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Netflix has to make business decisions on what platforms to support via which DRM technologies work for them and their Hollywood suppliers. I'm just thankful they still exist at all and I don't have to rent DVDs anymore.

They don't "owe" anyone anything. It's a for-profit company, and they're being generous with their infrastructure source.
What virtualisation tech do you guys use? Can I run FreeBSD on top of it?
" If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dole/Kemp '96 is still live
Ironically that's what Android is built on.
Great analogy with painting! I take what I wrote to apply to good programmers, the core people needed to get serious things done. Tolerably capable housepainter-programmers will be churned out in the millions, to be sure.

Things like the Raspberry Pi is great for reaching the nerdy clique, but I agree that the latter does not seem to be growing. On the other hand, I hear autism rates are way up in the valley - perhaps we can increase the size of the clique by selective breeding? =)
High Leverage Individuals by Max Levchin
Yes. That's not what we're talking about here, though.
"Hands free" Mouse on Mac OS X with Leap Motion
Seriously. I don't even work for Netflix yet I feel embarrassed that everyone here is trashing them for being generous with their code in a creative way.

Thank you Netflix for releasing core components that would take a lot of my team's resources to replicate!
I had similar OTA frustrations with my Galaxy Nexus. Apparently I got an Australian carrier crippled build :(

After flashing yakju once, all the updates flow smoothly.
It reminds me of Louis CK's observation that "no good marriages end in divorce"
The lost art of an IT Professional
DHH needs to get off his high horse. He's hacked his way into providing a tiny service for artsy folks but he's not exactly hacking on immortality tech or AI like some of us. The government needs to consider redistributing some of his wealth. This essay is him gloating about sitting on piles of cash, where's the concern for starving african children or terminal cancer patients. He should sell his company and work on immortality tech. He can start with extracorporeal devices like described here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuBDhT7Y5GU
So is it just matznerd.com and natmobi.com who's domains I need to add to my blacklist?

Because those sorts of words are exactly what _every_ spammer uses to justify their behaviour. (including, hilariously, such beautiful grammar constructs as "… trying to help wanting people connect with a …")

It's spam, no question about it. If I get it from you I'll probably just ignore it, but if I'm in a bad mood or looking for timewasting activities, I'll report it to gmail/rbl/mailchimp/campaignmonitor/your isp - mostly for the lulz, but partly because I feel I owe some of my time to occasionally trying to slow the inevitable slide down the tragedy of the commons that the internet has been on since the eternal September…
I can sell you bitcoin options...but they'll probably be more expensive than you want :P
We were getting throttled by Github. We're now caching the content and this shouldn't happen anymore.
OCB has IP issues and so isn't commonly implemented.
Wow! Congrats guys. This is huge.
Also, I love the new front page image. Great choice!
Brain control of a humanoid robot demonstrated
Change to "from the Heart", great post
I'm confused. Are you implying that studying at and receiving a qualification from a partially or wholly state-funded academic institution necessitates that you forgo any claim to private ownership of your written works and become a sort of intellectual serf to the greater public?
Thanks! When you get setup send us an email at hello@chartio.com We're definitely a friend to the bootstrapped or pre-funding company and can set you up with a deal.
My case is not exactly as yours, but no one's really is so...

I made a project for an eCommerce company a few years ago and then left but always kept in touch with people there. I changed jobs and took a remote position working for a US based company here from Brazil so my working hours were 12-9PM due to the timezone difference so I had free mornings.

After a couple of months the first company (eCommerce) made me a proposal for a full time job that I didn't take because it was good working from home at the time. However I said that I could work part time 2-3 hours everyday for them. They took it and it was very good for both of us since I had an extra paycheck (I was earning as much as a full time employee) and they had me working on important stuff with no interruptions since I was there just a little bit everyday and could not be held accountable to day to day things.

I stayed like that for the past 3 years when I went working for them full time because I got tired of working remotely for a company that wasn't really in a remote-work-culture.

Developers are easy to find. Good developers are not. Bottom line is, if your value proposition to the company is good I cannot see why they wouldn't accept you working part time there. If it's good from the business perspective and you can demonstrate that to them it's pretty much a cost-benefit decision and not an emotionally one.

If you are really into it and wanna give it a try (obviously with some risks) you could say: "Shall we try for a month and see what happens?". After the first month there is not going back ;)
Interesting, what was the base level experience of the three people you're training?

I'm currently looking for a (mainly frontend) webdeveloper, and even finding an intern proves to be quite difficult so far.
Facebook Hires Zynga CFO David Wehner As Finance VP
Ok this is another interesting robotics bit. I expect that a number of currently hard to achieve things (like deep water oil rig repair) will be revolutionized by being able to 'remote' the technician like this.
Yeah, that's for 40+ users.
Totally with you when it comes to movies.

