skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix is not a replacement for a traditional pay-TV video service, nor will it be. It's really more of a premium channel like HBO or Showtime -- both of which already offer streaming for a similar price as Netflix. I see the industry going one of two ways:

1) Cable TV over Internet -- in this scenario your cable subscription just becomes an app that runs on a wide variety of devices. Watch live TV, DVR, on-demand, etc. with a user interface that is somewhat reminiscent of what exists today. Channels will continue to be bundled and distributed through cable providers (though I expect non-infrastructure owning companies will also be spun off or started up). This scenario is most likely as it is least disruptive to the financial structure that's been set up on the content creation side (also all the big cable/telco companies are building this already).

2) Dissolution of the "big bundle" -- in this scenario, the content owners just decide to skip the middleman and become more like Netflix themselves. For example, Disney decides to just offer their own subscription service for $12/mo which gets you ABC, ESPN and the other Disney channels. Bundling would still happen here, just on a smaller scale. This fundamentally changes the business model though, and it will take a long time for content owners to develop the appetite and model to assume the risk of running a consumer-facing service.

Until the last 2 years or so, the content owners have also been licensing content to Netflix at low prices -- nobody else was interested in their library content so it was a way to monetize the long tail. But now that Netflix has established that consumers are willing to pay for the content, the content owners are raising prices significantly because the content they own had more value than they initially thought. The existential threat to Netflix is not rising distribution fees, it's rising content licensing fees.
Well, as they say, best defense is a good offense.
Its like recruitment consultants. They never have an job, they have an "opportunity".

Technically it is correct but we don't need to overemphasize everything.
Fun article. Should also add in #anything, and discover the weird and wonderful world of the extensible reader.
Same here, Fedora 20 with Chrome v 34.0.1847.137
I concur. It really irritates me that some writers feel their content must somehow be timeless and yet a year later it's superseded because something in the world changed. When I'm trying to research something completely new to me I cannot build up any kind of meaningful chronology using such posts.

I do agree that the date doesn't need to be right alongside the byline but an indication of date somewhere on the page is important.

Edit: As for people who devalue something purely because of the date, are these readers you really care about? I suspect there are annoying readers just as there are annoying customers.
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No, don't read and follow the Prince, there is no reward on earth that is good enough to justify becoming a person who does your #3 "well". Normal decent people can see your machinations from a mile away, and you will never have the chance to talk to another decent human being again, as they will just avoid you. What reward can possibly justify that?

Who would want to be surrounded by people who view them as a politician?
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This is a very hard to question to answer you and there is no actual solution to give you.

It all comes down to how good you really are.
I have been looking for the past 3 - 4 months for a remote job, but since the competition out there is huge and there are definitely better programmers than me I haven't manage to land anything yet.

Make a great CV, a personal page, work on github to show your work. This will help you dramatically since you will be displaying your work and who you are. ( I have all except github as all I do is actually on my own repos )

As for the hours you are willing to put in, then that is more like freelancing than a full time job.
Perhaps try Elance for some freelancing and work on your own to learn node.
Look at it from the other side. Who would want to hire someone remotely and part time so they can learn a new stack? If someone is willing to hire both a part time and remote worker, they will want an experienced dev who can bring value right away.
It's not simply provisioning the server. It's also installing all the relevant packages, configuration, and deployment. The value is toward people who don't have the sysadmin/devops skills (or perhaps time) to manage that themselves.
Mapping software?

I thought OSM was mainly edited on the web, right at http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces is where you can upload your GPS traces for instance.
Yup. I would've told the Twitter guys their idea was useless, but hey, turns out people really liked it.
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Patrick's advice about taking dates off is spot-on for optimizing conversion rates on key pages. I've taken dates off of my most important evergreen resources.

There's sometimes a happy medium - you can deemphasize the date with CSS or by putting it at the bottom of the post.

Here's an example of a blog-style post on my site:
http://joshkaufman.net/malinvestment/

People who want to find the date can find the date. People who aren't looking for it aren't likely to see it.
Yes, the web editor is called iD. It is software. It is slow.
I think you don't understand me right...
Simply: i want to find trainee aor junior remote job.
Backed. It would be awful to get that close and not make it.
>> but I won't at all be surprised when it shows up.

Then by your own logic, it's still a long way off.
Am I the only one getting a blank page?
Nice timing, Cisco just sent Obama a letter complaining about NSA tampering...

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27468794
If you can link me to some examples of this I'll be happy to add them.

