skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came here to say the same thing (I'm French too). I have used the oft-cited CanalPlay offer, with slightly more hours of shows, and had a hard time finding interesting content, not because it isn't there, but because the recommendation engine is clearly not up to the game.

Things I like most about netflix so far: family profiles (not for parental control, but more because each one has their list, can resume a movie etc), I can force the quality to excellent (our satellite link has a big bandwidth but the latency often confuses the streaming services, ending up with big square pixels), current time in the movie is shared across devices, onboarding is good, recommendations so far have been excellent.
The easiest way to watch netflix on Linux is using the Chrome Beta version with a spoofed user agent:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/netflix-linux-html5-suppo...
If that's true why do kindles have native support for other formats or containers like PDF and plain text?

I suppose the idea would have to be that there are significant non-commercial sources of pdf and text documents that someone might want to read on a kindle (think documentation, academic papers, a collection of notes, the kind of things that aren't available through amazon).

However, those same kinds of documents are increasingly distributed as epubs, because PDFs are horrible unless you target one specific output size and resolution (like physical paper), and text simply doesn't offer enough layout flexibility. Epub is the open standard, and anyone who wants layout flexibility uses it. Anything else, including a lot of kindle ebooks, are typically converted from an epub original.

It's not a technical challenge. KF8 is nearly isomorphic to epub.
Max Schireson steps down as MongDB's CEO and this is his resignation letter
News got out today that contentowners are pressing Netflix to stop people from using VPN to get other regions content.
I have a 3 year old kindle as well. I might upgrade to Kindle voyage because of the high PPI. Hopefully they have improved the refresh rate of the display as well. In the older kindles you have to make a choice between refresh every page (slow) or artefacts. I don't know why they didn't make the refresh every n page configurable (6 by default I think)
19250 people have their Apple accounts accessed by #NSA every year.
The default assumption would be "buy the rumor, sell the news."
Waiting for Christmas...
What Links Creativity, Conspiracy Theories, and Delusions?: Apophenia
You can write map but it's a lot of boilerplate and you loose types

Map func(interface{}, func(interface{}) interface{}) []interface{}
Phone number -- I tried a zipcode, and it asked me for a "valid phone number". I didn't try entering one.
I can recalibrate my taste buds in all manner of ways, and sparkling water with a dash of lime will never even be in the same satisfaction category as an ice cold Coke Zero in a sunny day.

Had you mentioned a good lager, you'd have a contender, but there's another slew of health issues there.

In the end, living is slowly killing me. Let's just focus on the slow part and not fret about small risks.
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I'm not sure if I'm familiar with the system you refer to, apparently they overhauled everything recently, and I'm a fresher.
That's what I mean. Are they allowed to do that?
In my interviewing experience (looking at the time for something not dissimilar), lots of people think that 'knows C' and 'embedded systems' are the same as "I took a single module involving C at university, and by the end of it, my things were only randomly segfaulting maybe 70% of the time."

Or they've never touched either C or an embedded system in their life, but somehow it ends up on their CV and they tell you about how passionate for learning they are. Which may well be true, but it raises questions about your honesty and/or capacity for introspection. Also, bare-metal embedded really isn't the place to learn C[1], given that most failure modes are "It doesn't work. And maybe something caught just fire."

[1] Ask me how I know...
Looking back at my open-source experiment: Applying a thousand no's
Mastering DynamoDB
NewsCorp: Google is a 'platform for piracy'
> It's worth noting your entire argument is an appeal to authority or a personal attack.

You mean, like when I pointed out that Asperger's was created and destroyed by votes rather then scientific evidence? Or was it when I pointed out that the NIMH is abandoning the DSM because it lacks scientific content?

As to personal attack, physician, heal thyself.

> To say that the DSM is devoid of scientific context is simply false ...

Don't tell me. Tell NIMH director Insel, who says that same thing I do for the same reason -- the DSM lacks scientific substance. Insel recently said (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...):

"While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."

"Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure. In the rest of medicine, this would be equivalent to creating diagnostic systems based on the nature of chest pain or the quality of fever. Indeed, symptom-based diagnosis, once common in other areas of medicine, has been largely replaced in the past half century as we have understood that symptoms alone rarely indicate the best choice of treatment. Patients with mental disorders deserve better."

On that basis, on that evidence, you should address your beliefs about the DSM to the highest-ranking psychiatrist in the country, rather than to me. Of course, if you actually understood what constitutes science, you wouldn't be taking the position you are.

> I don't think there's any better way to resolve disagreements among scientists than by voting ...

