skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Competitors" is the wrong word here. The problem is not competition, it's exclusivity. I'm subscribed to half a dozen streaming services but I still regularly find content that isn't available on any of them.

There's definitely some truth to the notion that piracy is a service problem. Even without considering the costs, I really don't want to subscribe to any more streaming services simply because I'm being forced to maintain accounts and share payment information with so many entities.

It doesn't help that a regular subscription for a streaming service with only one or two appealing pieces of content is simply a bad value.
Antivirus using C++ programming
I use justwatch.com to look for things I'm interested in watching. The search sucks sometimes because it doesn't always find what I typed in,sometimes I have to do a site:justwatch.com search in Google to actually find something, but in general it will usually point me in the direction of where I can stream or what subscription I need (so I do a trial, watch then cancel if there's nothing else to watch). If I can't find it anywhere, I hit up the library or rent it from Prime. I used to not have any money so I would pirate, but now I make enough that a couple of bucks isn't worth doing something illegal for.
I was shopping around for a camera about 4 years ago. I realized that normal digital cameras are essentially smartphones. So I bought a Nikon D3300 (DSLR, ~$500). I haven't bought any extra things for it (used what was in the box), and an acquaintance gave me a tripod he wasn't using. I've considered getting a long focus lens, but the stock lens is sufficient for me (cue horror from "pro photographers").

I've never used a camera this good before, and I've been happy with the quality of every photo I've taken, even if the subject and framing isn't right. Yes, it's a bit bulky, but I don't mind. I haven't looked around at other cameras since, and I plan on using it as long as I can.

My advice: get a camera that gives you the quality you're looking for, take some good shots, and don't look back!
There was a chrome plugin that allowed you to modify the hosts file from an extension window.

I wonder if there'd be something that allowed you to allow ads on the current page and just removed it from the hsots file.
Julia deserves way more attention than it's currently getting. I'm hoping now that it's past 1.0, a few big-name companies will start using it and raise its profile.
In consulting this is quite common. Sales people have a pool of consultants they reach out to whenever an assignment pops up. You just jump on the ones you want for the pay you want. Standard cut is 10%
I like google's implementation of it, since you commit to use a certain amount of CPU, and RAM, and not instance types. So you can commit to a 4cpu/15GB ram system, and a year later, double the size of the vm, and you still have the cheaper price on the first 4CPU/15GB of ram. And its per project. (I would love it if I could purchase per organization)
TypeScript Tricks: Type-Safe Reducers
I bet big on BC being stuck in the 3K range up until yesterday. My bet paid off wonderfully.
RFPs are bullshit in software dev
Haha. On a slight tangent, you could create a 'business' around - "The perfect home security system before you go on holiday". Enter your name, address, and last date you need it installed by for a quote.
Someone left their dumbdells at my old office, and it became community use. Approximately every hour, I'd get up, stretch, do some pushups, and dumbell workouts. Didn't need to hide it, nobody cared.
Remembered me of the fun "Angecryption", where you can decrypt the ciphertext with AES or decrypt it with DES and get different plaintexts depending on the scheme: https://github.com/indrora/corkami/blob/master/src/angecrypt...
Yeah, I've been seeing lots of people switch to circle-ci or gitlab over the past year.

Not totally sure why. Travis does what I need and I know how to use it, and I don't particularly want to learn something new for CI myself, I just want to code!
Instead of throwing away those years as a lawyer, I'd look to complement them - specifically, I'd look at management/director level infosec/compliance/governance roles. You'll get less hands-on exposure as a manager, but your legal experience will give you a leg up that it seems silly to throw away. You can always move on to more technical roles later, with the advantage of a tech-related job title in your resume.

Law is like IT - even if you get a job in a completely unrelated field, as soon as your past gets out, you'll find yourself inundated with requests to "just take a look at this." Might as well use that experience to your advantage first.
All the former Soviet republics are commonly referred to as such in the western press.

Heck, the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia had that as its official name until very recently resolving the dispute with Greek irridentists.
Also

3) Joint productions like Lilyhammer where Netflix partnered with a foreign broadcaster to produce.

So something like Lilyhammer that was a joint Netflix/NRK production means it's a Netflix Original in the US and aired on NRK1 in Norway, but it's actually produced by both companies.
Yes, you are being more precise where I was being vague. What I suppose I meant was that in practice, if it has a ".mp4" extension then it'll usually work, and if it doesn't then it usually won't.
> Never parse ls.