(edit) I have a comment around the fact user defined reader macros are not supported in Clojure (save for a hack). Is this not the case anymore?
I dislike coming upon writing where there's no date. Because then I can't judge for myself from what context or perspective the author wrote something. (Is the assertion that mobile market is growing in the context of pre 2008 iPhone, or after?)

There's many assumptions we take for granted, even when we try to write evergreen. And sometimes those assumptions turn out to be overturned after a while.

When I happen upon articles, essays, blog posts, etc without a date, I usually trust it much less, and try to find similar information with a date.

The only way you'll know if your writing is evergreen, is over the course of time. I'll read stuff from 2002, and find it's still relevant, but we need to judge whether it is for ourselves every year. And not timestamping it robs us of that.
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What I do is "plant small seeds" on the web (like: articles, video talks), which acts as "ads" for my skills. Then I make sure I can be found online (twitter, site, forums). It's a midterm strategy but works very well (I've worked 100% remotely during the last 3 years).
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So, being a dick for the sake of being a dick is funny to you?

Yeah, I get it - apparently RMS is enough of a dick to have a document prepared ahead of time to tell you what he likes and doesn't like, so you don't have to waste time preparing a bunch of stuff that's just going to cause problems as a host. Man, what a dick.

(I get it - I wouldn't particularly want to host for him, myself, but if I had to, it would be helpful to know in advance what works and what doesn't).
I used to get the promotional rates re-applied every year. Now they just flat out refuse. So I cancelled my cable to call their bluff but I had to keep the internet because I have no other option. Never got a call from customer retention. So now I pay the same amount for comcast internet + directv but I refuse to switch back to comcast just because.
DISCLAIMER: I am a first-world white man, not a gender-equality theoretician. Furthermore, the following is not even my opinion, just speculation.

It's also possible that the article is a way to put female success in an apparently (if the list of best all-time performers is any indication) male-dominated "field" under the spotlight, which can be a way to motivate other female contestants or young girls to appropriate those types of competitions (or any other remotely related field).

I'm not even sure they do need that in the first place, but it's always a process of chicken and egg where seeing someone you can more easily relate to succeed in some domain makes you more likely to realize that there's no reason you couldn't have a stab at it yourself.

So I don't know if that makes sense, but yeah, the female angle might be just a way to get the thing going.
Why?

What potential gain could possibly justify breaking the entire protocol and extension-ecosystem?
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I don't believe a single one of you. If there was a basic income of, say, $15,000, almost none of you would feel more free to stop other income. With mortgage/rent payments, car payments, restaurants, internet, cable, gadgets, video games, and social life expenses, most people on here feel as if they need far higher than a "basic" income. If you feel you could live off that amount and you have a programmer job, you should do it now while continuing to work at your job, invest the difference, and just retire in 8 years or so.
The other piece of this is Laravel Homestead (https://github.com/laravel/homestead), a Vagrant box to make local development easier. Through Forge, you can deploy basically the same environment Homestead provides to any of the services. It's an easier way of keeping your dev and prod environments the same.
I wouldn't worry about system resources; if anything, I'd say that a high-level dynamic language adds most to the overhead. I can recommend http://ejabberd.im
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Where are you shopping?

I can't even buy the ingredients for one meal for $10 that'll serve two people.
Nope. I first got the page with the terminal, but trying to access the rest of the site turned into blank responses. Seems the whole site went down.
Oh, believe me I'm in no way trying to detract from her success. She'd undoubtedly run laps around me and probably everyone I've ever personally known. I only meant to provide a possible rational for the question asked.
Taylor has just mentioned on Twitter that he's going to start looking at Gitlab and Bitbucket tonight.
It's worth noting that almost every single person with influence (president, cabinet, congress, scotus, the heads of all the federal departments of ___) is IN the top 1% (usually the 0.1%). Very few government officials (with serious influence) want to help the masses as much as they want to help themselves / their peers.

So any congresscritter who claims they are working for the benefit of the masses has my immediate suspicion. If their track record shows they're telling the truth, that's a different story, and frankly that's what matters anyway, rather than their election-year talking points.
When can we file criminal charges against the US government?
I can't comment on specifics for NZ (but one month? I thought normal was two weeks notice). But, if the normal notice is one month, and they are asking for more, then explain it's not possible. Moreover, explain that while you are there, you won't be able to provide your best work, and moreover, it might even be detrimental to their business if you are working poorly. Especially if you are the only developer, you could be creating a situation that takes a new dev longer to fix, than for them to do the correct thing from scratch.

Read your contract carefully. Also read the laws carefully. You might well have the right to quit when you want. And in NZ I would assume that you would have a strong worker's advocate if the business wants to be shit and not pay you for work done.

