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I'm a little confused.

Map shows very few countries - no Singapore as mentioned in the article

Also the article mentioned 190 countries at one point and 130 at other places. Moreover, Netflix claims it has 70M subscribers across 130 countries. How is that possible if they just launched it?
It looks like that map just hasn't been updated since the press release. The press release says it's available in 190 countries.
Great post Jihad! I like the original photo examples you share .. but also your outside-in approach (describing the different bits in a clear, but concise way).

I've been doing the ML course on Coursera, and have been meaning to get my hands dirty with Tensorflow .. your breakdown sure helps!

Yaay for first post .. Keep them coming!
The selection is not the same. I just checked and a number of my favorite US TV shows are not available here in the UAE. Looks like I'll have to continue using a proxy.
Great article covering a lot of good topics. Especially the overpromise->winter effect and the fact that lots of whats in AI's are nonsense. My favorite part was this though:

"The truth is that the part that causes the problem is the actuator. It's the interface to physicality. "

BOOM! That was my exact argument in counterpoints to Superintelligence risks. I thought it was ridiculous to worry about what it thought when you could easily control what it did at the interface. I also pointed out that high assurance security already has decades of work dealing with this exact problem and pretty effectively. So, anyone worried about that sort of things should focus on securing the interface that would be used in various domains to catch issues.

Now, that's not to say a superintelligence can't break an evil scheme down into a series of safe actions that result in catastrophe. There's possibilities there. Just that all methods for handling them can and should be at the interface. And can be implemented by verifiable, dumb algorithms.
That's great feedback, thanks. You articulate my concern well in the last sentence. I actually do a ton of word puzzles, board games, and video games, but sometimes I wonder if I'm doing much more than building vocabulary and a little hand/eye, along with whatever specifics apply to that puzzle/game. I should probably try to develop more patience with strategy games, since the "planning" part is probably key there.

Thanks again!
No, at the standup you shouldn't have conversations about things. You should just do a quick recap of what you've been doing and what you'll work on. It's a standup because it's meant to be very quick.

On the other hand, if you need a standup to ask questions about stuff you're stuck on, then your work environment has serious issues. It might be 24 hours until the next standup. You need to have colleagues who are available and willing to communicate during most of the office hours - confining this to the standups means that there are issues either at the organization level or, more probably, at personal level.

Personally, I've had more than enough of work environments where standups are used "because we have to communicate" - and then some of your colleagues spend the whole day with earphones on (= impossible to shout a question on the fly) and other look pissed off whenever you ask anything.
Here is a chart of subscriber growth since 2012:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-o...

Does anyone have an idea of the total population of coverage added today? I'm wondering if the growth accelerates from here. Seems like it would, but then Netflix has likely already initiated service in the most lucrative markets.
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Is it plausible that they could have recreated an old book that would pass muster? I assumed that the "scans" were just elaborate photoshops.
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The Tradeoff Fallacy: How Marketers Are Misrepresenting American Consumers and Opening Them Up to Exploitation

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/publications/tradeoff-...

... the survey reveals most Americans do not believe that ‘data for discounts’
is a square deal.

... Rather than feeling able to make choices, Americans believe it is futile to
manage what companies can learn about them. The study reveals that more than half
do not want to lose control over their information but also believe this loss of
control has already happened.
> I know this may shock you, but there's a world beyond high school debating

Please don't make acerbic swipes in HN comments. Your comment would be a fine one without that second sentence.
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In europe we just get netflix lite, with old and uninteresting stuff sparkled with some original content and random rares. I hope someday we'll get this netflix you all talk about.
>This is the FIRST consumer release! This is the Palm Pilot 1 of VR.

Actually, there were multiple VR technologies released in the 90s and 2000s. This isn't like being on the groundfloor of some new concept, its like a revival of something old. I wish Oculus all the luck in the world, but this technology has failed in the market many times. Yes, maybe more FPS and higher resolutions is what was needed, but I guess we'll see. Some 90's products:

http://www.cheatsheet.com/technology/a-trip-down-virtual-rea...

Its funny how there's this "everything old is new again and we all suddenly have amnesia" attitude with VR advocates. They talk about the headsets which are pricey and annoying to use(and no one has solved the motion sickness problem perfectly yet). They talk about the metaverse, yet we've had Second Life for a decade and it didn't revolutionize anything and is largely an online joke.

