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> I wonder if Netflix prices their plans at approximately the same price worldwide to prevent arbitrage since people living in expensive countries could subscribe in cheap countries. (Netflix allows you to use your subscription worldwide when you're traveling -- so people could claim to be traveling.)

Is the Netflix catalog the same worldwide? I was under the impression it varied based on the country your subscription was based in, due to licensing (different companies own the distribution rights for the same content in different countries).

If that's true, the problem you describe may not exist. An American trying to save money by subscribing to an Indian plan priced cheaper for the local market may just get Indian content, which may not be at all want he wants.
"Do Google's incredible perks make employees more productive or just way, way, happier?"
Thanks for letting us know
Makes sense to me.

And even better, if you can exploit something at the destination to build your stuff. As in Carl Sagan's Contact and Peter Watts' Echopraxia.
Do you use Discord? There’s an issue at least a year old for me wherein if I have been using discord for a while, quitting discord kills my mouse until I unplug/plug my mouse back in and reopen Discord. No other electron apps do this.
Hah. I'm genuinely surprised this isn't more of a thing.
Can't speak for the parent comment. However I can relate. Today I installed Dropbox for my grandfather and their default entry-level free account comes with 2GB, but as soon as you create your account and install the software, they offer to give you 25GB of free space if you add 1 file to your account and you install Dropbox on your mobile.

Not sure if that helps them artificially boost their numbers (by claiming more installed devices), or if they try to get your contacts to get more accounts.
One of numerous papers by networking pioneer Paul Baran, at RAND.

A warning that unintended but disastrous effects on society have resulted from improved and computerized recordkeeping, owing to (1) the habit of limiting the number of variables considered to those easily quantified, (2) the tendency to use records and scores instead of judgment, and (3) the use of information to maximize private profit without regard to the damage inflicted by everybody doing this at once. Using computers, loan and insurance companies screen out the highest-risk groups. Fire or burglary insurance cannot be obtained in areas where business development is most needed. Many people are rendered uninsurable and/or unemployable on the basis of health, education, or past failures or infractions that former generations would have successfully concealed. What future have the 40 percent of all urban youth (90 percent Negro) who will have some brush with the law, when an arrest record bars them forever? Those who understand technology have an obligation to lift their eyes from minimizing subsystem costs and at least be an early warning system for the rest of society.
Thanks, and that's a good point. I haven't already decided these things are just trends - I just tried to pick some examples of 'trends' that often spark discussion here to give some context.
I think it is the case unless a product is free / open source ?
For me it's dubbed anime, it probably takes me 1-2 weeks to make it through an entire episode.

While I work I need some noise, something, nearly anything. The complete lack of silence bothers me. I usually listen to OCRemix at work (via rainwave.cc) or 90's/00's music from when I was younger (nostalgia).

At home I will put on something like Friends (Netflix), Giant Bomb videos (giantbomb.com), or classic game play throughs (NES, SNES, Genesis) on YouTube (or Giant Bomb). For example, LaserTime did Aladdin SNES vs Aladdin Genesis side by side video and they played through NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpson's games on NES/SNES. Giant Bomb has a series called Vinnyvania where Vinny (one of the Giant Bomb employees) plays through all the Castlevania games and another where they play through all the fighting games and rank them. I'm not into the new games.
Maybe they ate Twinkies left over from a previous civilization?
Well, I’ve got the opposite reaction with Amazon: I can’t watch even some of their own shows when they get released in US. For example The Man in the High Castle’s second season whas unavailable here for quite a while after the release. You can’t blame the content producers here.
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Right, "on" here means "about". English can be annoying.
>Another irritation when trying to learn a foreign language is that foreign subtitles and the foreign audio often don't match.

