skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's some good observations here, but I would stop short of the claim that "for viewers, this can only be good." It's not good that some great movie libraries have already been stripped from Netflix because the contract renewal was going to be too expensive.

That's a non-sequitur. That content was going to be stripped regardless of what production Netflix was engaged in. In fact, it doesn't matter if Netflix can magically realize 10x revenue per subscriber overnight, because there is game theory at play here. Big content is happy to make nice marginal payouts from Netflix on the side, but they will do anything to prevent Netflix from consolidating a comprehensive library of A-list content because they already have by far the broadest device reach, and if they get all the content, cable cutting will ramp up overnight and destroy any leverage for rights holders because there will be nowhere else they can go for distribution.

> It's not good if Netflix goes all-in on original programming and fails, potentially taking the rest of the company down as well.

They have no choice. Big content will never let them win. With their own content at least they have a chance to control their own destiny.

> It's not good if Hollywood feels little pressure to make it easier for consumers to access their content because they're getting great contracts with traditional distributors.

As long as customers balk at paying $10/month for Netflix while happily shelling out $150/month for cable, Netflix has no leverage.

On balance I have to agree with the OA's assertion. Netflix putting some of its money directly to production can only benefit viewers overall. Putting that money to more contracts is not going to move the needle in terms of production from the major studios, to them it's just gravy at this point.
Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
Which is a Nightly as well as being a pain to update. (though I hear it's different on GNU/Linux)
downthemall, But I use chromium and go to firefox when I need it.
NYU is a school for rich kids. It's a vacation for students who want college fun, but prefer it to be in an urban setting like NYC (and the best part of NY, to be sure), rather than in a small college town with its frat parties and beer pong. IMO, it's not the ideal place to study at all. Too many distractions. If you're a liberal arts student you can probably take advantage of all the events, museums, intellectual stuff surrounding you, but there's no way I would want to study pre-med or engineering or the like there (even if disregarding the costs).

If you go to a $50,000 per year university for four years in the most expensive area of the most expensive city in the country and come out surprised by all the student debt you have, then you're an idiot and your degree should be withdrawn.

Shame on the federal government for providing easy credit for those wanting a luxurious four year vacation.
Which Google has made intentionally hard to find. Could your mom or grandmother figure this one out?
http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/layout_test_results/
Wow, the snark in this comment is so thick that you could cut it with a knife. How about instead you comment on why he's wrong instead of just being condescending.
I was surprised that this article didn't use referral codes.
#2 is totaly relevant to our Macro Recorder app.

Macro Recorder is really popular and most of the visitors are already "pre-sold". They don't care about the landing page.

We used to run tests on that page, because it has 1k daily visitors, we thought that we could test ideas more quickly. That was before we realised, that we can't rely on the results.

We even used false conclusions, based on those results, to make changes to landing pages for other products. Perhaps the biggest mistake we've made.
No, you're not misinterpreting. The character is drawn holding a bunch of papers, and he's apparently offering a paper on Traveling Salesman to be "helpful" to the waiter who has 6 tables to visit "as fast as possible".

So, in a way, this entire solution is the product of an error in reproduction. :)
But what would the partner get out of it?

Anyone with a track record at this point has far more to gain by letting the streaming providers compete for a license every few years.

Netflix might offer slightly better terms than competition would produce in the short-run, but they'd want a longer license term to make up for it. And that, given the growth and promise of the space, would be silly.

Consider the 700% licensing fee increases. Would Netflix offer a 700% premium over a 3-year license in exchange for a 6-year partnership -- with who-knows-what restrictions on future licensing of content produced under the partnership?

They'd need to find a producer with a track-record for quality, but that was also cash-strapped and needed someone to share future production costs to stay in business or to make some wild expansion gamble. Which would only raise the question of why a producer with a track-record would have trouble finding another partner.

Plus the nature of Hollywood is that it doesn't make too much sense to partner with AMC to get new content, based on their success in hiring successful creatives, when you can just hire successful creatives directly.

What, after all, has AMC brought to The Walking Dead, beyond hiring a successful creative and providing a time-slot? Their input into the situation has seemed to be the 'tweaking for profitability' consideration that requires little industry acumen (AMC was remarkably ham-handed in this case) and that Netflix might not even see the same need for in the first place.
It's worth mentioning since it's integrated. It's the same reason something like Pandora integration would be worth mentioning despite the fact that many people could use Pandora with an FM tuner or 3.5mm to aux input (not to say the Audi A8L has Pandora).
As a general rule, I think there is an counter-productive reaction among people to the idea of paying high salaries to people working in non-profits. At the end of the day, good people are willing to take a pay cut to work at an organization they perceive to be socially beneficial, but only so much of one. Their kids still have to go to college, after all. And if the organization can raise the money, why object to its paying what it needs to attract good people? After all, NYU is in a location where you just can't buy a reasonable apartment on a professor's salary. That's why it goes to such lengths to offer housing options to professors (it's the largest land owner in lower Manhattan, IIRC).

