skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Western involvement cannot be ignored in analysis of the middle east ever since the end of WW1. Extremism is the product of continuos destabilization of democracies, funding of extremist groups and puppet regimes. Pick pretty much any country, specifically ones that the Western powers have been having their war of terror in recently and look at the history. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afganistan, etc, etc, etc.

Al Qaeda was created to fight the Soviets and backfired, IS could be seen as an offshoot from funding extremists in Syria at the end of Bush's presidency to overthrow Assad. Unless you prefer to believe that an entire racial group is just predisposed to committing acts of terror...

You might find this wikipedia article interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...
> This is also following the concept that storage gets cheaper as time goes on. More movies = more storage fees, but I don't think this overhead is nearly as large as some would assume.

For a million 2-hour movies, stored at 10 mbps, (plus another 10 mbps for other versions), you end up with 18 petabytes. That can be stored on S3 for $396k per month, or on 200 180TB backblaze storage pods for a $1.8M one-time cost, plus $30k/mo for 20 full racks somewhere cheap. I assume bandwidth costs would be manageable either way, since the vast majority of these films are going to be accessed very rarely.

Just back-of-the-envelope calculations from someone who hasn't worked at this sort of scale. If I'm off by an order of magnitude then it'd be impractical to store on S3, since the fees would be something like 1/4 of their current profits.
It's true that first sale prevents the studios from restricting Netflix's usage but it doesn't require them to make new copies for Netflix. If they aren't selling the DVD commercially, as is the case for many classic films, there's no way to legally create a new copy to replace a damaged disc.
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Because it is GNOME with just a replaced shell.
What about - no ;P That's the worst idea I have ever heard ;)
Our system changes to adapt. We'll see what adjustments the post-employment age pushed us to adopt. I think it'll have to be something palatable to the hard-working older folks (who vote and can't stomach socialism)
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> 14. Humiliate people in public.

This happens a lot. It happens at my company when you screw up a build.
I recall having to run gnome-settings-daemon even if I wasnt running the rest of gnome to fix some absurd issue or other. I can see systemd easily "leaking" dependencies up the stack, making my life as a "fringe"/non-gnome user harder.

The people working on it don't seem to have any aversion at all to scope creep. In fact, the politics of it all make it seem like a "land grab" and they'd in fact be happy if systemd takes over more and more responsibilities.
Glad to hear this.

My only concern (echoed by many anti-GMO'ers, of which I don't consider myself a part) is of horizontal gene transmission[0[, primarily because I have no training or experience in the subject matter. But it's not enough of a concern to me to fight against GMO, because there are better fights to be fought! I simply wish I knew more.

Here is the link on the study (haven't had time to evaluate the test design yet): http://www.journalofanimalscience.org/content/early/2014/08/...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
> I'm sure they could easily license those b&w movies that play all day on TCM without commercials.

Why are you sure that the movie studios aren't demanding excessive amounts or strategically avoiding any one service getting all of the movies to ensure nobody gets a dominant position? They're determined to avoid Netflix being able to do what Apple did to the music cartel and I'm sure that's a factor in every negotiation.
Agreed. I understand the sentiment, but feel increasing funding to arts and music programs would accomplish this more effectively. Help create more world-class musicians that everyone would enjoy rather than promote music just because its Canadian.
Here's somebody else's data:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1284055/ssd-return-rates
He should have also considered greencine which focuses more on independent and cult classic films:

http://www.greencine.com/main

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) :
http://www.greencine.com/webCatalogMore?prodid=21298
I know what you mean and it's not a valid point. Whether or not we are allowed to copy someone's copyrighted work has nothing to do with how we interpret the 4th amendment.
> It's unclear what the big missing feature is after lambdas.

- Value types, GPGPU, replacing JNI with an improved JNR, reified generics, making Unsafe an official package, modularity, AOT compilation, replacing Hotspot by Graal...

Some things discussed here,

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/jlss...

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sumatra/

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Publications+and...
http://disklabs.com/products/faraday-bags
These SSDs are failing at roughly 3000 write-out cycles. Traditional hard drives can take 6 hours to write out, so doing a similar test would take ~2 years.

Spinning disks are so freaking slow that you could never test the reliability apples-to-apples. Any workload that wears out an SSD could never be run on a traditional HD.
Yes. That is what I am guessing. If the app is opened close to the user's click, it might be fairly reliable. I think hasOffers and few of the other tracking companies do this. But I am sure branch has figured out a better way to fingerprint.
Note that the article is not about the streaming service.
Would you make fun of the Burundian Franc because I'd have to convert them into USD to pay my US suppliers? Not everyone has to directly accept Bitcoin for it to be a real currency and generally useful.

