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> Most of us don't even want "channels": we want specific shows.

That, and have different viewing habits.

I am watching a very small number of shows (usually somewhere between 1 and 3) at any given time, and watch the entire season (or sometimes multiple seasons) before moving onto something else. For shows where I'm caught up with the most recent season but are released as one episode a week, I wait until they're done the season before starting the first episode.

Also, when I want to watch a show, I want to watch a show. I do not schedule my life around TV. I do not care that it's 12 minutes past the hour, or that new episodes come out on Wednesdays, or that I missed watch last week's episode.

Old cable TV considers DVR the solution here, and this service looks to have "cloud DVR" but that misses the point. Netflix has no "DVR" because you can just press play and watch any show they have. I assume you have to press "record" in advance in order for it to be in your DVR -- maybe it's really advanced and it'll "record" the show from the start even if it's already started.

Realistically, a "Cloud DVR" is basically just a whole bunch of files storing each show, and a database entry that says user x has access to file y. Pressing "record" is what makes that database entry, with arbitrary rules that say you can't do it if the "air date" is in the past, and you can only have just so many database entries that total up to 200 hours of content.

It's not much different than Netflix, except that Netflix doesn't have the access control database or arbitrary rules.
Mint is a great just works as is most distro based on ubuntu.
Repost from yesterday as I redeployed after posting causing a 404 shortly after. :)
If you could find that article, I'd be very interested in reading. I ask because I'm quite skeptical of the concept of humans "evolving" different time-preferences. Mostly because of 2 questions: "How was that selected for," and, "given that very little has changed about humans through evolution in the last 10,000 years, what sort of timeline did the article suggest this 'time-preference' evolution occured over?"
The work is already being done. It's just not being shared.
There's no performance difference as long as the swap file doesn't have "holes" (meaning that the file is contiguous on-disk).

There's the convenience of being able to re purpose the storage as long as swap isn't being used.
CBT isn't as simple as "you can control your thoughts". It's a carefully structured plan of therapy to give a person the skills and techniques they need to control thoughts.

By saying, and repeating "you can control you're thoughts" without giving any of the detail of CBT you're merely telling people with depression to just think themselves happy.

Also, people with OCD will find it harder to control their thoughts, and people with psychosis may find it impossible without medication.
> Spirits are part of the consciousness of people that have died, and have not returned to their source. They lost contact with themselves, and with reality. They identify themselves with anything that they can attach themselves to. So when you are very stressed due to work or life, it can happen that a spirit joins your experience and identifies itself with you.

Upon what do you base this claim?
Not a Thunderbird fan? What's your preferred mail client? I'm looking for something else; I've got my eye on Claws and Evolution but haven't started to play around with anything yet.
Stripe launches engineering magazine – Increment
We changed the title from "FreeNAS Corral is dead" to how the subtitle puts it. If I know our readers, "Important announcement" is too vague to satisfy anyone.
How can they charge you that fee? All it would mean is that you won't board the plane and instead take another flight.

I have done this before because buying a new ticket cost me less than moving the existing ticket. So I just didn't check in, and didn't turn up for the flight.
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I've never been somewhere where I can't work remote at all, but you end up having to work closely with electrical engineers and that often leads to needing to be near an office. I'd say I actually need to be in my chair about 20-30% of the time
What makes you think taking out ISIS is not an achievement?
The food we consume now has little resemblance past a visual one (and even not that in some cases), to food of the past.

When did strawberries change?
Ask someone with design experience to create it for you?
Even going very low carb, gluconeogenesis paths can still cause a diabetic to have very elevated blood sugar... It's about keeping things as level as possible and a non-invasive monitoring path can help a lot...

I was very low carb (fewer than 30g/day) for over a year, and was still hospitalized for ketoacidosis.
Oh, it's an issue. You just may not have gone after high-value easy-to-copy products as others have.

I haven't had a problem with top products being counterfeit, but maybe because I tend to buy them directly from the manufacturer (Apple) or from brick-and-mortar stores where I have the goods in-hand before purchase (Nikon); I'm willing to pay a more those ways for the assurance that I'm getting what I think I'm getting.

The bigger problem I've found is counterfeit & knock-off accessories. Once I've paid US$X,000 for a products, I can't trust Amazon to show me suitable batteries, chargers, lenses, etc - there's so much money in selling those things, and it's so easy to make crap that ...works... but which is problematic somehow (dangerous knock-off chargers, batteries that swell or die, etc).

