skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general there is a formal process that use to remedy the situation with the government that is not available with a private company. Consider getting a parking ticket. At a private lot you are ticketed in error. You call the number listed but they refuse to accept they made an error even if you have proof you paid for parking. Or if you get a parking ticket from the city you can protest the citation by mail, then if it is not overturned you can request an appeal.
Dropdown menu in Location section appears to show all the countries https://media.netflix.com/en/register

Yeey, Serbia available!
I agree 1000%, at $600 we need to see some killer early titles and Facebook is absolutely in a position to finance them. Let's just hope they're NOTHING like farmville ;)
That's all I was wondering.
Very sad and lame that this is "news".

Did we forget how all of this works ?

Netflix is a web site. Currently, there is only one global Internet. Therefore netflix is available everywhere there is Internet connectivity.

Anything other than that simple scenario is an embarrassing (and epic) fail.
I like the "Hacker News Newsletter", lets me ignore what goes on here most days, and catch up when I have dedicated time.

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
Ronda Rousey Pic Cheeky Teaser Takes the Internet by Storm
Populists will claim to give you anything you want as long as you vote for them.
>many people are going to look only at price and wait for something like a $300 Playstation VR headset

This is what I imagine will be the most common outcome here. Sure the Rift is 'only' $600, but you need a $400 video card to make it work on top of a decent rig, so a minimum $1500 investment?

Meanwhile, millions of kids with Xboxes and PS4's already have everything they need for a perhaps lesser experience, but come xmas that $299 console headset is going to be crazy attractive. The hands on reviews I've read with Morpheus compared it to a later model Rift. No idea how it stacks to this new consumer model, but if Sony can sell that level of resolution and performance on consoles, then its going to hurt Oculus severely. As someone who owns both I'm leaning on wating for the consoles to ante up. I think the PC end of VR is going to be a lot of half assed indie games, non-VR games tied to some crappy driver that makes them 'VR' but with a very poor experience, general steam shovelware/paid beta's, and demos masquerading as "games" while the consoles will only allow polished AAA products on their VR platform.
I completely misread you. I'm sorry. Thank you for the correction, and for repeating a core principle of HN that I also need to be reminded of.

Moderating comments like that is probabilistic, since they don't come tagged with intent. In your case I guessed wrong because the form of the comment was similar to nasty ones (edit: I mean by other users) in the past. Your intent would have been clearer, and the comment more informative, if you had included the detail about the names in the original bit.
I read this article hoping to learn what "kanban" really is.

From the text, it seems like it's scrum, but without having a deadline every sprint for what you committed to at the start of it.

And... that sounds exactly like the Pivotal school XP I've been doing for 10 years.

Words, words, words...
OT: but it works in India now - no more silly vpns needed. There goes my hidemyass subscription.
Netflix is transforming into an on-demand cable channel.
I want to pay a monthly fee and get a Spotify for movies. I don't want to pay 10 Euro a month for netflix originals plus a handful of old movies.
In my opinion indie games don't sell platforms, AAA titles do.
i've lived extensively with and without, and having kids easily trumps. life's amplitudes are greatly magnified by little ones.
Microsoft has actually had a pretty good security record for the past decade now... Most of the truly stupid decisions regarding security were prior to Windows XP. Since Melissa/ILoveYou and several other worms that wreaked havoc on data centers i the late 90's and early 00's there was a massive shift in terms of security conscience at MS.

There have been attack vectors since, but that is true of every platform, and since Windows 7 in particular, most of them have been from third party software.
https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/pcsdk/latest/conc...
Trust me, it isn't the "Casino's money" it is always the other players money. At its most simplest, people come into the Casino and drop money on the floor, the Casino collects it, and then randomly gives some of it to people as they exit. It preferentially (by giving a higher probability) gives money to people who have come in a lot and have dropped a lot of money on the floor. At no time is there any risk that the Casino won't keep all of its "fraction" of the dropped money.
I thought that the scrum meeting is a process. The whole Agile thing is a strictly defined process. That needs a lot of specific tools too.
Yeah, I tried their free month here in Portugal, and the selection was abysmal. And at least for now, they license their "exclusive" shows to our cable networks anyway.

To me it seems like they shot their own foot; now that I've wasted my free month on this, I'm not planning to pay in the future just to find out if their catalogue has improved.
Attic: The Holy Grail of Backups
Virtu: Almost Perfect Market Makers
Any idea how long this promotion will last?
> It's a minor event

What train of thought brings you to considering the destruction of a major city by a nuclear bomb a 'minor' event?
How affordable housing mandates make housing more expensive
There's also the fact that expected payout is not the only value a lottery ticket offers. There's the entertainment value as well.

