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This is a non-sense to me. My opinion about what a woman would do does not have a value because I am not a woman, but you are talking about men and woman and I should take into account you opinion? I don't think you are both a man and a woman.

> I think people of both genders make real-world decisions very differently to hypothetical decisions

based on your reasoning you cannot say that because you cannot have an opinion about what the other gender would do.

The fact is that a lot of women reply to my comment saying that they would do the same I said I would do.
>"Bolt is the first truly great EV ever built at an "affordable" price."

I would curious to hear your opinion on what things specifically makes the Bolt a great EV - features, comparative specs etc.
One big difference between Cruise and the rest is that the CEO has built a self driving car from scratch.

Because of the inherent path dependency in Hybrid systems (i.e. Software written for one car will most certainly not work on other hardware configurations), I believe having technical knowledge in the leadership makes a huge difference in the long run.

The Presence of "old world" tech managers is going to hurt any AV project because building ML systems is so very different because of the implicit empiricism and randomness inherent in the process and the systems.
I would be surprised if a highly-intelligent biologist with some background in genetics wrote such a document on a whim rather than on evidence and information acquired over the course of his academic work. I'm not saying it's impossible - just that I'd be surprised.
> Who wants to discuss the suppression of content on HN?

Careful. This is how you get hellbanned.
Thermal efficiency basically refers to just the efficiency of an ICE (or any heat engine for that matter) – i.e. how much of the chemical energy of the fuel you manage to convert into mechanical energy in the drive train. The better the efficiency, the less fuel you need to produce the same power output, obviously producing less CO2 in the process.

(To be more specific, the terms are often used interchangeably. Thermal efficiency has an exact definition in an ideal heat engine and even ways of calculating the theoretical maximum for given conditions – but CO2 or chemical reactions have nothing to do with an ideal heat engine to start with. I'd personally perhaps prefer to talk about just the efficiency in an actual ICE – even if just to be clear none of the losses are conveniently left outside the calculation.)
I'm British, and while some people have credit cards, most people I know don't. I have a bank debit card and I use the single card to pay for pretty much everything I don't pay for directly with cash. I have zero debt, because I always pay up front for everything.

I do get lots of junk mail for credit cards, have done for decades, so I could get one tomorrow if I desired. But I don't see any real value in doing so; why get into debt if you can avoid it.
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The app has been the #1 free app in AppStore for a couple months now. Curious about its growth story.
True, it's not totally homogeneous. But it does support searching through them from one interface.
To people who are flagging this submission: please stop and think for a moment before doing this. Does it really deserve being flagged?
How would that work? For the company to make a profit, employees by definition have to produce more value than they consume.
Sadly, cable bundling is what allowed small channels like AMC and TNT to develop programming and reach an audience that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.

That's all going to consolidate into the hands of a couple of major producers (Disney, HBO, Amazon, Netflix, maybe Hulu) and that's about it.
Probably ICO's as a stable 'investment' vehicle in it's current form, as the market will eventually correct itself to match the real underlying value.

That doesn't mean there isn't a ton of real value being generated here or that it doesn't have the potential to be at the scale it is now. It just might be too much, far too soon.

Building companies and innovating is hard, flooding capital to it will boost the value generated but you can't simply manufacture it artificially by throwing money at it unless there is real talent and business models underneath.

Just look at that Circle startup that raised a record seed round based on a nice sounding team and a half-baked idea. Too much money can actually hurt some companies chances.
My Mi Box (Android TV) lets me search accross apps so I just usually search for movies and shows that way unless I know it's already on Netflix. The weird part for me is Disney coulda just made themselves exclusive to Hulu instead. Just means I wont be watching any Disney movies or shows ever again since I won't bother paying for just Disney or even having regular cable (no more Disney channel for me). Sadly for others it may mean torrenting because the convenience is taken away for the sake of profit.
Fuck, that sounds awful.

It's hard for me to believe that there are techies who haven't ever heard of Peopleware, have never heard of Joel Spolsky and his FogBugz offices, and have never consulted even a single authority on what makes software developers productive. It's even harder to believe that those people are responsible for diverting giant sums of money towards making palatial office buildings that will house thousands of such developers.
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The big Media companies want it to work like cable because they think their "premium content" will get people to pay more.

In reality, they are likely to trigger a backlash that increases piracy instead.
"Elephants in zoos sleep for four to six hours a day, but in their natural surroundings the elephants rested for only two hours, mainly at night." [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39126993
My company recently switched to an open floor plan. It's done nothing but increase distractions and office gossip. Everyone I know tries to get away from their desk as often as possible. Ducking into side rooms, attempting to work from home, and just plain using any excuse to escape the zoo.

