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> "People assume that our customers must either be super seniors or folks that live in the boonies with no internet access," she says. "Actually, our biggest hot spots are the coasts, like the Bay Area and New York."

Not surprising. Netflix, Comcast, Amazon Prime and other video streaming service charge you the same as the DVD rental, but force you to watch the entire video within 48 hours from 1st starting it.

Personally I find this very annoying (why do the do this? What does it cost them to let me watch it within a week or so and not 48 hours?).

Esp long movies like "Wolf of Wall Street" are not practical to watch in a single sitting.

I have a Samsung DVD player that I got for 40$ and depending on the movie, I find it's cheaper or same price to actually BUY the DVD from Amazon.com (with prime). Ex: Wolf of Wall Street was $4.99 to stream and view within 48 hours, or keep paying $4.99 until you finish it. The same DVD ( NEW ) was selling for $5.49 on Amazon, Free shipping so I ended up buying the DVD.
> The article fails to support this level of alarmism

Maybe you missed the section where he said "Killer drones are a big concern." and "A lot of what is most concerning is not happening in broad daylight. It’s happening in military labs, in security organizations, in private companies providing services to governments or the police."

> it's just a statistical modeling technique

...and gunpowder is just a chemical.
But then how will you tell everyone on Instagram that Starbucks got your name wrong again
But they have an interest in their "free" tools being around the next day, don't they? Otherwise they have to either do it the "old way" or find a replacement, both of which cost time. At $100,000 a year per 40-hour-work-week developer, a team of 5 developers costs $240 an hour. That's a lot to lose because your tools disappeared. Analogous to physical work, consider what getting a new tool that's slightly different does to your muscle memory- there's an inherent value in having long-lasting tools, even if they're free.
im a hacker
I used elm back in the day. Was excited and confused when I started seeing all sorts of articles about elm, until I realized it was a different elm.
Part of the trouble is ICE's "requests" are not always purported as requests.

See recent attempt in New York by ICE agent that he had a legally enforceable warrant and that his goal of detaining a vehicle occupant was not simply a request. [1]

The ICE officer in this case even quotes a statute that implied the driver might face penalties for not complying with the officer's demands.

Given this behavior, I wonder what the Washington state ICE agents' conversations with the motel employees were like.

This is not the only concerning incident with ICE in Washington state, recently ICE officers boarded a Greyhound bus and demanded a Portland-based comedian and grantee of legal US asylum come off the bus and forced him to show papers. [2]

This one struck home for me because I had seen one of this comedian's performances (an act which includes discussion of race and nationalism issues) not far from where I live a week prior.

The pattern of behavior from ICE is deeply upsetting.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/29/an-activist...

[2] https://www.oregonlive.com/today/2019/01/portland-comedian-s...
> That is like saying any corporation publicly traded yet regulated by the govt is now part of the govt.

Why does it have to be publicly traded? Corporations are exercises of government power by which people (who may themselves be corporations) are revocably delegated special powers created by government. They are, in a very real sense, aspects of the chartering government.

To the extent that they are permitted to serve basically unconstrained private purposes, that's not because they aren't part of the government, but because of what the hosting society believes about the proper application of government power.
I still subscribe to the 1 DVD at a time plan because the selection is so much wider than instant watch (in the US at least).

After 10 years of subscribing to Netflix I can only think of a handful of movies that weren't available on DVD. I don't have any hard numbers in front of me but it feels like there's maybe 20% of Netflix's catalog on instant watch vs what they have on DVD -- at least in popular genres like sci-fi, comedy, action and adventure.
It is sad to see how Apple has turned form being better but not getting the MarketShares in the old days ( Mac ), to Now getting MarketShare but not having the better product ( Apple Music vs Spotify )

And in the new evidence of DHH's tweets and finding about MacBook Keyboard being much much worst than we thought. I am losing faith in Tim Cook's Apple.
I'm mostly surprised because for free you can request the same titles (including Blu ray) from the local library. In my county you can search for a title and have it shipped from any library to the one closest to you (and conversely return it at any county library location).

