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Globo launched Muu (muu.globo.com) a month or two ago, which is basically a Brazilian clone of Hulu, and will probably be Netflix's main competitor. Yes, it's pronounced like the sound a cow makes.

Globo runs the main broadcast TV channel and the main cable TV channels as well, so they've presumably got the rights to Brazilian TV content pretty much locked up. They also own the main cable channels which show movies as well (the Telecine channels).

It will be interesting to see how the Muu vs. Netflix competition pans out.
Down to two invites.

AAAAAAND they're gone! Invitees, invite a fellow hacker :)
(And feel free to comment on this story, silent voters!)
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My method for learning English was a little bit different. First, the groundwork was definitely laid at school, because in my country's school system learning English is mandatory. But after I finished school, I could hardly speak English without errors. I could write and read it, but I couldn't speak it fluently.

I was aware of this, but I didn't know what to do about it without going abroad. Then, after a while I happened to find out about The Daily Show [1] by coincidence and I started to watch it every day. This was the best thing that could've happened to my English skills.

They have different guests on the show everyday, so you get to hear a variety of different dialects, and you get to hear actual spoken English (not the scripted dialogs from Hollywood), and you also learn a lot about American culture. There are surprisingly big parts of American culture that don't get imported into Europe. :-)

After a year or so, my English got good enough that you can't hear an accent anymore, I think. I actually don't know how good or bad I am, because I don't know any English-speaking people to whom I could talk to. Which is a little bit sad.

But if one day my chance arises to move to the USA, I'm at least ready language-wise.

[1] http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/
what the hell is with all these people telling me that I'm doing something wrong with RSS?!
I think I'll feel free to consume things in any way I find relevant to my interests. If that means I want a firehose of updates, so be it. If that means I want to only read 6 new things a day like Marco, so be it. It will be my choice and my balance, not his or anyone else's.
they had evidence pointing to a location. this does not mean the resident of the nearest house is culpable. perhaps the thief was walking by at the time. theres a lot of leeway I feel you may be overlooking.
Yeah I read the advice in this article years ago in a beginner's Go tutorial, something about "you just need one more point than the opponent to win".

Lot of little zen-like lessons in learning that game, is why I love it.
I guess one of the strengths of the population of stupid people is being oblivious of belonging to them -- a membership that even rational people cannot avoid. Stupidity manifesting in the most unexpected ways and occasions is a proof of its ubiquity, and implies that it is difficult to find not even a vaccine but a simple method of diagnosis.
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If there's one thing I learnt from my psychology class, it was that our brains can fool us in various ways. Perception is an interesting thing.
No discussion of CSS buttons will ever be complete without this fantastic tutorial: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255023

It actually explains how light reflections create this or that color/brightness and uses CSS to demonstrate the natural-looking layout.
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As a student of history, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of this odd philosophy that there's something wrong with watching other people do things that you will never do.

Living vicariously is the essence of being human. It's why we have language, and stories, and imagination, and all the wetware required to support these things. Dogs can't tell stories about other dogs in such a way that their canine audience is moved to weep or cheer. Whereas humans line up to hear stories about three-thousand-year-old semi-mythical events. Then they draw practical conclusions from those stories.

I don't see why it's so terrible that I'd rather watch, say, a deep-sea fisherman risk his life than try deep-sea fishing myself. We have no shortage of deep-sea fishermen -- in fact, what we have is a shortage of fish. And the same principle definitely applies to soldiers: Every real soldier who can be replaced by a Team Fortress player, or a History Channel viewer, represents a net win for humanity.
I was an active developer of ReactOS in 2003-2007 (this is basically where I learned to write production code if you count the code I wrote as production ready. In actuality it wasn't; and I was surprised not to see me being called out explicitly in the article :) ). The project has some issues since this is little to no direction or focus.

While both suggestions made by the author of the article are undoubtedly a good thing. They would have been more a lot of work to get setup and all the developers to agree on. The project is rarely used or tested by actual users since the operating system itself is so primitive compared to other modern operating systems.

