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It said we should look at ever-extending copyright protections as a form of economic protectionism against the past, forcing the public to buy potentially-inferior modern IP rather than fall back on older IP.

This. Current copyright regime mainly exists to protect current "creative" works (and I use term very loosely) from cheaper "imports" from our past.
There's no doubt that sport (particularly football and cricket) are a sure way to quickly gain market share in certain countries. The problem is, this fact is very well understood in the industry, and therefore the content rights are priced accordingly. I'm in the UK, where it costs a lot of money to acquire Premier League rights, and I doubt it's exactly cheap anywhere in the world.

The question for Netflix — and any content distributor — is whether the benefits justify the price. This calculation will be different for every organisation, based on their financial resources, expansion plans, existing market share, customer base, target customer base, etc. I suspect that, at the moment, the potential benefits from expanding into sport aren't justified for Netflix. They have a strong brand based on access to high-quality, episodic "TV-style" content, that is driving good growth already. Moving into showing live sports would be an expensive risk.

I suspect we'll see Netflix expand into streaming live events eventually, but probably not mainstream sports and news to begin with. It makes more sense for them to identify emerging sectors, such as esports, which have the potential for strong growth, but for which the rights are still relatively cheap.
I would suggest OneNote. They have an app for every platform (not sure about Mac, but the web version works nice on Chrome), and the sync is totally solid. It has everything Evernote has, and then some more. I use it like a scrapbook where I can keep my to-do lists, reference info that I want access to later, a few links, even a bunch of scripts that I need to run sometimes.
I'm guessing Equinix aren't allowed to say AWS is in their DC.

But their equipment is in there, 100% guaranteed (or at least was in 2012).

Edit: Here's a better reference:

Equinix yesterday launched phase two of its Sydney 3 International Business Exchange datacentre facility (SY3-II) in Alexandria, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) onboard as one of its first customers.... It was only confirmed yesterday — despite it being the worst-kept secret in the industry - that it is using Equinix's SY3-II datacentre.

http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/equinix-celebrates-launch-of-s...

I don't know for sure, but I also think that AWS Sao Paulo is in the Terremark DC.
At least I think nobody advises to increase intake of sugar? Maybe just reducing sugar gets you 99% of the way...

The thing about humans is, they manage to live in all sorts of environments. I think the Inuit have no access to vegetables at all, meat only? But other societies probably don't eat meat at all (for example some castes in India, afaik). So I suspect the human digestive system is actually very adaptive.

Problems may start if you try to manipulate the signals the digestive system reacts to, as is happening with industrialized, processed food. If you lie to the system, it can not (always) react in a healthy way. (That's my guess, anyway).

On the other hand, comparing different societies might yield some valid insights? If a whole country doesn't eat certain foods? Or what about the result that general health declined with the advent of agriculture?
From the inside it's extremely friendly, easy-going and supportive. (Not at all saying this is you) but the JS community also gets a lot of hate from backend devs looking down their noses at us, making comments probably based on that one time a few years ago they tried to write some frontend JS to fix a widget and had a bad time, while remaining largely ignorant of the state of modern, professional JS development. So yep, you're right, this makes us insecure and defensive sometimes when dealing with outsiders.

On the flip side, I can see why developers in other languages may feel a bit defensive too. They see this language that they have a poor opinion of start to eat into everything, including server side, and potentially threaten livelihoods. Its an emotionally charged area. JavaScript: The Good Parts is getting on for a decade old, things have changed so much. With ES2015 and beyond JS is becoming a pretty cute language, it's slowly starting to enable a really nice functional style, try and write a project or two in it sometime, see what you think :)
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I just looked at the source code and, well, wow. Comments sometimes in English and sometimes in Chinese, scripts are being loaded all over the place, one tag is just commented out, one inline script does nothing but assign a global variable to a value that's presumably just an output from PHP and many more things that feel really... odd for something that's supposed to advertise a new and complex technology.
What I've been doing is in my solutions is adopting the Adobe approach and keeping a separate project for QT with all of the UI 100% abstracted out into that. Cross-platform builds are pretty easy, I get all of the safety of C# along with all of the tooling on NuGet crossplatform, and native UI interfaces on all 3 platforms with QT. The only time I come close to touching Winforms/Silverlight or WPF is if a client is dead-set on using Telerik or whatever.
False Balance. You see it on news reports all the time.

