skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure your statement about the marginal cost is correct. This is a closely guided secret among studios and exhibitors, but the little anecdotal information that leaks out indicates that for well publicized major releases the studios want pretty much the entirety of the ticket price and the theater can only make money off of concessions. There isn't much room for moviepass in here.

Even for movies that are not as well popular and give more margin to exhibitors, it is very hard to see how you can accommodate moviepass and the crazy discounts they give. Lets take a person that sees about 4 movies per month which should be kind of usual for moviepass. That gives about $2.50 per showing. This has to be shared between moviepass, the theater and the movie owner. While before moviepass, only the theater and the movie owner could share $10.

I don't see how this does not end up severely impacting the profitability of the theater, the movie owner or both. I really do not see a win-win in the moviepass pricing model.
My approach was to take stereotypical schemas, populate them with nouns that are drawn from the same stereotypical set of actors, but in surreal ways, and then tweak them until they are right on the edge of bullshit. That one was originally "Although many people seek apples, few seek the banana", for example. So it's not too surprising they are close to the boundary of banal "profundities".
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And yet most arrondissements have densities similar or greater than Manhattan (28k / km2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrondissements_of_Paris#Arron...
Being addicted is not a weakness. Some drugs are stronger that any willpower.

When your doctor prescribes it to you like candy, it's really not the person's fault if he becomes addicted to it.

Please don't be ignorant and blame the victims.
But taller buildings equals wider streets to such a degree that the density you win by building high mostly gets eaten up by the lost real estate used for wider streets.
Just because the Albuquerque Police Department can't crack <insert secure messenger here> doesn't mean the NSA can't.

Interesting point about blending in, but I suspect they thought they could build a system more secure than the commercial options and/or didn't trust their security in the hands of a third party.
But what are the prices for rent/purchase? I can see it has less metro stations but still well connected.
That's actually incredibly complex - generally the way the revenue model works is that the Movie company will negotiate a certain percentage that depends on how old the movie is. So in opening weekend 100% of the revenue is probably going to the movie, but 4 weeks in the theater is probably taking 90% of the revenue. So yes, if you can fill those empty seats in the 4 week old showing you can make bank. But MoviePass has no mechanism for increasing sales of 4 week old movies particularly, they're just as likely to canabalize your existing week 1 sales.

Now I don't know what the Australian system is like but in the UK we have an insurance company from whom you can get 2-4-1 vouchers every tuesday if you're a subscriber. Well that solves the exact problem you're talking about - it incentivizes people to buy the tickets that don't normally get filled, whilst not providing any discount during premium times.
Almost agree to what you said.
Just a piece of more context: the 1st author wrote about connection between physics's Renormalization Group and Deep learning which was featured in [1] 4 years ago.

[1]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/deep-learning-relies-on-renor...
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if you want to jump through the interviewing hoop at a major software/tech company make sure you grind through a basic entry-level computer science algorithms course.

where i went to univerity (in australia) this would be something like "algorithms 1" as a second year course for students focusing on computer science or software engineering. you want to come out of it with a decent understanding of how to implement and when to use basic data structures (not that you should ever need to implement them in the real world, but its good to understand the fundamentals) and an ability to do informal (i.e. not formal mathematical proof) asymptotic analysis ("big oh" notation) for time and space complexity of algorithms. (on the other hand, if you ever took some math courses and soaked up epsilon delta or epsilon N formal definitions of limits, then you might enjoy the formal definition of big-oh stuff, but i dont imagine anyone is ever going to ask for a formal proof for a hands-on software dev/eng interview)

apart from some knowledge or intuition of when to use which data structure, which you probably need to use every day, you dont need to use the above in most actual industry software dev roles, but it does tend to get measured in software engineering interviews.

there's a reasonable amount of advice over in this thread -- look for the comments from people who have experience interviewing for the big K (for small finite K > 1): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17755688

A completely different angle is not to focus on the big tech companies, and instead focus on tech roles in large non-tech orgs, or delivering value to businesses that happens to be partially implemented using technology. there tends to be a much lower bar to entry in terms of needing to clear hoop-jumping technical interview processes (for better and for worse).
How Does Peggy Prove Her Age, Without Giving Away Her Age?
I have a friend that went to med school and has a back issue. He basically needs some pain killers 2-3 days a year. At one point he literally considered going to one of those shady pill mill "pain clinics" just to have something on hand for the rare cases he needed it.

