skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wall Street Journal, in the early 1990s, reported that Apple had been bought by Sun Microsystems. They never retracted the story. This may be a generally credible newspaper, but this article sounds just like the constant stream of Apple Doom-And-Gloom I've been reading going back 30 years.

There is a reliable indicator of Apples expected sales-- and it's forward looking. This is the CapEx expenditures, which Apple forecasts out in its reports. When they expect to sell a lot of new phones, they buy more equipment to be able to make those phones. Apple hates to have lack of supply when they release a new product and there is huge demand (And Apple never has huge warehouses of unsold products they have to unload like other companies do.)

The idea that the s products are "lackluster" is silly... they have been following a tick-tock strategy for 5 years now and it has been working effectively, but every tock year we hear about how "nothings different" (because apparently to these people if the case is the same the internals must be too.)

Usually, despite the claim Apple was sold, you don't see this level of poor journalism in the WSJ. But I guess that's the nature of the "news game" now.
"If a bird flew just above the beam director during operation, the power density it would experience is 1,000 times lower than at the rocket, which is well above the altitudes of birds and planes"

Can someone explains me that? It doesn't sound very intuitive to me..

I'm surprised the Army isn't throwing money at projects like this, it looks a lot like the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System.

Edit: Nevermind, I forgot the beam would be shaped like a cone, sent from a very big transmitter.
$10/mo. is incredible value for Netflix as far as I'm concerned.

I'd be perfectly fine with additional fees or different payment tiers for more expensive content. I pay $130/mo. for a cable package that provides almost no content that I enjoy and includes a DVR that frequently craps out when recording the few shows that I do watch. I'd rather pay Netflix an extra $30/mo. (or more, depending on what they can offer) for that premium content and ditch my cable package altogether.
Some year it will be true. And you have self fulfilling prophecy afterwards.
India is there now.
How Small Businesses Can Make a High Yielding Mobile App
"Learnings" sounds like either a Hinglish expression, or maybe Microspeak to my ears.
This is an argument that gets wheeled out a lot, and I'm afraid I don't see the logic in it at all. More Americans died in car crashes in December, 1941 than were killed at Pearl Harbor, too; are you going to assert that, therefore, Japan bombing Pearl Harbor was not a problem?
Wait, are license plates required to be lit? I thought that was just a curtesy to other drivers, not a legal requirement.
Why I Won't Be Buying an Oculus Rift
Yes I agree. The standard for "deadly weapon" has deteriorated to the point at which anything that any conceivably imaginative movie plot might suggest could cause a death in very particular circumstances, is thought to qualify. Yes it's possible that a two-inch penknife might be able to sever the vein of an immobilized person, given several minutes of sawing. That doesn't mean that such a tool is considered a "deadly weapon" by reasonable people, in any situation which includes police firing guns.
Any free service similar to Gitbook but primarily for blogs?
It looks like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black were both licensed out to other networks in countries that didn't have Netflix at the time. For instance, Showcase in Australia had both of them, and probably has the rights to continue showing them exclusively in Australia. So that complicates things.
Indeed. On the Internet, nobody knows that the person ordering and paying for your services is in fact a superintelligent AI :).
OpenCompany by Steve Coast is hilarious capitalist cosplay (scroll down)
No, dedicated interfaces are the right tool for many jobs. That's why you don't drive your car a touchscreen.
Yet still slow compare to most other technologies. Battery technology has always fascinated me at how it lags so far behind it's related tech.
Why no one’s listening to a Walkman (2013)
Yet it is misleading to support the claim of a "war on traffic fatalities" with a graph that measures something else.

The first graph show we have made driving far less dangerous per mile.

The second graph shows the likelihood that any given person will die due to traffic.
After having experimented a bit in high school with ideas for compression algorithms like this, I can tell you that one of the problems you'd run into is that you may have to look so deep into pi that the offset may actually take the same number of bits (or even more bits) than the sequence you're trying to find.
First: citation needed.

