jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Movie franchises and sequels also existed in the 30s and 40s, with series like The Thin Man and the Road to... cranking out new installments every year or so. They thrived for similar reasons to today's comic book movie franchises, and I think they will ultimately share the same fate.

Why do people go to comic book movies today?

1. They like knowing what they're signing up for. As evidence, look at how movie trailers have evolved into Cliff Notes versions of movies over the last few decades.

2. This particular market had been ill-served; so anything catering to this niche was disproportionately rewarded. Comic book fans had long lamented that there were no big budget adaptions of their favorite books.

3. It's easier to make variations on an established template from a production standpoint, and it's easier to obtain financial backing when you can point to prior successes (the "it's like Uber but for Netflix" startup syndrome).

It isn't that comic book movies are creatively bankrupt by definition (nor were The Thin Man movies, and many other franchises over the years). They have a rich well of prior stories to draw on and splash together, and a lot of what Marvel in particular is doing with ongoing narratives is interesting. But they are also racing towards a saturation point which will inevitably result in the collapse of their entire enterprise. They have attracted a lot of good actors, directors and other collaborators; but even with all of that talent they are simply producing too much, too quickly to avoid reaching a point of creative and financial exhaustion.

As others have noted, it's pretty laughable that Marvel and DC have announced slates that run all the way to 2020. They are certainly going to have to cancel or postpone some of those films when audience indifference becomes impossible to ignore. And then like other things that have oversaturated their markets (music / rhythm games), it's going to be a long, dark winter before they get to show their faces in any respect again. I am certain that within the next ten years we'll see articles and interviews talking about how "comic book movies don't sell" and "guys running around in spandex suits are passe".

Meanwhile, if you could approach this stuff in moderation, I think it might work out differently. Make a few comic book movies a year. Make them all distinct from each other. Don't tell the same stories again and again and again (origin stories of characters that have existed for 80 years, for instance). Approach the material from the perspective of telling a story in a new way, rather than rehashing the same story for new money.

Unfortunately, this isn't the way business is done in Hollywood or Silicon Valley or anywhere else. If someone makes money doing something, then thirty other people are going to try to reproduce that success, and many of them may have missed the point of how and why the original succeeded.
> I'm not sure if you're making fun of me, or your response is just way over my head.

Honestly, cosmology is like that for most people.
it does sort of look like it is aimed at windows diehards who are forced to use macs for some reason, doesn't it.
... it reduces future innovation, it doesn't undo past innovation.
Easy to defend? Rubbish. One intercontinental ballistic missile would decimate their floating platform "settlements".

They are sitting ducks, one well armed rogue pirate ship could finish them.
Ah crap! Email is dead! Somebody go tell Mailchimp that they have to give back all that money.
Better title: The Decline and Fall of Noisy Email

Let texting, messaging, twitter, and Facebook become the platforms for noise.

The signal is just fine in my gmail inbox.
We can be pretty sure he's the exception rather than the rule; check out the statistics (I can dig them up if you wish), but as I remember the vast plurality if not the majority of the homeless are the mentally ill who would have been in institutions prior to the misguided deinstitutionalization effort that didn't provide them with alternatives that worked.

Once you separate out the "if a Republican is present there are homeless, if a Democrat they disappear" propaganda, there's quite a bit of serious research on this subject. I certainly know that the vast majority of homeless I encountered on the streets of the Cambridge, MA area in the early to mid-80s were clearly mentally ill, sometimes severely so (e.g. frank schizophrenia).
I don't see the 'tacit acceptance of the legal system' fading away because of the internet. That sounds very 1996. There will always be a 'state' of some kind, in the sense of a monopoly on the forces of coercion. Your life can become as virtual as you like, but there will always be physical police who can knock on your door.

