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When I came into this thread I was expecting nothing more than the title question, and anecdotes as responses.

However, the question body is a deep survey over various details of our lives, and you're not even putting internet reputation at stake. It seems inappropriate to ask so many questions. The language as it changes towards the end also invokes distrust. For example,

> Please, don’t post if ...

You ask so much of us and still you put conditions over who you want to listen to? Really? It doesn't sound like a favour, anymore.
Did No Starch contact you at all prior to the bundle?

I've always vaguely wondered about the economics of these bundles. As a consumer I love them, but I'm sure quite a few publishers and, more importantly, authors might feel like they devalue the content a bit too much.
I'm also in my early 20's.

I think children are by nature more impulsive, and if they have access to Netflix at a young age without enough parental restrictions they might start down a bad path. When they're older it's easier to contain.

That's part of the reason for age restrictions on drugs/alcohol. Some drugs aren't all that different from dopamine inducing digital stimuli. The prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for self control, isn't fully developed until age 25.
Game is only going to get tighter too. Now you have sports moving into the streaming era, Disney launching something soon, etc.

The time of even more fragmented streaming offerings (and more selection) is soon.

Comcast is an interesting study here too. They are pushing ip based linear TV hard right now. I don't like the company, but they seem to know what they are doing.
I don’t find this useful. I really just want for my kids to watch one episode and then we can decide if we want to do something else.

I also find it infuriating that when we watch a kids film, your immediately shown a preview for another film during the credits.

I get it, but I wish there was an option to turn them off.
Bit of a side note - the second example site (Expressini) doesn't work, and the third one has a really blurry hero image.
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Secret City seems to have been bought off Foxtel in Australia about 2 years after they aired it.
Kyllo v United States created a bright line test: new technology used to view "details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion"[1] count as a "search" if and only if the technology is not "in general public use"[2]. Since the general public does not generally use technologies for detecting trace amounts of specific chemicals, this should require a warrant.

Current technologies that are heading towards losing 4th Amendment protection might be IR thermal cameras and trigger-word based audio recording (Alexa et al). The general public is increasingly using both of these technologies. When someone convinces a judge the "general public use" threshold has been crossed, the technology in general (not just a specific product) can be used without a warrant.

[1] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/533/27.html

[2] Ibid.
Has Netflix dropped the bitrate on 1080p versions of shows? I don't remember it looking this bad.
Storage is cheap enough these days that each of my computers has more HDD space than I need for my whole Dropbox, so I don't have a need for a "true" external drive. I primarily use it as a backup and secondarily use it to sync across machines. Every file of importance lives in my Dropbox directory, so when I'm working on a project or something I don't even have to think about backups. If my apartment building burned down or all my drives simultaneously died, I wouldn't lose any data. And if I ever need to glance at some file away from home I can always do so.
Almost everybody on arXiv provides their LaTeX source which let’s us do things like this: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com
> for every Altered Carbon you have a half dozen utterly forgettable shows

That's no different from regular TV. We were spoiled in the early years of Netflix streaming because they could cherry-pick license all the good stuff from earlier for cheap. Now they have to go on the same "fund a bunch of stuff, discover some hits" journey that all the other content producers have gone through.

On the plus side you can watch anything you want on demand, there are no ads, and the website and apps are fast. And you don't have to pay $100/month for a cable bundle with shitty customer service.

If there's some show or movie I'm really missing, my local public library does a great job of filling that need.
I think a lot of the negative energy comes from that startup-frustration that many in Silicon Valley feel. Every idea sucks unless they came up with it, because nobody wants to be left out of the next Facebook, Uber, etc. That attitude permeates everything.
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Without being overly familiar with that specific tactic, on the surface I think it is actually much more benign.

Incentivizing users to add their first file and install it on their phone (where it will likely want to slurp up photos, videos, etc. to back them up there) isn't a bad thing IMHO. It drives immediate engagement with the core product experience, and I'd be shocked if they didn't have data saying that people who upload at least one file and have the app installed on their phone convert to paid at some rate above people who don't. Thus, by incentivizing that behavior, they can likely boost conversion rates AND make users happier by getting more familiar with the service. Sounds like a win-win scenario to me. I wonder how many users sign up but don't ever use Dropbox.
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Yeah, I felt completely useless in the beginning. It wasn't fun at all but then it suddenly clicked and I started improving. Now I feel like one with the car and can pull of stuff I would only dream of (air dribbles, ceiling shots etc).

Also, RL has become my favorite esport by far. The problem is that unless you've tried the game you don't realize how crazily good the pro players are. Things that wows me don't impress my non-RL friends at all.
Yes, I’ve also noticed that generally their original content isn’t very great. I can see how this happens when you optimize for binge-watching, but it feels like they just throw a lot of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.

