skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my take: There is no threat to the studios.

1 - Netflix thinks streaming is the future.

2 - dvds are covered by first sale; streams are not

3 - ergo, netflix needs a license to stream, which they didn't need for dvds

4 - they got this by a clever backdoor agreement with Starz for a paltry $25MM. This agreement ends soon.

5 - the studios are now aware of this and want a lot more money, maybe so much to make it uneconomical for netflix

6 - this is a huge and growing piece of netflix' income, yet still a small piece of the studios'. Therefore, the studios most likely have all the cards in a negotiation.

7 - the closest comps are "hundreds of millions" that cable companies pay the studios, so expect the studios to expect that type of money from netflix

8 - to the extend that cable companies are worried netflix streaming cannibalizes their offerings, they are of course communicating this to the studios

9 - the studios are well aware which parties pay them hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and which parties don't

10 - I hope netflix pulls this out.
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At lunch yesterday I held my fork in my right hand and knife in my left. I was very pleased with myself afterwards...
No, Netflix doesn't. If the studios don't sell netflix a streaming license, then Netflix has no streaming business. I am aware of no law that requires the studios to sell such a license; even if there is, I doubt that it requires the studios to sell such a license on more generous terms than it sells license to cable companies, who pay lots more than netflix.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973753 - wsj.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1965772 - cnn.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937112 - washingtonpost.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1918897 - mnn.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1918095 - metro.co.uk

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1908748 - wsj.com

No significant comments on any of them.
Visual Studio with Resharper. A bit slow but really makes C# coding a breeze.
NetBeans when coding Java, a great IDE.
You are right - it was a bad example... I need to read up more on my mindfulness :)
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How do you compare marketing automation solutions?
No, just a personal project. We were hoping to work on it at music hackday but couldn't make the last one in London.
No it can't. Browser is pretty much the only platform where you have to use a certain language.
I think the comments are becoming a little personal in this post. Thats in one way good as that shows there is a developer attachment(fanboyism :)) to both the platforms.But the fact of the matter is that both Twilio and Tropo are trying to solve the same problem along with many other web to telephone companies.Also,I think Teleku, acquired by Voxeo takes a Twilio kind of approach.

Just to summarize the facts, and in general there is a consensus here:

1.Twilio is easier to get started

2.Tropo has more features

3.Both end up costing around the same.

So I would say, as a developer, just try both the platforms or atleast read through the features and make an informed decision about which platform to go with for your customers as ultimately they are the ones we are trying to service.
Thanks. I'm quite sure, I'm in better spot than lots of people that have to struggle for survival on daily basis.

I've always dreamed about moving to Asia, probably India (or wherever they speak English, really). Living costs should be even less than here (they're quite low where I live, to be honest) and I heard there are great opportunities for tech guys there. I just wonder if I need some kind of work visa or something like that. Indian HNers, anyone? :)
Ask HN: Resources on social engineering
Social engineering is of obvious interest to startups. Whether it's to get that contact with the CEO of a potential partner, or to get through to the sales manager who can give you a discount on your hosting plan, or even just to get past a gatekeeper and turn that lead into a sale, being able to work your way through the social network at another company is extremely useful.

What are some great resources (books, blogs, movies, or others) that you've found, on or off the web, that taught you to be a better social engineer?
Emigration to avoid legal troubles usually adds to the trouble, the scapegoat thing is troublesome but usually the best way to deal with that sort of thing is to go visit a lawyer first to see how actionable it really is.
Closure is one of the most intuitive libraries I have used, ever.

I use Closure for everything, which is too big for jQuery.
Compared to its next best competitor YUI, it's a joy (eg. first really good cross-browser richtext editor).

I have not found many features, not already included in the library.

Code can be easily scaled, and is fast enough. Especially on the production system, where you, thanks to the Closure compiler, can have a compiled version (I also prefer the compiler over YUI's).

Have I told you about the excellent testing framework...

Have I told you about the excellent documentation...

Have I told you about its very readable code...

When it was released, and I had read some of its code, I knew I wanted to use this at my work as soon as possible. But exactly this Blogpost had a super high google rank for the query "Google Closure".

If you, too, run into the problem of your co-workers reading that post, just link to the HN-Comments. Worked for me. Here is the older HN-Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937175
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"★★★★★ L@@K!"