In general though, the state will fade from relevance as you say -- but not to the point of 'obsolescence'.
>It certainly pays better than my last hobby, WoW. Less dragons... better loot.

patio11, on his business.
As with many mental illnesses, whether or not it's real depends on what your definition of 'real' is. It's clearly a common pattern of behavior that's secondary to other factors, but you could say the same thing about lots of mental illnesses.
I've been doing a lot of geo-related work lately and confounding latitude and longitude was a regular source of logic errors. Only useful for North America, but my mnemonic for lat/lng is "latitude has a positive attitude". It doesn't necessarily help when identifying which is which on a map, but when using them for calculating proximity or drawing polygons on a map it works every time.
Pretty sure they were joking
A blend of the two approaches would be useful. Expose the internal topic classifications and let searchers manipulate them to narrow or widen the search space.
That's because the most important thing is that no one blocks a car getting off the bridge. Who get on the bridge first is less important.
Waw good
here maps.
It's nokia.
They're great. Not quite as good as google's offering, but better than apples.
I wonder if making the list of users who flag an article publicly viewable would help.
I'm less convinced - sushi outside of a restaurant context, from the similarity in presentation style and selection in the DC area at least, seems to be outsourced to daily deliveries from regional suppliers
I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one horrified by this - food is one of the great pleasures in life!

My wife and I have been pretty hard up (when she was finishing law school and I was a startup co-founder) - but we always managed to have decent food.
This is the definition used by people that actually hack hardware, people who are used to performing brain surgery on set-top-boxes and such like. It's not bricked unless unbricking requires a soldering iron or similar, and some JTAG action.

These days its getting harder and harder to brick devices, as bootloaders are becoming more and more advanced and more separate from the cores of the devices themselves. Once upon a time a faulty network cable could render your router forever inoperable due to a dropped byte in a firmware flash.

Today, my galaxy S phone has had some truly awful things done to it, including corruption of the supposedly sacred NVRAM data, and the USB bootloader has always faithfully come up after the button combo, ready to accept a new flash. It must run on totally separate hardware from the phone proper.
This is like vaccination

Why I have to vaccinate if measles already defeated?

Why I have to fear that all my neighbors send* all video to someone?

* because you do not know that "some corporation" do not sell your video feed to anyone
This would be interesting for a number of news sites too.
traffic, like customers in retail, comes in bunches..
No, the problem is that people read out long numeric sequences in inconsistent ways.

Consider this: "sixty-nine" is clearly 69. But when spoken out, especially in a long string of digits (like an IBAN, a banking code) that might be announced as "six, nine" or "sixty-nine" or "sixty...nine" or even "six...ty-nine".

So even in English there's some chance of ambiguity whether it is supposed to be 6-9 or 6-0-9 (consider: "forty-two, sixty, nine" for 4-2-6-0-9).

In German the awkward inversion makes this worse. So you might get "neunundsechzig" (6-9), "neun...undsechzig" (9... no, wait, 6-9? or maybe 9-6-0?) or "neunund...sechzig" (...6-9). Although the last one is unambiguous, you're basically stuck waiting for the end because you're trying to write digits down left to right and don't want to skip digits and backtrack.

As for why "neun...und sechzig" is ambiguous: with that weird pause it's not clear if this is still 69 or literally "9 and 60" (which is what the word "neunundsechzig" means), i.e. 9-60. As people sometimes emphasise the final digit or digit pair by saying "and" before it (like you would in a list of words), this is ambiguous and at least might give a listener pause.

"Hundert" and "und" generally aren't similar enough for this to be a problem and there's a special place in hell for people who read out groups of digits longer than 2 as numbers, so this isn't generally a problem. Most people do however tend to slur the "und" so e.g. "sechsundsechzig" becomes "sechsnsechzig" but this rather avoids the problem I mentioned (except for the backtracking).
> How is suicide not an attempt at self inflicted euthanasia?

There's a specific separation in my mind of the definition of the two, whether that's reflected in the dictionary or not.

The video is fairly specifically about end-of-life kind of suffering, which is along the lines of my definition of euthanasia (rightly or wrongly). Re-reading my comment, and your questioning of it, I do present it more "black and white" than it actually is.
I quite like Publii. It’s more of a CMS that builds a static site, and is nice from a “don’t want to fiddle with template languages” perspective. Will push to different services (I use GitHub Pages) as well as just generate a folder to sync yourself.
Dark matter is a fudge factor.
I thought the lighted hearted mockery of this mentality in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" was pretty funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXv9N9PHO8&t=0m40s
The first 500 will get the startup plan at (500k), the next 500 will get basic plan (100k). Then it's over. Did NOT expect this to be so hot.
Some companies are making a killing by selling those X-Ray machines to the gov't. The politicians who pushed this are getting a nice cut from this. There's startup for you.
Let's see what a long time ars writer had to say about apple coverage on ars in may:

http://arstechnica.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=20423946&si...

