skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having spent the last 8 years of my life building a streaming film company that has from day one streamed globally and dealt with this patchwork of rights issue, I can tell you one reason:

Other than China and India, no other market is as big or insular as the US. In Europe people travel across borders and speak multiple languages all the time, and yet it's like pulling teeth to put together multiple regional subtitle rights for use in a country where it is not the native language. For someone to subscribe to Netflix and be able to use it in multiple countries with the subtitles of their choice consistently available is a huge benefit to a huge number of affluent users. This is something which the existing film industry is incapable of doing structurally, and therefore is a huge advantage that can only be replicated by the biggest producers (ie. major studios). And those big companies do not have product development and UX in their DNA, so they will struggle to compete with Netflix in this regard (to date only HBO shows promise). But meanwhile the Netflix experience will be so much better that they will undermine the foundations of industry.

I'm reminded of how in 2007 no corporate IT department would allow employees to use iPhones, and even though Apple never explicitly addressed the enterprise market, and Microsoft bent over backwards to give corporate buyers what they wanted, at the end of the day companies which didn't allow their employees to use their iPhones for work suffered a competitive disadvantage.
Sounds like the same sort of flawed conclusion that we Americans can be all too guilty of when thinking of other countries (like, that all French people are rude, all middle easterners hate Americans, etc). Even with everything you say above, car accidents are extremely rare, being harassed by police is extremely rare, etc. None of that stuff is anywhere close to "all too likely".
Dear Twitter,

People hate change. They really do. So if you're going to make a change, do it swiftly. Just yank that bandaid off. They'll get over it when the stinging stops.

Yours,

Everyone not whining about this.
There are much, MUCH better ways of a group controlling a decryption process than the block chain.
They are paying their taxes, it's just that "their taxes" aren't primarily based on income. The article specifically says this.

Nothing stops you from doing it. Just reduce your income and your income taxes will drop. To make up the difference, you don't need money; you need the services that money was previously paying for.

Instead of needing income to buy a car, start a business that owns the car and takes a tax deduction for it, but allows you to use the car at no charge (reminds me of the contractor I knew who had his carpentry business buy a Corvette as his "work vehicle"). Ditto for your house, etc: a friend of mine bought a 3-family house, rented out all the rooms on the second & third floors and lived on the first floor herself while tenants paid the mortgage and she got to take any expenses as deductions.

Now, you might find out that in the end it's not worth it to you to do that, but there's nothing illegal about it, it's just business.
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At that point perhaps our society will have to recognize that we've reached the point where we simply don't need the entire population working. There's nothing inherently wrong with a fraction of the population working to support the rest of it, assuming everyone's on board. It might not be a easy change, but I imagine something like that will happen eventually.
Here's the data set as a spreadsheet, which I think is more helpful (I will feel dumb if they made it available as a spreadsheet themselves):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/100kWwv7vLl0ZAbtMn7lY...

Oklahoma is pretty bad.

California is in the top 15 for both fatal shootings weighted by population and for fatal shootings of people not attacking with a deadly weapon.

Illinois, where I live, is all the way down at #44 for fatal shootings, which is surprising to me.
> Fool me once WSJ...

YoY INCREASE does not mean Apple hit their expected target goal. Apple expected to sell MORE phones then it did. It still sold more then the year before but they sold less then expected.
They're fast until you start trying to use them to transmit data at a few tens of megabits/s.

Laser diodes, on the other hand, are fast
I've ran demos on the DK2 where only 1 person out of 200 said they got dizzy. They certainly didn't puke anywhere. This was code running in a web browser. I would say, from the hardware standpoint, the issue is solved. It's up to developers to write software.
Nope, PayPal does not accept them neither.
Having more text means more text to mine which would be something of a paid service. I can imagine a couple of ways, but imagine a real time feed of all long text "posts" which mention your brand, product, company.
> How is this proprietary? The license says that you can do anything you want to do with it.

