skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious, what software did you use for screen sharing? were customers ok with this?
Was your app so complex that you couldn't guide them through the phone or it was a deficiency in the UX/UI of the app?
The market cap of Netflix is 78 billion USD at the time of this writing. On top of that, they'd have to pay a premium. I suspect that you were thinking Netflix was an order of magnitude or two smaller than that.
People 9000 years old. That's great genes.

Is the argument culturally they can't handle it or genetically they can't handle it.

Compared to the hundreds of millions of Chinese who have done the same on the past few decades ( and been pulled out of abject poverty)
When you take a single part of a post out of context and attack that, you are commenting in a particularly trollish way.

Please don't comment like that here.

Troll, noun: Critic of Paul Graham or Ycombinator.
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The funny thing is, I don't think executives think this way. One example is Bezos where he says he imagines theres enough demand that people will subscribe to netflix and prime and hulu and hbo and ...

https://youtu.be/guVxubbQQKE?t=42m41s
Where can I get those magical 30€/0.125% fees? Girocard is cheap (though less than an order of magnitude compared to CC) but I'm not aware of an offer that cheap, especially for low volume.
#2:

Any vendor will buy a good at say, $9 and sell at $10. In the US there are many pawn shops saying "We buy and sell gold!" - it's never at the same price.

#1: A smart gold trader will buy low, sell high.. they will buy more gold when prices are low and advertise to sell more when the price is high.
"Netflix, however, I'll keep paying for gladly because of the library size. For the streaming price, it is well worth the value."

Well sure, assuming you only want to watch content created by Netflix itself. That's the direction it's going with Netflix.
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No one said a recompile wasn't allowed, plenty of things aren't possible in C++ without a recompile. All I'm saying here is that when you don't need polymorphism, which should be most of the time; overloaded functions do the same thing.
TFA specifically mentioned all of the series that will be included with this. The Disney channel has been around for ~35 years, so they are not lacking for content there.
They'd have to sacrifice their avant garde spaceship design, though.
Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones are all Disney/Marvel. I assume they won't get pulled but Disney may not extend the license.
Hauling ass from one light to barely run a red on the next one is a hell of a lot more efficient than seeing the yellow, accelerating like an old man, coasting for awhile, braking to a stop and idling for several minutes.

Every time you touch your brakes you're throwing away the energy it took to get to that speed. Coasting through off ramps at highway speed is good for the environment.
I agree. Out of control population growth can of course be spun as an economic opportunity, but it first and foremost feels like a humanitarian disaster waiting to happen. Not only for Africa, but for the world at large.

On the bright side, economic investment, growth & development might be one of the best ways to eventually curb said population growth.
And India is far less fragmented than Africa.
Chomsky on the spectrum of acceptable opinion:
organisations have always been political, but the current political environment inside tech is at what I would consider to be an extremely high point. Politics right now are extremely divisive (I think much more so than say 10 years ago) and many tech companies have openly picked a side. Yes I am familiar with the UFC, and have read about their involvement in various Caribbean nations and the whole "banana republic" concept.

> Besides that, everything else you've said is useless hyperbole. Get your history together before you go spouting nonsense.

Why be so hostile? If you want to be a dick to strangers on the internet then piss off back to reddit.

Feel free to point out which of these two statements is useless hyperbole:

> Google is known to be a very left-leaning company

> [Google] talks a big talk about being logic and reason-driven

Everything else I said was conjecture.
The parent asked a legitimate question. Do you have an answer?
That is another example of how to make C++ taste like Java from my perspective, I don't care how famous he is.
Looks like the ministry of information in a sci fi dystopia.
I wrote about this a few years ago. I think it still holds up -

https://impossiblehq.com/complete-guide-leaving-google/
It basically does, but then you can't take advantage of VS Code's git integration
Slate Star Codex has one of the best comment sections on the internet. I think Scott has done a really good job at encouraging and setting good norms for civil discussion of controversial topics.
The building looks gigantic but most of it is empty space due to the donut shape. I wonder if they plan to ever build in the middle.
I'm sure Jony Ive's office is nice and quiet.
Being apolitical is fine. I try to be that way publicly and in my work. I fail sometimes, but I try.

But when I look at huge messed up things in society, and I know there are people on HN who had a big role in making them that way?

At some point you gotta cut the crap. Not taking a stand is taking a stand. Nobody gets a free ride. There's no special "get out of difficult conversations for free" card that we tech folks get that others don't have.