This is industry standard, not specific to Netflix:
- subs are generally direct translations of the script/transcript
- dubs are often done by mouth-movement matching to make it look right

I would agree that the language tools on Netflix are unnecessarily bad.
There are occasional driver issues. However, there’s not much you can do about them either.
1) They do, 2) they have more worker-friendly laws
Thanks for the response. I didn't mean to imply that the trends I listed as examples weren't worth considering. I just get concerned when companies adopt trends 'because everyone else is doing it so it must be the right choice.'
The fact that they paid $50 for it seems to negate the claim that they wouldn’t pay $50 for it.
from the article (medium, not BBC)

"The pair worked tirelessly for three months in a cramped office in Cambridge, waking up everyday at noon and working till dawn the next day. “I think we started like most of these tech companies begin. Just a couple of guys in their boxers coding in a dark room,” Houston says. “We just kept our heads down and built.”"
I think you're thinking of prediction at a way higher-level than this article is (although I admit I only skimmed it).

What I got from the article I felt was fairly obvious - it's more like 'to catch a falling object your brain predicts where it will be by the time your hand moves into position'. This seems pretty elementary to being able to function at all - things like predicting how we will need to shift our centre of gravity to walk on uneven terrain, etc. It seems entirely reasonable that we are constantly making these 'micro-predictions' on a subconscious level. This is also necessary to be able to navigate a 3D environment based on our vision, which is based on a pair of overlapping 2-dimensional projections.

So what you're talking about doesn't make much sense to me at this level. Reasoning about future events is completely different to the subconscious mental models of our vision system or language processing. At the level the article talks about, mostly the worst you can be taken advantage of is things like being tricked by an optical illusion.
Loose prequel to my favourite book of all time A Fire Upon the Deep. Vinge is a brilliant author with a background in maths and computing and it shows in his writing.
This is so funny. It’s almost like a kanban board in vim. What’s your strategy for saving the files?
In Canada our federal government also monitors wastewater for drug use and claims it's a practice from Europe. Though it doesn't carry a "war on drugs" tone.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/13-605-x/2018001/article...
Yeah, I think this is the major difference. Being from Europe I don't really know anything about American football or baseball beyond the basics, but watching a game it's pretty transparent whenever someone does something good. I don't need to know batting averages, the difficulty of plays, or why a play was exceptional to know when a player or team scored points.

Games like MOBAs are opaque by comparison. I can see roughly what's going on but I couldn't tell you if a team is winning or losing to save my life. In football if the guy holding the ball is out in front of the defending team and running to the end zone I can guess he's going to score a TD, but a team can look like they're getting whooped in DotA but really they're tricking the opponents and someone is making a sneaky play in a different corner of the map or someone has an ability or gear that means the situation is the reverse of what it appears, etc.

All of that is really only apparent to someone very familiar with the game.
Thanks - points taken. By the way, I didn't mean to imply that I disagree in general with those items I listed, those were just some examples that I had been thinking about recently.
Do you know this from experience? Or are you just guessing?
There’s nothing really stopping you from revoking a JWT individually - simply keep the `jti` (or any arbitrary claim) in memcached/redis/etc and check it. Obviously it’s no longer stateless and gives up some of the benefits of a JWT, but it’s a solution if revocation is a business requirement.

Like everything, there’s no silver bullet (JWT vs random string token) - business requirements dictate which makes sense.
The title has a typo: ibuFprofen
Do you mean a did file for yourself or a collective file for the machine?
This is complete nonsense, at least in my org. Interns are given projects that are as far from production code as possible. I'm sure there are managers out there who have done this but it does not extrapolate to the entire company and it's ridiculous to think that it's a company wide practice to make interns responsible for anything that would affect customers.
My friend was fired years ago for an AWS outage that took down Netflix. I don't know any other details, but should ask him.
Oatmeal fried with lots of butter, plus fruit and honey or maple syrup, is very tasty.
Amazon warehouse workers in Europe stage protest on Prime Day
Thanks. I am actually in a position to challenge and recommend some trends but they are often set by senior management. So what I'm really after is some advice around how to challenge the thinking. Lots of good information in this thread already.
Is there a great intro to org mode that isn’t the docs? (Never used emacs but tempted because all I’ve heard of org mode)
That isn't true, the most famous example of HN negativity is Show HN: Dropbox which has been reposted quite a few times on HN since dropbox became dropbox.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625306
Why am I still around?
I get where you’re coming from but self control is an important thing to teach children.

