skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Hulu have a free tier anymore? I thought they discontinued it.

HBO seems to be doing fairly well. They have ~5 million online subscribers, up from 2 million in Feb. 2017. That's small potatoes vs. Netflix's 117+ million subscribers, but it's a nice growth rate for a premium product. We don't have cable and are happy subscribers to both HBO and Netflix.

It's funny you don't even mention Apple. We used to buy seasons of TV shows off of Apple when they weren't available elsewhere, but don't anymore because we can't watch them on our Roku (at least I don't think we can).
With calc() you can get some pretty decent scaling based on vw. If it was just a direct proportion of vw, then yes, things may look a bit on the larger side on a bigger screen, but as with a lot of things, if used with care, the results are pretty nice.
I immediately stop reading the comment and downvote whenever I see that phrase.
I agree with some of this, and I think most software patents are garbage and should not be legally permitted. But I'm stuck on codecs. Codecs are real, as real as a bag of apples. And they're complicated, extremely specific (and necessarily formally specified), and the result of a lot of work, sometimes brilliant work.

If there's any software that has a chance of convincing me of patent worthiness, it's probably codecs. Or at least the co(d) part. I'm muddled on decoding because it seems like just figuring out how to read something should be treated differently.

Is the term 20 years now? That's too long for any kind of software, even codecs. I think an important principle that should influence the design of patent law is the rough likelihood of the invention being made by others, or qualitatively matched or exceeded by others, in various spans of time. (Of course you have to model this assuming certain patent laws in place, as well as no patent system at all, to really do it right.)

I despise patent predators, née trolls. But MPEG-LA isn't a good example for me to work with because I think they're actual companies that do stuff – make movies, Blu-ray players, TVs, etc. Some of them invented DVD and Blu-ray probably, and evidently they invented MPEG-2, which I remember was viewed as pretty slick and technically awesome when it came out (as were DVDs – I remember VCRs and boy did they suck).

But 20 years? Yeah, no, this stuff should be 10 at most. I mean, would it hurt us to have 10 year terms on codecs? Would we get lesser quality codecs? I doubt it. HEVC is pretty amazing though, and it's clearly better than VP9, so it looks like the proprietary stuff beats open source in this field (tiny sample, yes, but there are many more examples available). Daala seemed to be going nowhere. Mozilla didn't seem to be able to finish it. Now some companies have teamed up for AV1, FOSS. I guess we'll see how good it is compared to HEVC.
He's specifically comparing Netflix shows to superior HBO shows like Deadwood. His appraisal of Stranger Things feels spot on to me. It was a joy to watch, but it was clearly calibrated to appeal to some niches and, no, it's not the same caliber as The Wire.
Yes, this follows the same strategy. All they want is to lure the user back. Either message will say reset password, or trouble logging in.
Safari is the worst browser currently available at a mass level.

It's been that way for years. I suppose it comes down to Apple's priorities, though I know they've intended to change that in the past year.
In Australia, I am concerned with the Influence that China has over our economy and how they are trying to influence our politics[1][2][3][4]

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-14/china-backlash-austral...

[2] http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/the-...

[3] https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-af...

[4] https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/us-politics/aust...
Is FastMail reliable?
I hear he's doing great things
Seems to be inline with the TMC forum tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BWscIZyLsh42IHcj1AJN...

Probably where the idea came from.
> makes you go to the doctors during flu season (a not-so-smart time to go).

In Australia it is common for an employer to pay for their employees to have the seasonal flu vaccine, one or two nurses come to the office / work site to administer the vaccine. So the only new people you're being exposed to are those nurses, for a brief few minutes
They're very serious about data preservation.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/-under-the-...
I think his main point was cost savings in environments that don't need constant uptime, like Dev and QA DB's in a 9-5ish shop.

You can also throw a light DB (mySql, SqlExpress, Postgres) on a VM that you already have running 24/7, that would make the additional cost zero.

Of course you are still going to need to curate your dev/qa data (through replication or periodic backup/restore) because shit data is hard to code against, not to mention debug against.
If I dismissed every movie or show with left-progressive propaganda I would have nothing to watch.

Had no relation to Bright either.
> I feel like they advertised fb as an altruistic platform

Zuck's "Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together" always felt like a stretch. If they were altruistic, they would be a B corp or a non-profit, not a Delaware-based C corp. Never forget that companies are run by Boards and that your data can be reappropriated if the company is merged with another.

Hell, even Enron's mission statement was:

> We treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves....We do not tolerate abusive or disrespectful treatment. Ruthlessness, callousness and arrogance don't belong here[1]

> when in reality, I was just a means to marketing dollars and they fed whatever altruistic lines they wanted to keep me coming back.

Meh. It's marketing. You typically don't tell the most attractive person your worst qualities when they first see you. You try to make a good impression by highlighting your more attractive qualities and staying quiet about the others.