Second: In almost the entire US, being armed is not against the law.

Third: If it's as much of a "common occurrence" as you claim, please paste here one example from the list of shootings on the article's main page where an officer shoots a civilian without any provocation.
I got into this for the very same reason. If you are in it for these academic aspect, would you be interested in teaming up?
I don't know the numbers but it seems to me the relevant question is, in X number of incidents in the UK vs. the US, how many perpetrators die? How many cops die?

If the UK police are able to subdue these people without killing the perpetrator or getting killed themselves, on a per capita basis, I'd say the UK response is better.
Aws and Amazon Instant Video probably are very separate businesses. And right now, aws is obviously much more successful than Amazon Video. But is that enough reason for Netlfix to be not scared of being a full aws shop and not worrying the fact that their biggest - probably the only - competitor (Amazon Video) also shares the same parent company as Netflix's main tech provider (aws)?
Neither do. Good games sell platforms. Even better if they're exclusive and you can't find that experience any place else. Basically, you need a killer app. Who makes it is irrelevant.

I agree that AAA games have the marketing power to broaden appeal. However, indie gaming is becoming a powerhouse of sorts. Look at the Steam Top Sellers list at any time, and you'll usually see at least half the games listed there being indies. Currently, it looks to be a solid 50/50, although I'm sure the residual affects of the last Steam sale are there.

Something with the viral appeal of Minecraft, released for the Oculus, would be a massive draw.
It would be interesting to see how well the numbers correlate to percentage of population in the state that lives in urban and rural areas, or even what percentage of the population is in heavily/dense urbanized areas.
What we won't share
Love the minimalist approach - but not for business use. I use MixMax ( https://mixmax.com/ ) every day and the additional functionality its provided has been a big deal for me. More is more in a business use-case I think.
I would be curious to see how the crowd reacts. Please update if possible.
I wouldn't be surprised if most bought the 6 last year due to its larger size and hence have no need to upgrade to the 6s this year. I did and enjoy the 6s, because I upgraded from the 5 (even that jump was slightly underwhelming). I bought it for the camera and screen size.
If you're right why do you think Netflix's CEO is saying the EEA isn't there yet due to the lack of a digital single market[1] and why is the European commission proposing a "digital single market" as part of its Europe 2020 plans[2]?

1. http://www.euractiv.com/sections/infosociety/netflix-ceo-eur...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_2020
Preface: I'm completely opposed to terrorism and the wider Muslim faith from which it grows.

That said... You're making the assumption that God isn't real. I know this assumption to be incorrect. This assumption has some support that makes it appear more right than it is, for a lot of reasons. For example: Its regular practice for parents to lie to their children about Santa Claus existing and then for those children to later find out that in fact Santa Claus does not exist. It's also regular practice for people to make idols out of men when they shouldn't. Nowadays there is a tendency to have a lot of very clever people not believe. (This was foretold in scripture by Jesus Christ.( Don't be wise in your own conceit and think that lack of religion produces cleverness. Plenty of scientists throughout history have been religious. Moreover, a lot of the tools that clever people tend to use nowadays like probability theory were originally discovered by people who were religious. Take Bayes as an example of that.

I suggest you read the Gospels about Jesus Christ and actively try to believe that God is both real and a rewarder of those who seek him.

And if it feels like you're being asked to be an idiot please check out Proverbs. I don't think anyone can read through that and at the end of it feel that religion and understanding are opposed.

And unfortunately the stuff about a Devil that deceives the world is also accurate. So if you do end up doing that make sure not to forget the good news.
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Interesting to compare, the total number of movies/shows/episodes on netflix for a few countries:

USA: 7004

UK: 3589

Finland: 3380 (So high because they don't dub?)

Sweden: 2542 (But Sweden does not dub either ...)