It is easier to think of the developers of ReactOS has lone hackers independently working on their own personal itch and the ReactOS codebase just happens to provide the perfect playground. We all had our own goals and we rarely if ever got in the way or even worked with other contributors.
Depends what you are used to - as I mentioned above my family had been living in the same small village for about 400 years or so - which by European standards isn't that odd. Some people can trace their families back much further than that (well over a thousand years).
Do we know what the distribution would be for the population at-large? Seems like this survey, even for casual, entertainment purposes,, isn't of much value without knowledge of the population we'd want to compare to.
I'm amazed by the number of 20 and 30 year olds who'd rather comment about how crap Firefox is rather than working on a patch to make it better!
On my father's side, 4 generations, my great grandmother was born here in the US, but her parents came from Germany. Interestingly she never spoke English, only German, in an all German community in Kansas.

On my mother's side, 1000s of generations in what is now called Oklahoma. The US formed around them as the illegal immigrants from Europe swarmed in.
Imagine how many AGPL Disqus replacements could have been written with all the keystrokes devoted to whining about them.

If GNU/FSF are so serious about non-AGPL web services being so awful, why are they not stepping up to re-implement them? That's what they did with the previous incarnation of proprietary software.
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I would use it if it allowed groups to keep all of their issues in one place. Our organization has 20+ repos, so having 20+ bug trackers is pretty dumb. If they make a toplevel issue tracker, I think we'd switch to it.
From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2962964:

"EDIT: Oh, and there's a good reason why the DigiNotar PKIOverheid is now also rejected. The Government cert business was supposed to be on a seperate network, on computers (or data?) stored in a safe. However, there were links between the normal network and the secondary (government) network."
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I remember a while back I was doing some browser testing in Opera and images resized in CSS were completely destroyed. This was probably two years ago. It seems that they have since sorted that out, but that alone turned me off enough to go to Chrome and never look back.
There are two points I'd put in reply:

1) They only allow you to download apps they've vetted, not just any old application. Yes, this review process increases security.

2) It's somewhat better in that respect, but not perfect. Imagine a malicious version of jailbreak.me, for example. Yes, they use security holes to perform that operation.
I would say that a program run by a normal user can do most of the damage that the owner/user of a personal system (as opposed to an admin of a multi-user system) actually cares about.
Anything in a modern operating system other than the kernel can be considered to be running in a virtual machine

The level of isolation between processes running on the same machine doesn't really come close to that afforded to processes running inside different VMs.
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An amazing infographic was posted here, but I think it is missing one key element: population statistics.

From http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=USA+population+1947-2011 I learn that...
In 1947, USA population was 144 million people.
In 2010, USA population was 309 million people.

Would this alter the lesson of this graphic?
So how do you write a basic web server in CoffeeScript?
Agree with both points, especially the second. Their product and work feels like a great fit for YC.

BTW, nirvana: at the risk of down-votes here I wanted to draw your attention to this comment I made on an older thread which you might not have noticed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2958684
Yeah, AJAX is definitely on my todo list, lots of places it could enhance the UX. Just need to work out exactly how :)

Fixed your add image error just now. Thanks for having a go.
My "Go To" browser journey has taken me from Opera to Safari, Safari to Firefox, Firefox to Opera, Opera back to Firefox and now Firefox to Opera 11.5. Chrome is one browser that I'm not interested in making my Go To list for a number of reasons.

I'm becoming more happy with Dragonfly. I do wish that a color picker option existed outside of it though. I don't need or want widgets. Extensions for me are nice. Just a ruler and tweet button give me all that I need though - color picker would be nice.

I do believe that polishing the UI will help overall. I like the more minimalistic approach of 11.5 and the ability to fine tune so much (always an Opera feature). I think I will hang around Opera for awhile since I've added mini to iOS too and see how it can make life easier for me with the links syncing feature. However, there are many areas that would be certainly benefit from some UI and UE attention.
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Most of these are a failure of technology of which virus scanners are the most obvious symptom. Why is it that if I run a program on my computer it can do basically anything I can do? It can delete my files and depending on your OS all files. It can run a keylogger. It can add toolbars to my browser. It can send emails from my email account. It can access the saved passwords in my browser.