The NSA doesn't tell you it's watching all of your internet activity and correlating it to build profiles on you and your 6 billion fellow great apes. The NSA's marketing is to try and make you forget that it's there, one of the reasons it was dubbed "No Such Agency". When the CIA and the NSA do make their rare public statement, they talk about themselves as the "intelligence community".

BP doesn't advertise itself as a cost-cutting, Deepwater Horizon spilling, exploding rig megacorp. They advertise themselves as the company that saved the Gulf Coast from near permanent economic collapse.

VW doesn't advertise itself as a lying, massively polluting company that makes more cars than any other. They advertise themselves as the "people's car" that is small and cute and sleek. Oh, and they lied that one time, but they learned from their mistakes and they are making amends.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/19/opinion/enron-s-vision-and...
That is not really a convincing argument, even if nobody used searching to get to Facebook, the search traffic would still reflect the general interest in Facebook. But given the huge search traffic it is not convincing that nobody uses search to access Facebook to begin with. So one has to at least argue that the decline in search traffic is due to user migrating from browser to app or something along that line. Also see the comments in the old thread.
Installed Brave and Metamask but sign up hangs after entering username.
But doing all this is hard. Saying "with unbiased intentions", "given the time that they need to do so", and others is like assuming a spherical cow.
MIT AGI: Future of Intelligence (Ray Kurzweil) [video]
If you genuinely consider a phone app as essential as breathing you should reevaluate your situation before it goes away or causes you issues. If your life and communications ever become hampered due to WA there's no one to blame but yourself. It's a large point of failure for people that rely on others so heavily.
I thought Bojack Horseman was pretty original.
CSS grid is strict rows+columns, flexbox is 1-dimensional and allows for controlled wrapping to a second/third/etc row when the row (or column, depending on orientation) is filled.

They have different use cases, it's just that (at least with regards to (a)) everyone's switching because they wanted something like grid in the first place and only had/knew about flexbox. It got you halfway there (we've used multiple flexbox rows that don't wrap to simulate grid, for example), and now they're just going all the way.
With the GPL at least, its major clauses are aimed at restricting software from being incorporated into closed systems. I don't know if eliminating that control was what the GP had in mind, but it would be one of the perhaps-unexpected effects.

See also: Licenses that prohibit use for military purposes or other things the authors consider undesirable.
I feel this way, but when I examine it I don’t think it’s true. I believe they’re still releasing OitNB and HoC caliber shows at about the same rate, but now there’s so much filler in addition that it seems the days of quality are past.

What would make Netflix truly amazing, but apparently is not possible, would be if their DVD catalog was available to stream.
I’ll try to write up a blog post on it. The newer stuff I’m out of touch with, but I’ve worked on a good chunk of the gear you commonly see still.
Cold Cache, Warm Heart
Look how long Theranos was able to keep it up despite experts calling b.s. from basically day one.
I don't think it addresses one of the most important aspect of assembly, though, which is it's strict, functional/feature inferiority to modern languages.

It isn't just old and forgotten, its very style and function is extremely limited in comparison. Shakespearean English is just about as functional of a language as modern English (ignoring the vocabulary for things that didn't exist back then), which can't be said about assembly.
Along the same lines, decide what the bar will be for promotion, tell them where they're lacking, and when they reach that bar, promote them.
Did Netflix produce Okja? I think they just bought the rights.
The ripoffs would have to compete. Some would compete on price, which might benefit the public by making things more available. Others might compete on quality, which might benefit the public by having alternatives to the cheapest crap someone can produce. Neither of those things happen automatically with patents.
The influenza shots are really not the subject of antivax sentiment, nor are they pushed the way tdap etc are. And this latter group has much more efficacy, not even including herd immunity effects.
If you want to propose legislation to require Apple and Facebook to allow interoperability, I will get it in front of federal legislators.
As a tech lead I fight such dark patterns to a bloody battle.

It’s our responsibility to call out on bullshit like this.
Advertisers are the core of Google's income. "Ad Companies" are to a large extent their competitors.
As always Bron & teams - so happy with your take on this and proud to be a Fastmail user and advocate.

-Sam.
Even if it was a puppet state, apparently Samsung is above the law there. They are like 70% of its GDP.
There's been a couple short downtimes, always documented/well-communicated on their Twitter feed. I think I've only ever been able to not get into my email once... and it was fixed in a few minutes.

And outside of general service reliability, their support team is top notch. I can't say enough about being able to file a ticket on a problem with my email service and hearing back from a real person about it.