Amazon is great for stuff that nobody would seriously try to copy & undercut in a deceitful manner. Yes, you can get great deals on stuff people would seriously try to deceitfully copy & undercut, but with enough money riding on it working right, I'll spend a few bucks more elsewhere to be sure I'm getting the real thing.
Avoiding the “Sorcerers Apprentice” Problem of Software Releases
Kwark of yoghurt om je gezondheid te verbeteren en makkelijker af te vallen
People are more tolerant of buggy and/or slow tech if said tech might increase their chances of getting laid. A more direct example is Tinder and other dating apps like it: the quality of those apps are somewhat lower than others with similar popularity, but people just deal with it anyway.
Seems it was an isolated mountain tunnel system only inhabited by ISIS.
No real objections to me from that.
KDE Plasma? I haven't used it personally but from looking at the screenshots and videos featuring it, I think it looks good aesthetically.

And the trope that KDE is bloated hasn't been true for the past 6 or 7 years too.
Sounds like you just need to fix the tools you have. I'm not sure how allowing everyone to choose whatever they want would somehow end in standardization.
They got all of ISIS with one bomb? Good job, promotions all around.
The Quiet Failure of Sony’s Giant Cassette Tape
"We use SEO to concentrate niche product conversions on our website." Seems briefer, more honest, and it's more obvious why that would make money.

The people who ended up buying a creative stuff were going to do it anyway, and the people who were going to sell it do so slightly more often. Now they do it on your website, because a search led them there!

The "Route to Market" slide changes are pretty funny. You're microoptimizing for how concrete you should state, "We're sending spam to Craigslist, Dribbble, and Behance users to find stuff to sell, and we're cramming Google to find buyers." It's smart from a business point of view, though utterly indefensible.

Never mind that your post is a submarine advertisement. There's something about your deck and how you write that's very off-putting, like a synthesis of different startup personality tropes.

It's ironic, because people who are actually really creative—who will deliver the best value for presumably your customers—would have an allergic reaction to this article. Maybe the mediocre sellers and desperate buyers won't.

Does Twine concentrate mediocrity? That's my takeaway from the deck. It's probably unfair.
This is a transformative work, not a derivative one. Amusingly, the people who most dislike it are bolstering its legal future with their complaints, the most strident of which I anticipate will be cited in legal briefs.
:) magicinstruments.com
Elementary.io maybe?
> integrates perfectly with their core photo sharing product

This is the key thing. While I don't use any of their Snapchat cloned features, I do think their photo product is very good. So you can see what they are doing to users like me. I'm now more likely to use their stories because I already like the core product. Also, celebrities have a higher reach on Instagram than on Snapchat, so the transition for them is seamless while also maintaining (and increasing) their existing follower base.
Huawei latest company to invest $1B in public cloud
How are artists doing with traditional album sales (digital or physical)? As far as I can tell, music sales have basically always been A) you're a huge artist and make lots of money or B) you're not huge and you can only make money touring.
There are some gnome themes that you can apply that might do the trick:

https://www.slant.co/topics/2087/~gnome-shell-themes
I'm not convinced either. It's not clear that the compiler should do that. You just allocated a new array, and (may have) made copies of the values in the original array. Reordering the new array will not reorder the original one. etc. etc. It's not clear to me what you'd want to do in every case, let alone to a compiler.

Just curious: did you mean empathic or empathetic or emphatic? :-)
Could you point me to what you mean, or how you found that meaning here? I grant that I probably bring my own biases to this interpretation, but the article made me think, "teachers now have to spend their own salaries on teaching material because districts only buy lousy, overpriced stuff (if that) from textbook publishers. Worse yet, the jerks feel the need to attack the teachers who are sharing their material, as if $40k p.a. entitled them to 168 hours of their employees' time each week."
Obviously genetic issues are deeply personal. I'm not advocating denying people fundamental rights.
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> if you're looking for a "just works" desktop experience.

Pretty much every popular distro has this experience nowadays. Fedora(as a sibling poster mentioned) is indeed one of them and may I add, at least, twice as stable.
People at different ages have a different circadian rhythm. For teens and people in their early twenties it's a later rhythm. You can modify it, but it works to varying degrees. There have been several studies that showed that high school for example should start later because of this. It's currently only ideal for teachers. Blaming this on a lack of sleep hygiene and discipline doesn't really address the problem.
I'm not looking to any reference but a search should be trivial.
It seems like a valid point that many of the details of HTML and CSS, while you can use all kinds of fancy techniques to make them a little faster, impose limits on performance.
Overbooking: People bought too many tickets

Oversales: The airline sold too many tickets

It's a thin distinction to be sure, but it reads with rhetorical significance to me.
*voila.

Unless you really meant "raped", but for some reason I feel like this isn't it :^)
I use Lubuntu in a VM for my work http://lubuntu.net/ and it's been quite all right. All I use is chrome, slack and VSCode.
Wow did I miss something. Anyone care to describe the deleted comment with a little more clarity?
They got class stuff into the language, and that was no small feat (very contentious issue), even if it is still syntactic sugar over prototypes.
I'm well aware, but I think that tide is shifting - that's the point and why it's worth discussing.
It's not the video, it's about the community. You send a small video to your friends that you make in 5s with some silly shit.

