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I am someone who vastly prefers films to tv. When Netflix launched as a dvd by mail service, it was the perfect service for film buffs. It was cheap, fast, and had a seemingly endless selection. Now that that part of the business is severely neglected, I'm back to requesting films from the local library and waiting months or spending $30-50 for a single film. I am sure their choice makes sense from a business standpoint, but leaves one-time customers like me in the cold.
Netflix still has a great DVD selection.[1]

It's only their streaming selection that sucks.

[1] - https://dvd.netflix.com/
My team is managing around 500 production instances of SQL Server and few times that of non production environments. Various clients various configurations. SQL Server - when configured properly - isn't generally causing any problems. If it is, it's pretty easy to troubleshoot thanks to system views which allow you to see what is happening in sql engine internals with plenty of detail. Try this with Postgres. All our engineers working with both MSSQL and PG/MSSQL praise MSSQL for this visibility into system internals.
Reboots? You can work around those. 2 hours for an upgrade? Boy what are you running this MMSQL on? Should take 20 min tops, and with cluster it's zero downtime (well, few seconds maybe). Express is capped at 10GB. Yes. For user databases (a hint).
So sure, PG stack may be better for some uses, but MSSQL is simply too good overall to just dismiss it the way you're doing it. Also, did someone mention excellent BI stack which is included in price?
"(I didn't know about it!)"

The reference is to the existence of /dev/tcp when using the "Bourne again" shell. Some other large shells, and gawk, have this "feature" as well.

Then I noticed he is head of something technical at Google.

We are always reading about the rigor of this company's interviews in testing candidates for practical knowledge.

I guess knowledge of important capabilities of widely/universally installed software is not something they are testing for?

I mean, I am sure there are probably hundreds of employees there who know these things. And they have some legendary programmers on the payroll. It is like a miniature Hall of Fame of computer programming.

I am not even sure what this all means, but I find it interesting to see the gaps in knowledge considering jobs with this company are so highly sought after.

And they are entrusted with protecting an enormous quantity of other people's data.
If you like chicken flavored modeling clay, you'll like Beyond Meat.
Well, there's iTunes (a PPV service, of course). I'd like to know how big of a catalog iTunes have in terms of % of the 1,000 most popular movies they have.
I have found Apple Maps to be the absolute worst offender of route complexity. Although sometimes we use it for the specific purpose of taking the scenic route.

It will almost always suggest a confusing “shortcut”, which takes more time because it doesn’t account for all the additional turns, stop signs, speed limits, etc. It would be nice to have an optimization slider, or even a global setting for which mode you prefer.
I can't wait until personal agent AI has advanced to the point where I can ask that and hear "Cerulean blue. Cerulean makes me think of a breeze. A gentle breeze..."
I can't recommend the book, 'Prime Obsession' by John Derbyshire enough. 'Gravity' by Hartle is invaluable and quite accessible. If you have a strong background in calculus, you can also check out 'Gravitation' by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler.
Firefox has third party cookies enabled by default, PLUS they hide the setting so you have to search for it to disable it.

I'm 100% sure that they designed it that way to please Google. The pull requests to change it were ignored.
And then they claim to be your partner in keeping your privacy.

AFAIK only Safari has 3rd party cookies disabled by default.
There are only very few sites that require 3rd party cookies. I use none of them.
I got licenses for my MicroVAXen some years ago. I haven't powered either of them on in a long time though...
This is no different from the situation during the US Prohibition era. Pragmatically speaking, the threat of punishment did not cause sufficient change in social behavior or attitudes. The ideal model of using law to manipulate society failed.
Out of curiosity, is this the the actual "Google Assistant" you're referring to? Or simply Google Now?

I believe there is a difference, but that's purely speculation on my park. I'll be able to test it more in ~2 weeks when my Pixel XL arrives.
And this is what most Dutch people will take away from this article:

looks at the taxi-GIF and images -- wait, who does that? did they do that on purpose?? the bike was like this close before they opened the door, how could they not see it?

reads on -- so hold up, in the US people open their car doors without looking. Yes, no wonder bikes are getting "doored" left and right .. mostly right, I guess.

I'm a bit at a loss for words, actually. It's like backing into a parking spot without looking.

This isn't rocket surgery, I don't think you need a "clever workaround" :)
Simple. Make it like medical MJ so the people on it get monitored by a physician to make sure they are healthy.
This seems like a good plan. However I find it funny that one would use Chrome and be concerned about sites gathering information about you.
True laziness would be not building more escalators were they're needed. Basic safety isn't "rewarding" people.
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Digital Ocean, PostgreSQL, nginx.

Pelican for static websites.

I'm really happy with this choice of tools.

