skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix is blocked from offering online content in any of the 28 European Union nations in which it has not signed a country-by-country licensing deal. I'm not sure I understand this. Why Netflix didn't sign those deals? Is it because it doesn't want to deal with so many countries individually?
If you want to e-mail me (my address is in my profile, obfuscated), I might be able to help (been doing networked multi-user applications since 2000, including 5.5 years at Google). This is a pretty complicated question, and depends a bunch on what you're trying to accomplish and what you already know.
There are aircraft registries and commercial databases, but the picture is complicated somewhat by these aircraft having been deregistered for some time and the last known operator having returned them off lease even before that.
Sorry, what I meant was that with regards to not competing with Pocket (instead 'working with') it seems to me that Refind is a slightly enhanced Pocket archive?

What I meant about the filter was that it would be good to be able to do that when not searching. I want to browse everything that was saved by me only. At the moment, that doesn't seem to be possible.
If you only care about money.

BTW, making $400k in finance is not particularly high. Nor is it evidence that you're a great programmer. Finance companies have to pay huge premiums to attract and retain people.

Just about any programmer can make 2x working on Wall Street. Very few good programmers are willing to work for these finance companies. It doesn't seem like you've thought much about why that is.
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If that's your only point, then it's mostly not correct, and where it is correct is isn't interesting.

I'm not deciding anything irrevocably; if he had come back and started talking sense on the topic, I would have been happy to revise.

And yes, of course my picture based on a couple of paragraphs is incomplete. But that's true of any comment here. It's the commenter's job to make sure what they post is a reasonable representation of their views. Repliers reply to what was actually written, not the infinite penumbra of the possibility space of what could actually be going on.

Your standard of "100% correct" is a deeply weird one to apply to online discussion, especially since you clearly aren't applying it to your own comments. I may not know what martiuk knows, but you have no better idea of what I know. But here you are, sniping as if you do.
Gastrointestinal upset can be mitigated by always combining with food and spreading out among smaller doses.

If she was prescribed 1g tablets, for example, have her ask for a new script for twice as many 500mg tablets. (Those 1g are a pain to split.)
Call for police killings to be reported as weekly public health data
At what level are you wanting to develop?

I ask as there are significant differences between the developer writing a "basic" distributed application that utilizes others work to handle the complexity of a distributed system and the guy/gal writing her own leader election (or raft type) algorithms etc. Not that either is better then another, but they are different levels which require different skills and/or mindsets.

Either way, I suggest you look at leader election, raft, time syncing etc so you have a reasonable understanding regardless of what level you decide to write at. Also, look at other applications that are distributed, read up on eventual consistency and just design systems on paper to identify issues. Take a look at systems like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, redis, mongodb etc that publish quite a bit about their architectures and where you can find good and bad about their designs (e.g. redis/mongo).

I will say one thing, if you don't already know it, time is critical in a distributed system. I do not think it can be overstated how important the time value is, as almost every action is usually coordinated or decided in relation to time.

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Did you watch "The Century of the Self", by chance? Great movie, either way.
I have a manual transmission, so it's also clutch wear. Plus I get tired of shifting.
A premium 10" Android slate sounds nice enough, especially with multi-window on the way, but that keyboard breaks the deal. No pipe key or escape? Good luck doing any serious programming. Also, if running a lightweight OS, I would really expect 2-day battery life for the big price.
My hypothesis is that the problem becomes worse by at least a few other's impatience and greed. There might be some educated individuals on the road who try their best to do what's said to lead to better traffic conditions, but its the few that ruin it in the end. A tragedy of the commons.
I also thought it was incredibly surprising he even uttered the words "mental health" given how it was looked at back then. It comes across as brave and with much foresight. A very smart man indeed!
Certainly both our upstream providers allow through alien source address packets. This has caused me some head scratching on occasion, as in "how the #^$&#^ is this even working??". I suspect the reason is that it is non-trivial to collect and manage the list of kosher subnets once you exceed a certain size.
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The clearest and simplest thing they could do is implement ad blocking in an ethical manner. All the other players have commercial agendas either for or against advertising. Mozilla is really the only player that can come to the table with clean hands and implement a solution that is fair to all sides.
This is spiritual new-age pseudoscience, and it's not worthy of HN.

