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The author is a pretty well known guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Altucher
> Besides, ITS NETFLIX. Everyone has a Netflix account

How about no?
Never underestimate the "getting squeezed by Oracle[1] will never happen to me" effect.

[1] https://thestack.com/cloud/2015/07/10/oracle-breach-notice-b...
The problem is that you're not considering all the other cases. Here are the possibilities with 2 siblings:

Gender: B,B B,G G,B G,G
# brothers: 1,1 0,1 1,0 0,0

Average # of brothers for boys: 0.5

Average # of brothers for girls: 0.5

You can see that in the families with a mix of boys and girls, the girls do indeed have more brothers. But this is balanced out by the families with more (or in this case all) of one or the other.
I built http://www.randomnamepicker.net/ last year and now get's $30+ per month from Adsense. Complete passive except for few updates here and there.
If you account for all the content discrepancies between each online video provider...ditching cable doesn't actually make much economic sense. The one reason I think many people -are- ditching cable is not because it's cheaper (when you're actually paying for it) it's that people are sharing accounts and don't bear the full brunt of the cost.
As far as I can see, that function was used only to generate training data. How would you like to see it trained instead? Should it output a string and only be told whether that was the correct output or not for the given input number?
And microsoft is pushing for people to use javascript instead.

If you think that VBA code written by novice programmers looks bad, I think you should look at javascript written by novice programmers. A guy was trying to draw a line and decided to do it pixel by pixel by adding "div" of 1px by 1px to the DOM, and each pixel was added with a callback!
I was on Slashdot for a while, but I assume those were few years older. I also missed out on newsgroups and BBSes, poor me :)

Is it more of a reddit than HN of the time?
They got a friendly warning from IBM telling them that they were infringing on the "Lotus" trademark.

https://github.com/hanami/hanami/issues/445
Exactly even if Oracle demands some kind of licensing its likly far cheaper than the cost of writing a new system
Yes, Sun did make money...but not nearly as much as IBM and the entire stack of Java tech they came up with...all impossible without Sun's invention.
Same here. I pay little to no attention to the cover letter, nor do I ever write them myself.

His spray and pray method is no worse than the dozens of mismatched, unqualified resumes that get submitted to any job I post anyway.
At coding?
It's just a research language (as far as I know, at least), but Honu[1] has support for syntax-case style macros.

[1] https://www.cs.utah.edu/~rafkind/papers/honu-2012.pdf
> Creating a monopoly is not illegal

No, read section 2 of the Sherman Act.

> Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony

The only legal form of monopoly is one that comes into existence without anyone intentionally creating it.
Here comes the demise of $20,000 influencer Instagram posts
> people who think you can just give neural networks anything and output anything, and it will work like magic.

What _is_ the proper method?
my favorite... "it's unclear whether the question even makes sense"
Thanks. I am really, really happy to see that Rusty's alive and doing well! And that there's a chance the site will return in static, archival-ready form.
Four bully's instead of two surely make for a nicer school yard.
As the article makes quite clear, mobile payments are overrated. However, I have experienced a situation where mobile payments have been better than existing systems. Not too long ago, I discovered some fraudulent transactions on my credit card transaction log. My bank, Chase, immediately issued me a new credit card. Apple Pay updated within less than 15 minutes with the new card while it took a number of days for the new credit card to arrive in the mail.
This is simply why I've never liked Laravel.
Don't get me wrong, I love the packages esp. Eloquent and Blade (validaton and translation not far behind) and I reuse them in all my projects now.

I simply hate the "magic". I don't touch anything with too much magic going on and even avoid some features of Eloquent because of that.

And since it is heavily inspired by rails...
She is working in an Engineering department for a company that does sensors and cloud monitoring in a specific vertical industry. She does a combination of QA for devices and related software plus has been migrating their documentation from a wiki to SharePoint and editing the entries for clarity, grammar and writing style of the documentation as she does the migration.

People from her degree typically would work with product and engineering teams to do both internal documentation as well as user manuals, well written FAQs and other support documentation. In a major medical device company located near here they have teams of people doing this working with expert translators to appropriately localize surgical guides for surgeons around the world. In more academic settings they are sometimes employed to provide assistance in grant writing.

You make some good points about new college hires versus experienced people who have paid their dues - but that is true of any field. I am not saying I expected that she would match the salary of CS or engineering grad from the same university. But in comparison to pure communications degrees or English lit degrees - this degree is positioned as the sensible writing degree that actually has corporate positions available.

And, to the point of the article - which focused on people who maybe aren't quite ready for college and don't finish their degree but still end up with debt. If anything she is the opposite - qualified to start college 2 years early. Finished in a total of 4.5 years and for what?