Here we have a scientist talking about the latest meta-study, well reviewed, on the safety profile of a certain type of vaccine. And now we need to balance that out with a crackpot who thinks vaccines are a form of government mind control.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I shall look into this story more before voicing my opinion on Iceland's actions the next time.
Different films and shows are available in different countries and regions depending on Netflix's ability to licence, and what they anticipate customers will want. Which country are you in?
Yes most species, but they are rather small. If you want to see tough then have a look at what Bacteria and Archea can survive.
As far as I can tell, this is more expensive than long term government run asylum housing in Norway (hard to compare directly as the costs given for government provision includes a lot of additional costs, but using basic measures for things like nursery provision etc. it'd be extremely unlikely that the actual housing component ends up above even the lower ($31) of those levels).

It may still be an ok deal if the contracts are short term, as there's obvious issues now with forecasting how the refugee stream will be even in the near future, and it's worth quite a bit of money to make someone else shoulder most of that risk.

> the sad part is that some government officials apparently think profit making in this industry is wrong

I haven't seen that. I have seen people question whether some people are profiteering from a difficult situation. This is seen as sort of a national crisis that it would be immoral to take excessive profits from, and there's been others that have e.g. offered up free or significantly discounted hotel rooms and similar (though the cynic in me sees "fantastic high value PR coup" when reading about some of them) that makes it easy to see even relatively modest profit-taking as too high.
Wow - there's few better examples of the fine line between crazy and genius.

I can't tell if he's using the plannedchaos accounts on various sites to seriously defend himself by proxy, or is it that he thinks the Internet is a load of pixels on a screen that unlike some of us he just doesn't take it very seriously?

Edit: somebody commented below that Scott is now a professional troll, and I'm inclined to think that they're probably right!
I'm going to play Devil's Advocate and say that the Winnie the Pooh copyright is better off in the hands of a large corporation that can use it to create wealth. Besides that, it's not like the Queen of England owns it and keeps it hidden away where only VIPs can see it (I'm looking at you, Vermeer's The Music Lesson). They use it to create media that the majority of people on this forum have happily consumed. What do we get if it goes into the public domain? The ability to download old books for free that you'd otherwise have to pay...oh...fifty cents for at the local St. Vincent De Paul? Slash fiction? (Again, Devil's Advocate, so no down votes.)
Is it still possible to be an informed citizen? Most laws are the result of work on congressional committees and then voted on according to the party line because even politicians have had to admit that the issues are just too complex to deal with otherwise.
Yeah, it was a total disappointment to subscribe to Netflix just to discover that almost everything I was interested in, wasn't there.
Now now, there are plenty of people in our industry who would cringe at even the term "go-style" as a description for statically linking libs in, though most of them have long since left HN by now. Finally got around to reading that PARC/Cedar doc you linked out a while back, last weekend. Interesting stuff. Thanks again.
> So that ladies and gentlemen is why I hate anything and everything that uses YAML or some other weird custom DSL to do the obvious.

Sure, because I would trust a random clueless programmer to do system
administration or to even know what is necessary there. Your rant is totally
justified.

> Everything that seems intuitive and obvious to me is either an anti-pattern or straight-up impossible to do with any of those tools.

The same can be said about functional languages from a perspective of
imperative programmer. You just don't understand the paradigm. There's really
nothing to brag about here.

> Somehow I’m the only one that ended up with the right set of experiences that taught me to avoid all the things these tools champion.

Yes, somehow you're the only one smart out there. All the other people are
just plain stupid.

> [...] but not before a whole bunch of hair is lost trying to figure out why some snippet of YAML is not creating the right unix user (this by the way has happened more than enough times now that I’ve stopped counting).

As previously, there's nothing to brag about. You just don't understand the
paradigm.
I'm assuming you get a lot of support financially from your partner / have a big runway? I can't imagine living on £9k a year without such? How do you survive?

edit: I Worry this comment comes across the wrong way. I've been desperate to do a startup for years, but the financial aspect of it has always scared me. I was told at a Hacker News meetup that I probably don't have the entrepreneurial spirit, which the more I think about it, the more I agree with. I'm curious as to how your mindset works :)
It probably was, but the world was less complex back then (both because of the technological progress of the last two centuries, and because politics has layered tons upon tons of bullshit on every issue imaginable).
sorry to go OT but...isn't the name a bit awkward?! apart from that, nice tiny tool ;)
Your story (javac / java) was supported since day 1. You had a compiler (say, mcs or csc) that you could invoke manually, passing the input files (csc Hello.cs) and could run the result (either via 'mono Hello.exe' or just 'Hello.exe').

This is more like maven or leiningen I guess - you can build and run, manage dependencies, create projects. That said, I'm not up to date in the Java landscape.
Thanks for linking this, just purchased a copy the reviews are outstanding.
To me VPN is the worst. Very slow and limited device access. I go with DNS services. Much more convenient, way faster, works on all my devices at home and I can switch regions on-the-fly.