I have heard this several times, but either I do not understand it or I disagree. Do you mean parsing the output of the ls program? Parsing ls output is not wrong, the program produces a text stream that is easy and useful to parse. There's nothing to be ashamed when doing it, even when you can do it in a different, even shorter way. I do grep over ls output daily, and I find it much more convenient than writing wildcards.
Julia also supports this (called Offset Arrays)
see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15045653

Winning argument was

> It takes me all of 10 seconds to type duckduckgo.com, and maybe 30 to switch default search engines for the browser. [1][2]

But an equivalent, i can just download FF in 10 seconds is not acceptable in this context. why? Infact, Google browser is way less dominant that the search engine.

> I suspect a reply to your comment isn't going to change your stance on whether Google is dancing around in the anti-trust/monopoly area.

Why is that? Sounds a bit patronising.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15046158

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15046382
> That seems so simple, but man, that is SOOO complicated. Imagine a law that made life better for 80% of people, but made 20% worse off - should it be implemented? What about 2% better off, 98% worse off, but the worst off 2% amongst us benefited?

I agree with your premise that it's a hard problem, but I'd add that utilitarian arguments for policy leads to creation of bad short-term policy. Public policy should be focused on the long game of leveling societal playing fields and use short-term tools to ease suffering (stimulus, emergency aid, food stamps, etc).

> There just aren't any magical, mystical policies where everyone wins, not even things like free trade which has been great for almost everyone on the entire planet.

Again, I like your premise but I'd add that the effects of the current form of open trade is still open to historical judgement. Is it great? How does Europe and Asia feel about it?

Anyway, just wanted to add a bit of spice to this discussion - it's interesting.
I have two small children that I raise while both me and my wife are working 40 hours per week. Trust me, there is no time for the exercise that you describe.

I'm not buying it. I had a kid (he's grown and moved out) and managed to exercise. I rode my bike to work. I coached his football and basketball teams. I squeezed in weights on my lunch hour. I ran or cycled a few hours early Saturday, before the rest of the family was ready to do things.

Same holds true for friends that have young kids today. One parent runs/cycles while the other helps with homework. Yoga at 5am. Treadmills or stationary bikes to squeeze in workouts whenever possible (after kids are in bed).
can this be an adultswim or comedy central short or something. he only loses the case because his law-ai.biz subscription, lapsed.
Of course it’s much easier to pay for a cheap VPN and use one of those torrent streaming services.
Not sure why this is downvoted, ask the average person how chrome got on their PC, they wont know...
Andela has announced a $100M Series D round
This suggests that, at least from track record so far, for products in their portfolio one should not expect much more extensive development or innovation, they're just counting on the long-tail of revenue trickling in?
Point taken that newbies are going to be confused that "odd / even == integer", but they'd be equally confused about why odd / even yields something close to what they expected but not quite (floating point errors).

In both cases, they're probably going to be confused why an equality test a few lines later fails every once and a while.

The concept of divide vs. div & mod is one that a programmer eventually needs to understand. More importantly, not everything should be optimized for newbies. The context driven / operator is appropriate in programming languages designed for experienced programmers.

Upon further thought... Couldn't the argument be rephrased as "integers are broken numbers"? It sounds silly, but from a newbie's perspective the same problem exists with "int f = 38.2 * 25;".
Anchorage Emerges with $17M from A16Z for ‘Omnimetric’ Crypto Security
Can you list one or two? I'm only familiar with the large one's like Netflix and HBO.
Depends on the Content Security Policy of the site.
Multi-methods really are a lot of fun, but I'm missing the Trait system (instead of the object hierarchy) that makes Rust so modular. I know that there are some tries to put it into Julia, but none of them is well supported.
Please provide some citations for that claim.
"... could hire someone like this but to handle job outreach and negotiation ..."

They're called recruiters.
Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery
Thank you! User of FF since ever, never used that menu item, looks very very good with the preview.
The whole streaming model makes little sense st this point. It is replicating the cable channel system. The model which makes sense was/is an ITunes ala carte system where you buy shows and movies you watch direct. Bundling only works for the provider not the consumer. For a while the streaming services like Netflix artificially made themselves look better than ala carte with the standard tech playbook - offer a product below cost until you are an 800 pound gorilla and can dictate terms. I don’t think the vast majority of newer streaming services will make it.
I could see this as a Black Mirror script too
Attention is better in small doses, I think it's clear to many that Julia is a strong project, let it grow peacefully.
I don't think it is depressing at all. On the contrary. I wouldn't not make the same choice as the author hinted at. I would additionally suggest that it is the wrong one.

Still a good article and analysis about the forces shaping our perception of the importance (or non-importance) of particular topics.