Ah. Now I see the problem. Scientific questions are never resolved by voting -- not ever. They are all resolved by empirical evidence. For questions that cannot be resolved by evidence, scientists adopt the null hypothesis, the precept that an idea is false until it is supported by evidence.

The bottom line is that a scientist would never say, "We don't know what this is, but let's offer clinical treatments anyway -- because the public doesn't understand either science or our poverty of knowledge."

This is why Insel, and his predecessor, Steve Hyman, have taken the positions they have. This is why psychiatry and psychology are in the midst of an historical transformation, one that faces up to the fact that they are not scientific enterprises and considers a course of corrective action.
That isn't the case at all. The problem is that the types restrict your functions, so you either have to write a Mao function for every type you want to support, or drop the types altogether.

The situation where you drop the types is the equivalent to Python isn't it?
Whoa now, one of the few good things about Go is that it doesn't have exceptions.
Seeding Torrents from Amazon's Cloud with S3
What do you mean by "batch"? Most companies have rolling hiring.
This ^ "You only get out of it, what you put into it." goes both ways - employers should expect to extend some effort if they expect their candidates to extend some effort.

I strongly suspected that sometimes goals of the person responsible for hiring are not quite aligned with the company they work for.
Example:

Company's goal: Hire an exceptional candidate.

Lazy or overworked hiring manager's goal: Reduce the size of the stack of 1000's of resume's I have to go through using any means possible that will make it appear like he/she actually did the work to find the candidate.

"Lemme see, use keyword search to ditch the ones without 'Github' on their resume'. Now ditch the ones who don't have a college degree. Still some resume's left? OK, how about tossing the ones without a CS degree?"

Run a filter with enough conditions and you can get that pile down to nothing pretty fast. If that is still not enough filtering, ask the candidates to do something very time consuming. This a great way to weed out people who are very busy or exceptional at what they do and don't need to jump through your hoops.
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forca, email me? I'd like to help you out and I can probably do so. So don't hesitate. Let's talk.

I'm based in India and you haven't described your condition, but I can tell you that yes world-class healthcare is available in India and compared to US at relatively affordable prices. I would like to help you out to arrive at an objective decision.

There's no contact # or email in your profile so I can't reach you.
> You don't build error handling classes in Go.

I've encountered people doing this. When I said "If I had Maybe here then I could write 1/5 as much code," someone showed me a class that maintained whether it had encountered an error, and each method would do nothing and return the previous error if so. This allowed him to write 1/5 as much code in the method that actually does stuff, just as he would in Haskell or Swift. Unfortunately the approach of reducing every function full of noisy error checking to a bunch of calls on one object is pretty bad in general...
Namibian here. Can confirm, this got more international press attention than national press.
Nowadays you have teams of two or three, which are at the same time up against the external threat and the institution within which they work. Lone heroes saving the day in spite of the incompetence (or corruption) of their colleagues.

While they are small teams (were they ever big?), with regard to "fighting the institution", frankly, that's not the impression they leave me.

They have their moments of rogue colleagues or corrupt departments, but for the most part, what I see is a small team backed up by a larger institution fighting Evil (criminals, terrorists, etc).

I'm talking about the mass market, mind you, not The Wire but NCIS, CSI, Law & Order, Hawai Five-o, Criminal Minds and all that crap.

And then there's this recent influx of zombie movies - the libertarian paradise, where no one tells you what to do, there is perfect free trade facilitated by the proliferation of firearms within general population, and where everything that moves in a group larger than 20 is a mindless mass trying to kill you.

Which movies? I had to admit I haven't watched recent zombie flicks, but The Walking Dead has been the most successful show, and it's pretty much the opposite of that description. It's constantly reinforcing how much the breakdown of The System sucks and gets people to kill each other.
Spacesuits of the future may resemble a streamlined second skin
Common sense and statistics
There are only two things to consider:
1) Buttons;
2) Front light;

For me any buttons at all are priority 1, light - priority 2.
I have Kindle 3 and occasionally use paperwhite. About 90% of all time you will read not in the dark, so light is not an issue. Other 10% may be a deal breaker, but personally I just use a phone with Kindle app.
As an additional anec-datapoint here, I've noticed it's a relatively common habit amongst native english speakers who have some degree of dyslexia. I've asked about it once or twice, and the most consistent answer is something like 'I don't even notice I'm doing it; when I finish a word I insert a space, then think about the punctuation and add it on...'

This is not to suggest that this structure indicates dyslexia of course, the rest of this thread has plenty of other good reasons for non-native english speakers and otherwise.
Is building Veblen goods for tasteless oligarchs really "fashion"? He's right that it's certainly not "tech".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
I haven't seen any sort of reaction here in Denmark. Not all of the ISP have their own streaming service so they aren't really motivated to go against Netflix. If the companies with their own streaming service are trying to push to hard, users could just switch.