But that's me...
Small addition: Maybe focus on languages that most people want to learn, Dutch should not be in such a short list especially where mega languages like Mandarin or Arabic are missing.

As I write this I realize there's actually fugitives trying to learn Dutch, but that's a harsh market to try and profit from unless you target the government.
I'd be curious to know as well as I'm considering IT consulting/freelancing. I wonder if there's an opportunity for us to create an independent IT consulting network together to help generate new business.
I tried to use the Chrome extension to read a Spanish website but it doesn't work unless I enable 3rd party cookies. That's quite rude. I cannot allow a single extension to compromise my browsing experience by letting anyone set 3rd party cookies.

Could you please add a field on the site where I could paste the URL of a webpage? That would work for me as a workaround to using the extension.
At that rate, India would have ubiquitous internet penetration in next 10 years. I think it would happen much sooner. It would definitely not happen due to Free basics. It would happen as people would see value in it. India has 1 bn mobile phone connections BTW.
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Put this in your hosts file:

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It is actually "Do not parse and compile the files which have been parsed and compiled. Use the cache.".

Can't believe it is done so late.
This remind me of something I learned in high school while doing my math homework. An assignment becomes much easier when you first look at the answer in the back. When you know what to aim for, it's easier to weave the right path from the data to results. You aren't learning much in the process, but technically, you've done the job.
If he could profitably charge $75/day and run it as a 5 star hotel in Norway, he should run a hotel as he'd be wildly successful if he could offer what would be bargain basement prices compared to his competition.
One simple trick to make it easier to determine the source is to embed a couple of sentinel records into your DB. That way if it does get leaked you are sure that you were the source and if another party is the source you will know this because your sentinels will not be present. This helps to strengthen the claim that the data was not leaked through your company (it is not a guarantee, after all it could be an inside job with the sentinels stripped but the chances are somewhat reduced).
IF he is so sincere, then why not give the whole internet free? Why route all the traffic via fb servers ? Why force no encryption?
You may be correct. But I'm not ready to focus on businesses right now because:

1. Businesses would want features that individuals don't care about. More importantly, they would want features that I don't care about. I made Readlang to serve my own needs as a self motivated learner. I feel like I have a reasonable barometer for what's useful and what will appeal to individuals. Creating something for business would be more difficult and less fun for me personally.

2. There's still a hell of a lot of room to grow with individual language learners.

3. Even if the profit is lower, I can probably reach a larger user base with a freemium consumer product. I think that the quantity of feedback and data that this provides helps me create a better product. (On the other hand - I'm sure the revenue that may come from a B2B product would also help!)

4. I can always try selling to businesses later. And with a proven, popular consumer product this should be an easier sell.

Regarding the name & branding. I'm sure it's not optimal but I'm not an expert in this and it was the best I came up with. I'm going to run with it in the short term at least.

Thanks for the advice and encouragement!
In the US, not until 1989:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_Implementatio...
software and marketing (digital or old fashioned)

software and the management of people

software and sales

software and analytics

software and e-commerce

software and design

software and user experience

software and SEO

software and product management

software and quality assurance/testing

The list is endless. If you've got even a basic understanding of how to write software, and you can combine that with one or two additional skills you're a million miles ahead of any other coder even if they're a better coder than you. The reason being that you not only build software, you have an understanding of the dozens of other things that must be performed in order for that software to be turned into a profitable business.
I would also add that since OVH own and operate a large physical network[0], they can't really be compared to a hosting-only provider like DigitalOcean. This isn't 'like for like', and is only marginally useful for ranking either company.

Also, for those of us looking for server space to serve a primarily Western market, OVH and AWS are most definitely comparable. AWS have a huge and impressive range of features, most of which I simply do not need (though I'm a happy OVH, AWS, and DO customer because I'm not one to put all my eggs in one basket).

[0]http://weathermap.ovh.net/
"do unto others as you would have done unto you" is a pretty damn near universal law of morality

It's insidiously evil. Many of the root versions (and in particular, the early Zoroastrian version, which I think might predate others and was influential in religions that followed) were to not do to others that which is abhorrent to you, but this corruption of it turns it into something else entirely.
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Well, here's the thing. People can spread ignorance, I agree. However, if someone gives a list of examples and 2/3 or them could be described as "right wing" you begin to wonder as to his motivations.

