skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the fragmentation is a problem since the cost is so low. We used to pay a lot more for cable and got less quality content than if we just buy a few streaming services combined. Some players like my Roku (and I think Apple TV right?) allow you to do a universal search too.

Netflix's problem with movies is intractable because you'd have to pay much more than they're willing to charge to make the studios happy. The studios make more money they way they're doing it (they have accountants too).
Toyota gps is just garbage. Hangs all the time. I strongly believe car makers just don't see software as a critical component. Exception is tesla.
Ask HN: How do you sell performance?
I started a service agency that makes e-commerce sites significantly faster on desktop and mobile (Sometimes as fast as native apps). I have around 25 customers.

But when I approach new prospects, none of them care about their store's performance. I keep amazon and google's studies handy, but often the conversation ends before I can bring them up.

Highlighting revenue benefits of a fast site hasn't helped much either.

What would be a good way to educate prospects about importance of a fast e-commerce website?

If someone can point me in right direction, I'll be happy to pay for your time.
G+ in one of its many failed implementations had something vaguely like that. It was overloaded with Gmail contacts, and resulted in G+ profiles being added to your mail-related address book.

Since I was using this in large part (though not exclusively) to keep tabs on annoying gits online, this was a less than salubrious "feature". Sigh.

Reddit + RES offers tags. I'll note specific individuals, here usually focusing on clueful. Though it's limited to a word or two, and isn't inherently shared across systems (RES uses local storage).

But yes, generally, this is another of those "why aren't Web developers providing users with a pretty obviously useful tool". It's more than clear who's paying the piper here, and it ain't us.
Homegrown.
I can understand that, but I'm not looking for motivation, just statistics. I'm already disciplined in weight management, tracking is just interesting.
Transmit, Coda, and Prompt by Panic, Inc. https://panic.com
I can't comment on whether this is correct, but on the MSSQL box I integrate with, lock contention and the server automatically killing deadlocked queries is a regular occurrence. Like 50+ times a day regular.
Once you get to the point that you can explode anything you want anywhere on the planet it doesn't make much difference if you can do it somewhat faster.

... and it is getting pretty obvious that being able to blow things up doesn't make much difference anyway in a political sense. Simple terror doesn't work anymore to bring people around to your way of thinking. All the people that can be simply coerced are gone now.
Milk doesn't contain any concerning level of estrogen. Not sure where you got that from.
I doubt it, they'd sell it at higher cost because in other countries there are often few alternatives.

Shows established in the USA become part of the global culture, USA is very good at exporting its culture. Once established, in order for people in other countries to buy in to that culture then exported media can be sold at higher value.

This is one of the reasons for regional encoding. You don't want to let outsiders buy in to something that's established as cool
I actually am not aware of uBlock Origin. I'll take a look at it, thanks!

Believe it or not, I don't use an ad. blocker, I never have.
I still see some issues with it:
1. redis being single-thread, where inverted-indexes are ~easily sharable by cores (i think based on what I've read). This making hotspots easier(since it's a single core not single machine)
2. sharing of data(terms) between multiple indexes on 1 server (like in elasticsearch you use _routing, but all things are in 1 index, though some people like separate-per-user like dropbox does)
3. cluster not fully nice yet (losing writes)
4. no option to merge from different nodes (or even redis-api to do so as far as I know)
Configuration management – How to start testing your salt formulas
Interesting. Thanks for the link!
Hi all! Happy to answer your questions throughout the day :).

If you're interested in the whats, whys, and hows, we'd love for you to read out medium post:

https://medium.com/@gifs/using-computer-vision-to-make-milli...
The biggest reason is, I think, that it's the car driver's responsibility to pay attention when then open their door on the side of traffic. There's no excuse if you hit a bike, or anything, it's the car driver's fault and most onlookers would consider them huge assholes for creating such a dangerous traffic situation.

Bicyclists are considered at least equal participants in traffic. And culturally, depending on the particular spot and the "what are you doing trying to get around here by car in the first place"-factor, bikes nearly almost but not quite have a de facto right of way, because they're way more numerous and more agile, cars need to be on their toes anyway.

Oh and don't forget that most cars in the US are about 1.5x the size of cars here? I'm having a bit of a chuckle imagining if you'd scale up bikes by the same factor haha :-) But maybe it'd help with getting doored? :) Oh, oh! and don't forget to scale up yr bikehelmets too :) :)
I think the argument is that the grant is asymmetric. GPL is "I open up, you open up". The retaliation clause Facebook uses is "you don't get to sue us, but we may sue you".
> Apple wins this battle every time. Welcome to the ecosystem. :)

Haha, joke's on them - I simply won't test[1] my web apps against Safari!