The only difference with Bitcoin versus a small fiat currency is the people who are using it are distributed geographically worldwide instead of clumped together in one area. As long as they continue to prefer it to other currencies for some proportion of their transactions it will be successful and have value.
Presumably he wants the Archive to archive it and not necessarily make it available. I'm sure there's a country where you can backup DVDs to a hard drive without violating the law.
I wouldn't rule out the possibility of the market crashing. I would rule out the possibility of us being near any kind of fundamental maximum amount of value in the economy.
In terms of language features, lack of properties are the thing that is keeping me from using java. I would love to be able to have public variables, with the understanding that I could just convert them to properties later on if I need to. Instead, java conventions suggest that I always make a getter and setter for every single variable that I want to expose.
We're pretty sure our system works well when we have enough children and it predictably works as it did for all the XX century.

But if we don't have enough children we don't know what happens. Maybe it is "pushed to adopt". Maybe it implodes. Who knows.

I happened to be born in the USSR. And then it failed to "change to adapt" and instead imploded on us into something as bad as two Great Depressions.
Today I won't count on this adaptability business and I don't recommend anyone to do so.

As for hard-working older folks who vote. The problem here is older folks who don't work but still vote. They vote themself a lot of socialism that taxes everybody else and also makes it counterproductive for hard-working older folts to work, since they get benefits anyway, which might be cancelled if they continue to work.
Seems like Dropbox has already solved this problem on mobile devices. Using the Dropbox client on my Nexus phone or on the iPad, I can read or edit a file, and then mark it for offline use which keeps it in local storage, or just leave it alone, where I assume it's eventually deleted from the cache.

It's pretty transparent and intuitive. I would think this could be done on desktop / laptop systems, maybe via an optional client, with all files set initially to a no-sync value.
Or a startup for peer-to-peer resale of used DVDs?

Though Amazon might've already locked that market up. Why rent when I can buy for $0.01 + $3.99 shipping?
I read the article as the complaint being that there is not an option to get a movie that was once available for rental, however is not available currently via streaming.
I would assume (and hope) that a company of that scale is using something like Glacier to hold rarely accessed data, so that storage fees aren't incurred on having it in a hot cache.
He definitely touches on the legal barriers surrounding this. I don't think he's unaware.
I love it. I installed it yesterday when finbarr told me it was finally released, been having friends install the app, and we haven't stopped since then!
Thank you for plugging this! Exactly what I was looking for. Agree with the other poster that your pricing should be more prominent; I thought it was $25 at first glance which (naturally) makes one disappointed to see it's actually $50, though it seems well worth it.

Is Yosemite currently supported? Would it make sense to support iCloud Drive too?
I thought the IDFA could be used to do tracking like this, or am I misunderstanding something?

http://www.adexchanger.com/mobile/apple-throws-a-bone-to-app...
I'd like to note that an a/b-test saying it's more profitable doesn't mean you should automatically follow it.

A random example: The people who don't download your software because they can't find the price might think very negatively about your product.
I cannot get over the fact GUI apps (like firefox) look so bad on every screenshot with tiling WMs. Is it that users just don't care or you actually cannot make it look good ("good" is ambiguous, so let's say how it would normally look on Xfce with standard Xubuntu theme) easily enough? I saw something like Xmonad + Gnome 3, but it sounds pretty scary (I mean, one thing that is good about tiling WMs is that they are normally lightweight). It might sound funny, but it's one of the main reasons why I don't use tiling WM yet.
Yup. Still beta but I'm using it!
>So you believe that if there was no Cancon laws that the Canadian cultural identity wouldn't suffer? American culture has an enormous influence on Canadians as it is, and I fear that getting rid of things like Cancon would start to erode our identity further.

Americans don't force their content on us. The irony is that our own regulatory bodies are the ones seeking to force something on us that we don't seem to want.

>Smaller cultures like Canada need to be protected so that they may be allowed to develop.

Protected from whom? Themselves, apparently. It is, after all, Canadians who seem to be welcoming American content with open arms. They've shown exactly what they want, via their daily decisions of which kinds of media to consume. And this is even with their options artificially limited by entities like the CRTC.
> I just hit my Roku and I can watch almost anything within a minute.

Do you mean 'anything you want' or that selection seems almost comprehensive?

