skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a discussion of "Where to find clients" a few weeks ago where Toptal comes up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842684
I basically had to put up with that every day in the college library. I don't mind glass offices until I get the itch to pick my nose. I get that the optimal environment for programming work is at home or in a private office, but they did what they could at what appears to be an economical compromise. I agree with the desk space, there doesn't appear to be any room for an external monitor at all.
Ask HN: Is it worth joining a startup that plans to sell in the next 5 years?
Context: the startup hopes to sell or be acquired in the next 5 years.
I strongly feel the best option (if remote work is not a possibility) is individual offices with team designated collaborative work areas. This allows people to quasi self organize, with the default option being that they have their own space.
The scale adds up. Cost of entry can be the price paid instead of large monthly subscriptions or higher prices per individual title.
Ok, can you be more specific about which parts you find to be racist or juvenile? I have read the memo as well and I have found it to be civil and well written and did not see anywhere it pushed for some kind of sexist discriminatory agenda.

Where do you think he did hand waving? Which conclusions of his do you think was unsound? Which particular statements of his you think was clearly meant to push a sexist viewpoint?
Oh boy, two desks facing each other with low walls.

Here's what that's like:

You're looking at your monitor and in your peripheral vision, just above your monitor, is someone looking at their monitor. You're basically looking at each other.

They answer their mobile with their head phones on.

"Hey"

It looks like they're looking at you and you never saw their subtle click on the inline toggle below your view.

"What's up?"

Person on mobile points to their earbud to indicate they're not talking to you.

Later the same person gets an email that pisses them off and exclaims, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

It looks like they're scowling at you.

"Huh?"

"Nothing, sorry."

All day. Everyday. Fun times!
The US Army consulted in October 2001 with Hollywood screenwriters to come up with terrorism scenarios they couldn't foresee: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/10/10/army-looks-to-hollyw...

Details are still scant: https://www.wired.com/2007/03/foiled_by_foia_/
Get vested, then profit on the sale.
Do you work in London or Cambridge? If so, that's a pretty low salary for a senior developer. In my experience that's mid level range, you're looking at more 70+k ($90k) for senior. That's excluding finance of course, where salaries are astronomical.
Whatever you decide, set it up on a daily, weekly, or monthly deposit. Then forget about it. Delete all your crypto news alerts, take off all your crypto book marks. Do everything you can to take yourself out of the equation once the thing is set. Keep it boring, keep it consistent. Emotion is your greatest enemy while investing. But you're smart and you know all this.
> If every studio thinks I'm going to pay them $10+ a month to stream their content, they are going to be very mistaken.

I agree. But taking a step back, Disney is probably the one company that can justify this the most by owning so many properties:

the traditional Disney stuff, Star Wars/Lucasfilm, the Marvel movies, Pixar, The Muppets, Touchstone, ESPN, ABC, A&E, Lifetime, History channel. They even have a 30% stake in Hulu.
I'm using the Stripe.NET library - but begrudgingly - there's a whole slew of FxCop-compliance issues with the code and some code-smells that I don't like (e.g. they read the JSON objects into strings, then deserialize the strings - it's more efficient to use the JSON.NET stream-deserializer). My biggest issue is the lack of `using()` statements: objects are not being disposed-of correctly!

(I'd submit a PR with fixes, but I'm short for time).
I wish there was a sort of white label service for streaming content. One middleman that negotiates with the content owners and then exposes an API to deliver the content on a pay-per-stream basis or something like that. I know it's unrealistic, but I want my choice between Netflix and Hulu or between Spotify and Google Play Music to be about the features and UX, not who has what content. Though this problem doesn't seem to be as significant when it comes to music for some reason.

Exclusive content makes sense from a business perspective. Hence Netflix pouring money into creating its own shows to become HBO faster than HBO can become Netflix[1], but as a consumer, I think I'd prefer a world in which they could still do that, license it through the middleman, and make profit regardless of where it is actually streamed.

