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Except we can't, because standards dictate stupid this. My example: GPS data gives altitude above the spheroid; KML requires altitude above the geoid. This means that even 2D GPS coordinates that were not taken at sea level cannot be used directly in KML and hence Google Maps.

Converting this requires projecting spheroid data into 3-space and reprojecting it onto the geoid (which is a complex geometrical shape). Neither of these steps is trivial. Of course it's easy if you've got proj4; but this kind of stuff just does not ship with Android.
As kind of an omnibus response to this and the comments:

1) A portion of teachers will spend money on software. Reports of teachers being universally poor and stingy have been greatly exaggerated. You may know a stingy teacher. I do, too. I also have credit card numbers willingly given by thousands of her coworkers.

2) Average sales cycle for districts is 9 to 18 months. You can close a teacher in 9 to 18 minutes a non-trivial portion of the time.

3) There exist many, many businesses which have sold more $$$ to teachers than BCC. 5,000 paying customers is rather modest, as there are over three million teachers in the US. I'm always happy to be mentioned but please don't think I'm the upper bound for success here.

4) Contra article, making money is a perfectly valid reason to go into education. Teachers get paid on Friday, too. Also, some judicious capitalism would help redress the severe resource misallocation between education software, which is probably societally important, and mobiphotosocialgames. (We could also quibble with the misallocation between education software and education salaries, but that will not endear you to the main customer group here.)
I don't understand why you are so keen to draw me into a line by line nitpick. You saw my objection to the essay. Address it or don't. I don't think your points in the essay can stand without both a discussion of empiricism and an examination of the broader analytic philosophy project. You obviously do, so I'm happy to leave it there.
What do you think would be a reasonable cost given your budget as a teacher? The feedback we're getting from friends will probably be skewed by geography. Perspective from people in other areas would be appreciated.

edit: Also, we fixed the small font thing. Or, at least, made it better. We do intend on moving it away from a big wall of text.
In my opinion, this is definitely the obvious and correct move. It isn't a surprise that Netflix wanted to head towards a stream only business model, but this makes it crystal clear that Netflix is (at the moment) a premium streaming video company. I mean look at them, thats all they do now!

The still face some big hurdles with all their streaming content deals, and the outcome will likely be what makes or breaks the Netflix we all know and love. Premium content providers (HBO, Starz, and now AMC, etc...) will always hold the upper hand here, and many already have streaming products in place. If not, its rather trivial to create nowadays.

My prediction: Netflix becomes an original content powerhouse that harnesses the sort of democratic whimsey of the web. "House of Cards" is their toe in the water. I really see no other direction that is feasible with content providers fragmenting into their space and hoarding their popular original content.
Not necessarily if you're building a Metro app, which may be all the ARM devices will support. Metro apps get use of a small subset of .Net namespaces.
More data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports

The US is the #3 country in terms of exports.
I think the challenge for Netflix here will be to disassociate Netflix with DVD rentals. People will go to Netflix's website, and expect their DVDs to be there alongside their streaming movies.
This is not something you see CEOs write every day. Hell, this isn't something you see CEOs write ever in their careers. It took a lot of guts to write it, and regardless of the huge controversy surrounding their pricing strategies, I hope that this split succeeds.

Also, video games!
The key word here is share.

I.e., if I become 10% richer, but some other guy becomes 20% richer, my share of the wealth is lower but I'm still wealthier.
Billing will be separate, which is a minor annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless.

The bigger issue is splitting my ratings and thus my suggestions. I already ignore other places to rate movies since only netflix provided a tangible benefit to me. Split it, and it won't.
I bet a lot of customers evaluate Hulu and Redbox now.
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Your definition of "important" is deeply subjective.
The elephant in the streaming office is the lack of blockbuster titles, many of which are only available through their DVD by mail business. If they're betting everything on streaming i'm guessing (hoping) that they've also figured out a solution to this problem. Otherwise, they've lost the big benefit of credibility that DVD by mail brought to their service.
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I really, really liked the way Hastings wrote this post. It takes a lot to own up to your mistakes, but he seems dedicated to making Netflix succeed, and the decision to split the service into two is really... interesting, to say the least. I'll probably stick with streaming and forget about physical media, to be honest. It's much more convenient to drive to the Redbox down the street than wait a few days and have to deal with mailing discs back and forth.

