skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the article is sensational and what really confuses me is that when I read the article and their press release (found below) they are far more humble and down to earth (I really like the writing and the work in general). My personal guess is that this is a classical case of a journalist going overboard (been there...).

http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-algorithm-anal...
Really? At least half of my "normal" friends know how to torrent stuff.

That any normal people would torrent anything says a lot. Normally convenience wins. Maybe torrenting actually is the easiest way to get some content? For me, it's a no-brainer[1], but it's more surprising if this is the case for normal people as well. That should open the eyes of some content providers, but of course it won't.

[1] - Meaning that for me as a technical user, torrenting is really easy. Some things have just started to compete, like spotify, netflix and hbo online, but they are often crippled in other ways.
I've been looking for a good USB soundcard. Is there anything in particular you would recommend?
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Let us know how it goes. I'm eager to be sold on this but am concerned over the pricing.
DRM is to prevent content being available outside of the official/legal channels in the first place. This is clearly not working, as pretty much everything that's available legally with DRM is also available illegally without it.

The majority of users would not be capable of getting the URL of the actual movie out of the HTML source, saving it to disk and sharing it with friends.

The majority of users is, however, capable of going to thepiratebay and downloading the same movie through bittorrent.

It takes one 'internet dork who frequents HN and reddit' to circumvent the DRM and upload it somewhere where the average user can easily get to it.
Now I am completely freaked out. I could have no brain and not even know it!
Legacy iChat is essentially bolted to the new Messages app, muti-person video chat is still supported over AIM/Jabber/Bonjour.
The majority of users don't break the DRM themselves. They just download a torrent / go to some shady streaming site, where they get the content DRM free.

DRM doesn't work because it only takes 1 internet dork to provide a DRM free copy for everyone else.
There is no way you've had any evidence that your predictions are accurate.
It checks that RSS feed, scoped to the Stable builds.
You would probably want to know that when you Google "leadgenius" or "lead genius", your site does not show in the first 20 results (atleast). You may want to improve your SEO, if you want to be found. It took me a good ten minutes but not before reaching another similar site- leadsgenie.us
Yes, it should do :)
Couldn't raise any money for it oddly...
I don't think it's supposed to work like this. It's not about implementing DRM itself, it's about having a standard API which would allow an opaque binary blob to implement the actual DRM. And then, as the issue points out, possibly extend the reasoning to other elements, like Javascript code.
There's got to be pretty much zero benefit in solving the same programming problem in the same way. However I have found considerable benefit in solving the same programming problem in different ways. So using different languages, programming different styles (I once wrote a program strictly following the Law of Demeter just to see), implemented a games rules system as a bunch of Command objects and then doing it again as a stack base DSL. This kind of "kata" (I join you in hating on the co-option of the word) has helped me expand my programming skill set.
Nice idea.

Right now, it is just checking the Chrome release blog Stable channel to see if a release was pushed on the current day http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan....
This is true to an extent.

I once lived in a condo suite with free heat and hot water. My showers were longer than they would've been had I been paying for each drop.

But I still believe the merits of abundance outweigh the demerits.
> I hope I can tell my children or grand children that I actually cared and that I made a small difference, even if it's only the smallest of all.

What did you do?
DRM has shackled the content and the industry for years. Who know where we would be without it? Who knows what cool, innovative solutions never saw the light? Who knows all they ways they could have made money had they taken another attitude..
Well it's currently losing money, so you could quite easily argue that $1B is rather high.
It is just checking http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan... to see if there was a release 'today' (in theory, taking into account time zones).

Does not check to see if you updated today, which is slightly diff.
That is perhaps an excuse for people whose lips move when they are reading.
uTorrent & BitTorrent Surge to 150 Million Monthly Users[1]

That's almost double the unique hits on Reddit, and those are just two P2P applications; there are plenty more that are extremely popular among other populations.

otherwise I'll venture to guess that BigBadCo would have found via their research it was a losing proposition

Only if you assume that controlling the paying users is not the real purpose. It's much easier to get suckers to pay three or four times for the same content if you lock'em up with platform-specific DRM.

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-surges-to-150-million-mon...
Aren't there something like a billion very poor people in the world with no continuous access to electricity? I sincerely hope that they are going to get to take advantage of local, diverse micro-generation soon, but for now I'm going to guess that they would say that while the potential (pun intended) for electricity is abundant, electricity itself is not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494320
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I'm saying, a couple of lame excuses* is not a good reason for going their own way.

I'm sure you could come up with 2 good reasons for going with wayland too, if you tried for more than 5 seconds. Does that means it's a good idea?

