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Agreed! I can access Netflix and Amazon Prime Video on a Roku at home, and the Amazon interface is really bad. What might be called catalog "grooming" is bad too - associated shows for, say a TV series, might show up under the same entry, or it might be separate items - sometime there isn't even a common title keyword or phrase between the items.

I avoid Amazon unless the content is exclusive to that service. Even then, I rarely bother to search on Amazon for that exclusive content as Netflix provides more watchable material than my time budget anyway.
Boycott for a specific length of time, sometimes for ever. Even when they ring you begging you to 'come back, all is different now'. The only thing companies understand is their bottom line.

I withdraw my custom from Companies which rip me off for enough time that they lose at least the amount of money that I have lost, and generally much more.

One company made me hang around for 5 hours when I needed that time to do other very important stuff. Then they offered to 'fix that' and did exactly the same time again. I took all of my current business away from them and put put them on the 'do not use' list for 10 years. Several times during that period they rang to offer me various deals, which I refused and told them why I refused them.

After 13 years, I thought I would give them another chance. This time they promised the service and I thought they would deliver. But no. They offered some minor services but not the main item I had requested, and made no excuse at all for not delivering. I cancelled that order and went elsewhere.

So again, they are on my 'do not use' list and will probably never get any more business ever from me. We now have several land-lines, and mobile phones and ipads which do not ever give Telstra any income from me.

One bank insisted on charging me to verify information which I supplied at my own cost. I said to them 'I wouldn't have minded if you had charged me to get the information yourself, saving me from the cost of doing it, Instead you want me to incur the costs of my doing it myself and then your costs as well. If you charge me that $40, I will take away all my business.'

They didn't believe me, so I took away several accounts, including a fairly large term-deposit, and took them to another bank. My previous bank-manager rang me to say 'Well, that wasn't necessary over $40.' So I told him I had given him fair warning, and he could have scrubbed the fee. Now he would lose my business. That was 22 years, and many bank-loans, credit-card fees, etc lost over just $40.
Heroku decides to completely disable SSL v3
We live in a sea of available entertainment and sources of amusement. Why be so attached to one particular form of entertainment when the cartel that controls it doesn't make it easy or inexpensive to consume?
You can't use speech recognition on public transport.

And this line "so I made the extremely difficult decision to wait 5 minutes until I was in a better place to do what I wanted" sounds a lot like "you're holding the phone wrong".

I think there are software improvements that you can make though. Apple's Reachability feature is a step in the right direction. But not enough.
> When the market for premium streaming matures it's going to effectively be what we always wished cable was.

Which is what, exactly? A la carte programs? Netflix isn't that. A la carte channels? Netflix isn't quite that either.

Netflix is positioning itself as something between a streaming TV network (producing original content) and a streaming Time Warner (bundle all the content, acting as gatekeeper to the end consumer). I like Netflix, but I doubt it's long-term intent is to be the streaming utopia we've dreamt of.

In that context, Netflix currently enjoys the advantage of being one of the few popular streaming networks/content providers right now (along with Amazon Prime, and perhaps Hulu Plus in the U.S.). Moving forward, they could swallow up or crush new competition, consolidating their power and pushing them more into the Time Warner category. That would be very good for them, financially. Or competition could build up around them, relegating them to the streaming network category.
> the question is how they grow a subscriber base with more and more entrance to that space, some of which, like HBO, have a lot more experience in pretty much every aspect of that kind of operation except the internet delivery end.

Sounds like HBO and Netflix could be good merger partners?
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This seems like a reasonable time to plug my app Gaia GPS. You can view a quilt of USGS topos and other maps here: https://www.gaiagps.com/map/#?lat=37.8169&lon=-119.5606&zoom...

If you have the app, these maps can be synced to your various devices, downloaded, and printed for back-up.

We've worked on this for about six years now... founded the company soon after moving to SF and joining Hacker News.
> What's not so easy is to try to text someone with one hand or browse the web with one hand.

I've used phones of all sizes, and I've never found one where it is easy to browse the web or text with one hand. Sure, on a phablet, its too big to hold comfortably and do that, but on a tiny old iPhone, its too small to type accurately one handed, have enough of a viewport to see enough of a webpage to be worth browsing on, or accurately hit links one handed. So, even with a tiny phone, it ends up only really being convenient to do those tasks two-handed, and then what's the benefit of the miniscule screen?
It's really neat to see facebook's iOS team releasing so much of their work. This framework is probably not going to be that relevant to tons of use-cases, but even if you'll never use it you'll probably get a lot out of looking at it closely and thinking about why it makes the decisions it does.
Worst service ever. I paid for $40 for 3 dates back in May, didn't hear from them until after 2 months in and was matched with 1 date. I still haven't gotten any additional "dates".

