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I'm not expecting the algorithm to magically know anything. The first line of my comment was "I wish it let you split out recommendations based on users". I thought specifying "users" was enough to indicate that I meant an account with multiple named profiles.

Now, I understand that Netflix would prefer that everyone have their own separate Netflix account, and that adding this feature might be looked down on as promoting the use of a single account for multiple people, but that doesn't make it a bad feature.

They need to understand that most people don't see the need for having multiple accounts. How often do you really find that two people want to watch two movies at once? When that does occur, how often is it such a high priority that nether party is willing to wait until the other is done to watch their movie?

Adding accounts results in significantly diminished returns right away. The second account is only of use when two people want to watch something at once, which I've never found to be a serious problem. Adding a third or fourth account is absolutely ridiculous[1].

[1] It's ridiculous now, but if Netflix ever becomes a serious provider of new TV, supplanting the current cable TV structure with an a la carte, on demand model, then I'd gladly maintain multiple accounts. When that day comes, they could allow roaming profiles, allowing a new account to start using the viewing history/recommendations of a named profile on another account.
Ah, thanks. For the longest time I used 'maby' instead of 'maybe' in Usenet posts, before someone pointed out it was wrong.
Ah, current sales would make sense. Thanks for pointing it out.
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This is awesome. :)

Someone did something similar for PostgreSQL here:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom
I'd draw the line somewhere in the past, before all that stuff you mention.

Links in Hebrew (I'm in Israel) are unreadable and not helping.

I constantly end up with German results polluting my search (maybe because I signed up when I lived in Germany? No idea, it's out of my control). It is a hassle to fight them.

It got never better. I gradually noticed a trend of decreasing usefulness of Google search, without any visible sign of getting better. Only more dumbed down. And now 'social'?
Is the article glorifying the truth? Or does a part of us find some of his jetset, bikini clad model, high roller life glorious?

Your certainly correct he is no role model, but as long as making a million bucks is the ideal of a good life, the problem goes deeper than this one man.
The £2 limit is on the transaction fee, not the maximum payment. From the FAQs:

... you will never pay more than £2.00 for a transaction.
Actually drivers do pay for roads in the form of gasoline taxes. Moreover, the gas tax incidence lies purely on a driver whereas funding for mass-transit comes from the entire populace (including those who will never use it).
Apple's supply chain (still thinking about it from NYT article on Sunday) is a big reason that Android's numbers aren't even bigger.

I ordered my ASUS Transformer Prime 3 1/2 weeks ago, and Amazon says I'll still be waiting another 2 weeks at least.

The Prime is the first true example of hardware spec superiority to the iPad in the tablet market - granted it may only keep that position for a few months.

However, a multiplatform operating system breeds hardware competition. Hardware performance attracts the games market, and that is one of the software bellwethers.

I think Android is going to continue to push the power of what we can do with a tablet, and we're going to see a similar environment to what we have in the PC market where Apple's offerings plateau in terms of performance much more quickly than its Android counterparts.
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That was for tablets, right? I'm not surprised considering how shitty the Android tablets have been.

But developers are targeting the phones first, tablets second, because a phone is always in your pocket, always online and everybody needs a phone. In December Google reported 700,000 activations per day. In 2010 alone there were 67 millions of Android devices sold, with the total number of mobile phones sold being measured in the hundreds of millions.

So Kindle Fire does great as far as tablets go, but it can't compete in numbers with Android phones and Android phones are targeted first, unless you're talking about stuff like interactive eBooks that really need the bigger screen.

I'm also seeing this happening on iPhones and iPads. Unless an app really needs the bigger screen, then the iPad is a second class citizen to the iPhone.
The engadget article does not give any relevant detail. Link to actual release announcement: http://kde.org/announcements/4.8/
"Sure, it might not have the marketing flair, nor mindshare of another Linux-based project we know, but that doesn't mean the folks behind KDE haven't been feverishly polishing their take on the perfect desktop environment."

Bzzzzt. Comparing desktop environment and gnome-based-distribution = not useful.

And there's nothing of insight on engadget. Let's head to http://kde.org/announcements/4.8/ instead.
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Or just walk ten minutes to the underground location.
Hum ... the guy that wrote this post does not seem to be French or Swiss for that matter. So why talk about nationalism ?
I find it funny how they try to use iTunes and the music purchased from iTunes as an example for how this legislation would affect people, even though music purchased from iTunes has been DRM free for a few years.
Nice related trivia: If the EU would apply to become an EU member state, it would be rejected because it's not democratic enough.