Also, as others have said, be sure to use any leave you have coming.
No doubt said Chinese persons are distraught at the prospect of never being able to visit Disneyland. Short of WWIII there isn't much way to enforce such a verdict over foreigners on foreign soil.
It made it.
Luckily, for me, most of us who use Erlang do not want the changes you mention in your list :). Except records, which are a pain to nest.

Unifying , . ; is the most baffling one to me that I hear all the time.

But I'm glad Elixir exists and it is getting more people using BEAM.
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> Machine learning is literally using machines to automatically create models.

Good we got that clear. In statistics, the 'models' have hypotheses that should be satisfied. Checking the hypotheses and, also, the model that gets built, is tricky work not much mentioned in the book and, really, super tough to program in general.

> What's your complaint exactly?

Old wine, filtered, in new bottles.

I believe that students would be better advised to go for the original stuff in courses/books on statistics, the field itself. Yes, then a computer can do the data manipulations.

There has long been a threat of 'cook-book' statistics where get some software and a 'tool', apply it where some crucial hypothesis does not hold, and then get misleading results. Do this in medicine and can kill people; indeed, instead, actually, biostatistics is a relatively serious subject.

Well, it seems fairly clear that with 'machine learning' the threat of 'cook-book' statistics is much greater.

Or, there long was threat enough with SPSS, SAS, R, Matlab, etc., but now the threat is greater.

> What did you expect?

Something new and good, not 'statistics done badly'.
> Feel sorry for how proprietary maps are currently built. When there’s a new road built, they all have to scramble to add it.

I'm not into the business of maps, but don't the major players pay Nations/Cities or third parties that have the latest data about roads to be promptly updated? (whoever build the roads must have the data, and they'll be happy to sell it I suppose).
(ok, probably every city uses a different format or has the maps on paper...)

Then we can talk about if this data should be free or not.
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Wow! This looks amazing.

I have been working on productionization of R code, i.e. allowing people to ship their prototypes instead of rewriting algorithms in another language, so I am very interested in this problem.

I have also looked at lot at R's metadata format (CRAN), which, like Debian/Ubuntu, is very successful, despite being unsound.

It looks like METADATA.jl is versioned, while R punts on that... the version constraints in the "head" PACKAGES file are mutated regularly and it becomes impossible to install older versions of packages with correct dependencies.

This is not only bad for productionization, but for reproducible science (related: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2140).

I noticed in the docs there is a local package dir like: "/Users/stefan/.julia/v0.3". If this is settable for individual Julia processes rather than being a system-wide global, then I will be very happy :)

Pretty much all language-specific package managers started out with this as a global, and then as they evolved to "production quality", there were some truly horrible hacks layered on top: Python's virtualenv, Ruby's bundler, R devtools, etc.

I was a little skeptical about Julia at first (mainly the "one language for everything" philosophy), but I have seen lots of very impressive stuff so far.

This is definitely worthy of more attention/exposition, since it will be probably the first "principled" package manager in wide/"practical" use.
This just in: pot calls kettle black.
They just made it. :-)

The campaign is still open for a few more minutes.
This should at least have 2013 appended to the title.

But that supposes that 14-month-old news of a temporary response to customer complaints over a mediocre video game (which have been covered ad nauseam) should be on Hacker News in May 2014. I may be wrong, however. It received at least 3 upvotes in its first 5 minutes.
We wrote an article with some ideas here: http://blog.sqwiggle.com/best-places-find-telecommuting-job-...

EG: The AngelList search is very good and you can filter by allows remote :-)
Backed :)
I've been using Clojure for awhile now and it has never previously occurred to me that you could do:

#(foo %2)

instead of

(fn [_ arg2] (foo arg2))

Thanks!
Tim Conley over at the Foolish Adventure podcast calls it education based marketing (although he uses the term content marketing as well).

I think that term matches up nicely with what you're saying.
So that means you are storing all the user-generated wallpapers on your servers, or are these user-submitted ones?
People in the UK can't read the BBC?
For remote jobs, clarity of communication is essential.

I hope this doesn't read as mean, since I suspect English is not your first language, but if you are trying to get hired by an English speaking company, you need to use proper grammar and spelling.

