skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the big issues with the film industry today, and one thing Netflix addresses tangentially, is that all films should not be the same price. It's strange to me that a movie like 'Avengers Infinity War' is the same price as 'Super Troopers 2' or 'A Quiet Place'.

I consider myself a movie buff and I remember in the 90's, friends and I would go to movies as something to do. We wouldn't necessarily plan to go, but movies were a reasonable price < $10, we were bored, and you'd just go, see what piqued our interest, and give it a try. Now-a-days, movies are so expensive that it's almost an event and something you have to save for like concert tickets or sports tickets. Why would you take a risk on movie X, with middling reviews, when it costs so much? That's why so many middle of the road films seem to crash and burn so much more starkly these days, because people can't afford to take a chance on a potential stinker.

I think movies should have a scale for pricing, Infinity War costs $20 to see, but Super Troopers 2 costs $10 to see. Maybe they both start at $20, but over time, the price slowly declines until it leaves theaters based on how it's performing. After all, the goal for theaters is get butts in seats so they can sell concession food anyway.

Where Netflix really stands out is their incentive is entirely different. They have one goal, to keep subscribers from unsubscribing for another month. As a result, they hope that when you're bored and you turn on Netflix, something in their library catches your eye. Netflix has replaced the 'randomly going to a theater' experience and as a result, many movies that perform poorly in the theaters can thrive on the platform. Who cares if a movie is a 30% Rotten Tomatoes candidate, when it cost you nothing at the moment to watch it, and you have nothing better going on anyway. It's not an event, it's a way to pass some time. It's the new channel surfing...

All the film makers who end up being snobby about Netflix are missing the point entirely. Not all movies are suited for the $20, monster screen experience, and you can clearly see that with many experimental films crashing and burning hard in recent years. The cinema price is so prohibitive these days that a family doesn't take any risks, they save their money for huge tent poles where the rating is virtually guaranteed. That's a losing formula for experimental films who were never going to have broad appeal and it's a shame that a segment of the film industry seems hell-bent on standing in the way of that alternative outlet. They should embrace it with open arms.
Common, how parsing things is easier, than gathering some very basic stats?
When you consider alternative outings for a family of four, $50 isn't so terribly bad. Where else do you get two to two-and-a-half hours of entertainment for four people including food? If you're having a hard time getting good seats and getting garbage food for your money, that's a sign that you need to scope out some better theaters. In my area, we have theaters with pretty posh, reserved seating, near-gourmet food (although there's still a lot of room for improvement there) and even alcohol service. If no theaters like this exist in your area — business opportunity!

There are theaters and theater chains that aren't functioning competitively, and there are those that are actively exploring new ways to get asses into seats. From what I can tell, those ideas seem to be working.
I noticed that Airbnb operates in China currently. Perhaps there are other YC investments as well, but it seems this isn't the beginning of YC's investment into China.

I had begun writing up a tin-foil hat theory on why YC would open this Startup School there, until I realized Airbnb, one of YC's flagship investments is already there.
Thank you so much for this podcast.

My only feedback at this point is that the less editorial you add the better IMHO and you seem to be adding more as the days go on. :)

It's fine when prefixed with "personally" or "I wonder if..." etc. Indeed, those bits are quite interesting, but without that it comes across as a little lecturing or even patronising. I usually agree with your politics, but I like to make my own mind up. It's very easy to get people's opinions on the news, etc. on that whole Twitter thing.
What if it makes the man's female coworkers uncomfortable?
You're missing the whole crux of the story. The supposed law broken here (none, actually) is based on multiple judges being absolutely clueless about technology and refusing the regard the testimony of an expert witness who was trying to set the first judge straight.
Sales records in film are flat values, not inflation-adjusted values. Avatar is the only film in the 2000s to break the top 10 for inflation-adjusted revenue from film. So they aren't breaking sales records, or even close to it, they are breaking "dollars earned" records. Inflation-adjusted costs of going to a movie have remained fairly even, while inflation-adjusted sales figures have plummeted.
There may be one slight (and practically irrelevant) difference: the blog posts are still archived by the wayback machine, but it refused to serve them due to the robots.txt file.

If that file were to be removed, presumably the archive would again be served up upon request.

