skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a "good-enough" home theater. I don't want to watch movies in the theater anymore, because the experience sucks. I don't mind waiting for the movie to be out of theaters, but once it is, I really want it to be available for purchase. I would pay $20 for the blockbuster movies on iTunes, since that's less than the cost of 2 tickets. But they usually make me wait for months, usually until the end of the year, so I pirate it, guilt-free.

Until they make the proper decisions and make them available quicker, I will continue to pirate movies until they make them available when I want to watch them.
Hi Ilya,
You've really done a nice job with this transition, so rare to see people caring for their users until the end and keeping their word.

I am curious if you've ever looked at PostgREST, i think i've seen Tikhon among ppl who starred it on github.
Any comment on it? Thanks
The four telecom giants have been silent on Trump’s travel ban
Fitbits are poor quality, that's their actual challenge.
>“Immigration authorities soon began rechecking all Iraqi refugees in America, reportedly comparing fingerprints and other records with military and intelligence documents in dusty archives. About 1,000 soon-to-be immigrants in Iraq were told that they would not be allowed to board flights already booked. Some were removed from planes. Thousands more Iraqi applicants had to restart the immigration process, because their security clearances expired when the program stalled. Men must now pass five separate checks, women four, and children three.”

Sounds pretty similar to me, including a 60% drop in incoming immigrants from Iraq the year that took place compared to the previous and next year.

Let's see how WP differentiates the two cases:

First, they say that Obama "responded to an actual threat" whereas Trump "issued his executive order without any known triggering threat".

So being pro-active in this case is bad? Isn't that the whole idea behind threat prevention? It's not like Trump invented a threat in a new domain where there is known to be none -- we called for potential threats in the same domain (immigration from certain regions) where actual threats have been discovered previously, including under Obama. And ISIS wasn't even a thing back then, nor several big attacks have happened yet in France and Germany.

2) Second, they say that "Obama did not announce a ban on visa applications". And then they excuse that the effective result was similar anyway: "There was certainly a lot of news reporting that visa applications had slowed to a trickle. But the Obama administration never said it had a policy to halt all applications".

3) Third, they say that "Obama’s policy did not prevent all citizens of that country, including green-card holders, from traveling to the United States".

Which is probably the main point they get that can stand on its legs -- though government spokespersons deny that this is the case (even if that was the intention or unintended consequence of the command as issued).

That said, the people accepted as immigrants into the US, either under Obama (and even less now with Trump's order) the last 3 years from Iraq and Syria are an insignificant amount. And that from a region where millions fled to escape, and have been asking for asylum all over Europe etc.
Yeah, that middle "rail" is the underground cable. I don't recognize the street, but that doesn't mean much. There were a bunch of cable car lines that were removed, we now have three left:

https://www.sfcablecar.com/routes.html

It looks like most were removed in the 40's, and 50's

https://www.sfcablecar.com/history.html
Oxygen from Earth’s atmosphere may be traveling all the way to the Moon
Yep. There have been a whole bunch of times where my fiancee has said, "Let's go see a movie."

We then spend half an hour looking at trailers, conclude that everything looks stupid, and Google "Best movies of `year`." I drink a few beers, she enjoys wine, we relax with a great movie.

Every once in a while, I'm willing to watch a movie in theaters, but it doesn't happen very often.
Here is a similar solution but with an AWS Lambda function in Python and using a cloudwatch event to trigger the lambda function on a schedule. [0]

[0] https://kerneltrick.in/aws-lambda-cronjob-schedule/
Huh, are there really a significant # of investors who put money into $20MM companies looking for 5x returns? That's surprising.
I went to the moma once. Something about it was bothering me the whole day. I finally realized it was mismatch of the intense sterility (white cube rooms) of the musuem itself, against the art (which is especially full of character at the moma).

I think the works on display there would benefit from a more appropriate environment.
Awesome!

Can you talk more about Fission Router? This seems to be where most of the hand-waving is happening right now :)
AWS API Gateway doesn't get very much love, but it is actually a very important part of the server-less ecosystem.

Why did you write your own Router and not make an nGinx plugin, for instance? How well does it scale? How do you deploy it? What features does it have?
if time actually runs backwards a lot of things would make sense
Chrome gained a lot of market because it was marketed well as an IE replacement. Speed was one of the features in the marketing material, yes, but speed alone is doubtful to be the reason why Chrome exploded in popularity the way it did.

I'm excited about things like Servo, too, but not if critical (to my use case) features are removed. I switched from Chromium to Firefox solely because of the existence of Tree-Style Tabs. I really hope Mozilla has a plan to preserve that workflow.
>If you have a factory in the middle of Iowa you can't offer $110k/yr and expect people from SF or NYC to move out there, despite the huge gains relative to COL.

Absolutely wrong. If you offer enough money, people will move there.

