skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't really make any sense. Netflix doesn't want you to have a Hulu subscription. They'd love to be the one that has all the content. It's the content creators driving this. They don't want any one distributor becoming too powerful, because that distributor would then have too much leverage over the content creators.
I've often wondered if a certain restaurants is has more groups or individuals dining - this seems pretty similar.
TLDR - "If 1 = 0, then Winston Churchill is a carrot".

No, really, that's an accurate summary.
Actually, no. If you have a hard limit, then some people will end up A,A, ... A with no B. That evens it up again.
The Secret History Of Your Cable Bill (2013)
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/09/27/226891181/episo...
Certainly they have to have some decent content if people are willing to pay for it. I can find a fair share of entertainment and documentaries on there, especially the ESPN 30 for 30 films
> Yes, you are in fact using the features of Rails when you use Rails. Is this actually a problem?

A lot of people would argue that you should structure your application in such a way that as little of the behavior as possible is entangled with the Web framework you choose, making it easier to understand and easier to (for example) develop a different application reusing that code. DHH thinks that's "wankery," apparently, which I have to say strikes me as an odd opinion.
Ah, didn't realise there were multiple tiers. I thought you charging one flat price for everything. My bad! :)

I'd actually like to create a similar sort of service for a different niche, so find this very interesting. I'll definitely sign up and test it out. I'd also love to email back and forth to ask one or two questions about how you came to choosing certain data points over others. Will shoot you one after I sign up.
Nope. I will never do business with Netflix, because they sent me unsolicited commercial E-mail. I do not do business with SPAMMERS.
That's true, but it doesn't imply boys and girls have the same number of brothers. As a commenter in the op pointed out, if families keep having children until they have a son, no boys have any brothers and all girls have exactly one brother. I think if they keep having kids until they have a girl, though, for gors and boys you have a .5 chance no brother, .25 1 brother, and so on.
Should've trained to generate the output strings directly, using an LSTM decoder... That would be more end-to-end.
The question was phrased ambiguously as "do men or women have more brothers." Here's three possible interpretations.

One interpretation is "if I am the last born (or some other gender-neutral specifier), do I have more brothers if I am a man or a woman?" As paulmd answers, the chances are even.

But we can also interpret it at the aggregate level. Say we have a family with M men and W women, and we decide to count brothers by polling each person for how many brothers they have, and totaling the result up. If we poll men, we get M(M-1) brothers, and if we poll women, we get MW brothers. The result depends on the distribution, but at the expectation value (M = W), women have more. Same conclusion if we average instead of sum.

The third, most natural interpretation is to "deduplicate:" ask each person to list his or her brothers, take the count of the union. This is the familiar sense: we would say there are three Brontë Sisters, even though none of them individually had three sisters. Here the number of brothers equals the number of men, except when then there's only one man; then each women has 1 brother and each man has 0.
Yeah, except they put exclusive in the headline because it draws positive attention.

I'm not real optimistic that people will ever come to see exclusive media deals as contracts designed to increase revenues.
If it's ever clear that eliminating certain types of deals (eg exclusive) is beneficial from a revenue standpoint, studios would likely do so.
Yes that's exactly the domain that Plug sits in. It's an interface from web servers to applications. As someone who tinkered around with Rack and Ruby web servers a lot, Plug is much better designed (yay for learning from past implementations).
Amazon is taking my money for newer films. Bizarre that nflx hasn't followed suit. Price points are 4.99-6.99 for (ha) HD and a dollar less for SD.

And if I can rant for a bit, why is there no amazon channel on Apple TV?!
New content: positive reaction. Exclusivity: very negative reaction. The negative reaction wins in this case. If I'm paying either way, you are simply limiting the services I can pay on. That sucks.
Bitcoin Catches on with Gold Bugs
LFTR should be implemented like this: modules that can be decommissioned on a scheduled basis so that the transmuted parts of the container can be recycled/extracted.
translated as... "they are asking more money for their content than we can give them from monthly subscription fees alone... we'll have to force advertisements".
Author here, I definitely agree.

I tried to learn Phoenix just after Elixir, and I just couldn't do it.

Now I've written a couple of simple web apps with Plug, and realized that I don't need Phoenix for most of my use cases.
The fact that this sort of thing is a thing is very sad. I'm so glad I have a network and have gotten my jobs through word of mouth and in-person introductions.
I like that it doesn't have any dependencies. Makes it easier to read and understand the source, casually (one of my favorite pastimes during lunch breaks lately).
Do you also tell your recruiters to look at people individually and customize their introduction emails to the person in question?