Management loves open plans because it's the cheapest seating arrangement. They claim that it will increase collaboration while exempting themselves from having to deal with the environment. The truth is that just being able to see someone without walking over to their desk isn't going to magically make you communicate with them more or make your output higher. Some people like open floor plans but it's been my experience most people don't and just grin and bear it while slowly dying inside.
Oh man, will they pull Marvel content off Netflix as well? If so, then fuuuuuu, Netflix becomes less and less useful to me.
I also doubt that it was flagged because it would generate low-quality discussion. But I do not doubt that low-quality discussion would have followed had it not been flagged off the front page.

I see flags, especially when they are abused, as indicators that having a high-quality discussion is going to be next to impossible. If people are going to use one tool (flags) poorly, it's likely they will use a more powerful tool (comments) poorly.
> Go is a general purpose programming language, just like C, C++, Java or Python. For example, I’ve been using Go for about 2 years and I’ve never written a single server in it.

This made me twitch because ultimately no argument should start with, "I use it this way and not that way, so change what you're doing." This was followed by:

> For this reason, when designing the Go language and it’s standard library, we need to approach it from a general purpose language perspective.

My understanding of what's being said here is simply: "I code in Go in this particular way, so it should be made to suit those requirements." Just because you don't write servers in Go it doesn't mean others don't. I personally enjoy the production ready HTTPS server and client on a daily basis. I'm constantly writing APIs in Go.

All I'm saying here is don't start by saying something doesn't suit your needs so it needs to change.

The rest of the article was great and gave me more insights into how Go works, so I thank you for that. And it's possible there is a better solution for context that should be considered for v2.

Thanks for the good read.
Those are all movies. Streaming services get traction from episodic series and live shows.

If Disney streams only feature film content, it will go nowhere. No parent will pay $10-$20 month to access the same 50 to 100 films over and over.
Probably the fact that in a library, there is a cultural expectation of quiet, built over the years by librarians shushing loud people. Thus, if you want a quiet place to work, you go to a library. I need a librarian in my (open) office.
The post that follows is tangentially related, but maybe some might want to discuss.

I think it's amazing how we live in an age where diversity seems to be of so much importance in tech. We saw this happen with the ousting of Kalanick at Uber, with the now infamous Google diversity memo, with Dave McClure, with Justin Caldbeck, and so many others.

Now, I'm not sure if diversity is as virtuous in tech as it is in something like medicine (I'm reminded of Bakke v. UC Regents) or politics (I'm reminded of MLK), but to argue one way or another would take a lot of effort and research. Overall, though, I think we're heading in a good direction.

However, I think that a much more important distinction -- more than race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. -- is wealth. As Diane Greene was speaking about her sailing, I couldn't stop thinking about how different I am than her (and probably most of the people in that auditorium). This isn't because I'm a guy, as I'm sure my sister would feel the same way.

See, I grew up dirt poor in a third-world country where I distinctly remember not being able to afford food (in the first few years after Communism fell). When we immigrated to the US, my parents had no support system. They are college educated, but still had to work menial jobs (my mom cleaned houses under the table, for example). Because of their hectic schedules, my sister and I couldn't attend computer club, or math club, or sailing class -- not that we even went to schools that had sailing class.

Now, this isn't meant to be self-serving, and my sister and I ended up alright (both six-figure-making UCLA graduates in Los Angeles); even my parents' Southern California house is now worth $1M+; so, for 20 years in the States, I think that's pretty good. But it's just meant to show the amount of privilege wealth affords you is far beyond any other kind.
But you still don't need C++ to "truly get the app you want." Only when you cross a certain performance threshold do you need to look elsewhere. Most electron apps perform well enough despite the rampant RAM and battery consumption.
It's really kind of amazing to me how in 20 years we've gone from laughing at the cacophonous, claustrophobic, diseases-transmission-inducing, open office plans of other economic regions (ex: the traditional Japanese office http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CadIFZ3h638/T7yGtzdxVDI/AAAAAAAABe..., or the Wall Street trading floor), to precisely emulating their layouts (with better superficial aesthetic design), inheriting both their economic efficiency and productivity inefficiencies.

I'll take a cube farm with 5 feet walls any day over an open office.
With Netflix my bill has gone up to $10/mo. I doubt I'll pay any more.
Hi guys! Author here, I made the site using React (As a learning experience), React router, bulma.io and themoviedb.org API.

Here's the source code if anyone's curious! :)

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> If your gross profit (not including rent and other fixed costs) at a restaurant is, say, 80%, do you still think 1% CC fees are silly?

That's a question, but that's not what things look like.