Yes, that's a problem and yes, it'll take decades to fix.
Definitely, also note that in the official announcements there are links to separate announcements for the different parts that make KDE (announcement for plasma, for the applications and for the platform).

Also for those using Kubuntu here's how to get it: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-4.8.0
While I agree with what you've said about cars, I'd consider it just as crazy to have a 30-minute or 50-minute commute by alternative transportation as an equally long commute by car. Either way, you waste a significant portion of your life going back and forth to work.

If you have a commute longer than 5-10 minutes, and you don't work from home on the vast majority of days, consider changing either your work location or your home location. That holds regardless of your preferred mode of transport.
I really hope you're right about all this. Still wondering why there's no SOPA-style outbreak in any EU country but Poland. Maybe because we all, like me, just sit and wonder?
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I had investigated aggregates using gpu for building dwarf petacubes (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nick/projects/Dwarf.pdf), and yes it looks viable.
Surely when you get a contract for your phone & service you pay X for Y months and this should cover the cost of the phone anyway. So even if you switch the phone to a different carrier you're going to be paying the contract amount anyway.

I could unlock my phone and use a different carrier (considered doing this after the o2 fiasco yesterday) but it wouldn't make economic sense to me.
I never said national ratification is a mere formality. In fact, you can count on a huge debate in Poland (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3502200).

I was just saying - even if a national parliament rejects ACTA, 90% of ACTA will still affect that country as a EU member.

And yeah, I'm very hopeful too about the EU Parliament.
I think this man is just burnt out.
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That was good to see. For EU payments (no sign they are going global) this would make a great solution. Less use for me while still UK only, but I am sure there are lots of UK businesses that could start using it now.
It would be a good asset to have irregardless of the .com vs .org debate BUT spending money you can't afford to spend when the future of your company is completely uncertain (I'm assuming base on what you wrote) is not necessarily a smart move as awesome as the opportunity may be. Unless you've already launched, have clear traction, etc, you might just spend money on a domain for a startup that may not exist a few months from now.

I can't speak for others but my personal opinion is try to get traction with the company first and then decide whether or not you can afford to acquire the name. Most startups don't survive long enough to worry about what their name ends up being.
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They say in the FAQ they will cover all of EU soon...
Wow, that site looks beautiful, amazing HTML5 and CSS-work. The source looks handcoded, apart from Modernizer and jQuery.

I wonder how you would event start to design something like that.
"allows you to see how some one approaches a problem"

Although the whiteboard is good for some purposes, the author specifically mentions "brainfuck" coding questions.

Having them do those on the whiteboard really only tests how the think on their feet in high pressure situations... Something not really required of 99% of coders.
That infographic is taken from seobook.com which in itself might be stolen from somewhere else...
They wouldn't allow you to substitute your own implementation? That's rather odd. I'd be more interested in whether you knew how to traverse a linked list than I would be in any knowledge of the Python API.
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I wonder if there is a minimum of 1p? Either way this is potentially compelling for micropayment type solutions...
Make it a habit to periodically refresh the username with a login from http://openid.anonymity.com/<name>;
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So - I have a license and love to drive. But here it is ~different~. The whole traffic 'culture' constantly makes me think that I'd cause accidents here: My Autobahn mindset doesn't translate to the driving behavior here, so I fear that _I_ will crash into someone, someday, because of 'No, he certainly won't do ... BOOM'.

Agreed, the Saturday issue is annoying sometimes. You can go by train as far as I am informed (but where to? The options are limited) and the sherut + cab solution works. Bus, (sherut,) cab are ~cheap~ here.

In TLV I need no car, never. For shopping it might be annoying sometimes, but that's really just my own lazyness, I think.

Renting cars: I don't need one without planning ahead. If I do that, I can easily rent it in advance (ignoring the Saturday issue again). In the greater area I still try to use the bike. A car is for visits to the dead sea, to Haifa, Jerusalem (train works just as well though) etc. I don't have family here and friends are ~local~, i.e. TLV, Ramat Gan, Ramat Aviv etc. => Bike
It seems they really don't want to start a trend of "people that don't have cable tv".
You could always send a candidate a simple(or complex, depends on what you are looking for) task that they need to complete a working solution for. This could be more beneficial than already prepared code samples.

1: You will know the time frame in which it took the candidate to write the solution.

2: You are setting out the parameters for the task and can choose an area(specific skills) that you are particularly interested in testing knowledge for.

I know a lot of companies do this as a standard practice.
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Totally agree. Very compelling story.