Now it may payoff as she continues to pay dues in entry level work but for now she could make as much money doing any number of jobs that don't require a 4 year degree.
Also see the tweet before that https://twitter.com/holman/status/734842310609899520 "We’re still so far off from even scratching the surface of open, collaborative development tools. We need to speed up, not slow down."

I totally agree with that vision and I'm very glad to have Zach join. He is an amazing advocate for developers and I feel honored that he joined us.

More information about Zach Holman https://zachholman.com/about
Just wanted to say thanks for the kind words about the book. I'm glad you liked it!
Unpopular, but without cable subsidizing costs of various networks through packages, we wouldn't have tons of cable channels that grew up to be great, like AMC and FX. The one exception to this is the ESPN subsidy, which is insane. If ESPN could actually be opted out of cable bills would be fairly cheap.
I suspect that there is no way to predict in advance the smallest model which can represent any given function. However, we should be able to at least develop an intuition for depth and breadth that is sufficient on any given problem. Classically, division circuits are large and complex, so I naively expect a NN built out of add, mul, and Heaviside(x)*x to also be large and complex.

As with many models, I suspect that this network really learned some other property that has almost-but-not-quite the same pattern as divisible-by-N.
As other mentioned before. Docker the core product is open source and free but in order to use Docker in production you need many supporting products/features.

Beyond the support which is an obvious path, they have the paid private hosting, the cloud hosting and more.

If you look at the ecosystem of orchestration and deployment of docker you see that there's still HUGE room for improvement and people WILL pay for a good product in this area.
And then the 240V charger in the garage, in case you want to actually charge your car faster than eight hours. (IIRC, its 72-hours to charge a Tesla on 110V)
But from an enterprise perspective "the product" likely means the GUI (e.g. DC/OS or DUCP), not some daemon buried layers deep.
It's more like there is unlimited demand, and most managers could think of more things to do if they had more staff.
I'd be thrilled if this meant I could rent any of the recent Marvel movies. Prime and Google video seem to be pushing the buy option exclusively for new movies these days.
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Well if you assume some sort of practical limit to the number of children a couple can have, then you end up with more B.
Considering how much Google put into the development of linux's container tech that Docker uses, that'd be an odd lawsuit.
The code is there for you to see, what harm can it possibly do? If you're cautious of this, you should be cautious about entering your username/password into web browsers to sign into websites I think...
I think that you're right, that it's supposed to "just happen". But I don't think it causes him any distress - what distress he does experience is caused by his having to live among normal people, who can't keep up. His conversations with his brother show that the latter experiences this impatience even more keenly.

This is faithful to Conan Doyle's stories, where his Holmes is always many steps ahead of the normals, and resorts to recreational drugs to deal with something like boredom from lack of stimulation.

In another TV adaptation of the Holmes stories, "House, MD", the main character shares a similar frustration with having to live among people who are merely highly intelligent.
totally agreed that US consumers != typical HN reader. and also agreed on it being possible the good outweighs the bad from a user acquisition standpoint.

"I'm skeptical of the assertion that most people care, at all" - agreed BUT - do you think them advertising exclusiveness is something people care about? because if only a few people remember its exclusive (and wouldn't otherwise have picked up netflix) then it could be that the effect of the consumers paying attention and being annoyed is greater than those converted by exclusiveness
Unless people get annoyed enough to stop paying for streaming services and go back to piracy, and then all these businesses lose.
Yes, but you can have that with Erlang as well and I think this is exactly what grandparent was alluding to.
For the tiny amount of money I've spent on it, I'm happy. But by all means recommend some more titles. :)
Well, I'm glad someone is taking notice in my cover letters.
Damn, you are one lucky person! Getting paid to work on OSS is a dream come true.

Keep up the awesome work everyone :)
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Yes, they certainly have...but they don't seem to be moving nearly as fast as RedHat on OpenShift, the Kubernetes project itself and now even HP.

All the established enterprise companies seem to be eating Docker's lunch by signing huge enterprise deals off of a technology Docker invented and SHOULD have first mover advantage.
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It's not pleasant when large companies insist they have the unrestricted right to certain words. It's no more pleasant when a small company does the same thing.
Roku?
Wow, -2, this proves my point...
Yeah, I've always thought it was weird that people say they wanted "a la carte" but that's been available for years through iTunes and Amazon Video. You can buy individual episodes of practically any show. That's a la carte. Getting a channel isn't a la carte, unless you want every program that channel produces (unlikely).

But a la carte hasn't taken off in streaming services, so now we're recreating channels. Next will be bundles where you can get Netflix and Hulu and Amazon together. Blah.
Why is ESPN an exception?