If your version of self control is fully disconnecting, I understand that but it doesn’t mean you should feel sorry for kids that have access to Netflix.

(Speaking as a 21 year old who spent a number of years of my childhood watching Netflix with my family)
> the people involved have a clear sense of what they do and don't know.

As someone who has, on more than one occasion, called out top-posts that were flat-out wrong, but conformed to HN's biases (I was 100% certain of this because the posts concerned either my area of expertise or my first-hand experiences) - I will disagree with you. The occasions made me wonder about the other HN posts where I'm not an expert.
Agree with all that, thanks. Focusing on what problems [X] is trying to solve and looking at alternatives is a common theme in the responses here.
Thailand's population is around 68 million. So they are saying that only about a third of Thais are L1 speakers of Thai? That seems quite strange.
Dude, if you love your friends and family, why are you referring to their attempts to stay in touch as 'drivel'? That's a really negative, condescending word.
You're correct that the Netflix catalog is different for each country. However, the shows you're offered are based on your current location as determined by your IP address, and not according to where you bought the subscription. So the American subscribing to a cheaper Indian plan, would see the US catalog when he logs in from an ISP in the US, thus he would still get the shows he wanted and save money if the Indian plan was cheaper.
How is this different than basically 95% of the stock market, including the pink sheets?
Hunting was a predominantly male activity, though. If tribal structures got more efficient at child rearing "at scale" over time, more and more labor could be invested by the rest of the tribe into making food stuffs, tools, etc. beyond the usual options necessary for survival. This would allow them, for example, to develop food that lasts longer and makes it less risky for the hunters to go out longer - a helpful trait to survive natural variability in animal supply but one that requires free resources for experimentation and production.
Thanks for the response. The credibility angle is something I hadn't closely thought about and is very important.
I can also imagine startup equity being tokenized. Where an exchange like Coinbase acts like SecondMarket (now called Nasdaq Private Market). This might be a great way for early employees and founders to get liquidity before the company IPOs. It would change the startup game completely. A lot of things to look forward to here.
Some of my favorites organized by category:

Interviews on a broad bange of topics

BBC: In Our Time

Conversations with Tyler

Hidden Forces

Econtalk

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Startups and Tech

a16z

Exponent

Finance and Economics

Bloomberg Surveillance

Bloomberg: Masters In Business

Bloomberg: Odd Lots

General Topics

ABC Big Ideas

The Reith Lectures

Current Affairs

BBC: The Briefing Room

Thinktanks

Carnegie Council Audio Podcast

World Class

Science
Leakey Foundation: Origin Stories

BBC: The Life Scientific

BBC: The Curious Case of Rutherford and Fry

ABC: All in the Mind

Bitcoin/Ethereum

Epicenter

Indie

Future thinkers
The patent mentioned by the the comment you're responding to has nothing to do with dampening sound.
Yeah, it kind of works out in the ideal world where one works alone, writing 100% of the source code.
You'd think it would eventually come up in a court case.

Granted they could use the data and then somehow make up an excuse for coming up with another reason to observe something but that too would be kinda clunky and obvious and would come up.
hadn’t heard of these emacs addons. Commenting to save this.
‘Frightening’ drug-resistant strain of typhoid spreads in Pakistan
Microsoft wasn't a growth stock for many years.
Thanks - not being lazy with the criticism is key. Also, I hadn't heard of the Blub paradox - will look that up.
Incidentally, life expectancy at 65 in multiple countries has been slowly creeping up over the past ~50 years, perhaps longer. Last I heard, nobody really had a good explanation as to why.
Life lesson: People have hated on new ideas in every community since the dawn of time. Hacker news is not special in that regard. Just learn to deal with it by finding conviction in your ideas.
Content is based on your physical location. When traveling to US you will get US content regardless of your original country.
HN isn't anywhere near as free of the usual human love of gossip, valuing social pecking order over objective facts, etc as it imagines itself to be.

