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Coincidentally, Catch Me If You Can was showing at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA tonight. It was part of Hanksgiving (Tom Hanks series).
Interesting that the graph shows ICC getting 20% more performnance than GCC - This seems a much bigger difference than normal, as people usually don't find the ICC speedup enough to warrant using. Anyone know if it's a CPU2017 phenomenon, or has ICC recently dramatically improved, or was ICC always 20% faster?
> if someone stole that art I would call the company itself.

"The company itself" is a finite set of humans with jobs. Dave Hyman's job is to handle legal issues involving Netflix. You're saying that the best course of action to resolve this legal issue involving Netflix is to call the company's tech support?

> that sounds like the fault of the company

OP is already dealing with a fault of the company. Declaring that the company has a second fault isn't helping.
Sounds like it might be helpful to have the guidance of licensed therapist/doctor to see more of your inner motives / desires as you find yourself drinking & working alone.

I personally thought therapy/counseling was unfruitful until I spent a year working through a handful of issues. After 2 sessions I realized I would benefit from making the investment. The part that changed the most for me was an increased quality of relationship with friends and family.

Therapy is worth trying and deciding it's nothing you need.
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Amazon mainly operates in North America. They are not nearly as big in other continents as they are in the US/Canada.
This article, while interesting, is incredibly presumptive and totally non-scientific. As such, I consider it pablum.

Surely no one culture is universally "better" than another. Pick some metric(s), some cultures will be better, some worse.

What's left unstated and undefended in this article is the metric for comparing the "goodness" of cultures. With that, at least we would have some quantitative things to compare -- then one could respectfully disagree on the metric, or offer alternate evidence for calculating the metric, or offer other metrics to consider.
Same here in Belgium. The sales periods were regulated times of the year when selling at a loss was allowed. Outside of those periods it was only allowed to sell at a loss for goods that would spoil, or were damaged or outdated, or to match competitors’ pricing.

But, all of that has been struck down by the EU courts since it was found in violation of new EU consumer protection directives.
LMWTFY. Actually, I had read this and it wasn't helpful. There is nothing about how x -> lamba x passes through field equations for example, and yields an additional term that represents additional expansionary acceleration. Only the abstract from the paper is available in the OP link, I was wondering if anyone had insight into how these findings came about, generally.
Well I too get down votes very often. And basically if I comment something on HN I count it as success if my karma doesn't go down after I comment.

Because of this I tend to see HN as this club of extremely narrow minded people where any opinion that differs is punished.
But this is mostly citral thing. First by the fact that I am not a English speaker and second that even if most people won't admit it they have very binary thinking. To which the up vote / down vote buttons fit perfectly :)

So if you want your not so mainstream opinion to be appreciated I think HN is very poor place for this.
The scripts they send to these silos and outsourcing companies should have a clearly defined "go to Legal" path, though. Even if it takes a "let me take down your contact info and send it to someone else." In my experience bigger corporations are better at this because they've been through it and have a good legal department of their own.
If you were an Uber investor, and they told you that they are going to blow your money below margin of operations for years to come, would you feel happy about it?

Do you prefer to be the dumper or the dumpee? Because I prefer to be the latter.

> Unlike with cloud services (the other example) it's much harder for competition to Uber to reappear once it's disappeared.

It's just a car. Its super easy to break into that market. And there are competitors. They do not have a sustainable monopoly.
I disagree, it's inferior from your cultural perspective, but some cultures clearly didn't/don't value human life the same way you do.

For instance from my perspective a culture that doesn't allow gay marriage is clearly inferior, which is straight forward and logical.
>>Bill Gates' (to name a random American citizen) has a far larger share in the GDP than most other Americans. If you want to solve that raise your taxes on the rich and lift up those that are at the lowest end of the scale.

The only thing you will end up achieving is stop the next Microsoft from happening, not the next Bill Gates from happening. The next Bill Gates will happen else where.
My impression is that a lot of honor based societies perpetuate themselves at lower levels because they get battered hard by the overarching society / more powerful external powers. People feel that they need to protect themselves and their tribes from being stomped from above. Combatting power inequality and systemic violence/abuse is probably the biggest counter to turf fights, domestic violence, etc., at least on a generational time scale.
I'm not aware of any service that does it all for you.

Now that WebRTC is available on all major browsers it should be easier to create some of these streaming applications. Although getting everything setup is still tedious.

WebTorrent [0] is built on WebRTC and can be used to stream videos, but it doesn't handle live streaming.