I’ve recently got an HBO subscription and the difference in quality is staggering.
And human beings, and good luck convincing anybody to jump into one of those things...mostly because doing so is more or less dying.
Qatar Airways confirms $1.7B order for five 777 freighters – Air Cargo
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Thanks! That really helps me to understand Twitch.

For a while I had gamer friends who lived just down the street. It was much more enjoyable to hang out and watch them play than it would have been for me to play their games. I just didn't have the time to invest, so my main experience of AAA games was 20 minutes of flailing at level 1 while asking which buttons did what. It was way more fun to watch them kick ass and zoom through the game.
My wife and kids are constantly pushing me to call my friends and arrange hangouts with them. It is not that I am anti-social or particularly introverted.

I genuinely love my friends and love it when I hang out with them - however I just always seem to be busy doing stuff and never really realise that I haven't called any of them for many weeks. It is just not in my nature to reach out randomly to see if someone wants to hang out.

I think a lot of it is to do with how I was raised - I think it was ingrained in my psyche that it was 'rude' to call upon people and better to wait until they called you. To reach out was seeing a impolite or possibly interrupting their important work, I think. Funny how those little beliefs/lessons when you are a kid tends to follow you into adulthood.
Saving everything into Dropbox is just so incredibly easier than trying to manage and keep track of and not damage an external drive.
Hey hey hey. What's wrong with Kahneman?
How millennials are driving cashless revolution in China
Cells might be worth transporting. Although the DNA can be sent as data and reconstructed, de novo reconstruction of the rest of the cellular machinery needed to run the DNA might not be practical.
> The ship's velocity can then be represented by a rotation of the axes; the rotation of the time axis is shown in Figure II. (Readers who find Figure II puzzling should recall that a diagram of an imaginary axis must, of course, itself be imaginary).
It doesn't sound like snake oil. It does seem like you are actually building AI solutions, and guess what, you said it yourself:

"this is totally fine by me, because it's really interesting and fun"

The founder needs to do what he has to fund the dream while it is still amorphous. Once you've done enough consulting, hopefully you will be able to re-use some of what you've done over time, and start focusing on a single problem area and building that 'engine' - that is, if you stick around long enough for it to be realized (and dont run out of money first)
Inside America's Aging Nuclear Missile Submarines
The Voynich manuscript
Also pull requests for pork! SCNR.
Seriously, though. Given all the things drug addicts often do if driven to them, is it wise to give them an incentive to, say, poop into a bag and eventually throw it into someone else's trash?

I was wondering whether the technology was at the level where it could track it down to an individual. Struck me as implausible, but then the article says "policing" and that it was successfully used to "help track down" a manufacturer, but further thought shows that "help track down" might just mean "it helped narrow it down to a neighborhood" or something.

I'm sure they wouldn't install in every apartment things that take samples at every different tenant's toilets. But they might take very broad samples, and then, when they find positive results in one area, they could add more sampling to its sub-areas, and narrow it down progressively, and eventually say "We now have cause to search the rooms of everyone in this apartment building for drugs".
Forget the repair industry, this would be NSA level interest. No one is going to repair your computer using the zero day of all zero days.
Well, it's complicated, but maybe 25 years.

Here's a reference that's totally on point:

http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/Developer...

"An Evaluation of CubeSat Orbital Decay" - everything you wanted to know (and more!) about the topic.
In soccer you often see the coach standing on the side of the pitch trying to do an imaginary heading of the ball when one of his players has a clear opportunity to score, as if he's playing himself. Our brain is funny sometimes.
I have a big archive of family photos (130 GB and growing) that I’d like to share with my wife in read-only mode.

She only needs Dropbox for a bunch of documents, so paying an extra €10 per month is not something we can do.

Dropbox is a fairly expensive service. I’ve used it for years however I can no longer defend my choice.

Extended versioning is gone. Expiring sharing links are gone from Plus, so I have to pay €20 per month for it ... yes they grandfathered old accounts, however I made the mistake of trying out Pro and their Support refused to reinstate my old Plus account.

Want to search your documents? Pay €20 for Pro. Which wouldn’t be bad, except that their search is terrible.
And I could not get their support to admit that they aren’t indexing all my documents.

Just to get an idea, they aren’t indexing all PDFs (that Google Drive is indexing just fine) and they aren’t indexing text files with a .log extension either. A comparison with Google Drive isn’t even funny as GDrive does text recognition on images, indexing everything.

Speaking of Dropbox’s support, I’ve never been more frustrated in my life as the only issue they’ve ever solved for me was a refund, which they had to provide by law due to me being an EU citizen.

