skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Movie sales, especially for blockbusters, have pretty thin margins. They wouldn't be able to compete with retailers who use (or at least, they did) new movies as loss leaders. Also Cineplex in Canada for example will pre-sell you a digital copy of the movie when you buy a ticket.

Movie theatres have died before, like in the 70s. The way they were revived is exactly how you described it, by making it a destination (in the 70s, by refining theatres, which were generally seen as grubby and low-class into something more dignified) and not just a place to watch a movie.
Combine lack of humility with a short term memory and eventually we'll do oursevles in, like no other species has. Just give it time.
"Forced" anonymity exists in some online communities today. If most participants maintain and assume good faith, and are tolerant of some efforts by bad actors to troll, then it works remarkably well. Problems tend to emerge once these assumptions no longer hold true.

Anonymity allows the content to be judged by every reader on the content's own merit, and colored solely by the reader's perception.

However, it's also rather depersonalizing, as every participant will often interpret the others as manifestations of a generic individual, based on their own mental model of what generic individuals look, act, and sound like. It therefore creates the illusion of homogeneity from every point of view, where in truth the real membership might be quite diverse.

The resulting interaction means that over time, the community will develop a sort of institutional identity, complete with etiquette, mannerisms, and tropes they are expected to adhere to to be welcome in the in-group. Some people will don the institutional identity despite it being radically different from their own, just to feel part of a community.
Former Botmaster ‘Darkode’ Founder Is CTO of Hacked Bitcoin Mining Firm NiceHash
Guess it's good I remove it in my deployments. Microsoft seems to be throwing good sense out the window in Windows 10. A number of items I remove get reinstalled during updates. Options I turn off get turned on as well.

They're obviously playing on the majority of users' ignorance. This is despicable.
Only if you believe Obiwan when he says it. The line is more or less pointing out the arrogance of the Jedi with Obiwan's hypocrisy. It comes up a few other places too, but like the rest of the prequels, messages aren't delivered very well.
What is wrong with people having plastic surgery exactly?
TechCrunch and Gizmodo just picked up the story:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/mozillas-mr-robot-promo-ba...

https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-...

Also AFAIK the second link has the first official response of any kind? "A representative told Gizmodo the company is looking into the issue."
SOBotics is people (volunteers) having fun developing bots (reporting in chat) that helps to moderate StackOverflow. If you like to join there is lots of stuff to dev see http://www.sobotics.org/contribute/, just get 20 reputation points and join us in chat https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/111347/sobotics
You can’t counter a bad experience with a neutral one man.

Example:

Ann Rule was on a first name basis with Ted Bundy before he was caught. He didn’t murder her or any of her friends once. Its probably fine to take a car ride from him.
You realize those have all been proven to be fake right?
Given that wages are a function of supply and demand, and given that wages have been stagnant for Americans since the 70's, why is having tighter constraints on the supply of labor a bad thing?

Wouldn't this mean that Americans would have higher wages? Wouldn't a tight labor market incentivize investment in the growth of our own workers instead of working to maximize profits for corporations that already have historic profits by deleveraging workers?
I just use AirPods or a set of over-ear sennheisers, but that's unrelated to the USB-C's since there's a headphone jack.

I really like the transfer speed of the USB-C ports, I've spent maybe $70 on new cables (usb-c -> DisplayPort, a usb-c/usb flash drive, and a USB-C -> lightning and 1 or 2 others). The only thing that really bothers me about the IO is that the iPhone still uses lighting, i think it should adopt USB-C as well for consistency. Otherwise i have no gripes about the IO, I think USB-C will see heavy adoption in the coming months/years and honestly i think wireless is continuing to make hardware IO irrelevant in my life.

Other gripes i have are the slightly reduced battery life and the removal of magsafe, but i think the nice screen and the form factor make up for it.