Kind of glad to see video game rentals coming; too bad they're late to the party and will have to compete with Blockbuster, Gamefly, and Redbox.
As Reed says, the streaming business is global, but the DVD business is US-only. Maintaining code that services functions that apply in some locales but not others will slow down Netflix's ability to innovate.
An easy way to show the importance of philosophy is to show all the powerful sciences it spawned and provided theoretical underpinnings for. Not the least of which is cognitive neuroscience.
Netflix is the one recurring bill on my credit card. I like the company and think it has great customer service. I trust the company. I don't want multiple recurring charges on my credit card. The more paid accounts a person has the more likely it is that an account will be forgotten about.

Also, it would be a pain to find out a movie isn't available for streaming and then having to login to another account to put the movie in its cue. And I don't want to browse DVDs and put one in my queue when it's available for streaming.
Cheating what? As I said, it's just a typical server in our cluster and hopefully helpful data.
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"The sad fact is that America is no longer a country that makes things, and as a result we no longer find ourselves in a position to employ people in positions that are actually worth a damn."

This makes just about as much sense as a similar statement does 100 years ago:

"The sad fact is that America is no longer a country of farmers producing food, and as a result we no longer find ourselves in a position to employ people in positions that are actually worth a damn."

A service economy and relative decline of manufacturing output (NOTE: I said relative - manufacturing output is at an all time high) is something to be celebrated, not bemoaned.
So the pie hasn't grown? I'm serious asking-- I don't know.

It it has, then it COULD be a net win. Example: Pie consists of $100. I (rich guy) have $50, the rest of the folks (5 people) split the other $50, and have $10 apiece. I cleverly invest abroad and double my money. I now have $100. The rest of the folks invest less cleverly, and turn their $10 into $12. Their share of the wealth declines, no?
The point is not that the patent system is wholly sane, but that it is made somewhat more sane by a careful imposition of legal costs that by and large affect only patent trolls.
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really? i was under the impression it was a really fast 8051 clone.
An interesting piece of ed tech to think about is lesson planning software. Most teachers put a tremendous amount of time planning their lessons, but still write their lesson plans using word processors. There are all kinds of problems in effective lesson design that stem from relying on word processors. Good lesson planning software would lead a teacher through a strong design process, letting them choose which pieces to include, and in what order. Lessons would be easy to revise. A teacher could change the format of their lessons, and instantly have all their previous lessons available in the new format. The use of word processors for lesson planning is like an architect using ms paint to design a building.

Yet every example of lesson planning software I've seen has a serious flaw. It might have a bad ui, it might not be based on sound pedagogical principles, it might promote vendor lock-in. It's hard to do it right; to do it well and for profit you would probably have to charge too much to get a significant percentage of teachers using your product.

You can sell a niche product in the ed tech market. You can build a piece of software and convince a bunch of districts to buy in, and rake in some cash. But making a piece of software that truly makes education better, and doing so in a way that does not contribute to the already huge education gap between those with resources and those without, is tremendously difficult.
Let's hope Netflix can compete without having to splatter advertisements throughout the stream.
With billing, most of us already maintain different accounts with different e-commerce sites. One more is not that bad. Ratings on either Qwikster or Netflix will benefit you because of the improved recommendations. Yes, it's a shame they won't be integrated, but overall the split will benefit the company and its customers.
What an absolutely awful name "Qwikster". I'm still frowning in disgust.
It gets better still! Did you know that GPS data and KML (Google Earth's format), despite both using the WGS84 spheroid, are not compatible? GPS computes altitude above the spheroid (shape of the earth), while KML requires altitude above the geoid (shape of the sea). These differ by several hundred feet in many areas. (The geoid is 30 m below the ellipsoid where I am.)

But wait there's more! Just using lat/long and ignoring elevation? Guess what, the verticals for GPS and KML differ too! GPS looks down a line normal to the spheroid; KML looks down a line normal to the geoid (in the direction of gravity). Those are almost always different. So unless your GPS readings were taken at sea level, your data's still wrong!

The picture here explains what's going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid#Description The "plumb lines" are what are used by KML; the other lines are what are used by GPS. Notice how they point to different locations...

(P.S. I'm not a GIS-icist, but this comes from experience of collecting and correcting GPS data and reading spec sheets. I'd love if an actual GIS or Google person told me I was wrong but I'm not holding my breath.)
I strongly suspect it's related to negotiating royalties for streaming based on streaming subscriber numbers, not the combined numbers.