If they want to explain why they don't want to use wayland they have a couple of choices:

1) Say, 'we don't want to use it', and not give a reason.

2) Say, 'we can't use it, because of...'

I totally respect both of those positions, but the road they've taken doesn't impress me at all.

Both of the (2) reasons they give seem trivial and over coming them, would be, effort wise, surely significantly less than implementing an entire display server.

Can you see then, why their argument doesn't exactly make sense?

If you have some serious and significant concerns with a project, then list them! Don't pull out a couple of random lame* things that you don't particularly like and then say those are why you've decided to devote a huge amount of effort towards something.

*yes, lame. Are they seriously suggesting you can't use a leap with wayland? ..and that justifies, as a policy decision, a reason to go forward with mir? Absurd.
I guess in that case they'd add DRM support. Similar to them adding h.264 support now.
Offering them a clear separating criteria in the passing and non-passing portions of the space of all properties considered is definitely a good idea. And, as an explanation / description, it's independent in form of the algorithm used.
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Internet Explorer 11 can play netflix videos using EME without plugins for example

While technically true, it's certainly stretching the truth a wee bit.

Saying "Internet Explorer 11 can play netflix videos using EME without using additional plug-ins because it ships with specific DRM-implementations built-in" would be the more correct version.

I mean... Chrome can play Flash-content without any plug-ins, because the Flash plug-in is built in. When you put it that way, it doesn't sound so impressive any more, now does it? Further extending the browser will require plug-ins.

The special about this thing, is that it's a plug-in architecture deliberately created to enable DRM, to take control away from the user. That's legitimizing DRM as a concept in a supposedly open standard.

That's as just madness and 100% self-contradicting.
Boycotting is a tool used by advocates to bring up media attentions and raise public awareness.

Its surely a useful tool, but not the only one. We can still say no to Hollywood when they try to attain ownership of our private owned hardware, our software, our networks.
The current proposal for Digital Restrictions Management is to have an API which would load proprietary closed source binary blobs to handle the videos. Or in other words: They force "Yet Another Flash" into HTML5. Perverting the whole idea of an open web...
What if DRM content becomes so prevalent it FF will render most websites like Lynx?

That is the future we can very well face unless we oppose this DRM evil now, at its root, before it enters our HTML standard.

Don't attempt to be "pragmatic" about this one; be principled. Stop using any browser supporting the EME initiative.
Would the DNA of a human living 4000 year ago be significantly different from yours or mine? What could we learn from it?
The thing about Chrome is that while the font rendering is horrible the dev tools are super awesome. At work I end up using FF for reading text and Chrome for inspecting/debugging.
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in 4 steps Piotr Wilam explains the use of BMC.
Well having been through plenty of formal education, I can assure you the point of education is to make uniformly cut cogs and make teachers and universities money.

If you don't turn the same way as everyone else or risk your university's funding by having an opinion or a better idea than the status quo, you're no longer entitled to an education.

University for me was an exercise in cock sucking rather than education and that was a UK red brick.
Amazon allows you to get a refund during 1 week so you are not losing anything if you opt to purchase the book and the quality is sub par.
You're definitely not an idiot. I applaud your approach and wish you all the best in the future.
Not at all ... if the acidification is moving some positive feedback loops (and it seems it is) we have much less.
While all of this is really cool, did they learn anything from the 4000 year old brain? Has the brain changed at all in that time?
This has already proven to be a fake marketing scam. WHY is this still on HN?
P.S. in case anyone asks, I submitted the bug on my iPad... Hope it's not too disconcerting to see the WebKit user agent on this bug! :-)
Or even beeps when the seat belt is fastened, while the engine is off.
Indeed, with firebug for debuging and firefox sync, ever single feature I liked in Chrome is done as well or better in FF. Add the bonus that it performs faster and is leaner on memory, and I dropped Chrome some time ago.
More to the point: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/199353/did-the-stack...
Microsoft used to completely dominate everything, and now they dont, so people think they have 'failed' in some way. But if you look at their profits they're still making out like bandits. Over the last 5 years they've made a ton more money than everyone except Apple. So perhaps Microsoft did the right thing by not jumping in the direction Ozzie said straight away?

stats: https://twitter.com/janettu/status/380824535714377728
FB is trying everything to convince the stock market it is here for the long-term.
Best comment in the thread, if one of the more depressing.
I don't care how they are restricting their users as long as they don't destroy the open web by forcing proprietary binary blobs into HTML5.