Simple, powerful, elegant, extremely fast and productive, and is pure joy to develop!
Works mostly! I'm logged into HN of course; it says I'm not. Also Steam.

It got Facebook, Gmail, Youtube, Dropbox right.

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Well, I tried searching "Myers Briggs season", etc. I didn't find any data on it all. It is one of those topics... too many low quality (unscholarly: not citing references , etc) sources popped up so I won't waste any further time on it.

I assure you with large enough sample size you will find some correlations though.
I don't want PyPy to be the future of Python. Python 3.5 (asyncio, os.scandir, functools part of stdlib, to name a few) was a big step in the right direction for those of us still locked in Python 2 so we can say to our bosses "hey, look all the good things we're missing". Python 3.6 with compact dicts working ~4x faster than old dicts[0, 1] is also huge for that -- plus, since dicts are used all over the place in Python this may have a global impact on all Python performance (don't quote me on that, but it's a possible side-effect).

My biggest issue with PyPy is library/modules incompatibility. I work in forensics, and I honestly tried using most of the python based tools with PyPy, and many just don't work because of lib/module dependencies. The few that do, may or may not run faster, depending on your use case and even the case (some have slower initialization but process faster, so with a big enough target file you get things done quicker). And while I am sort of a developer, I also have to solve cases, so I don't have enough time to sit and port all the libraries of 20 different tools to work in PyPy.

And if performance is still a need (it always is in forensics, with more cases with larger drives/memory coming all the time), there's Cython, and with it we've gotten speedups ranging from the few percent (about 14% from "removing the interpreter") to 20-30x faster -- which has the side-effect of revealing yet another bottleneck in the application, but hey, now you know.

So, seeing the things that are coming to Python 3, I sincerely hope PyPy exists and goes on living, but I much rather CPython be the future of Python -- because it is good, compatible (mostly), it has the right tools, and things work.

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-September/...

[1] https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/776322068723798016
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This article addresses a lot of the myths of homelessness which get repeated in any discussion about SF homeless (with supporting citation).

http://48hills.org/2016/02/16/five-myths-about-the-homeless-...

Key point in my mind when it comes to talking about these tent cities, is that most of SF's homeless -- over 70% -- were living in San Francisco at the time they became homeless. And as much as 50% of the homeless had lived in SF for ten years or more.

The people sleeping on the sidewalk are San Franciscans who have been priced out of housing. San Francisco is their home. These people aren't going anywhere just because you take away their tents.
VMS never ran on the PDP-11. That article is talking about 2 different things (running PDP-11s and HPs stance on VMS).
Tesla is a really interesting company for people here, so its every move tends to get posted. Usually that's reasonable, since they tend to do interesting stuff. The SCTY merger is interesting since it's a big deal and will have a big impact on the company, but this particular link doesn't seem to have all that much to add.
I believe that cross-site scripting [0] can be used to get around domain restrictions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

[1] (This is not my area of expertise. If I'm not correct... please let me know!)
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I have a bad habit where instead of doing something relevant I play with old stuff I read about but didn't have access to as a kid.

VMS always interested me since I first read about it in the jargon file. I recently found an alphaserver on craigslist and I just requested an openvms hobbyist license so I could play with it.

An octane running irix is another expression of this problem.
The biggest issue with shelters is also that they're incredibly unsafe, much of the time. Rape, robbery, and assault are commonplace.
This is all HTML. You can inspect it.
Yeah.. People like this guy are the reason why we can't have nice things.
Yes. If you do anything remotely personal on a work computer, use a VPN or some other type of encrypted tunnel (an SSH SOCKS tunnel + FoxyProxy makes a good poor man's VPN, and can usually be configured to allow seamless integration with internal resources going over the LAN and external going over the tunnel).
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Science only asks, "Have I observed something contrary to my theories?" For non-deductive theories, the only real approach is to count the number of times you observed something agreeing with your theories vs. the total number of times you observed something (ie. p-value).
Baloney. If you take it the way you're supposed to, it works fine.
During development, I have to check the browser's inspector periodically to see what my console.log()'s are saying. This leads to having two browser windows open: The browser and the inspector. And in the inspector, I usually only need to see the console. With these desktop notifications, I can develop and debug web apps with just two open windows: A single browser window and a terminal. And it's only adding ~100 lines to your project.
I use a Raspberry Pi 2 with KODI[1] for watching porn on my bedroom flat-screen. You can also watch downloaded movies.

[1]https://kodi.tv/
Build a mental health infrastructure, reform the prison system, and you'll be solving more than half of your homeless "problem"... which is mostly an addiction and mental health problem at its core.
Great post. An amazing opt library is docopt[1]. Instead of writing a lot of code, with docopt you write your usage doc based on long standing best practices and docopt parses that USAGE block.