I don't recommend this site to anyone, you would just be wasting your time. There are other sites that are a lot better when it comes to online dating.
YES I WANT THAT. I'm not sure I want it to the tune of $800-$960 though.

I'd be super paranoid about scratching it, since there's no really a safe side to set down. What sort of cases work for that?
No, no one at all uses Quora. It's completely dead.
If we are making the comparison that they are iPhone vs. Android respectively (Netflix == iPhone && Amazon == Android) then we should expect that Amazon will eventually dominate the US market place, just like Android is doing now.

http://bgr.com/2014/07/01/android-market-share-2014/

TL/DR; Android market share in US = 61.9%/iPhone US market share in US = 32.5%.
Mono is significantly behind in terms of features supported (essentially the equivalent of two versions), you'll run into interop problems with plenty of libraries, and from what people who have spent a lot of time with it have told me there are a lot of subtle incompatibilities and bugs that eat up a lot of your time. The tooling is also worse.

If you want to do Linux development, might as well just do it instead of using a crippled version of C#.

Anyway, why not Windows? If you're a C# guy you're probably familiar with it, there is no longer the client penalty (given that you can make a SPA or whatever for most LOB apps), and the cost of licenses is likely small compared to labor, especially if you're already a Windows shop.
Would you say sex is just "old technology" for fertilization? Ultimately, how do you draw the line what is instinct or not?

Everything a human does is what humans do, by definition.
I used to have a Note 3, and I found it annoying to carry around. The problem with my pants was not necessarily just how tight they were, but the depth of the pocket. Without really deep pockets the likes of which I don't seem to have on any of my pants, the Note jabbed me in the hip when I tried to sit down or climb stairs.
Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App
The Amazon streaming UX on fireTV is significantly better than Netflix.

The video compression and streaming is also better.
I used Parse in South Korea to build mobile apps quickly, and the entire experience has been great.

However...

The latency from Parse data centers to South Korean consumers became an issue, and our users were complaining slow response time.

The executive decision came when Parse was having scheduled maintenance, which took place somewhere between 11pm~5am in PST, which turned out to be our busiest time during a business day, in KST (Korea Standard Time).

I had to re-build the entire infrastructure from scratch, import data from Parse, but overall it wasn't a pleasant experience.

The biggest problems for me when using BaaS, was that I had no control over their business decisions, and sometimes you get screwed over and at best they can say is, "Sorry."

BaaS is like the backbone to your application, if it goes down, it could mean the end for a fragile startup.
Assuming you mean the raw data, I would guess it's a few petabytes.

A while back I made a script to download NED elevation data from the USGS site. The files were elevation data for 1/3 arcsecond or 1 arcsecond squares and were available in a float format and/or ArcGIS. The files for a 1/3 arcsecond square in ArcGIS format were zipped up and came to ~320 Mb. The float format files are even larger. I don't remember exactly, but I think there are a few thousand of them for the entire United States.

And that was just NED elevation data, not feature data like roads and trails or lakes, or aerial imagery or topo quadrangles.

FWIW, the script is on GitHub, but doesn't work any more due to changes on the USGS website. It actually uses PyQt's webview to do the downloads because the download process used a ton of Javascript with callbacks and notifications because the data was in a tape library and had to be fetched and loaded before the download could begin.

https://github.com/jl2/GIS-Stuff/blob/master/map_download/ne...
Research-driven redesign
Sifting through messages from people already interested in you and sifting through profiles trying to come up with a clever attention-grabbing first message to send to a girl who will respond maybe 10% of the time are not even remotely on the same level in terms of time commitment and inconvenience.
Fear of copying overhead can introduce more performance problems than copying overhead. Modern CPUs are really good at copying, which, after all, is completely parallelizeable. If you just created some data, and then pass it to something else by copying it, and it's immediately used there, it will probably still be in the fastest level of cache. At least if the message passing and CPU dispatching are properly connected.

QNX gets this. Almost nobody else does. The reason for having subroutine-like IPC, rather than "send on channel A, then wait on channel B for reply", is that the scheduler can immediately transfer control from sender to receiver. If two unidirectional channels are used, you have the sender and receiver threads both in ready-to-run state, which means a pass through the scheduler for somebody, and possibly a handoff to another CPU, with all the attendant cache misses.