Germany: 2415 (But Germany does)

France: 2254

Spain: 1482

Italy: 1393

Portugal: 924

(Europe really seems to get netflix light)
And people like these guys weren't pointing guns at other people or breaking the law?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff#April_12_confro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_Planned_Paren...

I'm certainly not suggesting that we encourage violent responses from law enforcement. (I'm relieved injury and harm were minimized in both of the above instances.) But, it's disingenuous to think that all demographics get an equally fair shake/generous response from law enforcement when they are holding (or believed to be holding) a gun.
It's already started happening. Netflix has been at the film festivals buying up movies, especially documentaries.
Lots of their target market already has suitable video cards, and don't want to pay $400 extra for a downgrade. And what would you plug the box into? I've read that there are specs for external PCIe x16 ports and enclosures but I've literally never seen one.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cover+your+ass

[EDIT: removed request]

I do have police family. I do want him to be safe. I don't want him to file false reports in order not to face the consequences of unlawful action.

[EDIT:] As a rural resident and citizen, if "an armed intruder" troubles my family home, the sheriffs will be called to collect a corpse. I'm not fool enough to imagine they'll get there in time for anything else. Home intrusion rates are quite low hereabouts.
It's not Netflix's fault that your Maestro and Visa Electron aren't usable on the internet. Also, they are debit cards, not credit.
> I've never understood why it's ok for people to waste their money on HBO but not fantasy sports

I've never understood why it's okay for people to waste money on fantasy sports but not on Ponzi schemes.
How does a Quadrotor fly?
This is not completely correct: your Leaf does have a purely electronic throttle and the e-brake is actuated by a solenoid, but no production passenger car presently uses brake-by-wire

Thanks for the correction. I ass-u-med (and actually do recall reading it somewhere, but just some dude on a Leaf forum probably) that because of all the computerized fiddling required to balance regen braking with mechanical braking, the brake pedal was just a fancy potentiometer.

As for steering, I went to garage between builds and looked: yup, there's a mechanical linkage in there. Shows how often I lift the hood on that thing. :-)

I'll leave my error-filled post as-is as an example of how being a pro mechanic 20 years ago doesn't mean you know everything about modern cars. :-P
Here's his blog post about it: http://stevecoast.com/2015/09/15/open-company/
That's odd... It came up for me, no questions asked. And I don't pay for anything ;-)
Sure that's the plan, but it doesn't seem to have actually rolled out to any users yet? Why do they need IE 11 if Edge is ready to go?
I feel that I am in this position right now vis-a-vis internet startups in general: lots of overhyped and overfunded "start-ups" promising security, privacy, and freedom and delivering pervasive surveillance, imitation security, and extortion.
I really wonder about how prevalent age discrimination is and more importantly - is it sometimes actually deserved?

We recently hired a super sharp guy in his late 40's. Guy is brilliant. His age is completely irrelevant.

I also worked with a guy in his late 40's and early 50's who thought that the pinnacle of innovation and best development practices is to write all your business logic in Oracle PLSQL. Also, he'd never heard of HTTP even though he used a browser every day.

I mean I'm sorry but...it's not that the guy was old, but his ideas definitely were. We're an industry that is always moving. If you're not learning new things, you're stagnating. And if you're stagnant, you're screwed, eventually.

But you can be stagnant at 25 just as easily. I know people my age (I'm 35) who never moved past Visual Basic and think a REST-ful API is an API that likes to take naps maybe.

I guess my point is - age discrimination probably does exist, but I'm willing to bet it's because the ideas the person being discriminated against are old. I really haven't experienced any kind of bad attitude towards women, or "minorities", or older people. If you can get your shit done, you're golden.
Monday night football! So not quite 6.
I would guess give Fedora a try or whatever GPU drivers support better.

CentOS / RHEL as a rule is behind as far as package versions in order to be more stable. But they do bring in new drivers and back-port many fixes and packages.