Their price is a reflection of how much people want it. ESPN (and sports as a whole) are a big driver of cable subscriptions, which helps all cable channels.
This is big news but I'm not sure how big it will impact consumers because of Disney Anywhere i.e. When you buy any Disney movie from any platform and link it to DisneyAnywhere, it's available to watch on any major service e.g. Apple, Amazon, Vudu, Google

One thing people aren't mentioning is that this is 'pay TV'. So Netflix is starting to sell short term rentals?
> Certainly this is true, but if you're in an entirely unityped setting... do you have any guarantees?

This is what clojure.spec is all about. The answer is not, of course, "no". They are "reinventing a run-time type checker" and prefer it that way because it allows increased expressive power at the cost of delayed verification.

> Ah, yes, I understand what you mean now, but you can actually encode that if you really want to. (If we assume Haskell, there's very limited DT programming which will probably let you state which transitions are legal. I must admit I'm not very up-to-speed on it, but see the next paragraph.)

So you don't actually know how to do it, but assume that you can. This a little strange. Are you sure that "people usually don't want to go that far"? Because the real answer is probably "it's too hard to do".

By the way, you probably want linear types in order to encode state machines in the type system in a natural way, which Haskell does not have.
You mean undefined vacation policy
Sure. Limit families to four children.

There's one way to have zero daughters. In BBBB, each of the four boys has 3 brothers. Score 12 for the boys here.

There's four ways to have one daughter. In each of them, she's got 3 brothers, while the 3 boys each have 2 brothers. Score 12 for the girls, 24 for the boys.

There's six ways to have two daughters. In each of them, the 2 girls each have 2 brothers, while the 2 boys each have 1 brother. Score 24 for the girls, 12 for the boys.

There's four ways to have three daughters. In each of them, the 3 girls each have one brother, and the boy has none. Score 12 for the girls, zero for the boys.

There's one way to have four daughters, but obviously nobody has a brother.

Add up the scores, and you'll see a tie at 48.

(EDIT: Bogus expected value removed after re-reading.)
Yes and hating it all the way. I used to think myself alone but after reading a few opinions on the issue and hearing Linus Torvalds admit that he disliked frontend too, I gained some relief(?).

My take on this is that frontend and backend development call forth different aspects of talent and personality. Frontend is predominantly artistry backend; logic.

Since starting to learn UIX, my respect for UI creators has grown
Autonomous opposite lock is a pretty incredible thing to watch.
I am the opposite. I have interviewed and subsequently hired very good people primarily on the first contact, which is often a cover letter.

The CV also mattered, but in the end, both are just a vehicle to get an interview.
> When you copy-paste a block of code in another block of code, with significant whitespace you have to correctly reindenting everything very carefully, while with explicit blocks you can let an automatic formatter do the work.

I've heard this argument a lot, but how often does it happen to copy paste extensive parts from web sites? Some short bits, yes, but longer parts with blocks? Almost never, since I always have to rewrite them to fit my variable names etc, so might as well make sure the formatting is right.
The cost/benefit is simply not there for customizing a cover letter for every job you cold apply to.
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(1) Even if they passed two coding style questions doesn't mean they can code.

(2) Even if they can't pass those questions doesn't mean they can't code.

45 minutes with someone gives you an idea of what they can do, a decent sample. However, graduation from a university signals that they have been sampled repeatedly for years. They can clearly learn, and should (assuming the system is semi-efficiant) and can do what the university accredited them for.

Even if they screw up that one interview, it means little by itself (baring massive failures during the interview).
A lot of the people have moved on from vb and also as vb6 applications have continued to work in every release of windows there is less panic about having to upgrade.
However, I have heard that windows 10 is not proving quite as trouble-free as 7 and 8 were.
I know that companies want to set up exclusives and other things so consumers will feel “forced” to buy entire services just to obtain the killer apps (or movies, or games, or whatever). In reality, I am sick and tired of being expected to pay for stuff I don’t want just to get what I do want. I have been buying far less over time, and I have been discovering how little I care about movies and TV shows after all. Oh hey, it’s sunny outside! Oh look, there’s so much more to do in life!