Most emails I receive from recruiters are extremely templated, and hardly ever mention specific projects or jobs that I might have done. I would feel perfectly comfortable using spray-and-forget with these kinds of companies.
You can't keep a good man down.
I think we can apply basic lessons from VB6 now. 25 years later and we can't design Web UIs with the same simplicity.
I can't read... whoops!
At the risk of playing the broken record, Docker didn't invent anything, etc. etc.
Ask HN: Is CouchDB dead?
It seems to fit exactly our needs:

- document store with json api

- authentication and fine grained acls

We evaluated it and made a quick poc, and it is really awesome. The documentation is clear and well done, the performance is there, and it is so easy to get going everyone can pick it up in a few hours.
But the latest version is two years old. Does someone know what is going on? Is it a dead project? We love it, but we don't want to build our web apps on a dead foundation.
For every recruiter complaining that this is a spammy spray-and-pray approach, there are a dozen engineers spammed daily on LinkedIn with irrelevant blanket offers. If anything, this little bot is a delightful and humorous response to both recruiter spam and automated resume filters.
Felt tip.
>> If everyone has [list of services] then large rights holders extract more money.

> It's the content creators driving this.

You're agreeing with the post you replied to.
I think the 'pay TV' just refers to the specific monthly payment for Netflix. It's setting it up as a competitor with HBO but not bundled channels with hidden payments like the Disney Channel.
A New Front in Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
True, he probably doesn't feel any distress, but he's somewhat shunned by society as a "weirdo", I think. (Not as much as he would be if it weren't fiction, but...)

Anyway, I'm off for the night, so I'll just leave this marvel of Sherlockia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5JEJiiSZCM
I reïnstalled Plex after 5 months of Netflix... I think the "not coöperation" of content creators is killing it all.

I'm not paying for 3-4 streaming services with all exclusive rights, nor i'm willing to constantly change apps for finding the right movie.
So I built this because I'm a recent bootcamp grad & I've found that it's really hard to get my foot in the door. I'd really love feedback on how I can improve this.

Here is an example of a page that gets link in my automated cover letter to an employer: http://job-diana.herokuapp.com/users/jobs/07c5807d0d927dcd09...
Can I play too?

The problem is that unix, and more generally any operating system, is fundamentally flawed with respect to security and reproducibility. It's nontrivial to inspect these installations for vulnerabilities because there is nothing that specifies the precise set of software that is in that installation. Some stuff is compiled from source, some stuff is installed via one or more package managers, each of which may bundle additional software that one may not know about if they didn't inspect each piece of software carefully. Furthermore, one cannot even verify the installation reasonably because the results are different depending on when it was installed.

In short, operating systems are insecure by design.
Yes. The article is as notable for the dreariness of the movies available before September as it is for the exclusive content available in September. The message seems to be, "If you can tolerate three months of Adam Sandler, obscure indie documentaries, a couple of oldies from 2001, and unheard-of Netflix originals, you get to watch Disney! And that's your only option!" Thanks Netflix.
Thanks! And I think Connor created his own luck. People were assuming he already worked at GitLab since he was so active on social media and on our issue trackers. If you consistently contribute to GitLab it is very hard for us not to hire you.
Study Says Millennials Will Soon Flee Big Cities in Droves
> I think women have more as no man can be his own brother

The obvious rebuttal: no woman can be her own brother either.
Why is three better? In any family with k brothers, each male will have k-1 brothers, while each female (if any exist) will have k brothers. So the number of brothers in S(x) is gender dependent, despite the the third answer's claim that it isn't.
Why shouldn't content creators get to choose where they sell their content? Should Tesla be forced to sell its cars through GM and Ford dealerships so you don't have to go to more than one place to go car shopping?

Anyway, the alternative would be worse. If there was no reason to pick one streaming provider over another on the basis of content, one would quickly become a monopoly, which would be bad for both content creators and consumers.
@jc4p I put in the cover letter for every job my bot applies for + I send an additional page customized to the job poster, here is an example: http://job-diana.herokuapp.com/users/jobs/07c5807d0d927dcd09...

And here is the automated cover letter:

Dear Hiring Manager,
Hello, my name is Juan Ortiz. Nice to meet you!
I actually wrote a bot to automatically apply to your job because it looks like it's a #{fit} fit for my skills - my matching algorithm actually said there is #{percent}% chance you'd be interested in interviewing me.
You can check out the match profile I created for your job posting here: #{url_for_analysis} I'd really love the opportunity to interview at #{company_name} for the open #{job_title} position.
Thanks again. You can reach me at #{phone_number} if you'd like to chat.
P.S. if you're interested in how my bot is actually handling applications for me, you can check out the source code that applied on github: #{link_to_github}.
Universal Binary JSON Specification
s/GitHub/GitLab?
Glad to hear that. By the way, the 'only deploy tags' strategy is already possible today if you want to do it that way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11710930
More relevant: 35M accounts in ~125M households in the US. ~25% penetration into households (throwing in a fudge factor for overlap). Certainly easy for an HN poster to be in a situation where everyone they know has it.
Just typed in 'What if robots ruled the world?'

