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Netflix has the translations, they are just not provided for you. For example, Germany has usually both English and German subtitles available for all content.

My best theory is that Netflix pays for certain regions, and worldwide subtitle distribution would cost more. That sounds ridiculous though when comparing to the content itself, but what other reason could there be? The simplicity of the user interface?
They are exceptionally good at getting things done. A regular person could spend hours or days researching the best way to get something done, Magic already knows. There are real scale effects here.
Maybe that's a dumb question but why should this chip be highly parallel? In the case of GPU computations are by their nature embarrassingly parallel but I don't see why this should be the case for SPU. Why not just add a few more CPU cores and let this specialized controller handle the problem of concurrent accesses?
I agree that it's a nice option to have and I doubt many companies care to only provide one method of communication via Facebook. But there will be some, as there have been in the past that wouldn't let me register for their services since I didn't have facebook (Spotify at one point, another was a productivity app that was featured on HN).

It just seems like a slow creep by FB to become (as cliched as this is nowadays) 'too big to fail'.
I don't fully understand why. The idea of microkernels is to mitigate instability/insecurity from a lack of memory safety. This is exactly what rust actually provides.
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I think there's a good argument to be made that the sooner we make this tech boring, the better. I want this stuff to be off-the-shelf, got-it-by-default now. When it's fully proliferated and cheap with loads of Stack Overflow-like answers and tutorials for it (like phone accelerometers and motion capture software), the sooner we'll really start developing and digging into the cool stuff. And get the crufty stuff out of the way.

But I fundamentally disaggree that it's less interesting. I'm going to assume you're just jaded by the awesome we're constantly surrounded by instead of just taking the easy, boring interpretation. Even 2D animation is advancing where you wouldn't expect (I found the technical work giving the artists better control on The Paperman surprising [0]). New rendering philosophies, networking algorithms, AI/bots, social integration, all of this leads to a refinement that's well worth the effort.

It took a long, long time to get from oscilloscopes [1] to the Occulus, and hopefully in a couple generations we'll have even cooler stuff. Expect to see demos and then have to wait a while for the hard, brutal engineering work to make it actually usable [2].

For the Occulus, the real win is getting the feedback loop between a just-good-enough-monitor and the accelerometer down to few enough milliseconds the brain can kinda fall for it. Like a cartoon, but for motion feedback. Expect other companies to say "I can do better" and let the races begin. The Occulus is a big deal, and better stuff is just a little bit away.

Don't be jaded! Real cool stuff is in the pipe!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJLtujW6FY
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two
[2] http://dougengelbart.org/events/1968-demo-highlights.html
The difference is presence. This gear is good enough to fool your lizard brain. That's the new part.
One giant flat address space is not the answer. Hardware people tend to come up with approaches like that because flat address spaces and caching are well understood hardware. It's the same thinking that leads to "storing into device registers" as an approach to I/O control, even when the interface is really packets over a serial cable as in FireWire or USB or PCI Express.

File systems and databases are useful abstractions, from an ease of use, security, and robustness perspective. The challenge is to make them go faster. Pushing the machinery behind them out to special-purpose hardware can do that.

The straightforward thing to do first is to to take some FPGA part and use it to implement a large key/value store using non-volatile solid state memory. That's been done at Stanford[1], Berkeley[2], and MIT[3], and was suggested on YC about six years ago.[4] One could go further, and implement more of an SQL database back end. It's an interesting data structure problem; the optimal data structures are different when you don't have to wait for disk rotation, but do need persistence and reliability.

[1] http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2014.hwkvs.nv...
[2] https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs262a-F14/pro...
[3] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/91829
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628550
At my school from 6-12, we did indeed have to get up at 2am for matins. We went to bed at 8, woke at 2, went to chapel, back to bed, up at 6.

This practice hasn't entirely died out.

My principal memories of it consist of biting cold. Our dorms were unheated, so getting up in the freezing night was pretty unpleasant, and getting back to sleep was hard to say the least. While we were out the moisture in the room would condense on the iron frames of the bunks, and freeze.

Needless to say these days I do the standard 3am-8am God I feel fuck-awful "sleep" propped up with plenty of coffee.
The margins in Hollywood are actually really great. It's the accounting that makes them seem like a break even business. Less 'profit' means fewer points that have to be paid out from net.

A $200 million film that grosses a billion worldwide.. Those margins aren't bad.
One more reason to stop using facebook.
Thanks! Looks like a neat app for personal use; doesn't seem to be geared for my own use case though (multiple domains/companies). And while they might or might not stay in business, I'm reasonably sure that mail.app won't be abandoned by Apple.
Actually, "fast" doesn't mean "performant" (OK, maybe that's not a word, in which case I mean "having high performance"), unless you want to also say "speed" means "performance".