[0] https://webtorrent.io
Wow - 15% off of that as well, and 5% with Red Card - picked it up for around $260. Great tip.
Training and experience are different qualifiers. Often times employers want more then you can do "x" in "y" framework. Sure out of some kind of training program you can do things quickly, "correctly" if there is such a thing. And most importantly on time. But it often time is more than just the skills to do the job, it's the skills to think, to conduct yourself in a professional manner and also the relevant experience doing many different things.

If the company just wants you to lay down lines of code the way you lay down bricks, sure I could see any tech school training as being sufficient. But years of experience are an indicator of a number of different factors:

1. You were competent enough to hold a job(s) doing x for y years

2. You get along with others if you don't how could you possibly accrue 5 years of experience working

3. You've seen different approaches to doing things, which can give you insight into how to do things that make sense for this application

4. You have awareness of performance, maintainability, testing etc... that affect a long-term success of a project.

I think it can be helpful, recent grads are just that, recent grads. You have a lot to learn about working for a company, contributing code in a long-running project and other things that your college or tech school training cannot provide.

Best case the code you write for this company will be in production and running for many years to come. That's what the company is hoping for. Not just a short-term implementation of some best practices to satisfy short-term goals.
This takes a strange detour towards the end.

> Even more disturbing is a rise in a mean-spirited resistance to any kind of honors for Confederate soldiers.

Seems a bit contradictory to insist that we honor immoral people for the sake of... I'm actually not sure how the author got here. Especially after the bit about not accepting responsibility.

The Confederacy was a moral failing, and the best way to take responsibility for it is to disown it.
Yet the most effective justice systems focus on public safety and rehabilitation. See Norway, et. al.

Though I agree whole heartedly with your conclusion, that blood feuds never have a settled score, while an individual’s debt is (theoretically) paid when the State has meted out its punishment.
Certainly not. The only things keeping the official policy from progressing faster are the utter incompetence of the administration and the relative sanity of the court system. Both can change.
Sports gambling in the US is definitely quite different from what one encounters in the Commonwealths, but it also isn't that the sports books are filled with 'young professional up-and-comers'. It's a range of men, generally between 25-65, that have an interest in sports that borders on unhealthy, but take great pride in making 'smart' and generally conservative bets.
Those were examples. The key point is that this is generic behavior for any window at any time. It doesn't have to be special-cased (with the calculator) and it happens all the time (making the terminal stay in the foreground is at least two clicks, for instance).
I mean as, want to use Messenger? That's $20 a month. Want to let us monetise your messages for ads? We'll pay you $20 a month.

Of course, I don't see Facebook actually doing this, but just food for thought.
When content reported by a group of people acting in concert is manually reviewed (one can dream, right?) and it turns out that it didn't violate the rules on what kind of content can be posted, the group of people is actually a reporting ring, and reports by them should correspondingly be given lower weight.
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wtf, I am romanian and I posted on all international social networks about this event, It's not only Facebook in this world, be creative guys please.

Let’s information to spread in internet graph.
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It's just not historically true that "northern European culture has been relatively free of the thar mentality." We weren't magically spared these traits. In fact few hundred years ago duels were the mainstay of the official justice system in England. These duels were, literally, trials. I wish I knew more about how we got away from all that.
Why do you think users complain vocally about Paypal's antifraud policy frequently freezing their accounts? (ex: Pycon)

Because Paypal actually gives a damn about it because they know that they could get seriously compromised through government intervention if they don't police it.
wtf, I am romanian and I posted on all international social networks about this event, It's not only Facebook in this world, be creative guys please.
I never implied that there were no problems, please do not put words in my mouth. My point was merely that centralizing control of the Internet is exactly what the oligarchs want, and you are carrying water for them. Why is the EFF against NN while AT&T is for it? Thanks for helping the multi-billion dollar company, I'm sure they appreciate it.
You always make lesser profits on the tools, than the profits you make by building products using the tools.

The guy who sells tables and chairs is likely to make more money than the guy who sells nails and hammers.
I’m not completely against the idea, just a few comments:

1. Why would User D ever pay and not just make a new account?

2. This system seems to emphasize a certain type of content, though I wouldn’t necessarily consider it quality. I enjoy watching wood turning and blacksmithing videos, which are much less popular than some of the personality based content... I’m not convinced the popularity difference is based on quality.

3. A community like this needs to be careful to not allow a few s”superusers” to scale way ahead of the majority. The only way the system stays engaging (And it is meaningful to get these coins) is if you are getting a meaningful portion relative to your peers.

