skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your comments about the power are largely spot on - and bigger players can make a move for their own streaming services, but smaller ones will need to band together (not necessarily via an all-in-one subscription service like Netflix, but via some sort of content platform/store/whatever).

That said, I think that the curation aspect is something that studios aren't overly concerned about - they just hate that a direct competitor is stealing their profit and making their own content. If Netflix wasn't being as aggressive (or wasn't being so damn profitable; or wasn't negotiating prices with the studios), I don't think that the content creators would be trying to run away so quickly.

I hope that open protocols win out, that's the best solution here for everyone (and would be the ideal "major marketplace" in my parent comment). That said, it may just wind up being an organisation owned by a consortium/cartel of studios (or even some other third party) that's contractually obligated to "fairness".
Alienating atmospheres impact people across more vectors than just those that are protected classes:

https://status451.com/2017/08/04/another-point-of-view/
The premise of his argument is still wrong. That somehow because women are women (whatever that means, they are ill suited for a job that requires only mental effort).

Are womens brains inferior to mens? hell no. so stop it right there.
It's weird, but this is all pretty well known stuff in the fields from which he refers. And, as obsessed as we are with instilling diversity in everything, why even common people don't know these things who knows?
Surprising to see vim and nvi losing to nano and even Joe (at times)
Yep -- Comcast was getting up to $200 a month. You want Netflix + Disney + HBO + Prime + Hulu + Discovery + BBC iplayer + ...

$150/month on top of your cable bill. And let's bundle it.

Actually, I'd love to be able to pay BBC even $20/month for iplayer access in the USA.
> it's a constant indication that "you're not welcome here"

Maybe the software industry can be more inviting or attractive to different types of people, but I don't think there is an agenda by computer folk to exclude others or make people feel un-welcomed. I think the "geek" culture is simply unattractive to most girls (yes, I'm assuming girls are less geeky). The question is "how to make it more attractive", not "how to make it less alienating".

Edit: tell me why you disagree.
That's all I ever see on my employer's blogs and announcements, and is far more depressing to me than any honest criticism would be.
Neah, kinda just skimmed it.

That is, "really read" a select paragraph or two. Enough to make a basic determination as to what he's driving at -- and to note that we've seen variants of this message from other sources, before -- and make a decision about how much of one's attention resources it merits, moving forward -- accordingly.

As one does with any rant, or other poorly thought-out screed.
Contractors don't get those. In theory they get paid higher as compensation for not getting them, in practice they generally get the same money with less benefits.
Every single company does this now and it's a fucking nightmare. They'll give you a million useless and stupid perks, but they won't give you a fucking place to actually do work. It's infuriating beyond words.
Perhaps not, but what was Google responding to? The central concern of the employee (as stated in his memo) was the political behavior by Google.

See also:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google...
Use the polyfill from WICG - https://github.com/WICG/IntersectionObserver/tree/gh-pages/p...
> I notice no stories about how Damore lied about having a PhD from Harvard have made it to the top.

http://sysbiophd.harvard.edu/people/alumni/james-damore
You can still for relatively cheap buy shows on Amazon or Google play. Unless you watch a ton of TV it's still cheaper and you actually own it. Works for many shows except Netflix or HBO originals. For these I just only subscribed every few months, watch what I want and then unsubscribe.
this is largely my experience, usually I leave because I hear of others at my "level" that are earning more and I start to believe that the company I am at has fallen behind, then I ask for a raise, they don't give it to me and I leave for more money. rinse, repeat. I am underpaid at the moment but what's keeping me around is I get to do what I want and there is not the pressure I had elsewhere.
It's alright but clearly dependent on the content providers and platform operators to be honest and accurate. Recently I tried to watch the new season of Archer. My Fire TV told me that show is available on Netflix and Hulu but didn't seem to know which seasons. I opened Netflix first and found they had old seasons but not the latest. I switched to Hulu and the thumbnail for the show mentioned Archer Dreamland, the latest season. I opened that up and found that the latest season was not available and Hulu had the same offering as Netflix.

FXX themselves do not seem interested in my money and require that I have cable so I continue not consuming their content.
I have a patent pending that uses ML to read lips combined with aggravated deep learning to generate specific noise canceling wave forms for people within visual range. It can also mask obnoxious follow on affectations like filler words and laughter out of visual range once it has locked onto a conversation.

The next phase of research is for an inanity filter, predictions are that it will mute most of existence.
Yet at the same time this sounds like the only reason to hire someone is to represent their token minority. It's not an X person's responsibility to be an offensiveness safety net for the X community.
I'd bet that this:

"Using modern machines/VMs, C64 demoscene devs are able to create content and develop new efficient algos for the old hardware that probably wouldn't have been possible using only the old hardware alone. They can develop algos and art content using sophisticated tools and backport to the old hardware."