Also "utilize" is more specific than "use": it implies "using for a desirable purpose". Consider:

(1) This daemon process is utilizing all the available bandwidth.

(2) This daemon process is using all the available bandwidth.

Sometimes people making up new words do come across as lazy, but you can easily go too far in the other direction, too.
Just improve your Twitter feed - follow the right people and you got it. ;)
I think I missed the correctness proof for the rust compiler and runtime.
You might find PiFs interesting: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

P.s. As the author states in issue #2, "the release date of pifs is an important part of understanding what's going on" ;)
If you assume that the odds of winning are the same, the payoff ratio is the same, and that you don't play again with anything you win, then the expected results are exactly the same.

If someone is going to keep playing with their winnings, they're likely to do so either way.
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How much does it really matter, though? I'm sure Kim Jong-Un thinks he's making his country a better place, as thought Hitler.

Perhaps we should focus more on judging the outcomes of people's actions instead of their intent.
So, we should just hope that innocent bystanders are not hit by that first shot at police as the they hide behind their defensive positions and superior equipment?
If the movie is no longer generating so much revenue (because streaming) then actors will no longer be able to (successfully) demand 8 figure payments.

Pretty much what happened to authors of novels.
Oh, but you'll be able to buy a $80 dongle so you can use your other headphones, isn't it swell?!

I say this as an iPhone user who will be extremely disappointed in this decision :(
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I think Rachel Nabors' article on the topic is excellent: http://rachelnabors.com/2015/09/01/code-of-conduct/
First: Don't worry about. Starting unsuccessful software companies is very useful to other entrepreneurs, as it proves to them that they should not follow those footsteps and allocate their resources to more fruitful endeavours.

Second: About your final question, I run a decently successful business despite not being near the top of the totem pole in terms of technical knowledge. I have met plenty of smart people who just don't have it in them, typically they easily get lost in the details. People with some academic smarts backed by a healthy dose of street smarts appear to fare better. I feel one has to always set some type of goal (it does not even have to be clear, but there has to be a goal) to get going. As well that allows you to quickly gauge the opportunities you unexpectedly run by. That's how I roll anyways. Good luck.
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Me too :) We didn't have to wait long - check these out: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins

Some of them are like full apps in their own right.
This is my favourite - adds a lot of nice stuff, and though it sometimes breaks due to site changes, it's always updated pretty quickly to fix issues. And it's open source: https://github.com/etcet/HNES
Would you happen to have a link, or a few keywords, that would aid in finding the agricultural employment percentile shift?
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Nice idea - you should raise an issue: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues
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I'm looking for ways how to minimize my digital trace. I'd like to hear about tools and applicable approach.
Why not, though?
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Netflix employees are currently locked out, and their internal ethics policy would prevent them from buying anyway.

I'm a former employee and knew this was coming, but it would still be ethically and morally wrong for me to trade on this info (and probably illegal too).

The reason it popped right after is because there are a bunch of computers that watch twitter for news and trade on it split seconds after it breaks.
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So your business is workable because it evades taxes? What is this, Russia?
I only said that the "vast majority of cases" where the result is deadly has outside factors (i.e. drugs). I did NOT say that the "vast majority of cases" where tasers are deployed. Enormous difference. Tasers are used hundreds of thousands of times annually with no issue. Unfortunately the ones where there is a death, or significant injury, typically involve the use of drugs or other have other outside factors not related to the use of the taser.

EDIT: I did say in the vast majority of cases where tasers are deployed. That was an error on my part I did mean that to add that in a vast majority of cases where tasers are deployed and there is a death or significant injury.
The ad screen almost feels inhumane. There's no way to turn it off or even dim it. After a long flight, having that thing in your face can be really unpleasant. It's my biggest gripe with NYC cabs. It's just too 1984 for my taste.
It was actually in Cuba a few months ago when the embargo lifted. :)
It's a different perspective, I've spent a significant amount of time working with LEDs in a context where the rise time is important, and the fact that LEDs are slow (in this context) provided a significant challenge.

I guess the phrase "LEDs are extremely fast" struck me the same way a pedestrian telling you "walking is the fastest way to get around" when you're stopped at a red light in a Lamborghini would
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> Other than China and India, no other market
> is as big or insular as the US.

Isn't Japan's market generally recognized to be even more insular than the U.S.?
Context: one of the authors (Boulez) just died.
Two points make this solution unlikely to meet the goals the author is attempting to meet:

Those who are performing whatever evil acts of information sharing are disallowed by the counsel will use tools that do not have a counsel who can backdoor the system.

