skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No argument about the interface. In fact, I'd say most of the interfaces on Roku leave something to be desired (especially Hulu!).

I'm basing my catalog comparison on the fact that I found most of the things I watch with Netflix also on Amazon. Maybe my particular interests have a strong intersection with Amazon's selection, though.
ServerCyde is building peoples apps for them
>I agree that they are unfair,

i think it depends. The hairdresser in the article may have moved to the salon next block - there is obviously an element of competition here, her regular clients may follow her, etc... - it seems valid for me to enforce non-compete in such a case. On the other side if her new job is sufficiently distant from the old one that no actual competition between businesses exists - then no-compete is satisfied by the virtue of the absent competition.

The same in the software - my previous non-compete was clear and very specific about same clients (existing or engaged in some degree), products, etc... and while my new employer does have similarly looking product - they are in different market segments, and i made sure to have nothing to do with this product (to avoid any violations of confidential agreement as well).

Like any good contract, the non-compete should be specific and fair - this also in the interests of the old employer as enforcing a specific and fair agreement in case of clear violation is much easier than vague "i never be a programmer again"
Should You Hop on Microsoft Metro?
Although that's a fair first-order approximation, look here: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX/1403529688x0x500...

I'd break their costs down into per-byte costs and per-subscriber costs. The fixed content costs are only fixed until they renegotiate their contracts. Most media businesses look to merge with the content creators to eliminate those costs altogether.

I believe the real discussion going on is whether Netflix has a viable long-term business model. I believe they do, and I'm glad they got rid of DVDs.
It sounds like a good amount of time was wasted because the domains were already taken, which was only discovered after discussing and voting on them. It might have been better to forfeit all names without domain in first place. It's still possible to find good, free names. http://impossibility.org is a pretty good domain name generator, for instance.
We are building a service specifically to track this sort of thing. It's an open source project here: https://github.com/lockerproject/locker

If you're interested in ways to track and parse through all the types of data that you're producing, take a look! We're probably about a month away from a hosted offering, but you can pull down the source and run it yourself today.
That doesn't say that Amazon is their CDN at all. They probably use AWS for pages and user-oriented stuff, but content delivery is done through Level 3 [1].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/11/us-levelthree-idUS...
Oops sorry. I saw you had promo'ed your site in the comments of an earlier article about kids and programming that HN linked to. So, I just wanted to spread the word :)
Ask HN: Which startup is looking for an intern? 
In San Francisco, would love to intern at a great startup. Any suggestions?
This is almost exactly like something that I've been wanting to build!
What I was trying to say is that Dawkins believes that religious dogma is false, and he tries to convince people that religion is wrong by debunking religious dogma. But that does not work, see olavk's comment for the reason why I think it doesn't.

In other words, in this context, the truth behind religious dogma is irrelevant (which, if twisted enough, may qualify as neither true nor false).

And when I said religious axioms, I was trying to compare religious dogma to mathematical axioms, if such a thing makes sense, so I used the mathematical term.
Time, technology and leaping seconds (leap smear)
I expected an article on linguistics.
If I can respectfully disagree, I believe content creation is unlimited. There's a quality-quantity curve, sure. Independent films make up for post-production quality by having great writing and acting.

I feel this way because I'm convinced the internet is revolutionizing distribution. Therefore, Netflix is way ahead of the game (if you buy what I'm saying).

Production costs are plummeting anyway - it's just that big-budget movies always spend about the same amount, but now that money goes farther.
Finding quality personnel is easy, the job boards are full of them.

Finding a quality company is the challenge.
The Importance of Anti-Lock Brakes
Anti-lock brakes were designed to help drivers maintain control of their vehicles in hard braking situations. In regular, every-day driving situations, the brakes work the same way as brake systems without the anti-lock feature. However, in a panic situation, the anti-lock brakes (ABS) will engage.
How does the US unemployment office look at someone declining a job offer due to a refusal to sign non-compete (or other part of the employment contract)?

Is it the same as if the person got a valid job offer and refused (so they lose unemployment), or are there exceptions?
Your ad hominem attacks are tiring, and in light of your apparent hatred of reddit/digg, reveal a nasty case of projection. So I'll just leave you with some early US and Soviet launch records.

If you still feel like debating the matter, I suggest searching YouTube for launch failures first. There are some rather spectacular videos of rockets that actually did explode, sometimes right on the pad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlas_launches_(1957-19...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_R-7_launches_(1957-1959...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thor_and_Delta_launches...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Titan_launches
Sincerely, I'd prefer all my digital remains to be cremated.
Dunno which site you're thinking of, but I've used Shelfari for a while.
The Future of Javascript (Google Memo)
This kind of rekindles an interest I had in building a web app that was at its core a data vacuum.

