skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot on. My kid's just moved from primary to high school (in the UK), and he keeps his same @sch account name. All his work just follows him through the system, it's really smart.
So what should HBO, Netflix, FX, ESPN, et al be charging then? Creating content isn't cheap.
Awesome! So far this is working great with a Dockerized Node application I have. Great job Facebook and the rest who contribute!
This is an excellent, thought-provoking article (it's a shame that it's probably not going to make it to the front page). It had never occurred to me that one could "game" life this way. Of course, I have my suspicions about the many-worlds interpretation (I think it's unlikely), so it's possible that the shotgun would kill you within the first few iterations of the QRNG and then you would never know that your experiment failed.

That said, without resorting to such morbid get-rich-quick schemes, I've wondered for a while if one could utilize interaction-free measurements to more optimally trade stocks. It can already be used (in theory) to detect live bombs without setting them off (https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114610/http://physics.il...). It seems that one could easily put a small device into a superposition of "buy" and "sell" states. I'd have to think about the details of this, but it might be possible...
Ford has a good passthrough to Android (hold down Speak button). GM has a terrible system that requires you to wait to speak for a quiet beep, and chides you if you don't. It's very odd and never fails to infuriate me.
Not if you run the simulations. A city or three might get nuked in a tit-tat-tit exchange, but total war isn't currently likely. During the 60s and 70s there was the _chance_ we could just nuke all their nukes at once and maybe they'd get London, NY, or Washington, but we'd survive. A total strike is no longer even a first reach option because even if they level us and somehow cripple our nukes or kentic weapons we can just unleash a bioweapon on everyone and it's payback game over. I look at these weapons in the same way. There might be a couple dozen million deaths from an exchange that starts with them, but after some tense phone calls things will deescalate.

What I worry about is actors smaller than a well funded nation state getting weapons like these, and for that we need intelligence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691230

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686634
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So, I was in Toronto in August and used my Netflix account to view movies at the hotel. I think it may have given me the Netflix Canada catalog (since it was over the hotel WiFi). I found that Netflix Canada catalog to be way superior to the one I see in the US. E.g Star Wars TFA was on the catalog, but not there when I got back to the US. Same with Elysium, etc.
React.js is basically licensed so that you cannot make anything that can compete with facebook corporation.

Example:

1. You create something similar to Instagram using React.

2. It gets popular

3. Facebook sues you and takes all your reacts and reducers
"Ok google, navigate to <place>"
Built-in car systems are usually at least 5 years behind the current tech, whether it was CD players, a USB port or whatever GPS system they started putting in.

As an example - I have a car with a USB port, but the music player interface is so atrocious and is missing key features that it's actually worse than my Sansa Clip from 2008. The car is a 2012 model.
I had to buy a CD for my parent's car for £170 to update their in car navigation.
My younger colleagues at work simply can't believe that I still have a DVD plan with Netflix. I'm not that old! In response, I can't believe THEY are satisfied with what's available on streaming. Netflix isn't interested in paying royalties for blockbuster films. In house content makes so much more sense.
You can also wget the article I believe and bypass the pay wall. Haven't tried it for a few months cause its kinda a pain but it worked a few months ago when I was following the therano stories.
> Funny how so many people screamed for al la care programming and now that it's happening everyone is realizing it's actually worse.

I wouldn't equate balkanization with a la carte. To stretch the restaurant metaphor, the current situation is akin to taking 5 cab rides between restaurants to cobble together a meal, there's a lot of overhead and waste. Traditional cable television is the restaurant with everything available, but you're required to purchase dessert and coffee to get access to soup and salad.
‘forest bathing’ is scientifically proven to improve your health
Reminds me of a couple of weeks back, I went to a new Media Mark (consumer electronics store) near my place in Barcelona. It had some robots in the windows shuffling stuff of shelves for show.

I got in and realized it wasn't actually a normal store but some new high tech version. There were some touchscreen devices where you were supposed to make an order then go and collect it from the desk at the other side (and the robots were getting the stuff from shelves). Tried the two that were available. "Error establishing connection" type error. Tried the one next to it. The same. The few staff that were on the main shop floor seemed busy explaining how the things worked to other customers so I went to the old school department store next door.

Welcome to the future.
I've always been interested in doing side jobs, but unsure how to agree to a rate and bill businesses/people based on what they want.

Some people want a website built or fixed up or apps - can anyone offer some simple resources/advice to go about doing that?
The remote control for my television was an improvement because I didn't have to get up from my chair to change channels and when I got cable, there were a lot more channels to hunt. But most things don't need to be tuned because they don't create high bandwidth continuous variable information streams.

My smartphone and television are valuable because they're part of the network. My refrigerator is valuable because it meaningfully reduces my odds of death by food poisoning. The general appeal of configuring things like refrigerators and tea kettles is probably lower than programming the VCR ever was.

