skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, it sounds to me like this is way, way, over blown. First, the DRM is NOT going to be built into the browser it self. It's basically a new name for a plug in system, nothing more. So, to everyone who thinks they can roll their own browser and avoid the DRM, no you will not be able to.

It's not bad or good for consumers, at best, it's about the same. It's very simple, studios will not allow you to rent their movies without DRM. Netflix will not be able to function without DRM. Neither can steam. It's not up to them, it's up to the content providers, not companies like Netflix.

Is it stupid? Yes. My high school teacher, with no technical knowledge what so ever had a way to brake almost any video DRM. He would play the video on his TV, and record the image with his HD Cam. Stupid? Yes. Effective? Also yes.

The point is, as long as its a plugin type of architecture, not part of the browser binary, what's the big deal. How is it different from Flash or Silverlight?

Oh, and to everyone that proclaims that DRM is bad. Many of you are developers for startups. Is your startup all open source? Why not? Isn't compiling code or running it only on your servers just another type of DRM? Ask your self, would you have a job if your company was forced to share all the code you write? All of it, even the stuff that you write from scratch and only run on your servers.

I think many people hate DRM because of how bad it's implemented, not because of the fact that its there in the first place. Well implemented DRM should be completely transparent to the end user who paid for the content. Steam and Netflix do a pretty good job of it.
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> Despite the drawbacks on those kinds of law, some of those places are still very importantly economically, and we can't just ignore them

Browsers have plug-in architectures. DRM systems are inherently proprietary. Leave them to implement proprietary plug-ins.
Ironic that this is the most voted comment, because it validates the post's view. Despite you feeling sorry for him (adding entitlement to injury), he seems to have a good assessment of the HN crowd.
I going to float an idea out there that might not be too popular ... I think companies caused the workforce to adopt this attitude, and I think the healthy spot is in the middle. We tend to oscillate around the optimums right?

Companies used to offer a good worker life-time employment and a pension, and they supported the idea of a reasonable workload as it would lead to longevity in their workforce. The combination of excess workers and the menialization of many jobs prompted the companies to minimize their commitment to the worker, both in salary and relationship.

Once the relationship was gone and it was obvious to the worker that they were valued for their effort on the hamster-wheel, is it any wonder so many of them were lacksidasical about how fast they spun that wheel? And when work because rote, is it any wonder that creative types that were in those positions were disenchanted?

The other interesting thing I've noticed is that you end up having both types of people in any given environment ... some of the people work hard because they don't want to get yelled at, want a step up the ladder, etc, but when you watch closely, you'll often see that the "lazier" employees (the ones the hard workers keep expecting to get laid off) actually garner about the same rewards for dramatically less effort.

Of course, these are my observations and your mileage may vary ... I've spent the majority of my working life doing work I enjoy, but I no longer identify my worth by what I accomplish on-the-job.
it's the washington post, what do you expect? It is a platform for influence and a method to suck up to those in power.
"Instagram as a Growing Business", aka how to make your users believe ads are a feature provided for them.
Eh, kind of Wack.

I would've liked to see something creative more along the lines of enhanced functionality for brands to reach their current followers. Maybe specialized "Grab Deal" buttons.

Anything but TV commercials.

May god have mercy on their souls if they attempt some kind of youtube style locked video ad model.
> If you think you can improve your life, work better, with more fun, with more meaning, with better challenges, then by all means go for it.

Sure, but what if that is to the expense of others? The widening wealth gap seems to suggest so.
The back button cache – taming it with HTML 5
This is just my humble opinion, but actual libertarianism is a self-assassinating concept as it's normally described and practiced.

It's possible to think that the state has grown too powerful without subscribing to libertarian ideals, but it's pretty hard to introduce libertarian absolutes into the grainy gray of the real world without bending the principles... at which point it has stopped being libertarian.

E.g., consider http://www.demos.org/blog/8/21/13/fun-times-libertarianism
There should be an "Open Source" science journal. Where anyone can submit a paper and anyone can peer review or freely read said articles. User accounts could have a vetting process to verify their real world credentials and the articles they review would be weighted accordingly. Funding by donations and for-pay apis to do advanced searches perhaps? How awesome would it be to be able to freely read a repository of this kind of information? And to also be able to accurately say what is or isn't the current "scientific concensus".