The web site is by a group called Sonic Age America [1], which turns out to be a guy named John Stuart Reid and his wife [2], whose occupation is "energetic healer". They believe that life started with sound, and have invented "cymatics, the study of visible sound" ("based on the principle that when sound encounters a membrane such as your skin or the surface of water, it imprints an invisible pattern of energy") and "sound healing" ("sound is fast regaining its place as the pre-eminent healing modality") [2].

[1] https://www.cymascope.com/aboutus.html

[2] https://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/Caduceus%20article-1...
Who could have known that smoking chemicals could lead to respiratory disease?
As I read that page I became less and less interested in reading the book. That's one of the worst book reviews I have ever read, its hard to belive it made it to the frontpage of HN.
really? as if not having it on the front page of HN will totally keep the lid on it. plus the guy either outed himself or is pulling a massive hoax. either way he had time to plan for it. meanwhile the death of the Williams-Sonoma founder on 12/5 is basking on front page with 1/10 number of points. karma conspiracy HN is the worst form of HN but how odd.
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A huge benefit to BI in the long term is it allows people to move to cheaper areas. Subsidized housing on the other hand creates lot's of perverse incentives. So, ideally you don't want to adjust for regional cost of living.

Remember, if a store in NYC can't find anyone willing to work at X$/hour they must raise wages and prices. This sends really important signals up and down the economy.
Want to remember a nice song ? Thanks to DRM 5.0 implants only licensed persons will be humming away. In release 6.0 non-licensed songs will also be cut from the audio feed automatically.

Haaaapy b.. what, how did that go again ?
With metformin being so cheap, at least we know that any studies that favor it aren't corrupted by profit motive.
Sometimes I also cut off such interlopers. I can accelerate quite rapidly in first. After a while, surrounding drivers learn to respect that space in front of me.
I completely agree. I can not stand Elmo as a character. He lacks depth and is really annoying. However, observing my 1.5 year old niece when Elmo comes on, you can see why he is the popular Muppet. Kids love his annoying voice and silliness which is why Elmo will continue to be at the forefront of Sesame Street.

I saw the episode where they talked about Mr. Hooper's death. It was the saddest thing I had seen in a very long time. Very emotional and probably the most honest episode ever made.
No. I did give a talk locally some years ago but that's all. Like most of us I have a big stack of interesting things I could write about, if I didn't have roughly 2x as much work to do as there is time in the day already...
One day!
Yep, totally agree.
I'm not sure all those advertising cents per person are really effectively spent, either. I'd say the expertise is mostly into getting the advertisers to spend that money.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/a-danger...
Hmm, maybe these "signals" you're reading are not actually good predictors of either skill or marketability.
I wonder if data from lottery winners with "lifetime" stipends in the right range could be useful? Or perhaps a basic income experiment lottery could be sanctioned to gather the data. It might even be self-funding.
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It's still a worthwhile endeavor, though: an experiment doesn't have to answer all possible questions about a subject in order to provide value.

Right now there are some huge basic unknowns about a basic income. For instance, one prediction is that everyone who receives a basic income will drop out of the working population (not a view I'm ascribing to you, to be clear, but not a straw man either--it's something I've seen explicitly stated here on HN and elsewhere). This experiment will give a rough estimate of the sign and magnitude of any disemployment effect: will it cause some people to drop out of the work force? Or everyone? Or will it cause people to join the workforce?

Seeing how people react to basic incomes offered over different time spans is going to be important, but before the shape of that curve can be characterized (in what's ultimately an empirical question) we've got to get at least some basic information. Before Newton could come up with a solid theory about gravitation, he had access to plenty of information; but as far as a basic income goes, right now it's like we don't know whether gravity pushes or pulls.

And your point about inflation is my biggest area of concern about the basic income as well, but focusing on second order price level effects when people are still in dispute about the basic first order effects is putting the cart before the horse.
Agreed. On the other end of the spectrum, you have cookiecutter:

https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
It's most efficient under the constraint that we probably don't want to force citizens to submit to advertising-style pervasive monitoring by the government welfare authorities just to eat.
As a practical matter, my experience of using FirefoxOS everyday is that performance is not the main issue. Of course it could undoubtedly be improved, but it's acceptable, particularly once you put it onto reasonable hardware (i.e. not the $40 phones).

Much more problematic is the lack of "premium content" i.e. services that — even if they are basically just webapps — don't work except on Android/iOS. This is a particularly vicious cycle; it's hard to convince anyone to put in the effort to support minority platforms, and it's hard to get users unless you support the same content as other platforms (see also: Windows Phone, which by all accounts is an excellent product that almost no one uses).

