skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If RSS scales badly for sites like Gizmodo, don't use it for sites like Gizmodo. RSS is great for small-scale personal publishing; in fact some sort of aggregator is practically a necessity for such a thing to work (this is why blogging has drifted to tumblr, facebook, and twitter: publishing integrated with aggregated consumption is a powerful thing).

This leads to a chicken and egg problem: when someone is first introduced to RSS, the only sources they know about are ones that don't work well with RSS. It's hard to cultivate the kind of network that makes RSS valuable to you until you've already bought in to the concept.

Personally, at my peak I was subscribed to about 400 feeds, but they only published about 100 items a day.
Feature which is still available to those who self host :) My TinyTinyRSS database has 359533 posts stored, taking a whooping 559MB. I frankly don't get why they have such low limits to paying customers. Storing a whole 1GB on S3 would cost them just 3¢ of the monthly $3. Unless they also scrape images from posts...?
Steam has discovered the money-making magic that it's better to collect $.50 from many thousands of people than to collect $.00, and presumably, that it primarily supplements full-price purchases rather than displacing them [1]. I'd observe that even the other gaming platforms still took years to also discover that even with Steam lighting the way. Movie houses are still apparently completely clueless about this analysis, though I will concede in advance whether cheap movies would displace full-price movies may be different. (But I suspect the only way to find out is to just try it.)

[1]: Bear in mind that the only "full-price purchases" that matter are ones that actually occur. With my gaming habits, I'm perfectly happy to work in the indie space and years behind the mainstream, plus my laptop isn't even in the running to run the latest & greatest right now. I buy many cheap things from Steam, but it doesn't displace full-price purchases because I was never going to make them. If Steam was just a "full-price game service", I wouldn't even have an account. Instead, they've probably made at least $100 from me of profit.
Also a recent must-see documentary about Singapore repressive ruling party is Jason Soo's "1987: Untracing the Conspiracy"[1]

[1] http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/04/interview-jason-soo-...

"In 1987, 22 people were arrested under Singapore’s Internal Security Act (ISA) in a security exercise known as Operation Spectrum.

Accused of being involved in a Marxist conspiracy to establish a communist state, many detainees were tortured and then coerced into implicating themselves and their friends on public television."
Don't blame Netflix blame those countries because they are the ones which prevent titles from being released as they have local companies that bought the distribution rights.
It is not our duty to do anything. If you want to do something fine. But honestly, I work my butt off to get what I've got and I'm perfectly happy to help others that do the same.

I refuse to help someone just because they are female or a minority just because they are female or a minority. I also refuse to help people who won't help themselves.

Those who want to be great, I will help them every way I can. It doesn't matter gender or ethnicity. It's about work ethic.
Consider the politics of wiping out the biggest employer in 29/50 states. Can you imagine the backlash that even one death would cause?
Just going to say this before reading the article because it's been on my mind since college. The end state of automation is unemployment and massive income inequality, with wealth being concentrated amongst the owners of capital.

Now I'll go read the article.
Well, my preferred form of communication is e-mail and thus I tend to start conversations via e-mail (if an instant response isn't required). Guess what? Some people started replying to my e-mails via Facebook! I am somewhat okay with using FB as "the new sms" but I don't want to store my personal correspondence on their servers.
More male villains is on point. Heroes and villains are powerful. We typically see more female victims than male. Many of our tropes and stereotypes revolve around women as victims.

> to the narrowed defined male acceptable professions, to most of role models in other professions (all female)

Are you trying to start a competition of who can exclude each other the most?

> In addition to a million other invisible punishments for not following the cultural rules

Such rules are what hold us back. Encouraging diversity where you have the power to do so is a great way to break these rules and help people.

> I, like most of people with my gender went to a profession that was cultural accepted for that gender, and most people of the other gender went to cultural accepted professions for their gender.

It's a sad thing, isn't it? It would be great if we could change our industry for the better and perhaps become an example to others.
You're missing a few big ones. Like, a murder sentence is more lenient in Singapore than a drug trafficking sentence, which is death by hanging. Many murderers go free in Singapore after a few years of prison, while someone caught with a a backpack of pot can be killed legally, and someone with only a couple grams of marijuana can spend 10 years in jail.
all server -> sql server

Auto corrected on my phone and can't edit :(
There's an inventory cost to keeping DVDs on hand, so for older content that doesn't sell well, it can be worth it to sell a DVD for less than you bought it for wholesale, just to clear it out of your inventory. That's never going to be true of digital download.
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This solves an important aspect of the sync problem -- the ability to selectively sync individual files without having to sync the whole directory that it is part of (or even to have to know what the directory is in advance).
As a pretty heavy RSS user, I too miss Google Reader, but what I really miss is Bloglines. They had a very fast, responsive UI that I really liked. I always felt GR was clunky and slow compared to it.