The article claimed that the streaming selection is poor, and substantially smaller than the Netflix DVD selection. My impression of Roku's services is that there is much I cannot find.
* So feel free to believe in space aliens if you like :-)

Boring straw-man. I was refuting the fact that this could have been done in 30 minutes with rocks of that size. Nobody is suggesting the existence of extra-terrestrials, (other than you).
Like a Chromebook, right?
SpaceMonkey was recently acquired by Vivint, Inc. "The Space Monkey team is excited to announce that the company has been acquired by Vivint, Inc." I don't hold out any hope that SpaceMonkey as a product will continue on, or if this was more or less an acquihire.
That's about security but people run LXC containers for other reasons.
The fact that they work better than spec indicates to me that we are still at the forefront of this technology with good engineering effort behind it. Once it matures and companies try to squeeze out every dollar, expect them to fail a lot more and the MTBF to be less than advertised, similar to printers etc
Is "arbitrary widgets" everything that isn't text, including the overall layout of a window? That sounds a lot like Windows' "Change only the text size" option, which has been around for a long time and isn't a good substitute for UI scale.

Size of all of the mouse targets is as big a deal as the text; they need a middle ground between "impossible to hit" and "gigantic waste of space".

I'd just been getting in to Linux (via the LF course on edX) and have it dual booting on my old laptop, but all of my newer computers have higher res screens that fit best at fractional upscaling from the "standard" size of old UIs. Guess I'll keep working on it because I'm enjoying the CLI and playing around with a web server, but I'm now a lot less excited about the prospects of Linux as a Windows / OS X replacement.

Year of the Linux desktop...
Nice. This seems like a great tool to teach kids how to program and explore "Turtle Geometry"[1] and L-Systems[2].

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/turtle-geometry

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
KDE doesn't do a ton of stuff that many (most?) people care about like handle add/removing displays frequently. Accessibility is pretty good in GNOME (but not in KDE) which makes it a better default option too. Also most of the desktop plumbing (freedesktop.org stuff) seems to start in GNOME and works better there.
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Why would you fsync logs for a high-level service? Are you afraid a power outage is going to cause you to lose service logs?
> I might underestimate the power of the almighty buck here, but I'd take the employer that says "we value work/life balance, when we say 40h/week we mean it literally, we allow remote work, and we have 5 paid weeks off".

Almost universally what you see in job ads and recruiter spam is "we offer exciting challenges" and that they've created the most fun place to work ever and if they mention compensation at all they offer "market salary" or "salary commensurate with experience", to the point where all these different messages sound pretty much the same.

I get hundreds of messages on linkedin and they all sound like the above with exciting challenges with a market salary, but I don't recall anyone attempting to promise above-market salary or better vacation time, even once. You would think that you could get a competitive advantage by promising tangible benefits as you suggest, but I've never seen it.

Some do mention being more flexible with remote work though.

> so it's basically a job that requires one parent to stay at home at least part time?

Yes, basically.

> Or you need a nanny to pick up your kids after school/kindergarten?

In the US children are universally bussed to/from school, you don't need to come pick them up yourself. So once they're old enough that they don't need constant supervision they often have a couple hours to themselves at home.

> My guess is that you are going to say that normally one parent (and not a random one) just stays home for years after having kids, but that would be a real blow to my view of SF/NYC as progressive...

In terms of labor conditions? CA and NY have a handful of better labor protections than the rest of the country, but progressive by your standards? absolutely not.

> It seems odd to me that people making a lot of money (which I hope these salaries are considered), wouldn't just invest a huge chunk of it in family/free time, by simply working less hours, e.g. 75% at 75% pay.

That would be great. I would totally do that.

Remember, people don't get paid by the hour so there's no counterincentive to employers using social pressure to get you to put in as much time as possible. There is no concept of a set number of hours you're supposed to work.

> Also I'm surprised of how employers (candidates, rather) aren't pushing the compensation in a more work/life balance friendly direction.

Yes. People are not willing to fight for this.

> Especially since these were visa applications, a lot of which I assume come from people used to 5w holidays and actual 40h workweeks.

The bulk of these these are from Asia or India where the salary differential might be very large.
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Looks like a nice product, but $50 for a single user is quite steep, IMHO.
Appending my own personal pain point

22. Allow IT, regulatory, & quality to inhibit your productivity to the point that you work on side projects just to know what it's like to ship something.

Yeah, I'm currently interviewing else where.
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wouldn't that qualify as legitimate use of a backup copy? if the original is destroyed?
A very good point, but it would still be good to see a comparison, even if it does take 2 years to run on a traditional HD.
Hand-drawn, detailed city maps
Yes, they managed to keep it dead simple (which is a very hard task).
Some people don't like it, but I personally love the lack of noise.
Making it cheaper and easier to trade stocks is a terrible idea
According to their Wikipedia entry [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix#IT_infrastructure], they are storing all the content on S3. I have to imagine that they have some pretty good contracts with Amazon though.
It's hard for me to believe any Cinephile would use Netflix at all, the bitrates on their streams are painfully low and it's absolutely noticeable even on medium sized screens. And that's not even mentioning the audio quality.
Co-operation between countries still requires that laws are followed. You can't just send the private data of your citizens to foreign nationals. That is unequivocally against the law and could even be interpreted as treason.
Most stuff that makes money gets taxed. The HMRC exempt investment in cars and gambling because they figure most people lose on those. Guess that goes for holiday money too as the money change fees probably exceed currency gains. Dunno if you could classify bitcoin as gambling on the value of some inherently worthless bits? Might have a chance with that one.
"could even be interpreted as treason."