There's also the fact that FirefoxOS is some years behind the other platforms in terms of developers and the competition has ~infinite resources, which means that some parts are lagging behind feature wise.

Having said all of that, I don't think that Opera is a bad analog for the difficulties FirefoxOS faces, only it's not Opera Platform specifically but Presto in general. It had the same kind of issues with limited support from content creators and relatively available resources.
When I maintain gaps, it's not empathy; at best it is a smug feeling of maintaining a better risk management profile than the person deciding to cut.

I long ago gave up viewing driving as an adversarial activity. Slamming on the brakes means I'm not maintaining a safe distance or speed. Any pent up frustration or anger I harbor is reserved for the sap that caused the accident up ahead that slowed everyone down in the first place.
Great to hear it works with SmartOS. That would certainly make my deploys simple -- I can just bake the Distelli Agent into a base image and use that for all new instances.

I'm sure there's an easy way to have Gitlab trigger the Distelli builds. I see you're in Seattle too, rad! Email on the way.
Honestly neither are great ways to interview someone. The first is better, sure, but it doesn't actually tell you if they're a good programmer.

The only thing I've found that does work is asking them about problems they've encountered/solved before, and then maybe have them write out something from them on the board. This gives pretty decent insight into their problem solving process.
Not sure why you would say FireFox OS itself is needed, when Android is open source, and scales down almost as far as FireFox OS did in terms of hardware. If Mozilla really wanted to push an OS out, they could have taken Android and customised it with a web app support on top rather than reinventing the entire giant wheel.
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"...they all came to the realization that what made this place a success was not the collision-avoidance algorithms or the bouncer daemons or any of that other stuff. It was Juanita's faces." Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash.

I think in our world as well, VR will really take off when technology like this is applied.
I'm still wondering if Google Fiber is a foundation for Google's ambitions to resurrect their city-wide WiFi plans that stalled in SF years back. Ever since Google-Fi rolled out, I've been more convinced that Google doesn't actually need to wire every home with Fiber, just to put it in enough places and blanket the area with their own fine-tuned data network. Then, charge people for accounts to access it.
Ask HN: About to take a 6 month sabbatical – what technologies should I learn?
Hey All,

To give my background, I been working as a software engineer at one of the 'big 4' companies for about 2.5 years after graduating college. For the past 6 months, I was reorganized into a position in the company where I'm doing developer operations (supporting a service) kind of work, rather than straight up software development...and it's definitely not what I want to do in the long-term. In general, the technologies I've used at this company are very specific to the company and are not transferrable skills to most current software engineer jobs.

I am planning to take 6 months off to focus full-time on learning current & emerging technologies / re-learn some fundamentals / do some projects (since right now, while I know I can develop well, I don't really have any personal projects to demonstrate my development skills).

Incidentally, I've also had some major personal life changes lately (both parents passed away recently and I had to take in a younger sibling under legal guardianship), and I need to take time off to also psychologically recover from recent events. Because of my familial responsibilities, I haven't had the time outside of work to work on an open source project or teach myself something (and probably won't in the near future, if I stay at my job).

My questions are the following:

- Do you think I should re-consider this plan of taking 6 months off?

- Any recommendations on best technologies to focus on mastering? I'd be focusing on either web dev or mobile dev - probably back-end, but up for any interesting challenge.

- Should I focus on making my own projects, or joining an existing open-source one? If existing, any recommendations on where to get started (while GitHub has lots of projects, it seems pretty difficult to get your pull-requests approved for many projects)?

Thanks HN!
Hard to say, there are so many.

- I'd start with embedded environments: Arduino / STM32(F1/F4) / RaspberryPi see how to code for them and how to make them talk to each other (UART/SPI/I2C/CAN...)

- Then I'd check how simple kernel modules are made, and try to mess around the kernel in raspberryPi and make something that outputs a value on the terminal and via I2C.

- I'd check the "concept" of middlewares and start by something simple WComp[0] (written in C#). It is not used in the industry but it gives you a pretty good sens of how things should work.

- For beginners I'd recommend to use Parse[1] for any project where you need a "cloud" infrastructure (Database, API, users, privileges,...)

- You should also check how fully distributed systems (that operate in a peer-to-peer manner) work.

- After that it comes to ressource optimisation and things like that.

EDIT (You should also check these) :

- UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) is way to get devices to automatically discover and understand each other.

