skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those films are now done by Netflix and Amazon. Just a different model. I used to go to an indie theater twice a week when I was in college and saw every niche film. But those theaters hardly exist any more. The big theater experience just isn't cut out for that. It's barely pleasant enough to go see the latest popcorn movie.

The industry really needs to take at-home seriously.
It's also interesting to me how some of the stigma associated with VOD and straight to video releases has gone away. It's a pretty great time for film and television.
This is generally considered to be quite a letdown based on the leaks. The only thing retro about it is the old style keyboard. They slapped the old keyboard on a T470 from the looks of it, which doesn't quite warrant all the hype they drummed up. They ran a series of surveys and blogs.
"Bullshit?" Do you offer a better overview material for world's economic history? Your "very detailed rebuttal" appears neither particularly detailed nor does it touch my response to the particular claim of "pre-British Indian empires bringing immense prosperity to the region" which (not the claim, the response to it) you can find for yourself in Maddison.

But now that you mention it, in your "very detailed rebuttal", you find claims about destroying infrastructure. Setting aside the counterintuitive nature of even an exploitative regime destroying productive capital (to rob itself of profits?), Maddison outright claims that the colonial government increased irrigated area in India by a factor of eight. I'm not sure what else counts as infrastructure in a predominantly agricultural society but irrigation infrastructure has to rank pretty high on the list. So that sole claim of destruction can't possibly be the whole truth.

I'd rather prefer a more reasonable response that your visceral knee-jerk reaction. "Absolutely, completely bullshit" is hardly a valuable feedback. I'm going to stick with Maddison for now until he gets surpassed.
Thanks for the explanations. I do actually think that NYS does not have Fair Elections like Maine or Arizona has implemented.

The left in the US doesn't want focus on boring things like election law because it is currently addicted to feeding its project of hearsay-ridden alarmist identity politics, the kind that would inspire someone to for example endorse the violence at Speaker's Corner despite the existing video of the incident. Election law will not appeal to young leftists for reasons obvious to those who have been through the throes of Tumblr and now Twitter politics, where the incentives to control others through social status and guilt creates a fractal prison of power structures, and have managed to grow out of it.

Individual thinkers in the Anglosphere who would rather see progressive activist resources directed toward concrete issues like corruption or housing, and actually talk plainly about the reality of the current directionless Internet dark age on the Left that siphons away these resources into nothingness, like Angela Nagle, Jesse Singal, Freddie DeBoer, and L.H. Fang suffer accusations of holding every sort of oppressive mindset from more popular leftist figures.
If you're getting treatment, the amount of HIV in your blood is regularly measured as your "viral load".

It's possible, with treatment, for people with HIV to have a viral load labelled undetectable.

To date, from an article I read, there have been no recorded transmissions from people with an undetectable viral load.

https://www.preventionaccess.org/faq
Ives is kinda obsessed with white in case you hadn't noticed.
I wouldn't call a limit to two VMs friendly. Plus Apple doesn't make suitable hardware for this.
No one is killing the movie industry. Here are the stats:

http://www.mpaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MPAA-Theatric...
> birth control pills are basically hormone bombs, not very healthy for women in the long run

I've heard this a few times but I'm curious for sources on the fact that they're not healthy. They're certainly not natural, but, like, living until you're 80 years old isn't particularly natural either. Do you mind expanding on this?
A Glimpse into Creative Asset Performance Within Google Universal App Campaigns
> The currently understood source of ADHD is a mis-wiring of the brain.

Is that actually understood, though? We had the heavily promoted social consensus for a long while that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance, which is now seen as a somewhat disproven theory that never had much evidence.
Steve didn't launch Newton, it came out in '93. He did kill it though.
"anonymous" meaning posting through an alt account.
Godot 3 actually has some built in DSP effects and send buses: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-30-new-internals-progr...

Regarding visual editing, those tools are of direct interest to any signal processing work(which for games means audio, visual effects, and in some cases asset dependency resolution). They don't work well once your task is too fine-grained. Graphs of finite state are also extremely useful for game AI and concurrently scripted logic, so tools that formalize those concepts and give them visual UI are also commonplace.

In audio work, a FSM is a good starting place to conceptualize processes like key state tracking and envelope triggers. Games have more shifting requirements so the design process of the FSM is given much more emphasis.
Whether or not Apple does this, others will. The web platform needs a well-considered generic approach to non-rectangular displays to support a widening array of devices: watches, medical devices, decorative displays, industrial controls, e-paper-type displays wrapped around a pipe, etc. They could have multiple panels of different sizes, have holes in the middle (not just the edge), be extremely curved, or whatever.