Ive honestly considered looking into dark web markets for a different (non opioid) drug I was taking for 10 years consistently. Multiple doctor's kept trying to have someone else deal with it due to DEA paperwork. I once had a doctor actually say "who sent you here, did someone tell you about me?"... My response was "my insurance company and you are 3 blocks away from my apartment.". It was very awkward considering I said I would release any necessary medical records etc.
Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfast cereals
Especially in the US, deer are extremely destructive to any environment they appear in, with herds numbering hundreds of thousands and eating every crop they happen upon. They were allowed to grow that much, partially because we have killed their natural predators, but also because hunting them has been aggressively frowned upon for decades now. So any suggestion of culling the herds is immediately and fiercely met with groups protesting any sort of hunting, without offering any sort of alternative solution.
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London Stansted sees 4.5 percent increase y/y in cargo traffic in July
Helis are a maintenance, relyability and cost nightmare. You only use them when you have to.
Really depends on where you are. When you want to ferry people between huge parking lots, sure, go for it. But ferrying people between parking lots is a band-aid at best, compared to a real transit system.

Also, if above-ground space at the connected points is sufficiently cheap, you will usually find most of the connection to be cheaper above-ground as well.
It's a discussion directly comparing how two countries act towards the same crime. Don't participate in the thread if you don't find whataboutism helpful?

I don't have the strong moral reservations many have against drone strikes. Tactically advantageous, cheaper, no pilot at risk. Pretty compelling. But in their own way, they're terrifying specifically for the reason you mention: they are less discriminating.

You can think delibery shooting is much worse. And I can see how someone would feel that way. But I think a reasonable person ought to be able to understand how another reasonable person might see things differently.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/ev...
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Interestingly, this all is happening through legal routes. What would happen if hard drugs are fully legalized?

Another weird thing, there are already loads of deaths through overdoses in the inner city, but only now it is an epidemic? What changed?
I was thinking you could have an AI character play the level and that would reinforce that character's moveset.
Whilst I agree with you - this doesn't even seem like the important piece any more. The ludicrous policies are killing hundreds of thousands a year and making life hell for so many more.

It shouldn't even be a question about the morality of taking drugs or the hypocrisy of trying to stop it while carving out extensions any more - it's way more important than that.
Is there source code available? Would like to get this working on Firefox
> hanging around

You make them sound like junkyard dogs :)

Edit: Added smiley face to show I was merely amused by the phrasing.
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I find modern minimalist architecture depressing; the ceilings are low, tables made of glass, everything tends to be white (made worse by modern LED lights), there are no decorative features.
Big modern cities are designed to trick people into paying more money for a lower quality of life.
Mostly agreed, but that's not the issue right? Whether people are "alarmed" or not (to use your phrasing) by something has little to do with whether it's legal or not. The reason some, and I think most, people of certain views are not alarmed is not because the behavior is acceptable, or legal, but because the "victims" are. Engage in the exact same behavior with different "victims" and they would swap their views 180 degrees.

However, this is a major problem because people of both 'sides' of the issue engage in the exact same behavior, ignoring bad behavior when the victims are people they dislike. In our little parallel world where the victims are swapped, suddenly those currently "alarmed" by the behavior would be appealing to "Well, it's not technically illegal - so whatever." This results in bad behavior never being constrained because, so long as society is sufficiently divided, somewhere around half of people will be okay with even quite awful actions.

On corporations, I do disagree with you however. I see no reason to think that the trend of megacorps will end. On the contrary, I see no reason to think that they will not continue to grow in power and influence until they are effectively more powerful than governments and eventually may even begin to supplant governments as the effective ruling forces of the world, even if governments remain as a proxy.
thanks, I suppose adding HugePages might give me some memory bandwidth increase
Drug companies pushed for a higher dose "that lasts 12h/24h" (it didn't) instead of more moderate dosing that doctors wanted to do .
On the other hand, SV ecosystem is crippled with "fake it until we make it" mentality, and people doing PR stunts just to raise money and have fun while the illusion stands.

I do agree Elon has proved numerous time he isn't this type of guy, but we've seen failed projects, vaporwares and even crooked CEOs so often that you really can't blame the community for having a higher than normal level of skepticism.
This sounds like an obsession that is adversely affecting your life. If you had a painful tooth that was affecting your ability to relax, you'd see a dentist. If you had a leg injury that was affecting your life, you'd see a medical professional.