Also really like your response here:
http://www.cheekswab.org/about-cheekswab/questions-and-answe...

This makes the whole thing feel very personal!
Any ETA for a rollout in EU?
Yes. And in Tokyo transportation is cheap. Taxis only cost 710 yen per kilometer and all trains stop 12h30 at night.
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While that may be true, if you're really top talent as he's suggesting he is, you probably aren't part of that 99% either. And that's the problem I have with the article in general. It has a very prima donna attitude to it. As in: "I'm so good you need to soften the interview for me and the fact I'm demanding that is proof enough that I'm that good."
The saying is also "preaching to the quire"[0]. :)

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You're right, I've let that go straight over my head.

It's the same deal though at the end of the day, as a business I want to take payments from my customers without hassling them to make manual transfers.

So an id for cc details is the same as bank details from my end providing I can request payments for flexible amounts.

Service providers in the UK seem to be able to change the amount I pay on direct debit agreements without anything further from me, so I assume its all possible on the banking side.
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Not every crime requires a prison sentence. One of those crimes was insider trading, do you know that is also illegal in the United States too, with the exception of it being carried out by US Politicians. Perhaps get your own house in order before you start complaining about the legal systems of other countries.
Could we get a public backup of the database already? Make it a torrent if bandwidth is an issue, but lets back that amazing resource up.
That is doable if you're single and live alone. When you and your preferred room mate work at different locations, it becomes impossible for both of you to live within 5-10 minutes of your workplace.
Since you can already separately unlock and jailbreak phones, that would make matters very confusing.
It's not only one building!

Most of LHC ring is in France. The second biggest accelerator, the SPS, is almost entirely in France too. The CERN Control Center, where all accelerators are operated, is in the CERN's site of Prevessin, in France. Out of the four main LHC experiments, three are in France...

Still, to simplify we usually say CERN is just in Switzerland.

It's somewhat funny (but also convenient) that we use Swiss electricity plugs, and Swiss cell-phone network coverage all over CERN.
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Hardware performance attracts the games market

The benefits of a homogeneous set of hardware far outweigh any performance advantages of the anything goes approach. The iPad is "good enough" and predictable.
I always find new versions of KDE disproportionately exciting.

I remember switching to 4.6 and having a list of things that annoyed me. I think it involved the display settings, some of the activity stuff, Emacs not going full-screen properly... Mostly minor stuff.

Since I am lazy and unmotivated, I just remembered these little annoyances but never bothered to tell anybody or file bug reports.

4.7 fixed all of them, as if somebody had read my mind. It was eerie. I feel like KDE is the only desktop environment I've used that's actually aimed at me.

Hopefully 4.8 will bring even more great improvements. I would be upgrading now if it wasn't 5 in the morning...
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Cars are essentially what is causing urban sprawl and the rapid annihilation of nature.

It would also seem city planners design municipalities for cars first, not people. But it's bad planning for everyone, and even bad for business: http://allsprawldown.com/activism/a-big-reason-canadians-are...
You can stream multiple things at the same time with one account. The limit is low though like 2 or 3. At one point in time you could have sub accounts with their own dvd queue, recommendations, etc. I find the whole thing odd and starting to become user hostile.
This is not surprising, since ACTA is still months away from being effective and news concerning its dangers and shortcomings are only now starting to be visible.

However, there is also another, perhaps major, issue: the tech sector is just not as large or impactful as in the US (or, at least, this is the public perception): no community hub such as Silicon Valley, very few dominant businesses, very few startups and VCs capable of flexing their muscles.

I fear that if we are unable to get major US companies to protest ACTA, such legislation might simply slide past unseen by most.
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It was banned in the US (for everyone except your politicians) but that doesnt mean everyone else has to have the same laws as you. You still have the death penalty, the rest of the developed world considers it barbaric, I dont see you questioning why Germany dont have the death penalty.
They're EC2 large and x-large instance.
This is how a lot of payments are conducted in Germany. It's easy and secure for the customer as he can reverse fraudulent charges.

What makes this different than providing websites with your credit card details?
If everyone had their own self-driving car we'd still have the same problems described in the OP.
Well, yes, if they want to use the recommendation system as it is intended, then yes. It's how the thing works, it recommends based on what has been viewed before...it's not magic guys.
But I come up with all my clever abstract algorithms in the shower - usually while I am thinking of something else. I don't think being "clever" on demand is the mark of a good developer. I would prefer they look at some of my available open source code - that gives a much better reflection of my abilities.
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I'd like to see the same thing with congress's approval ratings broken down by member of congress.
I've recommended Winning Results with Google AdWords, Second Edition by Andrew Goodman in the past although it's getting a bit dated (although still has useful info).