Having an API for content could also be awesome for prospective startups, since it would allow any developer to just pay for access rather than having to figure out how to negotiate a licensing deal.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5980103/netflix-the-goal-is-to-become-hbo...
This is really cool. It would also be useful to provide a visualization of these numbers for easier scanning. Thanks for sharing.
It's so easy for these conversations to go horribly wrong in this format, so please keep that in mind and try to hear what I'm saying. Just because something is done "traditionally" doesn't mean it isn't sexist. Your statement begs the question: WHY do women traditionally work in the home?
They should do more huts instead.

https://officesnapshots.com/2012/07/16/pixar-headquarters-an...
The problem with the Spolsky example is that Atlassian with their huge open-plan offices completely overshadowed Fog Creek in just a few short years.
I briefly worked for a company that wanted to do this (Fanhattan/FanTV). It was more an aggregator than a marketplace, but similar concept. But that was back in 2011, so they were a bit ahead of their time (and also seemed allergic to actually shipping things, but that's unrelated, I suppose).
Offline playback would be the killer feature for parents for long road trips and flights. Won't need to buy Bluray + digital copy of Disney movies if you can even find them for older releases like "Little Mermaid".
Machine learning comes to your browser via JavaScript – InfoWorld
The Apple TV's "TV app" is great for this... but for some reason, it only functions in the US. I get that it has a "live cable" Single-Sign-On component that cable providers need to sign up with–but all I want from it is the unified interface for searching/browsing and watch-tracking of content within streaming services!
HPC Advisory Council Stanford Summer Series 2017
The diesel-electric system used in Locomotives and heavy off-road mining trucks are literally examples of series hybrids. You may be objecting to ththe lack of battery storage, which isn't useful in those applications.
The Digital Divide Isn't Microsoft's First Priority
> bench seating

Wait long tables is one thing, but what on earth does bench seating mean? Like it's one long picnic table?
Translation: "I didn't read the link, here's a non sequitur."

The "shield" is just your day-to-day (sometimes minute-to-minute) SELF-evaluation of your current job satisfaction and willingness to leave. It has nothing to do with you being shielded from anything by anyone else.
That's what I do with HBO right now. Only thing I'm interested in is Silicon Valley and Game of Thrones. Once GoT is done for the season, my account will get closed just like I did last year.
Thanks, that certainly is impressive. I didn't understand your last comment:

>"At a price that just barely starts to make sense for the average driver when you factor in fuel savings and tax subsidies."

At $36K and just using $5K as an arbitrary tax subsidy number isn't it the same price as most US mini SUV style cars?
I considered i-eloop when it came out for its first generation, in the 2014 Mazda 3. It was estimated to bump my city MPG by 1. And was only available in a very expensive package. I passed.
https://www.bitcoinsuisse.ch/ has emerged as the goto service for id verification of ICO investors, and is used to block US investors when required.
Apologies for making the assumption :-)

It's possible there are different alternatives that have different dosages. If you really wanted to find out though, you could always ask your doctor. Dispense as written can be used because the doctor gets kickbacks, but there are frequently more innocent reasons for it. Perhaps the adhesive isn't as effective, but ultimately there are any number of things that can differentiate generics from brand names or other generics. Pills tend to be more similar, but even then there can be differences despite technically being the same drug.
Nice that you can do so much in so many editors. Luckily, Emacs had me at hello and I will never turn back.
More than half of women who got an abortion last year were using contraception
LANL published a paper circa 2007 or 2008 on how to make carbon-neutral hdyrocarbon fuel using carbon in the air and the electricity and waste heat from a nuclear plant. According to the paper, it was competitive with oil-based gasoline at around $5/gallon.
Even with Byteball the witnesses cant steal funds or generate new ones without the other full nodes noticing and rejecting the same way as other bitcoin full nodes can reject if a miner generates a 10000 coinbase reward to itself.
I don't know why all these people behind these decisions don't just look at Gabe Newell and his simple statement - "Piracy is a service problem."