I do not think HN needs to be reddit. But yes, I do think a second room for the intersection of tech and politics (and only that topic) is way overdue. We are better than this.
With HBO I simply do one month subs when a season will complete during it so I can get the whole season in. Once a site passes the $10 mark I quickly lose interest and then I start determining how I can maximize my sub time.

Now what will be interesting is seeing which studios cannot float their own streaming service and combine either with another studio or group of them under an all inclusive banner. I figure we will go nearly full circle and end up with an aggregator like cable was but this time without too much junk.

my beef with some of these "premium" sites is they think that ever after they get $15 from me that I have to watch THEIR ads. Really? I paid for the shows, not 30 to 60 seconds of your ads.
> But personally, the most important point of diversity for me is the end of sausage fest at work. Group conversations with one dominant gender day in day out kind of suck. This applies to either gender.

Agree, but how do you know that you won't be the one sacrificed in the name of diversity? How does one fairly choose which member of the more prevalent gets sacrificed if there is limited headcount? How do you prove that diversity generates more value than stronger individual members regardless of identity?
This all makes me think the humble video rental store has a future after all...
I've been wanting to build a PC to host my home media, and I wonder if there would be a market for a device like this:

I'd like to have a small computer where I can insert a DVD and press one button and walk away (and latter remove the disk), and then the movie is available to stream from my small media computer to my home network. It could look up the right metadata online, or you might pay a very small amount for a service that maintains accurate metadata.

For as much as I watch TV I could probably buy the few shows I'm interested in on DVD for cheaper than what I pay for Netflix. Until I get a media server like I described though, it's just more convenient to pay for Netflix.

I suspect that no such products exist because copying the DVDs would almost certainly get the creators of the device sued into oblivion.
Netflix already doesn't have that big of a library, and it's been steadily shrinking. But if it comes down to it, i'm willing to pay for $10/mo to netflix purely for their original content. I'd also pay for HBO Now if they would let me (I'm in canada). I don't think there's any other company putting out enough quality first-party content that i'd be willing to pay a monthly fee for their service. maybe a couple bucks here and there for a one-off movie rental, but if i have to think about money before i watch something - even a completely insignificant amount - i'm probably going to find other options.

And as you say, there's always piracy to fill the gaps in any streaming catalogue.
Summary of Americans responses here:
"Oh no, this doesn't apply to me"
in your grandparent post, you are still linking the Federal Reserve's deposit insurance regulation, while talking about the Securities Exchange Commission's exempt securities offering regulation.

I still find that entertaining, let me help you https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answers-regdhtm.html

Classic strawman, I wasn't claiming Regulation D required anyone to be a broker dealer to issue buy or sell an exempt unregistered security. The claim is that reselling it freely requires you to go through or be a broker dealer, unless all buyers are accredited investors.
Put movies and Disney TV live and I'm in
They had a video of playing Unreal Tournament (the new one) on a Talos 1 with a AMD card.

As long as a card with Open Source driver support gets used it should work mostly fine. Back then they need a 4line patch to play ut4.
TV? Who has time for TV? Read books and practice Kung Fu.
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For me, times when I shave are times that I have better self-discipline.
I'm using 55 and am really impressed. Startup times have improved.

A nice UI feature is in Settings -> General -> Performance.

I still notice, compared to Chrome, that if I use 1 content process, no matter how many tabs I have open, or how many I have closed, the process just grows and grows over time. In contrast, Chrome may use more memory but its size dependably follows the number of tabs open / closed.

Even though FF is recommending 1 Content Process now as default on my low spec machine, I have set it to 2 to increase the likelihood that one of those processes has no tabs, and gets destroyed, along with whatever garbage accumulates.