Exceptions limiting freedom of its usage make it non FOSS.
I'll grant you Elon and Hawking, especially because the former is a "new guy", but otherwise intelligent people were talking about those issues for decades, and until very, very recently most people have either never heard of the issue, or thought those talking about it are loonies. Mass media is late to the party.
Him being on the stand was one of the most suspenseful parts of the show for me, since I was wondering if the prosecutor was going to make him start doing a false confession again.
Any headline with 'dog' in it grabs my attention. In this case, I couldn't agree more -- had 1 or more dogs at TeachStreet for many years, and I know it kept things more casual and low(er) stress. As one of the key dog-owners, though, I do admit that the need to take them out a few times per day can turn into a bit of a distraction, especially if you finally get in the zone and then have to break it up -- I know everyone says that it's good to walk/relax, but I'm not sure they're the ones who are supposed to be running the show. Anyway, love the article.
Me as well, I bought a used 2014 Moto X because it was the nicest phone available under 5 inches.
Most of what I watch these days on Netflix are their original programs, which I'm pretty sure is completely in line with their master plan.
I have a kid. Best thing I ever did with my life. He's 3.
I'm failing at finding TV shows outside China for my parents.

I tried lot of IPTV boxes (tvpad, xiaomi box ...) but they all end up super tricky to use outside China.

Hope Netflix will figure out something great to provide Chinese content! If anyone here has any recommendation :)
How do you think new words came about?
Is it me or we already have other of ways to blow satellites ? Such as : a rocket that just happens to go in the wrong direction, a missile, another satellite that goes in the wrong direction...
WWII Reenactment with Remote-Controlled Tanks
Bing is down
Twitter wants to be Tumblr; They want to be an amalgamation of people's content, including photos, surveys, tweets, posts, and anything else people can come up with.

I would definitely use the service more if longer text posts were allowed, but make sure you set them up as separate "entry" types. Tweets should be in large font, while text should be smaller, and maybe a different background color (and possibly filterable).
The insurance industry is fairly heavily regulated (in the US). They can only charge different rates based on specific factors. This means that your entirely imaginary (and therefore entirely unconvincing) scenario will remain entirely imaginary (and unconvincing).

Personally, I would prefer if car insurers could price discriminate more based on data. I think this would lower rates for me personally, both in the short term because I try to cultivate safe driving habits, and in the long term because it would create an incentive for everybody to try to drive more safely.
On the other hand look where airplanes are now. It turns out that even though it's theoretically possible to have supersonic human/cargo transport we gave up on it because it turned out not be economical.

Hell we were supposed to have suborbital launches, anywhere in the world 20 minutes.
Live data visualisation with Tableau and MongoDB
Most of the advertising industry, and resources they draw from other industries, e.g. print (think printing leaflets).
ever searched an image for something?
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Is 2016 the Year for Customer-Focused IT?
Did you even cared to visit the story link?
I've basically given up on Netflix for movies I want to watch and will rent one-offs from Amazon (digital) for older movies, or Redbox (physical) for current releases. The kids are our biggest users, though. It was a pleasant surprise for Netflix to pickup the HtTYD TV series and produce a new "season."
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And yet they STILL don't have a way to filter to show only Netflix-only content...
You're very certain for someone who certainly have not checked first.

In 2010, Norway spent on average $11,800 per year per refugee or asylum seeker in government operated centres. This amount covered lodging, health checks, nursery, and co-pay on dental and medical services. I don't know how much of that is the lodging, but it's nowhere near the whole amount.

The prices stated in the article adds up to $11,315 to $27,375 for just the lodging.

That doesn't necessarily mean that it is bad as a way to deal with rapid increases in the required capacity.
If you think that a knife threat should never call for a firearm response then I recommend this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xpcrDzy344
If that is the decision they face, that means customers did not want the thing that was sacrificed, and leaving it out is an improvement.