That was the reason behind the original split in the services, so it's probably why they're actually splitting the accounts.
Side note: TechCrunch got back to doing real news. Good for them!
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I know the Netflix name was chosen from the beginning to be compatible with a future streaming business, but seeing this chrysalis-style business plan unfold now is quite astounding in its long-term thinking.
I think this is a good move simply because the two divisions have contradictory goals at this point.

For example, the Qwikster division should be looking at finding ways to deliver DVDs quicker (Kiosks for example). But that's not something that would ever occur to Netflix because they're focused on streaming as the future.

Which is where the contradiction comes in. It is hard to run a business unit when the goal of the company overall is to kill off your unit.

That said I think announcing it today is foolish. Even if it was their original plan to do so announcing it right after a stock drop makes the decision look rash. IMHO they should have put this announcement off for a couple weeks.
Clearly HTTP has been a complete failure...
I feel pretty comfortable saying that will NEVER EVER happen, at least as long as Reed is still the CEO.
May be this is the wrong decision, may be it is the right decision - it is quite unclear and only time will tell. However, from an entrepreneurial perspective, Reed has all my respect - it is incredibly difficult to disrupt yourself and he has certainly placed his bet. That takes balls and I respect that.

As to why separate, I assume that from an operational perspective it makes running the businesses easier. It is strange that some things e.g. ratings, accounts, etc. will be separate though, that's for sure.

I can't wait to see this play out!
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I'd be okay with a two-tiered system: a Netflix Light that is cheap and ad-supported (hopefully at the beginning, not interspersed throughout), and a Netflix Full that offers no ads.

Mostly though, I just want to have a decent selection in Canada. I was chatting with a friend about the possibility of doing a movie streaming startup, and I couldn't get past the fact that Netflix's biggest problems are not of their creation; they come from the studios. I wish them the best of luck, and hope that someday I might be a customer, but I'd hate to have to deal with the rights hassles that they do.
What would you define as a lot of usage?
You mentioned a $20 figure and this has biased my feelings. It's known that throwing out a figure causes an anchoring effect by which people judge the value of an object or service.

I've been teaching for a long enough time now that I have a large set of exercises that I've typed up and written out solutions to. I do continue to create new problems and problem sets but I've reached the point where I can easily reuse old problem by making small modifications.

Now I would definitely use something that could create graphs easily. If you could generate the graph of two functions intersecting at points with integer coordinates then that would be really nice. Or one that generates problems with real world data. It's a pain to find out how the life expectancy of Botswana has changed over time and then creating a scatter plot of that for use in a problem.

There are certain problem types that would make this service quite valuable to me. Of course I haven't had a pay raise in over 3 years so my budget is quite limited.

EDIT: Font size change and color change is nice.
I researched Netflix for a project back when they had around 8 million subscribers and the biggest part of their business was direct mail DVD.

The strides they've come to have the Netflix brand as more than just a DVD rental service are immense. My only worry about this move is that they lose all of that brand recognition with "Qwikster."
When I think of the term Netflix, I think of watching flicks on the Internet. I'm sure a lot of people don't look at it that way, but the term Netflix makes a lot of sense when referring to a streaming service (as opposed to a service that rents out physical media).

I know a lot of non-savvy people probably can't make that connection, but I think the company will make it clear that Netflix is no longer the place for DVDs.
Biggest downfall here will potentially be the separation of ratings. Dvd and streaming customers will have to rate dvd first and then see it as unwatched in streaming later?

I think of Netflix as my repository for "what I have watched" and teller of "what you will want to watch". I don't tie the brand to a specific delivery mechanism (dvd or streaming).
Totally agree, I know first-hand how hard it is to come up with a good name coupled to an available domain name, but I would expect better from Netflix.
Again, Apple runs businesses (eg. Macs) that operate in some jurisdictions that their other businesses (eg. iTunes) do not. You don't need a structural separation to 'innovate', you need a structural separation to ease a sale of a business.
Interesting prediction. It would make a lot of sense to produce/fund more original content. It's definitely the direction the streaming business has to follow. If cool and original stuff is on Netflix only, it will be good for them and other original content producers may be more inclined to be there.
Sorry, but no. Compensation is highly relevant. Do you work for free? Or do you just not consider security research to be worth anything?

Although there are various opinions on the best way to disclose bugs, your view of what it means to be "whitehat/legitimate" is not actually consistent with the infosec industry, so please do not misuse the terms to throw judgments at others.