I'm a relative newcomer to the apple ecosystem (first iPhone an MacBook in 2014) so i have no real opinion on the mac pro, except that it is likely overpriced for my workload, I'm unlikely to want a desktop mac outside of the one i use at work.

Edit: for clarification i have the 2017 13 inch model with toucbar.
Tibet: https://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/center-study-genocide-conflict-...

>"The Tibetan government in exile in India estimates that the death toll since 1950 due to starvation, outright violence, and other indirect causes amounts to 1.2 million. However, some Tibetologists place the figure closer to half a million. The non-governmental International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) released a report to the United Nations in 1959, and another in 1960, which documented accounts of atrocities and accused the Chinese of religious-based genocide in Tibet. "

Could possibly be biased by CIA it says.

Uighur: https://uhrp.org/featured-articles/arguing-genocide-xinjiang...

Ehh this is as biased as it probably gets and it doesn't really make it sound like genocide. I guess I had heard of this (and maybe Tibet too) as cultural genocides before, and got it mixed up.
The broadcast equivalent would be to transmit more error correction bits per capita with the important bits (i.e. those present in the lower constant bitrate stream). This is implemented in codec2 or the related modem system, I think.
They reference the implicit bias tests that have now been widely debunked (to the best of my knowledge). This makes me question the other psychology studies they cite as well. The whole psych field is notorious for unreproducibility. How seriously should we take an article that relies on such studies as the basis of its thesis?
It is related to Mr Robot
They're different types of marathon.

Boston is a real marathon, run on a hilly course in whatever the weather is on the day of the race. This has meant rainstorms, 80+ degree weather, and everything in between.

Nike's WR attempt is an experimental marathon, run on a track shielded from the wind, on a date and time chosen based on the temperature, cloud cover, and wind forecasts to be ideal for human long-distance performance running.
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Yes because corruption wasn't already rampant in politics.
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I guess if you can't produce a movie that's worth watching you might at well make the evening's experience worthwhile regardless of the movie.

I'd be willing to pay for a good meal and beverage if the movie was thrown in for free. 95% of all movies out there these days are not even worth watching for free.
Also, a fair amount of the safety of civilian aircraft is because the aircraft owners don't get to skip critical processes, maintenance, etc. They have to answer to regulatory agencies, inspections, etc.

The US military polices itself, so important things can be made optional. They don't have to answer to the FAA on maintenance issues, for example.
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GMOs...It's that we've engineered something and have absolutely no idea of what a recall might look like. Ask Toyota is that's their understanding and experience with engineering. Obviously, Mother Nature is multiple orders of magnitude more complex than automobiles.
mindblowing writer and runner https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2195464.What_I_Talk_Abou...
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This comment breaks the HN guidelines in spirit. Probably also in letter. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So? Services that operate on money shouldn't just have an SLA where is works fine for some people. When you want a lot of nines, "it worked for me a few times" is not enough.
Pixel too :(
Ask HN: Any recommended books on self-discipline?
Erik Huggers is stepping down as CEO of Vevo
Show Django query counts in console output
That is such a sweet episode and always makes me tear up at the end.
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In terms of quality I find it hard to watch movies. TV shows offer much better content these days I think.
I encourage you to do a little more research on this. Bad and good bacteria exists in this world regardless of how Human's try to control it. Waste processing plants use a combination of bacteria and UV to treat wastewater. That process is very similar to what nature does with animal and human waste.

However, moving human waste is a tough problem and requires substantial resources (fossil fuels, infrastructure, electricity, etc...) and the act of moving it is usually the source of contamination.

