skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are vastly overrating how much Netflix must pay to have old shows. To many content owners the choice is between not monetizing their IP, or licensing it to Netflix. That's a pretty weak position from which to negotiate price. Also, content is usually licensed in bundles, which is win-win for content owners and Netflix: The content owners get to monetize their low value content (which Netflix would have otherwise declined to pay for), and Netflix gets a lot of content by paying only a little bit more.
>You can still run multiple processes...

The problem with Node is it's unsuitable for a whole class of server applications - you're going to run into trouble whenever you need to maintain serial access to a single resource. Whereas in Java you'd have some sort of token that gets "taken" by different threads, there's no clean way to do this in a multiprocess Node environment.
They have no incentive not to escalate, they gain more legal advantages as the situation escalates and the DA gains better statistics.
It would also suck for the company to have payroll costs increase 30% because one of their remote devs happens to live in another country :)
It sounds like they haven't decided whether there will be free WiFi and Bluetooth drivers or not, and that would make a huge difference for me at least. Everything else seems to be totally free and open source, except for the baseband, which is separated from the system, can be disabled, and doesn't really have an open source option.
Alan Kay and project Xanadu are well worth studying in detail for anybody interested in the web and what made it successful. The web is essentially an extremely watered down version of what it could have been.
Sweet irony would be if you could use their own AI research to help
> In terms of waste, cryptocurrencies are peanuts.

I don't have a link for you, but just yesterday I read a headline saying bitcoin mining accounts for 5% of the UK's energy expenditure. That's not peanuts.

Now, even if that headline is wrong, here's a site that offers a Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index Chart (https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption) and they say that bitcoin accounts for 0.08% of the world's electricity consumption. That seems absurdly high.
Suddenly the headline seems less amazing...
> As for the rest of your argument, the OpenZFS team does a lot of work maintaining the filesystem. Why does that work need to come from you?

Integration into our tools, backporting fixes, doing release engineering, tracking upstream changes, triaging and resolving distribution bug reports, documenting usage and troubleshooting, configuring defaults and best practices, a whole lot of testing, etc.

As I said, there's a lot of work that goes into a distribution (I probably haven't covered most of it) that most people don't think about. And that's assuming that a distribution is going to be passive about something as core as a filesystem -- which we wouldn't be. So we'd be working with upstream on development as well, which is more work. So saying something like "it's supported on distribution X" when that distribution doesn't even provide official packages for it is a massive stretch. It might work on distribution X, and you might provide independent ISV-style support for it, but it's not supported by us.

I appreciate that the sort of work distributions do isn't well-publicised (mostly because stability is hardly a sexy thing to blog about, and we don't rewrite things in JavaScript every weekend). But there is an incredible amount of work that goes into making distributions work well for users, and there's a reason that many distributions have lasted for so many years (there's a need for someone to do the boring work of packaging for you).
Those rich experiences never materialized. It's 2017 right now, Every time I open some video chat application, whether it's skype, or facetime, I get stutterring, and sound issues, not to mention the 5 minutes of lost time trying to set up the call.

I'm on a 50 mbps internet plan (the best plan in this area), and I live close to the At&t router, i'm told! of course, i loose 70% of that cuz i need to use 5ghz in a super crowded CA neighborhood. But still, 15mbps should be enough for video chat, right?
All of the classic papers I can think of have already been mentioned, but even though it's too recent to pass judgment a new contender may well be "Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement: Fundamental Connections with Implications to Network Design" - https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01552
I wish this "the web is over complicated" meme would die. The web at one point was only for hypertext. It is still fine for hypertext but it is now also an application platform and the browser a runtime and app container.

Your solution to the JS ecosystem is to make news websites less interactive. I see why you long for simpler times but I don't see how that fixes things.

For those of us who are building applications we need the complexity. It solves problems that come from the fact that the web has evolved from a hypertext system to an application platform.
That was not a key assumption. Changing it to a 49% false positive rate did not affect the result substantially.
Bayes' formula can be applied to compute probabilities for basically anything, but you have to watch your assumptions. For example, the example crucially depends on every person actually having seen the car, and their answers being conditionally independent given the color of the car. If e.g. only 10 had seen the car and each told 100 others, that works out to a completely different number.