I feel like this shouldn't be too difficult to make.
It's the ultimate example of the two-party system's incredible stranglehold on the mainstream media. Anything outside of those two parties is treated with such derision as to suggest that they are inherently bad / wrong / evil.
skipping, planks, & pushups. it won't make anyone super strong but guys can be far more fit than average. nothing worse than a fatty wearing the clothes you've described. also, MFA is fantastic.
I'm just curious about what all of you opposed to this would offer as an alternative to companies like Netflix or other streaming sites. No DRM? That's simply not going to fly.

If you really want to undermine DRM in an honest and ethical manner, you should leave those DRM'd properties to their owners and support non-DRM media.

How many of you listen to itunes media and are raging about this...
I see your point but, if you use this service this way you are probably misguided to start. The best use of this service is to kick start growth from 0 to >0 or to test new market segments. I would think spending >LTV is okay* because you are just experimenting and you are paying for the knowledge. Or, you may plan to build some organic traction off of this initial bump in users so long-term the greater expense makes sense.

This service will help you grow, learn, and fail fast and cheaply if needed. It probably shouldn't be your main user acquisition pipeline.

*Also, you might not even have a LTV yet because you have 0 users.
The first part is referring to the Felisa Wolfe-Simon controversy.
Wow, not such a sad ending after all. It looks like they got acquired by Apple for between $40 million and $60 million; no wonder their shut down message on their website didn't state that they ran out of money or something. http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/cue-acquired-for-over-40m-l...
Oh, I knew had presented it to the attention of the court, I was agreeing with their course of action in that regard bringing it to the judge's attention. A couple of days later is still too long of a wait though.
'Top five physics discoveries' chosen by magazine
"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris." - Larry Wall, not exactly a member of 'The Hacker News Generation' ...
W3C is on HAL's side...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc
Developing Design Principles
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well, if that's all true - sounds like socialist politician speech propaganda to me - then why regular French person on a street would rather go to Starbucks or buy at Amazon?

What you clearly don't understand is that if you prevent laws like this from occurring, then French cafe owners or bookstore owners would be forced by the market force - competition - to innovate. Create better service or product for their customers. If a cafe owner would succeed - and not be penalized with 75% tax - then he could open more and more cafes, having a franchise, succesfully competing with Starbucks. And if his innovative ideas were good enough, he could even start threating Starbucks position in the US. But that will never happen. Why? Because with Government protection on his side there will be no market force (i.e. customers who prefer competition) to force him to innovate. He will just sit there 8-5 like rest of the French society thinking that a GOvernment edict can somehow change the world in which he's living. It can't. Because people already voted with their money clearly showing winners and losers. And unless losers get to work, they'll be just that. Loosers.
That is not what he said in his post, and I am excited to see him doing Penflip. I wish him the best. Glad that he did decide to commit to something meaningful after-all.
> You can direct all your efforts to bending cutlery, but you're not going to make a good living out of it. You're just not.

It's like you're specifically trying to undermine yourself. You never heard of Uri Geller?
I have to suspect that "Sega" is matching something else too. It is such a thing of the past that I wouldn't have even thought to include it.

Searching a little on their site doesn't turn up any obvious alternative usage though... maybe Sega is just easier to rhythm with.
The best hack is being able to just re-order when things start to look a bit shabby. Set it and forget it.
I grow weary of people telling other people that they don't know what hard work is...especially as it contributes to the constant putting down of my generation. If you want to make a condescending, sweeping generalization about an entire generation of people, I have some advice: Don't.

As an aside...I watched the author's "Why You Need People Skills" video on his website. At 3 minutes in he talks about how rubbing people the wrong way won't get you good results. He has another video titled, "The Power of Positivity"...which I'm guessing would be the opposite of the disparaging post he just wrote? I don't know what my point is other than you really look like a jerk when you try to act like you're positive and good with people..and then act the complete opposite.
The namespacing part is much simpler, if you have specific use cases.
If it's open source, I can just swoop in, inject some code and make a copy of the decrypted data stream for 'archival purposes'. Won't take a day for a PoC.

I can still do this with closed source DRM blobs, but it will take much longer. And there will probably be pointless anti-debugger tricks, system wide hooks that break countless other software, kernel drivers that BSoD your system..

That is precisely why this proposal is such a terrible idea. It writes into a standard that it is okay to produce software that is actively hostile to its user, while having absolutely no security gain whatsoever (because the concept is fundamentally broken: if the data is being decrypted on my system, I will get it).
Yeah that's true. I chose my words poorly.
Seriously. This article is just useless flamebait, unworthy even of the slightest praise.

