skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s interesting in a subscription environment that engagement is still seen as the primary draw. Clearly the bean counters have seen that if a user engages with the platform more than x hours per day/week/month they’re y percent more likely to keep the service. But this sort of implies that people only want the service when they are actively watching something - I wonder if there’s an a la cart opportunity there, if media was “rightly” priced in comparison to a binge watch on Netflix ($2 an episode is probably FAR too high).

It still comes down to content - if you have something all the time that is new an everyone wants to watch, then you get to keep the money flowing.
Interesting montage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzIPBRnYHQk

Could there be something to her express "everyday" sentiments re: how we ought relate to our fellow humans and to the divine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxkWJ9xF27g
Those are all still super huge. Just because they aren't the insane level they were once at doesn't mean they aren't still massive.
And it's not like it took people with PhD's years to come up with BFS. You see people make a similar argument about Dijkstra's algorithm, when he picked it as an example of a particularly easy problem to solve.
So 2019 is _finally_ gonna be the year of Linux on the Desktop?

(Pardon me if I seem a little skeptical, I've heard this song before...)
The price on those are insane for the small size, but they are beautiful
Vue, Angular function similarly with prefixed/namespaced directives and insertion techniques

v-if

ng-if

This is more of a matter of untechnical recruiters, resume crawling bots, and technical interviewers understanding that these are the same skill sets and concepts to make the labor market slightly more efficient.

All the company's devs are going to be using the resource manual and stackoverflow either way, and most of their time will be messing around with the dev tools than figuring out the most academically efficient solution within the allotted time.
This is weird though, because I'm sure there's not a linear relation between "screen time" and "subscription retention," or at least I wouldn't assume so. And given that screen time actually results in server expenses, ideally they would almost want to minimize screen time while maximizing subscription retention. Compare this with TV, for example, where screen time = commercial time.

I don't know where I'm going with this.
I believe this story. If you were on a business trip and went to the bar at the Waldorf Astoria, then you would be around escorts. The bartenders would completely know you are not an escort because they haven't seen you before. Men may approach you, but looking for conversation and would quickly know you were a business traveller. Most men aren't looking for escorts at all, but ones that are, don't make it obvious.

Bottom line is there is a decent amount of high end prostitution around high end hotels near midtown during the weekdays.

It is nearly invisible which is why she didn't notice it for years. Now that I have told you, you will probably start to see the pay-for-play scene. It isn't huge, but it exists in the business traveller world.

It sucks that she got mixed in with it. That being said, it is a small number of women and men in that scene, it has a flavor of consent, and I personally think other harassment issues are a much broader problem to worry about.

As a guy, the pay-for-play scene is often super annoying. Get approached, have an hour conversation, then get asked for money. Just feels irritating to have a conversation that was financially motivated. The bars then start policing it... like not allowing the girls to approach men, e.g. making them sit at tables.

I know a bit too much about this scene because I have a policy against any shaming of sex workers. Thus after rejecting their pay-for-play offer, I often end up in a conversation about their lives and work. I make it clear that I don't look down on them.

I suppose the possible thing missing from the story is that she is a healthy adultly woman that enjoyed having sex and went home with interesting and attractive men from the bar. Normal thing to do, especially if you don't have time for a relationship because you are splitting continents. The bar could have misread the situation.
I love playing The Resistance with friends. It’s great because you’re talking the entire time. It provides a good balance between logical problem solving and persuading people around to your (potentially nefarious) way of thinking.

New to my collection is Azul which has been growing on me because of how well made it is and how oddly competitive it gets despite the player interaction being actually quite limited.
The other big thing with tutorials that I've seen is trying to introduce many build tools at once. Lots of people have enough trouble even getting Node to run on Windows, so requiring Node and Babel and Webpack when you could just pull in jQuery in a script tag and have a simple index.html might not be as realistic, but it gets readers to the meat of the exercise faster in my experience. If you're trying to show me how to use Highcharts, just include an object containing the data in some inline JS in index.html, or at most have one non-minified JS file that gets included in index.html with a note in index to look there for the JS.

Docker can be another one that some engineers forget isn't trivial for most people to set up. If you're hoping for people to pull half a dozen images and get them all networked together, you might lose a lot of people right there. Focus on delivering value for the reader; show them the cool parts of the thing you're talking about, and minimize absolutely everything else that you can (unless you're also trying to e.g. show how to integrate a few disparate systems or something, but then make that a separate tutorial).
I’ve got a couple of different radar screens that will look great with this font!
"This mystery ailment — diagnosed years later as Bartonellosis, or cat-scratch fever"

It seems perverse to me to give an example of someone who suffered from an identifiable physical illness and then write a whole article about the psychological pressures of being a vet.

Some believe that all mental illnesses are physical illnesses, but even if you don't...