Most of the stuff that applies to CentOS will apply to Fedora as well as a rule.
Yeah, I pretty much whiffed on that one; see reply to sibling comment.
Depends a lot on your size. We wouldn't expect Verne Troyer (Mini Me) and Shaq to wear the same size pants, would we? ;)
It's tough, because we only started investigating and reporting this data in 2015. We've just announced we will be continuing the investigation in 2016, and by 2017 the government has said it hopes to have a better system in place for reporting and tracking these shootings. We definitely hope to some day have several years' worth of thorough police shootings data to see long-term trends.
The perfect PC for disaster preppers who want wikipedia info after the world collapses.
This reminds me of the 3DFX Voodoo2 release and I think it will be as big a deal.
I like the selection we have in Canada and I feel it is much better than it was when I first got an account somewhere around 3-4 years ago.

Also, to confirm what you said, we are supposed to get Star Wars: the force awakens first

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/netflix-stream-star-wars-forc...

I saw somewhere that we would get it in about six months.
The FAQ is very light on details. No mention on how the mail is stored on their end
Correct, even the GPUs used in the top end Mac Pro fall short of the minimum requirement. Both GPUs rendering an eye each would be fast enough but that configuration isn't widely supported by games yet.
Browsers certainly do have to deal with multitenancy (although we don't call it by that name), data of arbitrary size, transactions, and complicated on-disk data structures.

In any case, you now seem to be primarily interested in arguing that database programmers are smarter than all other programmers, which, needless to say, is about the most uninteresting conversation we could possibly be having.
> sizeable discount for their paying retail customers

I think you are wrong on that. I honestly doubt the 6500 free units they are giving out would actually affect the price at all. Think about this, what would have been worse, your 6500 most loyal and vocal customers being pissed because the price of an oculus rift was doubled overnight or goodwill from dropping the price of a rift 10 dollars?
How likely it is that a refugee can effectively argue their complaints in a court?

edit. addendum. These kind of firms have not that much of reason to care about their brand image when it comes to what regular people think about them: their only customers are some government officials (or in car park example, people who own the park space), not the general public.
They have released two films so far (with mixed results), and they're working on quite a few more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...
Can you elaborate? Are you saying the Star Citizen experience alone is enough to sell the Rift? How is the Rift experience for the FPS segments?
This sounds amazing. I have been working on a similar sidd project for almost 2 years now to make my pc similar. I briefly wrote about it [1] but have encountered my challenges along the way.

The PCs we have at home are so powerful yet they spend 99% of their life being idle. When your computer is on for the sake of being on, it's an opportunity to have it process information from the web.

I'll get my hand on one of those asap.

[1]: http://idiallo.com/blog/bringing-back-the-pc
Just for a fuller picture, here's the listing of police killed, by year, by state, etc.:

https://www.odmp.org/search?name=&agency=&state=&from=2015&t...

Sample search is for 2015, when 129 officers died from all causes including automobile accidents; 39 were killed by gunfire, 5 by vehicle pursuit, 7 by vehicular assault, etc.
it's hard to quantify, but just my general attitude has made things smoother. Rather than rolling my eyes and trying to change the subject, i'll try to listen attentively and engage if i have something to contribute.

I don't have any interest in listening to someone rattle on for hours, but a minute or two listening to something they're excited about, well, it goes a long way. A reply like "I'm not much of a sports fan, but that sounds amazing" is pretty effective. Just let people bask in the glory of whatever they love for a moment or two, sports, tv shows, how smart their kid is, vacation pictures, whatever.

I guess, i wouldn't talk to people if they weren't important or interesting in the moment in some way, taking an interest in what they find interesting makes me feel more connected somehow.
glo-lo-mo. Global scale, local reach, mobile devices.
Personally, I prefer this. I hate waiting for the next season of a show to come out, so Netflix works for me. I can see why it doesn't work for others though
Lottery tickets are an experience, not a payout. People buy them for the moments of fantasy they enable.