Is just as true today as is this:

"Using invasive data mining, insurance companies are able to make more accurate inferences about their high-risk groups that probably wouldn't have been possible using only the data they are legally allowed to use to set rates. They can use sophisticated tools offered from data brokers to make inferences and then backport them into policy changes that meet the current guidelines/regulations for the industry."

In either case I don't know enough to explain what "backporting" entails. But there's just no way insurance companies aren't using this kind of invasive data already.
I guess the focus on large files has it's certainly useful in certain cases like viewing log files, data dumps, etc... but for the most part I find myself opening many many small files with less than a couple hundred lines each.

We need tools that focus on application development needs, not text editing.
I saw this medium post before writing my comment above. As the other reply alludes to, I believe that article is actually an incredibly poor rebuttal (I wouldn't even call it that) e.g. "not only was nearly everything you said in that document wrong" - this is not an argument, but merely an opinion.

Here's a link that looks at the memo in a much more objective light: http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...
Fuck this asshole fuck him straight to hell he is an asshole he was fired for being an asshole
Could you please reign in the hyperbole? The author has presented their opinion on what constitutes left or right biases, and it is patently obvious that (even in the authors opinion) the whole organization is not driven by 'leftist ideals' - a term which doesn't come up in the memo at any point BTW. The context of the memo is quite narrow - Diversity hiring, and unconscious bias as it pertains the the former. It doesn't discuss every single aspect of Google as an organization. I don't know why you think an employee couldn't be happy with Google as a company, and only disagree on specific policies.
Disney isn't just movies. It's ABC content. It's their Disney Channel content.
>Should we accept lessons in tolerance from someone who appears to think violence is justified if someone holds a different opinion?

Yes, if their argument is sound.

Edit: of course, we may still ask if they are living up to such standards as they set for others.
Let me know when BTC is backed by tanks and fighter jets.
> ... non-slaves produce more value than slaves,

Probably not to the slave owners, or anyone involved in the slave trade. They had little incentive to change.

Claiming that capitalism somehow spurs these things is the wrong way around. It can certainly benefit, but it's not the driver.
Yet they haven't even fixed the bugs they started with....

kovri is a rebrand of i2pd, someone took one of the worst revisions of i2pd back when it sucked more and called it kovri and to this very day still have loads of bugs that are fixed for over a year in i2pd. somehow the kovri people managed to make the code worse than it was when they started complexity wise.

disclosure: I work on i2pd a bit.
Niven was once my favorite Sci-Fi author, but I think I know what you mean.

Have you read "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe? It is really really good.
No matter which side one takes it's a bit sad to see these stories getting flagged because most of HNers are very civil and it's nice to read each side's arguments and opinions.
A shame too because money can be one of the most powerful factors for retention. Someone who enjoys a company could still simply leave due to better prospects elsewhere.
Why? $500,000 isn't too bad, if you only had to invest your share - which might only be $5,000. The numbers are smaller, but the percentages may be greater. The number of chances to invest may also be greater, as they will have fewer services already in place.

I don't see that they'd need to worry about international markets. At least not initially.
I'm suggesting that if you add eg "Miramax" to your library by paying their subscription you gain access to their back catalogue. I may only want one or two movies from them, but thanks to the bundling I have access to way more. Or Disney might divide subscriptions up by its studios or labels. I don't see them offering individual shows in a subscription, as that has limited appeal (has been done already and doesn't _really_ require its own platform)

Overall, it's not so different from cable channels, except that it's on-demand.
Is it currently free for employees?

I wonder what the premium would be for the psychological anxiety of taking a self driving car. If I pay $5 for a Uber ride, I'd need a significant discount for the equivalent autonomous ride at this stage.
> At what point does saying things ... starts becoming 'creating a hostile work environment'?

Certainly well known, supported, and referenced scientific facts, are not creating a hostile work environment. The fact that he was treated that way suggests that it is in fact a "thought crime".
Chris Lattner hasn't been at Apple since leaving for Tesla back in January (he has recently left Tesla, as well).
To each his own, I guess. I find it user friendly enough.
>His quiet support of King literally enabled King's actions in more ways than I can relate.

He genuinely just said a policemans actions during the Civil Rights era enabled MLK. You can't make this up.

And then to talk about respect in the context of race, when black people are routinely disrespected by individuals, institutions and the state in America.
Agreed. I've probably tried using that site about 5-6 times over the past year, and it has never told me anything was streaming. Never. And yes, about half of the things I checked were indeed streaming upon further review.
These conditions can come on very quickly, so even if your solution is to pull over and stop, you'll still need to find a way to do it safely.

And if you're somewhere this is common (e.g. Florida), and there are still human drivers, you'll have to account for them not slowing down at all.