Here, it's acknowledged that there was something other than nebulous psychological stresses and pressures, so the article bewilders me. If there is in fact an excess of suicide among vets, maybe the first, most obvious hypothesis would be that there's an excess of similar illnesses.
Lighting is pretty rough.

You can completely air gap your network from the outside line by converting to fiber at some point (probably between your cable modem and your router, in a DOCSIS setup). Isn't foolproof, because lightning can induce current on your wires directly, but it'll help these kinds of scenarios.
I just discovered that if you say “Alexa, Spotify connect” then anyone can connect their phone as long as they’re on the same WiFi network as the device.
I don't mind Github as much, esp if you're instructing people to download a zip, unpack it, and start there.
has all the software I need and lacks BS like the Windows interface.

Darn, pardon me. I should have said the Windows 10 interface. Yeah, Mate is copying Windows 7/Vista task bar stuff, with perhaps less of that system's unneeded flash.
that's fair. I'm not saying get rid of other designs, just saying there is interest in smaller devices. I personally don't have an issue holding mine with or without a case, though I had a Samsung Galaxy Edge so I became accustomed to not resting too much on the front. I could see where someone who isn't accustomed to it or, fair enough, has no interest in becoming accustomed to that disliking it and that's fine. I respect that.
Fortnite is a whole other beast, the game is out there for actually more than a year and is still kicking ass and being on top by a margin, none of the above was anywhere similar, and yet, they are still a thing.
Encrypted ZFS with FreeBSD is not actually native ZFS encryption, it uses GELI to handle the encryption part (which may be why it's bad at handling power losses).
I'm not saying Fortnite's audience will shrink to zero. I predict it will shrink though, just like the above mentioned titles that are shells of their former glory. The growth can't last.

Maybe I should have said FarmVille or DrawSomething...
Netflix might be regretting not buying out Twitch.

I can see Netflix releasing "Netflix Original Games" or will they move more into game streaming first by paying famous gamers to stream exclusively on their platform, on that front will Netflix move into user-created content like YouTube?
Hiring ASP.NET / JavaScript Developer in Mexico City – Platform Rewrite
I would wait until the first of the month to post this in the jobs section of HN, but this project is urgent.

I'm looking for developers in Mexico City who know ASP (VB webforms), Bootstrap, .NET, and similarly old Microsoftisms - we have an online learning platform that is taking off, but unfortunately has lots of technical debt. We need to completely rewrite it and issue some bug fixes until the rewrite is complete. The rewrite & redesign of the platform is partially up to the developer - so there's some creative control for this position.

Experience with internationalization, databases, and marketing are big plusses.

Remote is OK, but Mexico City is preferred (so we can co-work at least 2 days per week).

Please email james@heavenmanearth.com for more information or to apply.
Thanks!
I don't think upgrading a phone makes sense from an e-waste point of view, particularly if the alternative is a robust recycling program like what Apple promotes.

Look at the constituent parts of an iPhone SE:

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/cDmVFvtAKTZvjOBk.h...

An upgrade necessarily includes a new logic board and likely a new camera module. Once you're disassembling it, you'd inevitably be swap out the battery too. Most of the remaining parts have a distinctly limited service life—in particular the battery, physical buttons and connectors.

The front glass assembly with LCD screen might have a long theoretical life but these do deteriorate over time, they get damaged easily and replaced fairly often.

After excluding the above, there's not much left to salvage—mostly aluminium parts like the outer casing, and aluminium is already one of the most recyclable components of a phone anyway.

So there's really no point.
All the ala carte options are too expensive. Itunes charges $6(!!!) for new rentals. It is trivial to find six higher quality movies in the $1 purchase bins at walmart and target or at redbox.
I am not convinced you understand this problem space well. The very notion of defining two such states is extremely elusive.
I ran Mint for years as my daily driver at work. It was great and took me from being a linux intermediate to something of an expert, and I wouldn't mind doing it again.

But for home use, there are simply too many cool programs on Windows to give it up. The Mint partition on my home dual boot sits largely unused. Emulation does an acceptable job for some things but it's often a sub-par experience. It's also quite tiring to have to constantly futz around with services and configurations just to get programs working, only to have that configuration break because of software updates.

In the end I find a Win10 PC with some of the guts rips out (via something like Blackbird) seems to produce the least amount of headaches and generally stays out of my way. I hate Microsoft's Windows-as-a-Service model but most of the things about it can be ignored or switched off. (And yes, one shouldn't have to but I find it better than the alternatives)
blender is getting fun; inkscape reaches 1.0, gimp might evolve

methinks if libreoffice gets a bit leaner and featured it might be
That's kinda assuming you want work to be the part of your life that satisfies you.