I'm skeptical that open protocols will change things much. Mostly because tea kettles are stand alone devices; the benefits of networking them are corner cases; and making them smart adds a lot of incidental complexity and that complexity manifests itself quickly because networks are unreliable.
What about your ears? That startup sound caused some pretty intense flashbacks for me.
>You are logged in to:

>No platform

>(or you're using something like Privacy Badger)

I'm using uMatrix and uBlock Origin :)
Now you have to keep track of chargers, and kludge things onto your car. A button on your wheel, a holder on your window or clipped somehow onto your dash.

No thanks.
The Window Manager and opening/closing/dragging/resizing effects were really impressive for 1993. Way more than Mac at the time, or even Linux 3-4 years later.
If you had done your job instead of reading HN, there would be no problem!
I recently picked up a very inexpensive Windows 10 convertible laptop, and have been VERY impressed with it. IMO in the future the Microsoft Surface Pro line is going to have a nice little niche, and I hope Apple jumps on it before Microsoft completely owns it.
Until they open it up to fix it, at which point the escalator is temporarily a death trap.
I haven't used it much on the server side, so I won't comment on that part.

Printer drivers can still crash Windows, and if you screw them up, you can be force to just reinstall. Javascript in Firefox managed to crash a display driver earlier to day. Still Windows is "okay", in terms of stability, but if something goes wrong, like yesterday when my wireless NIC stopped working, there's absolutely no help from Windows in terms of figuring out why. Logging is pretty much non-existent, it's like arguing with a wacko girlfriend who's mad at you, but won't tell you why.

Really the interface is the major pain point for me. It simply feels clunky and slow. There's a serious lack of consistency across the UI. Windows 10 is really bad about this, having two control panels for instance, and still being part metro, part Windows XP. Just the whole filesystem layout of the C:\Users\<username> is weird. It's as if Windows have gone to create lengths to hide the "home folder", for no apparent reason. Generally the filesystem is just weird and confusing. Search rarely work. The "Ubuntu on Windows" does fix some of my issues though, because having a modern operating system, and no "Unix layer" is a hindrance, to me at least.

If there's a point to my rambling it's something along the line that Windows is missing an overall strategy. Currently it sits in a weird spot between being for the absolute novice, and the computer expert, while fulfilling neither role.
A la carte means that I pay $1 for that episode of that series. If I don't want to see anything else that month I don't pay anything else. What Netflix sells is a subscription. Same as for phones back into the times voice only no data services: pay as you go vs subscription. I want watch as I go.
What is a "common fact", exactly?
So, if I want to re-watch old movies (IMDB's alltime top movies) I've already seen, I shouldn't go to Netflix. But for new stuff? They're adding content all the time. Not sure this statistic is meaningful to me.
I have noticed a lack of black and white movies on netflix. I know Hulu has the Criterion Collection which has some prestige black and white movies but there are tons of them that seem like they should be cheap for netflix to license.

Has TMC bought them all up and refuse to license them to netflix or does netflix think no one wants to watch black and white movies?
There are pull-requests open which enable the framework to be used with Azure or IBM BlueMix OpenWhisk
That is a good point. My parents still can't wrap their heads around an Office suite that's not Microsoft, and online. It's like I'm speaking Greek to them. Then I was shocked when my son started turning me on to some handy extensions and templates.

I'll admit, I was proud of our district's IT department for making a smart recommendation.
That's just not true. I googled for lots of different sites, all of them say that, for example, 100g of beans have around 40g of protein. Then you have other vegetables with lots of protein too. More than the daily recommended dose.
Leaked Emails: “we have conspired to make an unaware and compliant public”
There is way too much of this shit.

http://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/
I find it interesting that most pieces on the topic consider only the throughput perspective while game theory seems more appropriate. People aren't homogenous "units of production/demand" as queueing theory suggests, there is a mix of incentives at play. Some people are OK with waiting in the queue and on the standing escalator, while others are in a hurry and really need a way to go faster. It is surprising that almost no one complains about dedicated mass transit lines on our roads ("we can increase vehicle throughput by removing them!"), yet most people (people in charge, too) apply similar arguments to escalator usage.
Can you point which part of the license says what you claim? Thanks
Lack of updates create a security issue. In fact, I'd argue that update mechanisms are the most critical security issue of our time!

By neglecting to update devices you increase risk by ensuring vulnerabilities won't get fixed. You also might not get notified in the event of product recalls (if you never registered your purchase).

I understand your argument though: By solving one security issue we're creating another: Trusting the vendor. To that I have this to say...

