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I disagree simply because almost major website has significant usability issues with mobile. Often relating to touch input. I'm genuinely surprised anytime an image gallery is swipeable and it even half works.

It's easy to say that obviously they are shitty designers and/or coders and all they have to do is take the time to do it right. Well doing it right takes too much effort. And doing it right still doesn't get you all the way there. For any site with even a moderate degree of complexity there are always little bugs. It's just a fact of life in the HTML/CSS world.
Russian researchers expose breakthrough in US spying program
While I agree with you in general, HN comments should (and do) have lower standards for grammar, spelling, and logical reasoning. If I spent as much time on my HN comments as I do on research papers I probably wouldn't get more than one comment per month.
>I smell bubble.

Canada is one of the last-men-standing as far as housing bubbles. Toronto is also bad. Calgary is heading for trouble now that oil has crashed. It could get interesting.
@murbard2

I finally got the annualized sharpe calculation figured out. You can see what I did here: http://imgur.com/HlcjNYz but it shows my sharpe as 0.66 and the SPY as 0.3....

Honestly, this seems implausible to me...so I will keep digging. :-)
No.

The $2M is complete bollocks and they need the 100k to keep going until they can find some actual investment. Otherwise they'd be paying your bills.

So tell them you'll consider it once they pay you - and get some kinda signed statement that they do, in fact, owe you for two months consulting.

Frankly, it smells bad and for me that's enough.
We will know more when the SEC filings are underway, until then its anyone's guess.
But shipping with dependencies so old that the upstream provider for that dependency is no longer backporting security updates is anything but stable.
> Making responsive websites is really really easy for an experienced designer and/or html coder.

Migrating old websites that do not respond + adapting web based apps to mobile is however, not very easy. These two cases are probably 90% of the use cases, as opposed to the other 10% that are "really really easy".
We evaluated Cherry Reds for the project, but there were several things wrong with them. In order of our priorities:

1. It's very difficult/expensive to make custom key caps that mount to Cherry MX stems. By custom key cap, I mean a completely new shape, like this:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g_Bi0FseNUk/VGBKMdshu-I/AAAAAAAAAe...

We actually did come up with a method for doing this with Cherry MX switches, but the cost was prohibitive. I'll add more detail on the campaign page to make this clear.

2. The actuation force of Cherry MX Reds was just a bit too high. We're making a stenotype keyboard, which should have a very light touch. The Cherry MX Red might have been marginally acceptable, but we're much happier with the lower actuation force of our switch.

3. As you pointed out, the availability of Cherry MX Reds isn't great.

4. The price of Cherry MX Reds is much higher.

Regarding the Topre switches, I agree that 30g is almost too low. Also, the mounting post for the Topre switches seemed challenging from the perspective of creating custom key caps, though we didn't actually try.

As for the openness of the project and there being only one manufacturer, is your concern about availability, control of the IP, or something else?
I rarely see Twilio ads. When Box was big there was not a site that I visited that I didn't get at least one Box ad, and dare I ever type Dropbox into Google. Nothing but straight Box ads for weeks.

Not that this proves anything at all, but I don't think they marketed nearly as hard as Box. But there does seem to be very little in regards to competition. Every single big internet company has their own "cloud storage".
> Those operators aren't for pointer arithmetic…

That's the point of my suggestion! One looking at them will think they are pointer arithmetic, which is not pretty for newcomers.
Actually, the bump on the iPhone 6 shouldn't be there now. There are phones that are just as slim and with just as big if not bigger sensors, and are perfectly flat. The problem is Apple decided not to change the sensor this year, and used an pretty old one, which hasn't gotten anymore compact, even though the phone's body has.

Watch Apple introduce a 13 or 16MP camera this year that has no bump. Why? Because this time it will actually use a cutting edge sensor, rather than a 3 year old one.
How Many Customers Should I Get from My Outbound Sales Program?
I don't see Amazon's model as less consumer-friendly - particularly as I remember well the days of having to go to the local video rental place, making sure to return it on time, paying late fees, etc.

I'm happy to pay $3-5 for a few days in which to watch a movie, and then not think about it when I'm done. The price is right, and the convenience can't be beaten.
This is a huge shift for Netflix.

Until recently, the motivating impression was that Netflix just plain had every movie out there (which its continuing DVD service kinda does). I subscribed because it was a cheap replacement for buying anything I wanted to see: they had everything I wanted and could want. My to-watch list was very long, and I thought it would remain.

Now, studios and competitors are making that model untenable. Netflix can't carry _everything_ because studios/distributors want an ever-larger cut of the profits, and competitors are willing to pay for exclusivity. Suddenly, I find large sections of my to-watch list disappearing off Netflix as contracts expire and don't renew (the biggest blow was when "Toys" disappeared - something old & obscure enough that I thought surely they'd manage to keep that license).