Steam is a rampant success. You'd think people would catch on. Have the content, make it easy to access, make it easy to pay, and people will give you money hand over fist.
And your vague replies are meant to paint him in a corner and shut down all discourse on this subject. So...
I think the phrase has probably been mutated many times by various groups.
Very cool. Would be really interesting to see how neovim compares.
perhaps bcrypt with sufficient rounds to deter bruteforcing stolen hashes would take >10ms to compute?
Interesting point about contactless, I've been living abroad thr last 3 years ;)
There are places for cutting the crap, and taking a stand... that doesn't necessarily have to be here.

To call upon the topic of "safe spaces", I think HN ought to be a safe space for people involved in technology to simply... be... without having to constantly add disclaimers to their comments referencing their employer, or watching out for attacks due to their involvement in something that's suddenly politically volatile.

There are many different forums in the world, and the only way they stay different is by drawing a line as to what topics and discussion patterns they won't except.

The line drawn on HN is hardly a "hard line". Political topics are acceptable, but only one at a time and only if participants remain somewhat aloof.

In conclusion, I think HN is nice simply because it has only one room. Adding other rooms isn't something I'd like to consider, whilst the existence of other multi-room sites exist with the same population.

I am on Reddit, but I use pseudonyms there ... merely because I am afraid.
I think I should reply to everybody who said the exact same thing with different world telling them that there should be more people like them. Maybe even create a community only for this type of people... or better not because I could be accused of discrimination.

Maybe I should delete my original comment but I might offend someone too if I delete it.

Life is complicated, I would jump from the window to end it but I think it will also offend someone.

Ok, fuck it. I am happy. I don't care!
I think the reason for Sun changing it was due to the advent of NFS, which made measures of process based on I/O blocking inaccurate (and bound to network latency). I believe Cantrill mentioned this factoid at some point, but I don't recall the reference.
> Too much money can actually hurt some companies chances.

And you can't really emphasise this too much when the company is a couple of developers, a handful of lines of code and an idea expressed on a WordPress marketing site, and complete strangers are chucking coins that can be converted to tens of millions of dollars of hard currency in return for a token conferring no rights whatsoever, because blockchain > legal systems that actually enforce fiduciary duties. Investors are usually keen to ensure founders can't just convert investments greater than "fuck you money" level into into yachts. But some ICO founders have already got a lot more, and even if they start with nothing but good intentions, they must wonder why they'd bother spending it building a company that in all probability won't be worth more to them.

I'd buy the yacht too.
John Kullmann, who ported OSX from PPC to x86, was able to work from home. I wonder if it's set up so that when you need to get shit done you work from home and when you need to collaborate you visit the spaceship?

Or perhaps only the superstar engineers get to pull that kind of thing.
Two really obvious reason that never seem to get discussed in articles like this:

1. Usually if you've demonstrated success for two years, you can move upwards more rapidly switching companies (up to a point).

2. You've gotten past your vesting cliff, and - particularly with early stage companies - you want to diversify your ISO holdings in the hope of getting a 100xer.
> Rewe has a fairly complicated legal structure, I'm not sure which you are a member of. There is no single "Rewe eG" which you can just buy into, especially not if you don't happen to own supermarkets.

I'm personally not sure either. Originally my entire family was just a member of the coop eG, but when they started to merge with REWE eG in the past months the coop eG offered an option to invest additional money into the REWE eG (at better than usual terms). So we did.

https://www.shz.de/regionales/schleswig-holstein/tschuess-sk...

So now we have some stores that have just been rebranded REWE, some still branded Sky, operating with the same mix of REWE and Sky products, and some accepting CCs, some not.