The danger most people worry about is when the customers are getting a better experience at the expense of individuals who don't have any choice in the matter, like in the prison scenario. But negative externalities are hardly specific to this situation.
Did you really have to add a second link which has no value except to imply all men are assholes or sexual predators.
works for me in Poland:

My setup: US iTunes account using AppleTV, IP from Poland
Hence, IanDrake's point 2) in the comment upthread.
I'll have to check those out; I'm thinking of switching carriers soon and Sony phones don't seem to be available for Sprint (my current carrier) [edit] though at 5.2" it's still a bit on the large size.
ESPN Boxscores -- or FanDuel/DraftKings themselves -- have this data available.

Or there are projects like https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb
Having read this article, I would be very interested to hear what the author (or anyone else who has the same views) thinks of Amazon. To me, Amazon seems to be an example of a company that does NOT have a focus (or has been widening it's focus from books, to online selling, to pretty much anything) but which has not been suffering for it. Why not? What are they doing right?
I wish I had picked that for my masters dissertation - ML + DSP seems like a really interesting area!
Who determines whether mental illness is present and how?
truth is, except for this single tweet, i just skip images-as-text. they're the minority.
with the new twitter, making this a real thing, i suspect the amount of large messages will be enough that...i will skip twitter?
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This tool looks great and overdue. Thanks for building it and documenting it well enough to create beginners with it.

I saved articles by hand for a lot of years that would disappear 5-10 years later, until I found diigo. Was looking for the next tool that I could feed thing into and hope it works for me!
> a stronger sense of community

I would say that Cities have 100 times more community. I grew up in the Burbs and my friends live there now. I ask them who their neighbors are and they all say I don't know and I don't care.
> These hackers acquired email addresses and passwords for some registered users of the active RateMyProfessors.com website (“Site”). We have not seen indications that the compromised information has been used without authorization or that ratings submitted to the Site were implicated in the incident.

So passwords that likely match most of the email account passwords were stored in plaintext then...?
You're most likely in the minority. Spotify and Hulu can barely get people to pay ~$10-12/month.

Lots of content = its all worth a whole lot less to people.
perhaps but if that ecosystem is just like everyone else's, what's the point of staying?
MAKE THIS VIDEO VIRAL
While the police in the US are clearly more violent than those in the UK, it's also the case that there is more crime in the US, more variance in the population, and way, way, way more gun availability. So we may not have very much to learn from your simple comparison.
There's a world of difference between a general-purpose computer and a specialized device like the Rift. The computer has its own independent utility and stands on its own merit, the Rift is an entirely optional upgrade that nobody has to purchase. To make a car analogy, most people are going to buy a car to get to work. But you should still evaluate all the optional extras on their own merits, unless you're just too rich to care. The proper way to evaluate a lift kit is not "well it's twice what it was advertised as, but that's still only 25% over the base cost of the vehicle".

Regarding the other things - the fact that nice components exist is entirely irrelevant to the failures of expectation management here. If NVIDIA spent 2 years marketing the Titan X as the best GPU to have at the $1k price point, and then on launch day it's suddenly $2k - their customers would very justifiably be pissed and it would certainly affect sales.

It's neither here nor there, but you can also cut build costs quite a bit further than they did in that article. You can bring it down to about $800 for the same set of core components. Buy the CPU at MicroCenter, use the stock CPU fan instead of a cooler, buy a refurb 970 from EVGA, look for a 750W Gold PSU around the $50 mark, buy a cheaper mobo, buy cheaper memory. You can even go cheaper if you make some minor compromises - use a 2500k and overclock, get a refurb 780 Ti from EVGA B-stock (same performance as a 970), and you can also drop the HDD until you really need more space. That lets you squeeze at least another $200 out of it pretty easily without affecting performance, which would get you down to around $600.
A lot of those people have no intention to harm anyone but themselves. They're suicidal. It's weird that emergency medical treatment for suicidal people is "call the police", but that's what their relatives do. The police turn up, see the weapon, hear "mental illness" and wrongly assume mentally ill people are violent, and shoot them.
The russians, which are not that different from URSS, if you ask me, have nuclear missiles. They haven't used them in Syria, or any other conflict that I'm aware of. They are stupid enough to have detonated the worlds largest nuclear weapon, I'll give them that (Tsar bomb).