Also: https://www.fastmailstatus.com/
The way I solved that one mostly is to always repeat the sentence back and swap they’re for “they are” in my head (same for its vs it’s).
I think the 6.5” screensizes and MY13 or older ones were from Panasonic. Harman took over with the new touch enabled screen models. The consumer facing apps run on J2ME LWUIT on top of JamaicaVM in QNX.
Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying_code
AFAIK, Nvidia have never fabricated their own cards, but they do design the reference boards that most OEMs use as a basis for their own cards, and they did at one point release cards directly under the Nvidia brand (the cards were fabricated by Foxconn using Nvidia's designs).
Productivity. Bootstrap class names are still simpler than css and allow something to just stay within html. Also standardized themes and components allow for quick development compared to doing it all yourself.
Architecture for Machine learning based IoT system
How I Have a Universal Phone Number Using Google Voice, Twilio and Stdlib
https://github.com/salyh/elasticsearch-imap
I don't think there's a huge audience for this.
Linux uses Coccinelle (the semantic patch program) as a lint engine --- a job for which it's surprisingly well-suited. Try this:

make coccicheck
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video. I wrote the script with the help of a friend/investor, and we pulled together our friends to make it happen. Elias of SoulFood productions did the camera magic - http://soulfoodproductions.com/.

We've always thought television shopping would be a great channel for this product! And will definitely be cutting more versions of the video :)
In case anyone missed it, the most genius description of the Fourier Transform was published recently by the 3Blue1Brown YouTube site (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY). It is absolutely brilliant.
Great Speaker Line-Up Google's SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy and Pinterest's SVP Li Fan
What is POP?
I won't be managing calendars. Sadly, your choices for that seem to be either Gmail (which I'll continue using for my calendar) or Outlook (and the Outlook calendar). I'd pay good money for a working third party calendar/contacts solution that worked well on my phone, tablet, and Windows. Google doesn't fit the bill there, either, unless you like web-only.

As for securing Gmail with yubikey... how do you gain access via a standard email client like Thunderbird in that case? Anything that can't do that is a non-starter for me.
I’ve been trying to switch to fastmail about once a year for the last few years and checked it again to refresh my memory. My main gripe is still here: if you are on a bad connection (or with no connection at all), Fastmail’s mobile app cannot load interface and so can’t show your emails. Which makes it reeeeally painful at times when an app is most useful in the first place. :)

Of course, I could connect native mail.app, but that makes your ui on desktop and mobile too different...
An option for correlated kernel and userspace tracing on Linux is LTTng. [0] For a comparison of LTTng and other tracers, check out the LTTng docs. [1]

[0] http://lttng.org/

[1] http://lttng.org/docs/v2.10/#doc-lttng-alternatives
Excellent point.
I'm a happy fastmail user, and actually I'd like to see the ability to 'fetch and save images' in addition to the 'show images' button, so that I can archive some of those remote-image-wrap emails.

Remote image links are a bane - look how many forums have been effectively ruined because they relied on 3rd party image hosting, that has now changed it's policy, or gone away, etc.

Another annoyance are the dynamic links to other stories that you see at the bottom of news sites. I often spy a link I'd like to follow just as I leave the page, and then when I reload, the links have all changed! Super annoying.
You guys, I can't tell if it's foreign bots flooding this thread with disinformation, but it's obvious that using a Huawei phone isn't going to keep you off of American intelligence servers. All it's going to do is make it easier to get on Chinese ones too. I'd take these warnings seriously. The Chinese have a long history of stealing IP and disregarding norms.
Paraphrasing: The main difference is that Netflix broadcasts via the internet while HBO broadcasts on cable and the internet.

So not a vast difference.
I agree with this. Disney is the real threat imo. Their IP seems really sticky and unbeatable. Netflix is basically in a race to establish beloved IP before Disney gets into the fray because the basic stories all these films/shows tell are not really all that different, but people way pay through the nose to get Star Wars / Toy Story etc.
> a snowshoe fiber slack storage. They are used at almost every splice so the splice can be moved to the ground easily and placed into a splicing trailer.

Interesting, thanks for pointing out how it's called and what's the purpose of it. I saw it around, but had no idea what it's for :)

I noticed though, that for example Optimum fiber network is using it, while Verizon one does not.
Making a Mark: Visual Identity and Logo Design with Tom Geismar
Sets a pretty dangerous prescient of a court mandating a software update, an update that will erase your data, and forcing that update upon users.

I personally stopped buying pre-built boxes preferring to build and run my own, but the average user doesn't have this knowledge or the technical capabilities.

Can a court order force a Linux distribution to, not only remove packages from their repo, but force machines with those packages installed to install them?

I mean this is just going to lead more people to turn off auto-updates, leading to bigger security problems.
Perhaps a better place to start the discussion about the legality of ipfs would be to ask if bittorrent is illegal in Europe.

After all, if even one seeder is online somewhere in the world, a torrent is accessible and cannot be deleted. Does bittorrent have the potential infringe on someone's right to be forgotten?

ipfs operates in a similar way (peers and seeds).
This isn't far off especially if you count on-CPU decoding. MPEG2 is sensible for the time, but can't scale to larger pixel resolutions or lower bitrates well.