However, if you think that the spread of ignorance is purely a right-wing phenomonon and that left-wing politicians are scrupulously truthful in all they do, then I don't know what to say to you.
While I love that this is open source and will certainly look into the details. It might be interesting to know that there's already a commercial product out as well using the native Hypervisor Framework.

Maybe more as one, but I am only aware about Veertu from Ravello systems.

See also this article from Maish:

http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2016/01/native-mac-osx-virtu...
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You think comparing, say, Donald Trump to Hilary Clinton is a false equivalence?
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I guess it's aesthetics either way, having only two wheels allows the robot to turn on the spot as well without risk of hitting anything/anyone...

Plus isn't self-balancing kind of segway's thing?!
Hi voltagex, would you mind writting to support@puput.io with your phone number? We've had problems with some international numbers and area codes, I'll debug it for you.

Regarding incoming calls, the instructions not to answer are to avoid the cost for us, not for the user. Receiving calls is free, but connecting a call costs some cents. That's why we work with missed calls. Makes sense?
Wow, is that the same with OVH? Since every one of their DC are specially built by them so far.

( Although it would make sense, since 12 totally new DC in a year is quite an achievement. )
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You can't rely on the self-reported volume figures from Chinese bitcoin exchanges. They are zero fee exchanges so it's very easy to inflate volume and there are many indications that that is exactly what they do.
With all due respect, if this is a tech startup. How good can its odds of success be if they're actually considering converting an intern into the CTO?

I mean, for me personally if I were interviewing there for a staff engineering position and I found out that they'd taken somebody with very little professional experience as an engineer, along with zero executive/leadership experience (director, VP, GM, etc.), and then made them CTO... I'd wonder what was wrong with the rest of the company leadership.

For reasons not the least of which are... when you go seek funding any half-way legitimate investor is almost certainly going to look at the leadership team, its prior experience, its successes, its failures, etc. Unless the thing you guys are doing is the world's most amazing product that's hyper defensible and hyper differentiated, then a huge component of what the investors are evaluating isn't the business or the product... it's the team.

But all that said, you'd learn a whole crapload from the experience, so perhaps it's best just to have at it.

About the only other thing I can say is... if you're having to ask this question in a public forum on the internet to a bunch of strangers, then that's probably a pretty useful indicator of your actual preparedness in and of itself.
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> I can just imagine they are trying to keep growing and not satisfied with what they are.

I think you are right about that. A year or two ago I was filling out a survey for some web service I use (I think it was Feedly). They were asking what features I wanted and I returned it with the comment that the product seems like it is complete and just needs to go into maintenance mode. They didn't take my advice.

I've sent that feedback to other companies as well that have excellent products.

For Evernote, I think I would resubscribe as a premium user if they offered a stripped down version of their client. Store notes, images, and pdfs, make syncing work and have excellent search. Get rid of chat, and sharing, and even notebooks and stacks (double down on tagging and make a great search UI). The problem for Evernote is that every user has a different set of features they would remove. Try to get to a place where you can shrink your team.
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It looks very unpolished and crude. From the website I couldn't really figure out what it is for, but form what I gather now it is just some kind of blogging platform with images and such "content". What's the value proposition?
"My career advice would be, don't get into anything that requires popularity. Its a cruel world out there."

Sounds like creating a startup versus a normal dev job.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in starting an IT consultancy?
I'm thinking about starting an IT consultancy company and wanted to know if there's anyone interested?

My experience has been 4 years as a software engineer, 3 years in management consulting, strategy and analytics. My skillset is full stack web development (i.e. HTML, JS, AngularJS, CSS), Python, NodeJS but have also programmed in Perl, PHP, Java and C++ so I could probably pick up languages fairly easily if needed.

I am based in Toronto, Canada and would love to work with someone where we can build something like Thoughtworks - good, quality software. Open to discussions on what niche we can focus on (it'll depend on our skills) and who knows? Eventually, we may even transition from consulting to SAAS.
Reducing the friction to publishing portable inter-related code modules to the world to near zero like npm has is an incredible thing. Everyone is still trying to understand the ramifications. The downside is that there's more garbage on there, but believe me, restricting your choice of module to the 30% of high quality ones is a trivial task for a experienced dev. If you want to criticise the platform on the basis that inexperienced devs use it and mess up sometimes that's up to you, but it seems pretty reductive.
Chinese and Arabic are both there, within the admittedly long and difficult to navigate language selector!

They are both in "beta" and hence further down the list. The reason Chinese is in beta is because it doesn't have word boundary detection, pinyin transliteration, or word frequency lists. Arabic is in "beta" because there were some issues with "right to left" text. I think this is working pretty well now though, haven't had complaints in a while, so I can think about bringing that out of beta soon.