If you want to make a probabilistic argument in a public debate, you probably won't have enough information to reach reliable numbers, and it won't convince anyone who doesn't already agree with your conclusion. (Assuming they didn't doze off when you mentioned math ...)
And in practice, Keynesian economies don't do the 'curtail surplus spending' part, so we end up where we are now with debt interest taking up a significant part of US spending, with signs of increasing significantly.
Same reason you would sell any business really. If the price someone is willing to pay for it is higher than what you expect is the discounted return over time, then you should sell.
Please do not misquote me like you do in this post.
Or said another way, their analysis is assuming each person's answer is statistically independent, which it's not!
The only safe way to try and do that would be to make sure that the max-age of your policy was never more than the remaining validity of your longest valid certificate.
The biggest problem is getting into orbit.

https://api.media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6180_-_en_-_saal_2_-_20141... Around 19'th minute.

Then again, Mars is far so it would take some time to get there. Then again again, most of the ships wouldn't have to have people aboard. Edit: It helps that Mars has an atmosphere of sorts.
Siri's voice update and not allowing apps to use location always were two of my favorites in iOS 11!
> Because it usually comes with built-in social security and nationwide health insurance.

In what universe do companies offer a lower salary because the country offers a better social safety net?
VW Strike in Slovakia Exposes a European Divide
A German brand, Blaupunkt, 32".
That's the kind of faith in the system that only people who have never seen it in action still have.

A friend got pulled over for speeding. Cop did not clock their speed, at trial they did not even know the speed limit for the road. Judge "seems legit, your guilty."
blockbuster movies are a few times more expensive to make. also remember HBO is getting a subscription with recurring revenue. Roughly speaking, I think if their churn is low the ROI could be just as good if not better.
If you agree with what they are doing (fighting the FBI demand), there is a donation page for the cause; https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/dreamhost/
> It's easy to construct a coherent interpretation of the Constitution that invalidates Roe without nuking the Ninth Amendment

Really? What is it?
Lyft is screwing up in more ways than one. I only use these services when I'm out traveling. I switched to Lyft because a couple of drivers in Honolulu mentioned that they liked Lyft better. Fine, didn't matter to me. Until months later when the Lyft app started spamming me with notifications of ride credits and it wouldn't stop. Looking at their support information, the only way to get these spam notifications to stop is to completely block notifications for that app. But of course, if I do that, the notifications for actual ride information will be blocked, too. Deleted the app, will use Uber instead.
You are exactly right. If you don't have a kid between the ages of about 3 and 6, I imagine it's possible to underestimate the kinds of quirky (and incredibly effective) advertising that's being cooked up for the little ones.
Remember pop-unders? I don't miss closing my browser and finding a dozen ads hiding under the window.
Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to get leads for a free corporate product?
Also not to downplay the issues with sexism in tech, but the level of uproar is somewhat reminiscent of the Ellen Pao situation and how much Twitter/HN/SF exist in an echo chamber.

I'm sorry I don't want to march on the streets because a group of billionaires are acting like total assholes towards an aspiring billionaire trying to play the game of thrones with that court. The rest of us have-nots have real problems to worry about. Cry me a fucking river.
Ya lo probé y si funciona muy bien, en cuestión de segundos obtienes los precios de las aseguradoras con descuento!
Always, no, Usually, yes. And, since most people overuse passive voice, advice to avoid using it benefits most writers.

Passive voice hides the thing that is performing the verb in the sentence. That obscurity has some costs. It tends to make the sentence longer. See "benefits most writers" above instead of "is beneficial to most writers".

Worse, it tends to make the sentence harder to "get into". You want the reader to concretely visualize what you're saying. When the sentence gives you no actor to place in the scene, it's harder to grasp what's really going on. That vagueness in turn makes your writing harder to understand and harder to remember.

On the other hand, sometimes you really do want to hide the actor. The thing performing the verb may not be relevant or may be actively distracting to mention. It may be that one or more actors may be the thing that performs the verb and you don't know which one it will be. Being specific could be incorrect. In those cases, I think passive voice is fine.

But as a first approximation, "avoid passive voice" is good advice. Be skeptical of every use it, and don't be equally skeptical when you use active voice. But don't tie prose in knots trying to avoid passive voice entirely. Sometimes an "is" is fine.
'Uber, mired in corporate scandals, sees an uptick in PR spend (again)'
I'm aware of that. I was asking why that change was made.
And like the parent says...

What, exactly, were the consequences of the officers violating his rights?

And I don't think you read the article:

> the court system decided against indicting him on the crime he was charged with.

Absolutely he was indicted, AND convicted.

It had to be appealed to the Supreme Court before the convictions were vacated.
Lest you think this is merely an academic problem, I ran into a catastrophic, real-world case where it mattered.

I lost a notebook at a big box store. It had major sentimental value to me[1]. I called their Lost & Found and asked if someone had returned a green notebook. They insisted they didn't have one.

When I went to the store in person, they had it. Because they felt that it wasn't green, but blue. And (presumably) that no one would describe it as green, so they should return False for "matches what a green-notebook-seeking human wants?"

