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Problem is, it's nigh impossible for a tech company to "strike deals with all the theater chains," be they sweetheart or not so sweet. The movie theater biz is one of the most inept around, stuck in the 1950's in terms of its business model.

I did a tech startup that tried to bring social/mobile/local tech to the movie theater experience, and the theaters balked. They fear technology. It took a decade of fearmongering for theaters to fork over millions to buy digital projectors. The last thing they want is tech that will empower moviegoers.

What you discover with the "exhibition industry" (what theaters like to call themselves) is that they are in the fast-food business. Popcorn, soda, candy, junk food: this is what the theater sells. The movie is there just to bring you into the building. But what they want you to buy is the concessions. Without the movie nobody in the world would wander into a theater and order a popcorn and a soda for $12 or whatever.

When I spoke with exhibitors, I found them to be like realtors: really paranoid, untrusting of their competition, and particularly untrusting of uppity little tech startups (can't really blame 'em, I mean, if a tech startup ever gets successful they tend to wipe out everything in their wake--witness Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Craigslist, etc.)

Despite the fact that we had built an app that presented a compelling case for a $1 billion or higher bump in annual U.S. box office revenue--we basically came up with ways to get more people to go to more movies more often--the exhibitors would have none of it. They didn't trust it, they wanted nothing to do with it. ESPECIALLY if their competitors in the same city had the same tech. The idea of a mobile app that empowered moviegoers to get alerted to every moving coming, and track upcoming movies after you indicated you liked the trailer, and tracked your favorite stars/directors/etc, and tracked the reviews of your favorite critics, and tracked what your friends were planning to go see, none of that meant diddly to exhibitors.

It was the craziest thing I've ever seen.

The way theaters are trying to survive now is by focusing on what their core competence is: food. Notice how many theaters now sell hamburgers and pizza and sandwiches, and beer and wine, and so on. You go to a movie now, you may be set back for $30 in meal fees per person easily. For an exhibitor, that's nirvana.

Nah, MoviePass was doomed from day one.
I’ve been in similar positions, but you can’t blame IBM — the situation that you found yourself in has everything to do with decision making at your employer.

You could tell the same story or worse about Oracle, HP, etc. The difference is that IBM’s strategy of tying hardware to solutions has kept it viable far longer than its competitors.

I’d argue that Microsoft is worse — at least IBM treats your boss’ boss to steak and golf. Microsoft burrows in with bundled ELAs. The annual cost to carry support + maintenance on some products is going to be as high as 39% of product price!
At which point it's $26/mo if you go to see two movies. Hardly a deal even in LA or NYC.
As the home site I used to go to for the hacking zine Phrack, it seems very appropriate they would do this. The courses though seem more generic than I'd expect. I tried to find the old gatech.edu site for phrack to ad the url here, but all I find now is phrack.org.
Thank you, this was an incredibly understandable explanation.
Having Disney content available on all those other distribution channels makes their streaming service less compelling though. Whereas if you want to watch a Netflix series, you sign up for Netflix.

Also, Netflix is building a huge content catalog that has value outside their streaming ecosystem if they decide to leverage it that way. They could do theatrical releases and let cable do reruns of their shows. Maybe they will some day. But for now I think they see the greater CLTV in keeping that content exclusive to drive (and retain) monthly subscriptions.
If by "tech" you mean programming, then it's not likely you will get a TN for a programming job with a Physics degree. Your degree has to match your job, and Physics won't pass for Programming.

Trump may get rid of TN visas anyway. Getting an H1B from Canada and not working for the company in Canada is basically impossible since you need to be hired before April so that you can try for an H1B via lottery, but you couldn't start working until October.

Your best way to get in is by getting a job with a US company in Canada and then transferring to the US. Or you can go get a Master's Degree at a US university, get internships, and then a subsequent job afterwards via OPT.
there's actually a way to do this with OAI, you just have to configure the html5 routing stuff using CloudFront distribution rules instead of configuring the S3 bucket as a static website. As a nice side effect, you can also enforce https<>https<>https communication all the way through the S3<>Cloudfront<>world chain, which isn't possible to force when the S3 bucket is configured for static site hosting.

I have about 75% of a blog post about how to do this, it's not terribly complicated. This comment just gave me the motivation to finish it, I'll post it on HN when it's ready.
While we're talking Unixisms, Windows needs a dup2(2). That is, given a HANDLE, you should be able to swap out its backing kernel data structure with that of another HANDLE.