If you don't trust the vendor why did you buy their product in the first place!?
Apple had a big push with Macs early on. At least at the university level in the US.
Other Open Source licenses have patent termination provisions. Apache 2.0 (which React used to use) says "If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.". There are other licenses as well that include more extensive patent termination provisions, such as the APSL.
I'd be perfectly happy if my car just had a dock for my iPhone, with an amp for the speakers. I use my phone for anything music, gps or phone-related while driving.

The only time I don't use it is when I can't get the friggin' bluetooth to connect right away.
What's interesting about MS too, is that depending on what you do, the production versions still aren't that much money. If you do any sort of commercial software development, MS will pretty much give you a bunch of free software (including MSSQL to a point) just to keep you on the stack and to advertise that you use their products over others. Between BizSpark and the Partnership Network, it's very reasonable.
Internet is decentralized so there is no authority that could stop DDoS attack. We need a protocol that would allow a host to require peer or upstream network to block/allow traffic from specific IPs or subnets. And of course the denied traffic should not be paid for.
According to Hitchhiker's Guide, a truth about the universe is that the universe is an extremely big place - so huge, in fact, that our planet and all of us look utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Which, I think, is true, but there is no way I could take comfort in that thought.
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The reason I have it built-in is it integrates with the head-up display meaning I don't have to take my eye off the road to see directions.
Keep in mind, uBlock Origin does not block social media widgets by default, and you have to enable it in settings. Widgets like Facebook like buttons, and Tweet buttons have to be blocked manually.
Netflix is decontenting their DVD catalog too. My "Saved" list is as long as my queue. (I'm another dinosaur that prefers the guaranteed bitrate of a Bluray/DVD)
Legality and ethics of using influencers
Go see the talk on the reasons for the LibreSSL fork.

Don't just fear the worst, know the worst.
Yes (though I misspoke - it's changing VirtualBox settings, rather than text file mod)

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309654-run-vanilla-os...

Starts with an installer from the Mac App Store to make an install DVD, or a physical Snow Leopard DVD, no DLL replacement or kernel modifications.
The Backbone of the Internet of Things
So why doesn't this happen in the music industry? And a few exclusives here and there doesn't count. Spotify / Apple / Amazon / Tidal / Deezer have 99.9% of the same content with a few high profile albums that are only found on one or another service.
one bonus with Netflix et. al. is that I don't have to spend 1/3 of my time sitting through mindless commercials for junk I would never buy.
Last weekend my wife and I wanted to watch the movie Goat. It was pretty recently in theaters, so we didn't expect it to be on Netflix. We searched HBO Now, Hulu, Starz, and all of the other video streaming services that we have (and pay money for!). We found two options - rent it on Google Play Movies, or rent it through Amazon Prime. Now, we wanted to Chromecast it, and Amazon (to the best of my knowledge) does not allow you to do that, presumably because they want you to buy their Fire TV instead.

So, we spent the $6 to rent the movie on Google Play. About 10 minutes into the movie, the quality plummeted and playback stopped with an error code. We called customer support and they talked us through possible solutions for ~35 minutes before we gave up and asked for a refund. It wasn't a problem with our Wifi, since Netflix/Youtube and other services worked just fine, it was a problem with Google Play streaming to the Chromecast.

After searching and trying for over an hour to watch a movie legally using paid services, we went to putlocker, plugged an hdmi cable into my computer and streamed it just fine. We really, really tried to do it the legal way and pay money for the content we wanted to watch, but it was far too complicated to even find a place to watch it, let alone actually successfully watch it. I was reminded a lot of this comic http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones throughout the whole thing. All of this fragmentation is going to become a huge problem again, when piracy is just so easy and convenient.
In @nottheonion porps has been proven to be an apple fan-gay who doesn't even know how real computers can be real, when our eyes aren't real.
Yeah, perhaps a Blendle model would be better. I recently got Netflix as a present, one show I like is not on there, we generally watch one show at a time, something like 2-3 episodes a week. So now I won't use it for months, apart from the occasional (once every 3 weeks?) movie. I pay (if it wasn't a present) the same as someone who watches 4 hours of Netflix per day.

My son used to watch Thomas the Tank engine occasionally. Guess what recently got removed...
More than hilarious, I find it a serious skill manifestation.
Is it à la carte if you have to pay 10$ to five different providers in order to be able to choose what you want to watch?

I'd be happy with a service that charge me 1$ per show but with real choice.
hummm.... i wonder why jersey and gurnsey have 1 different in their numbers... considering they're both channel islands...
thats a fairly odd chart
Start a store that sells old school manually serviceable stuff after everyone has put the internet where it doesn't belong.
As a UK resident, with access to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Sky, I actually applaud Neflix's conscious move away from blockbuster content.

Netflix has created some of my favourite shows in the past few years (e.g. House of Cards and Narcos) and I'd rather have that original content given my access to the other services - Sky is better probably better able (through it's Fox parent company) to deliver the blockbusters should I want to watch them.

