, to remain obviously so, and to keep it at arm's length from HTML and other open Web standards.

Why should the desires of the American entertainment industry have such influence over the standards of the World Wide Web?
This is kind of like saying desktop programs should refuse to work properly if BitTorrent is installed.

A high number of pirates may use BitTorrent to pirate software, but that doesn't mean your program was pirated using BitTorrent.

If there are better methods of copy protection, you should use those.
Your preference is your own, but should you be able to impose it on everybody? Personally I respect your preferences but I cannot in good conscience support the unilateral imposition of your preferences on everybody else.
How would this impose their business requirements on anybody else? If you don't use netflix you don't have to install their EME module.
They are announced, then they file for Hart Scott Rodino (in essence, approval from the DOJ) and have voting by shareholders (sometimes), get early termination of the waiting period, or wait through the waiting period, then they close.
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(I have been using Linux as my primary desktop for over a decade now)

So, never?

They have "Linux" support: on ChromeOS, Android, Roku, and likely several TVs and other devices. The ChromeOS support in particular is relevant to "regular Linux" support.

They just don't care, they don't have any real pressing reason to care, and frankly I don't think they ever will. The future of general consumer computers is in device/OS combos like Android and ChromeOS. When people flee Windows that is the sort of device they go to.

If Ubuntu Phone or whatever it is called ever takes off, I wager it will only support Netflix as ChromeOS does: works in Ubuntu Phone but not if you are running Ubuntu Phone Edition on "unofficial" hardware.
Let's see. There's one called "Y Combinator". I think they have a website, but I can't find it at the moment.
Unfortunately, the economy over the last 40 years has demonstrated that that option is sub-optimal.

Huh? Explain? I don't even know what you are referencing.