I'm fine with learning new, standard techniques for dealing with a broadening range of opportunities, but it's annoying to have to learn and incorporate Apple-only technologies in my web apps. But if the standard platform doesn't have a solution, Apple will solve it themselves.
GitLab's RAM requirements have increased considerably and we now recommend 4GB. It still runs on a RasPi2 but it is not a great experience. We would love help running GitLab with Puma so that it is still fast if you have little memory https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3592
> It is safer to invest in the next mediocre superhero movie

Thus leading to those "trends" people get faux-excited for (I say that as they completely forget the 'hype' over previous ones when the next one hits) and masking the problem in the first place.

Anyways, "safe but boring" is finance's bread and butter, so looking to big-budget flicks to take risks in the pursuit of good art is a lost cause. They only care insofar as they can get emmy attention to up sales.
What if someone drove you out of your house, sold that house, gave that money to 10 starving families in India, set them up for life?

That would be an overall good.

(despite the misdeed).
The argument I make is that the Constitution exists to simultaneously establish a government and limit its powers, and applies to all agents of said government no matter where in the universe they may be.

If the border crossing is not within the jurisdiction of the US, its agents have no authority there, and if it is within the jurisdiction of the US, its agents are subject to its laws and bound to obey them. And if the agent stands one foot in and one foot out, the person seeking entry ought to be able to turn around and return whence they came with all their possessions intact whenever they decide the crossing has become too burdensome and that they no longer wish to enter.

A citizen of France has as much right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure by an agent of the US government in New York as in Paris, or in London. The Constitution is the adhesion contract for all persons seeking to become employees of the nation. It just so happens that no court in the US has been established asserting jurisdiction over territory outside the US, so if said Frenchperson had experienced a violation of their 4th Amendment rights by, for instance, a CIA spook without a warrant, in their own home in France, there is no court available to take the case other than the Supreme Court itself. It simply won't take the case, just because no one wants to open that can of worms.

The de facto situation is that the US government does whatever TF it wants outside the US, because it has the money, might, and influence to get away with it, and the voting public back home just can't give enough focus to international shenanigans as well as their regular, day-to-day problems.

By a strict reading, it breaks its own laws all the time, with absolute impunity. As a lifelong American, I have never heard any politician so much as mention this, even to dismiss it out of hand as a non-issue.

Unlocking an electronic device to examine the bits stored on it is, in my opinion, an unreasonable search and seizure that goes well beyond the scope of the eminently reasonable searches for and seizures of physical contraband at border crossings. Therefore, by its own rules for unreasonable searches, a warrant must be obtained by the US government from itself before said unlocking can happen.

Furthermore, if I saw a sign saying, "YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS", I would be pissed. Regardless of any laws in force, everyone has the right to be treated with a default level of respect and basic human dignity by their fellow humans, and to travel about their own planet without some arrogant yard ape turning their trip into a GDMF Kafka novella. You have the right to be addressed courteously. You have the right to protest any government overreach, even if it trivial, and even if it is not your government. You have the right to live free in the free world.
Good find, seems that the industry is doing just fine:

In 2016, U.S./Canada box office was $11.4 billion, up two percent from $11.1 billion in 2015. Admissions, or
tickets sold (1.32 billion), held steady compared to 2015.
Moviegoer Trends
 More than two-thirds (71%) of the U.S./Canada population – or 246 million people – went to the cinema at
least once in 2016, a two percent increase from 2015. Frequent moviegoers – individuals who go to the cinema
once a month or more – continue to drive the movie industry, accounting for 48 percent of all tickets sold in
the United States and Canada.
 The number of frequent moviegoers increased in 2016. However, the number of tickets purchased by frequent
moviegoers decreased. This was offset by an increase in the tickets purchased by occasional moviegoers
(moviegoers who attended less than once a month).
It was in his book "how to get rich" or something similar to that title. Half memoir half advice. It's actually a pretty good read... title notwithstanding. I am not sure if he was he originator of that saying though.
I'm not sure I would do the same. Going to the theater isn't such a limitation for me. My holdup is that movies are very rarely good. Even if they were free to my TV I wouldn't watch a lot of blockbusters.

You're right that they should make it easier to consume their content but they should also try making something watchable first.
There is a lot of advice on the thread saying: take the money. Given your personal situation etc. this may very well be the right choice.

But you need to realize that just because you've been approached for acquisition and even if somebody tells you straight up "we want to acquire you", it sounds like you are far away from actually getting acquired. The road from casual interest to money in the bank is long and bumpy.

Unless you actually have a term-sheet in your inbox, you aren't in the position to make this decision right now.

The right tactical approach is for you to push hard on both fronts - push as hard as possible on fundraising as if you have no other option. And if you do want to consider an acquisition, start approach these companies and ask for term sheet.