The lawyers were asking for the archive store itself to be wiped.
I’ve only seen the alcohol thing in the US
I really like this push towards transparency but hopefully people who use the data / develop will make sure to understand the system and the data they're dealing with. Like list prices are often incredibly far removed from the actual dollars paid, and the actual amount paid is all dependent on insurer contracts

I'd imagine hospitals hate this. Many of them are paranoid at what will happen if there is more transparency -- there's a union fighting Stanford hospital now and playing radio ads about high infection rates at Stanford. Other hospitals are worried about whether similar things could happen to them -- and hold their data tight to make sure no one has ammunition to do similar things. Hospitals in many cases market based on brand value rather than quality. In a closed world, hospitals can define quality any way they want. Everyone is #1 in something. If there's an objective standard for quality based on integrated data from hospitals nationwide, many brands will be tarnished. I'd be interested to see how hospitals respond to this push towards openness
I believe the theory is that by posting prices online hospitals will become generally regarded as being "expensive" or "inexpensive", which in turn could drive prices down.
Sounds like the regal here. Hey have leather recliner rooms with only four rows of seats, maybe 60 people total. It’s insane how much more immersive the smaller rooms are.
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You're right. Unfortunately I ignored the hard part of the question (because I have no answer) and only answered the easy part.
It opens the door to third party organizations to do the comparison upfront, and assign different hospitals an overall grade. No one's expecting you to shop around while you're waiting for an ambulance, but a) there are a lot of procedures where you do indeed have some time to think about it upfront (childbirth, most surgeries), having a sense that a particular hospital is overcharging allows social and political pressure to be put on them to normalize.
You are free to hate Microsoft of course, but your point didn't make much sense to me. Nobody except Microsoft is allowed to distribute Windows because thats their right under copyright law. Its the same law that prohibits people from distributing GPL'd binaries without providing the source. The owner/creator has certain rights.
One of the biggest problems with US health care is that it's usually impossible to find out what treatments will cost before having them.

This makes "shopping around" and being an informed consumer near impossible.

If this actually happens in a meaningful way, hospitals will have to be competitive on price, and I can easily see a 30% cost reduction across the industry just from that.

...which is why I'd be surprised if that actually happened. Such a big restructuring of such a politically powerful industry doesn't just happen in our system.
Radioisotopes decay, but it is the ratio that is important. We know, for example, that a natural (we assume?) nuclear reactor occurred in Africa 1.8bn years ago due the different isotopic concentration of uranium deposits from that era.
Raising the specter of globalization ultimately is just hand-waving the problem away. For example, when are we determining that globalization began? If we claim in the 1990's than how does that explain a similar hollowing out effect suffered by urban black America in the previous decades? If we decide to go back to Columbus, well that certainly isn't going to explain anything.

Unfortunately many explanations look outward or cast blame on shadowy groups ("The Elites") and refuse to look at decisions made by Americans themselves. There is no consideration of voting against interests in favor of culture war issues. No discussion of the movement away from organized labor and activism. Refusal to evaluate the consequences of an "Every Day Low Price" consumerism that demands the lowest cost of products.

I'm not trying to absolve globalization of responsibility, rather I'm trying to say that it's not helpful to point the finger at it and refuse to look deeper.
Depends entirely on the system you are working with.
>Your anger is equivalent to being mad that someone looked at the from: address on an envelope when you told them not to.

No, it's the equivalent of asking a woman in a bar if you can call her and when she says "no," you look up her number in the phone book and call her anyway.
Recently? Dan told people to consider not using Redux as early as 2016: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...
It could look like this:

var x = match (response) {
case { status:200 }: true;
case { status: 404 }: false;
case Number: 0;
case SomeClass: 1;
default: -1;
};
> Imagine if we all replaced fine art galleries with mobile phone apps

Somewhat off topic, but arguably, the apps being developed and provided for archives and museums are providing a better viewing experience for the arts. The ability to essentially "touch" the works can make the interaction better than actually visiting a museum.
There are a few theaters in my city that have started offering a "VIP experience" which I think is well worth the few extra dollars they charge. The seats are much larger and more comfortable, and assigned when you purchase your ticket. There is a small table where you can put the food and drinks that the staff bring to your chair, and because they serve alcoholic drinks the entire theater is restricted to ages 19+.

It is a night and day difference compared to the usual theater experience.
One knock against Netflix is that I’ve been told they pay-less-than standard wages to non-actor, union workers. This means the prop designers, cameramen/women etc get paid less to work on Netflix productions.
I'm not so optimistic.
New UI for me looks like an unfocused drawing of a child. What's more - I rarely used the webUI previously (prefer IMAP, which kinda sucks in case of gmail) but now it's slower and looks uglier... (IMVHO)
I use a keyboard cover and it helps reduce this issue. When you do get a crumb under a key and it stops working, the solution is to keep hitting the key hard until you dislodge/break the crumb. Low tech, but it works.
Which was?
Check Annhiliation and Mind Hunter. You’re welcome.
Next step is to make them actually charge those prices to all patients/insurers. It's not appropriate for insurers to pay less because they made a deal with the hospital.