I have zero desire to move to Iowa personally. But if a company there offered me $400k to take a job there, I'd do it. I can't say that I'd stay there until retirement, but I'd stay a year minimum. That much money makes it worth it. I'm sure many other people would agree. For that much, I could save a lot of money even after just one year, and then go back to one of the coasts where I'm happier and make a big down-payment on a house.

It's very simple supply-and-demand. There's a limited amount of qualified talent, so if you really want to hire them, you need to raise your prices. If that means you're paying the engineers much more than their managers or even the executives, then so be it. If you don't want to pay that much, then you don't really need them that badly. And if you think $400k is really that much money, compare that to how much they'll pay for some CNC machine or other specialized equipment.
The reason I don't have a fitbit is because the glue that attached the rubber wristband to the electronic failed.

Spoke to another parent at school and he had at least a couple of these fail "because of humidity" IIRC.
Hey maybe tone it down with the sock puppet accounts.
iPhone 7 may break Apple's losing streak
US Green card holders are NOT affected by this.
This was either mis-communicated, or a mistake (that should have never been made).

I don't see it as anti-Muslim decision, 87% of the world's Muslim population are not affected. I see it as anti-terrorism decision, targeted at the top 7 most terrorist-ridden countries in the world [1].

Yes, it sucks for law-abiding citizens of these countries who would like to visit the US in the next 120 days.
But it is only temporary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Terrorism_Index
Or plain Java or C#, more likely :)
Dropbox finally brings its Google Docs competitor out of beta
Cool. How big was team when parse was bought by Facebook ?
If they really need to be that precise, perhaps they should be using only the standard SI units. They should have asked about micrometers (µm). "Micron (µ)" has been deprecated since 1935, and was revoked entirely in 1967.

US schools typically do not teach the archaic or old-fashioned terms, as they won't be on the standardized tests.

It would be similar to a US company going to Germany and looking for people that knew what a "mil" was. (It's 0.001 inch.)
In the past, I was able to work with my broker to express interest during the book building process [0] of previous IPO's. My full-service broker at the time was a lead underwriter in that deal. This time, it looks like Morgan and GS are leads [1]. Morgan may still allow retail investor participation, but not sure.

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bookbuilding.asp
[1] http://www.investors.com/news/technology/snapchat-said-to-se...
> Yet, week by week, I watch as brand new accounts show up on these types of posts to spout the same short-sighted, toxic talking points that always get vomited out by Trump supporters.

I have noticed this as well and did not mention until recently, thought I was overthinking it. Good to see some others noticing this.
++1 for Tess Ferrandez and her debugging labs. As an engineer for a web hoster I found these invaluable for tracking down why, with no knowledge of their codebase, customer worker processes on IIS would suddenly die, hang or go 100% CPU.
I agree on the intent for the H1-B visa, no issues there. That does not mean that immigrants should be barred or Americans always chosen over the immigrant. The selection should happen based on their competency - if I'm a better candidate than any US candidate, I should get the job. Picking an immigrants over an American candidate because the immigrant is cheaper is the problem - although even here its not as black and white as you would want to.

Now as far as H4 vida holders, you are completely wrong and misunderstanding the issue. Sure, there are tons of MBA holders who cant find jobs. Does that mean she should not even be allowed to compete for any of the available jobs, even she might be more qualified for it? Or she might not be, who knows, this is why you have a free market, the employer can decide.

And the tech giants have equal salary levels associated with the peoples titles and experience. The whole thing about paying immigrants less is just utter bs. I'm in a senior position in my company, I see all the candidates coming through for engineering and the amount of available great engineering talent is very very low - and this is not a unique issue to the US. There is a reason why the tech giants are throwing stacks of money at these people. Its also the reason why I was brought in on a H1-B visa.

All in all I agree with fixing the issue of salary dumping via H1-B outsourcing, but barring actual talented immigrants, while following the rules of the visa process, seems beyond dumb. You WANT to bring in talented people, it raises the overall talent level of the whole pool as a whole, and having dumb restrictions making their lives more difficult (such as H4 work permit rules) makes little sense.
As opposed to not having the talent brought in lowering the overall level of the whole pool because of arbitrary rules.

I get paid as you, I pay taxes just like you, I contribute to the society and economics just like you. Yet you seem to be determined that me being here is a bad thing. Ridiculous.
Could also just be that they care about their customers or at least their reputation even if they failed to create the product they wanted to create in the first place.
I've definitely noticed of a lot of these companies that shutdown/close their doors, that it takes a long time to understand what they actually did/do. A businesses front page should explain what they do to the lay person. Even if your product is aimed at developers, most of the time it's not them buying, but their managers who will not want to guess what it is the company does.