Why pay 10ish a month for something that has the same selection and speed as Netflix?
Naive to the complexities of these kinds of simulations, have you developed citybound to be able to support additional simulation variables? For example, wind. I noticed Water & Weather is crossed out on your readme, what does that signify?
There doesn't seem to be a real market type motivator to encourage charter schools to operate legitimately. I'm sure many do operate legitimately, but just hoping the proprietors do so and then expecting local school districts to dedicate resources to police them (something that is far outside their core competency) seems like a recipe for things going sideways.
This is not the first time law enforcement has gone for motel records, nor even local cops being friendly with the night attendant. Motel 6 should be (or should have been) telling their employees that they aren't required to hand out any information without a court order or warrant.
Good to have a story to the original PDF, but you should also post this link on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19582562
Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRESOR
> “Let’s say you spend around $100 on coffee each month. If you were to put that $100 into a Roth IRA instead, after 40 years the money would have grown to around $1 million with a 12 percent rate of return.”

...why not both? :-)

But seriously, coffee is a drop in the bucket. Most of us spend 30% of our income on housing alone. And you have to eat. And coffee makes us happy and productive. The cost of not having that coffee - being unproductive and unhappy - is much greater.

And of course, what's the end goal? Have the most money at the end of your life? What do you win for that? Nothing. Your goal should be to spend all of your money living the best life you can, with enough money to retire on and enjoy the lifestyle you want (with a rainy day fund, of course). Teach your children what they need to know to succeed, so none will need to depend on any inheritance, and leave them whatever property or money is leftover.
If you do add those things, please don't give them magical benefits.

Transit should be outrageously expensive to add. (see the recent subway expansion in New York and in San Francisco) It should be outrageously expensive to operate.

Transit should shut down often for floods, strikes, the "wrong type of snow", "leaves on the tracks", crowds of people (good job San Francisco, LOL), maintenance, terrorist attacks, and many other random reasons.

Transit should increase crime.

Transit should go to the wrong places. You ask for it to be installed where it is needed, but instead it ends up a mile away because that was where it is possible to build.
>Are there any alternative discs-by-mail services out there that actually care about and want to be providing such a service?

It's not by mail, but most libraries have DVDs and Blurays. They often have countywide agreements so you can get a title shipped from across the city to your local library for free.
That is stronger language than I would use, but yes you declined an opportunity to increase the demand for glaziers.

I imagine your are trying to allude to the glazier's fallacy [1]. However that is only a fallacy from the perspective of the entire economy. An extra dollar spent on a glazier is going to benefit the glazier. The problem for the economy at large is that the dollar might have otherwise been spent on the tailor, baker, etc.

To take this back to software development, the glazier fallacy is why I am not against open source software. The overall economy is made more efficient from it. However that doesn't change the fact that the increase in efficiency comes from not having to pay more money to software developers. That isn't great if you view the situation purely from the perspective of a (selfish) software developer.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Hybrids are dead, nothing will save them - the more who assemble and build hybrids, the more money will be lost.
Annual battery advances over the past 10 years, coupled with flat lined IC engine advances assure this.
That said, there are a few special cases where the ability to switch fuels is an asset - very few...
And history: Income tax in the US dates to 1894. The 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913. A very premature response to WWII.

Income is not the only taxable quantity; tariffs, excise, property, wealth, and estate taxes are among the options.
I like it as well a lot, but after several hours of playing with it I started focusing too much on some things that I consider core flaws of the game and now I'm not motivated very much anymore to keep playing... .

Examples:

- utility services: I keep having problems with e.g. ambulances or trash collectors that are spawned very very far from the area where they're actually needed, even if a hospital or incinerator is just around the corner.

- size of buildings: I don't like the approach of having tall buildings / high-rise in developed high-value zones by default. In my opinion the size of a building should mirror only the density of the population living in that particular area, so it should be possible to have as well tall buildings in low-value zones. As well the amount of people living in tall buildings is for my taste not a lot different from the one of med/low-buildings, taking into consideration the height of the building... => how tall is a building should be a function of the people inhabiting it and not related to the value of the zone.

- deaths/births waves: once my cities got big, I kept getting each time waves of people dying and later a lot of births. There is a plugin that fixes this, but this should really be part of the basic game.

- traffic: this is actually already working veeeery well on multiple levels (e.g. very nice/interesting to observe how queues generate - I can observe that for hours hehe) but I do miss a logic that says e.g. "if this section of street has during a certain timespan ~95% of space occupied by vehicles then assume that there is a queue => mark that section of street temporarily non-existing for non-involved vehicles so that other cars would start looking for alternative paths" or something similar.

All in all, even if Cities Skylines was already a giant leap compared to the classical Simcity-games (excluding the last one which was just horrible), I'd definitely like more "action=>reaction"/"cause=>effect" in a potential future "Cities Skylines 2" or in this case in "CityBound".