Many German businesses are operating at razor-thin margins, or even at losses. From farmers (which lose around 13ct for every liter milk sold) to small restaurants (often making losses on all of the food, and only minor profit on the drinks) to any other kind of business.

If you are a 4 people company and you're trying to compete (and do so successfully) with american multinational chains, then you don't have enough profits to pay 7% CC fees. You'll be lucky if you can afford the 30€/month + 0.125% EC fees, and many businesses can't even do that.

> If I go to Germany and I'm having a meal with clients I'll phone ahead and see if they accept CC and won't visit if they don't.

Trust me, these businesses prefer not having your business. You'd only make losses for them.
Perhaps it's the expectation of near silence (you might work together but you'll keep your voice down) and lack of visual noise in the library?

In my open plan office I have:

- People walking past my desk

- People walking behind me

- People walking in front of me, over the "wall"

- A team that regularly has stand up meetings behind me

- Coworkers that talk loudly at their own desks, near mine

- Coworkers that talk loudly in a small more private area, ~10ft away

- A small meeting room with a door that doesn't isolate noise very well

- A kitchen ~20ft away with a loud espresso machine

Plus, I'm in a large room and can hear conversations up to 50ft away. Given the number of people, there's nearly always one happening.

In a library, you've got a quiet space with an expectation that people will keep their voices down. Study desks often have high walls in the front and to the sides, to block out visual noise. They're also often isolated from major traffic areas.

Libraries are designed to optimize intellectual work and study, open plan offices are absolutely not.
> what we learned from the unrest that the U.S. faced during the Vietnam war era.

That the counterculture and the Communists were actively trying to make us lose a war? The author of this discusses real problems with the US -- situations like Guatemala, where we backed a feudal aristocracy, or Iran, where we set the country back considerably by helping overthrow Mossadeq -- and not just conspiracies carried out by our enemies.

Thinking about the meaning of "empire", I wonder if it would've been better for the US to have made various outright annexations after WWII. Not having to deal with an independent local government, or with self-interested local elites, makes things clearer and easier; the US's interventions in El Salvador or Guatemala would've been significantly less nasty if they had begun with annexation and the extension of domestic policies like EITC, Social Security, and property tax...
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> Why were these recordings played and digitized in stereo when the records were mono?

Probably to allow for better post-processing in case one groove wall is in better condition than the other. They seem to be going for completeness rather than hard drive efficiency.

http://great78.archive.org/preservation/

> This means we deliver both groove walls of 4 different stylus sizes with and without EQ for a total of 16 channels of audio. The most comprehensive presentation of 78rpm discs ever!
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> You probably have no idea how it is to live in a country that has capital controls

Give me a break, young man, it was a common thing in many places until the 80's.
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I'm curious. Have you figured out an accurate method? I've seen various flawed attempts (like an embedded image).
Nice and clean website.
The issue with the essay is that it's connecting two points that do not necessarily connect.

First, you have biological differences between men and women. These are reasonably well characterized, and the sorts of psychological differences that might impact the workplace are small but present. It's still very difficult to get into specifics, however, as definitions/measuring is difficult (lots of room for error here) but the thesis of 'this may be relevant, and we should be able to discuss this' is supported.

Then you have the various stereotypes about men and women that we observe in the current population. There's a lot of nuance here and, again, a lot of room to confirm your own biases, but on the whole there are certainly differences. The question is mostly nature vs. nurture and how much of this is cultural historical artifact.

The problem comes from trying to explain the latter with the former. This is difficult to do in a scientific way; the essay mentions castration and some cultural practices that can suggest some aspects of this relationship, but it's a far cry from being generally explanatory. It's all terribly specific and contextual and the state of the art is so far away from explaining bias/discrimination in hiring/employment that it's arguably not worth mentioning.

The equality/diversity contradiction is a good enough point to make, but it doesn't accomplish much. The real thesis is that Google's hiring practices are discriminatory, but there's not a clear scientific answer to that at all. Aiming for rough equality seems like a conservative approach; the distributions for these metrics suggest something like single-digit-percent differences between populations of men and women (i.e. lots of overlap due to variance). A 'worst-case' for discrimination against men seems very likely far less severe than the current state of discrimination against women where 9:1 ratios are not unheard of. And this is certainly a wonderful opportunity for debate and may not be correct, it currently is not proven to be incorrect by any stretch, and thus it cannot be claimed that the hiring practices are discriminatory.
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I like the idea of a standard signaling + param passing struct{}. I don't like the idea of context.Context slowly taking over the whole golang stdlib.

Then again, I'm positive I'm not as smart as numerous google (and golang) engineers that have already thrown around ideas so maybe this isn't as big a deal as it seems.

