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But Amazon Prime streaming is not (yet?) available on the AppleTV that the kids use. Sure I keep meaning to jailbreak the darn thing but I never quite find the time to do so.

Netflix has huge penetration into hardware that Amazon does not have and to me that is a huge leg up for them. Also I can not believe that Netflix does not have an ace up their sleeve, i.e., a serious infusion of streaming content. However, I would be in awe if they did not have that ace up their sleeve and are instead trying to push the content providers into the present so that we can get on with the future.
huh... doesn't it shows the opposite of that?
I mean, if the pirate party was able to achieve a remarkable success doesn't that mean that the political system works? At least in the german case.

Most of the characters involved in the politics game are not doing their job, I guess that's what you mean?
Following that line of reasoning, imagine 10 years from now, talking about homosexuality is made retroactively illegal. You'd be in big trouble (and now me!).

If the above scenario sounds unrealistic to you, that's right. It is unrealistic, just like the one you painted.

I'd rather not tell Google everything about myself but I'm honestly shocked that such extreme examples are being used to argue against the idea. By invoking Nazi analogies to make your point, you're actually doing a disservice to your argument. The instinct of my irrational mind is to think: well if it needs another Hitler to make it really scary, then I can probably ignore it.
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Explaining REST and Hypertext: Spam-E the Spam Cleaning Robot
Why the Y2K bug hints toward the future of the electronic medical record
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They won't even know it is a LaTeX CV, to them it will just be another PDF, except a bit better looking.
Must we remember them? :)

Any time I've heard about them(outside of friends who were suckered into their schemes try loop me in as well) it's all been through sites that have complained about how bad they suck. I'm surprised they're still around.
The Netflix/Qwikster Disaster
I've recently finished up to chapter 3 and already I can say I highly recommend reading this. So far it's been excellent.
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That looks like a great resource. Thanks for the tip!

This is also great if you are just getting into LaTeX:
http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
I'm looking forward to running lots of different A/B tests. I can change the "Download for Free" button, change the copy on the Share popup, and change how people interact with the share buttons. I definitely want to make sure I optimize the site, not just for me, but for the people who are using it to distribute their content. The purpose is to get them a larger distribution network so I'll try any changes that accomplish that.
Building working prototypes is no longer a major problem. Nowadays, (experienced) individuals can design portable game consoles [1], alarm clocks [2], mobile phones [3], and pretty much everything else.

However, you need a lot of money, time and experience for manufacturing, testing, shipping, and supporting the final products.
Unlike software startups, hw startups may need to apply for FCC and international certifications, supervise contract manufacturers, and need to think carefully about liability issues.

[1] http://openpandora.org/ -
[2] http://www.chumby.com/ -
[3] http://gta04.org/
I think there are way better resume templates in LaTeX around, like modernCV (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modernc...), example here: http://www.jbkempf.com/documents/JBKempf-resume.pdf; or CurrVita http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/currvit...
> I think everyone has to figure out how to make a buck in this world, and inventors that don't produce any products anyone wants

Who said I didn't produce products no one wanted? Folks like my inventions and are willing to pay for them. However, those inventions aren't complete products.

> The patents are sold to lawyers (like Intellectual Ventures) that troll, and they are the inventors on very few of the patents they take to court.

That's because many inventors don't have enough money to go that route.

They'd much rather do it themselves (if only because IV takes a huge cut), but that is often out of the question.

> Maybe actual inventors can sue even if they don't have a product?

And how do you suggest that they do that?

I'm completely serious. I've done the lawyer dance a couple of times and didn't see any way to do what you're suggesting.

Details please. (You do know what you're talking about, right?)
I put together a little script for just this purpose: https://github.com/PHLAK/Soxy
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There is no evidence that cutting a cabbage causes it pain and suffering.

We don't have as much evidence and the evidence we do have isn't as visceral or widely discussed. That doesn't mean there is no evidence.
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It is interesting to note that Literature students are quite intimidated when they begin writing a Macbeth essay or research paper. This is because there are so many layers
Looks like Netflix is killing its DVD branch and focuses on streaming branch.

It's hard to say yet how it would work out.
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I think some of his books have had well rounded enough endings (for my tastes at least) - but the long winded openings are my only complaint. If you can make it past page 100, I have always enjoyed the rest of the book.

For those in NYC - he is making an appearance at the Barnes and Nobles in Union Sq. on Friday from 7pm to 8pm. I went last time and it was a pleasure hearing him talk about his methodologies behind his books - hoping this one will be as good.
But divisions can't go bankrupt and die as easily. Qwickster or whatever it is has a death sentence. It's value wull be polished just enough to sell it off to suckers. And when it dies Netflix will just shrug.
MySQL's closed source extensions aren't the end of the world
The motivation for you to patent is that someone else can file before you even if you invented it first. That's new in the United States and common in other jurisdictions.