After GR shut down I bounced around with self-hosted solutions for a while (tt-rss, Fever) until landing on Newsblur, which has served my needs admirably.
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>it was always easier than had you been a non white male.

Really? You don't think there are advantages to being a woman? That my URM neighbor who got into Harvard law with a 164 LSAT would have had things easier if he were white? Your statement is incredibly racist.
Netflix doesn't own house of cards actually, it exclusive rights to it in some countries in others it doesn't.
A reasonable question - it was my initial reaction.

However, from what I recall of how NFS worked it didn't sync anything locally - if it was remote it stayed remote. This seems to be an interesting hybrid.
It would definitely be deployed at 99% ready because that would likely mean "safer than people". The quote talks about how we are at 90% but going from 99.99% to 100% for deployment would need a mathematical revolution. Really going from 90% to 99% will also need a revolution. At least on the order of deep learning.
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I think the thing is I wouldn't rent games from steam. That isn't what I want it for. I want it as a repository of things I've bought and can access again at will without storing media. I'd almost certainly buy films in the steam sale when they're 60% off because I'm an idiot and can't help myself.

There's no way I'm going to consume media as rentals. I look forward to seeing whether this makes way for steam as a more general media platform though - it's super exciting.
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I would like to posit a variation of the anthropic principle:

We are currently alive to have this discussion, therefore the things we've done to get here are not the worst we could have done.

I recognize that's not the strongest argument, but it sure as heck beats the stupid "it's 2016, therefore you are on the wrong side of history" meme that people seem so fond of throwing around.

To answer your question: Working out well enough for you, me, and everyone here.

So can we please stop trying to force the latest political fad into everything ever?
> RSS feeds were just never easy enough for most people to bother

Set up a wordpress site, you have RSS built in. Set up a drupal site, you have RSS built in. Set up on Squarespace and you have RSS built in.

Pretty much every off-the-shelf CMS has RSS with zero effort, you have to actively turn it off. It is only the people who put a bunch of work into building a site without a CMS that don't easily have RSS.
Do you even understand the meaning of word "wrong"?
And since when are we punishing people for things their buddies did? I'm sure your buddies are all saint.
+1 – I use Dropbox for things like photos and music which are massive in total but where I rarely access more than a percentage or two on my laptop. It would be really useful to have my entire storage pool accessible without having to round-trip through the selective sync settings each time.
> it being on almost every windows pc

Every PC with Windows 10. I'm not sure how many there are, but it may not be most widespread or most used.
Isn't this more a test of lightroom's performance on a mac vs a PC ? May not really indicate the performance difference between the two.
yes, but we need Turkey. They are in Nato, they are on "our" side - thus we do not criticise (and if we do - very meekly).

The same as when they are "our" dictators, or "theirs". Whether the government is murdering "communists in their 10s / 100s of thousands or whether the government is trying to improve the lot of the country's people via social programs at the experience of foreign (our) international businesses.
Someone who has made a lot of money using one-off tactics to make a lot more money? Why would they do that!
Hackernews does not depend on the Google algorithm though, so I'm not sure that would accomplish anything if your goal is to get rid of these articles.
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... just be glad that you have the heuristic implemented in your head. :)
Interesting idea. Curious if it is open source.
This must have been upvoted by some bots.
Gnome doesn't do this. Without fail, every time, it puts the dock on the wrong external display. Every. Time.
CSS3 is also Turing-complete [1], so even while you can write a whole bunch of data processing stuff with SQL not means you should. There are indeed better tools for doing this, keep in mind what is "Q" in SQL.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836
They aren't competing with Netflix. They are competing with all the other movie on demand services.

Netflix streaming has a poor selection of movies. Netflix dvd in mail is great but there are days of delay in mailing them back and forth.

Netflix is like an all you can eat buffet and this lionsgate is like a streak house. You wouldn't tell the steakhouse that thier food is overpriced because the golden coral sells all you eat for 7.99.
TLDR;

100 films on rental (rather than purchase with digital locker) for US customers only.
You are right, however Singapore is a special case. It has grown from third-word status to extraordinary economic impact in just 50 years, a trajectory not seen by nearly any other society in history, but its growth has been very unbalanced. It's primary growing pain has been a disconnect between its economic success and old-world policies that are no better than many other still-developing countries and failed to grow alongside its economy. It caught up quickly to the rest of the developed world in economic ways, but still lags deeply far behind in many other ways.
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(wonders himself what it does on the frontpage)
Without search as a channel, there's little reward for writing them.