Just 1 paragraph about what you do is all it takes.
I second the sentiment that Parse has done a good job of shutting the platform down and giving users warning/notice. I hope the Open Source version takes off (looks like it has, with 12K stars!).

As a shameless plug though, there are other Open Source alternatives though - we wrote a migration guide for ours: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/Migrating-from-Parse .
Some races are far less likely to have a college degree than others.
> for something that's critical to my academic success

Well, that’s the problem. It’s not. I can pass this and get the same grade no matter if I have good results or not. With CPU training, the paper just ends up ignored.

If it was critical for my success, I’d definitely find a way to do it, but that’s the point, it’s not critical – it would just improve my results.
I've been through relicensing exercises a couple of times. They're a pain, but a necessary pain because this stuff really does matter and can come back to haunt you. I might not agree with bcantrill on the "toxicity" of AGPL, but he's totally on point about the likely effect of failing to deal with the license issue. "Sitcom idea" only betrays the author's own ignorance.
To be fair, both movies you listed as low budget flops are in the same niche genre, I think that's more of a trend of people not being interested in that sort of movie right now.
> "Iron Sky" was made for €7.5 million. Worldwide box office $11.5 million. Fail.

I wish I could "fail" by making 53% profit on millions over what is likely less than a year. :/

Edit: Actually, I see pounds and dollars now. I would guess it was about even?
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I had a Fitbit Flex. I had the band tear 3 times last year. Fitbit replaced it for free each time. Eventually the little device inside stopped holding a charge. They replaced that for free too.

I decided to upgrade to the Charge 2 for 2017. Last week the heart rate sensor stopped working. I've been using it for exactly 4 weeks. They are replacing it for free.

I'm a bit shocked at the number of defects.
Expensive both in material and then again in the inevitable Anish Kapoor lawsuit: http://hyperallergic.com/279243/anish-kapoor-gets-exclusive-...
I think that's a function of awards eligibility windows. It's better to release late in that window, to be fresh in the minds of committee members, and it will cost less to advertise to them.
Performance improvements in Chrome
Buffett reminds Americans that they simply won the “ovarian lottery”
The big danger of becoming Shakespeare or the opera is you run a narrowcasting risk of turning something that 100% of the population was once familiar with into something less than 1% of the population will ever see. Financially that might not be long term sustainable.

Spiderman remakes as the new Hamlet is interesting conceptually as a hard sci fi or alt hist topic. I don't think it would be realistically possible with one showing per year to 0.1% or less of the population dressed in black tie and gown.

A similar yet totally different "innovation within the framework" might be traditional soap opera writing. However that begins to get close to regular TV series. Would it be possible to put on thirty years of daily Spiderman daytime drama?
Your article mentions the reason you chose client code vs docker images, which I understand and can agree with. However, is there any plan to support docker images in place of client code?

What you're suggesting [initially] is very similar to what the folks at iron.io did but I'd really want to ship containers all around, not pieces of code. Iron.io addressed that a little too late in my opinion and their feature set around docker leaves a lot to be desired.

IMO, AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions are going to support docker in the near future, they have to if they want their ecosystem to be adoptable by all.
Most popular articles module for web site – looking for feedback
I have been working on a new service and need your feedback(is this useful service?).

http://m4you.org/

This is a free widget that displays the most popular content on your website, based on the statistics.
What can I say? We have perfected the art of trolling! :-)
people pay good money to maintain expensive piles of shit.
I don't know about the rest, but google has a large office in SF and many, many people wanting positions in it (even if just a few days a week).
How is the networking opporunities there? Are there a lot of entrepreneurs that you can meet and potentially become clients?
Google has a large office space just down the street here in SF. Yahoo has/had a huge office in SF. Then on top of that, there are ton of buses going from SF down the peninsula, which recognizes that choice of many to live in SF.
Oh yeah sorry, I see what you're saying now.
I like the idea of getting the first part of a movie for free, although I can imagine movies would eventually be written and produced in such a way to hook you in at the beginning with less attention given to the ending.
I look forward to the day where people can improve upon their project based on gained knowledge without passive aggressive comments about the lack of back compat.

This is how software improves. You are not forced to upgrade to the next version.
>How do you justify to the person paying for it that you are are going to spend money to build essentially the same system?

Obviously in that:

1) It will completely work with your existing clients etc, because it does exactly what the old one does, with no wild new features and untested stuff.

2) It will bring your old legacy app up to date with a modern language, being able to run in modern hardware, maintained by readily available programmers for hiring, etc.

3) It will allow you to start to add all kinds of features a couple of years down the line, as the remake proves a success, and any minor issues are ironed out.

4) It's much less of a risk of some total rewrite, with a new architecture, ambitious plans, and the idea that you can just migrate the data and switch over, since those "second systems" tend to fail, and over-shoot their costs.

>The only way to justify is if the maintenance costs are higher than the redevelopment costs.