1. But our QA does :(, so I guess they won. Fortunately Apple decided to create 1st-party webdriver support as of Safari 10, so they at least recognize that assisting developers test on Safari is important. Hopefully someday we'll get macOS disk images to test Safari à la modern.ie
I wondered about that as I have tons of VPSes - the highest was in the 300s. My Hetzner server, though, 1389 days and counting!
Over 3-4 years I seem to average around 800 per month, but the last 2 months have been over 1k, and around 1-2 times per year this happens (in the meantime, it's very low).

It is software, 3-4 small utilities of high quality in the niche platform it is. A launcher, a screenshot tool and such items.
Because of that, I feel that the value proposition of a video rental store next block is becoming quite good again. Cheaper than renting/buying from Prime or Play.

Too bad they're all dead now.

I am not sure the new video movie world is better now than it was 10 years ago for consumers.
Chrome is still the best choice for development on Linux.

The alternatives are Opera and Firefox. Everything else is like coding while wearing mittens.
Yeah, it kind of shows conflicting results to me too.

While it correctly identified me being logged into HN, Medium, and Amazon, it completely missed reddit, GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, etc. I'm assuming it missed them because of me running Privacy Badger, but I'm kind of negatively surprised that Privacy Badger failed to protect me from those three I mentioned.
ruh-roh, master-master replication, multithreaded eexecution, vacuuming tables, in-memory OLTP. Yes postgres is cutting edge and without blame. Stay away from the evil SQL Server, nothing to be gained there.
I'm one of the participants in this contest. The Zcash proof of work is Equihash. It uses Blake2b to create a bunch of hashes, then Wagner's generalized birthday algorithm to find a set of distinct hashes that xor to zero.

The deadline is a little short at this point, but if you're decent at GPU programming it is achievable. Most of the other contestants are on the Zcash Slack.
Thank you. That is what I thought you were referring to but I hadn't heard it referred to in that way, so I thought it might be some wonderful thing I hadn't even heard of ;)
Oh yeah - what if there is a homeless colony right next to your current house? Would you say the same thing then?
Apache 2 is definitely much better.

IANAL, but I've written about the difference in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692852
Many of my contacts use Signal because some computery person that wants to talk to them kept telling them to use it. They're not techy themselves, but it's not suspicious at all in my opinion.
Having worked for a company selling satnavs and mapping, typically an automotive company has some number of map updates that will be released for a given product per year. It generally ranges anywhere from 4 to 1/year. However, there were some instances where it was a single update at the time of release and then no more.
But there is some pressure on companies to comply. Plus they can't use the defense that you could have enabled it and chose not to.
I'm also skeptical about the targeting side of these "wonder-weapons". Going really fast against, say, an aircraft carrier, is almost more of a liability if you don't already know exactly where it is and how fast it's going pretty much before you launch at all - you don't have much time to detect it and change course to actually hit it, plus reduced ability to detect things through all of the air resistance heat you're generating.
The problem faced by the original poster is that the corner store didn't have the soda available, cold and ready, but the spiv outside did.

The corner store lost nothing.
The official pg client, psql, is light years ahead of SQL Server Management "Studio".
It appears its Fill Rate. (Click Through rate is around 2%).

It appears to me that dev is involved in shady stuff (The fact that dev posted this in several forums without ever posting link to his app should be noted).
Yes Detroit has demolished thousands of buildings over the last decade. Other than that your entire take on the situation is a simplification of a much larger problem which will not be solved by just applying the idea of "let people live in them".

An "unused" home does not simply sit in pristine condition waiting for the next person to come live in it. The abandoned homes in Detroit slated for demolition were built during a period which used lead paint and asbestos, abatement programs are expensive. As the homes sat unused they fell victim to scrappers who pull the copper pipe and wire from the wall, strip all of the architectual details, rip the aluminum siding from the outside, or knock down the brick facade, before the house eventually falls victim to an arsonist who may be doing their neighbors a favor. Most of the homes lie in isolated neighborhoods where burnt out buildings outnumber humans. When the homes are bulldozed they're not rebuilt, rather whole neighborhoods are set to be depopulated so city services can be better concentrated. This isn't a simple "profit" play, it is a coordinated downsizing to deal with reality
Many people prefer the opposite though. There have been people requesting a la carte cable options for years.
1) Yes, and that's exactly the problem raised here.

2) The patent grants from Microsoft and Google grant a license on software (or a standard), and only give them a (reciprocal) license on the software or standard that is under consideration. If Microsoft had published React, you could still sue them for violating patents that are unrelated to React without losing your license to use it. The Facebook grant doesn't have this, so if you rely on React you can't sue Facebook at all. But they can still sue you.
Of course no one got anything. Chapter 7.
Yeah, I thought "Well I only log on to corporate email and HN on this computer, so it's not going to drag up anything scandalous."