I think it's completely valid and beneficial to compost human waste, but that needs to be done on a local/individual scale.
Ah I don't want to comment on most of that, but I do think there is good reason to ask if women as a class are oppressed today, as they certainly were in the past. This means looking for and removing any biases in the hiring practices of our institutions, our education system, and so forth. You will never get rid of inequalities as men and women are just too different, but you can definitely make the system as fair as possible.
Unlikely in London where serious multimode bike commuters will be riding Brompton's of which the entry levels are about a grand and nice light weight on is more like £1700-1800
On the transmitting side, there might be advantages to medium wave am for coverage compared to FM on 98/108 MHz. In the UK on long wave we have (or pehaps had) basically one large transmitter covering a large percentage of the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droitwich_Transmitting_Station
I've been reading topsoil doomsday stories since the seventies. I've seen them written from the thirties. They completely ignore modern farming. We don't rely on topsoil, or care. Modern farming, especially since the fifties, is chemistry. The soil is merely a growing medium. We test it and add whatever is needed via petrochemical fertilizers. Better soil is better for the farmer, but far from necessary.

And whomever says a millennium to make 30mm of topsoil knows nothing about the subject. I've seen nature make that much in less than a decade many times.
The document has export feature disabled, but it doesn't change the viewer UI and there's no error message. I wouldn't mind google docs if it wasn't for the heavy animations ...
People are actively trying to make others "unemployable" so, yes, unable to find employment.
To add to what arcticfox correctly said: we put the year on articles from previous years but this one is from earlier in 2017. Historical material is super welcome here too.

The "News" in "Hacker News" is like a second-hand clothing store in my home town called "New to You". Of course this article didn't qualify in your case, but that's the general idea. Older posts can't be new to all of the people all of the time but in the long run there are enough surprises to go around.
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We all thought Usenet was ephemeral and then Dejanews revealed themselves...
Unequivocally the answer is yes
Might be hard to fix an out of alignment frame
Right. In the spur of the moment I wrote "a fork of ksh" as in "a shell (mostly) conforming to ksh' specs", which is technically incorrect -- the worst kind of incorrect.
Apparently this same story has been circulating since at least 2014, using the same quotes from the same people and organizations, from some menial Googling. So far no sources for any claims in the article, though an agronomy student on Reddit appeared to back up the 30% number.

This seems like clickbait to me.

Edit: This article is from December 5, 2014. https://www.ashlandmass.com/DocumentCenter/Home/View/446
sure, but at some point you run out of leading zeros

or as bitcoin attempts to obfuscate it: "target=0"

it has yet to be proved, in the positive or negative, whether an algo can compute any target of a 256 bit hash in polynomial time forcing difficulty to require, at least, larger hashes or specific hardware

the problem with larger hashes is what makes the PoW difficulty where you need it also would cause the 'difficulty' of storage and reading of that hash to increase impractically

the problem with specific hardware is purely speculative but i would assume issues of frauds claiming to mine on the impeded hardware but truly use fully functioning hardware, or force the network to be centrally mined to ensure the hardware used which breaks cryptocurrency's image as decentralised

from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty#What_is_the_maximum_di...

"The actual maximum difficulty is when current_target=0, but we would not be able to calculate the difficulty if that happened. (fortunately it never will, so we're ok.)"

that 'never' is simply offensive to the foundation of mathematical rigor that bitcoin is built on, and i would argue an attempt to defraud potential, and current, users
In America today, you've got multitude of "us vs them" dynamics - anti-terrorist, liberal-vs-conservative, rich-vs-poor, black-vs-white, etc.

And at lot of this comes because, as the article says, "us versus them" is a powerful psychological dynamic. Given that that current American society is hyper-competitive, it seems likely this situation will continue. If pulling "us versus them" is akin to chemical warfare - a toxic affair for all concerned that only nets a marginal advantage, it will be used when actual chemical gets used - when one player is losing everywhere and no longer has to care. But that "pulling out all the stops" situation now happens ... always. When will politicians "go the low rout"? Always. When will media? etc.

Which goes back to hyper-competitive. When will it end? I don't know. How will end? Probably in tears but otherwise also hard to say.
Techno-optimist drivel is at least as unsavory as the overly sensitive, anti-technological kneejerk reactions that this article is lamenting. It's absurd to write off real problems with technology because tech does good things as well.