A good test of an IPC system is to have one thread calling another as a service, with control going back and forth rapidly, while other threads are compute-bound.
If the presence of compute-bound threads kills IPC performance, it was done wrong.
Agreed, but with the price of oil headed below $80/barrel, shale and other fracking operations that are expensive to operate are now going to operate at a loss (causing some producers to go bankrupt). You're going to see the cost of natgas dip down, and if enough producers go out of business, jump back up to new highs as production will have dropped quite a bit.
but AMZN has a PE of 804..
Have you seen this?

http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

OpenStreetMap often lacks detail in the U.S. (it wouldn't be surprising for an area to have missing water bodies...), but maybe you are in an area where it is useful.
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I just wanted to point it out because I know too many people who have problems with seatbelts.

But more in point with weed, I wonder whether we're going to find out if we need those laws or not. The question, in my opinion, isn't so much whether banning weed is bad, but how life damaging is the punishment vs. the thing you're preventing.

Being arrested and put in jail for a few years can damage someone's life a lot more than smoking a joint every day for a few years.

But at the same time, I have friends who have smoked almost every day for ten years and they have gotten noticeably dumber. Most of them ended up quitting when they realised just how damaging inhaling burning plant matter was for them.

So maybe what we need isn't the end of prohibition, but milder prohibition? shrug
You can already do this fairly easily;

1) Download the SRTM elevation datasource for the region you're interested:

http://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/SRTM/SRTMUS1.003/2000.02.11/

2) Load the .HGT files into PostGIS using raster2pgsql:

http://postgis.net/docs/using_raster_dataman.html#RT_Raster_...

3) Run your queries, relatively simple:

SELECT ST_Value(elevationraster, Point(51.123,-91.123)) FROM elevation_data;
Did they scam ebola? ;-)
We got pretty far with using Terraform to set up reasonably complex AWS architecture (VPC, multiple subnets etc.) There were several blocking bugs which @hashicorp and friends fixed fairly quickly, but not quickly enough for us to use it instead of AWS CloudFormation.

I can see us using Terraform when it is a little more mature - basically more AWS providers. Give it 2 to 3 months :)
Just an FYI, if you trade after hours remember to set your price (buy or sell). As it's after hours, there is no market price, and therefore if you offer to buy 100 shares another party can sell at any price they want. Same goes for the sell side.
I agree in some senses, but in general...

I'm going to pay $7-10 bucks a month for 3-4 services (I currently pay for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu) - there is plenty of crossover, but for < $30 a month, I'm getting plenty of what I miss w/o a $50 cable TV subscription -

Now if only someone could do something legally about live sports...
Being a long time Android user with fairly large screens (+5"), I'm now using an iPhone 5C for three days and I really love its size. I guess that even the iPhone 6 is way too much for me. Around 4", it's the ideal size for me.
Those oil, has and coal subsidy numbers are completely bogus if they are generated from the iea numbers. Iea is just a solar/wind lobbying front - and the bulk of the numbers are made from countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran directly subsidising the cost of petrol for their citizens.

It is laughable for anyone to suggest that oil, coal or gas energy is subsidised when these numbers are calculated on wooly figures like access to land, or tax deductibility of research - the same rules that apply to all companies, software companies included.

The simple fact is that oil, gas and coal energy generates a magnitude more tax revenue than it ever gets in irritating or indirect subsidies, while the 'renewables' sector only ever takes subsidies and doesn't return net tax. This is plainly obvious based on the per mw/h cost of these technologies - there is no magic formula involved in selling something below average cost of production an making a profit, no matter how much volume you do.
Apple is 100% in bed with the carriers. "Carrier support" bundles include a lengthy list of lockdown features that Apple develops and supports, including the ability for your carrier to:

- turn off tethering (the OS 'helpfully' will give you the carrier's phone number to call to let tethering-colored bits through and to collect their fee)
- neuter FaceTime to only work over wi-fi
- prohibit you from editing the APNs in use
- force your iPhone to always connect to an arbitrary wi-fi hotspot without prompting
- automatically add the carrier's stock ticker to the stock app

Source: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Carrier.plist

Apple has developed these malfeatures and continues to add new ones, showing you who their real customers are. Let's not even get into how screwed up the locking system is (you can never really, permanently, 100% unlock an iPhone.)
You can mix it in during the rendering. For example:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/37.6719/-122.3376&layer...

Being overly pedantic, there is more or less wide opposition to getting such data sets "into OpenStreetMap", it's better to treat it as a second data set at render time (as above).
It's not just that cops make a huge number of useless, insignificant arrests for drugs, there's a whole industry built on top of those arrests: All the prosecutors, judges, clerks, bailiffs, parole officers, prison guards and the whole prison infrastructure. Then add all the retired CJ employees teaching the current policing doctrine in community colleges. That's the edifice that has to be razed to avoid the situation in Ferguson.