Regarding music, I see albums as integral wholes, so I very rarely listen to a single track, and almost never use the "shuffle" feature of my music player.
When working, I just play an album in its entirety- I have about ~80 albums that I would say make up for 90% of the music I listen to (and I've been slowly but surely collecting the vinyls for these albums- there's something nice about owning a physical object containing the very essence of something I love). For this very reason, I have loved Spotify ever since I got in its early days beta, and have never gotten the appeal of services like Pandora/Rdio/etc.

I do have a quite large collection physical books, most of them on various academic topics. I wouldn't want to have them in a digital format: because of their low print runs, they are comparatively expensive and hard to find, so I have some (shameful) pride in my curated collection; additionally, it'd be hard to read them digitally because you often go back and forth between sections, which is a nightmare on a tablet.
I tried using a kindle for reading novels, and I really loved it; but after a year or so, I just naturally migrated back to physical paperbacks. Not sure why, but being able to have a nice curated collection on a bookshelf and being able to lend them painlessly definitely contributed.

Your point about magazines reminds me of all the magazines that I accumulated as a kid, that got thrown out by my parents when I moved because they would just pick up dust in the attic; oh, how I wish that I had scanned them before they did so! Sometimes I want to refer someone to some article I read years, if not decades ago, and I just can't find it because it was written in a magazine pre-ubiquitous web era.
Motivation.

Motivation to build what you really want to build is completely different from being motivated to work for a salary to avoid starvation and keep your family going.
GPL, just like the kernel.
You gotta know when to Folden
Student turns table into an iPhone keyboard
Top Level shakeup at Zynga, CFO leaves for Facebook
And let's face it: also some of our own segregationist instincts. Even liberal San Francisco recently abandoned its eminently egalitarian policy of mixing up the public school population by not basing assignments on neighborhood. I'm not the only progressive who cringes at the thought of not being able to buy my daughter into a particular type of school district.
The lisper follows up his essay with another: http://dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf (this IS written by Richard Gabriel, only under pseudonym, look at your wiki article: "Gabriel later answered his earlier essay with one titled Worse Is Better Is Worse[3] under the pseudonym "Nickieben Bourbaki" (an allusion to Nicolas Bourbaki)." - last line of "Effects" section) which presents slightly different opinion :)

Also, I'm afraid Java is a perfect counterexample for "worse is better". It does everything and then some, but there are better (like, worse - less complicated, easier to use, more focused) solutions for almost everything Java does... And Java is still insanely popular.

Lastly, you seem to want to equate popularity with quality, and then you give Linux as an example. Surely, Windows is better because it's installed on many more PCs than Linux?
I noticed the exact same thing but didn't think it was worth a post. Glad you did !

I even checked wikipedia to see if I had not missed some US Holiday.

November 13 is the World Kindness Day, but I guess it's not related. :)
Call them. Holden Outerwear. Not their lawyers. They may have no idea whatsoever that their lawyers are doing this. Even if they do, they are not hearing the story of how awesome you guys are being.

Call them and tell them that there are no hard feelings and invite them out for beers.

I feel your pain. I've been right where you are.
>>Ultimately all progress in human material conditions comes from "eliminating jobs".

I think it should rather be eliminating the need to work for things like food, clothing, medicine and shelter.

As automation increases by multiple folds, I see this as a inevitable fallout. Needing to have a job to even survive might not even be relevant as concept in the future.
I hate it when an article concludes with something to the effect that the app is awaiting apple app review. By the time the app gets on the store the buzz created by the press has waned and I have forgotten it. If the app store had a url placeholder that would be bookmarkable while the app is pending it would solve this problem. Searching for "here" is obviously unproductive. The app store's search is incredibly lame. Even when I use the actual app's name it fails to find it, let alone when it's misspelled (beam[e]r, re[e]der etc)
I've seen Amicus' software in action and it's awesome!
Rockdale would be my choice!
I always thought it was to stop the children playing in the fields.
Unfortunately, that argument is flawed for several reasons.

Firstly, in practice, measurement is not free. It incurs overheads of various kinds, and there is no guarantee that any benefits ultimately obtained will outweigh those overheads.

Secondly, the series of negatives doesn't logically imply the initial positives.

Thirdly, it is not self-evident that all of those negative implications are actually true, particularly the first.

I suspect many of us have at some point heard the word "This needs to be managed!", but they always seem to come from middle managers whose own contributions are of debatable value and who never seem to have a good answer when the return question is "Why?".
Worse is a fuzzy term - let's define it. Worse in this case means things that can be used by many average people to do the things that they want without mental contortions and actually ship useful products to billions people.

Java does that. Linux does that. Windows does that. Lisp doesn't.