If you're in an area where flash flooding can happen, waiting may be a more dangerous option. Or you could be in a place where there is no place to stop.
When I was in college in the early seventies Josh White Jr regularly performed in the local clubs. Heard more than a few stories about his famous father.

http://www.joshwhitejr.com/bio.html
This isn't for you, this is for parents looking for a cheap babysitter.
> [citation needed]

"[citation needed]" is the claim that an argument is flawed because it lacks an appeal to authority.

An immune system that is too lax leads to infections, too stringent leads to autoimmune diseases. Pick almost any substance in the body -- glucose, sodium, serotinin, etc. Too little is one kind of bad, too much is a different kind of bad.

And as to the original point:

http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?type=prin...

> What about the plague?

That seems to be in the same category as the flu.

> What about an anvil to the head? What's the opposite of getting a heavy object dropped on your head and if there is none then why didn't we evolve a titanium skill?

Are you asserting that there are no trade-offs there? Flexibility, self-healing, availability of carbohydrates vs. titanium compounds in available food sources, etc.

> It just didn't because we don't immediately evolve defenses against every single danger and disease in existence. Evolutionary arguments aren't worth very much and certainly can't be applied in such a maximalist way.

Evolution is not a divine engineer creating things that are maximally perfect, it's a brute force pragmatist that destroys anything that can't out-compete its neighbors.

It isn't that purposeless flaws literally cannot exist at all, it's that they are selected against. Something that beat improbable odds due solely to dumb luck.

The assertion that something is the exception to the rule is the one that needs independent support.
We've known, at least since the 80s, the aproximate amount of space people need to work effectively. Chapter 9 of Peopleware [1] talks specifically about this:

An excerpt:

>Before drawing the plans for its new Santa Teresa facility, IBM violated all industry standards by carefully studying the work habits of those who would occupy the space. The study was designed by the architect Gerald McCue with the assistance of IBM area managers. Researchers observed the work processes in action in current workspaces and in mock-ups of proposed workspaces. They watched programmers, engineers, quality control workers, and managers go about their normal activities. From their studies, they concluded that a minimum accommodation for the mix of people slated to occupy the new space would be the following:

- 100 square feet of dedicated space per worker

- 30 square feet of work surface per person

- noise protection in the form of enclosed offices or six-foot high partitions (they ended up with about half of all professional personnel in enclosed one- and two-person offices)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project...
I probably described it poorly, but both of those services are $/month for access to a full catalog that Netflix/Amazon manages and curates.

That's not really a marketplace, which would have individual vendors selling their own subscription bundles.
Post tl;dr: Sometimes when you are optimizing an ML / AI pipeline you care about multiple things (speed, accuracy, etc). It is often difficult to make these tradeoffs without knowing what is possible, but it is expensive to try different things. Using Bayesian optimization to optimize multiple metrics simultaneously can help solve this problem more than an order of magnitude faster than standard techniques like randomized search. We provide examples tuning TensorFlow and MXnet CNNs with code [1] [2].

SigOpt tl;dr: Parameter optimization-as-a-service. An ensemble of Bayesian optimization techniques behind a simple REST API. Spend more time building your models while we optimally tune them exponentially more efficiently than something like a brute force grid search. Free for academic use [3].

[1]: https://github.com/sigopt/sigopt-examples/tree/master/multim...

[2]: https://github.com/sigopt/sigopt-examples/tree/master/dnn-tu...

[3]: https://sigopt.com/edu
.. 3, 2, 1 ...

Lets see what he wrote that was so offensive, remembering that it was to a private list and only posted to the wider Internet by Googles 'diversity' chief Danielle Brown.

"Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber"

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
London only, not to confuse with the UK.

Good luck finding a senior developer for £70k over there.
Atleast 50% of the marvel content on your list are Netflix Owned Orginals, they can not pulled to Disney's new service. This would be Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Defenders, Punisher. It is highly unlikely Netflix would be stupid enough not to have those locked down.

Agents of Shield I believe a ABC owned production, and would be governed under what ever terms Netflix and ABC have, Same with Inhumans I would image but it is a newer property so it might have to stings attached it to

Movies, yes those will likely be pulled. I can see the Non-Netflix Originals being pulled.. maybe.
My view is that team size should scale with the number of parallelizable features your company wants you to do. If you come to me with one or two at a time, I'm going to want a team of 4, maybe 5 max, people - I don't want more than 3 people swarming on many features, the communication and coordination overhead becomes increasingly high. But if you can give me three to five distinctive things to work on (even if they're in the same codebase) I can find informal "subteams" (with allocation changing as the features change) within the team to own those different areas, and scale up to double digits or more, as they only have to coordinate with the other features at the edges.