You sent it whatever data you like, be that timestamps, integers, floats, arbitrary strings, etc... and it would let you build an intelligent dashboard displaying the data however you like.
Those of us who have to use Jira on a daily basis have a saying - jira delenda est.
> Its stated intent is to persuade as many as 20,000 people to camp out on the streets of Manhattan's financial district until the Obama administration meets its demands.

This seems a little incongruous, doesn't it? Shouldn't they attempt to be occupying some part of D.C. instead if that is their goal?

They may be championing some actual cause, but they have not articulated it well. Both the reasoning and the demands seem very unclear for a protest that is to occur two days from now.

http://twitter.com/#!/OccupyWallSt has only 2,000 followers. I highly doubt this will go very far.
it's not FFmpeg that would need to pay the fees, it would be FFmpeg users. A lot of codec royalties are tied to devices sold or hours of content streamed
2 things will decide when/whether this is possible:

1) The rate at which cooling tech increases; How can you keep a miniature multicore cpu cool enough to process gigantic displays?

2) Power efficiency of the miniature multicore cpus.
This proofs that regardless of how effective the daily deals model can be, it is still important to know each country's culture in order to successfully sell deals to its people and be a front runner in that market.
Consumers can get over a weird name (Wii?!) but what hurts is when they can never remember it.

It's easier to remember names that are concrete (even though monkeys have nothing to do with surveys) or have a memorable connection to the product's usage, like Reddit.

When someone hears the name, understands the product's use or sees the site, try to give them a thread that they can pull on later to remember the name. That's all.

I feel bad about calling out Ninite as a counterexample but several HNers say they can never remember their name. If your name isn't relevant, at least let it be memorable.
with short-links redirecting to the file, it could be done with url shortener with stats, it's just more convenient generating them with this service I guess
> On top of it all, even V8 javascript still runs 10-20x slower than C.

http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/plb-lang.png
http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/plb-lib.png

cross language comparions are bogus and their results can't be extrapolated to all apps, but these examples show that V8 is much closer to raw C perf than you might expect.
http://trafficwaves.org/

He has updated it since '98, and even bought a domain! But yeah, it does work.
President Touts Corporate DREAM Act … errr … “America Invents Act”
What would be nice is if you could have some sort of warning in place for hosting Confluence instances letting the day-to-day users know that a major change is coming. It's pretty disruptive.
This isn't really a hack: it's just a streamlined way to have shortlinks to you Dropbox-files with built-in statistics. What's next, an article by the bit.ly people saying they got a hack to get stats on links you post on Twitter?
How Gary Vaynerchuk built his empire
maybe, but what we are doing now is screwing over of so many more people all over the world.
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While I generally agree with your sentiment, I will say that I use http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html Vmail (vim-gmail) daily and quite like it. Some of us don't mind Vim throwing in the proverbial kitchen sink :)
VMware Workstation 8.0 out
Why You Need To Click On Every Link
XCode, on the other hand looks great. But it's also a pretty horrible environment to work on. Pretty much zero helping writing the code, unlike any other IDE out there.

Looks are deceptive.
You can already do this with the Buzz tab.
Wondering is there any service that takes care of your personal domain name after you have gone?
We're currently using Graphite ( http://techblog.appnexus.com/2011/metrics/ ) and loving it, but using MongoDB is an interesting spin.

I'd love to see some performance benchmarks and see how many datapoints you can pump in and out of Cube. We've been collecting about 1 million metrics every minute on a speedy dual proc / quad core box backed with SSDs for storage.
It would be great to support something that shows the variation in the data for this stuff (average/median for response times is a notoriously bad idea).

Other than that, love it!
Sorry. I missed the deadline.
Image is definitely wrong based on your numbers but I'm not sure it's "misleading". Your picture also shows a complete dominance by facebook. The difference is big, but not important for the purposes of the article. Especially when you consider how poor humans are at determining amounts of things based on area (see the recent discussions on pie charts).
DC marches to the beat of NYCs drum. Anon is just doing root cause analysis. Anon isn't a group so they aren't going to have consistent messages with spokespeople sticking to the talking points.
Giving up is never an option, it’s always a choice.
There was an issue with the console that is now fixed. It didn't work for me initially either.
There's an unofficial way (basically, grabbing it the same way their widget gets it); here's a rough gist of how you do it in Python: https://gist.github.com/57028738e649c15c3b15