It fails to comprehend any of the complexities of circumstance, time, or humanity, yet claims to have a point above them all. This is the mark of a single-minded spoiled child without worldly experience, who has fallen into some success after a short stint of hard work and doesn't understand his place in the stochastic processes which led to his creation, upbringing, and situation.

This bullshit is to be shredded; not lightly but intently and with prejudice. It should be put down for its failure as a perspective. For its disservice to the betterment of our profession.
We’ll also make sure you have control. If you see an ad you don’t like, you’ll be able to hide it and provide feedback about what didn’t feel right.

You can control what you see... by seeing it first. On what planet is that considered "control?"
I wouldn't recommend it: the name and logo are trademarked, and even if you replaced those, if anyone noticed the rest of the copying, you'd be the laughingstock of the internet. Who'd want to buy your product then?
While obviously everyone hates ads, you have to give them credit for doing a nice job at bending this in their favor. It's a very smart tactic/approach they are using to introduce ads to the users feed.
It's hard work to determine the answer. The author seems to think it's an obvious life lesson. So it's easy for him to understand, and probably enjoyable to write. Maybe boring to keep clicking on the 'bold html' button?

I'm so confused!
From what I can gather in the released order, the FBI didn't actually ask for Snowden's communications to be compromised anyways, they wanted the "connection information" (i.e. IP addresses, any metadata). I don't understand why Levison didn't think he could comply with that, unless it was completely impossible for him to implement.

But he never told the FBI it was technically impossible, he told them that he would not (as opposed to "could not") do it.
Crowdtilt (W12), growing rapidly, seeking first online marketing hire
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You should live and breathe data, yet have a creative side to you that allows you to come up with engaging copy, eye-catching designs, and snickering punchlines. Most importantly, you know that a metrics-driven approach, superb execution once a decision is made, and meticulous testing are the only way to build a successful acquisition channel.

The role
● Build, manage, and optimize online marketing campaigns to drive user acquisition for Crowdtilt web, mobile products and extended products
● Develop our analytics, dashboards, and reports to build internal intelligence on channel effectiveness and other key metrics
● Allocate spend across ad networks (i.e. mobile ad networks, Facebook, other creative channels), vendors, and partners
● Work with designers and vendors to create and optimize creative
● Identify new opportunities and strategies for niche markets
● Build out the marketing function of our team as we grow

A good candidate possesses the following qualifications
● You have 2­-5 years of online marketing experience with a web service, a handful of successfully completed marketing campaigns and hundreds of failed ones
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also bringing structure to them
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I find this article a terrible sweeping generalization and opinionated based on the authors perception of success and what it takes to be successful.How about working smarter and not harder
The Silk Road - A Sane Postmortem (and how it affects Bitcoin)
skipping ... ? http://reallifemaggie.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/skipping.g...

I'm of the mind that 95% of being in shape is in the kitchen - and a lot of the same principles apply - find what works, put in the prep, then set it and forget it.
Right, it wasn't just the fact that the code was the same; it was that he initially posted those questions under his real name.
Very good points!

I completely agree that there's a lot value in anonymity when reviewing, and I don't think it should go away. Blowback over disagreeing is very, very real, and I've experienced it myself (though it was from presenting something at a conference that disagreed with part of a previous publication, rather than as a result of a review).

However, I do think public and optionally non-anonymous reviews could be helpful.

(Incidentally, you had _9_ reviewers for a single publication?? Holy cow... In the geosciences, I've never heard of more than 3, and it's usually only 2. That's one thing that would really help in my field. More reviewers results in a broader review, rather than a particular person's pet peeve.)
You are out of line. This isn't about some childish sense of taking sides. It about Samsung persistantly flouting international trade laws. It doesn't matter whether you agree with it or not.

It's why we can't have sensible conversations; people make asinine comment like that.
Maybe not for you; in general that's a silly detail to argue about.

You can always change your situation. This is one of the most valuable pieces of advice I've ever received.

How you do it is an implementation detail, but the most important thing is knowing you can.
Also, I imagine they will just use a similar ad system (and UX) that Facebook currently uses (if not the same) since they are all under the same umbrella now. And if that's the case, exactly what you said, that is not "control".
Not at all, atleast about Samsung. I would go ahead say that Samsung is the most unethical[1] company. Wikipedia list is only tip of the iceberg, that company's history is littered with unethical[2] behavior.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung#Controversies
2. http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3709688/samsung-25-years-...
Ask HN: How does WhatsApp charging work?
I dont get how whatsApp is able to make the first year free, and then charge $.99 every year after that. That is a free trial, and I was under the impression that Apple does not permit free trials of apps, other than those for Newstand.