Whether people think the social and economic cost of strapping a tissue size box to your face is worth it, is worthy of being skeptical about. 3D TV's came at a zero premium over regular TV's not too long ago, and no one wanted to wear those dorky glasses. Many people I know, myself included, avoid the 3D showings at theaters because of how gimmicky it is and how those glasses wash out the colors (not a concern with the Rift).

>It literally feels like you are piloting a craft in outer space.

You have no idea what its like to be in outer space. You're getting this manufactured and fake experience by game devs who also don't know what its like to be in outer space. That's what really bugs me about this platform, how incredibly fake everything is, yet somehow the marketing is all about it being 'real.' I would love a hardnosed simulator with all the tactile feedback and such involved, instead we're just getting Unity3D shovelware with basic 3D tropes like moving starfields and everyone suddenly thinks this is amazing. Its not. Its just a lot of hype from gamers obsessed with fake experiences and general gamer fanboyism, which is almost always unadulterated hype. Remember the Kinect and all the hype behind it? Its now a dead peripheral:

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/consoles/5-ways-xbox...

Hell, even the crowd friendly Wii motion controls have been put on the "gimmick" shelf after a, maybe, 2 or 3 year period where everyone was raving it was the future of gaming.

>t's all going to be different in 10 years because of VR.

According to HN/Reddit/Slashdot we'd have jetpacks, space hotels, 500 year lifespans, cancer cures, and robot servants by now. I'd be very careful with the old "just wait 10 years guys, then you'll see my questionable premise was actually right" trope. Ironically, its an antique.
I'm very interested but will wait until the reviews are out and to see what their long term business model is. Video game consoles don't really make that much money but rather the software does so I want to know what their plans are.
This doesn't seem surprising. The market for smartphones is starting to get saturated and we should expect the growth of demand to slow as we start to crest the top of the S curve. It's pretty clear that Apple is still going to sell a ton of iPhone 7s, probably at a new record rate, but the level of growth just won't be the same.
Truth prevails; it is not mass surveillance but mass data manipulation we must be concerned about now.
Interesting conversation, I appreciate it.

While it is always possible to use any activity for social engineering or shaming (feeling like a school kid) I don't really see that as a good description of the stand ups effect. It is a "deadline" that is artificially imposed, on a particular task.

In my experience good developers have a wide variety of things they could be working on at any given time, and those things have different weights and different "fun" factors. Without some sort of time limit it is possible to get lots and lots and lots of stuff done without the rest of the team being able to move forward. So once you've agreed on the tasks that need to get done, having a deadline to finish them helps prioritize and focus the activity.

My experience is that bad management is completely orthogonal to process. Any process can be abused by a poor manager in ways that are detrimental to the team, and a good manager can keep a team motivated and productive even with a bad process.

So I don't think stand ups are about "managing" teams, they are a good tool to focus you on what, of the many choices you have, you should be working on right now. Oddly enough, the more senior you get as a developer, the harder it is to get that level of clarity.
I have in-ear Etymotics - they do an effective job of blocking most noise at a decent price point. But the combination of noises and movements and people banging laptops on the omnidesks and ... mean they're at best a limited stopgap.
> the 3D / recreating reality aspects of VR are somewhat limiting here. 2D games (some of my favorite recent indies) are out of the question in VR

Well there are plenty of great 3D indie games as well, so it's a moot point.

> Console makers have learned how important it is to either keep console costs down or subsidize in order to reach the largest user base

That happened generations ago. With the growth of the internet, now they're inefficient gatekeepers compared to the app stores, notably Steam. It's much easier and cheaper for developers of all sizes to make a release on an App Store. How this translates to gamers is that they get a lot more variety of quality content that risk averse giant publishers would never approve for release, let alone development.

> Most titles aren't going to work with the Oculus out of the box. Even for a standard FPS you can't just check box and enable VR

Yes, but this is a PC release with an audience that's accustomed to tinkering (mods, custom desktops, ...)

> Think about 3D movies and the difference between seeing something like Avatar that was created with 3D in mind and some of the terrible 3D addition cash grabs that have come out. A lot of those poor post 3D additions have turned people off to 3D movies altogether.