But you still gotta pay off your tech debt or it all goes to hell quickly and then you're hiring like mad because changing anything is a herculean task and management is like "just hire more people and get it done faster!"
My company has an open office plan and I feel like the area directly behind my chair was designated as the company's unofficial meeting space, but no one ever told me.
The point is: the employee had concerns about working conditions at Google and how Google was pursuing it's goals. He even offered (what he believed) were useful suggestions. Other employees had similar concerns.

Instead of answering his concerns, they fired him because they thought his suggestions were offensive (or rooted in offensive ideology).
Yes, it's what I would do and agree, but I might do a lot of things to maximize the value of my dollars where other people may value convenience over the dollars. In this situation the question is will the average family person going to carry a bunch of media for multiple children in multiple vehicles? My anecdotal experience this last week traveling is families of all income will use streaming over both carrying a portable DVD player or ripped DVDs on a portable device.
Seems like a ridiculously off-topic question.
"The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc"

Surely you can pick the odd one out here.
Don't say anything anti-sjw otherwise you will be censored
Tor is fast because they have a birds eye view of the entire routing concensous where as i2p does not as it can not. The latency suffers as a result in i2p. That is why tor is faster, it's not because of coins.

I have considered adding such a thing for i2pd optionally enabled but there is no such interest from the community to maintain such entities.
Netflix is the only game in town that gets my monthly sub.
Yeah, I don't know if you're in SF - but on the one lane roads, traffic doesn't stop for people turning left at lights. Again, I don't know the legality - but I've seen police and government workers do it as well. Because the streets are made w/ enough space for vehicles to park next to the lanes of traffic - there is enough room to pass on the right in an intersection.
Who did your icon illustrations? They're great!
Visual distraction is the second worst, IMO, with noise in third.

Number 1 is vibration and physical movement. I've had a desk environment where two folks would be sitting on opposite sides of a wide table, so there's one shared and non-isolated surface that both people work on.

Every time my coworker would stand up, they'd brace themselves on the desk and shake the shit out of it, and I never learned to filter it out. Headphones don't help. Lots of big monitors don't help.

Or when the hardwood floor has enough flex that you can feel people walking near your desk. Ugh.
Right, but I from what I understand the statutes that project against coercion on the basis of "political behavior" define it fairly narrow terms such as endorsing candidates, making donations and so forth. Which do not apply in this case.

And as to "organizing for better workplace conditions" - well yeah, there's some overlap, there. But his campaign went quite a ways beyond that, as well.
>>It's infuriating, as a technical pre-sales resource I get interrupted INCESSANTLY throughout the day by rabbit hole "quick questions" and calendar management.

This was my old job. I don't miss it...
This was posted here before. I do think Uber was partially at fault here, but I'm skeptical there was intent on the driver's part here.

The video shows the driver pulling away while the passenger is very close to the vehicle...hardly the most stealthy choice.

I suspect some later passenger took the bag, perhaps without the driver noticing. Then, the driver ignored the calls because Uber likely doesn't give them much incentive to take calls, especially potentially contentious ones. Driver hears a message about lost merchandise, knows he can't do much about it, so he ignores it.

I think the hot sauce guy is somewhat lucky he found someone to cover his losses. Had he left it in a public bus, for example, you would have a harder time getting any compensation.
Damn there goes all the super hero movies. I’m not going to pay another ten bucks a month for this either.
Ya, but each channel only showed a limited selection, on their own schedule, with commercials.

Compare that with the amount of binge watching that you can do with a $10 Netflix subscription.

Things are infinitely better online than what I was getting with my cable subscription.
One thing I enjoy about working in tech is having the opportunity to discuss things other than work during breaks.

We often spend more waking hours with our colleagues than our friends and family, forming strong bonds and friendships.

I've been lucky enough to work with intelligent people originating from many parts of the world, and have enjoyed stimulating discussions that include geo-political and social issues.

While there are a myriad of reasons why one could feel bad about facing a day in the office, I personally find sexism and harassment to be particularly heinous, and indicates weakness of character more than a lack of ability.

Something I worry about is the possibility of a work environment where the free discussion and conversation I mentioned above is inhibited. Especially one in which "acceptable" conversation is not politically neutral, but instead favouring progressive viewpoints exclusively.
I have a PowerBook G4 that was at one point a daily driver, plus an eMac that was running at one point but needs a new hard drive; those were/are both in desktop roles. I also have a Power Mac G5 and an XServe G5 in server roles. All of them have OpenBSD 5.9 installed (except the eMac, which had OpenBSD 6.0 installed before the hard drive failed).

The XServe and Power Mac are in storage right now, but I'd like to get the Powerbook upgraded to 6.1 eventually (I want to stick full-disk encryption on it, too, so I'll probably just blow away the existing install and start from scratch).