Many people would be perfectly happy with a headstone saying "I had a comfortable job, and raised a family I love" or "I had a comfortable job, and made my art in the evenings and weekends".
I'm afraid to ask, but do 18F and other likewise government "startups" pay well? Most government jobs relating to programming seem to be limited by the GS payscale.
SEO is definitely a science. The formula is authoritive content + number of high quality backlinks = highly ranked site.

However, I do agree that there is a lot of bad information out there, but the process of googles algorithm for ranking sites (page rank) is pretty straight forward at the end of the day
It could bypass patents, but instead it is owned by Merck, Giant Pharma so they can now bypass all the patents for themselves
Forbidden Desert is one of my favorites for groups of mixed skills. It's a teamwork exercise hidden in a game; you don't necessarily have to know anything esoteric to win the game, but you do have to work together. It does a lot better job of preventing one player from dominating the game than its predecessor, Forbidden Island.

The randomness of the tiles/parts and also the player jobs keeps things fresh.

I personally like Dominion a lot, though it's a card game, not a board game. Deck-building games like that push all the right buttons in me: memorization, statistics, strategy-building, and sheer competitiveness.

For two players, I also really like Jaipur because it pushes a lot of the same buttons and is incredibly simple and a quick play. It's so much simpler and general than Dominion that I feel ok introducing it to people who haven't played card games before (that is, I feel much less like a fox in a chicken coop).
I interpret it the opposite from you. Sure you probably won’t make a lucrative living restoring an old car but over time the value will go up. The lesson is more about putting in work that builds value, self actualization and doing something gratifying. I do this with land/property. Sure I could hire a dozer operator to clear it all but the time I’ve spent manually as well as renting a mini excavator for a small price has supplied tremendous gratification and perhaps added $50k in value by opening up a nice view of the mountains that nobody ever thought existed.
What's wrong with being comfortable though? Why should one be dissatisfied with being satisfied? Is satisfaction ever OK? And if so, when? When can you know for sure that you've actualized your full potential? Is it even something that's knowable? This seems overly omniscient to me.

I see this fearful, regret-filled ethos driving a lot of my peers and the western culture at large and I worry about the mindset it instills in people. I know it's well-intentioned and comes from a perspective of the human potential being the highest form of sovereignty. A wasted life seems like the biggest crime. And comfortable has somehow come to become synonymous with wasted.

I'd argue for the cultivation of meaning as a replacement to this search for "finally good-enough" potential actualization, but that's me.
If you’re looking for a course, Sam Ovens at consulting.com has a lot of good stuff.
"Unusable" seems quite strong. It's usable for open source projects.
It matters to some people, the same way art matters to some people as a way to be proud of what they’ve done, and have something “tangible” to show for it. Programming can be an extremely creative endeavor, and not having something to hang on the wall can be a bit disconcerting for the kind of craftsman who wants to look upon their work / listen to their latest composition every day.

You may not need anything code related to feel fulfilled / happy / whatever in life, but being dismissive by projecting isn’t useful.

I do agree that “too much of a perfectionist” is a stretch. It could be lack of motivation or fear of failure, or something entirely different, I don’t think the meaning is lost here.
I stopped working several years ago. I still go to the office and collect a check. In reality I do about 4 hours of real work a week. Have been for years. Software development is the ultimate bullsh-t job.
What value prop are you going to offer to get a consumer to pay $150 a year for Linux support? Enterprises will pay it because they have a value prop and because Windows seats aren't free. From a consumer's point of view, Windows _is_ free.
As an observer of this development, this is not correct.I recollect press releases deliberately ignoring the big elephants in the room. As an outsider relying completely on press, I think they lied by omission.

When self driving was first demonstrated to work, constraints were never highlighted. For example I did not see any discussion on the topics like black ice, needing a sufficiently accurate area map, proper road marking etc. in advance were never in new. Humans might struggle but can still drive in those conditions.

On the issue of driver assistance, I believe more of might give drives a sense of false safety and hence cause more accidents.
The drag-and-drop comment clarifies that this is a curriculum for a real intro to programming class, not some avant-garde educational experiment.
Notes on Security in 2019
yep thats the way to do it.
> How does Netflix find ideas to create or buy original TV shows and movies?

Netflix uses all of the following methods to find new content to buy or create:

- Netflix employs a team of creative executives and buyers, who receive pitches for shows and movies.

- Netflix has deep relationships with the creative community and talent agencies, who propose ideas for shows and movies.

- Netflix may purchase finished works at film festivals or other established venues.

- Netflix may generate an idea internally and hire writers or other creatives to develop those ideas further.

[0] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/100386
I'm not certain it would be a good move. Its one thing to deal with a limited number of in-show-business creators that give you files to put on your CDN, but quite another to deal with many, many random approach creators who stream content with an unknown quality or controversial nature. It is a non-trivial expansion of their infrastructure.
I read this based on some HN comments, I found it to be pretty motivational but not much else.