If you think about it, entertainment is the biggest factor involved in the decision about whether to partake in gambling or not. I do not generally enjoy any sort of gambling, that's why I don't do it. But I will happily pony up a few bucks to play Keno with a cute girl at the bar.

If gambling wasn't fun, nobody would do it.
Competition can also mean inefficiency. A good example is the comparison of the mobile network infrastructure in Sweden and Germany: In lower populated regions you will usually only find one network called Sweden. It's a cooperation of the mobile providers that allows them to save money by not deploying infrastructure four times. In Germany such cooperation is forbidden because it's considered anti-competitive. Subsequently mobile service in Sweden is both better and cheaper, even with a way worse situation (lower population density).

Every time you have competition you have the inefficiency to have some structures several times.
They only call out four exclusions, China, Crimea, North Korea, and Syria. So it's probably not really 190, it's (# of countries in the world) - 4.
Or we simply get this chicken-egg problem where people don't want to develop, market and release games for platform, that is just an addon for PC, that doesn't actually sell well since the price point is so high and there is no games to play with it.

I'm very interested to try Oculus, but not until the price is around other gaming accessories (i.e. south of 200€). Unless someone comes out with game or app that completely revolutionalizes the way we use computers I'm not forking over 750€ for a fad
True, but often people need to post multiple tweets, and somebody manages to reply in-between and then tracking the conversation becomes harder on the reader.
I'm always wary of putting in-progress work on random third-party services.

LyX+Mendeley works pretty well for me...
welcome to international content licensing and copyright laws.
Obligatory: rsync.net (since November) has full, native[1] support for both attic and borg.

HN Readers' discount. Just email.

[1] As in, borg and attic on the server side, and no need to do silly workarounds like mounting over sshFS...
Those are the people targeted by "religious/cult" like business. This is just another instance of this, it's been happening since forever.

I find it amazing that this believing blindly in something so weird so easy for some people and it's definitely not related to their brain power, I know a few instances of very smart software developers, seriously smart people that believe in crazy cult like religions with aliens and stuff.

It's amazing how the brain is spitted, the part that you use to work and live is rational, methodical and precise the part that handles your feelings can be stupid, naive and gullible to the point where is overthrows your rational brain to the oblivion and you become a "Smapid" a Stupid Smart person that is a great coworker but I simply can't start any non work, business related conversation because it drives me insane.

It's really a waste.
> I want to pay a monthly fee and get a Spotify for movies

Unfortunately that would cost you about the same as a cable subscription due to the licensing costs.
Philip Pullman: professional writers set to become 'an endangered species'
ALMA images are about 2000x2000. Its resolution is 0.01 arcsec. It has a planar angle field of view of about 20 arcsec horizontally, and 20 arcsec vertically, for a solid angle field of view of 9.4e-9 steradian, or 7.5e-10 of the entire sky.

Mike Brown implies his napkin-math yields 200000 Earth-scale planets in the outer solar system. If they have uniform density, that would be 15915.5 per steradian. That would give a probability of 1.5e-4 for such a planet to be in the field of view of any given ALMA image.

So ALMA would have to take 20000 non-overlapping images to have a 95% chance of imaging one such planet. I was unable to find a public source for the total amount of sky ALMA has surveyed over the last 2.5 years, but a mean 22 non-overlapping images per 24 hours at maximum resolution doesn't seem impossible.

If we assume that ALMA had only a 1% chance of capturing an image of such an object in 20000 tries, that yields a probability of 5.0e-7 per image, 53 planets per sterad, or 672 planets total.

With only a 0.001% chance, it's 5.0e-10 per image, .053 per sterad, and 0.67 in the entire sky. That's more reasonable, but it also means that ALMA either did not actually see an Earth-sized planet, or that it got extraordinarily lucky this time, as the only planet-sized object out there crossed its field of view once during its 2.5 years in operation. It would be like a sasquatch photobombing just one of your 20000 vacation pictures.

In order to see distant objects better, you have to either narrow your field of view or build a bigger telescope. As such, we really have no idea how many discrete, dark, cold objects are out there from 50-1000 AU, because no one has surveyed the entire sky with enough detail to resolve those objects in the spectrum viewed by the telescope.

For reference, 200000 Earth-sized planets would be approximately equal to the mass of the sun. The entire Oort cloud is estimated at maybe 5 Earth masses total.

