skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. And I also don't want to switch between various different and poorly designed UI's to navigate from the content of one provider to that of another. This problem needs to be solved, fast. We were promised a steaming tv revolution but I enjoy flipping channels and keeping track of broadcast times more than switching apps.
There have been hundreds of forks that went nowhere because no one cared about them. Litecoin did well. Dogecoin was so absurd it surprisingly didn't die on the vine. Bitcoin Cash was a high-visibility fork that was expected to fizzle out. It still is, but it's being propped up by some number of factors.

The point is that cryptos' values are based on widespread long term confidence. That is something that can be replicated. But, it's not as easy as hitting [fork this repo] on GitHub. At least 900 fizzled forks have demonstrated that.
Well now, there's a reason to hire folks like me. "Dude, I'm an able-bodied middle-aged cis het white man. If you ever get tired of me, you can just show me the door. I've got no recourse. Legally speaking, this is as safe as it gets."
I've been to India several times, and as a foreigner looking from the outside, I can say that it has much more consistent society than it may look to the Indians. The government, however corrupt, is still way better than what most African countries have.
I have prime video. It really is such a pain in the butt to watch it though. They lock themselves out of chrome cast, Kodi, basically everything I currently use to stream to my TV.

I'm really frustrated with it and don't feel like I'm getting value.
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? To me this seems like ridiculous premature optimisation. 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.
People quit because the modern, zero-loyalty, everyone-for-hire company does not provide a long term strategy for providing intrinsic motivation (autonomy, mastery, purpose)

Rands refers to this as your "shields down" moment.

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/
"They" are going to eventually realize that one of the primary draws and reasons for the early success of Netflix was the single-source-access to (at the time) pretty much everything.

Nobody wants to maintain a dozen different accounts with a dozen different services who have a dozen different content catalogs with a dozen different payments and have to bounce between them all to find what they want to watch.

It's much easier to just pirate or pick a different form of entertainment at that point.
No, we've tested for that repeatedly. That was, of course, the first thing scientists thought of to explain this excess non-luminous mass.

Could it be large transparent gas clouds? No, it turns out that gas clouds aren't completely transparent, and can be measured in various ways. We looked, we checked, such clouds don't contribute enough mass.

Could it be dust clouds? Dust clouds are not luminous but they do block visible light, so they'd be obvious. We looked, we checked. It wasn't dust clouds.

Could it be rogue planets or brown dwarfs? No, such objects would cause gravitational micro-lensing effects, which can be observed in dedicated campaigns. We looked, we checked. It wasn't planets or brown dwarfs.

The only theory that has withstood the last several decades of experimental observation and simulation has been the dark matter theory (weakly interacting massive particles at sub-relativistic speeds). It's the only thing that explains all the evidence across the board.
Even VSCode is sloppy and could go down easily IMO.

They have a folder with js modules (I didn't look too deep into it, there might be native dlls there too) that's 75 megs, compressing (and i.e.: recompressing on any change, update, download, etc.) would help with disk space taken and loading times. Not even an SSD will beat a zip file kept in memory, SSD, resolving file paths, NTFS, they still have overhead and I'm sure it'll be more than just decompressing out of a zip in memory.

would beat keeping that zip in memory and accessing it to decompress any script when needed.
75M resources
17M resources.zip
6.7M resources.7z

Third party ones aren't even minified which would be free size savings!

It's basically free saving and super common in game dev to package files and not have them scattered like that.
Lol. Employment isn't a protected right. Voicing your opinion is one thing, trying to use provable false statements to create a toxic work environment for one third of your coworkers is a PR disaster, terrible for moral, and 100% grounds for termination.
I'm not comparing living conditions of poor people in the middle ages to poor people today.

I'm comparing the ratio between the living conditions of the poor to the rich in the past, and to the poor to the rich today.

The ratio has never been smaller, but the NYT would never admit that.

This has been true from the beginning of history ~4000BCE til now.
Answers to Non Muslims Common Questions About Islam [pdf]
That's the concept behind the "TV" app on Apple TV/iOS.
Your parent comment was about Aldi. They have extremely fast cashiers, which is one of their cost reduction tactics.
M.T.A. Tries a New Tack During Delays: The Truth
Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network
What if we make a robot that dances those zeroes. Then we have unpredictable physical behavior.
Can you explain how reflection helps here? Are you saying that people still pass tracing objects around, except they don't have to be context.Context?

That's nice, but it doesn't sovle the fact that the auther (rightly!) doesn't want to add extra complication to interfaces like io.Reader
No context does 2 things :

- send signals by exposing a channel

- serves as a bag of values (the infamous .Values method ).