You make money by licensing your inventions to companies that have means to create a product. You can use trade secrets and copyright to protect your invention. You don't need patents. However, in the defensive patent world, you should still get one in case they steal your idea.

What you'd be prevented from doing is creating an expansive definition of a market. That's not crazy talk. In the case of the Lodsys patents, Novell has filed that for prosecution history estoppel, which my reading of Groklaw might be because the original patents were filed with caveats they would only apply to a restricted market (probably set-top pay-per-view TV boxes).

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110708021518...

I think this constraint on patents should be explicit and part of the law. i.e. a Pharmaceutical patent should declare it is for the pharmaceutical industry; if material engineering could use the same organic compound, that is sufficiently novel and non-predatory of the original patent holder. However, it's unclear in the current law whether or not the new use could pass.
I assume you should aim to keep it succinct, though? I've interviewed a guy who literally listed the names of the methods on an API he'd developed. I think he clocked in a 6-7 pages for a three year career. Surprising as he came through a recruiter, I'd assume a recruiter would provide some CV critique.
The thing is IIRC AT&T, in the Bay Area at least, always seems to win the Speed Tests against Verizon [1]. However as a long time user of AT&T on the iPhone in SF the issue was never speed it was the ability to actually use the network which was problematic. I couldn't get phone calls in my apartment in Poterero Hill and still get dropped calls on my cell in our house in Berkeley (we were eventually forced to get a land line). I never had these problems with Verizon (which is why my wife and I are switching once the new iPhone's come out). Point being I find these kinds of comparisons meaningless unless their coverage gets better.

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364263,00.asp
This looks great! I'm currently building my own side project and think I'll incorporate this into it.
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Sounds similar to LaunchRock. How are you different?
In 1996, Apple sold the "Pippin" set-top game system, the Apple Network Server, not to be confused with the Apple Workgroup Server, at least 5 SKUs of Performa, 7 SKUs of Power Macintosh, the Quadra, the QuickTake digital camera, the eMate PDA, and the Color LaserWriter.

These products weren't discontinued because Apple was incapable of executing them. They were discontinued because the strategy of maintaining a one-stop-shop ecosystem, in which a niche of customers would buy not only their computer but also their printer and scanner from Apple, was rejected in favor of the strategy in which the mass market would buy single best-of-breed products from Apple.

Those aren't just two strategies; they're two diametrically opposing strategies.
Yes, absolutely. I'd be very interested in hearing about it. Hit me up and I can share my roadmap of some things I may add.
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Premature scaling and optimization are the top killers of startups. A better title might be "well established companies rarely die from moving too fast". Those companies have a larger safety net and can afford to take more risks, because those risks are small to them. The same risks can (and likely will) kill a startup.
I think you're confused, or just not familiar with LaTeX. Have you, as a recruiter, ever come across a resume/CV submitted as LaTeX source? I find it hard to believe someone who bothered to lay out their resume/CV in LaTeX could make the mistake of NOT compiling it to a PDF first.

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This is what the output of something like pdflatex would look like: http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf

LaTeX source would be plain text files that look like: https://github.com/latex3/svn-mirror/blob/master/examples/l3...
You run that risk with the previous system. That has not changed. The first-to-file rule change only applies when the USPTO needs to resolve a conflict between two similar patents that are applied for around the same time.

The patent system has never protected inventors that do not attempt to patent their invention.
> Specifically, Pixar can iterate on each movie for years, making drastic changes to the story, timing, edit, music, dialogue, acting at any time. They literally "make" the film hundreds of times over a four year period.

Pixar isn't the first, or only, place that can iterate - that's been how animated films have always been made. (Yes computer-based animation allows faster iteration than hand-drawn, but Pixar doesn't iterated on fully-rendered either.)

> Fohr has the tech and filmmaking system to take that same approach on a live-action film (the key tech needed to do so is computer-photography).

I agree that this is a big thing, but Pixar isn't just, or even mostly, iteration, it's the folks doing the iteration.

Even if you have John Lasseter, start as a tech company and sell to folks who think that they are JL. Use that money to support your JL.
The distance between the two rows of pin headers on each side is not a multiple of 0.1".
This means that every shield that you attach to the Arduino needs to have this same strange spacing between the rows of pin headers. You cannot just use a normal perfboard.
As all Arduino shields have the same weird spacing, fixing this design flaw would require everyone to buy new shields.
There are Arduino clones that add correctly aligned rows of pin headers [1], however.