No reply after 10mins ... shouldn't I get some sort of error handling/user expectation management if it's a question that can't be answered by Murphy?
They stopped selling licenses for Visual Basic 6 through most channels when VB.NET launched in 2002. Not "warned that they were going to stop selling licenses," just... stopped.

So you had all these companies who had built up enormous codebases in older versions of VB, the last of which had been released only four years earlier, who suddenly couldn't buy the software all that code depended on anymore. Many of which were huge enterprises that were used to being able to phase out old software extremely slowly; so having the plug pulled on "classic" VB so abruptly was kind of terrifying for them.

Microsoft's official response to these customers was "VB.NET is much better, just use that." But you couldn't take a VB6 code base and run it under VB.NET without at least some modification to bring it in line with the new syntax. And VB.NET felt less like a version of VB than like C# with a coat of VB-colored paint on it, so the developers who would have to make those modifications faced the prospect of having to learn what was more or less a whole new language in a big hurry.

Since demand for client-server software (which is what you used VB to write) was in decline by then anyway, and apps that ran on the Web were the New Hotness, lots of VB developers decided that if they were going to have to learn a new language it may as well be one that let you deploy to the Web. So they didn't bother with VB.NET and moved to platforms like C#, ASP.NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. instead, all of which had a better story for developing Web applications than VB.NET did. (Disclosure: I was one of these.)

Of those developers that didn't flee, most simply did the easy thing, which was to refuse to do anything; they just hung on to their existing VB6 licenses and kept on churning out VB6 code like nothing had changed. All that old VB6 code meant that you could actually make a good living for a surprisingly long time this way, just tending old legacy apps and keeping them running as well as possible.
This is my first week at Gitlab. I've joined along with a few other people (one of whom has a great big bushy beard) to specifically make you happy.

There are interesting challenges that currently make this none trivial but expect things to improve greatly in the near future.
These smaller modules would be ideal for that. As the plumbing wears out, replace the module, and recycle the old module, make another one.

Smooths the scaling, production process outlays, gives opportunity for continuous improvement in the module manufacture and efficiency
Yeah, I wrote that after staring at it for a few minutes, and giving up any pretense that I could model it with confidence.
Compilers are pretty simple - stuff goes in one side and out the other in easily defined layers. There's plenty of open source examples to learn from, too. Not just compilers, but other things that basically are compilers with different names like DSLs, Coffeescript, etc.

One thing to watch out for is that people will tell you to read the Dragon book, which is a total waste of time.
Thanks, added to the post!
My reading of his argument is that it's a conspiracy between Netflix, Hulu, etc, to make more money for themselves. They're not the rights holders.
> or a family member's login

Which accounts for both those who are using a relative's login, or multiple family members in a household. There's five people in my house using my account, all immediate relatives. A bit more than a year ago, household penetration of streaming was 40% in the US[1] (combined Netflix, Hulu and Amazon). The original statement was obvious hyperbole, but I wouldn't be surprised if well over 100 million people had access to Netflix through those ~35 million accounts.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/business/nielsen-reports-2...
It should be. But... https://vimeo.com/147806338
You can do this but currently you can have only one image per project. We did this to keep it simple. You can use a dummy project to work around it. Or consider making web app and the background services separate projects.
It's not nearly as tiny as you make it out to be. It's not like everyone would ever get their own account. In my household of four people, we have four profiles. Most accounts probably cover several people. I'd be interested to learn how many Netflix account profiles there are in the US. It would be a much more meaningful way of calculating Netflix's reach. I'd guess that well over half the population has access to a Netflix account.
A lot of people find the "grovel and tell me how much you love me" environment to not be so great.
The additional page thing makes me feel better. I think it's a really cool project, and sharing the percent match with the person is genius. The cover letter in the example isn't really a cover letter, though.

A bare-minimum cover letter would to me include _reasons_, e.g. "I've been teaching myself Rust in my off-time and migrating over from a mobile engineer to working in Rust full time really excites me."
Someone familiar please chime in.

I did evaluate it + pouchdb[0] is fantastic, but the 'lack of' / slow development make it showstopper.

[https://pouchdb.com/]
In C the OS process takes place of the Erlang "process". C is designed for multi-process systems (Unix), where a task is often implemented by a number of processes. Upon error the process is terminated, but the system (OS) is never "brought down" by a single failure, remains fully operational and you can retry your command again.
Microsoft actually did release a good tool for the non-professional segment for writing database apps called lightswitch, that was better, higher level than VB. But they stopped selling it after some time. Shame.

It's actually a general problem in the market for software development tools, somehow the market for them isn't functioning well, and some great tools that we know how to build aren't produced.
What's wrong with bedplay.html?
Fairly acceptable if you're at StackOverflow. A company that has truly changed the way people program, and hard to find a programmer that hasn't used their products.

