skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (another Bioware IP) might be an even better example -- the story swings rather dramatically on how you play the game, with the potential to kill (or save) multiple characters.

You get 30+ hours of ad-free gameplay (that's > 60 half-hour TV shows), PLUS the chance to replay and experience a new story. (Good) RPGs are the best bang for your buck entertainment-wise.
Personal income is taxed at 20% and collected by the central government no matter what. Half of that is then transferred to the municipality you're registered in. Personal income tax makes up approximately half of a municipality's budget and covers far more than only transport-related expenses.

Such scheme incentivizes municipalities to compete with other municipalities and offer their residents all kinds of benefits ranging from childcare to public transport to keep them registered there.
I don't think "main factor" is even a useful description. With billions of people on this planet, many will score high on brilliance. Steve Jobs could score equally highly on luck. Both could be entirely necessary for this level of success.
Awesome this was broken by local journalists
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Nor ones who use VPNs located in other countries.
Problem is, this spam the market approach yields a lot of crap content.

I realize this is anecdotal (feel free to ignore), but most times I open Netflix and go through almost everything they feature on the home screen...before turning it off because there isn’t anything that looks good.
> So not only is there a difference in shipping cost, but

> when it arrives at the border, their country makes it even

> more expensive for the customer... discouraging them from

> ordering from the US in the future.

Note that a customer living (let's say) in Europe is supposed to pay VAT on everything regardless of the origin, so it's not like the US company is treated differently.
In fact until recently it was the other way for online services (AWS for example) because some of them were not adding VAT, giving them an advantage to their European counterparts.

(Edit: this of course applies to final customers, for business customers it is a completely different matter).
The column name conflicts can cause no end of trouble later on as well.
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Netflix is an amazing testament to the fact that copyright does promote the creative arts. It started out as a mere middle man service trying to make a cut in the transaction between content creator and content consumer. But show and movie providers realized the true value of what they were licensing to Netflix, forcing Netflix to create its own, new content. The result is the best, most competitive market in television shows in American history.

Netflix never would’ve done all this if (a) they could easily just stream other peoples’ content, and (b) other people could easily stream their content. Instead, the logical business play would’ve been trying to leverage network effects and lock in to keep consumer eyeballs on their service instead of a competing service.
it's strictly about money
Something I'm glad they've taken advantage of is having episodes in a series with totally different runtimes - e.g. Master of None, episode lengths range between 22 mins & 58 mins. It really frees up the writing & directing to have more room to breathe.
China's claims are weak, but the United States Government's complete inability to prioritize has hurt their ability to confront China. That being said, China is alienating it's neighbors and they will depend on the USG to guarantee freedom of navigation.
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The article states that steam has never allowed pornography, but has allowed games with pornographic content (what the article describes as games that blur the line, like Witcher III or some graphic novels).

I don't see how this quote contradicts the article, it's entirely consistent with what they're saying. Valve has always had a policy that content that is merely porn is not allowed, but that they don't want to be in the role of policing games with pornographic content. This is an abrupt change from that.
Does Google use hg? “Yes and no. It’s complicated.” You can’t read anything into that?
>"I'm not sure I know what you mean about stack vs heap not making sense because of Python's memory manager. Will you elaborate?"

In Python everything is an object. Python gives you a reference to that object when you create it. There is no way to tell Python(CPython anyway) in which memory space you would it to create that object.
I thought that Google took a cut from every AdWords transaction - in which case the service is definitely not free. Is this not the case?

Edit: applies even if you're referring to the Nexus purchase.
> The Swedish city Uppsala introduced free bus rides for teenagers a couple (20?) years ago, and the experiment was cancelled after short period due to extensive vandalism - buss seats where destroyed, etc.

It's very weird then that it's free in Uppsala again this summer:

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/uppsala/gratis-buss-och-ta...

Headline translation: "Free bus and trains for young people this summer".

What year was this?
I had to stop watching The Walking Dead because of the endless commercial breaks. At least it reliably comes to Netflix. The spinoff, on the other hand, is missing the last season. I suspect it's because AMC is pushing their own streaming service with "watch the full current season now! Don't wait!"
This is a significant misrepresentation of the issue. The judge gave multiple reasons of which fairness was only one.

The other was it encourages strategizing in future lotteries as students will select spots that are 'good trading material' rather than their first choices which would undermine the whole system.
That's right, schools aren't really popular for this reason as there's very little grade-selection for university entrances. It's (with some exceptions) open to virtually anyone with the proper passing high school qualifications regardless of the specific grades.