I like the idea overall, just some related thoughts.
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This is incorrect. Scientific theories explain observed phenomena, and must be falsifiable, testable, and tested against the best available observations. However there is no requirement that these observations happen in the future. Evolution is a good counter example to your assumption. Anyway, in cosmology we can't wait for the future, its too far away.
A canonical example of how all-stock deals can go horribly, horribly wrong is the sale of Dragon Systems (the voice recognition software), whose founders lost everything when the acquirer declared bankruptcy mere months later: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-and...

Dragon was advised by Goldman Sachs, whose compensation was fixed regardless of the deal terms (and regardless of the sustained performance of the combined entity) so long as the deal closed - all too common in the world of investment banking. Essentially, the seller's advisors had every financial incentive to skimp on doing due diligence on the buyers; had they received compensation in the same form as the founders, the outcome might have been very different. One hopes that Meetup received better advice than Dragon did!

(Disclosure: I work for Belstone, a tech-enabled merchant bank where we attempt to align ourselves much more closely with the companies we advise and partner with. Feel free to reach out via the email in my profile if you want to learn more about what we do - we're hiring for software engineering and associate positions!)
it isn't a matter of being able to pay the loans back, it's a matter of opportunity cost (she is a doctor so will be able to pay the debt back, but if she had a better understanding of finance when she took the loans she would have done some things differently). If you really want to start a company for example, having a lot of debt rules that out. So maybe if you want to keep optionality to start a company, you go to a cheaper public college instead of taking a loan to go to a private one, or you decide to work instead of grad school, or you just save more. If you don't understand the opportunity costs of debt, it's hard to make those choices
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Why isn't that possible, if only in the "pissed of CEO talks to subsidiary president"?

AWS grosses ~$4Bn yearly, so if the CIA truly spends $0.9Bn (~23%) favours can happen and doors can get opened.

There's nothing "direct" about that, to be sure, but "give me WaPo EOC's cell number" is viable.
> but I seriously doubt Netflix knew that’s what they were doing.

Ignorance does not excuse ones culpability. This will be extremely inexpensive for Netflix to remedy the PR hit will be a little more expensive but not long lasting. Netflix is really the only fish in the pond, so people may care but have nowhere else really to go.
When I first started developing software and systems I thought it was about the code. Now after many years experience I know the less code I write the better. This is not something they teach or you want to learn when you’re just getting into coding.
There's still value in having local shops where you can just go and pick up whatever you need immediately, which is why I frequently buy stuff from Fry's rather than Amazon. Although it does help that they do price matching, so you can be certain you're getting the lowest price.
it's worth pointing out that apple was immune to this madness.
I had this type of G5 machine for eight years. While I upgraded the disk and memory at some point, and decided to upgrade the GPU, the only thing that ever broke was that I had to send in one of the displays for a couple weeks because of a power supply issue (so the display failed, not the computer). And when I finally decided to get rid of the machine, it still worked perfectly; I gave it to a friend and his kids have been really happy with it. My reason for replacing the machine was purely due to needing a good Intel box for modern software development.

Apple really built things to last, and this is something I could never convince people of years ago. Everyone was so sure that some crappy PC costing a few hundred less was somehow so much better than these “expensive Macs” at the time, never understanding that the PCs were breaking all the time and the Macs basically never did.
Discussion from 4 months ago (248 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14935700
To play devil's advocate on this subject: I spent a lot of time growing up in the South, and when I talk to a lot of friend's back home about the current climate here (e.g.: transgender bathrooms being added at work) they are disgusted and claim "our" culture is literally enabling mental illness.

But the coastal culture I live in now and am originally from doesn't view it that way. I get a lot of these culture-clashes daily and it's a really hard thing to figure out. Mainly because life is truly how you view things, and your worldview builds your reality — but how can one say one worldview is better than another, objectively? Because the observers worldview makes them biased, it's really hard to say.
You are making a number of unfair assumptions about the actual act that took place and its motivation.

As pointed out elsewhere, it is very unlikely that Netflix as a company did this intentionally.
And yet we are hesitant to push out values on people from other cultures. It's a very different dilemma that I think Houellebecq portrayed fabulously in "Submission". Liberals are eager to defend other cultures whose values could hardly new more opposite. It's fascinating really and a tough position. It's admirable and pathetic at the same time and I'm not sure there is a good answer.
You can get three months social visa via agents and extend it bunch of times. This is what I did before Kitas. I just added this info to the visa section.
Asus Zenfone smartphones use Intel processors.
It's not unreasonable to reference federal protections for the 'free press' when the scope of the discussion is focused on the US in general.

>Please stop trying to hijack discussion of free speech and free press (both of which are human rights / social institutions that extend beyond the scope of protections provided via the court due to the First Amendment) into being discussions of the First Amendment in the name of "education".