Context was invented because Go developers kept writing leaky servers as they were referencing *http.Request outside an http.Handler (for session management for instance) . If you do that, you need to be able to signal that the request treatment is done or you will have a memory leak.

I guess they added .Values(interface{})interface{} because they could.
To try to give a reasoned answer: there must be limits. And the limits will always be somewhat arbitrary. But the limits implied by Google's actions are clearly unreasonable in two ways:

1. I agree we should not allow racial slurs, or Nazi symbols, etc. We can do that because the vast majority of society disapproves of them. But the opinions in the document are not in that status: they are mostly rejected by progressives, debated by centrists, and mostly accepted by conservatives. In other words, Google has sent a signal of "you can't work here if you're not a progressive", and that's harmful on a societal level, because while we can have a functioning society after kicking out Nazis and people saying slurs, can we thrive if we have separate corporations for progressives and conservatives? No, we have to find a way to work together. Google's actions were a blow against such cooperation.

2. Saying that average group differences exist is a scientific fact (there are debates about where the differences lie, what they mean, what caused them, etc. but that some exist is long settled). And just acknowledging their existence seems to be what got this person fired, after others - including Google leadership - misunderstood average group differences to mean "one group is inferior to another".
Disney only owns ESPN through their ownership of ABC, FYI. That said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Disney
FYI you can view dead/flagged submissions by going to your profile and enabling showdead.

I don't know if this is the correct place to criticize HN's moderation policies, it's kinda disheartening to see the list of submissions that were removed. News articles regarding the diversity memo were allowed but submissions linking to the actual memo were removed for some reason. If the actual memo is sexist/bigoted, then people can read it directly and decide it for themselves, instead of relying on second hand information.

I mean even if you agree with what Google did, isn't it good that we discuss about it and point out the things that were problematic with that memo. What good does it do if we just try to shove the incident into a closet and pretend that it never happened?

Edit: Even this post was flagged :/
The fascinating reason that children write letters backwards
Sundar Pichai's reaction was also flawed...he mistook 'neuroticism' for 'neurotic' and asserted the memo called women neurotic.

https://medium.com/@100millionbooks/2-things-about-that-goog...
HN's flagging algorithm wasn't built to withstand mass false positives from people who would rather shout down, silence, and blow up certain conversations when they realize they lack the mental fortitude to do battle with the same scientific truth of which they mock the low-hanging-fruit of middle America for not comprehending.
Yes, but it's rather difficult to find censored articles in the first place, once they've gone dead.
Yes, they put our desks right next to finance, with that one person who is our "laugh really loud, laugh at everything and I mean _everything_" person.
We're looking at a future where you have to purchase access to content and delivery of that content piecewise. Prices will definitely increase largely for the same content and convenience. And at some point society's probably going to crack down on piracy as though it were a logical extension of hacking.
Mono has never put a focus on reliability or production-ready code. It's been awesome for desktop software and client applications, but we actually deployed ASP.NET on Mono to unify our deployment environment across our web infrastructure and ran into random bugs and show stoppers on a daily basis. And I'm not just talking about the horrible process of getting Visual Studio projects to deploy to a Mono server, the unavailability of certain APIs, functions that don't quite work the same way, or issues with the Mono frontend server, but also runtime infrastructure issues, random crashes, and more that made it a horrible nightmare worth maintaining two different operating systems for (our reliance on PHP for WordPress and vBulletin (back then, now XenForo instead of vB) meant we faced basically the same .NET-on-Linux issues with PHP-on-Windows, prevented us from going all-Windows at the time).

.NET Core is actually cross-platform from the ground up and the .NET Core team considers it blocking issue and won't release if the codebase doesn't run properly and identically on all supported platforms. It's a night-and-day difference.
Agreed, thats why there are proposals of introducing Observables as ES8 native datatypes. Note that while full RxJS is heavy, Observables are not. Its the multitude of operators to compose observables, and the various helper implementations of Subjects (AsyncSubject, ReplaySubject, BehaviorSubject etc.) - which are similar to Defereds in Promise world - that make RxJS so heavy. If you use only the Observable part with a slim selection of operators in your code, you will not add so much of the library to your code (but granted the patch-based API of RxJS is not really trivial).
I thing some of these topics are the most interestng we have.

I mostly accept that they don’t belong on HN though.

But it feels deeply hypocritical when some political stories stay on the front page for hours until more information starts to arrive and they get flagged off swiftly.
Maybe this is a dumb question...but didn't they ever do gene/dna testing on these fish before? No one realized they were the same species?
You're dodging the point. What, exactly, would you have done for these people? Invade to free them? Sparks a war of mass death across the peninsula. Try to convince the Kim regime to close the prison camps and end the totalitarian brutality? They don't seem very keen on doing that anytime soon.

