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"Netflix should have done this years ago"

Netflix did do it years ago. As far as I know, all Netflix clients now fully support closed-captioning, and also multiple audio streams. (The XBox360 was a bit behind, but it supports it now.)

This isn't about Netflix supporting CC, it already does and has for a while. When they receive videos with CC, they make the CC available. This is about Netflix not being able to give videos without CC to anybody, and/or being required to put CC on videos that they were not provided with CC for and, as they say, actually can't CC without violating copyright law (though one imagines that if they are found to be required to add CC that their licensing contract will simply grow a new clause).

I mention this because I just read over all the comments as I post this, and nobody else seems to have mentioned this. The tech is there. If your Anime doesn't have the Japanese stream, it's because they weren't provided a Japanese audio stream, not a limitation on Netflix's side, and so on.
Title got me to, its always funny when it happens.
Drives me mental this, I dislike having to go over conversations to find if someone has replied or if someone replies to a previous comment than my last ones I end up going through them all. I don't really want an email whenever someone replies but rather some type of notification when I visit the site.

Emails are intrusive in my eyes and clutter my inbox, I just want to be told when someone has replied when I visit the site.
And TorrentFreak is not exactly an objective source...
I would like to see more effort invested in potentially disruptive enabling technologies, like YouTube auto-captioning + translation, etc.
Rails 4, has_and_belongs_to_many, create_join_table
Is there anything Google can do to solve the problem of slow Android updates?
Still, gcc is a pretty serious piece of software (no more starting nethack these days), so while the behaviour is undefined it's still interesting to see why the compiler ended up generating a code that behaves so weirdly.

If you need to find a use for it, it might make it easier to spot an undefined behaviour later and finding its cause ("hey, this evalutates both to true and false, it must be an unitialized bool!").

So it's still interesting and might not be completely pointless.
The trend of calling someone an "engineer" for all sorts of things may puzzle people who live in places where the title of "engineer" is regulated.

Depending on how far you want to take it, the term can really lose its meaning. Is a supermarket stocker a "display engineer"? They do have to make considerations for aesthetics, space, and so forth...
I agree, I am not usually in my hotel room very often if I am on vacation but that raises the point of, if I am hardly in the room, who cares where I stay? I know this flies in the face of my point of being hung up on being in other peoples homes, but why not just stay in a cheaper motel (if available)?

To be honest, I'd really like to try it one day. Some of those locations look great and the prices are very reasonable.
There exist in Greece a few (2-3) groups of anarchist activists, mostly consisting of idiots from 17-30.

Random targets like this are not uncommon. It's not like they know what the fuck they are doing anyway or have any coherent plan. It's mostly banks, but foreign multinationals have also been targeted in the past. Even Apple's authorized dealers IIRC. So don't read too much into the target --it probably just means it was convenient and unprotected enough for them to attack more than anything.

Think Anonymous level IQs (ie not that high), but with guns and bombs instead of computer. This is known, because some of those groups have been busted by the police, and they were indeed as described above.
> Do they not get to laugh if they choose GPL over the one with the comedy in?

The important thing is what happens if they pick the joke license. They get to ignore the GPL entirely, which is probably not what you want if you only intended to add something funny to your work.

If you just want to add funny license terms but keep the GPL terms, you have to modify the GPL license instead of having a dual license.
First step in a campaign to eliminate snarky, rude comments on Stack Overflow
Web developers, welcome to the world DBAs live in, where the law has something to say about what you do!

Frequently asked questions:

Q: How's the government going to police this?

A: They won't. However, you will comply simply because not complying exposes you and your employer to financial liability if someone makes a complaint.

Q: What if this change puts my company out of business?

A: If your margins are too thin to achieve compliance, you'll go out of business; the law doesn't care how much it costs you to comply.

In practice, you will raise your prices to compensate, and if your competition are eating your lunch by not being compliant you'll tattle on them.

Q: Won't this make my job a lot harder for no good reason?

A: Yes it will, but you'll get to ask for a higher salary (see "financial liability").
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Why Supermarkets Are So 20th Century
The Oxford Comma question isn't like FizzBuzz, it's like a question on K&R vs BSD brace style.

It's irrelevant trivia. All you're going to do is trip up people who may not have been exposed to the terminology or hadn't encountered both styles yet. Any writer can handle either style and knowing the terms says nothing about whether someone can write.