If you are looking for job in your native language, and just raising the topic here on HN as the best place to discuss it, then please only read the first paragraph of this comment. I don't mean to exclude you from discussing things here.
window.solveCube() if you want to cheat.
For those that don't use Laravel, PuPHPet[0] is a great utility to generate local and deployable pre-made Vagrant boxes with a variety of apps. If you're interested in testing the Laravel Forge images locally, they use Homestead[1] which is the official Vagrant image for the Laravel Framework (as of 4.2)

[0] https://puphpet.com/

[1] http://laravel.com/docs/homestead?version=4.2
I'd only expect an ultra minimalist design from a unix shop, but showing nothing at all is a little over the top.
Imagine these two scenarios:

We spent $50 million dollars advertising our free app and got 600 users in three weeks. Is that good? No, it's terrible.

We spent $0 in advertising and told one guy who wasn't even in our niche about our app that costs $1000 per month and got 600 users in three weeks. Is that good? It's awesome!

Take a look at your ongoing costs, marketing costs per signup, customer lifetime value, customer feedback and value being generated for your customers.
Here's an important point about dates. Do your customers care? Does preserving some notion of temporal context deliver more value to your customers or sales of your product than not having it does?

Decisions should be made to support the intended goal of whatever you are doing. A lot of creative work does not have a date stamp front and center and people still enjoy it.

For example, when a movie like Terminator 2 is played on TV, do you watch it? Sure. Do you freak out if you start in the middle of the movie because you don't get to see the opening credits? Are you annoyed that you don't have the date stamp on every frame so that you KNOW when the movie was produced?

We technical people might care a bit too much about formats and things, but to a normal, non-technical person i.e. most of your customers, they probably don't care. Most people don't check the copyright date on books or look up the year a movie was produced on IMDB.
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I hope they start doing Europe soon, OSM datasets definitely need some love over here. And a big respect to all the people who made this possible.
At any court you like. It happens all the time.
You are right, sorry. Deleted.
Is that worthwhile, though?

Whenever the issue of Firefox's performance or resource usage comes up, the response is usually along the lines of, "There are no problems."

Then somebody usually links to http://arewefastyet.com/, using it as "evidence" that Firefox is somehow faster than the competition.

Meanwhile, there are many of us sitting here using Firefox, suffering from the poor performance that was initially inquired about, wondering how it could possibly be claimed that such an obvious problem "does not exist".
The need among PHP developers for a service that also does ongoing server management is why we built ServerPilot (https://serverpilot.io/).

While Forge is an advanced deployment tool similar to PuPHPet (https://puphpet.com/), ServerPilot is a modern alternative to cPanel for developers using their own servers.
At some point it becomes difficult to mechanically integrate the data, and having the data nicely integrated is sort of one of the selling points of OSM. There is also a repeated pattern of imports planning on 'fixing it later' and then not really following through. Another thing is that existing OSM data will tend to be more recent, so 'trampling' it for better coverage isn't all that desirable.

One thing that seems to get overlooked is that data that is in a state where it could be imported into the main database is also in a state where it can be mixed with a snapshot of the main database. So whoever has that data can make use of it to increase their coverage without worrying about how other users would want the data integrated.
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Yeah, was looking at Prosody. It's probably relatively simple in my case since I'm using the standard SQLite backends for roster storage etc. (Large-scale djabberd deployments likely aren't so lucky - djabberd was designed to make it easy for people to write code hooking in to their existing systems and many did. The only example I can find took a couple of months[1])

[1] http://blog.fastmail.fm/2011/08/24/new-xmppjabber-server/
What mapping software did you use? Just curious, because when I lived in Bangalore, India, I used to use one of the many android apps that record a gpx file, whenever went cycling. And, I used this mostly when I cycled in parts of the city that weren't mapped well on OSM. Then, all I had to do was upload the gpx files and if I found time I used to annotate street names, landmarks etc. And, nothing in this process seemed resource intensive to be slow.
[guest:unixstickers ~]#

How much should I trust the security of a business that gives root access to `guest`?
XML has a large amount of overhead, both in bandwidth and parsing (have a look at the amount of XML that is exchanged just for logging in with XMPP). For low powered devices and low bandwidth connections such as with mobile devices, there is an undeniable gain.

It's not necessary to break anything, just as TLS and compression are optional features of the connection, something like switching to ASN.1 would be possible, given a mapping of a pre-defined subset of the main XMPP protocol and commonly used extensions.
You can push your own code on Forge... you have full server access.
I'm seeing more and more bioinformatics-related positions in industry that are listing a PhD as a requirement. I'm currently trying to decide if it's worth it to do the PhD now (in Bioinfo or a strongly related program) or to side-track for a little while doing something more directly computational or entrepreneurial. I'm ultimately interested in coming back to bioinformatics regardless. Would you say it's worthwhile to do the PhD (even if intending to work in industry), or to try to make up for the lack of a PhD with other experience?
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