That's some recommendation there!

But seriously, this neat, I just worry this will be abused.
OK, I guess from the massive down-voting that this summary is inaccurate, or misleading, or inflammatory, or something.

That's close to no information at all. So if someone could make a better summary, or at least a teaser, please do so.
However, I've been thinking that she could learn something with my help and freelance. But I'm not sure if there's any job out there in the internets that can be taught in a short timespan.

That's a cool idea. On of the easiest that comes to mind would be chopping Photoshop files for Wordpress themes or HTML/CSS templates - it might seem somewhat daunting but if you gave her a starting point she would basically just have to cut and paste into the right parts a lot of the time. Even though there are tons of people already doing it I suspect that finding and partnering with a good designer would still be quite profitable. Depending on her English skills, another option would be getting into SEO - there's still a lot of room for growth in that market and the technical requirements can sometimes be fairly minimal. Copywriting might be an applicable related field, whether in her native language or by offering translation services from English to her native language (obviously depends on her English reading and what her native language is).

she's a financial director [I dunno what they call this position] in the biggest company in the city

A more industrious option might be to try leveraging your combined experience. There are endless opportunities for providing very basic and extremely niche enterprise apps which pay pretty nicely. She may have some ideas in this regard related to her job, either for an application that would make a common task easier or that would just compete with a complicated app. One of my favourite models is to compete with a complicated ancient piece of enterprise software by reducing the feature set and offering it for cheaper. The trick is to keep things extremely simple.
How to PowerPoint a speech (Sir Ken Robinson on Education)
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It's true that if the person who becomes president is always the one who spent the most money that the money might not have had any effect, but that's extraordinarily unlikely. It's hopefully not the only cause but it's virtually guaranteed that it's related and very likely that it's a major cause.
Not trolling, but seriously, is there really a significant number of developers out there who aren't using any form of version control?
IIRC, XP was EOL'ed several times, and to M$'s dismay, they've lengthened the support date a couple of times.
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> Of all the graduate students I met, you could more or less divide them into two classes

Agree. I almost went for it as well, though for a challenge and as a competition - publish the best paper in the best conference. Seemed like not too many people viewed it as that.
I am already in another gmail-plugin company.
It would be interesting to see a similar list compiled by Glassdoor (where e.g. Charles Schwab definitely doesn't look like a very happy place to work).
It would be helpful if you said where "here" is.
This is a fascinating historical perspective on the problem. I think the people who complain about the internet reducing attention span and memory are missing the point. Our intelligence is not reduced, just more and more distributed outside our bodies. Me + laptop + wifi is a much more intelligent and capable creature than plain old me and that gap will only widen as we develop more tools for handling information and offloading the parts of intelligence where computers outperform human brains.
>I would choose order over anarchy any day.

I suspect you don't know much about anarchy if you think it's without order. It's just (according to the literature) without inequality.

>but I wonder what that cost other people?

At this point, there is pretty much no action you could take that would have any effect on the people you wish to motivate without affecting innocent people as well. Deciding to not use a monopoly business only has negative affect on you, not the monopoly. They wont even notice.
Only if you are stupid enough to flame him back.

And, sadly, he will not flame you anymore.
Thanks for pointing out the typos, fixed em up. Also, thanks for the feedback, you certainly have spot on comments. Writing marketing/copy text, is an art form, which I have not yet perfected, but still a work in progress.
I have an io9 account (that's a Gawker site) but my email isn't showing up in a grep of the db dumps. Perhaps this is not the entire database after all? (I didn't use Facebook Connect.)

I must admit I'm a bit intrigued as to why mine's not there. Anyone else in this boat?
Try thinking back: What did you read first, a tutorial on a programming language or a tutorial on a version control system?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742516.aspx
> So far my attempts to make Linux do AD-authentication has all been failed and miserable with immense amounts of work compared to just "join domain. done." in Windows.