All in all, I ended up paying €20 per month for link sharing I had in Plus, broken full text indexing and piss poor support.

Also they keep pushing collaboration features but I wonder for whom. I don’t think they’ve thought this through. If Dropbox is no longer a good place to keep my photos then it stops being a good service for sharing work items with colleagues.

Do they hope for Dropbox to become a service imposed by management? Probably, however in that space they are competing with the likes of GSuite and we already have GSuite for email. And Extending that to the Business edition that gives you Unlimited space is much cheaper than going with Dropbox.

I’ll grant that Dropbox’s desktop sync is the best in business. But I can deal with the warts of the others.
> The UK Space Agency said the site in Sutherland was chosen as it is the best place in the UK to reach highly sought-after satellite orbits with vertically launched rockets.

Does anyone know what they mean by this? Usually rocket launch sites try to be as close to the equator as possible so why did they pick such a northerly location this time?
If you like vinegar-based, try Cholula. I'm really enjoying it.
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I think the growth stall in this quarter is the lull before the storm.

Netflix has enough India specific content in the pipeline, and only one of these “made by Netflix” series has been released yet.

If there is one thing Netflix does good, it is the focus on content that is relevant to the region, without compromising on the language and characters.

Another recent thing in India, is the plunging broadband prices in India, especially wireless (4G LTE, 2 GB per day, for 89 days costs less than $10 <head explode?>).

Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming video options are going to get more signups soon, especially from the younger population that may not have a TV at home, but will certainly have a smartphone and/or a laptop. For them, Netflix is certainly a cheaper option, especially if you divide monthly cost of the top tier plan ₹800 by 4 = ₹200 which is certainly bang for the buck compared to cable tv, that you can watch only at home.

The only disadvantage for Netflix is for those who prioritize watching sports, which is still a major reason for people to subscribe for cable.

Until the recent price war on 4G/LTE/5G pricing (in early 2018) that has led to dirt cheap wireless internet access, I thought Netflix in India was a wrong move. With such cheap internet access, Netflix and other streaming video platforms certainly have a huge growth phase from the next quarter onwards.

Watch out for Netflix growth numbers over the next few quarters in India. I'm extremely bullish of Netflix in India and I'll be shocked if Netflix fails to grow from here onwards.
Verlet Simulations
It would help to give some specific examples of threads or comments you think are hateful.

The more active HN users, with the support of the moderators, are quite vigilant about downvoting or flagging nasty comments.

Can you give any examples of nasty or mean comments that appear high up in the comment thread and/or without being faded or flagged?

The whole idea of Show HN is to encourage people to build interesting things and get feedback to help them improve their project and/or skills. So, constructive criticism should be welcomed whereas meanness should be weeded out any time it appears.

If you're seeing mean comments in Show HN posts, you should flag and downvote those comments and consider reporting them to the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com.
Perhaps that's the great filter before us: can we learn to appreciate sans ownership?
Well, this is funny.

I ask:

Are Tokenized Securities like lending? Are there any sort of borrowing interests?

Cause I haven't read the Bible (neither I'm religious), just googled it. But, isn't this like the beginning of a new economy? Are you a_d like the bad guys in the Bible fiction?
Is 2000 years some universal cycle period time?

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-lending-money.html

A lot of people is going to lose a lot of money with this new betting game. Big Crypto holders will continue keeping their cryptos.

Well, it's going to be funny as hell to watch it.

But remember:

- Angry people might eventually go after yourselves, violently, once they lose all their savings.

Not me, I will be partying in Mallorca next week, with local friends. Spending money earned the classic way: WORKING.
Personally, I liked the voice. The posh accent fit the educational video component, while the synthetic, glitchy nature fit with Minecraft and the comedy of the whole thing.
s/you/politicians. And your original comment implies you agree with it.
I can't do scary either - what's the Last of Us stream and can I start from the beginning?
You might be making a joke, but much of the stock market is driven by herd mentality.
Parents love to see kids indulging their interests/hobbies. I'd be very excited if my daughter made a computer program to tell me where she was. That doesn't mean we wouldn't ever have another conversation.
I think you're raising a fair point. I was won over by the distinction of scientific versus engineering progress. The idea being that scientific progress had to have added something to our scientific understanding. An example I used in a sibling post was how you don't necessarily learn more about ballistics if the only way you could hit targets was a more powerful gun.

That said, I have to grant that is probably too reductionist. I think I like the idea, as it is just trying to be specific with types of progress, but I don't know if that is an accepted standard, or just one being proposed.
resistances to change.
"It seems pretty obvious that what we know about is the barest sliver of what was actually going on tens of thousands of years ago."