I wouldn't hold it against journalists/writers to see it the way the author does considering it probably resonates with them given their position. But that doesn't have to be the end of history.
For me, it's Google Translate integration.
>The governing Georgian Dream party sold 45 acres for $1 for Bitfury to set up shop.

yes this looks like textbook corruption: the government just "gives" land and energy to cryptocurrenncy mining operations? seems very probably that not the government but those in government who set it up are getting crypto bribes in return...
Yes, hosts do not support wildcards. There are some solutions to blocking advertisers that use tricks like you suggest. A PiHole is able to do wildcard blocking. Also, uBlock Origin (which accepts host formatted lists) will automatically block any subdomain of a blocked root. So as long as the parent domain is also blocked, any subdomains would also be included
That is undeniable. Java and Go are definitely faster in terms of raw performance.

The main value proposition of Erlang/Elixir is: a very acceptable performance combined with unparalleled concurrency primitives, plus resiliency and high availability. Not performance alone.
Yeah, I paid $60 for YNAB4 back in 2015. I've already paid only a fraction of the price, and use it constantly. Subscription services don't seem like they cost a lot, but cost a ton.
But then you have to subscribe to Now TV. There is no equivalent of HBO Now, HBO's standalone subscription offering.
This is my solution as well, and I think it works great. I subscribe to a single month of a streaming service after the show I want to watch has completed, binge watch it, cancel, rinse and repeat with another service. At least they get some revenue out of it -- if they ever tried to require contracts, I'd just ditch them entirely.
I've been worried about travis' lack of urgency in dealing with the fact that the existing travis-ci.org github hooks used for open source products are going to stop working in a week or two...

https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/9745

Now bought by a private equity firm, which usually doesn't indicate lots of innovation or an increase in quality on the way.

I wonder if I should be worried and start migrating my projects. I really liked travis for so long.
The issue with GCP and with Google in general is support. I'm certain that's not an issue for Twitter as there are probably multiple people on call just for the Twitter deal. But it might mislead the average company down a bad path believing there is decent support with GCP. Any custom issues (like billing) and it's a headache dealing with Google.
It's also a lot easier to do change management on an abstract model of the software you're working on than the design of that one program itself, because the design choices made by other sister programs can be immensely helpful. It's the inversion of making decisions in a vacuum. What do you call that?

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Edit for "random" keywords: model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages
A hot tub helps the muscle pain.
Anyone else here use Jabref? I like it's simplicity.
Not but it looks like that's something they are going for. Offering other subscriptions through Plex in the native Plex interface.

https://www.plex.tv/blog/turning-plex-music-up-to-eleventy/
The people outside a church might already have bibles, but they're also a community shown to have an interest in bibles. Even if they already have them, they're still likely to have more interest in getting more than the general population as a whole.

On the other hand, trying to sell bibles outside a synagogue is probably not going to get you a lot of success.
You don't mind the effectively 20% fee they charge you? Between eBay fee and PayPal fee.
That they favor recommendations over search is bad, but in some ways worse is how they hide the "saved" content -- if you add something to your watchlist, it's usually not even on the first screen; that's something that I literally said that I want to save for watching later, and instead I have to go through page after page of recommendations before I can even see my watchlist, instead of it being front and center.

They seem to have elevated the prominence of the "continue watching" so that it's in the top three bars shown, but even that fact is ridiculous -- the obvious order should be "continue watching", "watchlist", and then start in with the recommendations. I have no idea why they make it so hard for me to watch things that I've declared an intention to watch. Why even have a watchlist in that case? Is it just a holdover from a previous design that they are no longer really interested in supporting?
USB thumbdrives?
I'm a bit confused - what does your solution solve that Torrenting doesn't?
I went cold turkey off that, I suddenly had to take a prescription med that raised my heart rate and taking it with any coffee left me barely able to think. I don't get withdrawals with headaches and pain, never have, but the first time I went off the 20-cups-a-day dosage I suddenly realized that I did not in fact have an anxiety condition. (I also realized eating was kind of fun.)

I resumed drinking tea, then coffee, then a lot of coffee, but I've got to say I'm a lot more mindful now, I don't just hang out in front of the computer making pot after pot and such, and I try to get food instead of coffee if I'm out and want something fun to taste.
Could be. I abandoned Rails 2-3 years ago and haven't looked back since. Even then migrating a project to Ruby 2.3 was a huge pain due to the immutable strings feature. It was one of the things that made me throw my hands in the air.

But I almost haven't seen a Rails project using Sequel for 6 years of working with it. 99% of the projects use ActiveRecord.
No. It's for locally downloaded content only (they recently added some web show functionality, but it doesn't apply to Netflix or Amazon Prime)
Not really! There have been a couple recruiting plays in the past couple years that have tried to do "talent agent" positioning, but I think they're all just recruiters, not agents.