Here's the notebook: http://i.imgur.com/AlQAZBJ.jpg

So, for the linked question: whenever answering a question, you need to know why you're answering it. It affects the answer! Consider these purposes:

1) "I want to know if other people will agree that this is a green notebook."

2) "I want to know if I should say this definitely-doesn't-match when someone comes looking for a green notebook."

3) "I want to know if this notebook reflects almost entirely green light."

Case 2 is the one I was interested in. In that case, 10% respondents are enough to say "hey, that might be a match".

[1] I know, "you shouldn't have brought it out with you".
Remember the movement to get out of big banks and move to credit unions.

Same thing - all the furor died down over time. Doubt there was a seismic shift.
> You mean like cash?

I would guess that the OP means 'yes like cash, but cash is also used for other things whereas crypto currencies are not practically used for anything else.'
I dont think DH is really all that small. Comlared to aws and stuff maybe but I think they have pretty significant infrastructure.

What Dns providers are you thinking of? My guess would be something like cloudflare would be a good choice. Though Ive never looked into it tbh, I run my own dns.
Yeah, it does. The real concern is that the moon-day is a full month long and there is no atmosphere transferring heat; any permanent structures on the surface will get very very cold during those two weeks in the dark. If we don't solve this with suitable solar-charged batteries we would need multiple outposts -- say 4 of them dotted around the Moon -- with colonists rotating through the cities to stay in the Sun. But that's also kind of a non-starter because the distance between those cities is something akin to the distance between Denver and New York City -- it's not impossible but it's also a nontrivial drive to be doing every week just to remain in the sunshine.
Mmm. Think of the CO2/power savings at a big coding shop like, I dunno, Google...
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This is important because if you're making a free corporate tool -- let's say a free Trello or Basecamp or email client -- by the nature of having a free product you won't have a budget to market ala Google with $2 CPC. So for new and free products, what is the best way to reach to corporate users -- is email worth it?
This actually lines up with what I, a mid level .Net dev was expecting. When I first arrived in Paris I thought the compensation was low, but I was educated that that was the standard. It's improved a bit but not a whole lot.

Paris is still a great city to live in. We even managed to live there with child.
Also, ice reflects light back out into space, meaning we absorb more of it and the heat that gets generated from absorbing it, as the ice melts.

It's safe to say we're soundly screwed, and probably were screwed before we could realistically do anything about it. Anything we do now short of killing off 80% of the population and the other 20% living like native tribes men, won't have any real affect, it might slow it. Unless we come up with some solution the counter the feedback mechanisms and extract/recapture these gases from the atmosphere.
Skimmed the article, not sure why it mentions HN. Looks like spam to me.
The only reason I am willing to fund this phone is because it's not android. If I wanted "just another android", I'd get one. They are a dime a dozen, and all terrible, imo.

> This quote is nonsense.

Heavily disagree. I've worked with those projects, and they are terrible and severely limited systems.

Purism has been pushing for actual foss systems, which I would strongly argue Android is not, and is moving farther from every day.

Me and many other people have been begging for an actual linux phone, and I'm excited to see where this goes.
Of course in that time you had no tab indicator to nicely tell you who was playing sound.

Nothing quite like those search that took you on sketchy websites and their porn pop under blasting orgasmic noises in your home / office while you frantically try to find who does that (and then close everything because it's taking too long).

"The good old time", as they say.
Of course I remember your cool UNAME standing out in all those :WHOJ's! ;)

Do you remember Rob Griffiths, aka ROBG? I really enjoyed his full interview from Get Lamp -- he really nailed what it was like at that time, making a pilgrimage to 545 Tech Square as a 15-year-old kid!