Media companies have refused to learn from the $0.99 iTunes store years ago: people don’t want albums anymore, they want songs. They do want your TV show, they just want to download it from anywhere they damn well please. They do want your game, they just don’t want to have to buy an entire new console to get it. And so on. If you’re supposed to be in the business of selling X then sell it; don’t conjure up scheme after scheme to try to force consumers to get other crap. And definitely don’t complain when they see through it all and refuse to give you a dime.
See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!
What about people saying "Fuck you I won't pay". I understand that some things like with internet/cell-phone which are utilities is hard, but maybe it shouldn't be the same for entertainment ?
We'll bring the Netflix, you bring the chill (AC).
Yes its quite fascinating, I focus more on the physical engineering side of design such as a car dash board or what design makes an awesome umbrella instead of colour and UI placement.
Actually, line 46 is referencing the class Girl, so you wouldn't want quotes. Technically, you're supposed to use try/except duck-typing in Python, but I often find that clearer code comes out of assertions where you literally check the type of an object instead of handling errors. This was no exception. (Sorry, bad pun)

You might try throwing in a random seed. I just trusted that my system would iterate enough that it wouldn't matter, but if you're getting all boys (I'm not sure that's the case, but you said that you're getting 0 girls...), it could be that for whatever reason, the system might not be advancing the seed. Try inserting the following two lines immediately after import random:

from datetime import datetime

random.seed(datetime.now())
Hello. Really nice write up.

To follow up on your list of useful learning references, that talk from Chris is a bit old, but it covers all the basics. Nearly everything is still up to date. It is a bit long, but it takes time, cover everything and is not hard to follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kYmOyJjGDM

It was a workshop to teach the basics of Elixir at a Ruby conference. 3Hours long, but really great :)
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Minnesota. It is called PSEO. If a student scores above some threshold on standardized testing and is in the top third of their class in high school they qualify to enter college as a Junior in high school.

Some students just take a handful of college classes while others like my daughter attend FT and get their freshman and sophomore years of college done while still in high school. And, the state of Minnesota pays full tuition as well as books. It is a great deal for hardworking capable students who are willing to take on regular college work and expectations 1 or 2 years early.
> Besides, ITS NETFLIX. Everyone has a Netflix account or a family member's login

That's hilarious, where did you get that idea?

Netflix has roughly 35 million accounts in the US, out of a population of over 300 million. It's the most popular streaming service, but stream isn't that popular yet... internet denizens always forget we are a tiny minority of the US population.
It's not obvious from the website, so I'm curious what problem does it solve?
There's nothing really unique or interesting about these inventions in that they could be used for warfare.

Also article is (2010) and numbers in titles is discouraged.
> that's how people plan their families, right?

That's probably how they begin planning them, but plans change. Also, there's likely quite a few unintended births.

Or, the alternative reply, if you prefer:

You sarcasm is far too understated to do well on a forum like this. ;)
Has anyone been using this? What's your experience? What kind of project?

I am wondering if there are components for common scenarios like authentication etc?
connector allows one to select the fields which are replicated but monstache goes a bit further by integrating the Otto embedded javascript engine. This allows for modifying or adding fields in addition to dropping at the collection level. It appears connector's field option is global to all collections. monstache also has a stateful mode (using the resume flag) which allows one to replay only the events missed since the last run. Another alternative is transporter from compose which is also has the Otto engine and is written in Go. However, monstache is a single purpose tool while transport is a more generic tool.
Wow. The Lab vs Hub wars just got interesting.
Hi Netflix, can you be the exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar in France too? It would be nice, thank you.
I think you read it wrong, parent is calling him "one of the few successes" which to me actually is recognizing his achievement, but instead of "this is great", what he sees in the story is "how the hell was it so hard for him in the first place, it shouldn't", so it's a difference in perspective, but not that he does not recognize his success (that's my perception).

That being said, of course I agree with you. I was once enrolled in a community college program out of fun, thinking I would actually learn something, but with housewives and retired people in the class, the progress was next to nil and I dropped out pretty quickly, at first I was angry, but it actually gave me a glimpse into how hard even the easiest things were to them. I could read something for 5 minutes and be able to recite it, they would struggle with it for an hour. Not to say I am a genius, but one should really take advantage of all the chances while young, that's what I got from it, so I guess it was worth it.

So I deeply respect his achievement.

Clarification: Though I also partly blame the teacher for the bad experience, but that's another story entirely.

Edit: In case someone missed it, not so long ago this was on HN "Learning Chess at 40", very interesting read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653538
If by "put your stuff out there," you mean "have a LinkedIn profile," then yes. Otherwise, my "stuff" (meaning everything I've written in the past several years) is under NDA and not useful to anyone else.
I'm a big fan of ruby but doesn't saying "Pure ruby" kind of detract from rather than improve a libraries value? Ideally it would have rust/C bindings for all the computationally difficult stuff.
Is this the new "X is now a Githubber"? :)

Following Zach on his blog and his talks, I think he has a lot of input to add. I feel this will be good for Gitlab users.

Good luck, to both sides.
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