Prices for ADSL/cabel are pretty much the same for the same speed regardless of provider, so I think the ISP have just found a pricing level that allows them to make a profit and not care about Netflix. If anything Netflix are most likely pushing customers to higher speeds, which costs a bit more.

The Danish version of RIAA/MPAA have tried to force the ISP to pay then money for carrying streaming services, but that doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
It's tricky. Article 36 allows some restrictions to free trade:

> ... the Treaty does not affect the existence of industrial property rights granted pursuant to the legislation of the Member States. Accordingly, national legislation on the acquisition, transfer and extinction of such rights is lawful.

So IPR can be restricted nationally. However:

> The second principle is that an industrial property right is exhausted when a product has been lawfully distributed in the market of a Member State by the owner of the right or with his or her consent. Thereafter the owner of the right may not oppose the importation of the product into any Member State where it was first marketed.

To me, this is clearly the case of VPNs: you are lawfully acquiring access to the content in the country where it is sold, and then consuming it in another country.
So in general, to be read as:
"Please continue to upload nude selfies, they are more secure then ever" :)
Looks like on Monday all tech stock took a big hit including Amazon, Facebook, Tesla, etc. Then on Thursday Netflix announced it would not make a profit in Europe for 10 years.

Really though, it can be anything and if you look at the stock on a longer time period this really isn't all that big of a deal.
For those looking for a solution that will allow them to watch e.g. the American version of Netflix (which has the largest selection), check out https://unlocator.com/ or http://www.unblock-us.com/. The latter was a bit unreliable for me, whereas the former works well.

To save money, create an American Netflix account instead of a Netflix account in your native country. The way to sign up for the American account is to use one of the VPN services above, change your DNS settings as explained on the VPN service's website, and then go to netflix.com. You should then see the American version and be able to create an account there.
Not on the sim card, but on the base band processor it very probably will work, since the base band on many cell phone cores share the memory with the application processor.
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Not really, the dev vehicle had, for example, three not nine engines and critically had only one or a particular sensor where the real thing has three; the fault that exploded the test vehicle would have been outvoted by the other two redundant systems on a real F9. Calling them the same invites inaccurate feelings of splodeyness.
NPM registry in numbers
I had the very first version. I upgraded to the last version before paperwhite because the screen was much better. I upgraded to paperwhite because I saw the integrated light and it's much comfortable than other solutions (and luminosity was an issue eg in planes on older kindle). I may upgrade to the voyage one because it's smaller and i miss the change page button of the older kindles which this one seems to mimic.

So for me it's not that the one I had at each time was too old, or for fun, but because the new version adds something that genuinely improve my reading comfort, while being cheap enough that I don't need to think much about that expense.
As long as I can watch English movies in English, rather than being forced to watch English movies in dubbed German I'll be a happy camper.

Hopefully this gives the German terrestrial channels a kick up the butt. ARD, ZDF, RTL and ProSieben still are too lazy to broadcast both audio tracks (original English and the dubbed German) over cable.

I should get a discount on my TV license. In fact everyone should get a discount, just because German TV is so bad. It's like torture. Except for Tatort. They get a free pass.
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> English is always available

Not in the Danish version of Netflix, AFAIK. There you can typically choose between three or four (horribly translated) Nordic languages.

If you want English subtitles, one solution could be to use a VPN service such as Unlocator.
I can no longer reproduce this on my Nexus 5. The first time I tried it (yesterday), I saw an empty alert box. The second time I tried it (today), the button pops in and out ineffectively.
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German copycat portals for whatever usually suck, so I was pretty psyched to hear Netflix was launching, only to then find out that their selection in Germany is mediocre at best. Here is a comparison (in german):

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/netflix-test-information...

I'm seriously considering a US VPN, guess thats the country with the best catalogue. Any experience regarding potential bandwidth issues?
I find this a worthy read. I think it's inspiring and thought provoking about more than just movies and novels. It sheds a light on how many of our narratives are built.
Be ready for use USB 3.1 Type C connector
Intel Crosswalk, an HTML 5 Application Runtime
no of this is new. watch older movies, you see the same silly plot lines
the "if it isn't tested, it's broken" line. (or at least, it rapidly becomes broken)

that even bad automated tests are usually far better than no tests

although some automated tests can be implemented so horribly that it would be better off not to have them at all

that testability should be one of the main things to consider when choosing how to structure a system

that i should go write some unit tests for the bad code i wrote earlier today
I find that a lot easier to follow than the isolated 'true' and 'false' values in the rust code, especially considering that if you have any code at all in the body of such an 8 pronged switch the header will surely scroll out of view by the time you get to the bottom entries.
> Because if this Rails 5.0 will be released for Ruby [...]