But not on other humans. On a deserted island.
We like to vilify the russians, sure we do - but when you look at the facts as they are, a very different picture comes to your eyes. Don't let those manipulative news stories fool you.
> The new generation of Intel/Nvidia is right around the corner.

To be accurate, the next Intel process shrink (Cannonlake@10nm) is delayed to 2H 2017. Kaby Lake@14nm fills in for 2016, and mostly features chipset updates (e.g. native USB 3.1 and more PCIE lanes). Likely no socks to be blown off there.

Nvidia with Pascal will be out ~2H 2016, and is probably worth waiting for. AMD will be out with Arctic Islands as well. Both are process shrinks from 28nm.

If you're looking at buying the next generation, it'll be either existing Intel + new GPU 2H 2016, or Cannonlake w/ likely 2016 GPU in 2017.

Given that CPU isn't a bottleneck in existing graphics applications, 2H 2016 is as good of a time to buy as any. Which also happens to mean missing the hype train and letting real-world reviews of HMDs come in before choosing.
Reducing geoblocking is a step forward. Another step should be dropping it altogether, and DRM too.

So far DRM-free video didn't manage to break through on big scale.
I wonder if you would feel that way if one of your loved ones was serving as an officer of the peace - would you want them dealing with dangerous situations on a daily basis people with no regard for "covering their own ass"? Would you feel that way if there were an armed intruder in your home and one of those officers had to respond to protect you? Would you want them to intervene to protect you or your family or sit in your driveway deliberating about whether they should "cover their own ass" or yours?

We don't need to excuse unwarranted police violence as a society, but it's equally unfair to outsource dealing with violent and dangerous situations to others and then glibly remove any means they have to deal with those situations without getting killed themselves.
> Where is our war on cars?

We do have a war on car fatalities. It's been remarkably successful:

http://www.donerdesigns.org/_/rsrc/1376697199749/other-cause...
That was my immediate reaction. No one who genuinely cares about privacy / anonymity will use this.
In arguments over the relative safeness of the world it is often pointed out that relatively few people have died recently in terrorist attacks, but as N. N. Taleb points out, the distribution of deaths by terrorist attacks is a fat tailed one: the current average does not preclude much higher future numbers.
Yup, that makes it both open source incompatible and free software incompatible. My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out.
48, freelance.

Is that what all us 45+ programmers become?
There is always risk, a series of unfortunate events can drain a casino, the casino tries to mitigate these risks through the rules/odds.
I agree. The Anti-Russia rhetoric is silly.
I like the article, but not your title. It implies that this trend of I/O becoming highly performant has occurred recently, when in fact has been observed and studied for quite some time [0, 1]. Even before SSDs Gigabit ethernet was saturating CPUs needing to do more than DMA a packet, and I'm sure this trend continued for some time. The original title seems more accurate: "Implications of the Datacenter's Shifting Center", and references the existing trends in an insightful article.

[0] http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/newsrel/supercomputer/11-09...

[1] http://nvsl.ucsd.edu/index.php?path=pubs
exactly :/
and its the kind of move you dont come back onto, argue upon for the next 5 to 10 years which either result in:

- twitter becomes another FB/tumblr/medium/whatever. shareholders happy, money flows better, old twitter users gone.

- twitter slowly dies while arguing it was a good choice and writing 10k letters of excuses

Neither result interests me.
The 444 Hungarian news portal reports it working in Hungary.
>assuming everyone's on board

I'm on board with surfing all day while you maintain the robots to make my food. Is that cool with you?
Beautiful girl with a good voice
Thoughts on integrating it with Archive.org?
I don't think that and don't appreciate the framing you're trying to impose on me. Could you perhaps word comments like this more carefully?

