skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would pay $10 a month to watch Game of Thrones, House of Cards, or other high production value TV shows on a big screen with other fans each week. I might even pay $20 or $30 a month for just those few months of new episodes for the latest season.

I would even pay $10 a month for a few months to watch an episode of Band of Brothers each week. I really enjoy the movie theater viewing experience. Lately I've only gone to the theatre to see the new Star Wars or Pixar films (only because I am a fan of those two franchises). Nothing else that is being released interests me.

I'm aware that some theatres book corporate trainings or private showings. I don't think it would be unreasonable for them to air new episodes of top television shows on the night of. It would be interesting to see what demand for that would look like.
As long as you don't explain why you think it is not relevant, there'll not be much progress.

You could argue for example the default should be to treat the two(representation of women in tech vs psychological gender differences) different and "burden of proof" should be on the side arguing they're same. I think that's not obvious to me(and probably a lot of others).
I quit coffee when I realized that it was greatly exacerbating some anxiety issues. I do have the occasional tea though, and the occasional decaf.
Fair enough, you have a good point: there are many things that contribute to this gender gap. I don't think it's a huge leap, however, to say that sexism in the field of software engineering is a substantial contributor to the gender gap in that field. In my opinion, the regular trickle of articles on this subject could be enough to discourage people who are currently thinking about entering the field, thus widening (or maintaining) the gender gap.

To put it another way, I believe we would need to make real and measurable progress on sexism as the cause of the gender gap before we start looking for other reasons or, as Damore would have it, deciding the status quo is as good as it gets.
Yeah, it's a thing and it's totally great. La-z-boys, reserved seats, same price.
You do realize his foundation helped eradicate polio worldwide. Some of you HNers can't give people a break.
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There's a lot to be said for the pacing of classes. I embarked on getting a Masters in EE through my alma mater's online program. If I had tried to get through the same content at my own pace,then it would have taken significantly longer than a semester to cover the same content.
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Who wants to play a game of Arguman with me?

I state that "Positive discrimination of disadvantaged groups in employment and education is immoral"

http://en.arguman.org/positive-discrimination-at-work-is-imm...
Reading that, it seems more like they went back to doing research full time instead of being part time administrators -- and probably happier for it.
Thanks! I will look at it later, but seems a great resource
I joined up about a year ago at $30/month. For 3 months, I averaged about 5 flicks per month, which was a net gain over the cost of the individual tickets.

Then I got a notice that they were increasing my fee to $40/month and I promptly cancelled. Sure, I could have upped my movie frequency a bit to recoup the extra cost, but that was a little too often to be worth it.
Link: http://lamborghini/
Please consider reading the Starch Solution by McDougall. Or watch some of his youtube videos. It's the easiest way to look at nutrition.

If interested, add How Not To Die by Greger. Nice youtube video of him at Google online. But a lot of information. Don't get confused by this. Go back to McDougall after watching this! :-)

Add Campbell's Whole or one of his recent youtube videos. If you want to be blown away by what the meat and dairy industries are doing to humans (and animals of course). It's like with the tobacco industry 50-something years ago! It's a shame that money is allowed to kill people in the millions with the governments knowing about it. And oh my the cruelty against animals.. Bad karma.. :-(

Anyway, avoid processed foods, yes. Processed sugar. Don't say "avoid sugar". Don't fear natural sugar! Fruits are good for you. But don't combine with fat! In a gist: The fat will be in your blood stream, blocking absorption of the sugars when you really want the sugar to be available for your muscles. Studies and data online. Known for many decades.

Somewhat more extreme: Read Graham's 80/10/10.

I'm on his high fruit 80/10/10 raw diet as much as possible - living in Germany where there isn't that much good fruits. I compensate with McDougall based starchy foods when i run out of fruits. I sometimes eat two to four pounds of oven baked potatoes.. :-) Eating between 3000 and 6000 calories a day. Exercising moderately for 30 to 60 minutes 3 to 5 days a week. Spending rest of time mostly sitting and standing(!) at my computer. Keeping my weight and body fat around 10% easily. The body isn't stupid. It will not turn carbs into body fat easily.

Note that I'm not saying keto diets etc don't work. High carb diets just seem to have a much better karma. Environmental factors, animal cruelty, and looking back at history, the human race survived and thrived and starches. Studies and data all there online. The gist: We could easily feed 10 billion people on this planet with carbs. But doing this on the back of helpless creates like cows, pigs and chickens, will f* up our environment and cost far too much of our resources.

Consider karma in all you do.. ^^
As a secondary question, for those who did complete the program, what was the general time commitment per (semester or class) vs. how long you were in the program? I see that you must take 2 classes in the first year, but didn't see any other further requirements on speed of completion.

edit: Answered my own question - You can't have two consecutive semesters "off"[1]. I.e. the slowest possible pace would be 2 classes in the first year, then 1 class every other semester. So I suppose it would be:
spring/summer 'xx: 6 credits, 24 remaining,
spring 'xx + 1: 9 credits, fall 'xx +1 : 12 credits
etc.