It seems to be a level of magnitude harder to find and retain people who are enthusiastic about non-apple stuff who are authoritative, can write well, reliable, and who are affordable.

We don't get review hardware from anyone (generally) and we don't have a budget to purchase stuff, so we rely on our writers reviewing their own purchases. Most of our editors and writers prefer to purchase Apple stuff, so that's what we review.

I know that there's plans in the works to get an HTC Evo 4G and I think Jacqui might review it, but while she's reviewed a ton of iPhones, she's unsure she can do an android phone justice (as she's never used one before).

On a final point, I should say that the readers of Ars and people from around the Internet seem to value what we have to say about Apple stuff. By any metric you pick, our readers are more enthusiastic about Apple stuff. Now that could just be self-selecting bias, right?

So lets see. They're saying they don't have an easy time attracting talent that can write about things that aren't apple, most of their staff prefers and buys apple equipment, the author of this article who has reviewed iphone after iphone had never _used_ an android phone before, and their readership are apple fans, and apple coverage draws more traffic.

But, of course, if anything they're biased against apple.
Theoretically, you can be self-employed on OPT: http://sait.usc.edu/ois/intl-students/f-1-employment/stem-op...
And: http://www.murthy.com/news/n_empstu.html
in practice, get an immigration lawyer to help...
Good AP courses are completely the opposite, and I had several in high school. We had regular reviews to make sure we refreshed and retained the material until the end of the year.

The great thing about AP classes was that the teachers could really teach, and they could justify themselves by pointing to the AP test if anyone complained about the rigor of the work. The students were game, too, at least the ones who didn't drop the classes. Everybody sincerely tried to understand what they were doing instead of just trying to make the right pencil marks on the test paper, since understanding was the most efficient way to retain something for months at a time. The test looming at the end of the year rendered cramming pointless -- you could cram for one test, but you would have to eventually learn the material anyway in order to take the AP exam, so cramming for a test actually felt like the failure that it was.
Thanks for summarizing. I kinda knew about the customer development part, however, we are not able to get users to see past the design and into asking the question and seeing the Report at which point the value of the tool can be determined. We have only iterated the design, believe it or not.
This tool closely mimics the popular TV show 'Can I afford it?' by Suze Orman, and so we know there are quite a few people who can benefit from these evaluations that we do. The value is in remembering to do all the checks at once.

The challenge is to find these folks who can benefit.
Any ideas to reach such customers welcome.

Today's feedback has been quite beneficial, hopefully we can get past the design hump. Thanks to everyone.
The first 3rd of the slides sounded like a pyramid scheme presentation.
The plural of anecdote ...

Such stories, for or against this or that diet, may be handy insofar as they bring to light current research or practices, but it's the scientific data, not the stories, that make or break a case.
I was running mine on a $2.5/m vultr vps for a year. Upgraded to a $5 instance for more storage and it has run almost maintenance free. In the rare instances I do need to do something it mails me the details.
We used to calculate gross margins as hosting & other services we paid for to deliver our service and got 85% gross margins.

We recently learned that’s not quite right and added in salaries for our support team and site reliability engineers and it’s 75% gross margin.

The definition absolutely matters and it would have been great if they stated an opinion.
Or perhaps just remove profiles from search results once such profile received X number of messages per day/week/month. Or maybe based on unresponded/unreacted messages. Or something along that way where limit realistically allows to process messages.
The wording wasn't "Vegan", it is "0% beef", and the argument is around if the cooking surface regularly adds beef to the product, is that ok?