[1] http://docopt.org/
I may know a friend who torrented a film they had on DVD because their DVD player broke and it was faster and cheaper than ripping it themselves.

This is a tort again in the UK, it wasn't then.

Also, most people would be happy to pay the actors and crew a very healthy wage but baulk at paying to add DRM and several layers of executives whose function appears to be to make it as hard as possible to actually watch the content without paying again and again and who extract far more than their share of the revenue.

I actually looked for a download of that DVD (for my friend!) but none was available. The family in question used a hacked Wii to watch DVDs, but the DRM prevented half of them from working.

Meanwhile we watched a show on YouTube other day, we could have watched it on "watch again" but the content quality was immeasurably better. Of course that too was a tort akin to torrenting.
Do people not binge watch movies on Netflix because of something inherent in the form, or because Netflix doesn't make continuous play of related sets of movjrs, especially serial franchises (where it would make sense just as it does for TV series) possible, both because it doesn't support it as the default (or even an optional) mode in the UI as it does for TV series and because it also rarely has whole franchises in its library to support it even manually?

I suspect it's as much the latter as the former.
Damn... how did that happen to you?
Often the true story isn't a good one.

Here's an example from a few years back. Journalists got a bee in their bonnet that Costco wasn't into MBAs. That must be the key to their success, relative to Walmart!

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2013/06/09/the-secret-of-costco...

The wonkish answer - fewer SKUs, less labor intensive process involving higher skill workers, more affluent customers - is unfortunately too boring to be picked up.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/26/why-can-t-w...

See also discussions of high frequency trading, basic income, algorithmic discrimination, and a variety of others. Algorithms wearing klan robes and voting Trump is a good story, but a stats 101 lecture explaining why linear regression doesn't do that is a very boring story.
This got me wondering, how low would the cost to reach LEO have to get for it to start making sense to use Falcon 9 + Dragon to deliver an SF team (e.g. commanders in-extremis force) to an objective?

Then that got me thinking about the reality of drop ships. Isn't that the next logical progression? I mean, currently we can put a battalion of paratroopers anywhere in the world with 48 hours notice. We can put a Ranger company anywhere in the world with 24 hours notice.
That's a lot of info; thanks! This clarifies how certain evil bastards with lots of media and political pull have an interest, and emphasizes that USA as a whole can only lose by involvement in this mess.
> A true superintelligence should be able to figure out what people are.

Oh yes it would. How to exploit that fact into something that can reliably be carried out without misinterpretation however, is less clear.

Imagine you're just telling the AI to "do what humanity wants you to". Hmm, what do we want? How individual wills can translate into collective (dis)agreement? How drives in a single individual translates into will? Depending on how the machine answers all those questions, it might perform quite differently. How about perpetuating a cycle of pain an hatred, on the basis that many people have (sometimes mortal) grudges?

And even if you solve that, our current ideals may not be so ideal upon closer inspection (say, when our lives change and we take a second look). Would you want the AI freeze our current morality into an unwavering tradition? It's not clear it wouldn't.

Much work to be done.
But sadly less unsafe than the street. It sucks to be homeless big time.
Ah good point - this might be google now. It's the voice search feature on the search bar that persists on all home screens.

Didn't realize they might be different products.
> It's a known and deliberate shortcoming of many licenses (e.g. BSD) not to include patent stuff because it makes everything unnecessarily complex. There was recently an article about why BSD and MIT are so popular, and it's because they're concise and understandable.

Could you (or anyone confident in their legalese) elaborate on:

* Does the Apache2 license indeed solve this? (I'm asking because I read about it in the LLVM/Clang license change proposal [1])

* Why isn't the less-popular-but-still-well-established Apache2 license more widely used, then? To counter what you are saying about simplicity, don't you think patents are a common concern that should be covered by default in a license, even at some complexity cost?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12531887

EDIT: precisions, wording.
How is this any different than the MPL 1.1 license? Section 8 of the MPL 1.1 has similar language.

/b
On the occasions when I have witnessed it, every attempt my spouse makes at using Siri in an ordinary, reasonable way always ends in cursing and shouting.

It reminds me in many ways of the handwriting recognition on the Newton--which is to say it appears to be only a hairsbreadth from absolutely useless.
> But I do agree that they need to pull a miracle to get the mac lineup out of the sorry state it is in right now. I guess they're good enough for most people

I think Apple's problem, though, is that Chromebooks are also good enough for most people, and cost a ton less.