But it's a little like that saying about democracy being "the worst thing ever -- except for everything else". In spite of HNs serious delusions about how objective etc it is, it still remains vastly more objective, rational etc than anything else I've found.
It's very inexpensive to create nearly exact replicas of artwork, yet people are still willing to pay a lot of money for the original.

So maybe people will be willing to pay lots of money for hand-crafted alien artwork.
Me? No. That's what the legislation does.
Thanks for the link, interesting reading!
Do you see some fundamental limit other than energy?
The thing that baffles me is the industry perception is that Amazon has subpar engineering but Amazon right now is 2nd after Apple for Marketcap, so they must be doing something right.

I love the Amazon customer service. They’ve managed to crack a difficult problem and execute enough that other Giants haven’t come close to it yet.

GCP and Azure tail AWS by quite a bit. Amazon online retail is a Google search engine level monopoly now.

So Amazon can do a lot of things wrong, but I’d have to say they get the important parts right.
It would be technically possible to remove a car engine during lunch. However, that's not so much a prank as malicious damage. You'd also have to be a very skilled mechanic, familiar with that specific car, to do it that fast.
Not all the oligarchs are anonymous. Joe Lubin [1] made billions off of co-founding Ethereum and is now personally funding a group of companies (ConsenSys umbrella) with ~1000 employees and growing. All in an effort to do massive amounts of R&D in this space. Personally, I think that is pretty cool.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lubin_(entrepreneur)
Totally agree, was just replying to the idea that HBO only has one quality offering.

But I often don't use HBO for months at a time. That's pretty rare with Netflix these days - my watch list there is a huge backlog.
Thanks, this is a common theme in the responses.
How do you set up the mirrored ZFS? Is this running some type of job that runs something like rsync on a schedule?
Also that we have actually done a decent job removing many of the old early killers, no? Anti septics have made many old death notes non existent.
I'm on holiday in Japan at the moment and have no idea what day it is. Only checking HN as I'm currently in Osaka waiting for the Shinkansen to Hiroshima. ;)
In addition to that point /static/ content on websites can be easily cached.

Want to have a forum as an optional /extra/ on an otherwise static page? Maybe OK, but please have a way of getting that forum as a different page (which is updated on some basis, maybe per post, maybe with a cooldown of maximum 1 generation every X or only during low server load, etc).
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Hitting the "show" link in the top nav and reading by date, the thing that struck me the most was not the "negative energy" but the lack of comments. A lot of people showing but apparently not so many paying attention. Some seem pretty nifty...
They do. But I'm guessing you don't scale up 1M+ servers for your Uber canary traffic tests - these are some of the scales Amazon undergoes in these events. The scale is unlike almost any other web property around.
Thanks, that's an interesting approach. I'm a fan of pragmatism... :-)
No. Amazon's culture is super big on blaming the system. I know of incidents where operators made mistakes doing stuff that directly caused really big outages - the postmortems were entirely about the (lack of) safety of the tooling involved that allowed a single person to make such a mistake, and involved examining all the tooling of entire business units to try to identify other tools that could have such an impact. No individual blaming is involved - and in fact, postmortems always refer to "the engineer" or "the operator" and never include names.
I've got small piles of them... I just liked getting them...
First, one swallow does not a summer make...

Second, I notice you joined in July 2013. Sam Altman took over in February 2014, and PG's retirement had started earlier, so I wonder how much you experienced of HN before post-PG.
Byzantine fault tolerance and zero knowledge proofs, so cool! Oh it's being done by people using it for distributed ledgers? Boooo now we hate it

I've realized I have to broaden my news intake as even this community has it's collective blind spots
Creating good content is harder than leasing it. Option 2 has it's risks, and honestly they seem higher.