At the end of the day, whatever you choose to identify as "human rights / social institutions that extend beyond the scope of protections provided via the court due to the First Amendment" don't really matter unless they're institutionalized and codified. Rights that have explicit protections written into law are the only rights that are backed by the State's right to use of coercive force.
Credit cards have consumer protections and dispute resolution processes like chargebacks. Debit cards often have nearly zero recourse for disputes. Why would you want to lose all protections for the less important temporary debt that you can pay at the end of the month? It seems like you're optimizing for the wrong things.
it's a nice theory, but in my experience most open source projects don't pay too much attention to bug reports.

edit: sounds like bug-fixing nowadays in gnome may be better than i remembered / have experienced.
The same thing happens from the driver's point of view. Each additional rider adds a marginal value to any given driver; there's only so many rides they can make in a given day.

In most two-sided markets, the ratio of users on both sides plays a more important role than absolute numbers.
It's a contingency scenario for the situation where the president (or senior officials) want to start a war. Yes it's a stretch but they might see it that way, "if the president wants to invade Canada then we need a plan to make it happen".
ergh why are we reinventing buses as an app
Except in this case it's pretty clear the photo was taken as a diagram: he wasn't trying to get benefit from the VHS tape box designers brand and image, he was trying to explain how the device works. Consider all the youtube videos of how to change the oil in your car or whatever. Yes, there is copyright somewhere, but no: how-to informational stuff is clearly fair use.

But at the same time: yeah, the guy took a picture of someone else's box design and Netflix used it. Where's the damage here?
I wish them luck. Meetup itself is stagnant kludge that could have been innovative, other than their stylesheet revamp like 8-10 years ago, Meetup has innovated on zero.

I am sure WeWork will use the platform to drive bodies to their physical locations which is a smart move.
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> Wow that sounds pathetic. Sorry but why would you want to do that?

Same reason people have been doing it for centuries—it's fun! I believe you may have read a bit too much into their comment :-)
FWIW 'focus follow mouse' is possible in Windows. With a few hacks/addons.

It's also possible to switch to single-click for open.

Which is a very relaxing way to use Windows until you accidentally open every file in a folder!
Take 1000 photos and 1 might make you earn enough to consider it a meager living, but you still had to take the other 999 to get to that point. That's how art works. That's how most jobs work.
Actually i would argue the opposite. Not to the extent of genocide but the lid has really blown on Hollywood's sexual harassment problem (read: rape culture). Let's not forget Uber's contribution there and of course the whole gamer gate scandal which is still fresh in the minds of the people involved in the community. Racism, classism, and authoritarianism's roaring 2017 comeback. Then there's Madoff, Exon (classic) , various kickstarter scams, Nortel (Canada represent! ) etc

I mean if you think about it just a bit, there are many examples that would indicate we actually live in those cultures. Sure they might say those cultures are inferior, but let's take a cold hard look here.
When I go back to Rails, ecto is something I miss a lot. Once I got used to “thinking in ecto” and its explicitness and composeability I fell in love with it. Ecto also makes it much harder to shoot yourself in the foot.

For anyone that wants to learn more about Ecto I recommend this talk: https://youtu.be/YQxopjai0CU
this is an interesting point. If you take someone else's original work and modify the contents of it. At what point of modification can the output no longer be associated with the original work?

yes you based your modifications off the original work but carry overs from the original content is protected by copyright law?
I assume you are a copyright attorney and are thus speaking with good knowledge on the matter, and therefore are already aware of the legal precedent for the OPs case, and not just a wikipedia page.

Prior cases very similar to this one have successfully been tried in favor of the photographer.
What you're gesturing at is that it's illogical to make value judgements, period, without a standard that your object of interest is being judged against. This fact, which is blatantly obvious once pointed out, is obscured by the shortcomings of our language.

Usually the standard is implicit, but obvious from context, for instance if we were talking about racing, we could say that a Mclaren is better than a Volkwagen, and elide that we mean "better at moving quickly around a racetrack".

It certainly makes sense to judge cultures, as long as you remember to have a standard in mind. For instance, by the standard of the general wellbeing of African Americans, it's manifestly obvious that modern American culture is superior to American culture of the 1850s.

The fact that different cultures value different things shouldn't be a problem for discourse, as long as your interlocutors have values in common. Lack of objective truth about values shouldn't prevent one from working towards the values that they personally hold.

Relativism isn't (or at least shouldn't be) "there's no objective truth about values, so therefore every value system should be treated as equally valid". That would be an objective normative claim, and making it would be inconsistent with relativism. Relativism is just "there's no objective truth about values", and it stops there. Nothing about that prevents you from preferring your own values to those of others.