Without this, I/O redirection is slightly broken. Last I checked you can't change where stderr goes after the process starts, for example. [SetStdHandle doesn't do it at the right layer.]
Netflix has been losing third-party content very rapidly for a while now, but users seem to be sticking regardless. Scrolling through their front page right now I'd say a good 80-90% of shows I see are Netflix-produced, and it isn't going to be hard for anyone to find something that is good enough to watch.
What the hell do you mean "surveys"? You don't need "surveys" to tell you how many violent crimes there are in a year. We have actual statistics. And the numbers are not in the millions. Stop pushing lies.
Hmmm.

MSDN doesn't really say much about AllocConsole(), if that's the right function: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/allocconsol...

If AllocConsole does behave in the way you say (which I understand it may{, not}), then the documentation sorely needs updating, because right now that bit of functionality (if it is there) is rather implicit.

It would be really cool to effectively deprecate the current console functionality and make it relatively straightforward to use the PTY API going forward, adding the bits people need to support use cases like this (allocating a console when/as it's needed).

Perhaps Visual Studio could introduce a new template for commandline applications that targets the PTY, and put "(Recommended)" next to that one? :D
> what does that have to do with p1-3 though

FTA

> Documents seen by The Intercept, marked “Google confidential,” say that Google’s Chinese search app will automatically identify and filter websites blocked by the Great Firewall.

This part does not make much sense. It's simply impractical.
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While the two were outside talking about how upset Katie was, she went into the bathroom, put the barrel of Robert’s .308-caliber hunting rifle below her chin, and pulled the trigger. When Robert kicked in the locked door, he found his little sister covered in blood. “And her face is gone,” he recalled

Who puts a loaded hunting rifle in so accessible way in their homes?
That (to my complete layman's eye) seems reasonable, but is it really much more than shuffling labels around? It seems the 'deeper' mystery remains: what is going on at the fundamental level of reality? (Or, in other words, why do our observations have these properties?) Whether or not that question is answerable -- or even meaningful -- I think we'll always be driven to ask it.
Wow. I remember the photo miniksa posted to GitHub when this was in process:

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/111#issuecomment-238...

Awesome to see it's finally up and running! \o/
One of those things isn’t like the others. Profitable and having a buyer are factual. Sustainable is a forecast, and you can definitely be wrong about forecasts with investors. That’s kind of the standard outcome.
Ask your library if they've considered a cafe. I suspect that your local library board would be quite happy to have someone interested come to their board meetings, and I guarantee that cafes and other ways to increase patronage our regular topic for anyone involved in libraries.
She shot herself in the face.
Most vulnerabilities include or source from some sort of poor software engineering though, which may root from said issues, among other things. Most of these vulnerabilities (including some hardware vulnerabilities) are discovered and exploited with clever, creative software engineering / exploit development.

I know cybersec is extremely broad, but I think software engineering plays an extremely important role.
H3 has advantages in the analysis of the gathered data. Movement of users between cells is guaranteed to go through edges instead of points, so you can do flow analyses with electric current modeling.

A hex grid is the most efficient way to pack circles and is therefore the best "pixel" type to approximate radii, so simply choosing a hex size best matching the desired query radius can give you a very fast nearest-neighbor approximation.

And H3 retains all of S2's good features like hexagons following a curve (not the Hilbert curve, though) so hexagon IDs of similar value will more than likely be near each other, making range queries from a database still useful.
The emphasis on humor in Mozart and Beethoven is interesting, particularly since it seems almost absent in the later Sonatas. I remember hearing Martha Argerich note that it's present in early Beethoven, and then disappears in Chopin and Liszt, and then reappears a bit in Ravel, but truly with the Russians. I would be interested in whether Brendel distinguishes between the ironic humor (Mediant vs Dominant) and any other types.
> Fact 1: Google only pulled search business out of China. adsense/adwords/maps works fine in China

YouTube and Gmail also don't work in China, which are significant. They technically didn't leave China, however, because they never entered it.

> Fact 2: Search engines are more and more irrelevant these days. All interesting new content are either from Weibo or Wechat (or other closed garden)

I think you mean to qualify that with in China?

> Fact 4: Firewalls in China has a hierarchical layers of blocking

Most of the western-world web moved to HTTPS specifically because China was inspecting plain text packets. It was interesting to watch the change over happen from 2008-2011.
I have not bought a MacBook since they introduced the Touch Bar. It offends me that they got rid of it, and I refuse to pay money for their laptops until they offer me one without it. I'm about to switch entirely to Lenovo and never looking back if they don't make one without a Touch Bar by 2019.
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Was going to say the same. Yup, it maximizes everything by default, it was designed for small screens so it does have a titlebar but it's very small.
Worth notice is that, foreign companies are forbidden to collect its own map data in China, let alone something like Street View.
A horrible act, but I don't see how it is worse than the war in Iraq.
EFF complains about this ONLY because EFF partnered with Google https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/work-eff-summer-apply-....