We can ignore that last bit of your comment.
The idea that dwarfism isn't a disadvantage is the kind absurdity now promoted by mainstream culture in the name of sensitivity.
Feedback: Installing a dedicated app is a blocker for me, and I imagine it is for people more paranoid about security. I would prefer to use Tunnelblick + a config file.
Yes. I’m talking about the minimum wage for any employee.

Consider the fact that it is illegal in the US to ask an interviewee their age, marital status, and family status, among other things.
I think you misunderstood: the OP is saying that S3 was the only service that Amazon was actually using internally at the time out of the initial AWS service offering, even though AWS as a whole was sold as "the infrastructure that runs Amazon". I thought AWS started with EC2 & S3? Anyone got a link to a reliable history?

(Fwiw, I’ve heard the same thing the OP says elsewhere.)
Any recommendations on good doc frameworks/products?

We're about to begin redoing our documentation at print.io. Currently we're using swagger (https://api.print.io/docs/) and "self-documentation" (http://print.io/api) but i still find that we have a lot of questions.
Karma is a form of currency. It's influence should be exploited not suffocated! There are ways to use it that would benefit the community.
I think that there needs to be, both for the developer and the designer, an understanding that rules are made to be broken.

Knowing or learning when and how to break them might be beyond the scope of any number of tweet sized aphorisms

Lists like this make me want to try and find a huge set of software engineering "bumper stickers" my dad sent me 15 years ago, containing dubious gems like...

pi seconds is a nano-century
Never debug standing up (predates standing desk fad)
Some projects can only be accomplished with fewer than 10 or greater than 100 people, but by no number in-between
the same here. only battery life isn't as great as under os x.
> tl;dr version?

Only a fool would try to run their business out of "the cloud".
Oh, what the heck, here are mine...

1. Start with the answer, then work back.

2. It worked. You changed something. It doesn't work. It's probably something you did.

3. The answer is always "yes". Sometimes, "yes, but", but always "yes".

4. Never write the same line of code twice.

5. All names (variables, functions, routines, etc.) should accurately describe what they represent as closely as possible. i.e. an intelligent user should be able to read your code and get a fairly good idea what it does.

6. No variable name should be fully self-contained within another variable name.

7. Indent however many spaces you want and use white space however you want. Who gives a shit.

8. Shop standards only count if they are published.

9. Only enter your IDE if you have actually have something to code. Otherwise go back to your pencil/paper/whiteboard (or whatever you use for analysis and design) and don't come back until you're ready.

10. Prototype something and let the user rip it to shreds. Funny how much less bashful they become when they have something to critique. It's much easier to criticize something that exists than to imagine something that doesn't.
Great read! An effort on a DSL using PLY (Python LEX-YACC implementation): https://github.com/georgepsarakis/quick-bash .

It is actually a transcompilation to Bash from a functional language, using Python for the intermediate processing.
Hilbert wanted to establish mathematics on a firm foundation because a number of paradoxes suggested that the current foundations was faulty (Russell's paradox being one, there are others that I can't remember as well).

Basically Hilbert wanted to find a list of axioms from which all of mathematics could be derived and then prove that these axioms were consistent, i.e., that you can't create two contradicting statements from them.

But then Gödel showed with his incompleteness theorems that this wasn't possible.

So I guess the author was suggesting that biology have a firm, axiomatic basis?
I've been writing a bunch of branch-free code recently, so I took a crack at it. In my world, data-dependent table lookups might as well be branches, so let's eliminate those as well.

Here's a fizzbuzz(char*, int) function that can accept any number up to 99999999, and will put the correct FizzBuzz result into the provided buffer (either the printed number, "Fizz ", " Buzz", or "FizzBuzz"). As promised, it's loop-free, and as a bonus it should be constant-time as well:

Assembly: http://pastebin.com/EnJEuxnp
compiled from this C: http://pastebin.com/PCQQQ2cn
[edit] generated from this Python: http://pastebin.com/ijr3thE2

Pastebinned since it's about 700 assembly instructions.

Unrolling the loop and printing to the screen are left as exercises...
By my reading that implementation was assembled by humans, not the optimizer.

Although, there's certainly nothing magical that prevents the optimizer from generating such code. Here's something[1] I just threw together that (ab)uses constexpr to do just that.