I am having trouble following your jump from shutting down trolls to sacrificing our souls. If you think the loudest person should get a platform, I encourage you to spend some more time in (non-HN) comment sections.
I still used it pretty regularly until today. I only had like 2 people I talked to on it, but I like that we were all on it all the time and I was on it when I was otherwise unavailable online to everyone but those couple close friends.
You can search for and read up on Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature under Siege.
Honestly, if it weren't for cryonics I'd rate this an awesome idea for my own remains. But getting my head vitrified is even better -- too bad.
> The CDHP recommends not keeping your phone in your pocket

Good luck with that!
Hmm, i haven't noticed that. I didn't;t like he first generation of the "butterfly" switch, but i really like the second gen ones on mine

and yeah, the touchpad is honestly amazing. I can't go back the the old smaller one, which was already better than anything else on the market.
None of those problems are difficult to solve if we actually care. If we want to move off fossil fuels, we could do so in a couple decades.

Also, maybe the fact that we have to distribute food across the country is part of the problem. If food prices in areas that can't grow food nearby go up 100x then people will move.
Sniff implies sending. It's the scanned content transportation and destination that's the issue.
After the Special Period in Cuba which began in 1989 with the collapse of the soviet union Cuba was forced to become substantially more self-sustaining. Previously they were able to farm in much more extractive ways and offset their agrictultural output from trade with the USSR. Once the USSR disappeared it was extremely difficult to import agricultural chemicals and import food. Food in Cuba isn't great today, but it's pretty sustainably created.

I would argue that an economic system that concentrates power has the ability to create and enforce a monopoly on land usage. Political or economic systems that allow for a minority control of usable land are much more inclined to use that land for the benefit of the controlling minority, and so far that seems maximizing profits in the short term. When we speak of land management what do we mean? The best "returns"? What is being returned to us? I'm inclined to agree that the values used inland management _can_ be independent of economic system, but an economic system that brings with it a predefined value-set based around extracting profit via exploitation is going to manage the land according to those values. Until we have values that supersede the values of the economic system then the econmic's system's values with be the dominating ones.

While I find his philosophy a bit lacking, Derrick Jensen has some great writing on how we value and manage land. https://www.amazon.com/Language-Older-Than-Words/dp/19314985...
My Facebook account will remain deleted from now until forever. Although I may have to open a business ads account because my attempts to replace it with AdWords aren't going very well so far
Yep, that's it! Here's the same thing in R...

library(imager)
download.file("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png",'lena.png', mode = 'wb')

lena <- load.image("./lena.png")
plot(lena)

lena_fft <- FFT(lena)
lena_pwr <- sqrt( lena_fft$real^2 + lena_fft$imag^2)
lena_ph <- atan2(lena_fft$imag, lena_fft$real)

lena_ph[1:512,1:512,1,] <- matrix(runif(512*512,-pi,pi),ncol=512)

lena_mess <- FFT(lena_pwr*cos(lena_ph),lena_pwr*sin(lena_ph),inverse = TRUE)

plot(sqrt(lena_mess$real^2 + lena_mess$imag^2))
Dude look at the way he expressed his thoughts. Either a troll or a loon. Best not to engage him either way.
This isn't terribly accurate. For example, Lord of the Rings is marked rotten because Weinstein got an executive producer film credit. But, he wasn't involved in the film at all. In fact, he was one of the contributing factors of it being moved to New Line.
The OpenAPI Specification
Reducing Microservice Complexity with Kafka and Reactive Streams
In a way it is ironic how with Swagger, RESTtyped we are getting back to IDLs and WSDL.

Maybe old dogs did understand a few things about doing distributed programming.
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I was trying to make a point about phrasing. "Based on" is wordy and nebulous. Just saying "of" would clearer, not to mention shorter.
Lots of sewage sludge is spread on farms in the US.

https://www.epa.gov/biosolids
I hire data scientists, machine learning specialists, and the like, and I definitely value cover letters. Hiring is an intrinsically noisy process, and any additional information I can get helps me make better decisions.

