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> like auto-play while scrolling, auto-play of next title, auto-play of a new series after the end of a series

The only one I'm cool with is auto-play of the next episode after I finish one, and even then it's iffy. Seriously though Netflix, I'm reading the movies description, why would I also want to see the studio logos and listening to the opening music? I can't even stop it as I'm not actually watching the movie.
Not if you treat the virus as a magic bullet eliminating metastases in the body. Without that property it is just a method to reduce, at it's best eliminate the primary tumor.
Makes sense if surgery is impossible. But then we will probably end up with the effects of tumor necrosis.

Brain storming idea:
the brain itself is a special place in some way shielded from the immune system. It would be great if ie injection of the virus in a glioblastoma would work. Probably with some measures to prevent oedema
Unrelated aside: This might be the most creatively concise form of critical communication to a comment I’ve ever seen on HN. Nice job.
Do it. I left in October and haven't looked back. I get the library and all but for the reasons you mentioned,I could not keep partially funding an experiment.Although I miss the moments when they've had these releases land into the zeitgeist, after the hype (and mediocre reviews) I realized it's just FOMO and wait another month until I build up enough content I truly want to watch.
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Aswan Dam also lead to the prevalence of schistosomiasis, or bilharzia. Kind of a big unintended consequence.
We named our company after Wombats (https://www.wombatsecurity.com/). We always got fun responses from customers in Australia, most of them loving it.

Company was also acquired a few months ago, and I'm using some of the proceeds to put together a man cave, which I've informally called the "Wombat Cave" :)
I know of people who do this for Sky Sports UK (traditional premium tv), who hold the exclusive rights to many English Premier league games (soccer). When the off season approaches, call up Sky and ask to terminate your subscription. Either they offer you a really nice deal, similar to what new subscribers get, or you quit for a few months and re-subscribe just before the season starts again. There's more on Sky than just soccer, but obviously that's the main draw for most people.
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I always wanted a setup like this to put debugging information on another screen. When I got to where I had the money to buy it, there were the beginnings of the much better approaches we have today.

It's probably worth mentioning that the idea of developing Windows software in Windows was something that only came around until 1990-91 or so. Prior to that, all the tooling (except for things like the message Spy and the resource editor) ran in the command line in text mode, including the debugger.

Visual Basic gets a huge amount of grief, but when it was first released, this was a huge part of the reason why it was so amazing. It took Windows development from a relatively complex and obscure process involving a multi-step build/edit/compile and turned it into 'drag the button where you want it, click, and add an event handler... all in Windows itself.'
as someone who's written a lot of Fortran and Python for the same project I fail to see the problem. I find something like row- vs. column order differences harder to deal with. 1 vs. 0 based is just a matter of choice, a developer should be able to adapt, just like tabs vs. spaces etc.
LOL sorry about that.

But still, yeah.

> So the UNIX philosophy was the only possible way computing could have gone to result in a diverse set of systems that communicate with each other?

I don't know and it is not relevant. If you're so inclined you may come up with another paradigm. Anyway, Pharo in particular is not such a paradigm, it's a fancy tool. Fancy, but a tool and it should behave as such and should co-operate, and it doesn't and that makes me very, very, very angry. And upset. And hurt. :-)

> Alan Kay and some others have thought programming would be more productive if it took place at a higher level than manipulating text and files.

I understand, but saying "text manipulation" is quite derogatory. It is _symbol manipulation_, that is what we are doing. The underlying mechanisms of the OS, filesystem and various media are irrelevant. What if I don't work with files, but "symbol maps" or whatever the F* some academic can come up with in his own custom fancy GUI tool. It doesn't change one bit. I still have to manipulate symbols and it still needs to be encoded somewhere. Increases on the fancy-dimension mean decreases on the is-robust-and-useful-in-a-general-way-dimension, not to mention the works-at-all-in-20-years-dimension.

Text files are just low common denominators. They are simple to understand and work well, not only across space, but more importantly, time as well.

> Well, ask someone with a lot of VB or Smalltalk experience how much the environment slows them down in comparison. Because you often hear the opposite.

I know, but that's not the point. I'm not saying Pharo is bad at what it does, being an excellent IDE. It's wonderful. I'm opposed to the ideology of throwing away all UNIX lessons and integrating everything into one God-system. I guess I've upset not only the Smalltalk, but now also the Windows people. Sorry.

> I guess debuggers, refactoring and class browsers aren't useful, then.