I extract it for use in http://SharedCount.com
I saw all of those extra spaces around "then" in the article and assumed the worst. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
Yes! Thanks a lot.
That's a lot easier when you're a year or more behind following a television series.
Methodological problems in cognition and perception videogame research
I am constantly impressed with Heroku's ability to identify market needs, create partnerships, and deliver product. I would love to see an article or book about their company and its evolution.
And it's back. Turns out the problem wasn't really the traffic but a problem with the MongoDB setup...
I am a HUGE media consumer, trendsetter, and generally on the bleeding edge of entertainment in my group of friends. I am their EXACT target, they just don't know how to market to me. I am the one telling my friends about new movies and tech, making sure they see what is good. I would without a doubt spend much MUCH more money then your average consumer if they made it available at reasonable speeds in a DRM-free format. (xVid, MP4, Mkv) I want to pay, and support the artists, and 'own' the material to move around on my own computers. The studios however won't let me unless I purchase physical content and do the rips myself. So most of the time I only up getting the blu-ray months down the road if it's something special. The only person who 'wins' in this situation is me, and I wish this weren't the case.
The major purpose of web directory
Web directories serve many purposes that can be very beneficial to a Web.Let's discuss the each purpose with easy example
And your comment contributes to the conversation how?
before i would even think of touching this i'd need to know what sort of permissions im giving this app. And secondly, you care about stats on links that you intend to leave up for a long time as well as give to a lot of people. Im not sure I would trust an on the side project to keep up links that I distribute widely.

All that said, there was talk on the dropbox blog a while back about releasing analytics tools but we haven't heard anything since then.
Nothing to be sorry about, thanks for spreading it! Site's back up now :-)
Automated cars = less traffic jams. That was easy.
Why do the Brits love curry?
Nah. Unfortunately this seems like people are... well, stupid. People do understand that 'Wall St' is just metonymy, right? Wall St, literally the street, is somewhat meaningless. People can occupy the street but that's not actual going to stop financial trade because 'Wall St.' is just a figure of speech.
Yep. It sucks. Apparently it is going to be upgraded.
Nigeria tries to quash rumor of “killer" cell phone number
interesting problem. Have you filed a bug about swipe events?

The tablet UI doesn't rely on sideways swipes like the phone UI does: I would be interested to find out how it works with swipe events. Is there a test page I can try?

Posted from Firefox Mobile nightly!
The article says: "Take the step. Give your best. And see the result."
correct. it was very inconvenient every time you need download stats to open bit.ly for that.
Why hope?

I quit Netflix streaming because I didn't want to pay more for a selection that has become smaller. I will rejoin if and when they bring a bigger selection.
Hmm, that's an obvious-in-retrospect approach I hadn't thought of. Just try to submit an addendum that defines the relevant field as something that isn't absurd-sounding, but is quite specific to what you're being hired for, and therefore clearly excludes wide swathes of things that aren't that.
ARM assembly programming with Android
"Monopoly" refers to their share of a particular market, not their share of how you personally watch video. I don't think Amazon's streaming numbers even compare and Bittorrent is not a commercial entity. iTunes is kind of a competitor, but their business model is so different that it's questionable whether they're really competing for the same people in general.
I personally rarely ever log into Facebook, so perhaps if you're closeness to the platform is from arms length too, I can see where you might be missing the news.

Let's use photos as an example to demonstrate the power and size of Facebook. This infographic shows the scale of photos stored in the Library of Congress, Flickr, and Facebook: http://s3.amazonaws.com/fromus/blog_posts/largest_photo_libr...

I work at New Relic, so I see a lot of companies (startups and otherwise) that have apps deployed on Facebook. The traffic they get is _insane_ and I don't see any indication that it's slowing down.

Games are an obvious category where Facebook dominates, but they are quickly becoming an obvious destination for new apps to launch, given the access to their social graph and the viral nature of the apps in general.

This isn't about hosting. This is about creating a living Facebook app in 5 seconds.
4 Steps on How To Double Your Traffic With Video Syndicaton
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144937025580428

http://usdayofrage.org
Prevel Framework (JS). Convenience in 5 Kb
This is a lightweight all-purpose JavaScript framework. Its functionality designated on all the aspects of modern developing. Moreover, it’s extremely fast (particularly interactions with the DOM).

All the popular methods from popular frameworks (interactions with the DOM, Ajax and so on) also attend in Prevel but without “ballast”, because, basically, using heavy frameworks consists of using searching through the DOM and creating Ajax requests.

Including a framework which size is 90 Kb on a page which entire size (without a framework) is 20 Kb is a bad tone. But when writing in pure JavaScript arise a few inconveniences connected with that in JavaScript there are no habitual functions such as “$()” or “$.ajax()” and so on; Prevel called to root this problem as an essence by having a clear API and by rapid speed of work.