[1] http://shop.pinguino.cc/image/cache/data/olimex/pic32-otg-50... (actually, no true Arduino clone)

Edit: found a good explanation with pictures here: http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2009/07/arduino-offset-heade...
I suggest that you mention that adding the campaign button to the page is only a matter of adding the generated HTML snippet, something like "it's as simple as embedding a YouTube video". Maybe you can also create a separate step-by-step video that shows the creation of a campaign and integration into e.g. a Wordpress post.
And no, you can't use AT&T, Verizon and MetroPCS LTE devices on each others' networks, as the companies spec out their radios to exclude each others' frequencies.

Well that's also because nobody's doing voice over LTE, and they're still relying on the legacy network for voice (and fallback data service where LTE isn't available).

Every device sold right now is this hybrid of CDMA/LTE or GSM/LTE, so even if some AT&T device did support Verizon's share of the 700Mhz band on the LTE side, you'd not be able to talk on it on Verizon anyway.

At some point the network will be all-LTE (Verizon's said in the next couple years) and they can drop the legacy hardware. But in the meantime the phones just have an extra bolted-on radio that does a great job at two things: it pulls down data super fast, and it drains the battery just as quick too.
Or even Quickflix. Succinct and to the point.
I think you're right. As not much more than a Netflix subscriber, it really, really looks like Netflix is desperate for cash. Maybe they're getting ready for war (i.e. they may well know that Amazon or Apple or Google could well be imminently about to crush them). I know we've already switched to Netflix streaming+1DVD-plan+Amazon-Digital-Downloads (not streaming) but we've been using redbox so much now for new releases that the 1DVD plan is feeling quite expendable.
So, again, the exploit was that a telnet session was exporting environment variables. LD_PRELOAD_PATH was just a way to take advantage of the telnetd exploit, which might not be the only way. I think that naming it "The LD_PRELOAD_PATH exploit" is just misguiding.
Low entry barriers for many of these cuts both ways. There's a lot of competition and work to make sure you're actually noticed! Really oversimplified.
I've had to hire many hackers myself so I'll cut to the chase for you:

* RESUME ACCEPTANCE IS BASED ON KEYWORDS: If your resume does not inlcude the SAME KEYWORDS MENTIONED IN THE JOB POSTING then it gets tossed aside.

if (posting.keywords() != resume.keywords()) {
resume.destroy();
continue;
}

Are hiring managers really this stupid and shallow?! YES!!! All of them!!! HR reps are even twice as shallow because HR doesn't know the meaning of the keywords!

* If the job posting says "Scrum" and your resume says "Agile" then you edit your resume and change that word to say "Scrum".

* If the job posting says "Django" and your resume says "many popular Python frameworks" then you edit your resume to say "Django"

* If job posting says "Ruby" and you put "Rails" ... guess what you should do about it?

* Skip the cover letter. This is not an essay contest. Nobody reads this.

* Top of resume: BRIEF two sentence description of your typical role on a technical team and the type of role are seeking.

* Next item of resume: Bullet point list of skills and experience. Keyword A, Keyword B, Keyword C ... remarkably similar to the job posting. What a coincidence!

* Remainder of resume: Employment history. Short descriptions. Everything you ever worked on is boring so don't get into details. Don't exceed 3 pages.

ACTUAL RESUME HACKS:

* Fill employment gaps decreasing the time scale. Instead of Month/Year next to each job, just put the year. Nobody cares if you weren't working between April and August so don't draw attention to it.

* If your GPA sucks then don't mention it. Nobody cares about your GPA unless you have no work history to speak of.

* Don't mention unrelated jobs in your work history. If your spent a year as a galley cook on oil rig then mention that under hobbies, not work history. It makes you seem like a transient to have a lot of odd unrelated jobs that don't follow the theme of this job posting.

* Non-paying jobs are still jobs. If you worked on your uncle's business web site for free while looking for a job, and you had to build the web site, then put it in your work history if you need it to fill the gap. Technical work is still work. If later on someone verifies your work history tell them it was an unpaid volunteer. Nobody cares.

* Isn't omitting the truth lying? If this is how you feel then don't bother applying for marketing jobs. Ask a marketing person to tweak your resume for you. Explain to them you are a technical person who only has a binary understanding of truth.

* Send your resume as a PDF attachment. Everyone can open a PDF. Not everyone has the latest greatest version of Word.

If your skill set matches, and you can prove your skills, then don't put things on your resume that will kill the deal. The resume makes the introduction, it is your calling card, it is your marketing. List the skills you have that they want. Your resume not your complete autobiography or a place to confess your gaps and incompetencies.
In looking at my books pre 1930, boxes were primarily reserved for photographs and illustrations in general. Seldom for text.
One theory, discussed by Bill Gurley in the post below, is that it'll put them in a better negotiating position with the studios, who were trying to get a percentage of Netflix revenues (not just the streaming revenue)...

http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/09/18/understanding-why-netfli...
Netflix, Qwikster and the impending introduction premium pricing
Yes. You have a segment -- and we'll shortly see how large it is -- that were OK with higher prices because of convenience. Reduce the convenience, and you've made it harder for certain, but not all, folks to justify the cost for themselves.
The "demo" is the process that you go through to get the PDF. Maybe I should make that more clear. It's just a sample of how the functionality would work on your site if you offered an ebook.