So what's your plan?
> By internal, I meant a limited audience.

Well, It surely did not work out that way, and I stand by my caution to folks that however its defined (limited audience, private list, etc.) there will be someone to spread it beyond the original intended audience.
Hopefully Star Trek will give me a reason to start torrenting TV shows again, but I know I shouldn't get my hopes up.
If it also included every episode of all of their Disney Jr. shows, then it would be a no brainer.
Either:
* You're hypothesizing and I don't quite get it,
* haven't read the text and are basing on some misinterpretation you have seen somewhere on the internet
* or you're purposefully lying (which I assume you're not).

Please, just read the text: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
No I think hulu doesn't do great with streaming live stuff. The money is to move the NFL and ESPN stuff they have there.

They also see benifit from cutting the cost of a middle man on streaming.
When details of a piece of "open" software are so easily lost I shudder to think about the vast quantity of "closed" software that have had their history lost.

I also kept thinking about how the term "software archaeology" (which I first saw in the 1999 Vernor Vinge novel "A Deepness In the Sky") becomes more and more mainstream each day.
>This is precisely why we're stuck where we are in the first place.

No it isn't. It's a failure to acknowledge the reality of society we live and the language that powers and enables the status quo. It's an uncomfortable truth and one that has been painstakingly dug up over decades, but for every two steps forward on this subject the powers that be cause us to take one step back. Your unwillingness to substantially acknowledge such realities is what is stagnating this conversation, because certain ideas and solutions need to be repeated over and over again and sometimes re-branded to make it more appealing to people who don't want to address the problems present in our society.

Here we have a "memo" that uses credible science but has conclusions and ideas completely detached from that science, and then when it is pointed out how incredibly shit his conclusions are, it suddenly becomes an issue about "free speech." It's pretty akin to the whole "states rights" branding that happens with certain other political conversations. It IS dog-whistle language and utilizing such language while pretending you're not, and even worse pretending like you're actually making a point, is incredibly counter-productive to advancing anywhere on gender/sexual issues for everyone. It's dishonest at worst and ignorant at best.

This whole topic has PG's psuedo-philosophical musing's stink all over it and it's quite nauseating to have to dig through it. It's the bullshit asymmetry principle in action.
Even for 1%ers, there are people mature enough to enjoy the benefits of these services without falling prey to abusing them. You can abuse anything that feels good: TV, junk food, tabloids, etc etc.
Time to update this one?

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...

I want to like Atom becuause it's free and open source... but Sublime is so much faster.
Apple has the money to afford whatever it wants. If it's like any other place I've seen, I expect there's longstanding communication of one or another sort from high performers that they want distraction-free environments.

From what I've observed of such high performers, they are not anti-social nor anti-collaborative, nor are they "crippled" in either respect. Rather, many of them are the most capable in these areas, because they actually pay attention and focus on getting things done -- and done as well as time and resources allow.

The fact that Apple, like many workplaces I've observed, chooses to ignore this and push a paradigm that increases their stress and decreases their effectiveness and efficiency?

Well, as I learned in my own experience, over the years: This is just a fundamental level of dis-respect.

I don't know anything about Apple work internals, specifically; the last time I intersected with those peripherally was in the early '90's.

But when you blatantly disregard what employees tell you -- and in this case, "professional" employees who have a high degree of training and awareness about the tooling they need, including their work environments, to be most effective. Well, that's just disrespect.

And employers who persistently engage in such, deserve what they get. I hope -- because at some point, this counter-productive... "ideology" needs to die.

P.S. Those employees that want cubicles or open-space? Fine, give it to them. I don't want to dictate environment, either way.

Trust your employees to select what works best for them.

And measure the results. Objectively, not in the typical performance review ex post facto rationalization and justification.

In my own experience, top performers cautiously (politics) leapt at the chance to work from home and otherwise gain undistracted blocks of time to adequately focus on complex problems and program management.

Those who embraced the cycle of endless meetings, interruptions -- including environmental -- and superficially-addressed delegation? They faced the same problems, month after month, cycle after cycle.
I'm glad to see someone bring up Star Trek and CBS's streaming service. They seem to think the new Trek series will save CBS All Access; I would contend that CBS All Access will kill their Trek series. I've heard from people who tried it, they said the stream quality is terrible from both an audio and video perspective. If you're going to bet on your own streaming platform, you really shouldn't cheap out on the tech.
I don't think size is the big problem. Nigeria is the seventh most populous country in the world; larger than Russia or Japan.