I don't particularly care about tone, though. I'm looking to see if the applicants can string thoughts together, and if they understand what sort of position they're applying for.
We pursued a statistics track.
Speaking as someone who grew up on a grain farm and has owned a farm, this is correct. Obviously it is hard to generalize but low or no tillage farming has vastly lower soil erosion compared to conventional or organic tillage practices. For some reason, people have the set idea that organic practice must be good because its what our forefathers did. In reality, little we do regarding farming is actually sustainable. You are hauling tonnes of material away from the field every year. Those things are not going back, whether you are organic or conventional.

Also, it is a matter of relative severity of problems. Soil loss is much worse than depletion of soil nutrients. As said, organic is potentially much worse for soil loss (although different practices like intensive use of cover crops can help).
Hold on, hold on, let me put on my robe and wizard hat!
I thought this as well, and was about to comment to the paper about updating their terminology. Then I saw this is an article from 2014. I think using the word “accident” would be less likely today. There has been a real effort to change terminology. NYT even had an article about this in May of 2016.
DC's water treatment plant does this. Solid waste goes into a biodigester which produces methane which is used to create electricity to help run the plant. The other product is "biosolids" which are rated safe for use on food crops.

https://www.dcwater.com/biosolids

This wouldn't be nearly enough though. The amount of human waste is, however, dwarfed by animal waste.
This year my friend group is using Elfster to distribute secret santa names. This got me thinking about how to write a good implementation of the secret santa "elf". The problem has some interesting properties: a good algorithm should never assign a person to give a gift to him/herself. I extended that property to say that no pair of people should send/rec'v from each other. Extending this out, we might even say a good secret santa will ensure there are no partitions in the group: following the linked list of senders, you should iterate over everyone in the group.

Viewed like that, an "optimal" solution is brilliantly simple: given n names, shuffle the array of names, then assign person[k] to give to person[k+1], with the special case where k == n, person[k] gives to person[0].

The rest of the short implementation adds a `receive_from` property to each person which could be useful in QAing the implementation.

If you still need to assign Secret Santa givers, feel free to use my implementation!
Another upside:

- Making it clear that you're not in the 'other guys' camp.

A NATO Finland would have been incredibly threatening to the Soviet Union. A friendly, non-aligned Finland that just wants to be independent, without stepping on anyone's toes is a useful buffer state.

After the second world war, Finland had to tread very, very carefully.
Isn't this how the march of progress goes sometimes? Somebody does an impossible feat (with help & ideal conditions). They show it can be done. Then other people begin to replicate, and the ideal conditions & support start to be eliminated.

Rock climbing jumps to mind.
Well this is vague...

"Keep cellphones away form body, but we won't tell you how far away or what the consequences might be"
Maybe when they were younger and less cognizant of the potential consequences of certain actions? People can change their views on things over time.
That's interesting...aligning a laser spot beam between two ships moving, pitching, and rolling seems non trivial.
Why is this downvoted?

It sounds like a valid reason for being able to auto-install add-ons.
I'm okay with this. Hollywood isn't producing interesting content and hasn't done for quite a while now.
> How are you going to get food distributed across the country without fossil fuels

You would distribute less and source more locally. No more bananas or mangoes. That was the idea behind the "reduce our standard of living" phrase.
Joel Moskowitz is a psychology professor.

NIH has a whole page dedicated to this https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...
What about wifi-only mode? Is Bluetooth fine? Those'd also affect tablets, laptops, and maybe eink readers, among other things. Gaming handhelds.

Been kicking around going wifi-only anyway, with a crappy burner on a prepaid plan in the car for emergencies.
> How am I supposed to work with someone who thinks a huge part of my life is immoral?

Have you never worked with people with different religious beliefs?