So if there are cold Earth-sized planets out there beyond the heliopause, the chances of us detecting any of them visually from Earth are vanishingly small. They are too cold for infrared imaging, have too little mass and too much distance to affect more visible objects via gravity, and too little volume to detectably occlude a brighter object in the background.
Glass in mass production was supposed to be a $200 - $299 device from industry estimates at the time. One report claimed it contained $80 in parts. That's a lot of leeway to push itself into the low end of the tech enthusiast market, if Google ever really wants to make it a consumer item.
Why should they? That's how they lock you in.
It seems to me that he is dismissing passive enjoyment of sports (watching games on TV or in arenas), not the active one (participating yourself).
The other interesting thing about your quote is what's notably absent. It makes you wonder whether they'll be holding back House of Cards and Orange is the New Black.
Location yes.. mostly U.S. customer acquisition. As for age, skewed towards middle/older demographic, but that's true of most financial companies. That said, more mature users are more likely to be using an iPad (with a current OS) than any version of IE.
This is being presented at Real World Crypto at Stanford in about 4h.
Film vs. digital: the most contentious debate in the film world, explained
Browser defaults have a legacy and they're not easy to change without disruption. Just because they're less than ideal isn't an valid excuse to neglect your content presentation.

The author seems to have concerns for UX because his page isn't just HTML. He put some CSS on the nav header, used some HTML5 semantic elements, some Aria roles, and added a viewport header element for mobile scaling. Sadly his concerns were passing as 1/3 of his CSS is rendered moot, and his desire for a semantic page was abandoned quickly after implementing his navigation and footer.

His page's UX is improved dramatically by adding 2 simple CSS rules (margin, max-width). If those rules add too many bytes to the page he could convert his navigation divs to a proper unorder list and get some bytes back and make his page more semantic to boot.

His page is just a drive by attempt at standards and it's lazy.
[sigh]

Here’s WSJ from January 2013:

Apple Inc. has cut its orders for components for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, people familiar with the situation said Monday. Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order, two of the people said.

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142412788732359620457...

So WSJ says 50% drop in orders for the January-March quarter. Yet when you look at Apple's actual results for that January to March quarter iPhone experienced a YoY increase.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/04/23Apple-Reports-Seco...

Fool me once WSJ...

Journalists should be very careful when quoting component manufacturers. Apple often buys all the components a manufacturer can make (and then buys them a factory to make more, and then buys all the machines in the world that can be used to make the parts, etc). Apple quite literally can make or break a component manufacturer (GT Advanced comes to mind...), so manufacturers willing to talk to the press usually have an angle or axe to grind.
creators that refuse to touch the same application in an (much cheaper and faster) Windows PC as opposed to the "pro" Mac version

You're ignoring the fact that the application must run within the confines of an operating system.

I'm not using a single application at a time. "The same application" you refer to might be nearly identical on both platforms, but I need to switch between applications. On OS X I have Mission Control (with trackpad gestures!) that makes context switching incredibly efficient. On Windows I have to click taskbar buttons, or press alt+tab hundreds (thousands?) of times a day, or take a break to hit windows+tab to have a laugh at the incredibly useless task switcher (I've never understood why windows+tab was allowed to ship). How people multitask on Windows is beyond me, with no friendly built-in solution and third-party applications that all have problems.

How about copy/pasting? Using ctrl+c and ctrl+v on Windows with a PC keyboard is frustrating compared to the cmd+c and cmd+v finger positioning on an Apple keyboard with OS X. Microsoft requires an awkward readjustment to reach for the control key, while Apple uses your thumb that is already resting on the spacebar to hit the cmd key that is right there. When you use copy/paste hundreds of times in a typical day (ex: programmer), this minor annoyance adds up.

How about finding per-application settings? On OS X this is always accessible via the cmd+, shortcut and the menu entry is always within the app's primary menu. On Windows every application has its own shortcut (if any), and the menu entry might be found under any of File, Edit, View, or Window. It's always a hunt just to open application preferences. I personally find this to be a frustrating experience and a waste of my time.

Finally, I simply prefer the visuals and widgets/controls of OS X compared to Windows. OS X is flat and simple whereas Windows tries way too hard to look "cool" (ie: designed by children for children). Also, OS X developers (other than for game clients) don't think it's cool to throw away the default window border and window controls (minimize, close, etc.). Whereas far too many Windows developers think it's cool to customize their fucking window style. Leave the system components alone.
If they could make the iPhone 7 water resistant AND lighter so it's less likely the screen will crack when the device is dropped - then they might be onto something. Add in wireless charging so you can charge while you listen to your iPhone then they may have a winner, or at least a compelling reason for people to upgrade!
> I never understood the "game of skill" argument, though.