Not sure I have a solution, but I'd love to see someone come up with one before context "infects" every function related to I/O.
If you are on a Mac, give BBEdit a try—it’s really fantastic.
It seems crazy that BAMTech grew out of MLBAM - no one would ever have predicted that Major League Baseball would end up being the starting point for one of the biggest companies in online video streaming.
There are many of us who code in spurts, and spend the rest of the time goofing off on Reddit or hacker news. At the same time, we'd prefer not to get judged on what percentage of time we have Facebook open on our monitors, and more on the work we do. But when everyone can see what you're doing, it's hard to get rid of the nagging feeling that you're being watched.
Relevant: [audio] http://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539092670/you-2-0-the-value-of...
It's worse than that, managers like open plan because they can "feel the energy" of people working, subconsciously they want to see all the work being done, and to know who leaves and arrives when.

And notice how managers always arrange to have their screens hidden from others view, while most people feel a constant sense that someone is looking at their screen.
I also see them as a lack of respect.
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> Just curious how you sourced your Ensibukko investment....

I'd like to know the answer to this too.
as much as Africa is not a country, it's absolutely crucial to be able to scale across borders to be able to achieve VC returns here. In Africa, if you stay in one country with an idea that's not a basic need you have very little chance of doing over $500k in revenue.
Wouldn't it be better if Disney bought Netflix. Sure it's a much more expensive move, but consider their large (and pretty loyal) customer base, content library, data insights on what people want to watch, award winning movie and series strategy, etc. Disney could populate Netflix with more content of their own, own all the revenue, while still providing users with a vast variety of content. Netflix brought all the content together in an awesome and simple experience. Large co's are smelling dollars so they start to build their own Netflix clone with their own content. Customers don't want to pay for 20 different subscriptions. Give us 1 simple app, with all the content, and we'd probably pay a lot more for it.

Disney is obviously thinking they have the winning strategy with their large license database. They'll obviously lure people in with Star Wars exclusive content, Pixar, etc. But if they'd go the extra mile of buying Netflix, and giving us 1 subscription 'to rule them all', they'll prove their care for their customers.
Fortunately there is enough competition in the space that maybe the prices for each channel will go down. I've already switched to watching free content on youtube for my primary source of video entertainment.
> Am I confused or is it not the case that the whole argument for Electron is "write once in Javascript, have a native app for all platforms"? If this is what a flagship Electron app has to do to be performant, is there a real future in Electron?

You are absolutely right and that's the biggest irony of all that, them going down to C++ .

What they should have done is like Sublime Text. Write the GUI in C++ then use Javascript as the scripting layer for your apps (instead of Python).
It's a long (long) time since I read state of the art, but I think you could mangle the tale of the benevolent super culture visiting Earth and eating meat made from the DNA of world leaders :)

I think SotA was the third Banks book I read, after The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory, and I don't recall there being any gulf of appreciation from not having being previously immersed in The Culture.
I agree with you. So I don't know who you are arguing against. Perhaps an accidental strawman?

Edit: I'm only talking about their drive towards nuclear weapons, not any other aspects of the regieme (starvation, kidnapping, torture, killings, etc). How they go about their goals is all their own damn fault.
Maybe when I am 60, 70 or 80 the film industry will get their shi* together and finally agree on a solution that has long been found in the music business.

For a truly complete platform, I would FOR SURE pay more than the 10$ a month for Netflix. 20, maybe 30! But then I want it ALL. All films they have in storage.

I mean, it is 2017 and there are a lot of films I can't find on Netflix, Amazon Prime or, when I am in spending mood, on Apple TV. Why? I mean how silly would you want to be as studios? There is no big DVD business anymore, BlueRay never totally took off. People have a net connection and multiple streaming devices at home, thats it. Thats the big asset they could build on! Instead they let their libraries die the death of the unseen film.

Still, many keep shuffeling around harddrives with terabytes of pirated films. And why shouldn't they, as long as there is no substantial offer?

So I decided for me (and the cloud guy I am), that with my 3 services I have, I am ok. If a film is not there, I don't care. I surely won't order a DVD of some old film somewhere and I surely will not subscribe to another service. If Disneys pulls their films from Netflix: thanks Netflix for their growing self produced content that often has a quality not seen before.
Hmm. My little sister watches all her Disney tv series on YouTube and she doesn't care how awful the quality is. Sometimes I'm appalled how she can watch Princess Anna (??) in a small screen, at 240px and x2 speed.

As for Disney movies, we tend watch them in cinemas, and if they're really lovable, get them on DVD too.

I get that Disney wants their own ecosystem but I think this one may be redundant. We already fork out monthly subs on Netflix and Amazon Prime (lets not forget Hulu and others are beefing up too) and at least, these services cater for both adults and children.