skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When the company changed those rules to limit subscribers so they could only see a given movie once, no matter how long it runs in theaters, a support ticket stated, “we hope this will encourage you to see new movies and enjoy something different!” It turns out that was a blatant effort to cut costs, with today’s filing explaining that the move “enabled us to reduce our cash deficit during the first week of May 2018 by more than 35 [percent].”

> There are a lot of ways to read that percentage, and in MoviePass’ defense, the company has also said that the goal was to prevent people from using MoviePass to buy tickets for friends who aren’t subscribers. But either way, a savings of more than a third represents a radical shift. Couple that with the fact that the most popular movie the first week of May was Avengers: Infinity War, whose astounding box-office performance is driven by repeat visits, and the connection seems clearer — MoviePass is openly trying to save money by limiting features its customers actively use. It isn’t a “test” or an “experiment,” as the company has claimed in the past; it’s intentionally making the subscriptions people have already paid for less useful because its business model is unsustainable.

Getting rid of repeats saving 35% seems to point to some pretty widespread abuse. Who are these people seeing the same movie multiple times during its initial theater run?
You want to proceed carefully with a Pi Zero - the chip is an ARMv6, so you'll end up building more things and you loose some optimization - you might not like the performance :-(
Whats behind that Options link?
It's gone up since then to $500/yr. It takes you two years before you get the $300/yr price again. By then you've already spent nearly $900, with the third year making it $1200.

Android Studio is free.
> Just look at what happened to online gambling 10 years ago.

And not a moment too soon. Gambling games are designed to be addictive, to bypass the judgment and decision-making centres in people's brains, and take their money. Providing places to go and gamble is one thing; people who walk in there ought to know they will probably lose every bean they walk in there with, so there's informed consent. Putting gambling games that accept real money on the web is effectively like putting coin-operated pokie machine in every living room (and these days every pocket) with a net connection. It's profoundly exploitative and totally deserved to be starved of financial oxygen IMHO.
I'm sorry to be mean, but this is as dumb as the rest of this GDPR panic that seems to have swept the less informed parts of the US tech community.

GDPR basically means: "Do all the stuff you should have already been doing to protect user data."

Paradoxically, I suppose it's pretty good as an EU citizen if sites that don't do this are blocked, since it's a massive flashing red flag.
Isn't that the point, though? Touch ID was a major security feature (industry-changing even) that was added to the phone without changing the behavior of users. It's nearly a perfect scenario of adding an incredible amount of functionality for users without requiring them to do anything. Apple has always been about user security regardless of whether or not it was obvious to users.
Another HN commenter mentioned their sales numbers at $170M and growing at 30% annually. Why do you think a $1.2B price is high? it seems pretty reasonable for me. Buying at 7x total sales with a 30% growth rate seems like a normal purchase price.
Sometimes I wonder if hackernews has become a reliable training ground for nascent neural networks. This thread of comments perfectly follows the trend of "the best way to find the right answer is to put a bunch of wrong answers on the internet, and just let those hairsplitters sort this out."

I wonder if there were a method by which we could falseify such a hypothesis, and simply check other social media for it's reverberations of falsehoods we intentionally plant, like how organized crime traces down their bugs, er, rats, er leakers, that's the word. Or how a fast Fourier transform looks at a periodic signal, and deduces the component frequencies.

It's probably just a pipe dream though. And we all know there isn't just this series of tubes lying around for us to practice on.
Better stay away from Google OSes then.
Are you talking with real knowledge of the facts, or is this a guess?

Because my guess would be that it would be cheaper to adhere to the rules rather than let a competitor grow big in Europe and eat their market elsewhere.
There have been a lot of studies on this. It's not ambiguous anymore that spanking does more harm than good.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768154/
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Hey guys, wanted to share my experience.

I just updated onelog, my zero alloc JSON logger, and made it the fastest JSON logger out there by far, thanks to a simple `pooling optimisation` in gojay (the underlying JSON encoder).

Previously, I was using buffered channel in Gojay to pool encoders in memory. My logger was fast already, but zerolog or zap was a bit faster in some cases. I noticed through profiling, that sometime, it took time to acquire from channels and increasing the buffer size didnt chang.

Then I disabled pooling and noticed a good performance increase but more allocations. so I tried with sync.Pool, made a safe usage of it and performance of the logger have jumped 2x to 3x.

It is now by far the fastest JSON logger out there.
There's often a misconception about Nifi being batch or file based and not streaming. This probably originates as result of data in Nifi being represented as a FlowFile, which is kind of a misnomer. As woqe stated above, Nifi can certainly doing streaming.
This is bonkers, makes me want to start a small business just to get these calls and goof around :)
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Brian Krebs - can you please change to a responsive theme?