Cheers

EDIT: for more details search in this page for the post containing "Unfortunately, traffic management is the only part of the game that really holds up as a simulator" by "amyjess" - I just read it now and I think that I agree as well with all what's mentioned there about CS (but I honestly don't rememember anymore how Simcity4 worked...).
"And again I ask, when someone else produces some technically great achievement and people pile on about the design looking bad, why is that treated any differently? Why isn't that raining on the parade?"

It is. HN rains on a lot of parades. It's a bit notorious for it. There are people who have posted that they have things they want to Show HN but don't particularly want... well, exactly this.
> Could it be considered entrapment if Motel 6 was pressured into giving ICE the information?

No, because ICE agents are not agents of the State of Washington, and the prosecution was by the State for violations of State law. ICE agents are, in terms of entrapment, no different than ISIS agents would be in this case.

EDIT: Also no, because entrapment is a criminal defense, and this was a civil consumer protection case.
I don't have a problem with companies explicitly choosing not to make the apps accessible, unless I'm forced to use them, or they were accessible and it's hard to switch now. I have a problem with UI toolkit developers dismissing accessibility entirely and then companies using those "cool things" to build apps. If you build an inaccessible web app and you want to add a11y later on, you reasonably can. It might be hard, but it's usually doable. If you use a toolkit like this though, you're completely, hopelessly screwed. You can't do anything without rewriting half of the toolkit to support an alternative DOM representation, which will probably affect your performance. I've never seen that done. Either the companies just give up or moan about the shitload of money they've wasted and rebuild the app using normal web components, or build an alternative. Sometimes the law just forces them to, and the toolkit forces them not to. Imagine the sums of money you can waste on this.
I love Haskell, so I say this with all the love in the world, but the unpredictable nature of Haskell's performance actually can lead to incorrect code.

For example, due to laziness, file-streaming with lazy IO can end up with files being closed before you're done consuming. This is almost certainly never what you want, so Haskell's system actually hurt correctness.

In that particular case it's easy to get around if you use the Conduit library, but that's just one example.
Those were my initial feelings as well. I guess the issue comes down to focusing on software development as a skill and having that skill rewarded in manner you can count on.

Our industry is really similar to actors. They have SAG and their guild negotiates with the MPAA. So every studio needs to belong to MPAA. Every year they negotiate the daily/weekly minimum rates for actors with SAG. They are pretty flexible with different rates for indy films vs big budget films.

It's not so hard to imagine a software developers guild where they negotiate for a daily/weekly minimum for developers, dba's, qa's, devops, and such...

https://www.sagaftra.org/production-center/contract/810/rate...

If you are celebrity equivalent of a developer, then you can get paid more. There are no real restrictions. You don't see famous actors getting paid below the daily minimum. When they work for a big budget film they typically get x multiple times the daily rate. Also, if they want to work on an indy film they can agree to those minimum daily rates as well.

I think its flexible enough so if you want to work for a nonprofit you can just accept the daily/weekly minimum vs asking full price if you work for FAANG.

I don't think it's a crazy amount of protections but it sets aside a basic set of standards you can expect from job to job.

If your are over 120k they suggest actors create a loan out corporation at that point...

https://firemark.com/2015/01/12/should-you-have-a-loan-out-c...

Can you imagine all the FAANG companies having to setup a Software Industry Association to negotiate with a Software Developers Guild every year? It seems plausible. It's probably in their best interest as well. These companies could just dump any social issues on to the union and just focus on making profits. The ability to lock out competitors might force other big software dev employers to join the association as well.
Machine Learning algorithms are not created equal
thank you so much for writing this. this is one of my favorites on computer graphics. i love the simple and to the point approach. similar are the github.com/ssloy repos.

so, are you going to release a print version? (i am one of the few who still love them)

do you plan on adding more chapters after rasterization?
Extending HAProxy with the Stream Processing Offload Engine
This approach is a bit tricky in Netflix, because they typically use different translations for the audio track and the subtitles. It can be more distracting than helpful. And kind of kills the "go back 10 seconds and temporarily turn on subtitles" technique that others have mentioned.
I am preparing to teach a computer graphics course for the first time and have been reading up on WebGL, etc. It looks like this will be a nice intro to the lower level aspects of graphics. Thank you!