We can easily spin it the other way too after all - one could say that the largest, most profitable company in the world has a moral obligation to compensate those that are protecting their users where they failed to.

For reference:
http://www.digitalbond.com/about-us/vulnerability-disclosure...
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/09/finally-responsible-di...
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/933
http://trailofbits.com/2009/03/22/no-more-free-bugs/
I have just started reading the bible of algorithms:

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> I just want to have a decent selection in Canada.

As an American, don't worry, the selection isn't very good here either.
It makes me immediately think of "Quitster", not the best given the circumstances.
Also, video games!

This has the potential to be pretty large, actually, and GameFly is pretty terrible, in my experience.
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"...the Qwikster.com and Netflix.com websites will not be integrated. So if you subscribe to both services, and if you need to change your credit card or email address, you would need to do it in two places. Similarly, if you rate or review a movie on Qwikster, it doesn’t show up on Netflix, and vice-versa."

Wow. I had previously thought that their pricing change was forcing consumers to effectively choose between streaming and disc-based services, but didn't expect that they'd actually go this far and completely cut the cord between the two.

Considering the how much less efficient it is to mail movies than it is to download them in an age of high gas prices and fast internet, Netflix killing or spinning-off it's dvd service was an inevitability. I'm just not sure that right now the streaming service by itself has the selection to keep subscription numbers high enough to maintain sufficient leverage with content providers.

Momentum is very important with the type of model they have: the more content Netflix loses to studios who start their own streaming services, the less appealing the Netflix service becomes to subscribers, which both weakens the argument for studios to stick with them due to the size of their subscriber base and also sets a positive example of succeeding without Netflix that other studios can follow.
"Qwikster will also now offer video game rentals through the mail"

While I wouldn't sign up full time for a game rental service I would be interested in getting a game now and then rather than a dvd. Suffice it to say for my needs a dvd in the mail fit my needs exactly and I will continue paying for that.

Edit: not to mention from what I hear games always have a long waiting list on other services. I am more than happy to put a game at the top of my list and getting it at some point in the next two months, but meanwhile getting dvd's that I want.
To me, the classiest thing about this post is how Hastings is taking the time to personally respond to the blog comments. You don't see that very often from a CEO of a company as large as Netflix, and it's pretty darn cool.
This is probably an old pre-default HTTPS Gmail, man in the middle attack and the original article is badly written as others have posted. However, the man in the middle based packet inspection and injection is widely used. From what I can tell this is how the censorship banner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KCSC-Warning.png) gets pasted over JS and html partials within sites the government takes issue to. Packet inspection is almost certainly being widely used.
It should be noted that anyone can edit wikipedia, and this pejorative term has fortunately been rejected by researchers and vendors alike. Even by Microsoft: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/22/microsoft_coordinate...

I've pasted some other definitions of "responsible disclosure" in a different reply.
I can certainly understand the high level in C++. But Ruby vs. Python is odd. There are so many similarities in the Ruby & Python communities. The main difference seems to be that Ruby has One Framework to Rule Them All, while Python has ... various things. Maybe that has something to do with it?
The dvd-streaming divide difficulty is nothing compared to the difficulty around licensing content for different territories, as the studios are just a nightmare.
If Netflix/Quikster can get games right, Gamefly should get pretty scared. They can't afford to keep large stock (so you often don't get the game you want), and their turnaround on games is poor (usually about a week round trip, and I live in CA where they have a distribution center).

Oddly, Gamefly just launched a streaming service for the PC, so just as Gamefly is beginning the move away from discs to streaming, Netflix is moving right into that spot.

I don't think game discs have much of a long-term future, but then neither do movie discs either. I wonder if this structuring is not just so that Quikster can be killed or sold to a chump (or someone willing to settle for scaling back the business) as soon as they begin to see the tipping point on streaming.
I've sworn my fair share when trying to write Haskell bindings to libraries that assume all languages have global variables.

CPython's module initialization functions are particularly obnoxious about this.
And the downvote dance continues :) Not that I give a shit though, HN has continuously been going down the toilet for the last few years now.

Now it's mostly fanboyism, self-congratulation, oh and gratuitious downvotes without even reading or understanding people's posts.

Also, yeah, know even if Asa's was a half-joke, arpitnext's post was not a joke. Well, back to doing useful stuff now.