Perhaps you will say that 200 Kb is not a problem nowadays, but there are still lots of people who don’t use the broadband Internet connection. Furthermore, Prevel is quite faster than newfangled frameworks such as jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, etc. Today, in a milestone of interactivity, speed is incredibly important.

In addition, you can make Prevel smaller; to do this it’s necessary just to assemble it from modules independently.

=================

Examples of usage

Probably you’ll like it after watching on a few examples (not all the functionality).

Ajax:
Ajax attends almost in every application, Prevel simplifies a process of creating requests. Structure of creating queries is like its in jQuery (object with url, type, ...). More detailed instructions are available in documentation.

pl.ajax({
url: ‘prevelAjaxTest.py’,
type: ‘GET’,
success: function(data) {
alert(‘Okay.’);
}
});

DOM:
Function for interacting with the DOM widely respesented in Prevel; it’s possible to find more examples in documentation.

Following code makes all the DIVs half-transparent.

pl(‘div’).css({
opacity: 0.5
});

Common:
This methods are available from the `pl` namespace.

Defining the type of an object.

pl.type(Lorem.’) === ‘str’
pl.type([]) === ‘arr’
pl.type({}) === ‘obj’
pl.type(new Date()) === ‘date’
pl.type(/abc/g) === ‘regexp’

Defining a browser name. Supported browsers: chrome, opera, firefox, ie, ie6, ie7, ie8, safari, safari_khtml.

pl.browser(); // Name of current browser

If you suddenly liked Prevel Framework, you could read documentation. By the way, it’s necessary to emphasise one pleasant particularity: call chains supported (e.g. pl(‘div’).after(‘...’).before(‘...’)).

On GitHub: https://github.com/chernikovalexey/Prevel
Netflix Streaming is the only way I consume TV, so yeah, I'm definitely at least a year or more behind :)
A lot of people seem to think that the recent price changes are done to discourage dvd rentals because they are less profitable.

I see it the other way, the recent separation in prices were done to isolate dvd profits from the rest of netflix. Make no mistake that the studios are already working on deals that will bleed netflix dry. They will look to squeeze every last penny of profit out of the streaming division. By separating the 2 units, netflix is making sure the dvd unit can chug along merrily with their relatively fixed profits that the studios can't bargain for.
Internally we use github (haven't tried many others, honestly, just integrates well and gets the job done.)

Publicly we use tenderapp. Always loved their design and UX flow.
It got me to go seek out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_particle
No. Netflix uses AWS for nearly everything (including transcoding videos) other than streaming bits and a subset of other processes (PCI type stuff).
Mozilla: A study in organizational openness
When was the last time they gave partial refunds? I think this was the case even years ago. I agree with the tone of the wording though; it has that passive aggressiveness that we paying customers shouldn't have to endure.
I looked at buying some, it's generally a good idea to buy a fundamentally solid company after an overreaction to a good-long-term/bad-short-term decision. I bought Starbucks right after they got hammered for closing a bunch of stores a few years ago and it did really well.

But their price/earnings ratio is still 42.86, which seems high. For perspective, Microsoft is at 9.99 (disclaimer: I own some) and Apple is at 15.56.

That means Netflix could double their earnings, and still cost more on a per earning basis than Apple. I just don't see it as a good buy, especially with some tough competitors in streaming content like Amazon, Apple, Hulu, etc.

It seems to me like there's lots of very solid buys that are undervalued, going for a sexy industry with a high P/E, no dividend, not much in the way of patents or strong assets, and tough competitors... yeah, I think Netflix is a brilliant company, but I'm not buying their stock at these prices.
Another interesting part of the project name / url debate:

Is having [product].com that important?

In their book and blog 37Signals has generally played down the importance of urls. Pointing to the use of basecamphq.com for their project management offering.

I must say I am on the fence. Clearly appending something to your product's name opens more options for un-squatted domains but at what cost to the end user?
I don't really get the idea of the app but anyway, TechCrunch Disrupt winner is Shaker.
Welp, here's an example. My project Flatland[1] is intended to be a 2D games library, providing graphics, audio, input, content loading, and a few other bits. My target platforms are Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and WP7.

With a properly architected solution (and I like to think mine comes close) with sufficient abstraction, I literally can write a game once--with allowances for fundamental platform differences, i.e. "is this a touch device? then show on-screen controls, but wire them to the same backend logic"--and deploy it everywhere. I can't do that with a Java engine on Android and an Obj-C (ugh) engine on iOS, because there is no reasonable lingua franca. C#, on the other hand, works fairly well everywhere. The platform-specific bits are small, clearly delineated, and shouldn't take long to do (it's Windows-only for now).

[1] - http://bitbucket.org/eropple/flatland