The obvious cost is that we have to subscribe to multiple services, and that necessitates cost both in money and in time to find content legally as you have to go through each in turn. If Amazon and Netflix both move further towards unique content then we'll also have reduced competition in the blockbuster space, which might increase prices and encourage a move back to privacy.

(Finally, I have major respect for Netflix as a developer, and so I probably view everything with a certain bias).
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> And a Chromebook will be Google-ridden from hour zero. :)

Does Google Apps for Education mine anything?
No but the supply of content keeps going up and the demand can't keep growing. At some point, the price for a generic hour of entertainment has to drop. The cost of producing content is mostly irrelevant.
Well its good to see its partly wrong for me. It shows HN correctly, but also shows me logged in to Facebook and Tumblr, not correct. And not logged in to gmail, which I am. Still, its a dangerous flaw.
The IMDb top 50 is full of easily palatable and mainstream movies.
Seems this is not the same form factor or pins as the CHIP.
So it can't be swapped out to upgrade PocketCHIP, etc. They seem to be missing an opportunity here to create a standard. Pity, I had assumed that was the goal.

(Of course, maybe there was a good reason to throw away the first attempt at a standard..)
Try the South Africa Netflix, I am not even going to bother checking how many of those are available.
More on this subject from the NY Times --

No blood test or CT scan can tell you if you have the condition — the diagnosis is made by subjective clinical evaluation and screening questionnaires. This lack of any bright line between pathology and eccentricity, Schwarz argues, has allowed Big Pharma to get away with relentless expansion of the franchise.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/books/review/adhd-nation-a...
I don't imagine things de-escalating after a couple dozen million deaths... But I hope you're right.
iTunes has à la carte television with a small lead time. It's had it for years. I guess what people want is unsustainably cheap à la carte offerings.
My 100$ smartphone came from a 5B$ factory.
Couldn't find a redirect on LinkedIn that redirects without prompting you to log in again...
Can you?
Last time I used a car GPS, it told me I was in for a 20 hour drive across the northern midwest. Google Maps helpfully turned that into 4 hours, by recognizing the major highway missing from the car system. A highway, I should add, at least ten years older than the car.

The struggle for Waze is keeping their traffic data up to the minute, the struggle for cars is keeping their roadmaps on par with a decade-old atlas.
Yes, that's a valid argument, but if you think everybody will switch to Oberon any time soon, prepare to be disappointed.

In any case, LSSL can be a heck of a lot safer than OSSL, and, in fact, already is.
Any IOP on EBS is measured in 16kb granularity. Not the same as block size but helpful to know because it lets you set your read ahead and other values to not lower than 16kb. At least this was the case for many years. Trying to find the official docs now.
Which has always seemed like a _gross_ misunderstanding of what people enjoyed about Netflix from the very beginning. If Netflix launched with Orange is the New Black, Luke Cage, and Daredevil, would they have even a tiny fraction of the user base they currently have?

My Netflix hours per month has dropped to well under 10 hours per month these days. There's just not much content on there that interests me. I see more use out of Amazon because, even though it's comparatively expensive at ~$5 per rental, when I feel like sitting down and watching a movie, it's nice to actually have a catalog to browse that's not 90% garbage.
I own a chromebook and macbook.

I do all my coding on a chromebook. I use the ChromeOS as my GUI, dropbox as my filesystem, and crouton to run the ubuntu terminal underneath it all.
This may or may not be true; afaik >50% soy plantation in the world is for cattle, and humans can eat soy; probably don't need that much soy.

Even if we cannot use the resources, the land would be better without pasture for sure. And we don't need to use ALL of the land of pasture for vegetables.
it's a shame it's fiction
Oh good. Finally.

I want to see OSSL burn. Because it sure as heck doesn't deserve to live.
my understanding is that maneuverability is thought of in Gs - so even though the turn radius is enormous, the acceleration is high, and it's the acceleration that prevents defensive interceptors from getting hits
No film lover I know uses Netflix for them. They all purchase DVDs, torrent, or are waiting for http://www.filmstruck.com
I think this article conveniently forgets to mention nothing hypersonic of sort will outrun lasers.

lasers can't track of course and range is limited by factor like atmosphere and earth curve, but still, thinking about an hypothetical future scenario hypersonic weapons would just get lasered down by automated point defences all the same as conventional speed ordinance.
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That exists now through Vudu, Amazon and iTunes. But that still breaks up the model of viewing all your content in one area.
I actually like the slow-down in the laptop development. It means that the machines are good enough to use until they physically break. No need to change them every two years just to keep up with software updates.
Amazon Music Unlimited ($7.99/month for Prime Members)
A large percentage of the "very skilled" developers I know will much sooner brag about how much code they deleted or didn't write than how much code they wrote.