The chances of an article such as this rising up Hacker News and staying there are thankfully, vanishingly rare.
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It took longer for a virtue signaller to show up on this post than I expected. I expect most of them reached my second sentence and noticed I already pointed out that you had the option of helping them if you like, just not an obligation.

So are you saying pretty words to make yourself feel better while trying to put me down, or do you actually go and seek out mentally ill people to help out on some regular basis? And given how grand your words are, I'm not going to be satisfied with merely giving some people a buck every so often.

I fully expect those are empty words. I am not impressed. You are not virtuous for saying them.

I'll repeat: It makes no moral sense for someone committing a crime against you to create obligations on you. It is a bonus above and beyond what you are obligated to if you help them.
I would consider bankrupting a college kid because the PM doesn't approve of the questions he raises in his blog, to most definitely be "punishment."
Same as where I grew up. Geeks were never cool. Being into computers attracted social stigma. You and I went through the same things.

It doesn't change what I've said above. I still walked into Computer Science feeling at ease with the course before I started, and feeling easily welcomed among my very nerdy peers. (Plus the one girl in the first class I had. Imagine how she felt. Social stigma of computers and being the only girl. Must've sucked.)
As a developer over 40, my biggest challenge is actually that the management has come to expect weekend work and late nights as the norm. As someone with a family , I can't put in those hours every day and every weekend. Single programmers who can put in those kind of hours are rewarded and those who cant are singled out for ridicule or "performance concern chats with manager".
Projects have gone agile and they have not accounted for the unexpected shit that happens, low level functional designs seem to have fallen out of fashion and the deliverable deadlines have become ultra aggressive.

And the mangers' attitude is that "they can shake any tree and it rains qualified programmer resumes". Here in Toronto, there is a company called Allegis and all major employers post their developer job here. The headhunters are plugged into Allegis and they call you based on keyword match. Have you ever seen poor people huddled outside HomeDepot, hoping to be picked up? Thats what it like to be a developer searching for a job in my town. Most enterprise dev jobs are focused on a very narrow set of skills; so it doesn't matter how good you are with designing solutions or algorithms you know -- what matters is do you know java/c#/angular(new) ? And thats all that matters for Allegis keyword match. You are probably thinking I can learn more technologies ; what I am pointing out is that enterprise s/w development process is based on the fundamental principle of getting barely skilled people who can put in the hours and keep their mouth shut. But these jobs pay a lot more than startup jobs and have a lot more security.
There are real advantages to doing this, especially when you consider the kind of stuff JS was originally intended for (for instance, non-programmers can write very simple JS that handles input text without having to understand a type system and parse strings as numbers).
Recognition of merits that SG has, perhaps? Maybe there are some interesting differences about their approach. Does everywhere in the world have to have the same style of government?
>barely a blip in the news.

This might sound harsh but look beyond the metaphor; if I wake up in the morning and find poop in the toilet, it's not really such a big surprise. But if I find poop on the kitchen table, well we have reason to be concerned now.
It isn't a completely fair comparison, but it is indeed amazing that you can buy a GPU for < $1000 that would, going by raw FLOPS, by itself be on the TOP500 in the early 2000s, and we use them to browse facebook and play League of Legends :)
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Current: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11570504
> Then the comment does not apply to you.

It might. It's possible that even though the path for him was difficult, it may still have been more difficult if he were black.
I'm finishing up this book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_the_Beam - which goes in to a lot more detail - really interesting reading :)
If 3.49 is the to-own price, I don't think timed rentals have a place any more. Why complicate things? Louis CK's model has been $5 for DRM-free files, with a cap of 3 downloads and streams so the per-purchase bandwidth is capped. I kind of like that model.
Of course they won't be. If anyplace else in the country had the volume of jobs that SV had, it would have equivalent salaries. But it'd also have roughly equivalent cost of living. It's almost a certainty that you will make less (cue anecdata), but cost of living will almost certainly bring you out on top.

In my area unless you want to be one of maybe two "IT guys" in an office, there's really only 8-10 employers within a half hour commute. There is no shortage of turnover or people bouncing around between them as positions open up. Sure it's not like SV where you can probably swing a dead cat and hit someone looking to hire a Go ninja rockstar, but there are plenty of coding jobs, especially if you're familiar with Java or C#.
Read all the other comments. I basically said the same thing. White Male Privilege means White males have it easier than everyone else, no matter how hard they have it/had it. That's the definition of "white male privilege".

I'm not being racist one bit. Just stating a definition.
Well, you don't really need server-side JS to do that, but I can see how it would save some work.
The German jurist Carl Schmitt essentially made the same argument: the power of the executive is the power to divide the world into enemies, and to declare a "state of exception" that allows the unfettered pursuit of those enemies. Such enemies need not be foreign, but may be domestic; not only criminal, but political.