[1] - per https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/wiki/index
UIUC have one too http://engineering.illinois.edu/online/masters-degrees/mcs.h...
It's been in France since the early 2000s (for 20 euros). It's not all theaters but in Paris, the UGC MK2 card covers a few massive cinemas plus most small independent theaters.

It works well.
I had to make these as part of an introductory programming class in college, using this specific software.

I'm not sure if it's a shortcoming of the software or the overall idea of an NS chart/diagram, but boy, these suck. We were using Java in the class I had to write them for, and a lot of ideas weren't smoothly represented with these charts. They were a pain in the ass more than anything, and I have no idea why I would painstakingly rewrite the program in an overly verbose chart when I could just be writing the program and properly commenting it.
Hype in tech is terrible. If a technology gets an unusual amount of hype, it's a sign that you should wait a few years before you consider adopting it.

Real consensus about a specific technology stack takes at least a couple of years to build up. If a tech product becomes popular very quickly, it is purely because of its superficial qualities - Often at the expense of finer details.
> I honestly do not think you are having a healthy dialogue or coming to terms with your own inherent biases yourself.

Since you so clearly perceive those would you mind exposing them?

> My own two-cents are that left-wing violence and anger is partly to blame for both his rise and the deeper polarisation we are now seeing since it enabled the alt-right to play the victim and fight a war of optics [0].

That does not mesh with my reading of the facts as presently available at all.

> However, it's not the only cause: a large component of what we're seeing is that Trump coming to power has emboldened the worst of the Right [1].

That we can agree on, and this is in large part due to the use of various 'dog whistles'.

And frankly, I have a hard time coming to terms with people self describing as 'moderates' who voted for Trump, that is some kind of cognitive dissonance. Trump is about as far away from moderate as it gets.
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From: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/program-info/admission-criteria

> however, work experience will not take the place of an undergraduate degree.
Agreed. After a long break from being in a theater I went to an AMC downtown that had giant electronic recliners and a full bar out front. Still pricey but it was enjoyable!
Fully agree. Thanks.
We started using Meson on one of my projects and it's rather nice imo. I wouldn't use it for every class of project but it's well suited to something like GTK+.
I'm somewhat surprised that national pizza chains in the US haven't done more with their existing driver networks and delivery tech.

Edit: A little more detail...

For their current use of the networks, the apps aren't at all competitive with Uber Eats, Doordash, etc. See http://blog.pizzahut.com/featured/track-your-pizza-with-our-... , for example. It tracks only 3 states. The UI also doesn't do a good job of highlighting state changes...the current state is just a slightly larger circle, of the same color, and no "ping" when it changes.

Then, it seems like they could leverage their networks to do something beyond just delivering their own products. I get that there are potential issues with that, but it's surprising that we've not seen at least some local trial run of that.
The guy wasn't at the rally at the time, if I recall correctly it may have even been called off hours earlier, and no evidence of coordination has been discovered. On the other hand most or all of the recent Islamic terrorist attacks have been centrally coordinated down to the last detail, with the attackers in communication with their handlers right up until the attacks - including car attackers like Khalid Masood. Your justification just doesn't stand up.
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The people objecting that this is not cost effective are missing the point that most people who use this service will simply subscribe, forget, and go to the movies no more frequently than they do now (after a month or so).

It's why places like Planet Fitness are able to offer $10/month unlimited memberships.
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I sort of get what your saying, but on the face of it, it goes against the typical advice for managing emotions, which is to separate the emotion from the action/agency. That is, turning "you made me sad" into "I felt sad."

I think ego destruction are still at the core of both your and this idea
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Two of the big theaters where I live have installed the new electric recliner seats. They are not as comfortable as the seats they replaced. In fact, in one theater the new seats are so uncomfortable that we've stopped going to that theater altogether.
For reference, I had an undergrad in mechanical engineering with some self taught CS, and I was admitted a few years ago.
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F# is a ML familt language so it should go well with the "ocaml" recommendation.

Another vote for Common Lisp here. You can do functional programming but you can also "step outside" and do OOP, imperative (and other paradigms) if you need.
Here in the UK various cinema chains have unlimited subscriptions like that. It's a bit more expensive, but if you watch 3 movies a month you've recouped your costs of membership.

I've never noticed a particular problem with number of attendees. I've only ever found 3 people who go to the movies often enough to bother with the subscription.
Speaking as somebody who has chronic kidney disease but is very much not dead (last I checked), I feel compelled to point out that the car analogy omits the vast majority of the people impacted, many of whom will have lifelong battles with cardiovascular health and increased risk of serious illnesses (e.g. gout). Kidney damage is permanent and irreversible. Renal tissue does not regenerate.