Thanks.
>Similarly, I have noticed that a difference between American subways and European subways is that when you stop at a station in Europe, the interlocks allow the automatic doors to open as soon as the train is slower than maybe 1–2 km/h

No, this must only happen with older rolling stock. Newer rolling stock both from European and Asian manufacturers operates like your "American" example
No, it doesn't. (Except for perhaps UK and Canada.)
My guess is that GDPR is not yet in effect thus they can use this to get consent in advance. After GDPR is in place these will be changed to comply with it.
Cool integration
Thank you
Predatory interest rates frankly don't concern or particularly bother me. I think, for me, that only becomes a point of concern if a person is simply mentally unfit to make such decisions for themselves. In such cases the general guidance that someone else deemed fit should be responsible for that person's decisions applies, which goes back to the point you made earlier.
Santa Clarita Principles could help tech firms with self-regulation
Something like this needs to be a multi pronged approach - warnings displayed to EU customers, complete non-advertisement to EU sectors, and you should probably include terms of service as well.

Ironically, likely to be more work than not being an ass with customers' data in the first place.
I feel like they're just waiting to gut the service (4 movies a month, or less) and hoping enough people stick around that they're better off.

Before the price drop they were taking in about $1 million/month (20,000 subs at $50). They're over ~2~ 4 million subscribers now at $10/month.

If they have even a 5% retention rate they'll have increased their revenue to $2 million/month.
Wait, since when Apple sells servers?
Ask HN: Payment processing for International customers?
I live in India. I am looking for a solution for payment processing for my side project t.

I haven't registered my company yet. FROM the blogs and articles on other websites it seems that I can use PayPal but again I would like to know if there's better alternate for PayPal?
She saved thousands to open a clinic in Nigeria. Customs took it at the airport
An example of this is when news sites started demanding you don't run adblock, I spoke to a couple of people in the industry and they all said it was great, I pressed one and they said no one left the site without disabling ad block and reading the article, which I took to mean that they intentionally ignored this metric.
I imagine that doing this would have a downside: if they think you are outside the EU, they are not obligated to fully delete your data - it would live forever as soft-deleted, which may not be what you want if your intention is to protest against tracking.
> if you use cash exclusively, then you have no credit to exploit

If you have income and have and pay any recurring bills (even utilities, etc.) you have credit to exploit; it may be a fairly weak credit history, but if you have no substantive debt, you probably also then have a good listed debt-to-income and debt-to-asset ratio, which can (potentially more than) offset that sparse history when opening a new line of credit.

To be not exploitable you either need to be completely invisible to the system or appear so uncreditworthy that no one relying on the system would loan you money at all.

(Of course, personal data leaks from credit tracking DBs can be used for identity fraud for things unrelated to securing credit, too, and being visible but not creditworthy doesn't protect you from that at all.)
I did multi-cloud doing the data stuff in GCP (mostly GCS and BigQuery) and the rest in EC2 -- costs weren't really an issue, but I guess if you're moving TB's around daily, that's the problem?
Wow, this is revelation, thank you, very cool tool with a lot of integrations. Need to give it a whirl, but looks very promising.
Huh? When I get on a train in Germany, I open the door and step inside. The train station is usually even simpler.
That guy with a bag full of gold will most likely not be the one who had that bag of gold when chaos erupted, that was my point.

Those who survive the chaos will be the ones strong enough and ruthless enough to organize themselves into powerful gangs. The nerd with a bag of gold will most likely be killed and it's gold stolen.

Being a prepper with an underground bunker will also not be of much value, you will just be seiged out.

If you are rich, what you'll need is a small private army to protect you, a small working force to feed you and the army, and the political skills to be able to enter into the right alliance after that.
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> When I finally got our engineering team to spend some time on making the data pipelines less fragile, instead of using one of these open source solutions they took it as an opportunity to create a fancy scalable, distributed, asynchronous data pipeline system built on ECS, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and NodeJS. That system was never able to be used in production, as my fragile duct-taped solution turned out to be more robust.

"An engineer is one who, when asked to make a cup of tea, come up with a device to boil the ocean".

Source: unknown. I think it was in Grady Booch's OO book, or some such book.