That seems far-fetched.

Edited to add: Just to be clear, "not treason" doesn't mean "good"; "not deplorable"; or even, necessarily, "not deserving of the death penalty" - it just means "not treason".
Except: "browser fingerprinting is not good with mobile browsers"
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Netflix could not use Glacier for rarely accessed films, unless they wanted to impose a watching schedule on their users (i.e. "Bananas is only available on weekends", or similar, and even then, that'd impose even higher fees to move things out of Glacier and onto some other kind of storage). Glacier takes minutes to hours to retrieve files (I'm guessing hours in the case or large movie files). Just because it is "rarely accessed", doesn't mean it doesn't need to be available quickly when it is accessed. And, Glacier is priced for data that is moved in and almost never moved out to other types of storage.
1. I love to cook for fun.
2. I like the creative side of cooking, so no planning ahead. We get a vegetable CSA box which makes things interesting and a challenge each week to cook with new veggies.
3. I slow cook meats a lot and use a lot of tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and onions in dishes.
4. No diets. Unprocessed food as much as possible
5. Many have mentioned it, but be organized, get a good knife, and find a good pot/pan.
Have a few basic tools and just create - I have cooked on stones on backpacking trips and made my own spoon once out of a tree branch, but a good sharp knife is tough to find.
I mean anything I want. Usually I'm covered between Amazon Instant Video and Netflix.

I'm really only into mainstream movies though, so I do understand my opinion might not be the best one.
As an aside, this reference makes me happy. The Phantom Tollbooth was one of my favorite books when I was younger, just brilliantly written. So many good lessons about life (the Humbug being a great example). Another great one that is somewhat applicable here is Canby, the regular visitor to the Island of Conclusions, who attempts to be as much as he can be of all things (hence his name), which leaves him not very much like any of them, instead of picking one thing and mastering it.
I think that, if they were challenged, they would have to prove that they are only sending out as many backup copies as they have originals.

I wouldn't want to endanger my business to licensing lawsuits based on something like that which would be terribly hard to prove.
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that really wouldnt work. wait 4 hours to see what you wanted to see? for backup sure, but not for what they need to show customers
I think it will be very helpful. I don't see many other oil tycoons doing it for now, though. I think the Rockefeller family did it because they are much more environmentally conscious than the oil industry is.
In my country Costa Rica Logo was taught in primary schools and It was a lot of fun. It was indeed the first time I coded something when I was eight.
I guess you are referring to the GTK/QT/... theme used? Most tiling WMs don't set one by default, but you can easily do so by using a custom .gtkrc-2.0 or so[1].
[1] see, for example, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#Themes
Yes, there are many more features to come, but they don't look like they will be as important as lambdas (and default methods) for everyday coding.

Thanks for the links.
The financial analogy is to think of failure rates in drives as equivalent to defaults on a pool of securities (say mortgages). obviously there are a number of ways to do this but the most simple is that since origination standards for loans vary through time (think build quality and design changes in the drive context) it seems to make sense to think about this from a vintage standpoint. i.e. are seagate drives installed in Dec'12 failing at the same rate as ones installed in March '13 after six months...
The current FAQ only mentions iOS7. Perhaps it's stale?
I kind of anthropomorphize the devices in tests like this, so it's a bit sad to see the poor things made to run until their legs fall off. But it's nice to know they run farther than expected.
> But my preference as a consumer is hardly the definition of "what the market will pay." I'd like restaurants to give me their food cheaper and always all-you-can-eat too, but I still pay for restaurant meals anyway. (Of course, there isn't exactly a pirating option for restaurant meals.)

Yeah, the analogy breaks down when you compare rivalrous goods to goods which are trivially copyable.
I have many timed tried to embark on this very journey and always gave up when I realized I had none of the conveniences available to me as I do with the Java platform.

I thought of all the conveniences of Spring injection, a bazillion java libraries nicely managed by maven etc. The ecosystem available to me in Java is what always made me give up. I guess I never needed to learn C/C++ badly enough to justify the time investment.
A Cinephile is someone who is into movies and discussing the themes, theories, plots, philosophy of movies. They are not really concerned with bitrates as long as its watchable.
I'm happy to see the high write longevity these drives are achieving, but it frightens me a lot that it seems like the fail-safes where they're designed to go into read-only mode instead of just dropping off the controller and losing your data are failing on all of them, even the Intel!