FizzBuzz is about making sure someone has a basic handle on the actual job. An equivalent for writers would be to ask for a quick poem or three sentence story or something.
You could be fined for simply clicking on the wrong link - Petition
A website about a mobile app that won't load on my android phone. How quaint.
You'd think they would have tested the site on a few devices...
And the US is right next door to Mexico and South and North Korea are, well, you get the point. Geographical proximity is not an accurate economic indicator. Also, Africa is not some homogenous blob of poverty.
According to statcounter ie7 was at ~1.5% last month. It dropped a full percentage point from the month before that. Even Firefox 3.6 usage was higher.

I think there is value in moving to faster deprecation. Plus even if it does make finicial sense for airbnb it is still a risky investment. Should a facebook, google, or wordpress drop ie7 support hard then all the sudden you've wasted money, developer time, and developer sanity.
I think the zero sum nature of HFT is already providing an answer.

There is so much competition in the U.S. that HFT firms are having to expand to other markets like London and beyond that don't have the same level of saturation.

There are only so many markets in the world, so in about 10 years (probably much less) when they are all saturated with very low margin HFT, equilibrium will be reached firms will simply evaporate and/or glom together.
Eh? That link was to the google play store. It's an Android app, and I use it myself on my Android.

GP's kid had to get up to go to day care, he didn't get a vote, and would have had to get up regardless of the alarm clock his dad uses.

What's driving me crazy is all these guys getting their kids to bed by 7:00 or even 8:30. Oh, how I would love to have my kids in bed by those times. Of course, my kids sleep till 9:00AM, but by then, I've been up and gone for 4 hours, so don't get to enjoy a quiet house at either end of the day.
Why Bootstrap is significant, part 12
I simultaneously dislike the design (too busy, too big, silverlight, moving, etc.) and am more likely to use airbnb (because the great photography reveals some awesome rentals, although usually far away places I'd be unlikely to go). I wonder if that's what they were going for.
After 5 years, Apple's iPhone has generated $150B in revenue
A quick critique on the video.

1.) The screenshot of the prolifi.cc landing page has the large black coming soon banner.

2.) At the point where you show the creation of a blog post, I think the left pane with all the markdown instructions is so visually distracting. Perhaps the video can just focus only the right pane...

I really liked the fact that you stated "you don't have a blog and you don't need one.." I think that really reinforces the concept and value of your product.

Just my $0.02.
That's a bit of a straw man argument. Serving "blacks" and "coloreds" does not require any extra work. Serving people with various disabilities can take an extreme amount of extra work.
we can all agree that the decision to make python 3.x incompatible with 2.x has greatly fractured the community. regardless of one's opinion on the matter, this divide is hurting the community. how long until we actually come to resolution on it?
> I've never heard of any plans regarding JIT in CPython. You might have mixed it up with PyPy or Unladen Swallow. Both of them use JIT to speed up their python interpreters.

Unladen swallow was supposed to be in CPython at one point.
As an Airbnb host, I'm worried that this new homepage has too much going on. The old design really emphasized the "Where are you going?" search box, which led quite naturally on to the listing results page. Also, many of my guests are making bookings on-the-go in countries with less than ideal internet connectivity. So page size definitely matters, and 3.5MB is pushing the limits.

I do really like how the check-in/check-out date widgets slide out from the search box when you click it, though... makes the interface feel responsive and de-clutters the search box.

Luckily, the rest of the site hasn't been touched other than to add the "Wish Lists" feature (which I like so far).
Who is responsible to make sure every video on YouTube is closed captioned?
"I hate going on FB"

Interesting! haha

From a quick look, most "hate" messages are about people or feelings. "Man I hate the thought of him being w/somebody else." Pretty depressing.
> It's a nice looking house in London, but no - it dose NOT look like something from an interior design mag. Clearly my house does not meet the required standard. Better not list it.

This is a fair point, I worry it might get lost in the first half of your post!
Agency Kidnaps French Youth for Adidas Climacool Campaign
Or else men just thought the "second best looking" was better looking than the "best looking" one.

Or else men don't like it when the only photo is a black and white close-up from an odd angle -- makes it look like you're hiding something.
+1

As for the author, let him teach others to master Portuguese, Hungarian, Turkish, and Chinese with the same accelerating rhythm as with he achieved in learning Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Edit: Add to the list Arabic, Armenian, Farsi, Hebrew, Indonesian, Mongolian, Navajo, Siamese, Tamil, Vietnamese, and any other independent/unrelated languages.
I've done a number of AirBnB stays now including a two week trip to SF and LA with my girlfriend and the whole system is pretty awesome.

To some extent you get what you pay for but in many ways you get much more. I think I've stayed in five different AirBnB locations now and the houses were as pictured or slightly better, better located than an equivalent hotel and always clean.