Was there anything else you gained from it that I may have skipped?
I don't buy that, family responsibilities can cloud your mind all day long. Family like other social and personal responsibilities are not something that you can simply switch off.
What did you dislike about React? What does Vue do better?
I'd just hate to see my word clock hacked over the Internet, like so many IoT devices, and start spelling out obscenities at me... or simply giving me the wrong time at a critical point.
Ah, for some reason I was thinking that FreeBSD's implementation of OpenZFS had native encryption.
> I find it amusing that so people who are quite capable feel compelled to hold onto the hand-rails for so long and won't just dive in to Linux.

Well it doesn't help that Linux desktop is backed by one of the most condescending cultures that ever stalked the internet.

Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, the way Linux works just doesn't jive with a lot of people? Like, everything has a middleman involved. Drivers for your hardware? Have to be merged into the kernel. Applications? Should go through (all of) the distro package repo(s) unless you want it to be a pain in the ass.

We get it, you find value in the way these things work, some of us don't.
It's great. France literally does load follow based on demand: raises/lowers control rods throughout the day.
Steam for Linux now runs some games under their own Wine btw there's a good number of them they support now.
we're moving offices but regrettably you will not have a desk in the new office. So sorry.

Wow. So classy.
I just have a separate script to configure my monitors for each of the environments that I work in. So I plug in at work and run work.sh, and everything is set up. Sounds like extra work, but it’s muscle memory at this point, and it’s very reliable. Plus there’s a graphical display configuration tool called arandr that lets you save the current config into a script, so they are easy to make.
I feel bad about projects like these, I really do. I'm sure a lot of effort have been put in and it probably satisfies what OP wants to do. But in the end, no one serious would ever consider using it.
So it copies the user interface of windows, with all its problems, but it doesn’t carry over the reliable variable DPI support, a notifications framework, a unified reliable software management interface, and consensus on how to provide basic utilities like secret management, file associations, and accessibility controls for the visually impaired. That is, the features of windows ACTUALLY worth copying. Linux is still mostly a bad XP clone.

Linux is usable for daily tasks, but only barely, and it gets further behind state of the art software every year. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone who isn’t fluent with critical debugging skills (bash, knowlege of logs and how to search them, the ability to manipulate system tasks, x11 and graphcis driver configurations, etc etc).

Until the FOSS community decides to unify behind a single experience and actually invest in the experience, it’s always going to be a shitty clone of the user interfaces people actually want to use.

I use linux every day but the idea it is usable for the average person without paying someone to support them through issues is an utter pipe dream.
I thought it was two words.
This is fascinating to me.

Do you have a link to the paper?

I can't quickly wrap my mind around why HHT would be have a shorter wait time than HHH
As mentioned big companies use it. Imagine a company with many many years of software development and libraries built on top of Oracle. Not easy to switch.

(Same for perforce)
My theory is that big phones are best for single device users. Most of my social circle has a computer at home and at work, and they often carry a laptop or tablet. The phone, in that case, really is a mobile device, and especially if you are carrying around a bunch of other crap, a small phone is awful nice.

My theory is that big phones dominate because a lot of people don't have reliable/maintained computers other than their cellphone. If that was true of me, I'd want the biggest cellphone I could get, too.

Personally, I think if this is true, and phone companies figure it out, you'll see phones begin to be priced like turn-of-the-millennium laptops. The giant and clunky "desktop replacement" units should be giant and priced at the bottom of the market. The small units should have all the premium features and be way more expensive.

The fact that there are very few small smartphones being made and that none of those are 'premium' smartphones would indicate that either I am wrong or there's a market opportunity that the major cellphone manufacturers are missing.
Windows is a first rate OS saddled with some stupid bullshit that's been piled on top of it. And be fair, maintaining a Linux configuration just the way you like it is a lot of work too. If it weren't, there wouldn't be hundreds of slightly-different distros.
I don't agree. While ongoing maintenance requires little labor for wind and solar, there are at least 400k US workers currently employed installing wind turbines and solar panels (rooftop and utility scale). That work will eventually run out, but it'll be years, if not decades before enough solar, wind, and other electrical infrastructure has been installed and upgraded to replace all fossil generation. It's as big, as if not bigger, than America's World War 2 efforts.
That's true of every game and pretty much all of entertainment. Nothing stays popular forever.
The SE is so small that you could add all of these elements to the existing phone with a well designed case and you'd still have a reasonably small (albeit thick) device.

(Of course it would be nice if a next-gen SE had IP67+ water/dust resistance and a larger battery, then all you'd need is to add a highly ruggedized case and you'd be golden.)