All of those pseudo-professions have been massively inflated and is a kind of last refuge for men with strong necks and weak reasoning skills. It's subculture, and that subculture doesn't have a beneficial effect on the nation's culture as a whole.

All of that employment and wasted activity also shows up in the plus columns for productivity and GDP, warping our ability to compare our economy to other industrial nations.
You voted with your wallet for a large screen phone, as people in the past voted with their wallet for large screen phones. You could have purchased the Z3 compact or some other device targeting the small device niche market, but you voted against it. Good job!
Loved your tutorial from when I went through the first edition a few years back. I still recommend this as a starting point for any one new to Rails and just anyone new to web development in general.

It's a great comprehensive guide to how things fit together that doesn't make much in the way of assumptions about the reader's prior knowledge.

I work full time as a Rails developer and this is pretty much mandatory reading for new developers to our group without previous Rails experience.

I would love to see you get some coverage of Docker in there. Heroku is great, but virtualization is just such a big part of web development these days; it would be a great addition to an already wonderful learning resource.

Keep up the good work!
I don't know what the purpose of such a post is. Well, I have a suspicion, which that it's just an attempt at discrediting these people by dismissing their stance as being born from whatever emotions that are considered petty. No, it isn't framed as a rebuttal of whatever stance they have, so it can't really be judged on that merit. It's just a statement, not something that is masqueraded as an argument. But the tactic feels dishonest, in the same way that blurting out "I think you have a father issues" in the middle of a debate seems dishonest. No, the statement is not an argument, so it can't be said to be a ad hominem in the informal fallacy sense. But it is clearly a tactic that is used to discredit the other party.

In a similar way to the father issues-comment, the motivation for finding out whatever emotional distress these people are suffering from is not motivated properly. Instead, the article comes off as just wanting to shift the focus from whatever Go does or does not have, to what is wrong with the people that say that Go is "wrong". Again, without any seeming sign or evidence that that might be a salient point, other than that the opinion is popular in some circles. I mean, maybe there would perhaps be some obviously bad, and emotionally motivated arguments that would make someone believe that these people were under some duress (more than argumentative people in general on the Internet, anyway). But all I seem to see are technical points - like what Go does or does not have - and one elitist argument about blue collar workers, which can just be attributed to elitism and not any particular emotional state.

Lastly, you're Eureka moment seem to be more about putting two ideas together, than to intelligently apply it to some actual case. Sure, the overall profile might very well match these "haters". But there is no compelling argument for why this particular emotion and sentiment would fit these people, since any evidence or anectdote about any such specific sentiment seems absent. I can perfectly well imagine, say, a handful other psychological profiles that could be made about this crowd, which would seem equally plausible.

So, I don't see how this is anything other than an attempt to stirr shit. Too bad that it didn't seem to succeed, though (around these parts), as language wars can be quite popcorn-worthy at times.
Not quite as simple as that.

The infected patient coughs and a spray of droplets lands on a handle or arm-rest. The next passenger puts his hand on the arm-rest and then eats a packet of peanuts, thus transferring one person bodily fluids into a second person's bodily fluids.
I've been a MacBook user for 5 years, but Windows File Explorer is still light-years ahead of the atrocity that is Finder.
I do intend to do T-Mobile's 7-day network "Test Drive" once they switch it from the 5S to the 6, so I'll find out for sure then.

Maybe an extra 1.2" of screen is just the thing for comfortably finding gas stations. But does it make up for having to carry it around all the time?

For reference, http://i.imgur.com/ZbodDFx.png and my 4S are the entire contents of my pockets on a typical day. No car clicker, no trifold wallet, small phone.
I use quora as a reader and it's really fun. I am very particular about my feed and make sure I follow folks who don't clutter them with topics I find irrelevant.

I highly recommend following folks whose interests align with yours. Also following topics those interests correspond to. Like for eg: I really love learning more about space/planetary science and following Robert Frost (from NASA) has given me wealth of information. Good answers are visual and easy to understand. That's the value of Quora for me. There are people with credible backgrounds answering problems in their domain. (There is also a debate on generalists vs experts answering.. oh well anyway)

For me:
I use stack overflow/exchange for getting precise technical answers to my day to day problems.
I use Quora for exploring in my free time. But my feed is very tailored to topics I like. Otherwise it gets cluttered with generic psychology, lifestyle based questions.
Looks like a sealed case, based on an unboxing video on Boy Genius Report. That's disappointing, though wholly expected. It seems like only Samsung and Nokia make phones with removable batteries and storage card slots...