Attempting to solve the single point-of-failure backdoor by increasing the number of points by a modest amount still falls prey to making those individuals immediately attractive targets to those who wish to get at the plaintext. Bear in mind it needn't be a technical hack once someone holds keys. It could be a social mechanism that exposes one or more of the counsel member's keys via law of an oppressive government, or other coercion (blackmail, etc).
Thanks. I'll confess to being a Kanban noob. Do you have any resources that you can share? Looking with Google seems to present more of this sort of article.
To your point, the first step is to make them want to be convinced. For the irrational, changing beliefs is about many of the things we might consider heresy: appeals to authority, ad homonym attacks, etc. But much more often, I have found the key is if the person feels connected to you or the people making the counter argument.

You can not use logic to dissuade someone of a belief they arrived at emotionally. Instead, if you actually want to do it, you have to use emotion. It's our poor thining that makes us to try reason with the unreasonable.
Taxi companies don't necessarily hire employees. The whole medallion controversy in NYC was that the market value of the medallion had outpaced the rent the taxi owner could charge the driver for that shift.

* U&L don't own the cars, so they don't need to enforce a price floor to stay n business. If the drivers in one city saturate the market and driving becomes unprofitable, U&L lose some rev-share, but no capital investments.
* Taxi companies are required to disclose their costs on the outside of their car (in most jurisdictions), meaning it can't change often like U&L's dynamic pricing and it also acts as a price floor where U&L don't have one.
* Also, U&L can hire more drivers than the fixed number of taxis in any jurisdiction defined by the government, thus moving the city higher on the supply curve and driving down the cost below what taxi companies need to cover their expenses.
To your point, the first step is to make them want to be convinced. For the irrational, changing beliefs is about many of the things we might consider heresy: appeals to authority, ad homonym attacks, etc. But much more often, I have found the key is if the person feels connected to you or the people making the counter argument.

Of course we can not logic to dissuade someone of a belief they arrived at emotionally. Instead, if you actually want to do it, you have to use emotion. It's our poor reasoning that makes us to try reason with the unreasonable.
The 60% drop since 1972 looks pretty good to me.
I love the smell of creative destruction in the morning.
Ultrasonic emitter and detector could possibly detect a doppler shift.
If you're up for it there is some great number theoretic work to be had in that statement :-). Given a sequence of digits X, P{X} E {Offset n .. Offset p} ? len{Offset n} > len{X}
Wikipedia EN is 100GB[0] in an xml dump. You linked to the dump of the entire primary db which probably (and this is total spec.) is all users, editors, edits, languages, usage dtatistics and internal metrics.

I don't know if the wouted stat above includes pics, but i believe it is a text dump. You would have to read further to confirm. If they made their usage stats available you could pull 10% of that data (10gb) which corresponds to the most frequented articles

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

Edit: maybe you meant what you said and are in fact correct. From a user standpoint, the article text, supplementary material and some edits are likely the most inportant metrics. However a massive dump of the entire site and infra would be about that large. H
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Hard to believe but Texas just now joined that list. Keep waiting on the massive shoot-outs I've been told to expect. Still haven't seen someone open carry.
Basically, yes. Yellow Cab is in trouble because they lost some liability lawsuits.[1] In one, they only had $1M in coverage and had to pay out $8M.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/SF-jury-finds-Yellow-...
My AI that works in concert with surveillance state to hunt their AI's. Plus, anything or anyone too smart will have to be registered and monitored. Basically, the reaction to mutant powers on X-men.
Well, there you go! It _was_ a good idea.
Lack of features and/or scale.
Why 9? It's spookily reminiscent of the "Nine Eyes" organisation who're the Orwellian bad guys in the latest Bond film, but I see no technical reason the keys cannot be split between 8 or 10 parties. And how much more security do multiple identical servers provide? If one can be hacked — which is frankly a given — so can all the rest.

There is nothing in this article that makes me think a system of split keys is any more desirable than when FBI Director Comey proposed the same thing last year. It's just a bit more terrifying coming from the so-called "Father of Online Anonymity".
The ads are annoying, and I always mute them (and then re-mute them again when it "wears off" halfway through a long trip), but I never cared about the plastic partition.
Except fiber cables are not at all like roads, in that you can run dozens side by side in less space than a single water pipe.

And for the same reason, the companies vs government dichotomy is invalid here as well. Even if we want to provide a public service to avoid private monopolization, there's absolutely no reason to forbid private companies from competing with it.