When consoles like the NES, Genesis, PS One, Xbox, and the Wii were first released, you can say the same thing about plenty of 3rd party titles. That didn't turn off consumers from video games altogether.
Good catch! If anyone is wondering, the map shows 87 countries.
They have 70m existing customers. That country count is including the countries it has been in for years.
Not a single African country is listed. If was to be available worldwide the least that could be done is at least one country could be added from the entire continent.
This is a new definition of the term "around the world "
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Largely mobile phones are feature complete. There's very little that can be added that makes it worth upgrading at this point. Unless there's some game changing new feature, expect people to upgrade less as they are completely satisfied with their phones and will keep it until it breaks.
That's clearly not been updated. Hastings explicitly mentioned Azerbaijan and Vietnam in the keynote, and there's clearly nowhere near the 130 countries they've just added.
Yes I'd go along with this. You're going to have a plug & play experience more so with the RTL... I guess my interest at the time was transatlantic weak digital signals on HF ham bands. With the RTL-SDR you'll be able to "see" all your favorite radio stations, listen to or track airplanes, and all kinds o things. With an upconverter (~$40) you'll get into HF a bit as well.
Not really. Even if you could expect everyone to maintain their own servers (because a phone is not a device suitable for the task) - and remember, we're talking about the general population, not just techies - connecting like this would still be inefficient, compared to a bunch of central CDNs mirroring the data. Also, I can imagine it would be a logistics hell, unless you're willing to add more layers of indirection (e.g. trackers, the torrent kind).
If you're on mac, I'd give ulysses a try – it's pay to play — but well executed.
Their obituaries have been posted and celebrated so many times that I feel we're all secretly enjoying IE, with some sort of guilty pleasure.
Yes, and that's why western (or at least American) civilization is likely doomed to being eclipsed by the Chinese before too long. Irrationality like that just isn't compatible with being a leading, technological society.
Same here; I guess it really depends on who your target market is. So far, all the ES6 I've written works just fine in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Edge. The only browser that breaks everything is Internet Explorer, but it seems like general consensus these days is that IE is only used in enterprise applications where you're locked into it.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10852261.
The list of possible outcomes changes, but the expected outcome does not.

2x winnnings * 50% chance of winning * 20 games * $1 per game = expected outcome $20

2x winnings * 50% chance of winning * 1 game * $20 per game = expected outcome $20

Your fuzzy logic around "winning big" "losing big" etc doesn't change the basic math of the expected outcomes, which is simply (chance of a thing happening) * (result if it happens).
your link requires people to pay to see the chart.
This is a l10n problem. This happened to me when I was set to Spanish (Latin America) and Russian, but it's correct with English. Some xenophobe must have stripped out the commas...
The map doesn't appear to be updated yet, but it's available in every African country.
Pretty often it's also a sign that Scrum and DSMs have been imposed on the team by their managers and/or PMs. Scrum is meant to be a tool for the dev team to self-organize. When it's not a bottom up effort (coming from the dev team based on their actual needs) it devolves into a micromanagement framework.
> we will be lucky to live out our lives without a major nuclear terrorism event.

This sentiment comes to my mind quite frequently. Part of me can't believe that there hasn't been some sort of nuclear event already. Being only 25, I feel like such an event is inevitable in my life and have a really hard time convincing myself otherwise.
As a South African, I hope the demand will force ISP's to lower data prices and improve speeds.
Yes, that map is definitely inaccurate. It doesn't include the UAE, where I am and now has Netflix.

From the announcement, it sounds like basically the whole map should now be red with a few exceptions.
60 old countries, 130 new countries, total 190 countries.

The footer says 70M subscribers across 190 countries, and was probably updated today. In their last press release in November, that line said "Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 69 million members in over 60 countries..."
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Except a high quality graphics card will last for years, and has lots of games that will benefit from it.
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I was curious to understand what exactly software managers were calling by "kanban" now that the name is fashionable.

Well, I was not disappointed. The articles talks about everything, except anything marginally related to the meaning of "kanban" in manufacturing.
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That was a blunder. Netflix is now in 190 out of the 196 countries in the world.
The entire field of "alternative medicine" is just like this: scientific-sounding, rationalized as scientific, but in reality not at all.
It doesn't include India.
Edit: For Indians http://mashable.com/2016/01/06/netflix-ces-keynote/?utm_cid=...
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The list below the map shows 83, weird.
The exemption exists purely from the lobby efforts of the NFL and MLB. The original bill contained no such exemption. The loop hole was added in committee.
I'm almost with you on this one. I would equate it more to the concept of religion, then the concept of God. There are a number of ways to easily prove the Earth is not flat, but no real distinct way to prove a god does not exist.

The main difference is that the Flat-Earthers are a very small group, whereas those who believe in God is extremely large. The small group is seen as ridiculous, but since the larger group is popular belief, is not seen as absurd.