- MQTT: publish-subscribe TCP/IP messaging protocol (I use it for push notifications)

[0] : http://www.wcomp.fr

[1] : https://www.parse.com/
and puns!

I really like the whole drawn-on-graph-paper look, too.
> Don't look at the car directly in front of you. Stare through its windshield if possible to get an idea of what the car second in line is doing.

Yes! Also, when it's darker, you look for brake lights way ahead. That's also a marker for speed traps.
You make a good point. Why would I obfuscate like that? My email is out there in git logs, mailing list logs, lists stolen from other websites, lists bought from other websites.

I can't see that encryption will ever work end-to-end as we want. People are too stupid to learn most things. Technical solutions rely on big corporations that we trust to do the Right Thing(TM). The Right Thing(TM) is impossible from US companies and probably impossible from European companies.

Attachments. I don't remember the last time I sent a large one. As far as I know most of the size limitations are artificially implemented by companies that don't want to spend that much on storage. Other limitations such as Gmail's block on executables is because people are stupid and will run everything they get sent.

People will never not be stupid so we can never have nice things.
You are claiming that women rape men basically as often as men rape women? I find that literally incredible. If you have stats, by all means post them, but there's a ton of evidence the other way.

As to your question, the short answer is patriarchy. We're slowly emerging from a millennia-long system of male dominance of women. I read a lot of anti-female prejudice as part of that system of control of women. Whereas I read a lot of anti-male prejudice as a) reaction to the experience of patriarchy, b) resistance to the system of patriarchy, or c) part of patriarchy itself. As we eliminate patriarchy and then have a couple of generations of people who haven't experienced it, I expect much of that to fade.
Not Dvorak, but right on the phone part.
Given how cleverly the authors tried to evade peer review, the evidence might have been quite flimsy to begin with.

Peer review is the primary mechanism by which modern science verifies evidence, especially in fields like climate change where it's often very difficult to replicate another scientist's data.

Evasion of peer review is like including an obfuscated blob in a critical part of some security software. It is highly suspicious by definition, and the community has every right to assume that it is malicious unless the author can demonstrate otherwise.
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Zipper Merge to the rescue!

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/zippermerge/
I must admit. People leaving wide gaps in city traffic drives me nuts. Why? Turn-lanes. People will leave huge gaps and slow well in advance of stop-lights, causing people behind them who want to turn into the left or right turn-lanes to miss the light. The worst are the people at a light, who, with cars to the left and right decide it's prudent to leave five car lengths between themselves and the car ahead of them at the expense of everyone behind who just wants to get into the turn lane so they can make the light.
Well, if you were being serious, then all I can say is no comment on that as I'd have to look at recent findings, methods, and verifications. Looked into it a long time ago with the PEAR work being the most interesting. Needed duplication by independents that especially unlikely to work as a group to defraud people. Additionally, I proposed to people I discussed it with that, if psi phenomenon exists, skeptics' own negativity toward the experiments could prevent successful verifications. So, we'd have to have people who could run the experiment other skeptics constructed and approved of while being neutral or encouraging the subjects to create positive, mental state.

Not sure what's happened in the field since or if anyone else proposed something like I did. Radin & PEAR was only thing I saw then that looked like real science with well-thought methodology. Given high percentage of prior frauds, that not being ruled out in a substantive way in what I read on the topic had me saying "really interesting but who knows" as a result. I'd like to see the experiments re-run by diverse parties w/ conservative views on subject and reliable track record. Also, while mitigating both potential fraud and impact of negativity on test subjects.

My initial response to you came from you picking an extremely controversial field of research rather than examples of widely-held or supported beliefs countered with newer, better evidence that wouldn't be dismissed immediately by readers as psi topic would. I figured, like how those do with "conspiracy theory" labels, you were trying to get my comment dismissed entirely.

Btw, people are apparently calling out for you to respond in this thread about the Bitcoin leak:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846
> from the paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02206 : we report the total computational effort of QMC in standard units of time per single core.

That's an interesting way to compare quantum and classical computer "substrates" on the same footing: running time.

> Based on the results presented here, one cannot claim a quantum speedup [...]
as this would require that the quantum processor [to] outperform the best known
classical algorithm. This is not the case... because a variety of heuristic
classical algorithms can solve most instances of Chimera structured problems
much faster than SA, QMC, and the D-Wave 2X

So no quantum revolution yet, but potentially for larger problems and when the quantum "substrate" becomes more expressive, we'll see classical heuristics fail and quantum annealing win.