I've seen lots of people recommend the Brad Geddes book and Perry Marshal book as well, have a flick through all three and see which works best for you.
I've been running a similar experiment. And noticed similar things as the author.

However, I decided to run an additional experiment to contact Amazon since the IP was originating from an EC2 instance. Amazon contacted me after I filed an abuse report and said they were investigating.

A week goes by and I'm still getting hammered. So I email Amazon and asked when it will be resolved. No response. So I email again, again, and again. I finally get a response saying they have resolved it, but I'm still getting hammered from the same IP address.

So I email them once more asking - what is it exactly you have resolved?

No response.

I presume it is not in Amazon's best interest to resolve such issues as long as people are paying for their instances....
But let's face it, the reason we're having our attention drawn to this right now is that we've got a president running for reelection, so it gives us exactly what we want to know.
Actually, registration and gas taxes don't even cover the damage cars do to tax payer subsidized roads. The real taxpayer funded contribution to transport is almost identical for public and private transport. The key difference is that cars have the roads, public space and pollution subsidized where as transit have the marginal ticket price subsidized.

Here is an example from Australia (heavily car dependent) http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2010/11/24/what-costs...
There are no outbreaks in other EU countries, because the media don't write/talk about ACTA. So the societies are completely ignorant about ACTA's existence.

In Poland, some mainstream media had the balls to talk about ACTA, which coincided with high-profile "hacking" attacks on govt websites. This lead to a sudden spread of public awareness. And when the kids heard that free downloading of mp3s, movies and porn is threatened, they took to the streets. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3502200)

And how did the media learn about ACTA in the first place? That's still a bit of a riddle to me. Certainly some active NGOs, like the Panoptykon Foundation, and enlightened individuals, like Piotr Waglowski (a lawyer of some fame in the digital community) have contributed by constantly pesking the govt about ACTA.
> "Oh my contract is up, I want to move to another phone network, but my phone that I paid for is locked!"

Except jailbreaking != sim unlocking.
Looking at the API, if you have the agreement set up you can make charges up to a maximum limit (that you can see) without further customer interaction. If you need to interact with the customer there are different API calls, eg to increase limit, get initial agreement.
I wonder what's the "walking distance" is in this case, but lack of nice grocery stores and good food places is actually a common consequence of a car-optimized city.

As for moving 42" TV in a sedan being safer for the TV, one, I doubt that, two, I'm more concerned about the driver than the TV. I know, odd.
This is obviously wrong as shown by functioning public transportation systems in large cities like Berlin, with busses, trains and undergrounds every 5-10 minutes. The transport system isn't organized as a complete graph, but instead looks something like a powerlaw distributed graph. The diameter is still small, but the number of lines stays linear.
Or 30 minutes on a bike (once you're fit)
I would guess that the average person might cover .5 mile (< 1km) in 10 minutes so it wouldn't be possible to reach the parking that's located "many miles" away. Also, I didn't say your car is 10 minutes by foot away, more like 10 miles. It could easily be 15-20 minutes for your car. Your goal is to minimize your commute time not your cars.

This wouldn't work in NYC or London, which are much bigger cities than discussed in the article. The first leg of your journey there should be a train whisking you away from the city at 120 mph to a train station within 15-20 miles of your home where your car will leave home to pick you as soon as your phone tells it you are 15 minutes from your station.
At first I thought this was awesome. Then I realized I would never open my bank account to anyone again after a Paypal incident.

Great price and I'm in on that, but the system needs work.
According to the API docs, you can get customers to create a Pre-Authorisation, and then raise Bills against this authorisation.
This appears to me as a ridiculously good idea. I've no clue whether it's really novel, but to me it is.

Anyone got a clue about the implications? Also, how difficult to do? (besides than the author's own impressions) Would it be possible make a more generic solution?
It is not clear if they expect the platform support pyments to be larger or smaller than the software royalty agreement, ie whether they are paying Microsoft in the long run or vice versa. I guess it may depend on sales to some extent, although it ways there is also a minimum royalty.
In many countries, the law states that many things cannot be signed away or agreed to, no matter how much you want to.
Because Apple is Foxconn's most prominent customer and probably their largest as well?
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My personal website, which gives away my name, my email and links to my detailed LinkedIn account (amongst others), is given in my profile and that link is there for quite some time. I'm not posting under anonymity.