It is actually more absurd to me that a huge number of people still follow religions, than the fact that a super subset of people believe the Earth is flat.
> My second interpretation: I lingered on his chosen word "sociomediapath". Since it's a riff on "sociopath", I think what he's saying here is that he's going to give the impression that he's a social media hound but behind the scenes, he's doesn't care.

Thanks for posting that! My interpretation was an admission of social media addiction, and an attempt at recovery.

Sociomediapath is a bit different though. Instead of disconnecting completely from social media he's decided to disconnect emotionally. By acting like a sociopath on social media he can ignore what people post and stop it from consuming his time and his life.
Of course. But again, it's still not everyone. For example I own a house but not a garage, so I can't get one.
To everyone freaking out about the map not showing all the countries, it doesn't appear to be updated.

If you read the press release it is available in every country in the world except Syria, Crimea, North Korea and China.
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I came across this due to a search-engine suggestion when searching for a certain xkcd comic [1]. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6822005

[1] http://www.xkcd.com/225/
I don't think you have your economic mental model quite right - costs don't increase like that unless the cost of production increases to match, which only really happens with goods manufactured domestically where labor accounts for most of the cost. Since we have a global trade system, it is possible to have a very skewed distribution and have even the poorest be quite comfortably well off, if the country is very rich. As the third world gets wealthier, though, that might cause rising goods prices, as they demand higher wages. But that's not related to the distribution of wealth within one country.

And you don't really need your own monetary capital to have economic mobility - for the poor, time and expertise is the capital. Good public education increases that expertise, and is one of the best ways to provide economic mobility. Also, if more money is necessary than one can save up, there are always small business loans from banks.
Also, people flock to the "new hotness" because it is what is supported. If you try to find a small Android phone today you're going to be stuck on some ancient version of the OS with no upgrade or security fix options and probably iffy support for newer technologies like LTE.

It's hard to keep a smartphone for more than a couple of years because the industry moves on and drops you like a hot potato.
Oh yeah, they're kicking ass on every front of this sub-field. Then, Leroy et al are doing that for compilers and language analysis at INRIA as well. Then Astree is leading it for static analysis of C.

France, esp INRIA, seems to be in the lead on verified software with a real-world focus. It will be great when more elsewhere follow suit.
> Those free units would translate into a sizeable discount for their paying retail customers

I doubt it. Initial runs are always more expensive because you're paying for the initial tooling and investment, not necessarily because of the actual raw price of the unit. Depending on minimum size commitments and the like with the manufacturers, the 7k "free" units may even be netting a discount on the remaining unit costs.
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What is missing in a lot of these comments is acknowledging that Netflix may become the largest global "television" network in the world as adoption increases. They have original content lined up and control those rights, and they will continue to expand their reach with that content. Whether they add the "same" streaming content as they have purchased from other providers in the US is not the point here - the big impact is the expansion of their original content to such a massive global audience. Interesting to see this finally come to fruition now that they have enough content to justify a subscription on its own.

It will also be interesting to see how other content providers (Amazon, but also CNN, HBO, and more conventional TV Providers) follow suit in the pursuit of eyeballs and expanding global markets.

Netflix is based on subscription, but it would be interesting to know if there is a company or network of companies equipped to sell digital advertising localized, at global scale to support a "free" model often seen on US network applications.
Bootstrappers (when they are small) and side projects can ignore the smaller percentages because they are still validating their concepts. For side projects this goes even more because they are usually not commercial in nature.

Why would it have to be applicable to the 'absolute majority of HN startups/bootstraps/side projects' to be useful information?
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I figured I'd give this a try. I'm currently a casual player but my background in analytics-based marketing wants me to take a more systemic approach to DFS and perhaps pursue it more seriously. I'm of the opinion that there's still some low hanging fruit in the industry. I'm looking for someone a little more mathematically inclined who lives near to me in the Boston area; if you're really motivated, I assume we can also make this work from other locations.

Anyway, I'm willing to bankroll this. I think it could be fun and educational. Perhaps we could make some money along the way as well. Let me know if you're interested and mention just a little of your background that would make you a good partner.
I was surprised to discover that Oculus have dropped support for Linux and OSX, at least for the time being. I'm sure you can still run the headsets, but it seems like a somewhat risky purchase as long as there is no official support.

I'd love to hear about other Linux users' experience with a consumer unit though. I'm really excited about VR and would love to pick up a headset at some point soon.

I hope Oculus start to focus on Linux support again soon!