If a company wants to hassle their users with DRM then they can use Silverlight/Flash or write their own crap plugin. But keep it out of HTML5 and other supposedly open standards.

In the end Silverlight/Flash are dying and it is up to them to come up with something new. We don't have to bend over to please them by perverting the open web.

Why do they even want to copy restrict their content? You can download it from Pirate Bay anyway. When Apple stopped DRM in music their revenues increased. Because the average user doesn't care about copying. It is all about being available, affordable, and easy to use. But the content industry is not understanding that and rather interested in making the content unavailable, unaffordable, and hard to use and they sue their customers on top of that. So no keep that crap out of HTML5.
"It thinks it's just so smart."
> by displaying some informative message instead that lays the blame where it belongs to: the website.

Surely the website will detect FF and instead of serving an encrypted stream, display some informative message laying the blame with Mozilla and link to a DRM-enabled browser download.
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The keyboard shortcuts are the same (with some new ones) in Win8. Moving windows between screens is just as easy.

I don't understand the Windows 8 hate; it seems so very irrational from someone tech-literate. It's Windows 7 with a more power-efficient and fast-booting kernel, improved Explorer and disk IO system, better task manager and a bunch of other really useful improvements. It's incredibly stable and resource-efficient, and will likely make any system you install it on last longer with the same battery -- far from a "PoS".

It also comes with an app store. You can ignore the store if you'd like, it's just another program you never have to run. How does the presence of this kill the whole OS for you? Did you once feel the same about the inclusion of Spider Solitaire in Windows ME?

You can alt-tab between metro apps and native programs, you can run them in the background, and drag them between displays too. You can leave the Netflix app up on one screen and your 20 non-Metro windows on the other at the same time. Or you could snap it to 1/3rd or 1/2 of the screen, and use the rest for your other windows. Multitasking isn't defeated in any way.
Realistically: Users use what's available, affordable, and easy to use. That's why Netflix is successful not because of DRM. You could get every bit of Netflix from Pirate Bay without DRM for free as in beer.

When Apple dropped DRM from music their revenue didn't go down. It increased instead.
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Silk Road could have led the way to safer drug use
> My understanding is that CloudFlare is already
tackling the security aspects of hosted services

Im curious; which aspects are they tackling, specifically? Authn, authz, byte validation... Or ?
I think that this is more a criticism of the way that machine learning is commonly done, rather than a valid criticism of machine learning per se.

I have certainly (sometimes) been able to build insights using (some) machine learning approaches, but it depends a lot on having the time, the resources, and the right organizational culture in place. Unfortunately, a lot of people approach machine learning algorithms expecting a magic bullet; attracted by the hyperbole, so the self-deception starts even before a line of code is written.

Doubly-unfortunately, these people are usually the ones offering the highest salaries for "data scientists" and "big data engineers". Like most work of consequence, the mundane outweighs the exciting by a ratio of at least 10:1. Obtaining and cleaning the data, understanding what is missing, the sampling biases that are present, testing and training the algorithms, all of these things are deeply important and seemingly mundane; yet it is these very activities that help to build deep insight and experience.

Perhaps we should pay our data scientists a bit (a lot) less, and we would get fewer flashy presentations and more substance.
The vast, overwhelming majority of video watched since then has been H.264 via Flash (since it was more "pragmatic" to do so), so I struggle to see how that would have affected Mozilla in any major way. If flash had adopted VP8, (like they said they would) then things might have been very different.

And if your talking about mobile browsers, smartphones are dominated by two platforms, each owned by the corporate parents of two webkit-based browsers, one of whom doesn't allow you to install other browsers at all.
Over time and with more sample sentences, Socher thinks his model could reach upward of 95 percent accuracy

It would be interesting to read the paper to find out what accuracy really means here. I doubt that human readers agree on the sentiment of movie reviews 95% of the time.
Ok, but I wonder what you will use for a web-based database administration tool...
> Edit: Incorrectly thought fullscreen mode was introduced in Lion

It was.
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It seems many Chrome users have last used FF 3.6 and still compare Chrome to that. Meanwhile Chrome has gotten slow and annoying. The old "boiling frog" anecdote comes to mind.
According to the article, massive spending on something, even war, will be beneficial to the economy.

Okay, Lets fund science.
Adobe hacked, 3 million accounts compromised
Inspiring. I definitely have a tendency to try to do everything at once n my private projects. I'm using 2 week deadlines to help me keep focus, but after those two weeks, I've got a few features of the project, not the entire thing.

Getting a finished thing out the door every day would be a tremendous challenge. With my background, I should easily be able to do a single website in a single day, but I don't think I've ever done that (I've done it in 3 days once).