Our IT department LOVES complaining about users using the network inappropriately, so I can look forward to a discussion with HR about this. I guess I should have checked the comments first.
You're right. I probably oversimplified to save on typing. I actually work with a person who is 60ish and has held considerably more senior roles in the past. He seems pretty happy in his less senior role. I think he wanted something a little less demanding.
Chat and the Consumerization of IT
That seems to be a very narrow view of what is valuable. Works of fiction have value. Even fairy tales do. (You may argue that even those contain elements of "true data", but still...)
Works good with Google for me, also German and English
The only service I pay for is a VPN. It allows me to access any tv show or movie I could dream of without any problems ;).

No but seriously, it is sad that with my setup I can search something and stream it instantly, or have it download and automatically be renamed and organized ready to watch on Plex. TV shows can be grabbed automatically and alert me when they are ready. I can use Plex and stream them anywhere in the world right from my own server, and now they even have beta for streaming from amazon cloud so you don't even need your own server.

I hate that my most convenient option is the illegal one. I'd gladly pay. I have no problem paying the $10 a month for Spotify. I never illegally download music anymore because of it. I used to do so before, but now it is so easy and accessible with Spotify that I see no need to.

The Canadian version of a service like Netflix has even less content than the American versions. We barely would find anything we wanted on it, and ultimately got rid of it pretty fast. Just wasn't worth the cost. We had to resort to no longer searching for things we wanted as they rarely had them, and instead just viewing what they DID have.

Edit: I should also add that I am a student on a fairly tight budget, and despite this I am willing to pay for a service monthly to get access to these things. That is why I pay for Spotify. However, I am definitely not going to spend money at multiple video streaming services, and then have to go on some wild hunt to find the content I'm interested in.
I agree with your post. Had a bad experience with the chromecast recently, but I managed to figure out that it required an update (through the android cast app) even though it did not indicate it anywhere else. I guess they assumed that it would automatically update frequently enough that my problem would be a rare edge case, but I'd had it unplugged for about a year and wanted to use it for a new TV. Haven't had a TV for ages, I learned a few days later it had the cast protocol built into it out of the box...
Reading that piece, it's probably more accurate to state:

>believe the SolarCity + Tesla acquisition will go through

and that Tesla stock doesn't instantly take a dive as a result.
FourKites raises $13M to track trucks on the road for customers
> The metaphor to stealing simply fails to illuminate any of them.

I think it illuminates that you got to have/experience something without paying for it, despite the fact that the distributor wanted you to.
I can't tell if you're arguing for or against bundling, but bundling is what can allow some channels to be given a chance. If I remember correctly Disney/ABC, Viacom, Time Warner, etc use bundles as a way to introduce new channels. They negotiate a price down on a popular channel, say ESPN, provided the service carries a newer station like Comedy Central or Viceland.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691491
I don't get what's so difficult to do on-prem. Your target market on-prem all use Kafka as their event bus and either Mesos or Kubernetes as their execution fabric - what's so tricky about fitting into that?
My resume includes articles I wrote in 2007 and the tutoring I've done; why? Because very few software devs have done that sort of thing.

It's funny though because in general I could pare it all down to maybe two paragraphs, I've done all sorts of tech work and can do everything but if you wanna get past the HR filters and have something to talk about in the interview, you pile on more details in the resume.
> which is why, for instance, atheism is not very popular

I'm struggling to understand what you mean by this.
Slightly easier way is to use the Disconnect/Privacy Badger extensions, along with uBlock Origin. It does a lot to prevent cookies from leaking across sites.
I desperately wanted to love this book as it has all the right elements: Lovelace, graphic novel, Babbage, the difference engine, steam punk... However, I felt the number of footnotes were excessive. The footnote material was excellent, but it felt like when movies resort to using a voice over to explain the plot.

I bought and read the book hoping it would be suitable for my kids (10 & 13), but having half its content in footnotes killed it as a kid friendly book.

If you are looking for a good book for kids with smart female leads (a fictionalized Ada Lovelace and Marry Shelley) I highly recommend The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency #1) by Jordan Stratford. Probably best for ages 6-10.
America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs
Tutorial on AWS Serverless Architecture Using Kinesis, DynamoDB and Twitter
In terms of performance on mobile devices. The content works ok on late 2014 high-end tablets and phones to 2016 mid level ones.
I do believe that MACRO in the slides refers to MACRO-11, a PDP assembler. Or maybe MACRO-32, for VAX. In either case, they have been compiling this "assembly" language for Alpha (and now I guess Itanium) since VMS has run on that architecture.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell's new virtual reality startup
I bet Netflix would absolutely love to provide all of these movies. I don't have any insider knowledge, but given their past behavior, I cannot help but think the content providers (of which a lot are owned by cable cartels) are preventing this. They are either prohibitively pricing the movies or are trying to dictate too many terms under which viewers have access to the movies. Then there's the fact that some of these movies didn't exist in a "streaming" world and so their licenses (for the music, etc) don't take this into account and so all that has to be renegotiated (which goes back to the prohibitive pricing, surely).
Rear view mirrors are useful while going forward. But, it's fairly easy to block that line of sight in a full car, thus making the rear view camera a useful backup.
Use a VPN like the rest of the savvy slackers.
I was thinking that having a few feet of gravel between you and radiation would be useful for a base, as well as the ease of coming and going from a smaller body.