> The system behind those cards was not merged with Maestro (which is a different system) but merely rebranded as Girocard

In marketing, EC stopped being the main brand, though, and MasterCard provides their EC cards under the "Maestro" brand within of Germany, although they are not operating over the Maestro network, or in any way compatible with it. Take any recent EC card, it'll work only via the EC system, say Girocard Electronic Cash on the back, and Maestro on the front, but doesn't actually have any relation to the Maestro system. That's what I was referring to with the rebranding.
> In my experience while a developer will say it's not about the money

The people that say this simply rationalize it differently than people willing to say it is about the money. (but yes, there is a group where it really isn't about money)

There is a large segment of the population that feels a stigma for admitting monetary motivation, so if its not "ALL" about the money, where all possible factors are money, they will say it isn't.

People that don't feel a stigma around admitting monetary motivation will reveal that money is a factor if it is at least 1 of the factors. It will be misinterpreted by the other population as being only about the money, whether it is or isn't.

It is just a form of conditioning that will distort any survey for now.
Of the four older men whose draft stories I know personally, two had exemptions (hardship/agricultural labor), but one went to war anyway, one enlisted as a pilot in the National Guard, and one lucked out by having the draft end before his number came up. None of them were particularly wealthy or influential, although all of them were white.
I'd assume the parent comment is referring to the base package version of the Mazda 3. I was able to get a 2015 Mazda3 S Touring for ~$25k with all taxes and fees included, so I think $20k is a fair estimate if you assume the base package
You are contradicting yourself. More interaction leads to more noise and now you are advising people to put headphones on or leave the place entirely. How are you supposed to culturally gel and socialize under such conditions?
Society has been trying and failing to crack down on piracy since data could be transmitted.

I don't think it will ever be possible. Phones cameras are only getting better, how can you ever stop someone from recording something in the theater and passing it around in meatspace?

Good quality torrents might become harder to get, but piracy is going nowhere.
So rad, thanks for sharing this!
Very cool. I thought Nano would perform much better..?

A problem with some fast editors might be ease of use. For instance, I would have loved to try out JOE editor, but I couldn't find builds, the code is hosted on Sourceforge, etc. etc.

I think a huge feature for an editor is usability: is there a website where I can download a build for my OS? Does it update by itself? Is it easy to configure, install plugins, etc.?
Lol at you fumbling for anecdota about MM when you hear a fact you don't like. Yes, I'm pointing out that women-owned tech companies financially outperform male-owned tech companies. Data, nothing to do with beliefs. (Men do have terrible academic drop out records by comparison with women and need affirmative remediation themselves in that area, all things being equal.)

http://truewealthvc.com/women-led-businesses-outperform/

btw I believe that comparing someone to a Nazi is against the conduct rules of HN and can earn you a shadowban
Still no Linux love for WebVR :(

Since I have no intention of switching to Windows after 20+ years on Linux, I'm going to have to wait, as usual.
Some of us have spent our entire adult lives working to prevent technology that "wipes out species". It's not an accident that these things did not occur.
Good architecture does not come from curved glass and 1mm joints between materials. It comes from human habitability. Why build a building that makes people unhappy? It seems to miss the point.
Typical of the issues with streaming, MLB.tv's biggest issue has always been contractual: the service isn't terribly useful for its largest potential market, fans who want to watch their local team.

It took them years and years to even come up with the system they finally have now to allow you to pay extra to stream local games if you also already subscribe to the local team's cable/sat channel.

When you're actually allowed to access the content, it works like a dream.
Well we've gotten the bifurcation we have because thats what people have always wanted.

An ad-hoc cable subscription. Few people really wanted all the channels they were getting and would gladly have paid less to get only what they wanted.

Another thing we might see here though has happened to me a lot with music because of Spotify.

If you music isn't on Spotify or Soundclound... I'm just going to listen to it less. Its too much trouble to go download/buy from so many different sources.