Maybe I'll give this a try. Maybe just for two weeks. 8 simple but finished sites.
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Haha, good point. But my idea behind that argument was that it won't hurt anything more than it does already.
I'm probably the only guy here that never switched to Chrome.
I wasn't impressed by it's lack of functionality when it launched and didn't think giving up functionality i use for speed was a good idea.

Then Firefox became faster and now i got the best of both worlds though Chrome did grow over that time and now they have everything I would need but I have no reason to switch.

I really hope Firefox puts its foot down and refuses to implement DRM I mean it's an open source browser this should be unacceptable.
Give FF a try again. It has vastly improved since FF 3.6.
> Xcode doesn't provide a CLT package anymore.

It does, but it doesn't install them under /usr anymore (unless you tell it to by calling `xcode-select --install`). See the homebrew discussion on the subject: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/20427
Well I'm certain the internet as we know it today is largely a result of Linux being free.

Imagine the costs of getting a service oriented internet company up and running in a world where the only choice is Windows and IIS.

I wonder how much longer it would take sites like Youtube to scale to their current size.
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Well its either that or flash...think I would rather HTML5.
Good point. On the other hand, DRM will come to HTML5 anyway, whatever we try. So, I think it's better to give it a spec, and have one, unified and well-known way for the DRM to operate, instead of 20 different implementations.
Well I'll have a lot more time on my hands so perhaps it isn't a bad thing.

Perhaps the fragmentation it will cause will destroy closed media on the internet as a whole.

Nothing bad can come of it.
Of course they're free to do that, like they are now.

So instead of installing a plugin, the user is now expected to install a new browser (with different UI and everything) _and_ a plugin for the DRM implementation. That surely helped the DRM vendors' cause.
A much better, more useful article than I guessed from the title.

The author signposts fast / cheap ways of getting (the things that take ages/money) done. Mostly this consists of paying someone to do it. I hadn't come across (or though of) a lot of the services he links. Very useful.
I'm not a business analyst or anything related, but I think the issue is that in this day and age even huge profits don't mean a thing even when it comes to a business's future. Just look at Nokia, which was dominating its market 7-8 years ago, or Blackberry/RIM.

You really do have to be paranoid to survive, and the memos in the article are an example of that.
Voting with minds and wallets combined.

And I think Goldman Sachs wins that fight every time. Which is the whole purpose - to let the smart money guide the policy.
Thwarted expectations and sarcasm are difficult to handle. You are down to the choice of optimizing for this particular case or the majority of text.
And? The above post asks why companies need to make proprietary code changes to the compiler, or why the community should allow distributors of GCC to patent parts of the compiler and then go suing users who the distributer gave copies to.
Even without using full screen mode the multi display support is passable at best. There is no way to turn off any of the connected displays, which is a problem when giving presentations or even when just connecting my mac to the TV so we can watch a film with friends - mac's display needs to stay on, there is no way to turn it off.
We don't really know what a successful tech company looks like over longer than 5 or 10 years, because no-ones ever stayed dominant longer than that. Perhaps IBM is the only model - greatness that fades to a reasonable profitable longevity. Perhaps thats the only way to go long term?
That's the most lovely and exciting thing about life! No one will ever tell you your purpose so you're free to pick your own. You can have any purpose you want, you can freely choose! Not only that but you can change it anytime you want so no need to feel trapped either. My grandmother is one of my role models, after being a housewife her entire life she started writing in her late 60's and became a successful author. It's never too late =)
> one of whom doesn't allow you to install other browsers at all.

Nitpick, you can install other browsers on iOS. Don't think you can make them the default handler for URLs from other apps however, but most apps still ship their own web view inside the app making that a mostly moot point in my experience.
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I wouldn't use Paypal anyway. They repeatedly stood out in the past for closing donation funds for non-profits for dubious reasons and other forms of being shitty. I don't trust them to use my money in the way I inteded it to be used.

Here you can donate by other means: https://rally.org/lavabit
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That's sadistic.

You should have at least hinted at viable OCR solutions.
I suspect this question should be split. I hadn't used Windows and Macs for years, but I suspect any modern software can handle the hardware. The tricky part is the window manager: making sure windows behave right when moved from one screen to the next.

For that, the only things that works for _me_ is XMonad, simply because it does not bind a workspace (virtual desktop) to a physical monitor for life.

I have a set of N workspaces, any of which I can display on any physical monitor connected, as long as only a given monitor shows a given desktop.

I'm yet to find a way to replicate it with any other window manager.