You don't hear Mozilla or Apple complaining about Google returning to China though. I am not really sure why Google matters in China and how this matters to anyone. You enter someone's country and you ought to obey the local laws there. Just as Chinese companies entering U.S. need to respect U.S. laws. There is no conflict of interest. It's simply a business decision. If people really care about privacy and what not, Google wouldn't have 50,000 engineers today. It would be like 1/3 gone at least. But why so many Googlers are staying anyway? I don't have to spell the answer but I will: $$.

So let's not pretend we are not guilty of being an enabler. To come clean, one must be totally out of the whole Google business. This means Googlers should all quit - but trust me, most people won't, even though they cheer others to stand up. I am not being cynical at all, just being realistic about hypocrisy and reality.
> Eight years after Google initially took a stand against Internet censorship by exiting the Chinese search market

Wried, don't just mention the censorship reason. The bigger picture is [0][1]:

1. China government demanding content deletion by "Red-Header Files" (Government document) rather than law (As it will make the censorship too apparent), and it's violated Google's policy. NOT because of Google is an anti-censorship enthusiast as many people think they are.

2. During that time, Google (including Gmail) also under attack (with possible internal help) by a group of hackers who Google claims are sponsored by the government.

Now, 8 years later, things changed a lot. Especially after the implementation of the China Internet Security Law (中华人民共和国网络安全法)[2] which makes censorship a public responsibility ...

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/google-china-attacks/

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/google-pr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Internet_Security_Law
Individuals too, there seem to have been by Chinese standards extremely high fines issued related to OSM.
So, let's say your new "Whip the Pissers Act" gets signed into law. Congratulations, there are now public floggings of irresponsible, indifferent young men, and many of them do change their ways. But there are also public floggings of the homeless. Awesome.

Or does your law somehow codify "indifferent and irresponsible" as a condition of the crime?
Because the original implication was that state actors don't target civilians.
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Why are we going as far as China? Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, among others need to come clean about their censorship of conservative voices right here in their back yard. All the folks who rallied for net neutrality are now cheering for the coordinated Big Tech assault on free speech. This needs to be talked about. Agree or disagree with the voices they are silencing (ie. Alex Jones), what is happening these days is a dangerous precedent.
I agree that the U.S. is way more democratic than China. My argument is that the wars that the U.S. has started have been way more damaging to the world and, as a consequence, moral objections to doing business with China without having those same objections when doing business with the U.S. just seems hypocritical to me.
In many places I'd guess B&N is the only option. Having a chain bookstore is significantly better than having no bookstore.
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I certainly agree it's an important part of security, but that's vastly different from "you should have 4 years of engineering experience before you can start learning security".

Speaking practically, the vast majority of companies that experience one of the vulnerabilities you are referencing are not going to be patching the code themselves - they're going to be updating their infrastructure with code that was written by someone else. And before they even get to that point, they are going to have to have policies/procedures that alert them of that vulnerability, that assess how important patching that vulnerability is, that determine cost of patching/not patching, that determine how to receive that patch, and that determine how to apply that patch. And all of those things involve much more than programming.

One of the other largest parts of defending a company from being hacked is training and protecting employees from social engineering/phishing attacks, and that's something that doesn't involve writing any code (or even knowledge of code) at all.
In my experience a bookstore has a much more relevant selection of books than the local library.
Went ahead and flipped both of my "width" overrides to "max-width". Amusingly to me, the worst part of the pages, now, it seems is the MathJax stuff. That said, I'm not seeing an obvious difference in my mobile firefox, just chrome. Still not entirely sure how I would even want these to look there. If you have a good pointer for a site that styles code decently on mobile, I'd love to take a look and see about emulating/stealing.
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Honestly, I feel like its less about the side project that you work on and more about completing something. Being able to see something from conception, through development and testing to delivery and constant iteration has been the single most valuable thing for me in my career.
That isn't always true - e.g. Fandango was able to find success even when theaters wanted nothing to do with the internet, until all of them were forced to partner with it or risk being left out.
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So is there a better oncologist’s assistant AI out there? Or is the sweet spot somewhere between picking music you’ll like, suggesting when you should leave for an appointment to manage traffic and playing chess or go?