On two occasions the owners were so awesome (one in Napa brought us wine and cheese every night and warm muffins for breakfast in the morning) that they literally made the holiday.

They've done a special thing with AirBnB so kudos to them and I for one welcome their new site design too. Holidays are literal escapism and so much better if the laborious booking process is made more pleasurable too.
You're right, it definitely did not come from Buddhism. Buddha's teaching itself does not derive from Buddhism, nor Hinduism, nor any other religions. It's derived from the world itself.

Here's a quote I was able to transcribe this from Tathagata,

"I'll speak very clearly here. Buddhism has nothing to do with all the Buddhas."
I think this case highlights one of the fundamental problems with our legal system making policy decisions: all companies will be held to the same standard regardless of their individual characteristics.

Regulation is important, but it shouldn't be stifling. Laws ought to be dynamic and scalable so that the proverbial "two guys in a garage" don't have to sink their startup by investing time in energy in compliance issues.

Ideally, businesses would be subject to regulation based on some index of revenues/profit. This might range from simply paying taxes on the least profitable end, to having a dedicated team of government regulators for the largest corporations.

However, this runs afoul of numerous legal principles, so I'm not expecting change anytime soon.
> Online spaces are spaces of public accommodation.

All online spaces?
Eclipse releases Java alternative Xtend
Uhm there has been quite a few IDE release in the last days, Eclipse, Sublime Text, Light Table Cloud9... i have to spend some time to try them all...
A Cheating Robot?
It's not really Zen until "p" evaluates to "mu".
NOT, at least in x86, is bitwise, so it won't do the right thing for values other than 0 and ~0 (-1).
Requiring subtitles goes a little further though.
Having fire exit signs in English and Spanish, or English and French in Canada, might be a reasonable accomodation.

Forcing B+N to produce Spanish/French translations, or Braille editions of all its stock isn't.
Yes, you are right.

In all honesty though, "closed captioning" is not Netflix's business & it's probably not something they are good at. When I was writing my post, I was under the assumption that deaf people already have tools to support this (like real time speech to text tools grabbing audio from the sound card).
Where are people getting silverlight from? There's no silverlight on the site.
Or more realistically, half way up a logistic curve.
That one does not work with g++ and actually does not produce a warning with -Wall without optimisations.

It makes me wonder if that's actually undefined behaviour in C++, because unlike the example in the fine article this time the behaviour of the program does not depend on the (undefined) value of b. Or maybe it's just g++ being clever.
We don't joke about that sort of thing.
Statcounter isn't your site. Everyone should look at their own site stats and make the case as to whether legacy browsers should be supported.

Regardless, for new projects we still follow the Yahoo Graded Browser Support baseline, like many other agencies do. http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/tutorials/gbs/
Only Python Stuff below:
They have depricated the support for djangoforms in the Python SDK, and hence here is my stint trying WTForms with app engine: http://blog.fruiapps.com/2012/06/Modelforms-for-appengine-mo...

I wish they include support for IPython as well. That would make things far more easier and comfortable.
I wish
"To the topic of site speed, is it really an issue to non-web-geeks? Do normal users of the web really know what a slow website is?"

My lord, yes. Here's a really interesting post/study with Bing and Google testing the user/business impact of speed.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/bing-and-google-agree-slow-...
Apple bought Siri, which is pretty popular. Obviously this was integrated fully and not left as a stand alone technology.

Did Google initial buy a map company to start Google Maps?
I don't see what your loading experience has to do with anything.

I was responding to anecdotal evidence with contrary anecdotal evidence. In the big scheme of things neither really means anything, but it would be pretty tedious if I had to test a statistically significant number of machines every time I altered a page layout.
Dangit where is the Ruby editor in eclipse that has refactoring support. Combined with eclim and you got yourself a vim-based ruby ide!!!!
> I mean who wants to be that stranger in the other room?

Most of my guests end up being "the cool startup guy from Beijing" or "that really nice couple from Toronto", because I make an effort to welcome them into my home and show them a glimpse of local life. And thanks to the culture that Airbnb has built around the site, my guests make a similar effort to get to know me. It simply never feels like "that stranger".
I don't think that is a good metaphor. There is a significant difference between forcing a company to provide equal service to everyone regardless of skin colour and forcing them to provide additional services for the benefit of disabled people. In the former case they'd just be being racist and nasty by refusing to serve black people with their existing product, in the latter they may not actually have this additional service - eg. they may not have closed captions for their video yet, or there may be technical restrictions on why they cannot provide them, etc.
I would rather like to use newer versions but the rate of change since 3.0 was introduced is slightly scary and hard to quantify. I'd rather not try to hit moving targets.