This doesn't have to be the case. OSes should have been designed so that it is safe to run any program, unless you explicitly grant it permission to e.g. delete your files. If I open foo.png in an image editor, the editor should only have access to that file and the image editor's directory, not the entire filesystem. Nor should it be able to add a program to run at startup or to observe the things I'm typing in the password box of my online banking login form.

Facebook at least got this partially right. When you run an application it asks you "Application X wants permission to: access your phone number, send messages on your behalf, etc.".
There is nothing wrong with being more productive with a tool like TextMate instead of vim, emacs or whatever IDE or editor. You should simply use a tool that works you.
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"When you give up access to your account you give up the ability to agree or disagree."

Presumably, you're not going to "donate" your accounts unless you're already a strong supporter of the cause, so I'm sure whether or not you agree is not an issue at that point. If there does happen to be a message you disagree with, nothing's stopping you from deleting it and revoking the app's permission.
Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore

Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it's not your computer anymore

Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore

s/bad guy/vendor/g, looking at phones and e-readers.

Computer for which someone else has the root password and a comm link: not yours.
Can Chatter/Yammer completely replace meetings in a startup?
Hi, Can a startup team of three only utilize chatter or yammer for communication and have no meetings? The only meetings will be the occasional once in two weeks meeting.
The pros are the time saved with unproductive meetings and stick to productive communication, the data you communicate about is in the same place as the conversation, a record of all conversations so nothing is forgotten or up in the air even 10 years from now.
We seem to be able to do this with friends and family on Facebook. so why not a startup team? My main negative so far has been that the energy level is not the same with such online collaboration tools compared to a face to face meeting. Your thoughts?
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If the OP happens to read this, the CRC32 instruction was designed to calculate the version of CRC32 used in iSCSI so that CRC checks on big iron iSCSI servers could be accelerated.
It's completely rational to think that people will be intrinsically motivated by money, and they are on some level. But people are irrational - what drives them is usually a lot different than what you would expect.

Dan Pink is at the forefront of demystifying motivation. When you have time, check out this TED Video, it's very insightful - http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html. TL;DW - Cash incentives alone make people slow and stupid for cognitive tasks.
As programmers love edge cases: what should a Kenyan with a purely Kenyan heritage answer, in light of the the dominant theory that humankind originated somewhere in that neighborhood? ;)
Do you mean just SCSI? I'm sure x86 predates iSCSI.
When you directly compare coffeescript to JS and looking at more or less the same code (but of course it's very unfair to JS to use coffee compiler output instead of hand written JS), you won't find much of a difference aside of the small syntax changes.

But once you are used to coffee, your code will start to look very different from pure JS code. Coffe encourages you to write even more, even smaller functions due to its lean syntax.

This new coding style that emerges (at least it began to emerge for me and a coworker) is infinitely more readable than JS, even more so when you look at a direct translation.

My takeaway from this is two things:

1) coffee is cool. Just give yourself one time to adapt. At first everyone's code in $NEWLANGUAGE looks like code in $OLDLANGUAGE until you get used to the common idioms in your new language.

2) The general syntax of a language can have a huge effect on your code style which in turn can have a huge effect on overall readability.
Nobody debunked "An Inconvenient Truth.
What part of "ALL Nobel Prize winning scientists agree global warming is threat to humanity." do you not understand?

There is no more controversy about global warming in the scientific community than there is about evolution. Both concepts are considered settled.

There lots of discussion in the corporate owned media because oil companies buy a whole lot of television time falsely claiming the science on global warming isn't settled.
I find myself never straying very far from VIM. It keeps drawing me back. The registers, motion commands and fingers never having to leave the keyboard just work so well for me. Multiple tabs in iTerm keep me well organized and speedy.
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tl;dr If you fork and don't pull-request then that's the violation.

That's the point. If you fork and don't do a pull request so I can pull it back, then you're leaving an altered copy out there. Can't do that. If however you do a pull request and I pull your changes in, then your fork is no longer an alteration.