These are aids, typically implemented graphically, but not always - Vim has excellent autocomplete, refactoring and class-browsing plugins. Yes, some tasks map excellent to the visual metaphor. Scanning hierarchies and seeing high-level overviews are indeed useful abstractions, but that is not the point. The point is that if you want an excellent debugger, use an excellent debugger. If you want a good refactoring tool, use a good refactoring tool. Don't throw it all in one system and call it a day. That is not the UNIX way and yes, I am saying that is the superior way. In all of its vulgar, plebeian ways, the UNIXes have stood the test of time and I'd seriously reconsider dumping that.

~ Angry, but generally peaceful if slightly anxious and over-caffeinated Engineer
The question is to what degree.

* EAL5 (Semiformally Designed and Tested) Logical partitions in IBM System Z.

* EAL6 (Semiformally Verified Design and Tested) INTEGRITY-178B and SeL4 I think.

* EAL7 (EAL7: Formally Verified Design and Tested). No operating system has been verified to this level. Only small number of data diodes and other some specialized systems have this level of assurance. https://www.fox-it.com/datadiode/certificates/cc-eal7-certif...
Meteorites aren't more active during a new moon; they're just easier to see.

The shadow of the Earth does not cause the new moon phase. If it did, it'd be a lunar eclipse.
Chrome shows me a preview of what's going to be printed and lets me fit to page or scale. Firefox gives a print dialog that doesn't even have a preview button.
Totally agree. A lot of big discoveries only got made because it was possible to look at previous attempts and learn from them.
I love Zotero. Thanks.
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It started out as one, but it hasn't been run by GNU in years and years, probably well over a decade now. It's currently operated by the GNOME Foundation.
Pro laptops outside of the Apple ecosystem seem better than ever. I hear good things about the latest Lenovo, Dell, Huawei, and Microsoft Surface products. As long as you're willing to spend $1,000+, you're getting a great system.
I also generally have had decent experiences as of late. The article touches on discoverability of items as a key factor and I have to agree: my wife’s car had a catalytic converter warning light come on. To have them replaced by a mechanic is obviously quite expensive, and we had a make and model that looked like it was going to be not too much work to do ourselves. I’m not a car guy per se, but if you give me something that’s just unscrewing and screwing stuff in and it’s not too complex I can do it with a YouTube video.

So on eBay you can just put the make, model and engine type in and it gives you the correct part. That’s pretty cool, albeit not terribly special. But the part I really enjoyed was that eBay told me I needed a gasket and a new O2 sensor as well (I wouldn’t have known about the gasket) and gave me a nice bundle to do it.

In the end I just ended up replacing the O2 sensor and it was pretty simple to return the other parts. Print label, slap it onto the box, and drop it at the UPS store.
In some countries (I think Australia was one of them) Netflix did sell the distribution rights to House of Cards before they entered the market and then couldn't show House of Cards on Netflix once they did enter the market.
Yeah, this isn't surprising at all. I've run into it. Typical lazy weekend evening...
- turn on AppleTV
- search for [year old hit movie or TV show]
- brief happiness because it's available
- followed by annoyance because it's available on one of the services to which I don't subscribe (or it's on Amazon, but isn't Prime)

I have Prime, Netflix, and HBO and still run into this regularly. It's really annoying. As soon as GOT is done, I'll likely cancel HBO - it doesn't add much value. Netflix is hanging on, barely - every time I go to cancel, I find something interesting to watch, and that keeps me for another month or two. But, it feels user-hostile and with the price going up again, I'm that much more likely to just cancel and be done with them. And I hate the idea of relying on Amazon even more than I already do.

Le Sigh
Even if it were only windows NT, that's quite the CV already
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This is HN. I expect a technical audience who want technical solutions.
On what platform? I use FF on Android, OS X, macOS, Windows, and Linux and can't remember having seen that bug.
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Any source for the water/oil based caffeine info?

Pretty sure it's the same molecule, tea just has a lot less caffeine and often also has l-theanine to counteract some of caffeine's negatives.
"BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content"

Bzzt, wrong. The number of streaming services is fine.

It's the pricing that's the problem. Proof by reductio: if they were all free, everyone would subscribe to everything.

People are willing to pay for convenience. They aren't willing to overpay for convenience when they have free alternatives.

They'll pay $25/month for a service that combines Netflix, Hulu, CBS and Disney into one searchable interface. Split them up, and people will drop or not even start the ones they perceive as being lowest value.
Can you link Netflix/Amazon Prime to a plex server and index that?
More than half (55%) of PC applications installed worldwide are out-of-date
The biggest difference between a DSLR and a mirrorless is the wayfinder: on mirrorless you get digital vs analog on dslr (via the mirror system). In terms of controls, both have more or less the same, with some naming differences.

I would go for second hand set, either canon or nikon, whatever model!, with the stock zoom lens (18-55) and get a fixie (not zoom lens, 50mm works great for lots of conditions and most of them are fast). This should cover you for a while, maybe even years. When you literally run the thing down and think you can't progress anymore, you will most likely have a clear idea what you want from a camera.