I think Mozilla could do more research on migrating tabs to processes to minimize memory usage, and accumulated garbage from the runtime that doesn't seem to be collected. Perhaps after a certain threshold (time, size) content processes should be destroyed and tabs migrated to a new one.
it is called battery charging :). Basically it is making the fuel - Li - out of the ash - lithium oxide. The amount of Li and available for "burning" oxygen in the current batteries is very small and where is no principal reasons it can't be increased 10-fold to something like 10% by weight (especially in the metal-air schemes) at which moment it will leave gasoline engines well behind in all respects.
"There are 2 ways to succeed in business: bundling and unbundling"
What a joke. Now I love my large private cube even more, lol.
Am bluebird collaborator - confirming cancellation does everything this library does - but also componses and ref-counts to work with one-to-many flawlessly.
well for one thing I'm British. I agree that it's fair game for companies to seek to remove people who are actively hostile to other employees but from what I've read about this memo (admittedly I haven't read the original itself) it seems like he wasn't saying "quick, fire all the female engineers!" but more like "Google's diversity initiative to get equal representation amongst male/female engineers is nonsensical because women are on average less likely to become engineers due to natural temperament differences in men/women". Maybe I haven't bought into the ideological argument but nothing there seems particularly contentious, nor does it seem like he's saying women shouldn't or can't be engineers.
> instead of in cubicles

Wait, I thought cubicles were open plan, in comparison to offices? This sounds like super-exposed office planning.
The size of Disney's catalogue may be underestimated by some. Having instant access to all their movies[1] and television shows[2] has quite a bit of value, and would consist of hundreds upon hundreds of blu-rays. I am not one who would sign up, but certainly if I had children I would much rather have streaming access to all of this than stacks of discs.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_television_seri...
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The day that it was clear that streaming was netflix's future, I said they were going to go out of business because there was nothing stopping the content owners from buying white-label streaming services (or just building their own in-house).

2 or 3 years later they started developing original content, which can save them, but will be a race against time (will they have a sufficiently compelling original portfolio to justify a high enough subscription to continue to develop new content before all the major studios pull their content).
For what it's worth, I went from a WRX to a 2L 3i and don't miss the extra horsepower because we felt, frankly, that they're all slow, so why pay a premium for slightly less slow? With that said, it's plenty fast enough for city driving and is the most fun FWD drive car I've driven, bar none. Hell, it's the best car I've owned and only barely not the most fun (after my RX-7). The interior is great, it's cheap to run, ...
> We are better than this.

We could be, but we're not. This is what we are right now, a bunch of people that can't even have a rational discussion on a subject such as this.
A friend just asked me about a service like this; I will share your platform with them. (btw, the number of channels stated in your blog post does not match the numbers on your pricing page.)
You can also use cancellation tokens with promises. Pretty easy to do and doesn't require a library.
Private offices for managers and more senior types, desk farms for the hoi polloi, and a separate, deafeningly loud typing pool. Very much like today's open plan, but with individual desks with some separation rather than long benches.
I hate this approach to management. Why should I be "shielded" from a better opportunity? That only protects my manager, and gives me no valuable protection.
Someone said:

"After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness
to stand and let people say things with which we disagree,
and which do weary us considerably."

It's amazing how many get this 'wrong', i.e. the hard thing about free speech is that you need to permit people to say things you vehemently disagree with.

For example permitting Mein Kampf to be published, allowing Russia to broadcast their propaganda TV-channels and allowing jihadists on Youtube. Yes, it's not something that most Westerners agree with but that's the point.
Thanks for the link, want to read this to find out what all the fuss is about.
Historically, a cube farm is an open office plan in architectural lingo. About twenty years ago, there was a movement toward movable furniture and hotelling and removing the cubical walls. For what it's worth cubicles were generally considered an improvement on grid layouts of desks.
I think it is fair enough for the author to say that since Go is a general purpose language, its APIs should not end up infected by a viral pattern needed for servers.

So far, I think Go does a good job of using context.Context where it is needed and not letting it leak into things like io.Reader. But it is a tricky balance to strike, because the the author is right that the context pattern is viral by nature.
Yes, but that's not what this ratio purports to measure.

Also, the fact that you wrote n:n with the colon in between would make it by definition a ratio.
We assumed it wouldn't be ~$10 a channel.
Yo-ho, yo-ho... Plex life for me!
Been done: https://www.kaleidescape.com/products/premiere/#disc-vaults
Think about it from Disney'd point of view. Netlfix is becoming a content creator. They're becoming "a Disney" type of company.

Disney has no choice but to stream direct. That is they way all video content is all going.
Then again finding a working Sparkasse ATM in Berlin is always something you have to plan to do a couple of times every week, or then you must carry lots of money with you.

Again I owe to my colleague for my lunch because I forgot to pick money in the morning.
They'd lose all the non-Netflix content. No other studio in their right mind is going to license it directly to Disney. Netflix is already a big enough competitor.
As someone who likes sports but not cable, MLB streaming has consistently been by far the best online sports streaming experience, so this isn't too surprising for me.
How exactly are ICOs performed?