Why would Disney or Comcast want Netflix to fail when it's a boon for them currently? Sure, they'll aggressively negotiate the best deals for themselves, sure they'll plan for a backup in the event Netflix would ever stop leasing their content, but why kick a cash cow in the teeth? It's bad business.

If anything, Netflix jumped the shark cutting their cheques to the providers and creating their own content.
This is complete BS. Interns are basically on a really well paid holiday and given random features that may/may not ever make it to production.
As others have commented, 'open plan' is the wrong term, it's more the flexible working arrangements that seem to be popular with management at the moment. And there are definitely some cases where this arrangement works well, but as with other trends I see companies adopting this without fully considering all angles.
I don’t read Show HN much, but I wonder how much of that hate and negativity is just plain objective criticism that it merely perceived negatively by some. On the internet, if you don’t use smileys or polite language, you sometimes seem negative even if you just make normal observations or ask logical questions. That’s just how anonymous online communication is, unfortunately.
Highly doubtful. You don't even have to trust the word of their financial auditors to get convinced. Just knowing that AMZN's growth over the last 10+ years was entirely self-funded is clear evidence they have cash laying around to reinvest into the company.
This is very cool and technically challenging. I cannot imagine how hard it was to get viral transfection in the ear like that! Seriously, props.

In almost all applications, optical stimulation theoretically (and in rodent trials) outperforms electrical stimulation. Once we solve the immunological roadblocks of optogenetics, I can imagine a huge spike in peripheral nervous system applications. Perhaps not as much in the CNS, since deep brain stimulation is a huge problem.

That being said, the immunological problem in optogenetics is the elephant in the room. I think everyone in the field knows that long-term loss-of-expression is heavily influenced by immune responses, yet are afraid to admit it. Essentially, if transfecting adults with light-gated ion channels leads to horrific immunological feedback, we could see people getting worse as their nerves are destroyed. I have seen this in my histological samples (PNS; hindlimb; rats and mice) and have quantified denervation atrophy by post-mortem weighing of muscle.

This is not a solved problem, even though a few promising solutions like drug treatments and chimeric protein engineering are being discussed. I suspect certain immunosuppressant drugs might be particularly effective. Despite the risks above, start-ups are trying to take this very promising technology to human trials. I personally find this reckless.

But I'm done with the negativity: the study in the OP is really awesome and I'm rooting for them. I dream of a day when opto is advanced enough that targeted, multi-color activation of sensory neurons is translated to people. Imagine feeling force and touch with a prosthetic because it talks directly to your nervous system... maybe one day :)
NT isn't a copy of UNIX, just because it had support for the first edition of POSIX, it goes beyond than that.

Starting by wanting to copy Minix, an educational OS that copied UNIX, getting the GNU tools on board (which goal was to copy UNIX), kernel architecture, device drivers subsystems, userland, culture, ....

My old stack of Linux Journal editions at home are pretty clear what the ongoing story was.

If NT was a copy of anything, it was VMS given Dave Cutler's contribution to its design.
How did you support yourself during all that time?
And herein lies the issue with filtering/tailoring based on what you've watched/liked before: it can never 'escape' and give you something different that you might actually really like.

I don't know how many good titles I discovered browsing random titles in video stores back in the day.
It's in the workplace. I have opportunities to both challenge and recommend new trends and so I'm just looking for advice on how to best approach challenging trends that appear to be popular to the point where you are considered a luddite if you dare to challenge them.
Performance implications of default struct equality in C#
Machine Learning for Drug Discovery
Given that I have upwards of 2,000 Amazon orders spanning ten years, not so much.
I like to think it's the slow death of the concept of retirement

Work is purpose so long as it's engaging, and people with purpose do things to keep themselves going