Location isn't a big role as far as I know, except for proximity to population which might be more dense in some areas. But the ethnic background / socioeconomic class of the student body and staff is a major factor, as well as a preference for teaching method (montessori, dalton, ipad schools, bilingual education etc).
Hunger is a wonderful incentive for creativity and invention, and nobody would argue hunger is desirable.
You could also use excess energy to pull a vacuum in an external tank, then use that stored vacuum to quickly return the fridge to a near vacuum after opening.

Or maybe just build up the vacuum externally throughout the day until a certain time, then use it to pull the air out of the fridge for the night when it won't be opened and won't have power.
That's an interesting perspective.

I've never heard the argument that copyright promotes progress by making works inaccessible, thereby forcing new creations.
> but the reality is that most millennials, like most Americans, bank at the top four banks.

I suppose I'm willing to believe this claim, but I find it pretty surprising. In my social group, the commercial banks are viewed negatively almost to the point of stigma against using them. Everyone uses credit unions for their checking, and several credit unions in this area (Nusenda, Rio Grande, USEagle) are at least as convenient as the major national banks.

I think a large part of the perception of convenience comes down to the Credit Union strategy of federating services. An ATM network jointly operated by many of the credit unions in the region (CU Anytime) has a large fleet and has focused on placing ATMs in high-convenience locations like offices of major employers and college campuses. Co-Op Shared Branching means that you can walk into a branch of almost any credit union and they can access your accounts at your own credit union. And as for avoiding ATMs and branches at all - the online and mobile services offered by most credit unions are perhaps a bit behind aesthetically, but they work just fine, and the credit unions seem to have been offering free and easy person-to-person transfers for longer than the commercial banks have.

So what's limiting adoption of credit unions? I'm skeptical that it's awareness because the branches are everywhere and some of the larger ones around here purchase billboards and TV advertising regularly. Is there a feeling that they're more limited in their service offerings?
I think copyright has largely always been considered a good thing. The reason it's talked about derisively is that it's basically become infinite thanks to the likes of Disney. It was never intended to live that long.
Some publishers do better than others in that department. I can agree (from experience) that many run fast away from any dev work except for new plugins that return more data to the marketing and sales departments who come back with more requests for beating as blockers and direct ad insertion and the rest of it. It was very frustrating being somebody who knew how to build a better experience and see it rejected as bad business.

Edit: they have UX teams but they don’t leverage them because of a goofy allotment of any sanctioned development work to CAPEX which they never want to spend because they often have little of that but tons of OPEX. It drives the “just get it done” part of my mind crazy.
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Breedlove's approach has always been engineering with meaningful budgets. In the days of Spirit of America the most significant competition was Art Alfons who was more of a hot rodder and mechanic: he chained his first military surplus jet engine to a tree when firing it up in initial testing. Speed Duel is a good read on mid century history of the land speed record: https://www.fireflybooks.com/index.php/catalogue/adult-books...
> Two people engaging in consensual trade would be better off by the definition of trade.

Not if their swap implicitly makes everyone else worse off though; and this is precisely the claim that judges make, that you cannot simply isolate the effects of the swap without considering the global consequences of the state of the 'game', so to speak.
Yes it should be a feature in all databases
Speaking just for myself...I like that Slack has the same look and feel no matter what platform I bring it up on. I prefer a unified cross-platform experience over a unified platform experience. I want my OS to disappear. I am probably biased by regularly targeting multi platform myself.

This causes me to favor other lowest common denominator idioms as well, like python 2.7 over 3, unconfigured vim, bash on windows, etc. When this isn’t possible, I favor technologies that allow me to synchronize configurations across platforms quickly and easily.
Right. I forgot about all that already. Good lord.
> However I strongly suspect you're wrong -- people choose cheaper tickets all the time, they book specific trains in advance

We are talking urban transit here and not advance bookable trains. If given the choice of a 20% cheaper ticket but half the trains people would take the more frequent service.

Why take the choice away? Because more operators means fewer trains/busses/trams per operator as the infrastructure is generally limited. So in urban areas shared ticketing is what customers prefer.
Devices near the embassies can be explained in two ways and the US spying on foreign diplomats is a far more logical one.
Your assumption was pretty reasonable based on the public information. Honestly I’d love to talk about how Google does source control/ code review etc. because it’s actually pretty interesting at this point. You know... for some values of interesting.
Maybe you’re early. Can you PM me your MVP? This is a problem I will be encountering soon.
> are there developer/traditional employee jobs in Europe that can have a real office?