Have a look at likewise-open. It's pretty much that easy to join a domain and allow domain auth. Integration is where it gets interesting.
Webkit based browsers don't show the text before the @font-face font is loaded. You can achieve the same effect in Firefox and Opera by using WebFont Loader: http://24ways.org/2010/using-the-webfont-loader-to-make-brow...
There may not be experienced developers who aren't using version control, but there are new developers all the time, especially on sexy platforms like Cocoa.
Was this a Campfire hack, or did they happen to know a username/password combo and try Campfire first?
I've been reading the comments here and I think most are thinking of this the wrong way. Chrome OS is simply not going to be a viable corporate environment out of the gate. That's not even a question (the incremental updates that are automatic and can't be turned off would prevent that all by themselves).

The question is whether the computing model will be enough to entice CIOs and IT Managers. The dream of every IT manager has always been the dummy terminal it was just never viable (Though Citrix solutions and Terminal Server get much closer). If Google can prove they're serious about this they could start to make serious in-roads by the time Microsoft releases Windows 8 (around 2013 I'm guessing)
Personally, I much prefer Cufon -- http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/. It has less features, but works much better for basic typography.
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You can check which password has been crypted without posting it to a website using:

ruby -e 'puts "hackern".crypt("8h")' #=> 8h48GPxmwy.EA
He hacked etiquette.
That's not a camera, it's just a metal plate. Totally pointless.
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I'd never seen that, but wow, what a fascinating article.
You say that but the irony is Chrome OS holds the potential for IT departments to make your life even more miserable. One example...

It's still reasonably difficult to document every single thing a user does on a PC. It can be done with key logging but it's a pain and even key logging solutions can miss things. With Chrome all you need is a browser extension.

That same extension can be used to detect your phone on the USB port and deliver your CEO's full screen messages. So having everything in the browser actually provides IT departments with a level of control and monitoring they'd never have dreamed of before.
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Yep, legal issues are bad enough; however, I'm totally helpless here. Everything's connected in such a weird manner that it sounds like not even remotely possible. Let me just say that my mother's employer is genuinely interested in not letting her get into the trouble, because if he does, there's enough evidence for whole company, him included, to sink after her. However, either he's crazy, or he's an idiot, or he's got a plan to make everyone cannon fodder.

Did I say that he, the company owner, is also a relative of ours? You can imagine how twisted the whole situation is.
Great stuff! Now all we need is good sense of typography in people who are going to use it. Or this is a weapon of visual noise in wrong hands.
Seriously, yes, a lot... I setup SVN two months ago at a client, at my request.

Once you're used to something so fundamental, it's hard to imagine people won't use it as well :)
These lists are utterly meaningless. If you go to Google at lower than market rate because "It's Google!" then of course you're going to tell everyone you're so happy. If nothing else, you need to convince yourself because you could have had a lot more money in e.g. the finance industry.
The first class wanted the PhD as a means to an end, such as doing research, or getting a professorship. The second class had more abstract and less well-defined goals. Sometimes that meant generally "doing good for the world", or "seemed like the right thing to do", or "the working world sucks, this is the lesser of two evils".

I agree with your subdivision, but I'd add another class: people who want to understand/solve/think-about some hard problem they find genuinly interesting and who don't particularly care about career as an academic, or the good of the world or anything much else, they just want to think about this topic because they enjoy it and grad school gives them a relatively stable environment where they can do it.
I always find it a shame to focus on her clothes; she is first and foremost a music hacker. And a really really good one.
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Unless you posted with Facebook or Twitter auth
Horribly overpriced in the UK...
Virtualization is a mean not an end
Cufon is great, but this something for manipulating individual characters.
How are the other systems better? I've bumped up into enough rough edges with Ruby to have a pretty good idea of where its seams are showing, but I've had to write a fair amount of code to get there and I don't have nearly the experience with the others to spot how they might work around the same design problems.
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> My feeling is that even the compilers written in CS101 will optimize this

Closure comes with a compiler/optimizer/minifier that will do all sorts of optimizations to your code. I am not sure if this is one of them, but I would not be surprised if the library code is optimized for readability and they let the compiler do its tricks to optimize it for speed.
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Typically, daemons installed on servers are all running as isolated user accounts. So, if you find a bug in someone's database server, or website, or e-mail daemon, or whatever, most often you only get access to that one user account, which requires you to hope that there is some path from where you are to where you want to be (maybe the password to the database can be gotten from the website)

However, if there is also a local user-to-root exploit available (which is what 99% of kernel exploits are about), then having the ability to execute code as any user now gives you complete access to the entire box: the user security model is totally worthless if you have a kernel sufficiently flawed that it cannot enforce it.
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From the readme:

After gaining access to gawkers MySQL database we stumble upon a huge
table containing ~1,500,000 users. After a few days of dumping we
decided that 1.3 million was enough.
Sorry, but no. No hard feelings, please.
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Thanks, I must have missed that! I also saw an additional claim on the "Gnosis explains" article:

"The actual database size is 1,247,897 rows, which is 80+% of their database." - http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-gawker-hacker-gnosi...