Also: "architect astronaut" and "Better is the enemy of good" come to mind...
Facebook is confronting EU users a new “terms of service” which may be illegal
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where did you get the 7x revenue? I don't see that line in the article?
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I do know people who go to see the latest movies (particularly Marvel ones, Star Wars, etc.) more than once. I imagine MoviePass would only encourage that behavior. (but I agree that abuse probably has something to do with it as well)
I'm not sure. All I can think is that partprobe is provided by parted and I have noticed people tend to gravitate towards using fdisk or parted and ignoring the other. Notice the author of the article is an fdisk guy.

I might be mis-remebering but I think parted used to be considered lame before fdisk lagged to support GPT.
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Kettle - the open source component of Hitachi Pentaho Data Integration is worth looking at, has some functionality for this (you can join sources and insert joined data back into master) and its pretty easy to extend to meet requirements. Its Apache licensed, with great commercial support if you need it, and can be found here:

https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle

We are small shop but it is a key part of our data workflows. We also found spoon the UI workflow builder to be very helpful for building workflows - since its allowed team members who were not strong in Java to build workflows that they need. Last but not least and a key decider in our adoption is the community is super friendly and very helpful. Something we thought would take months got implemented in a weekend thanks to quick feedback. Perhaps worth a look.
Just thought I would add:

If you want something more serious that supports better scale, realtime/streaming, is written in a statically typed language check out https://kylo.io/ it's added on to Apache NiFi (which was developed by our friends at the NSA)
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At this point, has "progressive" come to mean "will render without javascript (or css)"? I suppose eventually I will need to accept this definition, but I personally do think that this concept - a valid, valuable one - should probably have a different word. Either that, or we need a new word to describe a web app built with progressive enhancement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

The idea to progressive enhancement (to me - I understand these terms weren't unambiguous even as they emerged) is that you start with content, add structure (HTML), and slowly "enhance" to higher and more elaborate UI features (CSS, javascript). You add each layer in a way that you can always fall back to a simpler method or rendering. It is not necessary to render the structure to access the content. It is not necessary to render the styling to access the structure. It is not necessary to render the interactivity to access the styling.

Now, a web app built progressively doesn't necessarily meet the criteria for progressive enhancement, since plenty of people add html, css, javascript, and beyond without preserving the ability to render from a previous stage. But I think people have confused the ability to render to a previous stage with progressive enhancement as well. It's a good quality in a javascript framework that you can still view your site in lynx or with a pure html browser, but writing your app upfront in a JS heavy manner and relying on the framework to fall back for you? I think that's something other than "Progressive Enhancement", because you didn't enhance your app progressively, you started at the highest level of UI. I'd call that a "backwards compatible" web app.
"Abuse" is a strong word and the quote you've given addresses this when it says:

> ... whose astounding box-office performance is driven by repeat visits

I think you underestimate how often people will see the same movie.

Getting tickets for your friends for MoviePass is a whole separate issue (and clearly abuse). But is seeing the same movie more than once "abuse"? That's more debatable. But repeat viewings clearly happen.
My nipples explode with delight.
Thanks for the link! My first attempt at finding this by searching failed, so I left out any links of my own.
>the total amount of gold on this planet is finite
You confuse yourself with two qualities: Scarcity and Controlled Supply. The two are not the same.

>> Bitcoin's supply curve is programmed with time as the only input

>As far as I am informed, bitcoin mining farms also tend to be connected to the power grid.

The electric grid has no influence on the supply curve of Bitcoin. Do you accept the fact that time is the only input for the supply function? It does not matter if there is one miner producing bitcoin or if bitcoin's price is $1 or $1MM dollars the same amount of bitcoins are produced.

>Limited supply is by no means unique to bitcoin.

Again seems like you completely misunderstand the difference between scarcity (limited supply) and controlled supply. There's a finite amount of water on the planet (because there's a finite amount of hydrogen and oxygen on Earth) too, does that mean water would make for good money? No because water is easily synthesized from other elements. It has a very multivariable supply function.
And on many more you can not. It's getting increasingly difficult with that shitload of devices being on the market which while being so similar are so different. Even if you try to buy with that in mind and explicitly choose a well supported one there is no guarantee this holds true after some years. Either the next Android version breaks a lot of things or the handful of people who do the work loose interest or time to do it, often both.
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While technically awesome I've tried using it several times but always end up dropping it. I find it difficult to maintain and over time it's left to rot until I finally give up on it.

For me I don't actually need the complexity. A simple text based todo list would basically do the same job. The main issue is actually maintaining it.

This is why I like habitica more: https://habitica.com/

It's basically a gamified todo list which is perfect for me.