The size/styling of the "Download for Free" button is just something I didn't give much thought to. I used a button generator and that's what it output. Looking at it again, it could certainly be smaller. Especially when sitting so close to my main CTA of "Create a Campaign."
He wrote the comment for the same reason that you wrote yours. Comment scores are hidden and the meaning of an upvote is hidden both from the commenter and other users.

With hidden upvotes the only way to show assent is to comment. Actually as a hack for no comment scores I think I could come to appreciate a string of "agreed" comments as a visual indicator.

It's redundant elsewhere, it's not here.
Chances are the recruiter hadn't a clue what he was looking at. He would have been too afraid to edit it as he had no idea where to start. That sort of info is fine on your personal site which you can link to from your CV but to include it all on your formal CV is madness.

Personally I think 3 pages, 4 max if you are a contractor is more than enough.
It's first to file, right? I've heard there's no requirement for any implementation details or intent to manufacture; you can just come up with an idea, patent it, and wait for others to make it and sue them for royalties.
By invoking Nazi analogies to make your point, you're actually doing a disservice to your argument.

I just finished reading the NYT best-seller In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin [1]. It made me think that, notwithstanding Godwin's Law [2], citizens should continue to be mindful of what can happen in a 'civilized' society.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Beasts-Terror-American-Hitlers/... (not an affiliate link).

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
The "long term game" is whatever Netflix defines it to be. Success at this game is only ever a combination of clear vision matched with execution. Hastings has defined their end-game and made that vision explicitly clear. He has freed the management teams and their whole organization to now pursue that wholeheartedly.
It's official. ASCII smileys should have a dash.

:-) => OK.

:) => WRONG.

I feel so much more productive this morning after settling that issue.
This is substantially similar to my resume from circa 2005, and the template I was using was already old then.

I think basically all latex users have been passing around variants of the same GPL resume template for ten or fifteen years now. :)
"...he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post.."

Lucky we've solved that problem! :-)
How do you know when you're going 100% on the wrong thing?

* I have a friend who has committed the last five years or more to his system. It's good but not great, in my opinion, and while he has made some traction, paid users, etc. I feel like he's going nowhere with it. I don't tell him, of course.

* I have another friend who spent more than a decade on some technology. It seems to me earth-shaking stuff, but it's become a bete noire to almost everyone who knows him because they think he should have given up already.
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There's significantly better stuff out there (e.g., http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex). This one's neither clear nor consistent, and a tad ugly to boot.
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Ask HN: App pricing
I'm polishing my first iOS app and I'm practically ready to submit it to the App Store. The whole idea of this app evolves around in-app purchases. The app itself will contain some valuable, say, "packages", but the whole idea is about buying and using new ones.

So, I'm a bit stuck here. I'm expecting majority of my revenue come from the in-app purchases (mainly priced as $.99), thus the app price should be somewhat irrelevant. On the one hand, I can release this app as Free, but there is the problem. When I personally look for an app in App Store I hesitate to download and use a free app. Why is it free? Are they gonna make money showing ads? (I hate ads). Will the developer support future iOS versions? I just don't know. Free stuff isn't reliable to me.

On the other hand, $.99 looks a bit 'cheap' and, frankly, I avoid buying .99 stuff either. Setting price at $1.99? Wouldn't this price become a psychological barrier for a casual app shopper? As always, I don't know. Btw, there is no good alternative to this app in App Store (either free or paid). HN readers, what are your thoughts?
My automatic Godwin's Law Filter allowed me to scan right past that argument.
Only a bit of a nudge here: viral marketing, in many many many cases is an accident. It is hard to plan, even harder to predict. We all wish for it but ...

It's great to have tools to help but tools by themselves will not make anything go viral. Most of the viral things people remember are viral because the content was great (or so stupid it was great;), not because of the tool that was used to share it. Yes, YouTube, as a tool, makes things easy to go "viral". But it was the video that made it worth sharing, not because it was on YouTube.

Also, as a marketing activity, going viral may not really be in your best interest. Viral marketing is a tactic/strategy that needs to fit your marketing plan. Just because you think you can go viral doesn't mean you should.

Lastly, the model expressed in the demo video implies sharing requires I share it before I get it... Why would I share something with my friends before seeing if what Bob has to offer is any good?