Yes. Maybe not every single developer; there might be two or three or four to an office, but it's still an office with walls and a door. There are companies with more open spaces and twenty developers to a room, but the (much) smaller ones are the usual case from what I've seen. ("Europe" is a big place, of course.)
Was early modern writing paper expensive?
I'm not talking about ads, I'm talking about interrupting the show.

I don't know if the Oreos thing was a product placement (though it seems likely), but if I'm writing a script or a screenplay, I probably have fewer mental gymnastics to hurdle through to inject Oreos into a script than I do to have to accommodate a show-break.

On the flip side, it's worth pointing out that it isn't either/or, as shows with commercial breaks may still include product placement, and not all of them are going to be as mightily integrated as Snyder's of Hanover was to Psych.
While this isn't a surprising tradeoff for the Netherlands, what does surprise me is the size of the tradeoff they are willing to make. Almost eight percent of the entire student body would be going to a not-first choice school as a result of stopping the trades. (Using the numbers in the article) That's quite a hit.

There are approximately 8,000 students per year entering Amsterdam high schools. According to the article, in 2015 when the new lottery system was introduced, 600 students would be able to attend their top choice school by swapping with someone else after the lottery.
Ask HN: Do you work in an unexpected industry?
Many of us work for startups, agencies, consultancies, or large companies where employing engineers is obvious or unsurprising. There are, however, jobs and industries where the requirement for our skills is not obvious. For example, modern washing machines, refrigerators, and farm tractors all require some code.

Do any of you work in an industry, or even a department of an obvious industry, that is unexpected? In what kind of ways are you required to apply your skills?
>"A full-featured numerical tower"

What is a numerical tower?
Oh you mean like you just did? Did you even get the reference?
Haven't played it (nor Mass Effect, actually) though heard good things about it. I have played SWTOR which is also BioWare and from what I heard from people who've played ME series you can feel that. If you play the class storylines, you end up with a more diverse MMORPG than something like WoW which is practically the same for every class -- until the last expansion, Legion, but still not comparable to SWTOR. SWTOR's user interface was laggy though (not sure if it still is) which made competitive PvP a joke. The raids were lackluster as well. But the stories, I can recommend those. Not to say the WoW storyline of Legion wasn't epic; but only once IMO. Not enough diversity.
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The barriers are nearly purely social - the unwillingness to drop C API (or to have a phase out plan) and to declare certain kinds of behaviors as "implementation dependent" make it very hard for any meaningful competition to emerge.

It is harder to make a fast python than to make a fast JS, but it's not that much harder.
So, you look at a bunch of book covers you don't like and call it "crap content".

I can't even count the number of Netflix shows/movies that the description didn't look all that appealing and the show absolutely was wonderful. Chef's Table was probably the biggest example. It looks like a cooking show. In reality is a beautiful documentary series about how world-renown chef's made their way.

Don't judge a book by its cover.
What would be some advantages of this design over the µKanren design [0] which uses a search monad [1] and expresses unification and relations directly as plain values and functions?

[0] http://webyrd.net/scheme-2013/papers/HemannMuKanren2013.pdf

[1] http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/ccshan/logicprog/LogicT-icfp20...
I'm not sure that's Netflix's doing, though. I remember reading a few years back that the market was trending towards TV shows. Apparently years ago, being in a TV show was seen as relatively low pay/low class, and at some point that switched. I do think Netflix helps competition, but I honestly don't know anyone whose favorite TV show is a Netflix original. I'd describe their content as good overall, but not on the level of AMC/FX/HBO just yet.
Equifax is a global company headquartered in America that operates in 24 countries, including 3 where people are covered by GDPR: UK, Spain and Portugal[1].

[1] https://www.equifax.com/about-equifax/company-profile/
The quote is awesome in general, but Jamie Lokier wrote a lot of pretty cool stuff.

It is more relevant today for the talkers on GitHub who take over projects for their personal gain.
I don't think other regions have as strong credit unions as your area. Certainly not in my area. I tried a credit union but the website was so bad I switched back to my big bank.

I very rarely even use ATMs anymore; mostly cashless. So ATMs don't even matter.
There are some great hidden gems. For example, India's Frontier Trains - fascinating.
>"He is the stately looking, pedigreed voice for a group of culture warriors who are working diligently to undermine mainstream and liberal efforts to promote equality."