From TFA: It may still prove to be confusing to consumers, since standard rates are like list prices and don't reflect what insurers and government programs pay.

Just because your insurance doesn't cover something doesn't mean they should make more money. This is one of the root problems driving healthcare costs. No deals for government or insurance companies. Post prices. Standard procedures should end up with lower pricing due to competition.
The underlying issue isn't copyright law, as it's a means to an end and has always made this kind of abuse possible. This is retailers using government to crack down on secondary markets (markets that deal in used goods, subleasing, reselling tickets, etc); copyright law happens to be a means to that end. You see the same actions with landlords going after airbnb, of course they use a different body of law.
How much of my money are you willing to spend to save your own life?

Read an article that talked about insurance companies providing tools to consumers about pricing, turns out they don't use them because people are price conscience when it comes to their current healthcare needs. And my guess they're probably too price/time conscience when it comes to preventive care. Aka, they would need to be compensated to stop eating cheeseburgers.
Because the Bank of England controls the pound and everyone one who works for it are answerable to the electorate in one way or another.

On the other hand a Eurozone member cannot set it's own interest rates, inflation, can't restructure it's own debt, doesn't control it's exchange rates etc. It takes away nearly all the financial tools a country has.

Do you know why you need to bail out Ireland? because it doesn't have access to these tools, It can't restructure it's own debt and it can't control it's own currency and exchange rates to settle it and any changes to the Euro which might be a net positive to Ireland would be global and could often result in a net negative to other Eurozone members like Germany.

Lets take exchange rates for or example.

They have the same exchange rate which means that if Ireland and Germany want to export potatoes they both get paid at the same rate in their local currency.

This is a huge deal because it prevents one country from being more competitive than another as it would lose too much on the exchange rates.

This essentially takes away an important tool that countries have which is being competitive on export by reducing their prices but maintaining a good local revenue through favorable exchange rates.

And while it might appear "fair" it's not because fixed exchange rates favor larger economies like Germany which can be competitive more competitive due to simply their sheer production capacity.

Next you have imports again the exchange rate is fixed, also the import taxes are fixed so importing goods into Ireland would cost as much as to Germany excluding other marginal costs which again is a problem because Germany is a larger market, it's closer to the Netherlands which is the major port into the EU, it's on the mainland which give it easier access to the med as well as a land route to Russia, Turkey and beyond.

Now lets look at another example debt restructuring.

Lets look at both "internal" and "external" debt, in this regard internal means in your own local currency and external means in a foreign currency.

Internal debt you can repay by well simply "printing more money", sure you can't go wild with that but this is something all countries do all the time they play with interest rates and many other levers and reduce their debt at the expense of higher short term inflation.

External debt again if you control the exchange rates and control the supply of your own currency you have much better tools for debt restructuring.

And these are just the most crude and basic examples there are benefits to the Eurozone but you do take away most of not all of the tools countries have of managing their own financial and monetary policy. You also cannot make adjustments that you could make otherwise because you now have to set a unified policy across all member countries.
Then stop reading The Atlantic. Voila, problem solved.

Unless you’re running low and need a new source to feed your outrage addiction.

Update:

What was your response to MSNBC booting Sam Seder over his Polanski tweet (tasteless joke)?

Sorry, I don’t do corporate media, took me a while to remember enough details to google this example.

I’m sure there’s acres of examples. From my time, it was Fox News shutting down the Ayre (dairy cow) whistle blowers.

Just curious if your outrage is equal opportunity or selective.

For my part, I still haven’t forgiven The Atlantic for getting Cheney elected and pimping the 2nd Iraq War. Cracks me up that the alt-right hates them now. No good deed goes unpunished.
Ask HN: Soliciting startup investment using a mailing list+drip campaign. Legal?
I'm getting emails from a startup soliciting investment in their multi-million dollar funding round. No intro, just out of the blue. Looking at the mail headers, they are using mixmax to keep following up (drip campaign style). It has been going on for 20 days now. I think I know the spreadsheet they got my email from so I imagine they are doing this at scale.

I think this is really shitty behavior. They have not verified my accredited investor status which makes this behavior potentially illegal.