Don't get bogged down by all the awesome new things cameras can do, to learn you need aperture priority and shutter priority. You will find that all decent cameras have that. Probably, pretty quickly you will need manual iso and white balance settings, but again, most cameras have that too.

So, go on, buy the cheapest set you can find, that' still a dslr with changeable lenses, get the two lenses I recommended and start shooting. After you figure out what you like to shoot, because you will never be able to shoot everything at the same level, focus on that.
When you're Twitter sized, that was never a problem to begin with. For mere mortals, that continues to be a problem.
I haven't realized it until your comment. Most of my searches end up without the result I'm looking for. If I do find what I'm looking for, I'm quite surprised.
Don't worry, someone started a war over the 1-indexing so you likely won't get enough attention that it counts as a war :)
hey, I'm currently building an app in this space - could I ask you a few questions about what you're looking for? My email's in my profile if you're interested.
Looking over your list do you not see how that list of activities might prove to be a little niche, and probably not suited to the broader public?

Also:
> pay a yearly fee to a decent indexer

"Why would you get something free? Pay instead!". I already do that, it's called Netflix and Amazon Prime. Plus, the only step those have is "get smart TV, connect TV to internet".
> Segmentation is the biggest problem. But that's true for every digital store not just Netflix.

The effect in TFA only really happens with fixed-cost, apl-you-can-eat offerings. (Amazon Prime is another.)

It's why people groused for years about a la carte cable, but nobody cares about McDonald's not serving Pizza Hut.
The reporting of sources is potentially misleading: none of the identified organizations gave any money. The amount attributed to them aggregates donations by the organizations PACs (which presumably align with the organization's interests) and their “individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families”, including subordinate and affiliate organizations. Now, I don't know about you, but I find that the interests of labor and capital in the same firm are often not aligned, but this list list both as donations by the firm.
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Why I use old hardware
When I was closer to my teenage years, I tried what I considered a sizable variety of programming languages and over time gravitated more towards C and Lua and less towards everything else, the latter which is specially mentioned a few times in this article.

I found that they both shared a philosophical simplicity (even if it only seemed that way with C, considering how much complexity you later learn about) and over a decade later I've not found the same philosophy in any other programming languages.

They all tend to be written with the goal of adding features that are suppose to make the programmer's life easier—and here's the distinction—rather than designing a language that is powerful but simple.

This of course has shortcomings of its own, but the trade-offs are ones that I typically seek.

The grammar for Lua is delightfully short, which seems to be a significant source of its beauty. https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8

I'd love to be educated on similarly easy languages.

I'm not sure what the lingua franca of the future for software developers should look like, but I forfeit that it probably should be slightly more complicated than C or Lua in terms of looks. At least in terms of optional standard libraries provided for things like cache levels and GPU support.

Perhaps that's outside of the scope of what a programming language should provide to users, though? I'm not sure. It seems like we sit on a lot of complexity and don't use it as efficiently as we could be, though. Maybe some of these things the underlying virtual machines or compliers should be doing for us as they currently do, but extending this reach.
> The only one I'm cool with is auto-play of the next episode after I finish one

I actually loathe this. I like endings. After the episode wraps up and the credits finish scrolling, I want everything to naturally stop so I have a few seconds to sit and process and contemplate.

You can technically turn off autoplay next episode, but the video will still go into a tiny window as soon as the credits start rolling, with a big ad encouraging you to watch the next episode. That's not how I want to consume content.
The reason Netflix would potentially wait for a proximate AWS datacenter is because all of their apps, backend services, and interface UIs are served from EC2 instances; all of the actual content delivery is in fact handled by their FreeBSD-based OpenConnect appliances. In other words, no, Netflix doesn't put their content on other, third-party CDNs like Cloudfront, Fastly, Limelight Networks, etc., but they do absolutely serve it all from their own, custom-built CDN/hardware.

[1]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/
[2]: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/netflix_freebsd/
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11129627
[4]: https://www.slideshare.net/aspyker/container-world-2018
[etc.]
If you have an isolated tumor you try to cut it out. Except if it is in the vital parts of ie the brain.
Primary tumor is not the biggest problem in most of the cases. Metastases are what kills.
You could probably produce an interesting indie film in the time it takes a normal person to figure that out.

(Not to speak ill of your normal person, just that those skills are esoteric and provide little benefit to most people to say the least).
Ask HN: What motivates you to join a commercial tech company's dev community?
Are you a passionate developer who is part of various dev communities? What (if) motivates you to join a commercial tech company's dev community? Given that product is partly open-sourced?
If you want to take it for a spin, challenge yourself not to write anything which cares about this. It will force you to learn the some neat features (e.g. for N-dim arrays) instead of indexing with your bare hands like you're in C. And is good style anyway, to be generic to things like https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl
It's the difference between numbering the contents of the list (1 indexing), and measuring the distance from the beginning of the list to the start of the item (0 indexing).