I'm not sure if this is really on-topic, but I think you'll find this interesting if you're not aware of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question
New York Public Library Makes 180,000 High-Res Images Available Online
If you have a long important task, then surely you can break it down into sub-tasks that take less than a day to implement? Not just for the sake of having something to say in the daily status meeting, but to be able to manage your own work and evaluate your progress? In my own work, I find that anything taking longer than a day benefits from my doing some planning and task breakdown.
Isn't that what HBO GO is aiming for? They have a large selection of good movies.
Not yet. Migrations are done transactionally, and it's something I really want to have, but there are complexities I have yet to tackle.
You can make use of the court system for resolving torts and contract violations in both cases, whether these courts are hypothetically publicly or privately operated. Actually in the case of a public service, you may become entangled in certain complications related to sovereign immunity, depending on jurisdiction.

(There's also the surprising efficacy of vocally complaining in public. Do not underestimate a private firm's willingness to recuperate damages on its brand image.)
I am biased and it is based in reality. The pro gun lobby does scream it from the roof tops but most major media outlets are not pro gun so they don't carry them or follow them. They in fact attempt to demonize and demean anyone who doesn't agree with them. The fact that this isn't know to you speaks volumes about how ill informed you on on this topic.
As an American, I can guarantee you, demand means nothing to monopoly ISPs. If you have competition you might have better luck -- but should have had better luck already.
From my own experience, poker and DFS involve about the same level of skill and study to be consistently profitable. DFS just scales more easily. You said, "In poker you play the player, not the hand. But in DFS, there is no equivalent." There actually is an equivalent. If you study DFS, you'll find that there's a cottage industry in figuring out what players will be most popularly owned in a given slate and then using that information to increase your own EV (e.g. in a tournament, if you projected Aaron Rodgers and Cam Newton to score the same number of points but 80% of people would play Rodgers then you would want to play Cam Newton because if he does go off big time then you now ahead of 80% of your competitors).
True, but it's not a news website.
I suppose they would say something along the lines of "it does take a long time, but everyone's clocks are built by the conspiracy". As for why the amount of fuel used is the same for a similar trip around the arctic, that's a good question.
Not only is the rake faster, it is also quiet, a property that will be mostly appreciated by other people than the wielder.
Correct, it is generally the actions that are serialized and stamped.
You make some solid points, the key is the successful consoles had killer titles that provided awesome experiences and pushed the technology early (Sonic, Tomb Raider, Halo, Wii Sports, etc.) Also those consoles launched at (relatively) consumer friendly prices.
Sure, and I do think the Tesla analogy is accurate. This is a first-gen device aimed towards early adopters who are willing to pay more. Next generations will be progressively cheaper.
HN readers are not five years old; increasingly reductive questions don't help anyone.
> and will keep it until it breaks

Or until it becomes too slow after an OS upgrade.
For all the complaints of $599, consider the prices of graphics cards, gaming monitors, phones, (4K) TVs, and so on. With this price, they are targeting the alpha consumer, who (hopefully) will have a great experience, tell their friends and the world, and prepare the markets for the eventual mass market version that will be in the $200-$400 range. AAA devs were never going to participate in this first gen anyway (there was no way they'd recoup their dev resources, so why would they).

While I think the concern for content is a valid one, I think indies and non-gaming apps will come through with a few breakthrough experiences that will drive the first set of sales, paving the way for the AAAs.
Are We About to See the End of Twitter?
Netflix's catalog(ue) is a shadow of its former self. I'm a Netflix subscriber, and can pretty much guarantee that any movie I attempt to watch will NOT be available on Netflix streaming.

I have somewhat better luck with the previous episodes of American TV shows.
I think the carriers in the US did a lot to create the 2-year upgrade cycle. Now that some are breaking out the phone subsidy from the monthly service charges, the incentive to upgrade is reduced.
I'm surprised someone considers Crimea a country. I thought it was part of Ukraine, and now is part of Russia. Or if you dispute that, it is still a part of Ukraine.
I've been using it from Kenya behind a VPN. It's now available, but the selection is pretty slim.
Vision Technology for Household Robots
I am fine paying this much. Potentially. Maybe they could also sell subsets for a lower price?
I lose confidence in guys like Oliver and Jon Stewart, because the few times they talk about a subject I actually know very well, they make misinformed points that betray their lack of research/experience in that field.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't objects in 'our solar system' orbit around our sun? Sounds like these objects are in the Alpha Centauri solar system, which is one of our closest neighbours in the Milky Way galaxy. It'll be an interesting find if it turns out to exist, but the distinction between solar system and galaxy is important, as it changes it from somewhere we could feasibly visit to an object we can only see through telescopes (bar some sort of revolution in space propulsion).
Maybe, maybe not.

Some people are running programs that won't work on newer versions of Windows, and they would be using XP Mode anyway.

Others just do Web stuff and Firefox is really their OS.