Just because only six babies died from acute kidney damage (according to the article you linked, which does not quite agree with your numbers) does not mean that's where the damage ends. Evidently there were 54,000 babies who were impacted severely enough to be hospitalized -- that's 18%, a far cry from 0.001%, and most definitely not an indication that an ingredient is "almost safe". Ignoring 53,997 of them makes your analogy incomplete to the point of being specious.
> > The identity politics and pushing "undocumented" migrants angle
> Could you elaborate on this "going bananas"?

In most of Europe a major party advocating for legalising illegal migrants or opening borders doesn't stand a chance. This is why migrants vs refugees discussion is huge in Europe. People are OK to help refugees but most people don't want unlimited uneducated immigrants. The difference is what people see as refugees. In Western Europe, only extreme left (= greens and communists) advocate for open borders or legalising illegals. In Eastern Europe, such discussion is completely off the table.

> * Trying to deprive 10s of millions of people of healthcare multiple times without even publicly showing the proposed bill(s)

US healthcare look 100% fucked up. Be it Obamacare or post or pre that. I don't see how GOP stance changed on this. They always were fucked up in this regard, they still are. Thus business as usual.

> * Banning cameras and reporters from briefings
> * Electing a GOP congressman one DAY AFTER assaulting a reporter, on live tape.
> * The president contradicting generals and trying to incite wars over twitter, and the GOP majority congress and senate letting it slide. Time after time, after time.

I was talking about overall left vs right tendencies, not about single politicians. GOP was weird a decade ago, it still is now. Democrats went full retard IMO. I can't see what was going on their minds to push HRC. She's probably the only person that could have lost to Trump and, well, she did! I'd love to see Trump vs. Sanders election in parallel universe. IMO he'd have better chance. It was pretty clear that public wants "non-establishment" candidate. HRC is as establishment as it gets. Sanders is less establishment than Trump with his business history.
Checksumming is rather not free on today's CPUs unless you use something like xxhash which operates close to RAM speed.

Journaling is rather useful because especially consumer desktop computers tend to be mistreated and crash a lot. The physical journal in ext4 prevents the worst when stuff gets hairy. Additionally, it does not effectively delete data like ZFS (or rather, make it very very hard to access data) just because a bit was corrupted.

I think a user will value their family pictures more than some random text file suddenly having another character somewhere, they will loose data with a checksumming FS on a normal machine. There is no second drive to pull a good copy of the data from. There is one. And you just killed the last picture of grandma. Congrats.

>Why waste clock cycles on a journal when you might not need it?

Journaling wastes mostly bandwidth and IO, not much CPU and clock cycles.

>Roll-back last system-wide update? Done. Backup consistency? Free and vastly simplified.

That is indeed something you can do with a CoW system but the tools to achieve this are in my experience not fully mature yet.

The same tasks can also be achieved without snapshots at all, NixOS seems to be doing fine.

>Backup consistency? Free and vastly simplified.

Snapshots are not backups. If you pretend they are you will loose all your data.

Snapshots are snapshots. Nothing more and nothing less. Not backups.

>But this should be the default for all user-facing machines as well as servers.

I've not stated they shouldn't be default, rather, that the end user does not necessarily need them.

Though, ZFS is doing a rather poor job on all these tasks, especially disk management on ZFS is a hassle I wouldn't have a typical end user face. I think Bcache FS is a much cleaner and better design than ZFS, which is rather unflexible.

But again, I don't see the immediate need for every end user machine to have a checksumming and CoW filesystem, people have been doing fine for years without them and I doubt there is chaos and fire everywhere as you seem to imply. It could be a little bit better but ext4 is a perfectly fine filesystem for production data.

If you rely on checksumming and snapshots for your data safety, you're in for a bad time. Proper backups, not snapshots, will beat snapshots any day. Checksums make data inaccessible, a rather bad choice for a user machine. Whoops, I guess those family photos are totally unusuable because 1 bit has corrupted.
We subsidise our physical / video standup with statushero.com. It definitely helps with engineer engagement!
Now you're going to have to figure out how to position BLM versus the Neo Nazis.

For me the one is a response to structural unequal treatment by law enforcement, the other is the vilest element in society seeking a platform and a way to spread their hateful ideology.
This is a general trend in media as a whole today - sequels, reboots, remakes/remasters, derivatives of other popular media are just as bad in television and video games. The only saving grace of "TV" is Netflix, Amazon and HBO who are more willing to take the risk on new IP.