Thanks
With the government shutdown, who's keeping the lights on?
Some of the insanely pretentious people on here drive me crazy. It's like the guy who sat next to you in class and always derailed class with someone inane humblebrag or argument with a professor or classmate.

It's like a lifelong inferiority complex that manifests as the need to constantly promote yourself and never be happy for anyone else.
I spent 10 minutes reading your comment, parsing it and then responding to it. You owe me $5.
One thing.. calling yourself "as a service" usually means it's a SAAS, no? Otherwise, why not call yourself an user acquisition agency? or user acquisiton consultancy? There's no real product we're paying to use is there? (not trying to put these guys down, just trying to nitpick on terminology)
I disagree with the OP.

It's never been widely claimed that "Work should be fun." There's a reason work is called work. :)

And there's a lot of "hard, boring work". In my lifetime, I've worked on the farm, in fast food, in factories, in the military, in wafer fabs, at desks, in school and at work benches in all sorts of crazy roles enduring all sorts of physical and mental strains.

Creating the same damn CRUD application over and over for years is just as dull as chopping weeds in a oats field. It pays more, but at a certain point a creative mind wants difference, a challenge, something to accomplish.
Why doesn't Facebook just charge every user $1 per month to have an account? Want less of this or more of that, you can pay more - but a base fee of $1/month seems reasonable.
Literary fiction improves intelligence
As an American living in Paris, I'm of mixed minds. I agree that France's protectionism is highly problematic and off the charts -- however, there's no-denying that their protectionism of Paris retail stores succeeds -- it creates value -- making Paris an incredibly rich and wonderful place to live and visit. It's beautiful here with countless privately-owned local cafes/businesses of various sorts - frequently the quality of which is off-the-charts. Perhaps it distinguishes itself in the market by preserving its local businesses, preserves it as a beautiful place to live with a rich public life.. where the only place to eat isn't some chain/theme restaurant that looks like everywhere else in the world.
How much stock can I really put into an article that begins by stating that libertarianism exists to benefit affluent, white men? Moreover, presenting a single reductio ad absurdum argument does not identify the concept as "self-assassinating."
Figured as much. Cue's abrupt and terse announcement had a very Appley vibe to it.
Yes, but it's not instant. He was asked for pen register, he wasn't 100% helpful (partially due to how the system was set up), so they went back in various ways to get what they wanted (threatening criminal or civil contempt charges, fines, and a warrant for ssl keys).

Then Ladar delayed on the warrant in a variety of ways (trying to quash a warrant, which I didn't know could be done before executing it; trying to claim it was invalid until after the pen trap was set up without it to actually observe it failing, the "little 4 points" trick.)
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
Who moved my geolocation?
get off my lawn!
It seems odd for HN to be in favour of making technology & content marginally less accessible simply to spite people.

Perhaps there exists a class of people who wanted to implement DRM on all of their content but were just waiting for the W3s blessing but such a class will be extremely small.

Most of the DRM you see comes from mandates from big content firms, most other people could give less of a shit.
It's not my company, and the things I'm saying don't represent the opinions of my employer.

To your question, is it "ok," I couldn't provide the answer as I don't own the copyright.

My statement was that I wish we lived in a world without copyright. The rules would be very different, and thus we would act and compete differently. As is, brand is an important asset for a company. I think you know all this.

I also think your argument is a bit sophomoric and I find it obnoxious that you are calling out my employer's name.
Why do people keep posting silly articles that talk about how we need more women in STEM?
Arduino + Intel = Galileo
Very relevant article from the opposite sex pov from awhile back: http://blog.timoni.org/post/24619757935/why-i-wear-the-same-...

Really made me rethink what was in my own closet and what was worth owning (and nice obligatory hat tip to William Gibson). As with most things, less is more.
Much more interesting than the customer data: "We are also investigating the illegal access to source code of numerous Adobe products". In the linked blog post they say: "Adobe is investigating the illegal access of source code for Adobe Acrobat, ColdFusion, ColdFusion Builder and other Adobe products by an unauthorized third party"
Distributors may not be happy once they discover that Safari supports FairPlay DRM, Chrome supports Widevine DRM, IE supports WMDRM, Samsung phones support SamDRM, HTC phones couldn't afford to license any DRM, etc.
This is so far beyond couture and glam-show that it's ineffable how lame it is. HN, grow up. Lets see hacking posts, not posts by "hacks."