If both go well, then you have a decision to make.. (and more leverage..)
Feedback is always appreciated, and candid feedback is highly prized! I get what you're saying, but it's a fine line to walk: if Reviewable is too much like GitHub, it won't be able to add sufficient value to be worth using. If it's radically different, few people will be able to figure it out at all. I'm happy with the balance I've hit but it's definitely not for everyone -- on either end of the scale! Also, there's a forthcoming migration from Angular to Vue where I intend to make major changes to the UX, which will hopefully increase usability and make onboarding easier... We'll see!
That's interesting! How did the items get into the chute? Is there any possibility that someone could have used some software to simulate the packing problem and then organize the sequence of incoming items in order to make them more easily packable?
This is an important point. Don't be strung along while you're burning through cash.

Make sure the $14m is concrete and not just based on numbers that have been floated in casual conversations.
Beautiful. Thanks for the reply
It will give you a place to live and food to eat without ever having to do work for money again?
That's LOGO, not LISP.

The program at top is a LOGO interpreter, written in LISP.
We have an open core model where some features are only available in the proprietary version. We make 90% of our money selling subscriptions for https://about.gitlab.com/products/

GitLab.com subscriptions https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ are more recent but this is growing rapidly.
Power lanes? It will never work! The best time to sell someone a product is months after their initial exposure when they have forgotten completely about it. /s
Ask HN: Drastic drop in problem-solving abilities
Hello, I have to ask, have anyone of you suffer from drastic drops in problem solving ability when doing uninspiring work over a long period of time? I always think before I act, but offlate my behaviour has completely flipped .. not sure if this is reason to worry
Would you be interested in a service that aggregated startup/product ideas from people with deep industry experience but a lack of technical skills? It's something I've been thinking should exist.
Making product lineups huge and confusing. Once the X becomes available, they'll have eight different models of iPhone you can buy, and that's not even counting different colors or storage options.

What iPhone you get is driven by the economics of what you can afford and your personal taste. It's not that complicated.

There are 5 models:

- iPhone SE
- iPhone 6s/6s+
- iPhone 7/7+
- iPhone 8/8+
- iPhone X

It seems that Apple can't win even when they do what most people have wanted for a while: more options at more price points.

If you want to be confused, try to pick among Samsung's phones, some of which are only available on certain carriers or in certain countries and running different versions of the Android operating system.

From the SE to the iPhone X, they all run iOS 11.
What's really sad about this is when I graduated from college HP was a highly sought after place to work because they had a lot of "cool" products and prided themselves on never having had a layoff.

Then they spun off the interesting bits as Agilent and decided competing head-to-head with other conglomerates in saturated markets was a good business plan.
What does the cap table look like? Presumably you won't take the full $14m off the table even if the deal does go through (which is uncertain).

That context matters a ton when recommending a course of action. If you own 100% of the company that changes what I'd tell you compared to if you only owned 20%.
The web is mostly documents, with a few apps sprinkled here and there. HTML will likely be around, and in good use, for a long time.

Even the apps will use HTML's model via their DOM tree.
Easy Rider, Raging Bull by Peter Siskind is a great read about all this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Riders,_Raging_Bulls
Earning Dividends from Mining in a Convenient and Competitive Manner
Shh. Don't rock the boat. It annoys the philistines.

Art used to be about worship, but then there was a change of management and it got to be about advertising (and entertainment, to sweeten the pill), and now ... it's complicated.

Some of it is still telling tall tales to distract the rubes, some is just hoarding portable riches, some is category failure. Worship is right out.
Film execs read a lot of scripts and it's an easily trainable skill.

Reading scripts and summarizing them down to a standard two-page format is a standard part of the filter. An actress/model/waitress friend used to do that for extra cash. Film execs mostly read those executive summaries.
But what if we evolved sleep before we evolved brains? Might it then have a different benefit and the brain ones came later?
Also truckstop hierarchy = social hierarchy in places where truckers exit the road to rest and receive services; and Moby Dick = an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. But "dish" is probably the trickiest thing here.
I skipped Dunkirk because a friend told me it was disappointing.
Huh, I didn't realize they limited it to 2 VMs, but I just checked and you're right.

That said, since they don't make appropriate hardware for this, I'm not sure I'd want to tax a Mac mini with more than 2 VMs anyway ;)
They should bother because it saves administration, and they get the money at the expected time.

Most utilities companies in the UK are private and must compete, but even the few exceptions encourage people to pay using direct debit.
Bad assumption. Just because it's a team of people doesn't necessarily mean there is more than one shareholder. You can have one founder, and a few founding employees. Not everyone shares equity in a startup (at least outside of SV), and this is fine.
Say... WebGL?
serious life lesson here. Unless you have a lot of money now, take the 14m and run! I am 40+ now, but at 23 I was offered £5m for a business. I tuned if down because I would have to wear a suit and goto a stuffy office in a 2-year lock-in. I turned it down and lost the lot. I was a total idiot looking back on it now. You are better to have something than nothing at all. With £14m you can come up with the next great idea, and you still have a few million left over!
Spiral?
Amen.