I don't see how this fits with the 'hey world, look at my perfect life' photos of Instagram.

My guess is that it's as much a move to force people into a feed where they are forced to interact more with ads since IG ads don't perform well as show investors they compete with Snapchat.

I don't see an exodus of Snapchat users to Instagram.
This is true. As someone who's worked remotely for the last four years, I can say that you want to be in the room for decisions that are made in the room.

For those who are thinking of going fulltime remote, I recommend doing so at companies where everyone works remote, or on teams where everyone works remote. Freelancing and contracting can work too, if you don't mind the extra hustle needed to line up clients.

But being the only remote guy at a company full of cubicle dwellers is just asking to me left out of important discussions or being the first to be fired or blamed in times of trouble.
It's closer to the equivalent of putting the "Three Soldiers" statue right next to the Vietnam Memorial Wall, except those are works of art that actually matter. I'm not so sure about the bronze statues in NY. If my Facebook feed is any guide, the bull is there because people get a kick out of being photographed next to giant testicles.
Also the command dc ships with most Linuxes. It is included with the bc package.
Snapchat has never seemed buggy or slow to me. It is way more stable and and simple than anything from Facebook, that's for sure.
There are always trends in naming, especially when it comes to spamming - err, I meant to say growth hacking.

Scroll back over Hacker News over a few months and you can spot the moment when people caught on that putting "Machine Learning" in their titles got clicks, regardless of how valid that was.

"$TECH weekly" is a similar level of branding to all those lists of projects which are "curated". Seriously search past submissions for "A curated list of ..". They're cookie-cutter posts that could probably be generated by machine-learning!
Within the scope of copyright for sculptural works, what part of the Fearless Girl sculpture would you consider a derivative work?
"Working remotely doesn't mean you're a hermit."

Yes, I'd call it much closer to monk-like existence.

It still isn't what the vast majority of humanity is going to prefer.

The proof is that if there was some sort of massive preference for working from home, we should be seeing it now. The tech is here. The Internet is here. The computing power is here. All the preconditions would seem to be here. If what is missing isn't that humans don't generally prefer to be physically together in a group structure, what exactly is it? If the revolution is so inevitable, what's stopping it?

If the answer is "Well we need more VR that makes it feel like they are there", that's a goal post move. May be true, but still a goal post move. If the answer is "because $MANAGEMENT", what's going to change about that in the future, and why aren't the managers also eager to work from home if it's so inevitable? If the answer is "Well Americans (who are uniquely terrible in all the world) have this irrational desire to spend time in their car in gridlock because they love it so much" then I guess that's more inevitable than the move to telecommuting then, huh? I haven't got an alternate explanation for why this isn't already happening that makes any sense, other than, we are not generally psychologically suited to work that way.
Here is podcast on same topic:
http://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-34ckh-2254321
Isn't this a bit misleading since you had VC's unlike most startups who are trying to raise money without them
You're right. That's why we have infinite copyrights now and that works great for making sure the rich stay rich and the poor starving artists stay poor.
The Rise of a New Asset Class: A Home Ownership Investment
+1 on greyed out icons of frequent contacts. Cringed and closed app a few times due to this.
> That's not science, that's religion.

Call it what you like. It exists, and it's a problem. You're just nitpicking over terminology now.
the author made an attempt to create an animation from vector drawings created using this method:

https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/852312400481079296
This kind of thing makes sense if you were doing something like digging a trench, where the progress can be linear because the task A is the same as task A - 1. Why would anyone think that given a variety of tasks that each would take the same amount of time?
Thanks Stripe for advancing the industry by generating this content. I'm impressed with how broad they interpret their mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. Their Atlas program is the best example.

BTW on https://stripe.com/about I only found "Help us build the universal payments infrastructure of the internet." but it is listed on https://stripe.com/press

Disclosure: I'm interviewed in one of the pieces https://increment.com/on-call/the-benefits-of-transparency/
If it seems that way to you, you're in the right place and know the right people.

Not everybody has the connections you do.
I'd say it is over-optimization, but I'd agree that this is not the biggest problem. What drives me nuts a lot more, is that the same legs of flight cost completely different amount of money depending where they originate. Try e.g. selecting a flight say from LA to Frankfurt and back and then try selecting flights from Frankfurt to LA (such that legs each way overlap, so effectively it is the same seat on the same plane). Then you'll see what I'm talking about and how the US customer is royally shafted.
I remember reading Instagram blog posts and having a sense that engineering the product well was something they held to high importance. Since then they've been acquired by Facebook but their team still seems driven by those kinds of values.
The counterfeiters are also Bezos' customers he has to show them some true customer love too /s
You have created cats?