A talent agent is someone you, the developer, have a relationship with. They go out and apply to everything you're interested in for you. They're not working from a book of qualified openings trying to match developers to them. They'll do the negotiating lifting even at firms that won't pay their placement rate --- because you, the developer, are the one who pays them, not the company.
Even in a well-insulated house with all the doors and windows usually kept closed, you're going to get a lot of air exchange with the outside world. Any problems are likely to be very localized -- one room.
Yes you said it but it makes no sense in the context. Perhaps try another line?
It's to trick people into thinking they can only buy a Sony Blu-ray player to go along with their Sony TV to go along their Sony soundbar. I'm glad everyone's stuff gets along for the most part but the fake vendor lock-in is lame.
I think Douglas Adams was fairly prescient back in 1987: "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."

Replace the chirpy lady in this article with an algorithm, replace the potential matches with algorithms too, and we're there.
I agree that it's sad, but there's a minimum amount of activity that can be done to reduce your risk of death considerably [0]. I would rather people be fit and take their bodies seriously, but just a little bit goes a long way.

* 0: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/walking-e...
> So you sign up for Netflix and it's a wasteland of 2nd tier movies and old series

Same thing in my country (United States).
Yes (if you're asking what I think you're asking). Computers are never fast enough. Even if they get 1000x faster, we'll want to squeeze every drop of performance out by using C or whatever.
Does Circle-CI offers Mac runner for public/open-source projects? This is the reason I haven't been able to migrate from Travis to Circle-CI for all my projects, I have an open-source Electron module that I need to test cross platform so Travis covers Linux and Mac and AppVeyor for Windows.
Not sure why you're being downvoted here. I'm a Plex user that uses their DVR offering and whenever I look at the message boards/subreddit it's very clear the vast majority of Plex users are using it with pirated content.
Yeah, that's an entirely personal call for me - I enjoy being able to continue the binge, but I totally see your reasoning.
But do you know about Bat boy?
I wouldn't invest a lot of time into learning another stack - and personally I don't find learning RoR attractive in 2019. Just try if you can convince them with your current experience and catch up on the stack-specific details if the deal works out.
we don't usually call Iraq the former Mesopotamian Kingdom
Some products are feature complete and since they are looking at long term earnings they won’t sunset the project which are two big pluses .
You are replying to the main article, not an individual user. Therefore, in context, your question "Why are people still using file sharing and torrents?" is asking that of the people referenced in the article. Context is important.
The difference is that in 4G the ability may be available in some areas and not in some areas in ad hoc manner. In the case of 5G 3GPP is committed to unlicensed spectrum.

In 4G, instead of LTE-U you are getting LTE-LAA (License Assisted Access). You are basically getting the permission from carrier or from some alliance that buys licenses depending on the country, city or region.

5G will support: LTE-U/LAA as well as stand-alone NR-U (stand-alone operation in unlicensed spectrum).
What are the limits of deep learning?
Biggest product change after Slack's IPO?
Same... i have Netflix and HBO (and my local countries tv service) but recently i get so annoyed by searching for "where i can find a movie" and then not finding it, that i don't even look anymore, i just go straight to torrenting which is a 99% success rate.

Also the Netflix auto-play-previews thing annoys me, trying to constantly force me to keep consuming.

I'll probably cancel both soon.
Android Q First look and Features
If an adversary demands the key to decrypt a given ciphertext, what stops
the sender or receiver from claiming that it was encrypted by a onetime
pad (i.e., a bitwise exclusive-or with the encryption key) and then furnishing
the "key" that "decrypts" it to some unrelated plaintext of his choice?
Not to diminish the authors' work, but if this is the problem of deniable
encryption, I don't get why it isn't trivial. Any advice?
Herald Sun? It's owned by Murdoch too.
The "Hang the DJ" episode is sort of along those lines where your AI's pretend date in a virtual world and give a result back in an app.
I agree it doesn't look well but you simply can't claim that Distillery is broken. The last stable version works just fine.

Interesting to see an outside take on the situation though. Thank you.

(EDIT: Also, in the issue it's pointed out that a newer Erlang OTP release fixes the problem.)
No, actually explain why licensing by country is backwards.

It's obvious and perfectly rational.
GCE blows, good luck with that.
> It's not just safety and security that must be provided, but social inclusion as well

Isn't it curious that we need to provide this as external source of safety? I'm not disagreeing, I also think so, but it's still surprising.

If we think about that "the machine" is objective, and that it can look into our hearts, that it wants to reach as many of us as possible, and wants to convince us to do its bidding by positive feedback loops, then why doesn't provide safety and security as a default?

Makes me wonder if our feedback loop is somehow "buggy" and that the feedback loop and our needs are not really correlating that much.
Ah, good old "outsource non-vital parts, so you have more time for yourself (sic)".

How much of your life can be outsourced, before it's no longer your life? How much of a man still makes a man?

Edgar Allan Poe had a funny little story about that and technology, all the way back in 1840:

https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom2t032.htm