Maybe when they switch the Macbook to ARM they'll be able to drop the price considerably?
You might like this book then: https://www.amazon.com/c-Numbers-q-Numbers-Classical-Analogy...
"Netflix actually achieved this back in the disc-by-mail days."

Netflix's DVD service still exists.[1] They have a fantastic selection, compared to their streaming service.

[1] - https://dvd.netflix.com/
It does suck, but safety on the streets is highly variable depending on your experience and what you're trying to be safe from. If your bad experiences are getting groped every night, the risk of death from exposure or someone hassling you on the streets may seem more desirable.
What I really want is something like this and it opening containers automatically based on url sets.

So going to facebook would go to the facebook set automatically and isolate facebook. But I don't have to manually open the "facebook profile" to do the switch. Same with twitter, amazon, google*, youtube, apple, etc.

If you have multiple accounts, you can have the interface pop up a "choose your subcontainer" automatically with the new google container or whatever. All browsing in that container would then stay in that subcontainer until you close it.
Why is the streaming services not the entitled ones in this scenario? According to you they should get payment when their sole contribution was wasting their want-to-be-customers' time.
"important capabilities"? It's a fairly exotic feature nearly nobody is actually using, so the only people I'd expect to know about it are old-timey sysadmins and security people who've looked into stuff like discussed in the article. And while "lead of the anti-abuse team" is a security role, there are many possible backgrounds where you'd never come across this, and anti-abuse likely is working on a higher level.

Testing for stuff like that would be worse trivia checks than the algorithm-bingo people like to complain about in Google developer interviews.
Wow, pretty interesting. I compared to the US and it turned out that I'm expected to live 0.2 year longer than if I was from the US. I'm from a third-world (Tunisia if you are curious), so that was totally unexpected. The Life expectancy here is pretty high comparing to other developing countries.
Fwiw: you can, however, send multiple datagrams to multiple hosts with sendmmsg(). Still one socket at a time, but...
Depends what you're doing and what your needs are. If we have one big database sitting in a data center and it would be beneficial to setup a read replica for other workloads, suddenly that's a $150,000 suggestion instead of a "We have this server over here".

Want a couple? $300,000.

Big client that you'd like to isolate on their own hardware? $$$$
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I agree, it's an anecdotal rationalization, as is yours. Yet, it's also true that creators actively frustrate efficient use of distribution platforms in support of their bad business models.
Nothing wrong with that, you simply suffer from retrocomputing.

Careful about the power bill though. Large SGI stuff (e.g. Onyx) can go in the kilowatt range under load, and an AlphaServer idles at around 200W last time I checked.

IT was no green back then :)
It's not a maze game, but that sort of reminds me of Braid (platformer featured in Indie Game: The Movie) where you had to move back and forth through time to navigate certain obstacles. Very cool, and very beautifully rendered.
Please note that for most of such project the IoT is not appropriate as it will leak your very private information from your home.

The more correct term you are looking for is ND - Networked Device - and very often also AND - Autonomous Networked Device.
And it had nothing to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac... :]
No ESP8266 support?
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> It's more like this: San Francisco is very expensive. It is also a nice place to live.

I don't care, I can be where ever I want as long as it is not someones property. Doesn't matter if I'm poor or rich.

> Why not put shelters and programs to get people back on their feet

Such programs and shelters do already exist all over the country. Do you want to force them to move to these places or camps?

> Just like everybody else.

Not everybody wants to be you or me.
I couldn't agree more. I think about "Daredevil" season one: 13 episodes, each almost an hour long. We saw more character development in a single season (of both the titular character and Vincent D'Onofrio's excellent Kingpin) than in years of Marvel movies.

If an episode's story needs to run a bit longer, it runs longer. Commercial breaks don't affect pacing. Nobody has to worry about sponsors being upset about content, an episode being interrupted by breaking news or postponed due to a sporting event.

I'd like Netflix to have a larger movie catalog, but if they continue to crank out quality long-form stories I'm quite happy to remain a subscriber.

(Now we just need them to secure the rights for Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin novels)
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It reminds me of the common trope of the internet containing "all of human knowledge". An average library has as good a claim to that as does the internet. There's so much stuff that is simply not available for free and a far vaster volume of stuff that is not even digitized let alone available on the internet. Wikipedia is a good way to gain some superficial knowledge about something but it is nothing compared to a few good books on a subject.
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Email I just sent the OSI:

Please see here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692552

It turns out companies are now "bastardizing" the license terms. I would love for the OSI to re-evaluate if these licences are truly open source. Open source covers freedom, and I should think that these clauses abridge that freedom since it is very well possible for a company to be required to sue Apple or Facebook over patents. If that unrelated lawsuit "strips" your legal right to use software, that is NOT freedom.

Thanks
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