Now, the problem in this particular case, however, is that there is a massive market distortion in play: federal student loans. Because federal student loans are guaranteed up to the cost of attendance with almost no credit check, schools can raise prices to whatever they want with almost zero impact on demand. If students could only get loans based on parental credit, tuitions at places like NYU would collapse.
hey, I've done this with new people, and in cases where mistakes have a high cost... "Hey, new kid... come jump on my screen session"

Of course, setting it up as a security measure would take rather more work.
Free SSL Certificates for Open Source Projects
I don't know when that was from, but a Wifi hotspot is optional equipment on any Mercedes (possibly excluding the 2dr SLK and SL)
@newsyc20, @newsyc50 and @newsyc100 are great for filtering the wheat from the chaff.
Steve Wozniak speaks out against NSA spying: this is not my America
SHI's cloud mantra: Keep IT involved
I've attended several and I'm a .NET developer too. You'll be safe. Yes there's loads of Ruby and Node devs there but in the main people aren't prejudice. My experience is that it's more about ideas and not about language implementations.
PressureNET: open Android sensor data crowdsourced, API available
Perhaps you could start by telling us

- areas you are interested in

- technology / skills you possess

- your experience level

... otherwise I'm not sure what you're expecting people to conjure up! :)
RubyJS has currently some beginner to advanced level things to get done. If you're interested in Ruby, JS this project gives you an excellent understanding of both.
On mobile safari you can't change the search engine (that I know of), so I've switched to the Mercury browser which does allow me to use DDG. I'm actually quite happy with Mercury, it's a snappy little browser with a good feature set!
Seeing as it's extremely likely that the NSA is tapping into fiber at exchanges near major corporations, and almost everything you do online is tracked by someone, it seems like a moot point anyway.

Who cares if Mozilla or Google is providing the NSA with access when the NSA is monitoring all the data heading to and from them without permission?
I think you and I differ on our definitions of 'amazing.'
Ultimate Tic Tac Toe with AI
Depends where the copy is. Changing a couple of words in an email subject line can and often does make a huge difference. Of course the fine line you walk is that some of the most effective words at driving behavior (Free! Now!) are also effective at getting you marked as spam.
At the end of the day capitalism always comes back to bridges, trolls, control, volume, monopoly and power. NFLX can only continue to exist so long as it stands in between people and the things they desperately want. If the good they sell is non-exclusive however, then they are only one amongst many competing trolls all controlling similar bridges to the same exact island. In such conditions, prices will invariably fall to the lowest cost distributor, and costs will invariably rise to the worst managed ones, squeezing one's margins to shit. It sucks to be one of the 10 different bridges that people can choose between to cross over to get the stuff that they want. It's also why being an airline sucks. Competition sucks. Hard.

It also makes you a bitch to both your clients ("I'm switching right now unless you give me a better phone deal!") and to your suppliers ("So you need my content yesterday? Pay me X billion right now or you can go get fucked.")

To make money long term you need to either be the lowest cost producer for non-exclusive goods, or the sole controller of exclusive goods. You can make money both ways, but the former is much, much, much harder. NFLX, and every other company in existence, is either going for volume or for monopoly. That is why they are producing original content. It's because volume sucks.

It's also why startup success is largely luck based. Imagine a million different trolls, building a million different bridges, to a million different islands. Now imagine that upon one island a scarce metal is accidentally discovered and some random dipshit idiotic troll has just somehow, through sheer chance, managed to acquire exclusive control of the resource. Now, if you want to get that metal, you are going to have to pay that troll, and the more people want it, and the more desperately they need it, the fatter the troll will get.

Stand between people and the things they desperately want and you'll never go hungry. But you might get some indigestion.

Fuck competition. Become one with your inner troll; charge people through the nose for what they want, and then charge them again, and again, and again. And then when they can't take it any more, kill the product, and make another one.

Rinse and repeat.

In AAPL we trust; all others bring shitty margins.

Previous comments on competition and monopoly here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5253747
Porsche is actually known for NOT being helpful to owners when they screw up. They deny fault for many major recall worthy issues, go visit some Porsche forums and see for yourself.
Its funny that you say "rare even in Europe", since I wouldn't call the A8L to be rare in the US (at least on the east coast). I see different ages of them all the time.
FreeBSD turns 20
That's an awful dealership and you should never buy from there again.