The generation after MPEG2 (VP7, MPEG4 ASP, Theora) though, pretty much sucked universally and there was no good reason for it… second-system effect?
The Problem with 'Transit Gaps'
I am so glad you liked the video and that it caught your attention! That is so awesome to hear =)

I have heard of Heist, and actually bought a bunch and tested them out - sadly they too have the same problems as all of the other sheers out on the market today. You can see a video of my tests (including Heist) here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXt3vNL8ILA
This split of compute and storage into distinct layers is starting to become more common, and it has some pretty neat advantages like much better scalability and efficiency.

Google's BigQuery and Snowflake Data are examples of data warehouses, similar to DIY presto/drill/spark on S3. Apache Pulsar brings that to messaging and distributed logs. It'll be interesting to see how it applies to more OLTP database engines, although there are examples like TiDB which seem to work well enough.
1/5th of exports, 17% of GDP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
This is a great use case for kube-metacontroller that was introduced in the Day 2 Keynote at Kubecon. With minimal work, you can replicate a deployment or stateful set, but with custom update strategies.

Live demo: https://youtu.be/1kjgwXP_N7A?t=10m46s
Code: https://github.com/kstmp/metacontroller
I was absolutely mind blown by this. Then I found out it was made in React, I was always on the fence about using it, now I’m in love ️

Happy Valentine’s Day
> Anything is fast enough if you cannot imagine it working better

Exactly. Is memory cheap enough that I can load the entire contents of my hard disk into it at a reasonable price? Is optane (or something similar) cheap enough that syncs from memory back onto something persistent happen at close to realtime? Are processors fast/parallel enough that I can actually start running all the programs I will ever want to run and just switch to them when necessary? Do I have enough cores that even if most of my running processes start glitching out and using 100% cpu, the rest of them will still run buttery smooth? Add to that that resolution of monitors will increase, and details displayed even on lower resolutions will only get more intricate. And things currently on the high-end can only get cheaper.
> As several people have pointed out, this isn't quite how it works in real life.

“Isn’t quite how it works” is a gross understatement. I apologize, but while there’s some correct facts, the entire narrative you spun clearly shows you don’t have the first clue what you are talking about. I really want to be as polite as possible, but what did you expect to accomplish by posting this?
Thank you for your kind words. My goal was exactly that; to show that there is something beyond the irrational optimism, extreme cynicism, scams and bubble talks that dominate conversations.

As you mentioned, asset tokenization (securitization) is one of the biggest markets. If companies like Harbor achieve their vision, it would be huge.
The article does not concern itself with the business of Netflix, rather the merit of its art
There are probably cooler things that you can do for 24 million stolen dollars than dominate the etherum network. Actually, using the hashpower to wash the stolen money by legitimate mining sounds cool enough.

What can kind of cool stuff can you actually do when you dominate the etherum network?
I don't agree with the idea that any type of company is a body in itself, or that it should be considered a person under law. It's a group of people who work together to achieve common goals.

The concept of rights doesn't even apply, in the same way that "society" doesn't have rights. Individuals have rights. Taking money from a company means taking money from the people who own it. It doesn't exist apart from them. Making it seem so just makes it easier to violate the rights of the individuals involved.

To me, it's as ridiculous as things like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...
You have to approve the $0.03 transaction on Meta Mask. It's not user friendly. You can also watch to see if the transaction is pending on etherscan.
I also really liked the video. I recently filmed a promo video for our small startup and the acting piece is hard - you killed it.
It shouldn’t be noted that Apple is now onboard with the Alliance for Open Media.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-online-video-compression-av1...
And all while profiting from their users (and non-users) behind their back.
Sid Meier's Civilization!
Oh weird, I don't have a balance and nothing mentioned that.
Twitter is now worth more than Snap
How did you come up with the text (the actual Valentines sayings)? Is it drawing from a list you made up?
Gmail has a reasonably nice small inner-core functionality with keyboard accellerators which is javascript-portable to my life. I won't trust a cafe computer to run gmail to login, but I can trust my changing personal device to let me run gmail in some consistent manner through keyboarded commands I like.

And the spambot is good.

But adding rich features? gaaaaah. I want to go back to MH. I want to go back to my shell. I'm so tempted to walk into a dark corner, rather than have the HTML actively engage with me.

because many things, but perhaps I'm kidding myself? I bet I didn't realize how many tracking events exist through my email reading patterns, that google know, and can monetize.

this AMP thing is just a more overt moment. I'm a frog, and I've been boiled slowly.
Legally that is. Nothing but the law and the fact that most people are honest prevents it. Anyone may purchase a 20 dollar 2m/440 radio and press the PTT :)