I wish I could win a raffle with that sort of luck though! ;)
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Too much hassle for simple projects IMHO. Fossil for version control (and bug tracking, wiki etc.) combined with dropbox does the trick for me.
Nietzsche did, the concept of Eternal Recurrence is the basis of his philosophy.
Or, like my college teachers told me, "measure, don't guess".

I am a bit ashamed to confess I do a lot of guessing in my work...
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If they're public officials in a public space performing a public duty then there should be no problem with taking photos or video of them. The recent case of the death of Ian Tomlinson is a good illustration of how important it can be for people to be able to independently photograph police. In that case had a bystander not been taking photos the full circumstances of the case may never have been known.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson
It's worth distinguishing between (1) "The moderators retitled such-and-such an article, and it wasn't an improvement" and (2) "The moderators retitle articles, and that's bad". #1 might be true in this case (I see greendestiny doesn't think so; I'm on the fence) but it's very weak evidence for #2. For what it's worth (and I know this is also weak evidence) when I've looked at an article and thought "Wow, HN should have used a different title for this" it's much much much more often been because of editorializing by the submitter than because the original article title was used but wasn't very good.

We need moderators aggressively retitling articles submitted with stupid or biased titles. (Not only because that fixes those titles, but also because it reduces the incentive for submitters to submit with bad titles.) And if we have that, then inevitably there will be occasional misjudged retitlings. The question is whether the benefit outweighs the cost, and in my mind there's very little doubt that it does.
Not sure why this is downvoted. If the argument "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is a bad one (which it it), it's also a bad argument to use against the gov't.

I think there are very good arguments to hold our public officials accountable, but they stand on their own merit.
They did it successfully for Numbers.app.

All applications are curated, so they could add "Confusing keyboard" to long list of rejections.
Same story from the BBC three days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988263

No comments, no upvotes.
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And this is how that happened:

"Around 1980, when the news media took notice of hackers, they fixated on one narrow aspect of real hacking: the security breaking which some hackers occasionally did. They ignored all the rest of hacking, and took the term to mean breaking security, no more and no less. The media have since spread that definition, disregarding our attempts to correct them. As a result, most people have a mistaken idea of what we hackers actually do and what we think."
True, but there is no denying the conventionality of her actual music; she's a product of the same old awful music industry machine, producing meaningless trash, whether or not she 'hacks' weird outfits which get her attention.

There is a sense that RMS has dropped that one in to seem more 'down with the kids' than he really is, which doesn't speak of pride as a hacker...
Why doesn't Netflix or someone make their own studio? The main thing holding media back at this point is the existing studios and distributors wanting a ridiculously high cut of everything. Personally, rather than trying to find a way to play nice with those guys, I'd rather cut them out entirely.
Last time I tried SBCL on FreeBSD, the binary package didn't have threads enabled, and when I compiled it from ports, the configuration dialog had me enable the threading manually and said it was "experimental".
Also: don't make assumptions about how you believe a database works, just because you've used another one (or another version of the same).

And measure every optimization you make, too :) I saw someone doing an optimization that should have accelerated the processing, only to discover once in production it was 4x slower.
Your submit form doesn't seem to work in Firefox 4.
Can you post the link to that TechTalk? I cant find it.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&t...;

So much for Simple English wikipedia!
I hate to be a buzzkill but none of these seem to have launched yet, are you in nodejitsu's private beta?
> but often the most brutal regimes are the most predictable

I'm not so sure, not saying there not might be some cases of this, but usually brutal regimes exercise force arbitrarily.

Predictability implies a set of constraints on the actions of those in power.
The hassle is just a "dip" you have to overcome once. After that it's really painless to start using git or svn on a given project.

FWIW, I'm using svn or git, together with acunote, for my projects, either solo or with a team.