I understand the dislike of the marketing, but something like Watson in medicine is a moonshot attempt. Can CNNs and whatever other stuff Watson has available to it simply not handle cancer? Or is it broken? Or is the literature and training data bad or there just isn’t enough of it? I’m really fascinated by the stories of it giving detrimental treatment suggestions, I could see it happening a couple times and word getting out (like a new file system corrupting data) but if that’s really normal then something is broken, right? Maybe it’s misunderstanding the training literature, which should be a correctable software bug. I’m just guessing.
> I think you mean to qualify that with in China?

I mean even if the "android app" came out how does it gain traction?

Does anybody actually use an "app" to search on mobile phones?
Clones of headings (nodes) is the main thing, IMO. I'm an org user and don't have any special use for clones, but it is a neat feature. I'm pretty sure that Org overall, though, has many more features than Leo.
How would you trust it compared to 5+ years experience with CISSP and possibly one of the more advanced ISC2 certifications or any of the SANS GSEC certs?

I understand that you are saying any accreditation is better than none. I am just playing devil's advocate with an accreditation alternative to formal education.
More than beefing up their current small tablet lineup I'd love to see a well-supported large screen reading device. I know I can get a 10 inch tablet from whoever, but a decent e- ink option would be an amazing thing for both large format books and aging populations.
They could just write the entire error string to an fd, right? It's annoying in C to write a formatted string without doing dynamic allocations, but it's possible.

(Or, if you want to be weird, do a PTRACE_TRACEME after fork and have the parent trace the child process and only detach when it sees a successful return from execve. If ptrace is unavailable, fall back to less-useful errors)
If you square the probability amplitude and take the absolute value, that you get something that works very much like a probability. But there is nothing in many-worlds theory that says this quantity has any special significance.
I'm a grad of the OMSCS program. The "netsec" subject covered all of the "things that would help" and some in detail with practical projects.
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Given that her only choices were to live horrifically disfigured or to undergo experimental treatment that involves living highly medicalized for the rest of her life, I think assisted suicide should absolutely have been an option.

Actually, I think assisted suicide should be a right for all people 25+ years old, in particular, at the very least, should be optional for those presented with harsh physical issues like those presented in the OP.
> Pointing out that someone does not really fit a negative stereotype will ussally not be perceived as a positive.

Agreed, I just think this is relatively likely to be one of the exceptions, or at least to be genuinely well-intended. Partly because it's not so likely to seem like damning with faint praise, and partly because the stereotype itself is less deeply offensive than e.g. racism.

(Especially if the trait in question is something like sociability, rather than social skills. If someone says they find me less introverted than they expected based on my profession, it's hard to take much offense at that. I think calling someone 'very social' is a bit ambiguous, but I lean toward interpreting it this way.)
The chance that in a couple decades the US is part of no big war is existent; the chance that China is gonna become a democracy in a couple of decades is null; so yeah, doesn't seem that hypocritical to me.
And most good people concentrated in one set of countries and most bad people concentrated in another. It’s not grids of interests and interesting consequences, it’s just a distribution, man! All bad guys just happen to be over there hating you. Just because you’re better and know better. /s

Surprisingly, most of the times you don’t get bites by simply not sticking your nose into every wasp nest. Still, doing that creates enough chaos and green light to “protect by any means necessary”.
I explained that.

Or, are you trying to imply something? If so, please elaborate.
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It doesn't make sense in this context though.
I don't know exactly where to draw the line, but we can start with not sending actual refugees back home to die.
>"Think hundreds if not more different pathways utilizing many different mechanisms that are not even mapped that well."

Perhaps "pathways" isn't the right way to think about whats going on if it makes it seem so complex.
AFAIK LEO is limited to Python. Orgmode supports, I believe, 50+ different languages: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html
I would think that employers would prefer to hire people that already have children if they now have to subsidize their employees ability to procreate.
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I was accepted into the Georgia Tech CS masters program without any formal education in CS. I have significant practical work experience though. If you don't have an undergrad degree at all, I'm not sure a master's degree is appropriate? If you don't want to get an undergrad degree, at this point in time that has some logic to it, but you are committing to a path where you will not be getting formal degrees. There are things like Coursera specializations that can provide training and some level of certification.
If we have a choice between a swimming pool worth of material that's violently radioactive but can be reprocessed, and a planet that's choked to death from coal pollution because nuclear has radioactive waste, I'll take nuclear every time.

Wind, solar and geothermal should be able to fill the gap, but this technology takes time to devleop and deploy. Nuclear's been around since the 1960s, and it works. If we need 20-40 years to switch to fully-renewable energy, nuclear could get us there.