Between my wife and I, we've owned several Mercedes, and I've never gotten a worse loaner than the car I dropped off. Also, an ML costs more than an E350 so that sounds pretty backwards.
For a well-maintained and actively used alternative, try coccinelle, the "semantic patch" tool: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
"Automatic Update gives you the choice to receive the latest PS3™ system software and all your latest game updates without lifting a finger. It can enable automated Trophy sync and game saves with PlayStation®Network or deliver selected game and video content directly to your console."

http://us.playstation.com/psn/playstation-plus/
Any government backed student loan should have a simple repayment schedule -- a maximum of 15% of your earnings for 10 years following graduation. At the end of 10 years, the loan is considered fully paid and any balance, if remaining, forgiven. The institution eats the cost of forgiving the balance.

So if you're an institution providing an expensive but worthless education, you aren't going to get paid for it.

Let's treat universities the same way we treat teachers -- let's assess the results.
The "temporarily hung interface" is definitively one of the worst things about Firefox. Fortunately they recently set up a project dedicated to fix it, next releases will probably behave much better. A few links for those interested

https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/04/1...

https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/04/2...

https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/05/2...

https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/06/0...
It is evidently trying to avoid becoming a duck.
You may be right! In that case, that's the risk you take when you decide to store the only copy of your important data on a service which is known for offering tons of pirated content (Megaupload appeared among the top results when searching for movies, tv shows, cracks and so on), run by a man who "was convicted of 11 counts of computer fraud, 10 counts of data espionage, and an assortment of other charges" [1]. If you really don't want to have a secondary copy, you should at least inform yourself about the company you're trusting your data with.

That said, I'm sorry for everyone that lost their data, but it's really not different than your hard drive failing without a backup.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom
I share your fear of commercials. Last I checked, Hulu didn't even offer a paid version that's commercial free. I wonder if that's due to contractual obligations, or that without commercials the price would be too high to bother. Considering Netflix is able to do it, I'm assuming it's contractual, which is a shame. I'd definitely pay extra for commercial free (and 1080P).
GMarks. There are a couple of Chrome extensions for integrating with Google Bookmarks, but they can't touch GMarks on Firefox.
>The future is an ever-increasing amount of CPU cores, and computer programs will have to become capable of doing more work in parallel to take advantage of all this processing power.

The idea that multiprocess browsing is somehow related to multicore computers is a myth. In almost all use cases, there is virtually no performance benefit whatsoever to loading separate tabs in separate processes. This is because most web pages do essentially no work while in the background.
LOL more like my hippy anti-capitalist protestor friends probably would not find it funny to give their kid a share of GM or BRK.B, or give a share of BP to tree hugger's kids. If I had any friends who were hard core anti-gun, then a share of Ruger for their kid would go over about as well.
If you want to try to prevent your Xbox One from receiving the broken update by unplugging it from the network, then you will still be able to play your games so long as Microsoft pull the update within 24 hours like Sony have done. As soon as they do that, it's safe to connect again.
https is not available for the site. The script doesn't seem particularly sensitive, is it?
Here's a worthy contender: https://github.com/rvagg/morkdown
Open source, Node.js and Chrome based, Github flavored.
Heh, it's worth noting that the Forbes source for those "numbers" is a Redditor who is ballpark estimating based on user reports in a forum.

Didn't realize we were in a time when Forbes sources were nearly unsourced Reddit comments.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1gmrmx/do_not_update_...
Nitpicking: In general, an NP problem can be reduced to an NP-hard problem (in poly-time).
Scaling (and taking advantage of multiple cores) can be done by using threads instead of processes, but processes (and IPC) have larger overhead than threads. Processes need more RAM than threads.

Google (and Microsoft) argue that using processes make the browser more stable in the sense that if one tab crashes, not the entire browser crashes, too (correct, as long as no deadlock in IPC between the processes occur - which has happened in some past Chrome relases) and makes the browser more secure (but not everybody agrees here). Thus they argue that the overhead of processes over threads is worth it.

But if you just want the scalability there are more easy solutions.
Did you go to NYU, or are you just out to insult those who did?

I went to NYU. I credit it with developing a lot of the skills that have gotten me to where I am today. This comes with a very clear understanding that my degree, while not directly related to what I do for a living, is still hugely useful in my day-to-day life.

I have a substantial amount of debt; most college kids do, anyhow. I credit NYU with giving me the opportunity to leave rural Pennsylvania and helping me into a salary bracket five times higher than my parents ever were in. For me, the cost of 3 years (after scholarships) bought this opportunity.