Personally I'm happy to switch between both, and they both have positives and negatives when I actually write code.

0 indexing is not incorrect, or incompatible with maths, it is just a different way of conceiving of lists/arrays by considering the index to more like the distance from the beginning. The first item begins 0 spaces from the start position.

That is why in that context array length is usually the highest index + 1, because length is the distance from the start position to the end of the list, whereas the index is the start position of the item in the list.

I will concede that 0 indexing is a little too close to the storage paradigm for arrays (i.e. a sequential list of items of n bytes) and that when so often these arrays point to more complex data-structures / objects, the distance doesn't make as much sense as the item number... but meh - I'd take Python generators / iterators at the expense of 0 indexing any day.
It isn't paranoid: it obvious when you realize their licensed catalogue is continuously rotating,
This is the primary reason I'm not going to renew my Prime account.
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I’ve run a personal instance of this for 10+ years. Plainly, it’s too complicated for 90% of people; which is fine. Let BitTorrent own the show and attention from everyone. Both of which would destroy my automated luxury.
This has been a problem for a long time with media. For some time, we've been perfectly capable of delivering globally. They don't want to do this, because the money gets made through a calculated release process. They want to maximize revenue on this extremely expensive asset, and there are strategic / logistical concerns.

On side note, I think there's a bit of a "look at this awesome thing you can't have" aspect to IP and content; this can be very frustrating, and has been one of the main reasons people turned to piracy (mostly people are just jerks though). There's actually some very understandable reasons why you'd want, or even need to carefully release in each region; however in other cases the attitude seems to be "we haven't figured out how to monetize this, so I guess no one gets it", "we'll need you to buy that again", or "you can't have this, because we want you to buy something else"
I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away.

My money is on news sites and other paywall sites doing that first. How long before they stop letting us "open in new private window"? Washington Post doesn't even allow that anymore -- a shame too, since I haven't read a single one of their articles since then.
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Seems like glitching locks is still a thing: https://nfckill.com
My manager says he gets “better regressions most of the time”
Dived since the last year, but price has been stagnant within 3000 - 4000 range for the few couple of months
If you're working with retail customers (retail giants included), AWS is pretty much banned in order to not pay a competitor, so you end up on Azure.
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The big challenge with leaving core data structures and interfaces to the community is fragmentation. If you look at the rust/go numerical communities the big struggle has been a lack of universal ndarray implementation.

Most numeric libraries can be Described as functions of/on ndarrays that return ndarrays, not having a language wide ndarray is the equivalent of having every library carry it's own unique list interface/implementation.
Our blocker in using GCP is that they do not offer a managed Oracle Database. AWS does with RDS.

We hate Oracle like the next person, but we're locked in. And there's no way we're going to the "Oracle Cloud"
Is this a propaganda effort by BIG OIL ?
I'm sure you're aware that not every user will have the same experience with a piece of software. There are a couple of bugs referenced in the Github issues for TST relevant to containers. There is a workaround, but I experience the issue again within a half hour. Not worth it to me.
In Firefox, if you select "Print..." from the hamburger-menu (not Ctrl+P), you get an interface similar to the one in Chrome. Not sure why it's not the default. (Or File -> Print Preview)
I think the exact amount of spaces that should make up a tab is an even more controversial point.

I'd love to see what happens to the tabs vs spaces debate once someone makes tabs that aren't an integer multiple of spaces wide.
> multiple take-offs, which are much more polluting than sitting at cruising altitude.

I highly doubt that non-direct flights on airliners pollute more per passenger than a direct flight on a small jet that isn't necessarily full.
It's far more dangerous than useful if you work with electricity I'm afraid.
It's always now for a photon.
Could that lead to a revision of the term of licensing and a unification of regional markets (specifically in mature market like Europe)?

Purely rhetorical question at this point as the national networks are likely to lobby to keep the statu quo.
Why not both? It's easy to configure those programs to use multiple sources.
Julia needs something like IPython/Jupyter but without Python.
So narrow the lens a bit - compare only those with the ability to attend university.
Netflix got me as it was the first, and it still provides decent value for the money, as well as great 4k/HDR/Dolby Vision content. I'm thinking about signing up for Prime as it seems to have a lot of content. That's about it. I'll seriously consider the Disney streaming service because I am a man-child and love the MCU and want to see the series on there, but I will not sign up for CBS all access, Hulu, or Crave TV. It's all too much, and I'm not going to pay another cable bill equivalent.