1) Set up mining software.

2) Start running it on your own machines and mine enough tokens for ICO.

3) Sell tokens. Profit. ??

Are investors at some point invited to run the mining chain on their own machines? Surely they don't just trust that the company raising money will do manage the accounting on their own.
No, it's not a matter of learning styles. Rather, it's a matter of preference. I prefer rigorous coverage and quality.

Just take a look at Udacity's deep learning reviews @ class-central.com
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One can dream, but as a consumer I just want all streaming content in a single place.

I really wouldn't mind paying extra to see HBO, Disney, Amazon, etc, in Netflix. Paying different providers with varying user experiences and figuring out where each content is or if I can install a certain app in my device is a pita.

For example I live in Mexico and for some reason there is no HBO Go for Android TV. The app exists for regular Android in LATM, but not for Android TV. Plus they can't handle the volume when a new Game of Thrones episode is out.

In Google Play Movies dubbed films and original audio ones are actually different movies in their DB. What's worse, many movies are only available dubbed.

I don't know about the US, but in my experience Netflix is the only company doing it right.
>23 year old guy to write most of the Ethereum app

The project is a from-scratch smart contract blockchain: including a new contract language
If anyone can do it, Disney can. They have an absurd amount of high-quality content. In addition to their own branded content, they own Pixar, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm.
1. What are the acceptable "natural and unexpected ways" for people to meet their life partners?

2. Do you genuinely believe that your opinion on the matter means that dating apps (all of them) should not exist? (note that you would have to say this as an outlier - clearly, people love dating apps, and clearly, people have found their life partners through them)

Addressing 1, because it illustrates to me what I believe is the largest hole in your argument. You claim "hundreds of years ago all immigrants DID NOT stay within their groups," and that platforms implicitly put people into groups (implication: people wouldn't do this if it were not for platforms).

I am somewhat surprised that you believe this - it's as if you've never been to a China Town or Harlem, or lived abroad in a country where nobody speaks your native language. Like people mingle with like people, and immigrant populations meld slowly, very rarely losing ALL of their identity. All of known society operates on this history, and obviously our society isn't ideal but it's certainly functional having existed on this paradigm. And, as time marches forward, so do the cultures merge further. Why try to speed up the process unnecessarily?

That people mix with those similar to them now being established (feel free to challenge me on it! I'm just saying, that's my premise here), it would only be "natural" for them to do so with or without an app to aid them. They clearly want to do it, so of course people will capitalize on that desire with businesses. YCombinator, I believe, operates as an investor, and an investor will want to fund businesses that operate on successful business models... I mean really, I'm having a hard time seeing how you can challenge this?

Anyway, you talk about barriers, but really I think you're the one arguing for barriers, by setting rules around how people are allowed to interact. I like riding motorcycles, but in your world I would not be allowed to specifically seek out other motorcycle riders, because somehow it is healthier for society that the percentage of my friends that are motorcyclists is perfectly equal to the percentage of society that are motorcyclists. The whole concept of shared hobbies falls apart under this model, for no reason. Because of apps I can seek out new hobbies and people that do things differently than me - I don't want to be forced to do that, I can do it on my own time!
The risk is $all_the_things <= 0, which is pretty common.
"I scratched my own itch" seems to be the most common response. I wonder if there's a notable bias towards saying what HN will approve of, and towards not wanting to say something HN won't approve of.
I think Obama's campaign rhetoric would have been in line with the British Labour Party, but his actual policies were definitely moderate conservative. Probably similar to Cameron.
“the number-one reason technical people quit is because they don’t have the option to advance without going into management.” Then it goes on to explain that you should put them into management.
Upwords of $30/month? That is way too expensive!
Bear in mind that an artist's USP is their personal charisma and creativity. The assistant's job is to elaborate based on an initial invention by the artist. None of the assistant's personality/aura/talent should manifest in work that gets signed by the artist.

It's not a good situation but it's standard among big nane artists (Koons is notorious for strictness, afaicr)
It already was, though. HBO, Cinemak, Starz were all in that range.
In a lot of cases ICOs are built on top of the ethereum network, so no mining is necessary. Transaction fees are paid in Ether, and the ICO / token is setup as an Ethereum contract.
Gee, that's gonna motivate the people who genuinely work hard to earn good grades.

I'd be so crushed if I were attending this institution because the value of the degree I'm earning just plummeted.