Should I just ignore it as "good hustle", report to SEC, let the lead investor know what they are doing, publicly shame them, ...

Note: They probably read HN so seeing other people's responses might be the wakeup call they need.
There are some facilities which already post basically accurate prices online: https://surgerycenterok.com/ is a great example.

If I needed some kind of elective or non-emergency procedure, they would be high on my list (along with medical tourism to foreign countries where procedures are also clearly priced, and even cheaper)

I've recently been having pretty good luck going to medical providers and offering cash (I have Kaiser insurance now, which I basically treat as emergency/catastrophic only, since they never cover any providers I'd want to see, so I basically end up paying cash.). I was able to get a dermatologist to go from $600+ to $95 because cash.
People are mocking this policy here, but it’s obviously better than nothing.

A large number of hospital procedures are likely planned, and can therefore be subject to comparison shopping. Giving birth is an obvious one. But even for many fractures there is a day or two before the procedure, and you could transfer.

Maybe more importantly, public price information allows independent research into price disparities, and public shaming of the worst offenders. That’s data only insurance companies currently have access to.
More like:

var myString = match (status) {
200 => "Success",
401 => "Fail!"
}
> A delusional wishful thinking that a patient, while in pain and in need to care, will be shopping and browsing around to see prices, and that would drive prices down.

Are you kidding me? If a patient is in so much pain that they can't make rational decisions about their care or feel that their care is urgent enough that they don't have time to look at prices, they should probably be in the ER anyway. For the 95% of patients not in this situation, having tangible pricing will be beneficial. Furthermore, for patients in seriously debilitating conditions, many have caregivers that can look into procedure finances.
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The article already states that these online prices will be meaningless to most people, as they are the 'list prices' that no insurance company or individual would actually end up paying. So it will still be nearly impossible to find out what a treatment will cost before having it.
It's finished -- phase out will complete in 2020.
VR movie-watching is interesting, but I don't know of any headphones that can produce chest-rattling bass. Maybe in tandem with a SUBPAC or something, that might be more compelling.
When $746 billion of market capitalization critically depend on Google carefully recording your location information every second in the day and using it to increase advertisement revenue, it is somewhat naive to expect the Google will comply with common ethical sense out of the good of their hearts.

On the flip side, if communication with your contacts is encrypted end to end [possibly with law enforcement agencies with a warrant having access to decryption keys], then no matter how much monetary incentive Google has to violate your privacy, they can't.

How about we build systems that keep creepy stalkers at bay by design? What happened with "can-do" attitude in the hacker-sphere?
Well they're definitely profiting off of popcorn. The customer pays around 1200% markup of the cost of making it.
Netflix is thriving outside the US too - and challenging the dominance of traditional TV broadcasters.

For example, the UK and Germany are two of Netflix's largest markets in Europe.

In the UK, Netflix is more popular than the BBC's iPlayer on-demand service. The BBC has released some series with all episodes available at the same time - clearly influenced by Netflix.

Competition from Netflix is a good thing, and it will be interesting to see how broadcasters respond.
Nothing prevents you from having a large screen and powerful speakers at home!

I just finished configuring a full 5.2.4 Atmos setup at home (Klipsch Reference Premiere + Onkyo) along with a TV much larger than should go in that room.

I no longer want to go to the movie theaters :)
Special-sized keys like up/down and backspace are more problematic. Mine is going back for warranty repair next week.
#1 - import all your data that was exported from Facebook

#2 - get billion dollar valuation
Removing any of the information asymmetry in health care is useful. Providers in clinics usually don't know what procedures costs, especially with various insurance negotiations. This empowers patients and additionally medical providers themselves. It is a real conversation (in non-emergent situations) that should be happening with patients and providers about what the patient can afford.

If you do not like that this exposes publicly the capitalist nature of US health care, then I encourage you to support a universal/government health care option, rather than trying to prove this information isn't helpful.
Seconded. Used to get these from Radio Shack back in the day.
They will be as effective as anti-piracy law would be if pirates were paid to seed. At best they will prevent respectable publications from directly using distributed archives as a source.
How does current VR movie viewing holds? Especially with the latest high wuality headsets?
Web Tracking: What You Should Know About Your Privacy Online
Even when brand-new, and working properly, these keyboards are a disaster. IT has been rolling upgrading people to them at work, and the number of external keyboards has skyrocketed.

So has the number of new lenovos.
Good. They also need to improve the appeal processes for private insurance and crack down on improper denials.
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