Do the same for this. Looking after your mental health is simply a sensible thing to do.
Can discrimination be positive? It seems by design the very concept is negative.
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I’ve been using plain Arduino and FastLED to drive 300 individually addressable LEDs as a Christmas ornament for the past 3 years. Super simple, and my kid can write his own patterns in C. Nowhere near this level of effort though.
I'm working on several medium sized LED projects and am curious if anyone has a guide or links to buying WS2812 or similar strands.

I've bought a ~10 of these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZHB9M6A/ref=oh_aui_sear... but I would love to find a slightly cheaper source. Alibaba seems to sell them at half the cost but product titles, photos, and descriptions don't ever seem to match
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> I'm sure there is a win-win there somewhere.

$15 popcorn.
> Thanks for your feedback, and I agree I might have been a bit too overwhelming with the questions!

Getting feedback is hard - but as with writing software, putting yourself in the position of the other person is crucial. If you can't do it yourself you need to find someone who can critically and honestly play that role.

If you saw a list of questions like that, would you keep reading after the first two?

> Regarding your email / username instruction in your profile, do you mean replacing HN with your username appended with a 1?

Make a choice and go with it.

>> Would you mind if your system becomes the system of choice for event organisers, but that event goers curse you at every stage of the process?

> Ideally, we would have both! :)

You usually don't have the luxury of getting everything, and hence need to make hard choices. What are your criteria and guidelines for doing so?

I remember in the middle of a company buyout having long discussions about the relative merits and drawbacks of two options. After a while my glance fell on the poster on the wall that proudly proclaimed our company's mission statement, a remnant of the out-going management, and something we'd agreed we obviously true and utterly vacuous. But in truth, it made one of the options impossible - the choice was made for us.

What are your policies? What do you use to guide your decision-making process?

These are rhetorical questions to make you think, they don't need answers here.
Discrimination, just as the Latin word it derives from, is a process through which you distinguish between multiple groups or people. Just like to discern.

The way you choose to to the distinction might be unfair: you either put someone at a disadvantage, or give them an unfair advantage.

Most usage was focused on unfair disadvantage but it can be either really.
I've spent the last four years learning the art and craft of LED art. I suppose I wouldn't change the way that I do things, but if I were starting out again I'd definitely use this. I can very much appreciate all of the work that this system takes off of my hands. The auto-recompile low-iteration-time is key. Very impressive!
I'm interested as well. Are the courses in English?
Late reply to say I immensely enjoyed this book. Highly recommended.
"Excavations of the Temple of Artemis in Central Greece"

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I made a macro for mail merge that allows additional options and flexibility compared to standard mail merge in Office. Also made a website (https://mailmergeplus.com) first time to host the files and a forum. The macro might be useful for Office users. If anyone is interested , please try the macro and let me know any feedback. You can reply here or on my site.
Bit harsh wording wise, but yeah I totally agree that’s a rough description of a community that made something neat.
"Unreal information - archaeology, history, science"

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Like an exception?
As someone who gets the train a lot (Brit) - the big expensive ones have to stop due to issues very frequently because of this head-of-line blocking issue. I'd say ~1/4 of the trips I take half a delay of some sort for this reason. (I am trying to make some effort to account for the observation bias of it being f*cking annoying.)
Security is a much larger field than what the game you linked covers.
Great site, thank you! Looking at the Falcon Heavy Roadster launch, is it intended that all stages have "Land success: x" even though just the center core failed to land?
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??? Are you for real? Just google "stoner movies".

Off top of my head: The Pineapple Express, This is the End, Harold and Kumar go to the White Castle, Jay and Silent Bob strike back.
The thing doesn't show anything for me on Firefox or Chrome on Linux.
Is this a generational disconnect? I have no negative connotations of the phrase "hanging around" (currently in college). Just curious.
Wish JetBrains would add these features to their IDEs. We need more literate programming today, not less.

I've tried Leo a couple of times and like the concept _a lot_, but never got on with the implementation.
Size of Paris: 104km^2 [1]

Size of Manhattan: 59km^2 [2]

Density Paris: 21,000/km^2 [1]

Density Manhattan: 28,154/km^2 [2]

Comparing arrondissements with a larger area like Manhattan is not good. If you compare Manhattan's wards with Paris's arrondissements you get a clearer picture:

11th arrondissement: 41.500/km^2 [3]

Upper Westsides 25th district: 92.400/km^2 [4]

Looks like the visual comparison of stories works out quite well with regards to density

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrondissements_of_Paris#Arron...