By the way, Eck's book at:

http://math.hws.edu/graphicsbook/

is REALLY helpful for learning WebGL.
How I Understand a Monad
Blocking Russian scientists' access is pretty small example Elbakyan being reprehensible, regardless of whether Sci-Hub is or isn't a good thing. From all that's known about her, including her own chest-beating, she's a genuinely bad person, and her motivations have nothing to do with the "good of humankind".
Ah, yeah as I said I've not had experience with this myself. The complaining has mostly been on various games forums in relation to physical vs digital games discussions and day 1 patches. It seems to be primarily comcast customers though which is why I thought it was in the US.
>It certainly wasn't ethical

So someone can act unethically, reap the benefits of it, be caught red-handed, and suffer no consequences.

Sounds like a loophole in the justice system to me. More to the point, now that we've seen it happen once what has been done to prevent it from happening again?
I feel this is worth reposting in this thread:

For those in the US, something I have found pleasantly surprising is that the local library (this is a "small" library with only two branches) feels this niche quite well. I have been able to get recent releases as well as it having a pretty healthy supply of general interest and some specialize interest movies. They have an online catalog so I can search and set a hold on a movie, book, or other physical media so I can go in, grab it, and go. Many of them allow you to rent an obscene amount of movies at once (the limit at mine is 20 movies check out at a time), and it's free! On top of that, they partner with a digital service that also allows you to "rent" a set amount of movies/shows/ebooks per month (for free!).

Something I have not tried is to see what happens if they don't have a movie/book/show that I want. I imagine they have a process to request them buying it if there's enough interest.
I did it a bit further up. Like you can ask the toddlers who ended up on no fly lists, mistakes happen. And if you are not a US citizen, you dont have any legal recourse. And if you end up with a case of mistaken identity, you can not just be put on no fly lists, but be banned from international banking as well as having any company doing business in the US be banned from engaging in any transactions with you. Which is basically every company. Not even mentioning the worst cases of illegal renditions and being put in torture black sites as well as drone killings if you went on holiday in the wrong region of the world.

And even if you assume a perfectly working surveillance system, there are still people being targeted for legal behavior, like being employed by someone who has business relations with Iran or something trivial like having your PayPal account canceled for transactions to Cuba.

Where as with china, what exactly is the possible personal impact for non Chinese citizens? Having my bosses IP stolen? Not being allowed to travel to China?
This is a spot on analysis. The danger is not that the system itself is too powerful, it's that powerful entities are putting so much faith in these systems that when they fail it's catastrophic
>> but saying "hillary clinton is guilty of ____" or blatantly misrepresenting facts or lieing? that needs to stop.

> Why does saying that Hillary Clinton is guilty of something need to stop?

That's a too-literal reading of the comment. The implication was clearly that what needs to stop is lies that claim Hillary Clinton is guilty of something she's not.
I mean, if you're running a burger joint and fewer people are coming in to buy burgers, why would you continue to order the same amount of beef each week?

I get that the real world more complicated than this, as forecasting can be done for months out, but businesses can't magically fix the economy by continuing to spend the way they have been because it isn't sustainable.
Yes, I can't stand it if I didn't catch a crucial key phrase that may be relevant to the story later on.

If I could, I would have the entire script as well, like Script to Screen does: https://www.facebook.com/pg/scripttoscreen.film/videos
I think people underestimate the potential benefits of being a good partner to the Dept of Defense. While facial recognition maybe a rounding error in Amazon's revenue, there are large cloud infrastructure contracts that could be won with the DoD. This sort of partnership on FR could build trust and position Amazon as a willing (and front-running) partner for the DoD (and its many challenges in modernizing data centers and migrating to the cloud).
Sure, but if you had affordable education and housing and healthcare, and real wage growth that kept up with productivity increases, you'd have millions in the bank AND you'd have a latte every day.
Honestly it feels like it should be illegal. If a cop or a cop-simulacrum walks up to me and says "You're going to jail unless you give me this" I'm probably going to give them that. I don't want to go to jail and I know they'll cook something up about resisting arrest if I don't play along.
An insurance program for which you pay premiums while you're working, and which may later pay you a monthly amount based on your income while working, your age when you start receiving it, and a few other things.

Also, a way to reduce homelessness and poverty among (primarily) the elderly by providing them with money to live on rather than letting them die of exposure on someone's porch then paying to haul away the corpses.

For those truly opposed to it imagine not only having to have the occasional dead body hauled away but then being charged for that haulage because hey, big government is bad and why should you have to pay for dead bodies being hauled away when they're not on your porch?