Sadly it seems in a sense RH is funding both sides at the same time, as many of their employees are the very source of the "exciting" developments happening in the Linux ecosystem these days.

Thing is though that in a sense the Linux community has painted itself into a corner. Thanks to the likes of RHEL, Ubuntu LTS and Debian Stable, there is little reason for the upstream to be anything but "exciting".
What about the second part of the line you quoted? What do you think about actor selection?

One of my favorite things is seeing a movie with an actor that I'm not familiar with and being blown away by their performance. Some big actors (like Tom Cruise) I never quite forget that I'm watching Tom Cruise act and that takes away something from the experience.

Gary Oldman is a counter example. He's so good that I often don't notice him.
Keep in mind that you also can try to sell the company for more money if there's competition. Competition from other buyers, competition from investors. You probably want to try going down both roads to see how hard it is to sell or raise money. At that point you'll know more and you can feel more comfortable with the decision, whichever one you make.

Congratulations and best of luck!
Bitcoin is fiat money, too
Thanks. GitLab.com is indeed not as available as it should be. We're making progress but not as fast as we planned. Making GitLab.com more usable of a big part of our goals https://about.gitlab.com/okrs/

We think Kubernetes is the future operating system and we'll continue to add features specific to it. But we realize that only a few organizations are using it today. If you don't have Kubernetes you can still use parts of Auto DevOps, such as the Auto Code Quality.
Agree about Atomic, it's great peace of tech that builds on top of Urho3D, another very solid 3D engine.

Unfortunately, both game engines' lead developers (Josh and Cadaver) have recently retired, so projects' future is uncertain at this moment.
Such hideously wasteful extravagance, and how sad that these people who are already absurdly rich are still greedy for more.
But you sure as hell will be chartering and/or flying first all the time.
They are more hated then Uber. Their CEO is just as infamous.
So exactly like an American death sentence.
"The industry" only cares about its own moneymaking; you're not gonna see them roll over and say "hey, you know what's a really good movie?" rather than keep pushing their own formulaic investments.

Even critics aren't going to stop reviewing big-name movies on the grounds that they're all the same recycled shit; reviews of recycled shit likely still earns them far more than their other reviews combined.
Good story. I worked in moving as well Once Upon A Time. We didn't do the super-high-end work or long-distance driving that this guy did, but the packing stories are about the same.

There is a lot of skill to packing a moving truck well and quickly. It may not seem like it at the time, but we occasionally got these cross-load jobs where you could really tell. That's when a U-Haul that a customer packed broke down, and U-Haul would get them a new truck and pay for movers to move their stuff to the new truck. Almost all of them are pretty loosely packed by our standards, and can be transferred in an hour or two. We did get one where the customers had spent ~3 days packing everything into their truck. It was pretty chaotic, but the had sure enough filled every nook and cranny. I was kinda proud that we got everything except 3 medium-sized pieces into the new truck in about 5 hours.

The full-pack jobs are usually only done by either the elderly, or people who have someone else paying for their move. It gets expensive, what with paying for people's time to pack things, and paying for new, high-quality packing materials. It's mostly easy work, though, and you at least don't have to deal with boxes that are falling apart, badly taped, badly packed, not enough stuff inside and so crush with anything on top of them, too much stuff and impossible to lift or hold together, 50 slightly different sizes that don't pack together well because they got them secondhand from all over the city, etc. And dishes and other fragile items actually get packed properly and don't get smashed up if you look at the box funny.
This is awesome. Source? :)
Right so hacking Edgar wouldn't be a great source of non public information then no?
IIRC they made a specific exception for tracking pixels, because 1x1 are pretty easy to separate from actual images.
It loads fast and doesn't use web fonts, but that's not really a high bar, for essentially a forum.

Apart from that it's not exactly a pleasant reading experience.

Tiny text for modern displays. Poor typography (bad line-height of content, needlessly cramped padding in listing). Ugly beige background colour, randomly constrained to a container, (why not be all-white or all-beige). Poor click targets for smaller displays.

On desktop, I use the Georgify [1] Chrome extension, fixes my (desktop-related) complaints above whilst staying minimal. For mobile I use the Premii iOS app (it also has web and android versions) [2]. Well designed, lots of nice features like the comment collapsing you mention.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...

[2] https://github.com/premii/hn
Yes I really like Materialistic too. Using it now, in fact.
Yeah, we've been committed to improving performance and uptime on GitLab.com for over a year now, we've heard this feedback a lot and take it to heart. It's definitely been steadily improving, and we're working on getting downtime-less deploys as soon as possible.

You can see some of the issues tracked in our GitLab.com infrastructure issue tracker here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues (for security reasons not everything is visible to outside users)