You forgot the opportunity costs. Enabling them to be more agile, add new features, take advantage of modern pool of programmers, etc., is important, even if they have first to build an identically behaving version of their legacy app.
The big studios with big budgets for big blockbuster movies are a very proven model. At least until the model goes bust with too many losses compared to wins. Happens with Music Labels plenty as well.

I like to think "Hollywood" is changing, and A24 is at the forefront of doing things right.
Use wordpress for your content.

The clouds will charge $300 when you'll go first page on HN. You don't want that.
The Facebook app is incredibly hungry (on Android). Dropping the all brought me hours of battery life and per charge and hours per day from no longer finding myself randomly vegging on my feed.

I use a home screen web shortcut - it looks like an app and runs quickly. You won't regret the jump.
Also would think you have to win by more to cover all the losses.
Want to know the best part? Nearly all of those signature sounds were generated algorithmically by the processor on the sound board.

The main program would feed some values into a series of feedback loops and shifts to generate the waves before pushing them out the DAC. Game programmers would just play around with various vectors until they found something that sounded interesting.

The whole shebang ran in 2KiB of ROM firmware and 128 bytes of RAM. At 894 kilohertz.

This dude reverse engineered the 6802 code and translated it to C#. Pretty amazing:

http://www.lomont.org/Software/Misc/Robotron/

Next time on our show we'll talk about the magic of palette cycling. Jarvis still uses this on his games to this very day. Kind of his signature now, right?
> backcompat-breaking changes to React-Router

We had breaking changes from 0.13 to 1.0.

Then complete BC from 1.0 to 2.0

That's two years, one breaking upgrade.

Don't confuse a libs "changing API" with "people use the development branch as stable".
"I don't know too many private school kids who get out of high school and can't read."

I don't know too many private schools who would admit the kind of kid that would finish high school and not be able to read. Public schools don't have that luxury.
I don't think there is a "right" or "wrong" company providing the labor. I just think that by exploiting vulnerable non-citizen "guest" workers and promising to sponsor a green card, these companies have been able to suppress wages to an extent that I am not comfortable with. Also, H1B looks a lot like indentured servitude to me. I have watched close friends suffer through this process.

Foreign workers need full payment of competitive market rate wages as well as the ability to fully maneuver in the marketplace so that they can act in their own best interest. It's already hard enough for them coming to the US with less competitive skillsets, but if they could bargain freely, they could at least earn market-rate wages in their skill range and grow their careers organically.
What disturbs me most in recent years, is the lack of self-awareness concerning groupthink among fellow members of the left in the US. I keep seeing thinking and behavior along these lines: Because the other side are so horrible in their views/morals we are justified in doing bad things to them. People seem to think that being "on the side of justice" means they can emotionally wound, attack the livelihood, shout down, or physically/bureaucratically exclude people whose views they do not like. Gandhi had a phrase for this: "An eye for an eye, making the whole world blind." Just because "the other side" is so horrible, doesn't mean you are justified in going not quite as far.

Being on the side of justice means according all of your fellow human beings the same rights and respect, even your opponents and even your "enemies." A democratic society whose leaders no longer stand up for principles is a society that is breaking down. A movement that claims it is about "justice" but which doesn't stand up for principles -- even when it comes to calling its "own side" into account -- is philosophically and ethically bankrupt.
There actually are some cross-sync addons out there, IIRC. Or at least there were; I used to use one when I was still in the process of migrating from all-Chrome to all-Firefox.
The instructions of "how to reproduce it" should include detailed description of what was seen and thus is being reproduced.
You're not alone. I'm older than you are. Theoretically I'm too old to be employed as a programmer. Yes, I've lost out on a lot of jobs because they asked trivia questions about some language or computer science concept I hadn't thought of in years. I prefer to look at it as their loss. It seems to me that the emphasis on memorization of abstruse detail tends to favor younger people. Us older folks don't remember quite as quickly but we have more experience in solving problems. Therefore, those interviews show a fundamental misunderstanding of the needs of the job. In other words, you might be better off avoiding those places anyway.

All that said, I have been almost continuously employed for a dozen years or so. Periods of unemployment are short, and when I work the pay is high. While I may fail to answer the random BS questions at several interviews in a row, I get far more interviews than people I know in other lines of work, and wind up employed again after far shorter periods of time. Sometimes it's freelance or contract work but even those are paying excellent money for programmers these days.

I guess it's a trade off. You have to endure a lot of frustration to get to the satisfying and successful bits. Don't give up hope! (But do see if there's a side project that can tide you over. Programming skills can support many baskets to put your eggs in)
Consider a mathematical spherical construct that contains more than the the r^2 amount of entropy than can be described by the Holographic Principle. What makes that not possible under the theory? What breaks down? Is there a physical analogy for it?
Bill Gates warns against denying climate change