I guess there's a typo: s/if/of
Largely, yes. Which is why strace is so useful as a debugging tool. It's also why you want to do buffered IO (read/write in kB at a time) to minimise call overhead.

There is mmap[1] (controlled, unsurprisingly, by syscalls), which will give you a memory region that may be updated transparently for you by the kernel, but in general, it's all syscalls.

The other nice thing about the syscall interface is that it gives the kernel an opportunity to suspend the calling process and schedule something else if it can't fulfill their request right now (hence, blocking IO), so you're not actually polling. Of course, a preeemptive scheduler (like everything actually is) can step in and suspend you anyway, but the syscall is a nice place to do it cooperatively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmap
I think you should consider adding a newsletter sign-up form to the website. I would love to use this for Japanese, but there is no way to 'subscribe' to your apps. (You've posted a link to your blog below, so I think I'll just add it to my RSS reader, but I wouldn't have found it without the HN comments.)
> Anything else, including a lot of kindle ebooks, are typically converted from an epub original.

You won't find any epubs in the Amazon Store. That Amazon still allows to side-load other ebooks onto the Kindle is nice but you never known when that hole gets closed up.

It might not be a technical challenge for you but there many people out there for whom it is and those will go to the Amazon Store to get their ebooks there because it's easier to do. And voila, their in the walled garden of Amazon.

PDFs are targetting a different kind of ebooks, those that need to have an exact layout. Amazon is also not really supporting them well, the reading experience of a PDF on a Kindle is awful even though the Kindle DX would have a big enough display for displaying whole pages.
Absolutely correct, no amount of wording will provide adequate proof. Thats why if you are providing a security product or product providing security features, open up the source code and provide a way to validate that that source is actually what is running on the hardware.

Until then I assume it is unsecure.
>"On devices running iOS 8, your personal data such as photos, messages (including attachments), email, contacts, call history, iTunes content, notes, and reminders is placed under the protection of your passcode. Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data"

Too bad they (and other phone manufacturers) don't protect phone calls with some kind of end-to-end encryption.
The laws? I'm pretty sure mass surveillance is unconstitutional, that didn't stop them.

Are you saying it's outside of scope for NSA to forcefully install a backdoor or request encryption keys?

How do you explain LavaBit?

How do explain NSA's hardware in data centers?

How do you explain NSA's hardware in cell phone providers centers?

How do you explain NSA's backdoors in Microsoft's products?
This motherly relationship Google has with you is going to turn bad. At some point, you'll be betrayed. The more you rely on Google, the more it's going to hurt you.
Cordova & Crosswalk: https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-cordova-andro...
If it's a guess you should probably not state it as fact.
Institutions are boring.

Audiences typically want to identify with characters, so it's only natural that strong character-based stories will favor individuals over faceless institutions.
I rescued a fledgling crow this year by getting him/her past a rough spot in the early days of independence. It made a complete mess of my office but it was one of the most rewarding things I did this year, incredible how smart that little bird was. Eventually it moved to the garden of a friend and from there joined regular crow life.
They don't have a monopoly on ebooks.

But they are using their proprietary format to promote their platform and as soon as you are in their walled garden, it's much more convenient to buy it from Amazon.

They are a content provider and they do anything that's legally possible to keep their customer and that includes a proprietary format.

Given that the Kindle is currently the best e-ink hardware that is out there and even by a big margin, they don't need to enforce anything (the Calibre plugin that removes the DRM from Kindle ebooks for ebooks) but I wonder what happens if a viable competitor turns up?
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He says it's not tech, and then he calls it a computer. That makes no sense to me. Of course it's a Veblen good, something Ben Thompson has discussed in Stratechery...

http://stratechery.com/2014/apple-watch-asking-saying/
Spiegel Online has a comparison of online video providers (In German):

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/netflix-alternative-maxd...

I welcome these video services here in German. I'm extremely happy to get original audio versions (OV), which the terrestrial channels butcher with German dubbing (with no original audio track offered).

I'll be voting with my cash and the next time Kabel Deutschland contact me again about their shitty cable TV service I'll tell them again why I don't want it. I really don't want to watch Pulp Fiction in German, however funny it sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELLL_qIl80Q
Tales from the dark side
My fav feature:

* min, min_by, max and max_by supports optional argument to return multiple elements.

Assuming this does The Right Thing (i.e. uses fixed space) I always wanted it.
And that's the main difference between legal systems; NL is about re-education, US is about paying a debt to society (or keeping people off the street).
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