I can't be bothered to spend the time anymore.
Then it would probably make sense to pay 20 bucks one time for the movie they love, for the ability to watch it forever, right? Especially if you have data restrictions.
I don't know, but I've seen 250+gb torrents with disney content, although I'd never dare to partake.
This wouldn't even be worth commenting on it's so normal, except that Mozilla has a strong history of getting all their stuff working on all platforms before letting a release drop, so as much as I love VR, Mozilla, and Linux, I'm going to sit here and pout until I can do my thing on my tower. <3
Hologram: WebVR creator / toolkit
Colon cancer deaths rise among younger adults, and no one knows why
I'm really happy with Firefox these days. It is faster for my usage, except on Facebook and Google products, which I barely use these days.
He's saying that since VSCode is built on Electron and it's fast, the Atom guys can't blame Electron anymore.
People are adaptable. You don't need to behave the same way at work as you do in your dating life. We should not be enforcing standards of gendered behavior in a business context because they increase attractiveness.

In fact this is a common form of sexual harassment - telling women they ought to make themsleves more attractive to you (smile, dress a certain way, etc) when you are strangers or colleagues.
https://www.justwatch.com/ by HN user endymi0n; Show HN (2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005641

"largest streaming search engine in the world [...] with around 12 million unique visits per month" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842083

--

http://www.canistream.it/ by former HN user SeyelentEco
Thanks for this insight. It certainly does not paint a pretty picture.
And for those that find headphones distracting and for which there isn't a viable "somewhere else?" Such casual dismissal.
Good point komali2.

My steam library is full of games I'll never play, never would have bothered to pirate. Why? because steam sales.

I'm sure the same could be achieved for Hollywood. Not only could they make sure people are paying for the content they watch, they could have saps like me paying for content they never watch.
- One year in the market and already profitable

- In stealth mode

- Making first hires

How does that add up?
No Pops? There has to be Pops:

https://archive.org/details/78_s.-o.-l.-blues_louis-armstron...

https://archive.org/details/78_savoy-blues_louis-armstrong-a...

(Though these are songs you can already find on CD or on Spotify.)
> Adding other rooms isn't something I'd like to consider, whilst the existence of other multi-room sites exist with the same population.

That doesn't parse, but even if it did I disagree with it, i don't think that those other sites exist with the same population.
As a parent, I would do this too. Imagine if they includes Studio Ghibli movies.

There's a certain standard for Disney movie that makes it easier for you to watch or recommend young kids to watch, comparing to Netflix that you might have to weed out content a bit. Sort of similar to Whole Foods vs Safeway. This doesn't imply which one is better than the other, just that it's easier to set expectations for something with more niche.
Steve Jobs said "iTunes on Windows is like giving a glass of water to somebody in hell", what you're saying might be less rare that we think :-)

(I hate iTunes, and have no idea if the Windows version was a better Windows programs than others, I just thought I'd leave this here)
I saw it somewhere else, but a direct response is, vim-mode-plus. It's the absolute best I've seen in any editor. I was able to port every shortcut/binding/snippet from my .vimrc. The thing is just awesome. I tried the vim plugin for VSCode, and absolutely hated it. I have no doubt that it'll be improved in time but... it really gave me no reason to want to switch. I might go back to regular vim at the end of the year... I'm trying to make it an entire year with Atom.
instantwatcher.com for Netflix + Amazon
Nice to see Sublime performing so well relative to Code and Atom
I've never quite gotten why Chromecast is this Rubicon for them. Kindle content is available on pretty much anything that you'd expect, and even Amazon Video itself has officially been on Android for quite some time.

I can't imagine it's some play to increase the all-important value of the Fire Stick, so what's the deal?
Every studio... nah. But they don't care about being available to everyone, just the people that would choose them above another studio in the family budget.

You'll end up with people who subscribe to Amazon + Disney, or Amazon + Netflix, and some who do HBO + Disney + Hulu.

Studios want to compete with one another directly for customers, not go through some middleman.

Is it less convenient, sure, but customers (like me) used to go out to video stores and physically purchase DVDs, so its obvious what we're willing to accept a whole lot more inconvenience than what Netflix offers.
Are children into live-action Disney films? That seems to be the vast majority of their catalog, not animations.