And note - your article wasn't written by the author - it was written by someone else.
Fantastic. :D
Nexus S will not be getting 4.2 apparently: http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/11/13/android-4-2-being-pushed-t...
congrats!!! this is awesome.
I have a jailbroken phone and I don't use it to pirate. Cydia is an alternate app store for apps that Apple rejected. Jailbreaking is also a step to unlocking, which allows me to use my phone with my Softbank account when I travel to Japan. For those that fit these categories and use this dictionary app, the author has stepped right into the legal minefield of libel.

Collateral damage is not a justification for this.
The way Lean Domain Search works is that it pairs your search term (like outerwear with other keywords commonly found in domain names. Because the results are sorted by how popular the keyword is, the domain names at the top are names you'd often associate with websites such as GoOuterwear, WebOuterwear, etc. As you move farther down the list you get to keywords that are more often used to name small businesses instead of websites.
are there serious customers who choose this plan over eg. tableau server? I just don't see the justification for $25,000/yr as your software is quite basic in terms of functionality. I mean seriously, what would you say your strength over other competitors?
Okay, I think I understand a bit more about our disagreement.

I don't care what the courts think. I agree with you - the law exists; judges interpret that law; these companies don't appear to be breaking any laws. My accusations of them not being moral isn't based in law, nor in them trying to reduce their tax bill.

I think it's fine for people to reduce their tax burden. I even think it's fine for people to employ lawyers to scour the laws and find vigorous ways to reduce their tax burdens.

But then there are tricks that are legal now, but which appear to flaunt the intent of the law, and which will get fixed at a later point.

And, in my opinion, sometimes these tricks go so far as to be dishonest. And that's the bit where morality comes in. Companies that reduce their tax bills are not immoral, unless they are telling borderline lies in order to do so.

When a UK company sells goods in the UK to UK citizens, making over £3bn per year in sales, and then say that their company is actually in Luxembourg and the UK business is just a delivery business to reduce their tax bill - well, that feels slimy. It might be legal.

Some behaviour is not illegal, but that doesn't mean it's acceptable.

The other thing about laws is that they are not fixed. They get refined over the years. And there are some grey areas until the law is tested by whoever enforces it.
You are exactly wrong on what Sinofsky said about work/life balance.

From http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.a...

"The only thing I would say is that anyone who tells you how cool it is to pull all-nighters on commercial software or anyone who says "I live at the office" and means it, is really someone I would not want checking code into my project. To be blunt, there is no way you can do quality work if you do not give your brain a break. Since the 1940's people have been studying the quality of work people are capable of without the proper sleep, change in environment, and exercise. There are reasons why even back during Apollo moon missions they forced the astronauts to sleep and not run on adrenaline. So working at Microsoft does not push the limits like this--it is not good for you, not good for business, and not good for the customers paying you for your software. If a company is driving you to work crazy hours like this, either because you want to or they want you to, it is just uncool."
Surveillance and Security Lessons From the Petraeus Scandal
The 40-hour week is forever gone in the startup world, and that is simply one of the trade-offs in having moved from a world where big enterprises emphasized long-term relationships with defined pension benefits and health coverage for life to a new world in which such enterprises have faltered and sunk only to be displaced by the startups that disrupted them through technical and other innovations. One can howl at the moon over these developments but is it really desirable to revert to an older day where a faithful employee's reward for long-term service was getting a gold watch on retirement or a $10K bonus for having invented the thing that made the employer hundreds of millions?

On a technical legal note, U.S. overtime laws have long since institutionalized the 40-hour week for non-exempt (generally lower skilled) employees and that remains the overwhelming norm in the economy. In that sense, there is no need to "bring back" the 40-hour week. It never went away.

If, as the author seems to espouse, the goal is to impose a strict weekly limit on the higher-skilled employees as well (in the case of Silicon Valley, tech professionals), it takes laws to do that and laws restrict freedom. Granted that efficiency studies might cause some employers to adopt strict hourly limits as a matter of company policy, or that individual lifestyle choices might cause a given employee to run in horror from the idea of slave-like work hours, do tech professionals really want to be prohibited from making such choices for themselves? It is one thing to say that laws are needed to protect those who cannot protect themselves. It is quite another to impose the force of law on what really is a lifestyle choice to be made by those who are equipped and smart enough to make it for themselves. Trying to "bring back" the 40-hour week from this perspective is, in my view, a very bad idea that would seriously harm the tech-driven companies that populate the startup world.
Four Criteria for Choosing The One Metric That Matters
The tone is not very constructive. I would say, at the very least you should read "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier and the most recent NIST recommendations.
You could also ask many humans and average their response to obtain a golden label, and see how well any particular human agrees with the average. If there is a lot of variance in the human answers, then it's possible for a machine to have better than (individual) human performance, even on a human labelled data set.
I'm sure the range of answers on this one are going to be widely varied, but I'll give you my perspective (basically option 1). I graduated Cum Laude with a CS degree in June. Going into school I had ~30 math and writing credits from HS so by the time I started my Sophomore year I was at the point where 12 credits/term (we were on quarters) would allow me to graduate on time. I held a job the entire time I was in school (just noting an additional time commitment) and having less credits/classes each term was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. Stress levels drop extremely when you don't have to worry about multiple tests a week or have more than two finals on a single day.

