skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure legally there was a reference, however the interface was structured to loot my credit card. I told support as much, and while I'm sure there was some indicator, again, no notification my card was being charged in my linkedin account notifications, and no emails that it was being charged. You need to watch it accumulate practically real time, because it will auto renew. Under what circumstances someone would willingly sign up to have $100 taken from them as an automatic refill is beyond me.

Further, when someone is fundamentally dissatisfied with a service, you either refund them or you have profited by misrepresentation. In spite of a messaged commitment from them to refund the money, I have not received any notification that it has been refunded.

The good news is that when a company's culture sucks that much, it is ripe for disruption.
But price matching is predicated on realistic economic competition, not we'll-match-it-no-matter-what-based-on-principle. There are already exceptions based on only dealing with "major online retailers" – i.e. retailers that operate on making stable revenue/profit from selling things – as well as disqualifying certain kind of discounts, like clearances and Black Friday prices. And in any case, Best Buy's qualifying requirements [0] make an exception for "pricing errors".

[0] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/customer-service/price-match-gu...
> Suddenly people stop buying from this company because there isn't a 99.5% chance that the company will refund any future fraud or mishaps.

In this scenario one company offers a better product via a better customer experience. Simply being able to offer a better product because of scale is now enough to get people talking about antitrust issues. Not everything is an antitrust issue. It's really starting to grate on me that it's impossible these days for a title to have "Amazon" in it and nobody to be down in the comment section grinding an axe about trust-busting. Is it an antitrust issue that Amazon can hire better lawyers if they get sued? Is it an antitrust issue that Amazon can afford to staff enough customer support employees to process all of their complaints in a timely manner?
Easier to on-board in the sense of limiting what new engineers can see, only giving them smaller pieces of access.

Otherwise it's probably the opposite, takes a lot longer for new engineers to understand the full system. Perhaps even reduces the bus factor, since less people understand all the moving parts.
But an online store that makes a pricing error and then potentially reverts it without shipping the goods shouldn't necessarily be priced matched by other retailers. 99.3% discount isn't reasonable...
Yes, .tax files.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/saving/help/how-do-i-save-...
For those wondering : https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
To use a font on the web, you have to munge it into a special web font format, which only a browser(1) knows how to display text with.

The files this article is talking about are not in that format. They are all TTFs, which you can drop into your system’s font directory and use anywhere on your computer.

Also, these TTFs are linked in a public manner rather than being a file whose link is buried deep in the page source where no human is ever intended to see it.

1: or font conversion tools
this was no accident. their pricing mechanisms are top notch. this is a marketing move!
Because they have done it quite a few times in the past.
They were priced for perfectionn at a PE ratio something like 150. Disney competion coming this Fall.
There's no free trial, so auto-cancelling would mean you cancel on day zero. So...yes? Closing the signup form is equivalent to an auto-cancel for this service, so do that.
Most people in the government that I've dealt with oversee projects and are really risk and contract managers. I took the question more as "why are you using a new language and nightly builds of that language." It's exactly the kind of thing that most program managers wouldn't even consider.
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20465981
I suspect it's because people follow familiar patterns.

A team of old ladies raises an eyebrow. A team of young white males won't.
Sounds to me like someone at Amazon is good at marketing. Let a few things go for an insane deal, knowing it will hit the front page of every blog. Then reap the rush of next years prime day with people scouring the site for pricing "errors". Pretty cheap and effective marketing.

Kind of like a raffle but without having to get all the lawyers involved to make sure you comply with raffle laws.
Actually, none of these processes is essential for running Spark unless you have to read data from HDFS and have to run Spark on YARN.

Spark supports reading data from different sources, e.g., cloud blob storage, relational databases, NoSQL systems like C* and HBase. NameNode is only required if your data is stored on HDFS, and that is not an essential problem of Spark.

As for scheduling, Spark can run in standalone mode without any YARN components. Actually, that is how Spark clusters run in Databricks.
This is not some over-burdened shop owner on the corner. I doubt any people were involved in setting these prices. Some algorithm messed up somewhere in a company for which this is a rounding error.
Poor little republican snowflake can't handle Netflix.

I feel bad for you.
I'm a fan of well thought out and fleshed out story-lines with planned endings. I don't need a 10 year show, but I neither enjoy being strung along(Lost) or having a show just suddenly pulled.
Then it wouldn't be a honest mistake and they would have to honor the sales.
Is this a more secure platform since it’s so far behind that it’s unsupported by malware?
dis.dis(bar) shows:

0 LOAD_FAST 0 (x)
2 LOAD_CONST 1 (3)
4 INPLACE_ADD
6 STORE_FAST 0 (x)
8 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
10 RETURN_VALUE

So INPLACE_ADD and STORE_FAST are essentially doing x = x.__iadd__([3])
Given Netflix's propensity to burn money in an attempt to solve the problem, they're in for a world of hurt if things don't change. They fund and cancel so many projects it feels like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. They have a few hits, but this won't save them from the content behemoths.