After all, if the problem is that private companies are greedy, a public ISP funded only by their customers' fees and without profit-seeking shareholders should solve the problem within a system of fair competition.
The taxis themselves are basically fine. Probably (potentially?) cleaner than uber imo: leather seats are way easier to clean than cloth, and most ubers I've ridden in have cloth seats. Taxis tend to be unhappy if you pay with a card, but telling them they'll accept a card or nothing generally works.

The problem is taxis just don't come. There are relatively few areas of sf and times where you can reasonably street hail. So you're left with calling one of the multiple taxi services, and they make it readily apparent they don't give a fuck less about you. This worked as a business model only because there was no alternative.

My personal story: I had a badly broken leg (9+ months on crutches) and had to take taxis daily. From near mission/23rd (a population center), an 80% wait time for a taxi was approx 75 minutes and a 95% wait time 180 minutes. For a 16 minute drive to soma. They simply -- and a dispatcher admitted this to you -- lie when you call and ask the wait time. They couldn't follow simple requests like giving me a 5 minute warning call when they were about to arrive so I could crutch down stairs without making the driver wait. None of the services, even when told I'd be riding them 10x/week and had mobility problems, would come reliably.

I took a lot of ubers even when they cost thrice what taxis did, simply because when you requested one, they told you if they were going to come. So if the wait time was too long, you could be an adult and make alternate arrangements. Taxis just leave you wondering if they're going to come. The impact on your life of using taxis, thus having to leave 90 minutes before you want to get to the office (and leaving at 5pm/commute rush hour) is really shitty.

It's similar down the peninsula. I left sf and made the mistake of calling a taxi because a car was in the shop. Dispatch said 15-20 minutes. An hour in I called an Uber. Would you believe the driver has the giant balls to call 75 minutes after I requested a taxi to complain because I ditched and didn't call to cancel? I only waited 4 times their maximum estimate.

I'd love to take taxis instead of Ubers. I think Uber pays their drivers too little and is exploitative. Hopefully they will be forced to pay drivers more; I'll keep using them if so. But the utility of a taxi that either actually comes, or tells you they won't so you can make plans, is what keeps me using them.
Totally blind or just legally blind? My left eye can count fingers up to a distance of 2' with peripheral vision and a complete lack of foveal vision. Playing around with the DK2 I still felt the "presence" VR tries to achieve.
Netflix has paid Kevin Spacey his price, anyway, so the point is kind of moot.
"Certainly it isn't human level now, and it might take a decade or two to get there."

Any chance you could define "human level" in a way to make this a meaningful sentence? Twenty-five years after I was introduced to this problem and I still have never heard a better definition of "intelligence" than the Turing test, and it's a purely operational, "I'll know it when I see it" thing.
How stupid: "It’s like a backdoor with nine different padlocks on it"

It does not make it any harder to remove the hinges. Sigh. Classified in file 13.
There is a remarkable disconnect between the critics and the users here. Note that no users were cited in the article.

I understand not liking Facebook’s motives, that’s fine. Perhaps we can defer to the preferences of users here, who can choose to accept those motives or not, and to decide if the trade-off is an acceptable one. If we believe that they are unqualified to make this choice, one should explain that position.

Instead, the critics are imposing their preference on the users here, who are poor and (in this article) unheard. Can we please see an article where such people are quoted, and perhaps some numbers about usage, revealing their empirical preferences?
What alternatives have caught your eye and been the most refreshing?
Uber/Lyft are very interesting. The main reason cabs are so terrible is because the unions have a complete stranglehold on the industry, which means pretty much no advancement in technology and monopolistic pricing.

They both are basically going against everything the unions stand for by not having regular wages or benefits.

Edit: Admitting you're wrong is not something most people here on HN can do. Instead, they downvote.
There are fairly strict regulations concerning how insiders are able to trade, legally. If an insider learns of information that can potentially influence stock price, they may only execute trades as part of a preexisting plan or agreement. For example, an insider can continue purchasing shares as part of a stock or option purchase plan. Or an insider can continue selling shares as part of a retirement preparation plan.

Additionally, insiders are usually required to report any trades of company stock that they make.
The Oculus is an amazing and wholly novel experience, the Glass is a completely underwhelming one. I don't think Google could sell many of them, even at a much lower price point.
Personally, I believe Zuckerberg is sincere in wanting to connect everyone in the world with each other.

Agreed. Given what we know about his history, he also seems to think that most people just aren't nearly as smart as he is... and so it's best not to confuse them, with you know, choices. And that the fact that everything they say and do within his realm is relentlessly indexed, analyzed (with literally the most advanced AI techniques money can buy), gleefully pimped out to advertisers -- and at the request of authoritarian governments, outright blocked -- is on balance, all in their best interest.
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Knights Landing from Intel is already NUMA (I think). I'm not sure if it can be bought yet, but it should be very close to release.
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