[4] https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1KH824f7Bya0UVv...
Ask HN: How to learn to sleep on your back?
Hi. Do you know any techniques, tricks etc. how to learn to sleep on your back? I tried yesterday night and after couple of hours I gave up. I was just about to sleep, maybe even sleeping a little bit but then I was awake. After few cycles I was so tired that I just turned on my side and slept like a baby till morning. I'm sure that my current position is incorrect because I have often pain in lower spine or headache so I'd like to sleep in a proper position eventually.

Thank you in advance for all your help!
It actually could cause bigger problems than that. Most Go projects I've seen have CI runs that check whether 'gofmt' complains -- and fail builds if they do.

Ultimately though I don't really care all that much. Everyone will fix it in a few commands, and everything will be green again.
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The CIA has a long and storied history of arrogance, incompetence, and letting down sources. The book, “Legacy of Ashes” provides an excellent readable, detailed history of the Agency since its creation, with tons of primary-source interviews and research.

(The title refers to a quote by Eisenhower, who left the Presidency disappointed at the “legacy of ashes” which was all he felt the CIA accomplished during his tenure.)
I mean, Trump is here because of despair too. Hillary promised "more of Obama", and the desperate people not benefiting from the roaring markets thought "I've been in misery for the past x years, she's promising more of that, the other guy is saying 'change', he might be full of shit, but what if he strikes it lucky, who do I pick, more of the same, or a chance of my life improving?".

Which is also why it was ridiculous that Trump (and his base) celebrated the latest GDP numbers, when on the ground the people were still suffering. And then we have Amazon, Uber, etc, "jobs"...
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17769810
Weed (now legal in several states and not related to overdose deaths) is a different prospect to opiates, though.
> This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation... but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
Floridian here - I was given 1 month morphine prescriptions for 6 months. I believe 1 month is the max. This was this year.
Not via CPU heating, but a theoretical AVX Spectre attack popped up on HN recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17711823
How is that possible? Wouldn’t there be more CO2 involved in producing the car compared to a few bikes?

Edit: Slight amend to point out there’s several bikes to each car (as it’s a carpool)
What is not covered here, and what I'm still searching for a good pattern for, is being able to return different errors depending on the type of failure.

Suppose you have a function that fetches a model from your database. It can return an error if the given user doesn't have permission to fetch this model, or it can return an error if your db connection barfs for some reason. The calling function needs to be able to differentiate between the two errors. Most of what I've read on the subject makes it seem like people prefer to only ever check if err != nil.

The two options I've seen in the wild are:

1. Create a constant for a given error, like:

var ErrFetchForbidden = errors.New("FETCH_FORBIDDEN")

Then the calling function can do:

if err == ErrFetchForbidden {
return 403
} else if err == ErrFetchNotFound {
return 404
} else {
return 500
}

2. Create a custom type for your error like so:

type ErrFetchForbidden string

this has the benefit that the errorer can put more specific info into the error besides the Error() string.

var err ErrFetchForbidden = "error retrieving the user object"
return err

and then the caller can switch on type

switch v := err.(type) {
case ErrFetchForbidden:
return 403
case ErrFetchNotFound:
return 404
default:
return 500
}

We've gone with option 2 for now, (wrapping them with the pkg/errors package) because it seems simpler. Anyone else have good patterns for handling this?
You are right I didn’t remember correctly.
Still 5 minutes to exceed the daily capacity of this loop is a quite good result I think.
Perhaps, I’m 30 if that helps.

In _this_ context it sounded very derogatory, as if they had nothing better to do and were just doing something likely useless or some such.
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I'm a bit confused with estonia, from all what I know - Oil is "cleaner" than lignite, why is the value so high for Estonia?
just as one example showing emissons of oil vs coal:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d666/1a01ee6a54f86fad283e46...
In addition to the issues around lack of industry familiar wtih apartments, many native NZers don't want to live in apartments as it doesn't fit their culture or way of life.
Almost every single comment I've seen on this page is about how the parent comment/post doesn't understand what security is about...
I'm not sure stoner movies are equivocal to increasing broader drug use generally.

Studies show that legal marijuana is associated with decreasing opiate prescriptions

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...
I'm going to have to give an upvote for this because I agree that calling 340 calories a meal is misleading
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