Netflix just pivoted.

They're no longer the long-promised "long tail" of movies, hosting all but the latest & biggest (yeah, I'm willing to pay extra individually for those). They just gave up on that model.

Now they're becoming a "channel" focused on hosting a curated collection, including their own productions.

That's a big shift.
Their roku app does not support trailers. I don't know if their other apps suffer the same problem.
Browse > hunt for trailer on youtube > cast to TV > if thumbs down, launch netflix app again > find where I left off > goto step 1.
How much do you want to pay to purchase and store all that video? That's where Netflix's value comes in.
> who are mostly drug dealers or other criminals

This is false. And you have no source to prove it. I know a lot of early adopters through various channels. They are geeks, crypto nerds, cypherpunks. Think guys like Hal Finney, Wei Dai, etc. Nice guys who like to explore new ideas.

Maybe you are just upset that you "missed the boat" on bitcoin or something. But you've got to stop believing every Bitcoin user is a criminal.
I was surprised to see it on a Netflix property, but ColdFusion very much is alive and well otherwise. I think even Linode uses it.
If the CEO is such a big success, where the fuck's his Ferrari?

And if he has a Ferrari, where the fuck are your consulting fees?
it's absolutely ridiculous that they don't provide this sort of basic functionality.
jhou2: the amount of positive press that MS has been garnering recently on HN is impressive

engendered: Don't think it is purely happenstance. There is absolutely and unequivocally either brigading Microsoft fans, or paid shills, hitting HN hard.

My interpretation might be wrong, but I take jhou2's "positive press" to mean stories such as this one appearing on the front page. I interpret 'engendered' as saying that these stories would not appear on the front page if it were not for "brigading Microsoft fans" or "paid shills". Since the story is on the front page because of user upvote, and although there could be dispute about all vs most vs some, I read this to be accusing those who voted up the story as being one of these things.

In my read, he attributes the downvotes on his comments to the same faction, uses this as evidence that the faction exists, and thus can also be held responsible for elevating this and other Microsoft-positive stories to the front page. I think he's wrong, don't think the "brigading Microsoft fan" has much of an influence on HN, and doubt that Microsoft is paying anyone for getting things on the front page.

I'd happily consider evidence to the contrary, but I think the downvotes to engendered's comments are due to other factors, and that the pro-Microsoft stories are appearing more frequently on HN because they periodically act as a positive force. I don't know how prevalent my attitude is, but I find these stories interesting in a "Dog Bites Man" fashion. I am more likely to vote up a good deed done by Microsoft because I find it to be more noteworthy than a good deed done by others.
That's probably true... with developers starting to favor things like docker and micro services, along with CI/CD flows all the way to production, it comes down to being very easy to create, test and deploy your services against new libraries, or even replace them with better performing versions as needed.
You still have to get that content from somewhere. Storage space isn't really the limitation there. Plus, even if you could, what would be the motivationto store eeverything locally, when 1) you rarely watch a show more than once, and 2) you can stream it instantaneously anyway?
My similar process involves cruising reddit.com/r/netflixbestof and then going to Netflix.

I also grow tired of seeing promotions for older movies, but I on the other hand, I really like Netflix's "original content" series.
I see a user (you) who registered on one forum (HN) just to complain about another forum and calling people: turds, losers, tosser, pack of total $#@! and pussies. Sorry, it's freedom of speech etc, but looks childish.
Roku has global search, but apps have to support it, which the big names do.
This is one of the things Roku gets right compared to other set top boxes. You can search across services. Unlike on other boxes like Amazon's which lets you search Amazon and will always push their content above anyone else's. It's especially annoying if something is available on Netflix and is paid content on Amazon... it's still going to tell you to buy it on Amazon even when you already have access to it for no additional cost.
Could vaccinating these animals effect evolution in some way? Species have to die out for new species to come to the forefront; is it right for us to try and change that? My impulse is to say, "Yes, vaccinate them and hopefully eradicate this virus," but there is always that second thought.
> Wow that's a bad idea.

And then you go on about waiting in line for a restroom. Last time I checked, men are faster at peeing because we have different plumbing. Your argument is vague and not helpful when applied to the classroom environment.

> Computers aren't expensive. Buy one for your daughter.