Python appears to be a playground for features versus a stable, reliable well tested and well thought out language these days.
Next up: mute/deaf people with no fingers suing Apple over the App Store not having sufficient affordances for people no fingers and unable to converse with Siri.
Your computer is barely two years old, and doesn't reflect your internet connection. Most people are on far older, and probably far slower connections.
I've never used Airbnb for staying in a place with the owner. Selecting that you only want an entire house/apt is wonderful. You don't have to be that "stranger in the other room," at all.

I have stayed in places like downtown Hollywood, within a couple minute walking distance of having stars under your feet, for a fraction of what a hotel in the area would've cost.

Every place I've stayed in has been clean; the owners kind and wonderful for introducing you to the area. You end up with all the amenities of a suite, like a fridge, a stove, and so on, without having to pay the price.
Alternatively, we are 10 years further away because we only just now understand how hard a given problem domain is. I'm looking at you, strong AI. :-)
I'm assuming these movies are captioned by the studio or somebody anyway in order to provide the DVD subtitles, how much extra work would it really be to add them to a netflix stream?
>>Because netflix is the biggest and may slowly become the place

The place each person watches is on their personal computers. When a user streams content or "looks" at a webpage, they are downloading it and viewing it on their personal computer. In this context, where is this place of public accommodation?

This case is like suing the sales man on the corner that you buy your newspaper from because he doesn't know sign language.

Of course this is all a rather technical interpretation of the situation, but think about it another way. Should this precedent be set, American businesses could be paying tens of thousands of dollars more than foreign business websites who need not comply with U.S. Law. The best part is closed captioning streaming video is just the tip of the iceberg. Once the ADA patent trolls get moving, we may our see(or what would have been our) tech start-ups incorporate abroad to lesson not only the direct web site costs, but the lawyer fees they will be paying once the ADA trolls think they are richer enough to be extorted.

Ammmerrricca, Fuck Yeah!
I remember reading the original post when he was asking for advice, nice to see him coming back with a good follow up.

The company he works for is definitely doing it right, they've spotted an opportunity to put someone in a correct role with no hiring process, and with them up to speed on the corporate background. They've optimised a department out and managed to retain the staff in other areas, and saved once again money on hiring, and saved money on firing the dead weight (I'm not sure what Dutch employment law is like but it's notoriously difficult to fire someone in the UK). Pragmatic and sensible, companies take note.

EDIT: from my limited experience, every Dutch person (all 6) I've met has been pretty pragmatic and sensible, maybe a cultural thing. I could be wrong though!
previous (not even a day old) discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4163714
Definitely the case. They've put a lot of effort into bringing on new hosts this past year, to the point that I've noticed a distinct slowdown in bookings recently. I'm all for Airbnb focusing on demand now. :)
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What makes SPDY speedy?
How naked should I make my product?
I'm embroiled in this debate with my cofounder about the conversion funnel for our new email marketing app.

Should we open our product to users without requiring login (going naked)

Our big USP is "make a newsletters from your blog or curated in minutes". We've had some great feedback and pretty good adoption of our MVP in the first 2 months but here's the issues:

* the sooner someone tries our product the sooner they "get it". Just reading about loses people.
* we're getting lost in the noise of all those email services out there even though we do something different
* our conversion funnel from landing page to sign-on and try-it (acquisition) is 15%. Too low.

Do we open up the product and let people create a newsletter (takes just 5 minutes) and require them to login only when they want to publish?

My cofounder suggested replacing the entire landing page for flashissue with the product demo. no text, no marketing; just product (100% naked). i.e. as a visitor you either get what the product does or you dont (then we dont want you anyway).

My inclination is to the open the product but still use a landing page to give some kind on intro.

I've never seen a web app done 100% naked but why not????
Yes, I'm sometimes in touch with a few of the other members. Tathagata's teachings are available for free online, his life story is there and he was a politician in Korea as well as a self-made businessman, so that should be easily verifiable.

What he asked people to do is to verify what he says before believing. In case you didn't see it, I left a link to one of the sites made by another member, it has some decent English translations. The proof that he is Enlightened is in the content of his teaching. Nobody who is not Enlightened can say the content that he has said. He also traveled the world to visit universities and religious institutions and met so many people. You can listen for yourself. Here's some audio of him meeting with American professors http://guiadelavida.com/audios.htm