My experience with cats is that they are definitely intelligent, in general, and are aware of a lot of things, but they generally just don't care.

One VERY unique kitten that I had, whenever he approached a mirror, or a glass door or window, would stand up on his hind legs and rapidly rub or "massage" the glass with both his front paws, like a puppy, as if trying to climb it or roll it open.

Sadly I never captured the act on camera and he died an unfairly early death that I took a long time to recover from.
You included an interesting link. I think the difference between someone who has not yet boarded and someone who has already boarded is significant in terms of the time, effort and expectations of the individual.
In the Middle East, most people have both an Instagram and a Snapchat account. From what I've seen, they are equally popular with both young and older users.
When I was in middle school I read a new book about cell structure I found in the library, my favorite chapter was always about the so called primordial soup of lipids and simple organic compounds that could have setup the chemical basis for polymers to form and in turn create the building blocks for RNA. It was one of the main things that gave me an interest in science and engineering, up until that point people had always given me a "god did it" or "we still have no theories on that son". This brings me back to the good ol' days of trying to explain how RNA could come about, as a 12 year old, to middle aged religious teachers who shot me down every time. As a kid this made me turn to outside sources for knowledge, and in retrospect that was actually a good thing.
Direct democracy tends to lead to tyrannies of the majority. I'd much prefer a multi-party system with some form of instant-runoff voting or mixed member proportional voting.

*voila, as the French: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0
But by the time you'll be able to do this, maybe most people have gigabit fiber and wifi. At some point in the future, a few megabytes isn't going to matter.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14108915
1. "Only inhabited by ISIS" - Really? Says who? There were no villages or civilians within the kill perimeter?

2. What's the aftermath of a 21,000 pound munition on the environment and resources of the region. Do a google search for the impact of bombing in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc on local cancer rates.

Maybe you still don't object...but at least we can be clearer on the true impact of the bombing.
Neither does Snapchat, but I don't see how that changes the argument anyway. If Facebook greater serves its users needs, then that brings in more users who spend more time on its network of apps which greater serves its paying customers (advertisers).
Are you implying that what OP says is not true, or just pointing out the obvious?
STORIES! STORIES! EVERYWHERE STORIES NOW EVEN THOUGH NO-ONE IS USING THEM
I'm mystified by this personally. I frequently purchase from Amazon, and haven't(to my knowledge) received counterfeit goods. Generally I stick to "fufilled by Amazon" or otherwise first-party sellers, so that may have something to do with it. Maybe I'm not purchasing niche enough products to run into this issue.
MAU isn't a great metric, I'd prefer to see both platforms' DAU
Why I won’t date hot women anymore
I think one of the reasons it's been successful is that the principles like "Customer obsession" are easy to relate to. I worked in places where the ethos or culture were a number of open-ended platitudes. They were a number of words like "commitment" or "integrity".

"Customer obsession" is something everyone can grasp however. Everyone can relate to this; many of us are customers of Amazon ourselves. "Is this helping our customer?" "Is this something the customer wants?" "Do I have the customer's interests at heart?" When those are the questions being asked, then values such as honesty and integrity come out naturally.

That, to me, is probably the most enjoyable thing about working here. There is plenty of disagreement and debate on how to fix an issue, what it would take, or what's the right way to go about it. We often don't get to address things as quickly or as decisively as we'd like. But I never feel like "no one gives a shit". Everyone believes customer obsession is the right thing to be. And they, we, are fanatical about protecting it.

Jeff's a good guy. I admire him too.

(Disclaimer: I work for AWS)
There's other issues. Like the fact that you could run out of memory and allocation fails. Then what do you do? For hard real time systems crashing isn't acceptable, so you have to continue on, but assuming you actually needed that data you tried to allocate that's not going to be easy. So you need to prove your system won't ever allocate too much memory. That's pretty hard to do, and in most cases if you can prove that you can also write your system to use only static allocations.
(Artificial) Intelligence confuses the intelligent
Interesting model -- I went to add a niche newsletter* I help run, but saw that you are charging newsletter operators $9/month to post their list.

It makes sense, but I was expecting you to basically be the broker that takes a cut on the ad buy side from potential sponsors instead.

* Hyper-local newsletter for developers in Indianapolis: http://www.indyhackers.org/
Are they doing better when people are pirating?
The bands that I like, I buy the album from anyway just to support them. But for music that I listen to every now and then - they would not get me to buy their album. So they actually would either make no money from me, or a bit through spotify.
Whups. It's ps -W to find PIDs for Windows processes, and kill -f to use TerminateProcess. Got the two flags confused; you usually use one with the other.
Yeah. IM, email occasional phone works really well. What do you think of the web cam thing where people can see if you're at your desk? I've never tried it but the idea is a bit...uncomfortable... for me for some reason.