It's a rational suspension of disbelief (though irrational for addicts).
Much more than that. Channel I/O on IBM mainframes is mostly about watching the data go by as the disk rotates until some key matches. With a random-access storage device, that's unnecessary. The SPU concept is more about looking up things in index trees, and updating those trees safely.
Photographs of text are not searchable. Twitter needs your tweets in text so that they can target ads at you and make money. If you want twitter to succeed as a business, you'll support the increase in text length.
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Perhaps not. Thinking about other comments referencing Wikipedia:

"This may be the first attempt to print Wikipedia to succeed in the sense that all of Wikipedia has been formatted as printable pdf files and made available for individual printing. The task has taken 3 years, and the upload process took 24 days, 3 hours and 18 minutes. It was completed 12 July 2015. PediaPress had attempted to raise money for a full Wikipedia print out on Indiegogo in 2014, but the project was pulled. Michael estimates that the printing costs of a full printout are around $500,000."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Wikipedia
Nice quote, but...

"The Earth belongs in usufruct to the living; the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." --Thomas Jefferson, to James Madison, Sep 6, 1789

For all the influence exerted by people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., they effected change with their lives, and not their deaths. One should not choose to die for a cause, or against one. Rather, live for your own principles, and teach them to those others who wish to learn. Those who sacrifice themselves, expecting no reward, grow no greater in my eyes. They become memory, and immediately begin to fade, except to the extent that they are renewed by those who still live.

What manner of scoundrel would I be to suggest that another to sacrifice for my benefit, that I may treasure the memory of it? What sort of fool would assent? That is the mentality of the beehive, where the workers die to protect their queen. In a society of equals, for anyone to die unnecessarily is a tragedy. For someone to choose to die, it is a horror.

Attributing some nobility to self-sacrifice is an ethic for hierarchies, to convince the lesser people, against their own interests, to hurtle headstrong into situations where they may be killed. It makes pawns of people who might otherwise be greater. It is not fitting to convince anyone to believe they are so unworthy that the best way they might serve others is by throwing themselves into fires that need never have been lit.
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It depends where you are. In the UK, their selection of TV is much more limited than the US - for example we don't have your example of Mad Men. Their original shows are very good though, and they have a decent selection of British TV (ironically they have more BBC shows than BBC's own streaming service).

Their selection of popular/well known movies has been decreasing over time though, as they've been losing some of those licences. But there's enough of them that it's good enough for "I want to watch some movie, let's see what's on Netflix".
You picked a very specific segment (infrastructure-based services), but in that segment, the "public roads" model needs to be applied: just like roads are public, and used by private cars and private trucking companies for a fee (usually taxes or tolls). Same should apply to cable/fiber networks - the municipality owns the infrastructure, and there is only one cable = no need to dig up the town three times over.
Precisely.

And we know the hearts of men are weak, easily swayed by power.
I wouldn't be so quick to toss the headphones.

One of the reasons I think Oculus went with an onboard DAC is to precisely sync audio, visuals, and head tracking. Using a non-Oculus audio pipeline could introduce unpredictable timing and a worse experience.
Whoops, seems you are correct. I'd misunderstood this, my apologies.
Not only the first reply. Going through the replies, most of them do not seem to have read.

Pretty disappointed with the Edge here. It's clear that the participants are just exploiting it as a platform to put forward their own ideas.
Maybe it'll force Hollywood to pay actors far far less. Harrison Ford was paid somewhere between 10 and 25 million (probably towards the lower end of that scale). Flipping the question a little bit, how do you justify paying actors 40 million for a movie if they're being streamed online for $5 a pop? I'm of the belief that the better actors are paid far too much and that releasing cinema to streaming services will correctly adjust the price of new release films.

For context I watched the force awakens last night at iMax (premium recliner chairs which was nice!) for $43. But you can't see a movie in Australia for less than about $23 these days. We're directly funding hollywood's lifestyle.