While some liberals may pat themselves on the back in celebration of their efforts to "promote equality", the unfortunate reality is that their efforts often promote inequality under the guise of equality.

Consider "Women Only" Hackathons, which seem to be in vogue. These do not promote integration and cooperation between genders. They promote separation and isolation.

People like Jordan Peterson are manifested reactions to those who would think things like "Women Only" hackathons help promote equality.
Not everything should be organized according to market theories.
I think you overrate how big this is from a creator perspective. In large, because it is a return to previous standards, in many ways. Large chunks of content are not a new thing. If anything, the ads that we take for granted are somewhat the new flash in the pan. And like most flashes, pretty sure they flared out.

No, Netflix has managed to keep the requirement that a studio needs a ton of cash to produce something.

Youtube, on the other hand, probably has done a lot to change television. Shame it is changing back.
Not actually all that happy about this. They were striving for quality at first but now it's given way to quantity. I think the turning point for me is when they canceled Marco Polo. I no longer could count of Netflix to be better than the other guys, by allowing a show to come to a natural enjoyable conclusion. There is nothing worse than a show that ends mid-story. I simply don't bother to get involved in any show anymore unless I know it has had its due run.
>1) Usage might be "free" but ultimately someone somewhere is paying for it.

That is the definition of free.

Free always means that someone is paying for it. If I give you a book for free I still had to pay for it. The purpose of the word is that the receiver of the good didn't have to pay.
So how did this turn out? Did he show the code?
> However, very well engineered purpose built solvers still beat datalog engines by a large factor (again, no theoretical reason this should be true, but it is)

Sure there is a reason: Many applications, alias analysis in particular, only use a subset of Datalog. Subsetting languages very often makes for easier and more efficient implementation. If you know that there is no negation in your alias problems, your special purpose solver can be much more efficient than a Datalog solver that must be prepared to deal with negation.

Of course you might wish for a generic Datalog solver that you could run in a special mode where you promise that it will not encounter negation in the problem you give it. But that is then no longer a Datalog solver but a "well engineered purpose built solver".

As for the "built in" part, anything that is not built in must cross an API boundary and usually translate between different data representations. That is a theoretical reason for being slower.
Might I suggest Jupiter notebooks?

They are like mathematica, but don't suck.
I suspect the average number of stops must be factored into the schedule - such that if the bus stopped at only 50% of the shelters on its route the timetables would need changing.

(And of course sometimes a bus will stop when people want to get off, not necessarily because people want to embark.)
We need an excuse to maintain our massive defense budget.
In history we call this determinism. The more you know about a historic choice and the complex mechanisms around it, the more it makes perfect sense while at the same time leaving you absolutely clueless about the why.

Christianity being chosen by the Roman Empire is the typical example. To most people the choice makes perfect sense, because we look back at what it brought with it. But when you put yourself in the heads of the decision makers and look at all the options they had, well, it makes no sense at all.

A lot of machine learning tells us trends, but it tells us nothing about the why, and I completely agree with the article about how useless that data is. I mean, it’s probably great at harmless things, but when my elaborate online profile still can’t figure out why I happen to read a cultural, artsy but somewhat conservative news paper, despite the fact that my data shows the algorithm that I really really shouldn’t be doing that, well, then we simply can’t use ML for any form of decision making or even as an advisor. At least not in the public sector.
I really like Steve. But has he come up with anything meaningful after the Apple II?
> 2016 5,102

In my country (Brazil), the bank identifier used by several banking protocols is three digits. It's hard to imagine over a thousand separate banks in a single country.

(For the curious, the full list of identifiers: http://www.bb.com.br/docs/pub/siteEsp/compe/dwn/IFPCNC.pdf and http://www.bb.com.br/docs/pub/siteEsp/compe/dwn/IFPECNC.pdf)
There's no need to switch "accounts". All you need is account number portability, so you can switch over your direct deposit and autobillpay. If you have a low balance, you need a way to fallback, so the number can draw from both accounts, that's the hard part.

There's no need to do it in 2 days -- take as long as needed for securr setup, then use both accounts for a month.
The classic, low-tech (and sustainable!) way of adding thermal mass is to embed it in the ground and leverage the thermal mass of the earth around you; seemingly pointed out by comments [1][2] that haven't gotten as much traction as ones discussing high-tech. Then you don't have to cool nearly as much. Talk about over-engineering.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17107254 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17107439
Come on. Watching a film vs. a movie isn't a technical term, it's something that everyone uses all the time, and the dictionary disagrees with your pedantry. You're just wrong here.
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