The last AAA video game I purchased that wasn't based on an existing IP or derivative of a specific formula (see: Ubisoft) was Titanfall. The last movie I saw for myself (and not my daughter) that wasn't based on existing IP I can't even remember, it must have been Grindhouse (Planet Terror / Death Proof). Meanwhile, the last serialized "TV" content I've watched that wasn't a new season of an existing show or a spinoff was Transparent, before that there was Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, etc.

I would love for some fresh ideas in the available content out there, but it seems like executives are especially adverse to risk considering the budget it takes to make "current-gen" visuals in blockbusters or AAA video games - and I wonder if that is why serialized shows are where most of the "fresh" content is considering people expect lower production values out of a 20 episode season of 45 minute episodes.
That's the equivalent of sending your resume to a company for a job opening and the company saying, "since this resume is now on our control, we own the information in it."
He just refuses to say anything, they finally manage to drag out a tiny "no". We all know this has some dire implications for personal freedom in China.
"The life changing magic of cleaning up by Marie Kondo <- not life changing but decent and a quick, 2-3 day read."

I found a similar title perusing the local library's stacks last year. Sort of a "zen of cleaning" that goes way beyond merely cleaning your sailboat...

Quick & Easy Boat Maintenance: 1001 Time-Saving Tips

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1179767.Quick_and_Easy_B...
In my (smallish) city I'm lucky enough to have a theater that plays independent and foreign films, and it's great. Without it, I would almost never go to the movies anymore because the standard hollywood fare is absolute garbage, like you said. But because I can see serious and intelligent films, I go often. Plus, the experience is almost always way better -- no chatty kids, no cellphones, etc. I don't know how it is in other cities but I don't think its inevitable that viewership declines with age.
People like Shen have families.
Experience is a big deal. But that pretty much encapsulates why I go to maybe one big-screen IMAX movie per year.
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Are you getting fake items when you order from Amazon, or when you order from a third party through Amazon?
There is no symmetry or balance in this. This is the fulfillment of the warnings that the alt right is a white supremacist movement, that Breitbart is their platform, and that Trump is their candidate. There is no countervailing "side" to that.
Interest on a collateralized loan for a while might be cheaper than capital gains tax on an actual sale.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Bonds have value because we assign a dollar value to them. The dollar value itself is fiat currency. The bonds do not value to dollar, the dollar values the bond.
I always thought it was obvious that the gender gap in tech begins long before adulthood. Classrooms in high schools and universities that are technical in nature tend to be dominated by males. I think it has more to do with young people fulfilling traditional roles in academia. And I don't think that's inherently "wrong". Why is a gender gap considered "bad"? In and of itself, I think it's neutral.

Does sexism exist in tech? Sure, but I'm not sure it's any more pronounced than any other field. I also don't think females are always the victims. Should we try and right moral wrongs where we see them? Yes, I think we should.

It's really easy to highlight bad behavior as a cause of a "problem" that might not even be a problem. In other words, if we can focus our attention on eliminating sexism where we see it, the gender gap becomes a non-issue (even if it persists).
The transaction and the price aren't serious problems. What really prevents me from going to movie theaters is lack of reserved seating and child care. My wife and I would go more often if we could buy tickets online for guaranteed good seats, and if they offered a babysitting service on site.
Is that the correct link you meant to share? Seems unrelated.
One interesting thing about the cinema industry is that it's not the theatre chains that set ticket prices, it's the movie companies. I have a friend who manages one, and worked into the contracts that the cinema chains have with the studios, is a certain number of passes they get every month to give to family and friends. They're contractually not allowed to give the passes on opening weekend.

The cinema companies don't really care about some things, like sneaking between movies, sure if they catch you they'll kick you out but they're not looking real hard for you. Other things, like piracy, they care a lot about, films are individually watermarked so whenever a pirated version comes out, they know exactly which theatre it was screened on. That provides a big incentive to catch them.

With a Netflix-type plan for cinema, it's not the cinema companies that Netflix is going to have to negotiate with, it's the studios. Literally all the box office take goes directly to them.
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> Ah, so a great valuable product!
I'm with you there. I think the last time I paid to go see a movie in theaters was for Hobbit 2 which was what 4 or 5 years ago? That being said I've been to two screenings since then, but I didn't pay for either of those so I won't count them (they also weren't at a normal movie theatre but a studio theatre).
The Prelude is just what's visible in the default namespace, it's not the whole language

Data.Array and // are also described in the Haskell 2010 report

https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch14...
Not to be too snippy but this just seems like a way to light lots of VC money on fire. Maybe they've already got assurances of the value of the data from customers? Sign me up. I'll gladly blow through some of that sweet, sweet VC dough (just like Uber and Lyft).
You forgot to add "our hopes and prayers" to their shocked, shocked I tell you response to gun violence.
I guess you missed this.

Intel announced in Feb this year that they are spending $7B in Arizona to build a chip fab:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-corp-announces-7-billion-...