This prevents people from butchering your work because they think they know better and then leaving half-assed junk out there to screw students over, but still lets people contribute fixes.
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>OK, immigrants also do a little poorer, especially informal immigrants.

Informal immigrants? What does that even mean? Like the kind who wear tie-dye shirts on Fridays?
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Much of the news/hand wringing about trolls focuses on their targeting startups and smaller companies, so I found the following quote to be interesting.

"[A]bout 26% of the patents [in the study] were inventor owned, and a comparison with the percentage of individual inventors represented in litigation generally shows that trolls serve an important role in enforcing individual inventor patents."
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No, that license allows remixing and adapting the work. That would let people butcher the book and leave broken copies that frustrate students.
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thanks for taking the time with this.

1. Any plans to update for 3.1 ?

2. I think its strange to address the dsl rspec for testing vs the standard rails unit test and not address other dsl like haml, sass, coffeescript (3.1). I think if you're going to go by rails community conventions vs rails framework convention then haml and sass should of been introduced.
This method sounds effective. For improving your accent, I suggest reading while listening to audio-books. I used this method to improve my French and it proved very effective. Plus you can choose pretty much any book/topic you like.
crc32 was introduced with SSE 4.2 on the i7.
Looks neat. I could potentially make use of such a javascript library.
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I'm originally from Maine. My family goes back to the 1600s on both sides. My great*7 grandfather on my mother's side moved from Boston to Maine in 1690 and married a local girl. The number of generations is low because because there were 35 years between generations. The first immigrant on my father's side arrived in 1630 at the age of 12 from Wales. Family lore has it that he started King Philips War by killing one of the Indians raiding his isolated homestead. Isolated because he, a non-Puritan, was not allowed to live in town.

My children are either first or second generation depending on how you count. Their mother was born in Brazil, bur their grandmother was born in California. Some of her cousins were in the Japanese concentration camps in CA.
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Anyone planning to make a "CoffeeJava" language?
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I did take a look around and taking a trial run on my RSS subscription reader, but as far as research goes, i still think many articles are just plain opinions.
Everybody thinks everyone else uses the internet^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H RSS just like they do.

Everybody believes that everyone else should use the internet^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H RSS in the way they do it.

Granted, most RSS reader applications get RSS horribly wrong, and erroneously graft the email “inbox” pattern as the UI focus, instead of a river to be skimmed (with power to dive in deep, too). Google Reader is the best in a sorry lot, but mainly because Google sports an inherent advantage (even in the foolhardy sense they’ve implemented it thus far) with its ominous search capability. Read and unread item counts matter not a scintilla to me, as I care just for nimbleness in scanning “what’s new” in the subject matters of my choosing in a chronological manner.

I enjoy reading RSS on Google Reader. It has totally supplanted the time I used to allot to “reading the newspaper”. I know I’ve shared this before, but I keep pace with 2,600 subscriptions. No, I certainly do not read every item and probably only click through less than 10-20% of items. Not true for all sites, as the frequently updated sites get clicked at a 2-3% rate whereas treasured, infrequently updated sites have all their items read. But I don’t fret over unread items and even if I miss reading for a day or two, I feel no obligation to “catch up”, and instead, if I want to review items of interest I may have missed, I use the “Search” feature.

Oh, additionally, all of the mobile and/or tablet RSS reader applications are colossal failures, except for maybe Flipboard, which comes at RSS in a different tact, mainly via Twitter. The whole point of RSS is accelerating the pace at which web content is perused. Doing RSS with a subscription set count of less than a hundred is not much of an efficiency improvement. And the mobile and/or tablet offerings simply choke and sputter on a larger dataset (unless there are new, or updated, offerings I am unaware of). Also, Google Reader (as well as all the Google web products) suck massively on the mobile platforms — it’s why my iPad mostly collects dust and the MacBook Air (using Chrome/Chromium in full screen mode) shines — for the superior Google Reader experience.
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But that's an OS design flaw, not an "immutable law". It doesn't apply to, say, EROS.