It's also awesome with helping establish new habits. The incentive of not wanting to break a streak is surprisingly strong. Nothing else has been remotely as successful.
> the company has also said that the goal was to prevent people from using MoviePass to buy tickets for friends who aren’t subscribers.
No, that says: If you choose to exercise your free speech on this one particular area, then the consequence will be severe. The result will be that most people would opt to follow the NDA, but you're still allow to say whatever you want.
That's the trick, right? In the year I was born, the signals that my mobile phone creates and decodes were impossible to separate from noise.

It's very hard to say how sensitive listeners might become given enough time for technological development.
That will result in a 4% revenue fine under GDPR rules if I read the correctly.
This is one of my pet peeves, people who boast about stumbling upon the correct solution and/or being first to something, but can't justify or backup their claim. Even worse is when they do the research afterwards to attempt to retrofit an answer. A derivative of this is when you have/know only one thing, but can't justify it in the absence of knowledge of the alternatives, but you still rally for it as if you were knowledgeable.

In math, if you only write the correct answer, you'll get a zero for not showing your work. In debate and discussions, there can zero, one, or more than one correct solution to a topic, and "showing your work" is often more valuable than having an answer, and answers can be right or wrong explicitly depending on your work.
Thanks for all the info! Glad to hear I'm not the only pencil-user on HN :)
I am a freelancer but fortunately I don't use such platforms so I can't answer your questions specifically.

But, there's a lot of talk about it online. Google for "upwork time tracking" and similar queries and you'll find heaps of people complaining. Upwork is just 1 marketplace that has apps like that.
They're already at 4/mo for new subscribers.
Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back–and Ubuntu has never been better
Well, it only looks pretty to you if you're into that type of thing. I don't think it would be hard to find people who don't think gold jewelry looks good. My point is that the utility is entirely dependent on the subjective experience of the user.
Did a job hunt last year for about six months and only got one bite. So, anecdotally, I'd say the market is quite thin at the moment.
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Retro gaming consoles still worth owning
Why does no one get that it takes lots of headcount to do ads and sales? According to another HN commenter they were pulling $170m in revenue and growing at a 30% rate. They had job listing ads from literally all the major companies and you need people to help close those deals.

People seem to forget that you need big sales teams to build a huge advertising business. Even companies like Google with self serve advertising products have 1000s of employees because closing big advertising deals with corporations requires big sales and operations teams.
If they were blended, the phrase would be “my hovercraft is full of eel”
The overhead of an HTML DOM for terminal text is substantial and unfortunate - but does it matter once you have a few browser tabs displaying typical "modern" web pages?
I agree, but if you're being realistic, retail is a cut-throat market where most people make their decisions based on price.

It's a question of what can be done. Again, you're already paying $12.99 for a $9.99 item, and $6.99-$7.99 for a $3-4 one.
How can you prove a hard delete.

And you can VPN within the EU..
I think most will just click through. I know I will. However there is probably a larger percentage of Europeans who won't compared to Americans.
You might take a look at Luigi again, it is pretty simple, once you realize its "scheduler" is really just a global task lock to prevent the same task from running on multiple machines or processes, at the same time.

The most onerous configuration you might have to do for a minimal setup, is to make sure your workers know the scheduler url, and that the scheduler is accessible to the workers. And of course, you have to do the actual scheduling yourself (e.g. cron).

That aside, there are few bits of infrastructure that are so quick and painless to stand up, IMHO. A database isn't even required (though desirable for task history).

This Mara project looks really cool too, though.
Speaking as a former mechanic for a salvage/maintenance shop, wealthy driver + high performance sports car on a long enough timeline is a casket on wheels. After a wreck cars are often sent to repair shops or tow/salvage lots to soak up the sun and wait for a bean counter to cut a check or send them to scrap.

'catastrophic loss' vehicles are a little different in that they are typically bought up by the salvage company, auctioned if assumed functional, or cut up and parted out. The latter is not a fun process as it involves a time consuming breakdown of the vehicles fluids, other consumables, and drivetrain often revealing some very gruesome accessories. Ive had an apprentice run screaming from a Cadillac because she found a crushed terrier inside the lower dash.

As for any electric vehicle, god help you if you're going to cut them up because most insurance carriers will tack on a hazard addendum for working on them. Prius batteries mean electrician tools and an arc-flash suit...and even then you're looking at a losing proposition if cells have been punctured or you have to cut out the armored cradle they sit in.

I worked with a shop tech that tried to drill the batteries out of a car and drain the acid into a pan. 20 minutes later we wound up with a metal fire so ferocious it consumed the jack stands and the parking brake.
Oh wow. I was just going off of wikipedia numbers. 5% retention rate then.