You don't hear these things through the media. Population numbers are consistently surprising to me at least.
Some flavor of neo-colonialism is possible, but I'd bet the biggest threat to African development comes from bad governance rather than the outside.

Africans have ingenuity and local knowledge. The developed world has cash and business know-how. So long as corrupt government officials can be avoided, there's a chance that there can be a symbiotic relationship.
While most of those boil down to the most common reason: Crappy management, I'm not seeing the second most common reason: Crappy pay (which is just another way that Crappy management presents itself).
I'm curious about something and I can't find the answer on the web site -- Why were these recordings played and digitized in stereo when the records were mono?
Also Roku.
Does opening up the parent folder of the two project folders not accomplish that exactly?

I prefer thinking of codebases as folders in a file structure then as "projects", so I might be missing something obvious and is probably the reason I interpreted the parent comment's question the way I did.
Vulcan was 'invented' when the orbit of Mercury didn't match our theory of [non-relativistic] gravity.

Then recanted when we improved our knowledge of gravitation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)
But we're in it right?

And it is a world where non participation might equate to a negative profile, so the bay we can do is understand the enemy and curate perfection, while engaging in a real way only when anonymous (so far as that can even be achieved).
they heard about git once I guess…
He wasn't just using his position as a Google employee as a platform for ideological ranting. He was expressing concern over how (supposed) ideological bias was affecting working conditions and the effectiveness of the company. To my understanding, that kind of speech is specifically protected against consequences (or at least, protected from firing).
For anyone who hasn't read Rands, he's got a bunch of these and they're largely pretty fantastic.

Managing Humans / Being Geek are also great books if you like this type of writing. I've shared them with lots of new managers/engineers and they've always been well received.
> provable false statements

They aren't false.

> create a toxic work environment for one third of your coworkers

The people creating a toxic work environment are those who are attempting to blackball capable, veteran engineers in order to bring incapable and subpar people into the workplace simply because they were born a different gender or skin color.

> and 100% grounds for termination.

Firing someone for political beliefs is not grounds for termination, and never has been.
Meh, the stories were killed for a reason.

Thanks @dang and the rest of the team for keeping HN relevant and sane. It's never a fully objective decision, but I'm glad to leave that to them rather than have to dig through crap to find something good (cough unlike reddit cough).
As a person who has been held at gunpoint, threatened to be stabbed, and punched in the face while growing up in a hostile environment, this is hilarious to me.

Odds are, these people have never been in physical conflict before and let me tell you, you don't know how you will react until it happens or as Mike Tyson puts it, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."

Having a black belt in martial arts helped calm those nerves of threatening fights with people you don't know.

People please be careful. What I have seen growing up, I am now seeing on the internet. Sometimes you run into the wrong person and it might not end well...
It does, but they allow something to be reposted since it's hard to get to the front. Sometimes it was bad timing, but it's still good.
I don't see how that is qualitatively different from wanting to listen to music from specific artists.

The music industry has been able to work with aggregators, movies can, too.
> The Baby Boomers cling to these ideas out of stubborn habit but people under 60 when asked if they think certain racial groups should get preferential access to job opportunities strongly disagree.

Preferential access to employment opportunities isn't the point of AA; modern employment AA programs are mostly outreach and other funnel programs to neutralize existing structural preferences (hiring preferences have, in fact, been bright-line illegal for decades.)

Which is why there is simultaneously majority support that is higher among younger Americans for affirmative action in employment, despite majority opposition to hiring preferences.

> It's a shame that people cling to these misguided failed ideas.

It is a shame that people cling to false ideas about what the debate is even about.
Actual subway announcements under the new policy:

* “I have bad news. A passenger just jumped in front of the train.”

* “We are delayed because of a fight going on in the subway train ahead of us. They are waiting for the police to break it up.”

* “There is a feral cat inside the train, police are trying to remove the cat, when they do, we can move again.”
Agreed. I only pay for netflix and HBO (and amazon, but that's a bonus for paying for prime). HBO doesn't feel like "extra" because it's always been an optional add-on that costs more.

First all the "major" studios will split and start charing $10/month. Then adds will start creeping back in. Before you know it everyone will be paying for an ad-hoc cable subscription.

I think a better option would be to do what Amazon is doing for HBO - offer a small portion of the studio (in this case Disney) included with the platform (Netflix) with the option to pay additional fees for the entire catalog.

The biggest deterrent, for me at least, is not the price but the need to switch platforms. I'm already annoyed when I have to go from Netflix to Amazon to find a movie/show I want to see but can't remember where it is. No chance I'll add a third, forth, or fifth platform to the mix.