NYU isn't a "luxurious four year vacation." It's one of the higher ranked schools in America. It has professors who are leaders in their fields. It is rigorous and challenging.
Is Nvidia going to release EGL drivers for the desktop to enable Wayland? They wrote a lot about Android there, but didn't say anything about this.
Is it polymorphic?
I mostly agree. It could always find a niche somewhere. My snark was about "it's not free so don't use it".
> and has low power density

Wikipedia:

"They have one of the highest energy densities of all batteries ... an electric vehicle with aluminium batteries has the potential for up to eight times the range of a lithium-ion battery with a significantly lower total weight."

> Because it is highly inefficient

I just read in the 20 - 30% range. One, that's a lot better than a gas burner. Two, your magical 93% doesn't account for the efficiency of the source of the electricity. Over 40% of the electricity produced in the US is from coal. The average efficiency of a coal plant is around 30%.

Coal plants are also the #1 source of greenhouse gasses in the US.
They do a completely different thing than netflix: Super fresh episodes a day later.

Netflix is the equivalent of watching last seasons DVD release.

I can't see netflix having even 1/5th the cost per episode hulu does.
I'm not sure they offer it any more (I'm grandfathered in), but Wells Fargo PMA accounts have 100 free trades / year. You do need 50k in total assets with Wells Fargo to get it though.

Still, it's saved me at least 1k over the last 2 years.
>NYU is a school for rich kids

Eh... Maybe at the undergraduate level. NYU has some extremely strong graduate programs and surely most grad students there are not rich vacationers.
- Tab groups suck. They're useless and there's no way to disable them once you activate it by mistake. You have to mess up with about:config (see above). Talk about a great UI.

I disagree. I find tab groups to be very useful.

I tend to keep multiple tabs open at once, and for multiple tasks. The tab groups lets me easily organize those tabs around a single thought or task. I can keep my music streams in one tab group, and my daily webcomics in another. News feeds go in their own group. The Python standard library reference and whatever tutorials or How-Tos are relevant to my current project get their own group. You get the idea. I can then quickly swap between these groups and the tabs within with hot keys without having to reach for the mouse and scroll through what might otherwise become a cumbersome number of tabs in a single window.
there doesn't seem to be anything here
Right, but that's not a PS+ thing. It's right there in the menu for all users to turn off or on.
Right now a botched PS3 is about as functional as a brick, or maybe a glorified (and boring) screensaver. Why not call it one?
I had issues with DNSCrypt after using it for a few months. I had strange DNS resolution issues, felt I couldn't truly trust it, and found myself disabling/re-enabling it too often to see if it was the point of failure. I now use https://proxy.sh for a private VPN with the Viscosity VPN client which properly sends DNS traffic over the VPN.

That said, I'll probably give DNSCrypt a try again in the coming months. YMMV
Edwardian era book about bike tricks reissued (great photos)
How I have over 100 unique passwords without storing them or writing them down.
What if you've dropped out?
I was looking into this recently, and I found this, on the FAQ:

"Ads cannot be retrieved from the developer directly but instead through the end user's browser. Calling for the Ads from a server will lead to detection and termination of the customer."

http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/sb_spo...
Chrome DevTools are much better. I recently had to use Firefox's devtools, and they're woefully behind both in UI, capability, and speed.
I would expect better of the Economist, but the buses would be fully tax-payer and advertising subsidized and most definitely not free.

[edit: added advertising]
Not only is this wrong about Racket as soegaard points out, but it's wrong about Datalog too.
Good article. Be wary of the well documented zero-day exploits if you're using php.

This is one of my other favorite articles: http://docs.ngx.cc/en/latest/topics/tutorials/config_pitfall...

Some good introductory stuff here as well: http://pineapple.io/resources/tagged/nginx
Link to Revision 1: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=1
Okay, I am going to summarize my thoughts here:

1) Love the domain, love the name. Simple. To the point.

2) Looks like a bad clone of the Medium homepage. Not that big of a deal, just what I noticed.

3) Needs a lot of UI work. A lot. Images don't look good on the retina macbook. Icons are all different sizes. The main blue for everything is too dark.

4) When I signed up... You sent me my password via email. NO! Stop that right now! In fact, if I could delete my account after that... I would.

5) When you add a feed, why is it an option to tell you how often to update it? Should just be automatic. Don't make me think about it. 5-15 min should be fine. 1 hr or more seems too slow. There are lots of API's like http://superfeedr.com/ out there.

6) Why is there an add funds button? What does that do, and why should I add "credits"?

7) Your doc page needs to be much more user friendly. Again, don't make me think.

Overall, I wasn't trying to be harsh. I like the idea, and you could have something in the future. The implementation as is needs some work though.
Thanks for the heads up and I'll see if I can get it fixed.

I'm using Launchrock.com btw.