But most companies aren't so, and candidates expect recruiters to tell you what it is they're looking for.
Thanks for your kind words. May I ask what supporting infrastructure you'll set in 3 weeks from now? We'll have to add it to the schedule for 8.9
Hashtable Naïveté – or How std::unordered_map can kill your code’s performance
Come on now - thought experiments about the sex of children always ignore the real world complications that make them different from a coin flip (stopping conditions, genetic predisposition, environmental effects, etc.). And after making those standard thought experiment assumptions, the problem is 100% napkin-worthy.
It is consistently giving incorrectly low scores to white subjects and consistently giving incorrectly high scores to black subjects. That is clearly bias, at least in the colloquial sense.
The thought is you use a vanilla LTS image as a base. If that needs to updated then your ci can easily do it.

You then combine that with your installable artifact (deb, rpm). It's the same exact process using classic images, so i'm not sure what the complaint about docker specifically would be.
Their movie catalog has always been thin. A few years ago, I was chatting with one of their tech guys I knew and he told me that people come for the movies and stay for the TV. In any case, this trend toward increasingly fragmented content subscriptions has pretty much been on the wall for a while.
I'm sorry if it looked like I had a hard time. It wasn't hard, just long. I consider writing production code of a new language with a different paradigm in just two weeks a success!

I agree with web servers, check my reply below. Plug + Router is enough for most things, and even though everybody recommends Phoenix (maybe because many want to move from Rails to Phoenix?) I found it too complicated since I've never used an MVP framework, I'm more of a devops guy.

Finally, I didn't mention Elixir tests, but they are great. The lack of mutable objects helps a great deal too
Unpopular? That's simple fact!

Here's a NYTimes article from 2012 titled "The 'Mad Men' Economic Miracle". http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/magazine/the-mad-men-econo...

AMC was making $30 million per MONTH off 80 million subscribers despite Breaking Bad having less than 3 million viewers.
I actually started doing this when I worked at a 3 person start-up. In a small team I want someone who's also interested in the actual idea we're working on, not just any random developer. It helps that being excited about the idea/platform/etc also helps attract engineers at lower salary than bigger companies.
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I am not. That is exactly why I did not file a bug and instead posted here.

The OP shows examples assertions using JUnit 4 and hamcrest assertThat. The OP could use the builtin assert for all I care but I sort of got the gist they were trying to show the canonical approach. This is not to critique but rather to inform.
Node uses an hardcoded list of certificate authorities
"Oh sure, this algorithm is much more likely to have false positives on blacks, and much more likely to have false negatives on whites, and the results are that blacks are more likely to treated more harshly by the system. But it's not biased because of the definition of bias I'm using!"

Orwell would have loved "disparate impact isn't bias" :)
Well, tell you what and I hope this helps: my first internship required 3.0 gpa. Mine that semester was 2.98 (exactly like yours). Not only did I interview and get the internship, I have been with that company ever since 2013 and haven't had any performance review below "exceeded expectations" ever since I started.

Moral of the story is: the gpa will only be a big deal if you make it so. Your perception will be your reality and you will lose out on a fantastic opportunity to start your career on the right foot. Call your recruiter, make your case, have a great internship.

Side Note: I graduated with a 3.4. Had to work my butt off to raise it up and get the offer and I did.
HN discussion of that tweet in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11756674 BTW that post and this post are 1 and 2 on HN right now
I really don't agree with this. I customize my cover letter and resume for every job I apply to.
Custom authorizers are glorious in the corporate context if you don't wanna use role assumption
Thanks! Added to the post :)
What is a "youthful city" anyhow, other than "the thing the people that sponsored this research want to make into a concept"? The potential for cherry-picking results is immense.
Netflix is easier to use and safer than pirating. Seriously, for the price of a chipotle (steak) burrito a month you have access to their entire online library. You'd pay more than that to go see one movie a month at the theater.

Pirating content is morally wrong. If you actually disagreed with the media industry, you would not consume their products instead of stealing access to them.

Disregard me if you live in a place where you don't have legal channels of media consumption available...
How an $11B SaaS Company Measures Churn – Tom Tunguz
The funny thing is that the dictionary definition supports your point, not yummyfajitas.

bias: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
We opted out of the sports tv package on DirecTv. Their page says that it's a $13.99/month set of channels.
ESR's writings taken as a whole do have their issues, as pointed out by others. CATB was a good bit of writing though, that pointed out the benefits of open source software to a lot of people.
The division -- between predicates for attribute values vs. specs for maps/seqs -- is interesting because AFAICT Datomic schemas ~= the former, while leaving the latter to your app? (Although I guess :db.cardinality/many straddles that line.)
Looks like you were snared by a loaded question. Your yes could be seen as agreeing that wealth inequality and it's unfair effects are reasonable.