What I think is that people armed with firearms give the police much less reaction time, while people armed with knives can, if they're not on a vector that puts them in contact with other officers or civilians, be pacified more gradually.
Doesn't sound like a very popular card
It'd be interesting to compare what the UK folks were armed with, including those not shot. My guess is that US cops are far more likely to face people carrying firearms of their own.

I figure if we're talking about gun laws, though, the article is probably political in nature, so I flagged it.
In the past week he has tweeted about this a few times, I would start there!
Totally agree on the more casual and low(er) stress. I've found that working in an office with a lot of dogs really keeps things mellow...I've, literally, never seen anybody lose there cool and I attribute that to the dogs. It's just hard to get wound up and bend out of shape about something with these amazing, adorable creatures around!
I don't approach Netflix as "I want to see this movie so I go here," so much as "I want to watch something, so I'll pick from here." I'm never lacking a choice to watch, even with fairly specific criteria in mind.

Yeah. My main beef with Netflix is that I'd like to just sort content based on the 5-star rating. I'll rarely want to watch something that is less than a 2.0. And I'll consider just about anything that is 4.5 and above.
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Article is misleading and not well researched. These two comments at bottom of article reveals:

First Foxconn subsidy news is wrong:

The $12 million in payments referred to in this article were actually issued for the 2014 calendar year.

http://newpaper.dahe.cn/hnsb/html/2016-01/06/content_1352344...

http://hn.ifeng.com/a/20160106/4169476_0.shtml

And then this comment says news websites has formed this as habit at the start of the year:

Doesn't this happen every year?
Headlines from March 2015:
"Apple's iPhone Juggernaut Slowing Down Across The Globe"

(http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2015/03/16/apples-iph...
He shouldn't have to declare intent for a question as harmless as that.

Would you behave the same way if he asked German or Norwegian?

This is the verbal version of seeing police permanently gear up with military grade weapons after a terrorist attack.

Surely you understand the irony of it?
So you agree that the general lack of prosecutions for vehicle caused fatalities is a failure of justice?

The only difference between murder and suicide is if the person who dies chose to die.
Intel will be pushing them hard starting with Skylake-EP, so some people are getting themselves ready.
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I wonder how they found something so small and far out. It's almost like something wanted us to discover it ;)

"Their main immediate abode is a still undiscovered and almost lightless planet at the very edge of our solar system—beyond Neptune, and the ninth in distance from the sun. It is, as we have inferred, the object mystically hinted at as “Yuggoth” in certain ancient and forbidden writings; and it will soon be the scene of a strange focussing of thought upon our world in an effort to facilitate mental rapport. "
By ignoring perfectly good legitimate alternatives and instead inventing words in an effort to make the speaker sound smarter than the listener, of course.
Zynga f's up SSL, makes their ads turn “untrustworthy”
A tiny observation that's ought to make you smile just a little bit: Zynga has just let their SSL Cert for the domain that is serving all the ads in their mobile & HTML5 games expire, leading to all of their players getting "This website is insecure" messages when trying to play one of their games (as the ads are simple embeds coming directly from that domain).
Way to kill of your business even more, Zynga.

Affect server: https://r.ads.zynga.com/
More at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/books/new-york-public-libr... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10850011.
must run their own hardware with their own databases and so on

I have hardware in my pocket that is hundreds of times more powerful than the first web servers I every worked on. There is no technological reason why that same hardware couldn't be used. I'd love to have a PAN based around my phone (which is way more local to me that much of the "hardward with their own databases" that I've ever worked on. Federation to Facebook/Google/Instagram/whatever the next big thing is would be amazing. And the reason it hasn't happened even though powerful hardware is everywhere isn't due to lack of technology.