It doesn't seem to be obvious to most highly educated people I know. From their perspective, the history of humanity might as well be only 5,000 years old, they rarely open up to any kind of interest in the fact that ancient civilizations from 3K-5K BC considered _their own civilizations_ to be degraded forms of much earlier civilizations.

It is also completely off the boards to discuss the potential of rapid techtonic shifts periodically erasing human societies. There are quite a few underwater cities in ruins, and of course myths and legends of even larger ones. But they don't get much play.

Importantly, cultures with oral traditions are much more capable of recording accurately details from 10,000+ years ago: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/australian-stories...
I don't understand your point about putting internet reputation at stake. If someone well known and respected asked this question here and people responded earnestly and completely the information is still public and could be accessed by me or anyone else. Thus, the risks are the same regardless of asks the question, aren't they?

As for the length and quantity of the questions, I was just trying to help people think through their responses and specify what I'm interested in learning. The "please don't post if..." part is because whenever I've mentioned IQ in this context there's a huge backlash and every rushes to talk about how it's not important. I wanted to avoid that, but I can see how it rubs people the wrong way.

In the end, this seems a lot more like evoking dislike rather than distrust. The two don't correlate in my brain. I've met many charming people who were not trustworthy and plenty of off putting people who are highly moral. Maybe, I'm really not getting something though.
> Why would Disney or Comcast want Netflix to fail when it's a boon for them currently?

See Pandora for a lesson in what happens when a content distribution company has no pricing power with their suppliers (content producers). Note that Spotify has been paying attention. [1]

1. https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/spotify-expands-its-push-i...
I think the market overreacted a bit. They have been growing for so many years, there is bound to be a quarter here and there where growth stalls.

Having said that, I feel Netflix's biggest problem is content discovery. They have the best multilingual content that can be consumed globally like Narcos and Sacred Games. Yet they make it really hard to find such content. Their categorization is weird and not easily understandable. But what really bothers me is that their content preview is just a short paragraph. So you are asking viewer to watch 10hrs of content based on a short paragraph ? I would prefer a lot more info about a particular show before I commit to it. Info such as critics reviews, rotten tomato and IMDB rating, popularity in native country, more detailed description of the show, similar shows, etc etc. Basically I have to go ask r/television about a particular series or movie on Netflix before I start watching. I am pretty sure this leads to a lot of user frustration and ultimately cancellation
The F-23 would have looked fantastic in my opinion [0]
Too bad it wasn't chosen...

0: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Northrop...
Pretty sure Slackware was the first or second Linux distribution that I tried while I was still in High School in the States. I was attracted to it because it was simple and straightforward, with the packages consisting of tarballs and the distributed packages being very close to vanilla with a minimum of distro patching or customization. It was easier to build stuff on. Didn't hurt that it was relatively svelte, either. I had a terrible connection (33.6 kbps).

My thanks for all their efforts. I learned a lot about Linux from playing around (poorly) with the distro. We've come a long way since then (the 90's). Happy Anniversary!
The criteria I would look for:

• A track record in guiding early stage products or services. The early days are as risky and ambiguous as it can get. Someone solidly aware of that going in is valuable.

• Multi-disciplinary. Highly probable that the first few employees will need to wear multiple hats and be able to shift between roles comfortably and as needed. It may not be coding, but ideally it is something tangible and measurable - e.g. the ability to PM a project or being comfortable enough to lead design/UX. Conversely, someone only willing to handle a single discipline - sales, fundraising, marketing, PR, etc. - will have limitations that become obvious right away.

• Domain expertise. May not necessarily have to be down to the exact problem domain but some level of familiarity helps in hitting the ground running.

• Comfortable as a distributed team. Since you brought up the location issue, it would probably help to have someone experienced in working virtually. Communication becomes even more crucial if you won't be interacting outside of a screen on a regular basis.

Where I would look:

• My network and extended network.

• The thankless, yet tried and true method of "pounding the pavement" and networking in person. Having "Terminator Vision" here using the above criteria is invaluable (there will be a LOT of noise to filter out).

• I'd consider looking around for past startups in a similar space that may not have worked out. Perhaps individuals from those teams still have that "itch."
Jokes are often used by victims of opression as a way of relieving their pain and expressing their greivances.

Sometimes the most tactful way to communicate a terrible truth to someone who who is unwilling to confront it is to make them laugh about it.

Dave Chappelle - Police Brutality (2000)

https://youtu.be/VFHpvPwq2i8
The systems at Amazon are too large to leverage autoscaling. When I was there (in Marketplace) it was generally estimated that Amazon used about 80X the capacity of their entire AWS public cloud.
A seed universal constructor would be worth transporting. If that is a machine or a ship with cryogenically frozen human of all ages is a topic for another day.