https://archive.org/details/getlamp-rgriffiths

He and you are a couple of the people who I was thinking of when I described kids from all over the country hanging out chatting and spying and waiting to play Zork!
What do you mean? App Engine supports many versions of your application running simultaneously. You just deploy to a new version and migrate traffic (slowly or quickly, your choice).
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I created my HN account 2884 days ago and this comment is the first time in a long time I’ve felt this forum has had some serious conversations about the conflicts between ethics and profits. I am so glad to see people questioning the means leading to financial ends. Thank you for directly bringing the dynamics of how financial incentives are impacting the reality we live in into the conversation. I sorely hope the person you responded to manages not to feel too attacked and gives a frank and truthful answer on where their line is with respect to not wanting to profit off a corporate scandal. It is going to be important to understand. Activism is going to have a tough road of making an impact on corporations if there’s no market response or impact to help dissuade when companies engage in immoral, unethical or downright bad dealings.
Arca es muy buen comparador de seguros, ofrece distintas opciones y lo mejor es que es muy rápido y fácil de usar.
También esta muy padre que no haya que registrarse para usarse. Se los recomiendo ampliamente.
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Incredible that you are so heavily downvoted. Just shows the level of fear and disdain that even technical people have towards cryptocurrency.
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My drawings by fingers
I used my fingers to draw on the mobile app linebrush. Do you like them? http://365bee.lofter.com/tag/%E6%80%AA%E7%89%A9
How do you know he didn't, and while he brought up FF, Safari, IE, once he wins that war he will move on to getting his browser icon included.
This is intellectually dishonest. I can think of plenty of equally as poisonous ideologies as Nazism. Communism devoured millions of its own citizens. Should we ban them because their ideas are toxic? No! The truth should come through and I'd have the opportunity to refute them than to cover my ears to them.
In my experience, even conventional form interactions like a list view with mass actions can be impossible without Javascript, and then unwieldy without some sort of framework to keep the UI consistent and a pleasure to use for users.
That logic makes no sense. Since health isn’t an employer cost, salaries in Europe should be higher than the US where the employer incurs health/social costs. However, in France “social charges” are incurred by the employer which means that their cost per employee is about double of their actual salary. That means that French employers are paying social charges which finance those who aren’t employed.

In the US:

An employer pays salary + health costs for that employee.

In Europe:

Employer pays salary + health costs for both the employee AND the rest of society. Which means your European salary is subsidizing other people not even related to the company.

On top of that, the employee gets to pay tax rates approaching 50% in many cases.

The average take home pay after factoring out health costs and benefits is dramatically lower than an equivalent position in the US.
Some Kindles may use i.MX6, likely simply because some i.MX6 versions have an integrated e-paper drive subsystem which avoids the need to use an external e-paper controller. I believe early Kindles used the Epson e-paper drive controller.
This is development we're talking about, not ops. Make sure your deployment plan includes rollback capability, then let ops do what ops does. Almost never should you encounter a dev issue that needs emergency code pushed in less time than it takes to make a phone call and get someone to remote in.
They didn't mention anything about typing as reason for switching. They said "It's a really frustrating ecosystem to work in, all the deps, toolchains, build process is extremely fragile." They switched to python for the ecosystem and tooling.
Ask HN: How does bcachefs compare to btrfs?
The list of features on bcachefs' author's Patreon [0] is quite similar. How does bcachefs manage to do the same in less code?

What are the on-disk mistakes that he means by saying "now [btrfs] has too many design mistakes baked into the on disk format"?

[0] https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs
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Ha! Sorry, you're right. The "threads" page doesn't give you any of the context of what your original message was in response to, so I forgot what I had been responding to :-)
>If that is true, then why do they call it "the dark side of the Moon"?

It's the side we can't see from Earth. It's dark as in unreachable by line of sight or light, eg radio communication, from Earth. "Far side of the moon" is the preferred term but "dark side" is popular and persists.
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They actually made a joke to this effect about Uber and Lyft on the last episode of Difficult People.
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Personally I'd call that teal but if someone was looking for it I'd accept blue or green as a maybe.
You'd use an interface for polymorphism, much better.

That said, I have to thank you for your suggestion of doing sum types with inheritance. I hadn't thought of it, and the use case presented itself at work yesterday. So I learned something new, thanks. It worked well, an abstract class with shared fields, and a derived class for every type in my sum type with distinct fields added to them. Now a variable of the abstract type is effectively constrained to one of the set of its derived children. Limit this to one level and you've got a pretty nice simulated sum type. Just need to remember to handle all cases when working with it. It worked like a charm, wouldn't have thought of it without your comment.
Project:M36 is an implementation of the proposed design from the "Out of the Tarpit" paper.

https://github.com/agentm/project-m36
This is interesting, because I think both you and parent commenter identify an interesting principle when thinking about space colonization.

Maybe at the end of the day, the dumb, brute cost of traversing an extreme distance is a tougher problem than colonizing someplace nearby thats vastly less habitable. One problem is conceptually simpler but extremely costly, the other is conceivably lest costly overall despite being way more complicated.
Ask HN: Has anyone heard of taking out a loan to maximize ESPP contributions?
Was thinking about this the other day. If your typical Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) nets you a 15% minimum essentially-guaranteed return but you can't afford to max out your paycheck contributions, why not find a loan for 10% or less to subsidize your paycheck so that you CAN max out contributions? From the bank's perspective, the only risk to mitigate would be the employee getting fired or the company going under. Seems like a win-win, but has anyone heard of such a practice?