The Bush administration said that Abu Zubaydah was al-Qai'da; he was not. They said he helped bin Laden escape Afghanistan; he did not.
They said he had intelligence justifying the invasion of Iraq; he had none. Every justification they gave for his imprisonment and torture was either disproved or a simple lie, and yet they continued. In the end, their justification was simply, "He hates us, and we hate him."

This is a troubling basis on which to exercise military power. And once the executive arrogates for himself the power to place persons beyond the pale of domestic and international customary law, it's very hard to keep that demon in the box where you want him. To paraphrase, when all the laws lay flat, what will hide us from unjust power?
The difference is whether they'll let you have a copy of the spreadsheet
What's wrong with Bell/Saw/Rogers having their own streaming services? I've found Bell's Crave TV to be pretty good, Shomi not as much.
Pretty lazy site. Four posts total, about the same number of affiliate links to Fiverr and Digital Ocean, and no examples of how he put this guide into practice in his other (unnamed) "successful site", referred to on his About page.

In fact the article that mentions his other site (the Adsense post) says nothing of thinking about it in the shower, getting feedback or scoping ideas; simply of copying an existing site, knocking out 4 posts of barely 300 words, posting about it on Reddit, and by accident creating something people like.

Still, #3 on HN, so I guess someone likes it.
I hope they remember to write an algorithm so that when approaching a hill and there are two lanes each direction, two trucks will pull up beside each and race up the hill each at 55MPH despite the speed limit being 70MPH.
He's probably not been to Singapore, or not very often.

Like most people, he's probably not been to Singapore's close neighbors -- such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand -- and doesn't realize how much more corrupt things could be ;-)
> I have never used an RSS feed and never felt the lack (though I have only a vague idea what it is).

RSS is just another form of a customized news feed. You decide what blogs or blog categories you enjoy, and in one location, you see all the new posts about things you've followed. This allows you to customize your view of information in a different way than HN, Reddit, subreddits, Facebook, etc. and you don't need to give out your email address, receive e-mailed newsletters, or set up any accounts that have auto-subscribed mailing lists.

> What's facebook got to do with anything?

In some countries, such as Cambodia, Facebook is an important source of news reports. So far, media there remains uncensored, and Facebook is the easiest way for news to get legs, even moreso than the US I would say. Cambodia uses Facebook like the US uses Reddit and HN. There's some semblance of voting and comment threads, so it provides more features on top of the reputable newspaper websites.

However, Facebook is not really the best way to get discussion going. Threads are difficult to navigate and the loading is slow. I tried to show a few people Reddit while I was there, but for many reasons, that is a hard sell.

Anyway, I think some Americans use Facebook in the same way. They get a lot of their news from friends there and don't feel the need to seek out much else. It's too bad because yeah, you'll probably find more relevant information for you if you seek it out yourself, but at the same time I get why people use Facebook. You have your group of trusted friends and presumably there's some overlap in your interests. It's easy to look at news they've already vetted.
Good point. The argument could be made that the CIA agents involved have provided material support for terrorism.
It's low enough that for a lot of people it doesn't really matter. I've got Prime and I've got a FireTV. Sometimes I just want to watch "something" and I'll pick from the "free" (included in my Prime subscription that I'd have anyway) selection. Sometimes I want to watch something a bit more specific, and it'll be a ~10 second impulse choice whether or not I think the rental price is worth it.

EDIT: Just browsed through my watchlist on Instant Video, and most of the titles on it are available for rental at GBP 3.49 or 4.49, but quite a few are not available to rent at all, and have purchase prices ranging from around 5 to 15 pounds. I'm going to assume that Amazon knows what pricing works for them, at least in aggregate.
> I have never heard a single Singaporean show strong confidence or trust in their government

In the last general election the ruling People's Action Party was voted in with a 70% popular vote.

> and the lack of free speech is not insignificant to many

It is not insignificant to many, but it's also not a major issue to most, again not at least if you look at the elections. I should mention at this point that I don't look upon the ruling party favorably. But these are the facts.

> but most can't say too much about it publicly because of the punishment imposed.

[citation needed]. The government doesn't take too kindly to certain types of speech, but critiques of its policies are generally not suppressed, and certainly not to the degree which you make it out to be (people fearing punishment for expression opinion out loud? Really?)

I'm going to say that I don't have too much doubts about the government's motives, but rather its competency - the government, like most governments doesn't have the best track records in terms of its IT infrastructure, and a breech into a system that collects that much data will be incredibly damaging.
Yeah, that one makes sense. Because if 1 truck has 30 cars around it, chances are that a car will screw up before a truck.