Stop rendering bad advice based on assumptions about me. She has last year's 13" Air, a Nexus 4, my old iPad2 and an Amazon Fire. We weren't on the front page of the NYT for nothing.
By your logic (which I don't agree with), it would have been okay ONLY IF the side boob were written into terms of the contract, stipulating that there must be tit for tat. And then we can assume that there would also be an article double d: "$50,000 will be left on the dresser."
Well, 200 000 USD in revenue per employee sounds pretty good to me. Sure they'll have other expenses, but my rule of thumb is that you should be getting ~135K USD per head in revenue as a minimum (when starting out) -- so 200K for an established company sounds healthy to me. This is a crazy generalization of course -- and mostly applies when you don't have to deal to much with the physical world of logistics etc.
10Q's are very strange docs though as they're mostly written with lawsuit mitigation in mind. So you name nearly everyone and everything as a potential competitor just in case one of them actually does become one one day.

But you raise a good point. I think the insecurity starts with Google and Apple responds. (and I'm an Android user so no fanboi assumptions!) Google relies on a very open web to leverage all the data to optimize search to drive ad monetization. I think Apple was very happy with optimized Google services running on iPhones making the whole experience richer (they want to sell hardware not profit from search/ads) Once Google realized just what mobile would become and how big a chunk of that Apple would control they panicked at the thought of being locked out. Again, due to their basic premise they're always going to be more insecure.
It looks like Amazon's video service has Black Books. Do they only have some of the episodes? Did you just not find them or not want to pay for them?
It happened a long time ago, at least I became aware of this shift when an exec from Netflix was quoted saying "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us" http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201302/netflix...
Honestly there's been a few issues here with some apache configs and just general web development brew snafus. Most likely from upgrading the OS. The clean installs we recently got have been pretty good so far.
Linux has 2,000 new developers and gets 10,000 patches for each version
Those operators aren't for pointer arithmetic in any language I know of, including Rust, C, C++, or Go. The operators for pointer arithmetic are plus and minus (technically square brackets too in C)--that's why it's called pointer arithmetic.
Yes, and they said since I was the early co founder they have all the rights to feature me. I just dont feel OK with it at all, since they mislead future investors and customers and possibly damaging my reputation by misusing my name
Some people get along fine in school but some people don't.

I knew how to read at 3.5 yrs, wrecked my vision, wore glasses, was "different" and had poor social skills. For me going to the public school was a war zone as I became a target for intense bullying. I have suffered from social phobia, anxiety and all sorts of BS from this that I have somewhat overcome. I know I had some role in this happening because these problems followed me around, but I did spend one year in a private school that had a "zero tolerance" for bullying policy and I had a much better time even had friends for the first time in my life.

I was told by adults again and again to "ignore it" and they did not understand that the level of provocation would escalate and escalate. Frankly I don't know if is a matter of victims are people who are below a certain threshold of skills or just people who are in the bottom 10%. I have read the literature on the subject even talked to the people who wrote it and there is no psychosocial intervention for bullies or victims that works. What does work is a "zero tolerance" policy across the organization for this behavior, but public schools won't do this, not until one of them gets sued into bankruptcy and the teachers lose their pensions.

I do know now that I am pretty good at "ignoring it" and I tend to be bombproof in crazy situations.
Or: "Once again, the intent of this blog post is clear from its opening paragraphs (some readers' abiding dissatisfaction with its title notwithstanding), aforementioned intent being not to analyze patterns of general usage of the French and English languages in a statistically rigorous way but to offer an entertaining and well presented disquisition on some really quite insignificant but nonetheless amusing points related to the vocabularies of selected French and English writers of the author's own choosing (aforementioned dissatisfied readers nevertheless succeeding in cluttering up the comments on Hacker News with their whinging)"?
What I mean is that in the 16th century there were much less words than today, or let's say the 19th century.
I have generally seen people finishing PhD.s lately reluctantly start looking for jobs in alternate industries only because there is an extremely slim chance of getting a reasonably well-paid, secure job doing the type of scientific research they trained for. If they don't explore alternate options, they can easily be trapped in postdoc purgatory for a very long time.
Came to this thread looking for insightful, lengthy comments by people with expertise in DNA and/or the human brain adding information to the original article, found only references to Pinky and the brain. What is the world coming to :)
Australia and Canada are very similar. Both continued with a housing bubble well after all other Western markets collapsed. Both also supplied the raw materials that fuel China's economy; an economy that didn't slow down very much while the rest of the West suffered. But now they're clearly takings some of the heat out of their economy. Australia and Canada will feel that.
I agreed with everything up until this: "Profits are distributed directly to developers on a quarterly basis, weighted by dollar-hours contributed."

The problem is, one hour of my time, regardless of my seniority, might have a variably higher output (or "contribution") towards the profit of the business than someone else. Until there is a way to directly translate every hour of dev time to profit (as a proponent of revenue or cost), this model quickly breaks down.

I hate to be a pessimist on this subject, but I don't see any rational way to solve this problem. The closest model to this I can see working is https://assembly.com/
Please do not just "send" your sons to military boarding schools. I currently go to an academy and a part of the life here really puts me in a slump.
I said partition, not segregation. Suggesting boys sit on one side and girls on the other isn't segregation. It's simply efficient resource management. Segregation implies enforced separation. You and others responding to my comment need to stop jumping to my conclusions.
Rob from Twilio here - thanks a lot of saying that akavi.

