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by trunnell 11y ago
Please don't be offended. HN comments regularly discuss startup business models, so I thought it might be interesting to point out to my fellow entrepreneurs how we are bootstrapping our streaming TV business in new countries.
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by trunnell 11y ago
Netflix engineer here. To the commenters above who are disappointed with their country's catalog and plan to cancel their trial: sorry to see you go, but we did the best we could for launch. We make sure canceling is easy, just go to
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by trunnell 11y ago
How about GPS spoofing? There's a claim that it's been done before [1]. Maybe a criminal organization has the resources to build a GPS spoofing device that's used in their "holding facility" before they root the ph
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by trunnell 11y ago
Netflix employee here. Titles aren't that important at Netflix, so all engineers have the same title of Senior Software Engineer. (Similarly, there's no Senior Manager or Senior Director titles-- just Manager and Director.) That s
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by trunnell 11y ago
Can you elaborate on the scale involved here? Was the acquisition price in the 100k, 1M, 10M, 100M range? Was the cost to replace/rewrite the systems in developer-years estimated in the single-digits, 10s, or 100s?
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by trunnell 11y ago
Not all problems really count as technical debt, IMO. To figure out which ones do, I sometimes think about the correctness vs. completeness spectrum. Correctness is how well the architecture fits the problem, how well edge cases are handled
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by trunnell 12y ago
Hi, I work at Netflix. We switched from VC-1 to H.264 a few years ago, so the encodes don't change with the switch from Silverlight to HTML5 video. Currently just IE 11, Chrome, and Safari 8 in Yosemite support our HTML5 player. It de
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by trunnell 12y ago
>So the problem with revolutions... No one is calling for revolution. >In the end, the people at the NSA still have a job to do... It's part of the social contract that we have with the government. What they've done seem
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by trunnell 13y ago
So if it's perfectly constitutional and legal, why did Wyden feel the need to ask the question? And why did Clapper respond the way he did?
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by trunnell 13y ago
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation,
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by trunnell 13y ago
Hmm, I think that confuses the point. The NSA programs are either constitutional or not. Wyden was essentially asking, Is this program constitutional? Does it collect data on US persons without a warrant? Clapper swore an oath to the Cons
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by trunnell 13y ago
It's possible that a MitM like this is feasible. Recall that the author of the Flame malware that targeted Iranian computers used a hash collision attack on the MD5 hash for a trusted certificate, which essentially allowed them to cre
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by trunnell 14y ago
EME merely allows access to a DRM system. I know this distinction sounds overly precise, but the fact that EME does not mandate a DRM system makes a big difference if you want to implement this spec in a browser. Were EME to actually speci
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by trunnell 14y ago
Oops, I meant NPAPI (not NSAPI).
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by trunnell 14y ago
Content decryption modules probably won't be plug-ins. > The spec gives no guarantee that a given CDM can be interoperable with all browsers. I'm not sure if the CDM is actually part of the spec. They are in the diagram for illustrativ
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by trunnell 14y ago
No, it doesn't require plugins. The EME approach is agnostic to whether the "decryption module" is implemented by the OS, the browser, or a plug-in. Nothing specifies where they come from, but in practice I think they will usually be prov
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by trunnell 14y ago
Third parties, namely Flash and Silverlight, already plug in their own DRM systems via NSAPI. How is this worse?
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by trunnell 14y ago
Exactly. This illustrates why this W3C spec is not DRM. Some other DRM technology is needed for certain modes.
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by trunnell 14y ago
> you haven't done anything except say "this is over the top" and given us a link that explains what DRM is The link is the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) spec. EME is not DRM. It allows access to a decryption system outside of the
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by trunnell 14y ago
Wow, Cory's article is totally over the top... as are some of the comments in this thread. Let's start with the facts. Here's the spec. It's called Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypte
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by trunnell 15y ago
Even in raw format, all digital cameras apply some amount of sharpening [1] even when the setting is "off" in the camera menu. Also, all raw format conversion software (Lightroom, Capture One, etc.) applies sharpening by default. I could i
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by trunnell 15y ago
My favorite analogy on the DNS and monitoring problems: Since shoplifters use roads to make their getaway, SOPA would have us set up roadblocks to catch all the thieves. Could we catch more thieves by setting up roadblocks? Of course! S
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by trunnell 15y ago
The second you've got a legitimate hit series only on Netflix, or a direct-to-Amazon smash hit, or a Facebook series... Netflix is trying this on Feb. 6 with a new original series, "Lilyhammer." The trailer: http://youtu.be/bfRgVbp9gSY
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by trunnell 15y ago
Sigh. I disagree. It's not about you. Math does not exist to exclude you. People who use math are not trying to exclude you, they are just trying to make their jobs easier. Math can be just as accessible as this ML material when taught
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by trunnell 15y ago
jpetrosky, welcome to HN. If the wells in question are "well below drinking water aquifers," can you comment on the water contamination shown in the documentary, Gasland ?
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by trunnell 15y ago
In Q2, Netflix SAC was $15.09 and churn was 4.2%. [1] Netflix has been profitable for several years. [1] http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX/1290701144x0x485...
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by trunnell 15y ago
Technological progress should cause increasing economic inequality Is this view at odds with mainstream economists? I believe the mainstream view is that technological progress is a tide that should naturally lift all boats.
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by trunnell 15y ago
My comment about software DNA is not central to my point, so I take that back. Regarding the game business, it's not a good comparison. Selling games is like the DVD business: games are produced at a fixed cost and sold at nearly zero margi
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by trunnell 15y ago
It really is just like the "freedom and responsibility culture" slide deck at http://www.netflix.com/Jobs That deck isn't just aspirational, it's how the company actually runs. So the answer is that Netflix is not for everyone. High perf
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by trunnell 15y ago
I'm the engineering lead on the Silverlight player at Netflix. Honestly, I love it when people underestimate the complexity of the player. To me, it means we're doing a good job. 3+ years of releasing every 2 weeks and still no settings

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