It allowed me thoroughly enjoy my college experience (ie. partying whenever I wanted, generally just doing whatever I felt like that day, etc) and never worry about having to pull all nighters or rely on adderall binges to finish assignments. I probably could have spent my time more productively (working on side projects or something similar) but basically college became 4 years of social fun with classes littered in-between.

I would say it really just depends on what you're trying to get out of your time at school. At the time I wasn't looking to differentiate myself from everyone else (I had no clue what I wanted to do) and just had a bunch of fun (which you'll never be able to experience something like 4 years of minimal time commitment and tens of thousands of other 20-somethings with no supervision anywhere else). If you want to stand out to employers post-graduation, I definitely wouldn't suggest doing what I did. I was turned down for multiple jobs due to lack of experience, but I eventually managed to land one with a startup in SV.
I'd forgotten about that bit of history. In light of it, this exec's action is all the worse.

I won't repeat it here, but a particularly pithy, one-sentence disparaging comment on Slashdot summed up my impression of the current situation quite succinctly.

Even if and as you have legitimate concerns around leaks, this isn't how you address them. Very unprofessional.
It's just an Easter Egg. We thought it would be fun. Enjoy if you like it. Go to the main Github page otherwise.
Someday they will be forced to. Its just cost of production will fall down so rapidly and to such low amounts.

Getting rich that way will be like trying to fill a terabyte scale hard drive by adding 10 byte text files. It will be a exercise in futility. Think of it more like free phone calls, unlimited internet band width and free apps.
Show HN: Cityfare - a free app to calculate train ticket prices in Sydney
Interesting. I'd always assumed that it had to do with the parabolic shape of the bullet, as opposed to earlier flat-nosed designs.
Steve Jobs Yacht
Elixir is awesome, it's like Ruby and Clojure having sex on an Erlang waterbed. However it still is maturing at a quick clip so I haven't done any production work in it.

But since Jose Valim is probably my favorite developer alive, I have faith that Elixir will do for Erlang what Rails did for Ruby.

I know it sounds like I'm comparing Rails (a framework) to Elixir (a language), but what I am comparing is a way of bridging-in Joe/Jane Developer.
Seems to me that the Dunning–Kruger effect would support this - we'd get dumber as a society but not realize it.

Reading works created during antiquity (religious texts, Greek/Roman philosophy, etc.) seems to point in this direction - some of those people had their heads screwed on much better than the majority of people today.
I just signed up and plan on testing this out over the next month or so. The price is not really an issue if it suits my needs. $25k/year is peanuts compared to a team of report writers I would have to hire, train, and manage to meet one of my client's growing BI needs.
As with Vorbis, the lack of WebGL is political as its based on OpenGL which is a threat to DirectX.

Theres some hope for Opus as Microsoft's Skype division is pushing it (its partly based on Skype tech)
Ok, this is what I was asking at the beginning, writing the question: "In what sense?"

You're entitled to your own definition of words, in this case you defined "worse" (and this definition is very popular, too!) and it's ok. My perspective is different and so my definition is - I don't care about "average people" at all, I like very much "mental contortions" and I enjoy making more than shipping, and so "worse" for me means something different altogether.

I just wanted to what you meant by "worse", really. I won't agree with you here, but I understand and accept your opinion.

I edited my previous post in reply to your note at the end.
This tip also worked for me. Snagged a 16GB long after I thought hope was lost. Thanks for sharing :)
agreed. and it seems to use some fuzzy math where working less hours makes proportional space for an extra employee to fill in those hours. in fact, the value of extra employees ranges from marginal to non existent depending on the size of team/company due to the overhead. Unless we're talking about a coffee shop where not much collaboration is needed to get projects done, just pure clocking in and out and performing isolated tasks.
Anyone Can Create a Game An Interview with Scirra, makers of Construct 2
This is a good post with things to think about. The key variables of option pricing--but in particular Vol--are not understood by most people. The second order effects people fail to grasp. A simple, classic example: volatility smile.

The <valuation> of an option is <in general> distinct from "payout" and not simple linear math. [1]

________

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes

Consider: You can't lose money just by owning an option

This is clearly a problematic statement. etc.
In what way is Java not a first-class project? That "common nonsense" had some of the greatest minds in computing behind it.