Took a lot of work to get here - stoked to hear you are finding it well.
> I don't get it, why would the next government be any more eager to implement the proposals?

Compared to "all at once", the blame is now spread around and some of it can be blamed on those who are absent. Meanwhile, the companies continue to invest lobbying/funding/legalized-bribes to push it forward.
Awesome - Twilio to me is the example of a simple, well priced product that has been nothing but just a really well made tool.

Looking forward to seeing their S-1...
I think that depends on your workflow as much as anything else. There are ways to mitigate the risks of moving fast, unit testing, integration tests, sanity checks, rolling deployments, service layers (micro services), etc...

By establishing the mindset that what you are pushing into master will make its way into production, you look at things very differently, with a much more critical eye. There are waterfall designed systems that took years to develop that made it to production with bugs... is a bug that breaks things for 5 minutes worse than one that sits for months, or a security fix that isn't deployed and might be exploited because your review process takes weeks?
The biggest issue with content is that rights-holders either don't want their programs on Netflix or they don't think they'll be paid enough. I think Netflix is in a sweet spot on pricing (if the charge substantially more, people may be more inclined to stop subscribing) so paying more to attract the heel-draggers may mot be an option.

That's part of the reason why they're making their own series. Eventually rights-holders won't have much choice but to allow streaming, but for the immediate future they're the bottleneck.
I don't get the point of these posts. If I cared, I'd pull up tech crunch. What relevance does this have? I know this sounds hypocritical as I cared enough to comment, but I'm tired of X company is IPO!!! taking up a precious spot in the otherwise interesting board
That's definitely not the same thing as being 90% plus ethnic Finnish.
I'll be the first to admit that I didn't really get the upshot of this article, but it seemed like they were trying to figure out a way to get more consultants into the startup business.

As somebody who does a lot of startup stuff, and enough consulting to have an opinion or two about it, the risk/reward matrix for consultants messing with risky entrepreneurial ventures (presumably with founders you do not know very, very well) is something to be feared. Startups are almost by definition broke and on the edge of survival at all times, which makes them super, super bad clients. Give me somebody with real customers who needs to make the pain stop all day long.
ESETs NOD32 prevents Superfish from being installed. I'm not sure if it does any more than that though.

http://i.imgur.com/NCfBs6K.png
> I rarely see Twilio ads

¿Qué? - https://twitter.com/anniebp_/status/567243532805476352
It's funny - when I read the Ive comment, that was exactly what my first response was as well. I'm on the fence - there are probably some good reasons for a rectangle, given the jobs-to-be-done, but their is something timeless about the round-face of a watch.

I guess we'll see over the next few years.
No, my argument is that "gun" is not "rape", "terrorism", or any other socially unacceptable word that's linked to morality and the ethically correct. You know what's bullshit? You saying you have absolutely no political intentions regarding your opinion.

You obviously live in the US. You obviously feel strongly about gun control. Anything anywhere can be found to be offensive to someone. As such we all need to have a little restraint and realize that if we start policing people because they gave something the made a name you don't like you're contributing to the problem instead of the solution.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice for FirefoxOS
> Well doing it right takes too much effort.

Who told you that? It doesn't take any more effort than a normal desktop site given the right tools.
When I looked I couldn't find it on Amazon. It might be a licensing issue as I'm in Canada. (A VERY common issue north of the boarder.)

Using a VPN to bypass such a restriction is just as much a copyright violation as downloading from thepiratebay.
All us boys are smelly. It's called testosterone, and it's 100% normal. Girls can have their opinions though!
To be honest, the thing I hate the most about recruiters, is they don't read my resume from beginning to end.

Next in line to that are hiring managers who don't believe I have any experience in a skill that I have a great deal of experience with, such as a Nike manager who thought I didn't know how to write Mac OS X applications, despite my having been an Apple developer since 1986.
Having worked at a UK tech coop (poptel)the way we did it was the coop owns a controlling interest the company that employs the members(co-operators)

It can get complex poptels structure took a 5 page document and a hour or so to explain to members as we took VC funding.
Obviously need a perusing stage before committing changes to the docs.
Try using instantwatcher.com. I can't believe Netflix hasn't bought them yet.
If you have 10 people who score:

91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98% 99%, 100%

and scale the grades from 0-100, those students' curved grades are:

0%, 11%, 22%, 33%, 44%, 55%, 66%, 77%, 88%, 100%

In other words, they turn the students' grades into their ranked percentile within their cohort. It's an absolutely brain-dead decision.