On my machine, building with:

$ clang++ -std=c++14 fizzbuzz.cpp -O2 -S

Gives code similar to:

main: # @main
.cfi_startproc
# BB#0:
pushq %rax
.Ltmp0:
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
movl $1, %edi
movl $_ZL6output, %esi
movl $413, %edx # imm = 0x19D
callq write
xorl %eax, %eax
popq %rdx
retq
.Ltmp1:
.size main, .Ltmp1-main
.cfi_endproc

.type _ZL6output,@object # @_ZL6output
.section .rodata,"a",@progbits
_ZL6output:
.ascii "1\n2\nFizz\n4\nBuzz\nFizz\n7\n8\nFizz\nBuzz\n11\nFizz\n13\n14\nFizzBuzz\n16\n17\nFizz\n19\nBuzz\nFizz\n22\n23\nFizz\nBuzz\n26\nFizz\n28\n29\nFizzBuzz\n31\n32\nFizz\n34\nBuzz\nFizz\n37\n38\nFizz\nBuzz\n41\nFizz\n43\n44\nFizzBuzz\n46\n47\nFizz\n49\nBuzz\nFizz\n52\n53\nFizz\nBuzz\n56\nFizz\n58\n59\nFizzBuzz\n61\n62\nFizz\n64\nBuzz\nFizz\n67\n68\nFizz\nBuzz\n71\nFizz\n73\n74\nFizzBuzz\n76\n77\nFizz\n79\nBuzz\nFizz\n82\n83\nFizz\nBuzz\n86\nFizz\n88\n89\nFizzBuzz\n91\n92\nFizz\n94\nBuzz\nFizz\n97\n98\nFizz\nBuzz\n"

Of course, having now written this I feel like I should retroactively fail my last interview.

[1] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7818f902a374a953b274
♬its fun to deal with the dmca
Is it me or is the title difficult to parse? (multiple negatives ?)
> Intellectual property is a good example of the contradictions of capitalism. It destroys the principles of freedom, but in truth is necessary to perpetuate the capitalist system.

Your assertion is quite wrong and far-fetched. Intellectual property is not necessary to "perpetuate the capitalist system", at all, and asserting otherwise has no bearing in reality. Your right to private property and to own means of production does not depend in any way on the state being able to stop others from copying concepts or ideas.
That's quite brilliant, actually!
To me a lot of this boils down to having an adequately sized team and doing iterative development.

There are a lot of contracts out there with similar scope and less than half of the people to work on it.
Perfect! I searched around for these types of projects but didn't have any luck.
I just wanted to see how the things evolved and apparently in 2021 some new Mazda's DO HAVE touchscreen infotainment: https://youtu.be/eIfP2vcZD7M?t=582

Other Mazda's don't: https://youtu.be/z5k5Oqfyn2Y?t=510
It's idiocy not to have basic car and environmental functions accessible via easy to access physical controls. I'm less concerned about infotainment so long as that's all in the optional category--though, ideally, voice controls would be fairly useful.
I read your comment as the only reason to have a modular design was because of Conway's law. And my point was that there are very many reason to embrace modular design that has nothing to do with the organisation of the teams.
here are some attempts to do this in C++,
http://www.stroustrup.com/OOPSLA-typeswitch-draft.pdf

seems there are no good solutions.
OPs submission history is a hoot. Spamming HN. A link showing how they spammed another site. Links to how they were rude to the project behind that site. Now links to posts where they posted elsewhere about how they were rude to the project they spammed.
If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
You might try better co-workers? Seems odd you'll spend as much time as you will with your partner (and kids) as with co-workers and not develop a meaningful or similar relationships. Sounds horrible.
its not better for me, hitting enter is essential for me when using tail
> Heck the CPUs these days literally do not support real mode anymore.

They do, actually; a brand new Core i7 still runs 16-bit real-mode and 32-bit real-mode.

Now, if you're running in 64-bit mode, there's no vm86 mode you can use to run 16-bit applications on a 64-bit kernel. However, the CPU still supports 16-bit real mode, and under a 32-bit kernel you can run 16-bit applications.