I suppose it would be helpful to build some kind of centrifuge in any base to simulate gravity, as well.
Personally I think it's a great illustration that even software developers lack reading skills.

Open Source means this, no more, no less: https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
Might be more helpful to make a PR, rather than comment here. It'll take about the same amount of time.
C++ – Implementation details of libstd++ std::function
Please, feel free to make any contributions you feel will make it better.
That's along lines I was thinking. Haha.
Semi unrelated question: Am I the only one who wished navigation apps allowed more precise control of route complexity?

Just a slider that goes between "minimum number of turns" and "most efficient" would be nice. Optimizing a route for complexity vs efficiency is a very important consideration when planning a route. A way to do that in a navigation app would be really nice. I appreciate the intention but taking four extra turns and a one way street or two to save one minute when going somewhere that's one turn off a main road is rarely a good idea. If I'm driving rural state highways for three hours I'd much prefer to go 150mi on two roads than go 120mi on ten roads.
What are they supposed to do?
The main reason is that licensing works totally differently for music. For music, you go to a central licensing source and pay for the license. They will license to anyone with money.

For movies, you have to negotiate separately with every movie producer for every title.

In other words, to start a music service, you need money. To start a movie service, you need money and connections to every Hollywood studio.
Start by playing with the physics simulations at http://phet.colorado.edu
I read incredibly fast. Reading a book a night is no problem for me. I think it is genetic, as my mother could read at a pace that astounded even me, and she could recall everything from the book too. A 500 page novel would take her about 2-3 hours to get through, then she could recite the book back to you - scenery, dialogs the works.

Now this is talking about novels. If I'm reading to learn then you have to I must interact with the book, stop and think, go back and make connections, try something out etc.

This is where I like the statement in the book "How to read a book" about reading as fast as is necessary to complete the task you want to accomplish - fast for a quick read through maybe, then slower on another read through for making notes.

So I can read a novel a night, or a pop Sci book in a day, but I've been going through a math book for the last 2 months, and of course, I've been reading the first chapter of TAOCP for about 15 years (hence the math books now :)
easy enough for the determined to circumvent: construct a new legal entity and transfer the ip rights to it. then the new entity files suit.
It's the "see and be seen" method of working.

Nobody knows you exist because everything is working? Better go yell at somebody.

Everybody thinks you aren't working because something is broken? Better go yell at somebody.
Is JQuery Still Relevant?
Or you can pay a reasonable price to rent on iTunes and Amazon Prime. Stop pretending that you pirate because it's a "better experience". You pirate because it's cheaper to steal other people's hard work than to pay a fair price for it.
I expect police to be good people. Guess we differ there. I expect police to not follow evil laws. That's a bit hyperbolic though. More importantly, I expect police to use their judgment to do the right thing.

Police have an incredible amount of flexibility inherent in how they interpret laws. They choose when to put someone in jail and when to give them a break. They choose when pull their gun.

The law doesn't provide adequate guidance here. It cannot. Laws are made to be interpreted by people. Police, prosecutors, judges, and juries all apply their humanity to the ridiculously coarse and simplistic letter of the law.

I expect police to be the best of us. They need to be. It's an impossible goal but we could go a lot better than we do now.

Are you a programmer? If so, I hope it wouldn't offend you to suggest that you might be thinking of the law as a computer program, and police as machines that run it. If we ever create a benevolent machine to serve as our lawbook, I'll agree with you that humans should simply put their judgment aside and be simple agents of its will.
I don't like having homeless people on the streets but even the homeless have freedoms and the same rights that you and I enjoy.

What you are saying is that SF is only for certain people, all others should be made to go.
That's an interesting argument! (But the article didn't make it..)

Couldn't you argue that the GPL says "you don't get to keep your changes private, but I do", and so is asymmetric too? It seems normal to me for the rightsholder to retain more rights than the grantee.
To be fair, you can find the vast majority of the 250 movies on the first or second page of Google if you type in "MovieName streaming". uBlock and Privacy Badger extensions recommended of course. Also torrenting is available if nothing else.