I think Netflix should begin lobbying for a greatly retracted copyright period. Studios always need to produce, so this doesn't impact their bottom line. Streaming companies are needed to facilitate interchange. The one thing this does is handicap players with lots of IP and forces them to invest in new content. I think it would be a win for consumers and competition.

Lawmakers should take a serious look at Disney, too. They own a large and important swath of American culture, and they can effectively muscle out non-Disney content from both distribution and attention.
https://chimera.sh/ for old iOS 12 versions
The bootloader collects some, but I doubt it reliably collects enough all by itself.
> My experience is that the interviewer can pretty much make or break a technical interview

Yep, that's exactly what I've tried to communicate here.

I like the idea of take home assignments as well. Maybe the industry will get to a state where these can be done completely remotely (and even graded automatically) in order to determine whom to bring onsite, where you just have a general discussion.
It shows up fairly frequently in pseudocode, especially for BNF syntax rules. I also (probably as a result) have come across it often-ish in embedded DSLs if the host language already uses = for assignment.

So from the perspective of Python as executable pseudocode it makes some sense.
I cancelled but I sign up like once a quarter now, if that, to catch things I want to see like Stranger Things. But the quality of 90% of the content is pretty weak and seems to be getting worse. For that same price I’d rather rent two movies per month from iTunes (and they often have 99 cent rental deals).

Netflix is focusing too much on television series that are 10x too long to trick people into feeling they received value. I’d like to see more original movies.

The UX decisions are also very anti-user. No user reviews, just a worthless “percentage match” that seems to be randomly generated. Auto playing videos, changing movie covers randomly to trick you into thinking more new content is there than it actually is, etc.
Ultra high-speed rail could travel from Seattle to Portland in 1 hour
But metrics show that autoplay engages the average Netflix subscriber to leverage the service more and watch more Netflix-branded content.
Nice!

If you're interested in graphics using more traditional manufacturing, halftone can work well on PCBs. It's not too hard to do with your favourite raster graphics and CAD packages. If you use KiCad, here's a shameless plug for a toy project: https://github.com/ianrrees/kicad_halftone .
10% is nothing for netflix
Fortnite $5M Tournament Statistics on 24K+ Games
"A HTTP proxy server that allows to use historical and obsolete web browsers on the modern web. It works by rendering the web page in to a GIF image with ISMAP."

So it's a thin client terminal type of thing. I was really hoping it was done by a ridiculous number of polyfills!
Do “Bernie or Bust” People Have a Plan B?
As someone who recently cancelled my Netflix subscription after idly flipping through it and realising nothing here holds my interest anymore, I feel like many of the reasons people pirated TV/Film content in the past (and Netflix helped to reduce by many-fold) have now returned with a vengeance.

I'm on Australian Netflix, and the selection of titles has steadily diminished from an already reduced catalogue to the sad state it is now. There isn't much to hold my interest anymore.

Piracy for me, since becoming an adult and being able to pay my way through life, is mostly a question of convenience and availability. Netflix made it convenient and reasonably available.

But now, with the steadily more and more fragmented state of streaming services, to watch the things I want to watch I have to either sign up for 3-4 different services.

This makes the piracy route become more and more attractive again - and I don't like that this is the case. I want to pay people for their content.

But ultimately, it's ended up just pushing me away from tv/film content altogether. I can easily get a wide selection of books on my kindle, a game from gog or steam (that I don't need a subscription for) or just watch youtube.

For the stuff I really want to watch, I look around, see if there it is worth the dosh/hassle for the legal version (it rarely is) and usually just give up (and in rare cases, pirate).
This seems to do a lot more than canceling trials, and I really like the idea.

Unfortunately, you can't even get into the app without providing your phone number and then entering your banking information.

Nope, not happening.

It's not that I don't trust the kid making this app. I mean, I shouldn't trust him, but that's not even the issue. He is using a personal developer account, doesn't seem to have a proper company, is involving third parties for app functionality (including the banking info).

Even with the best of intentions, he's likely to get hacked or bought out, or his third party SDKs are, and there's no way to protect yourself from that.

You would have to be seriously foolish to type your bank username and password into this thing.

Maybe someone can make a virtual bank app, so you can sign up for virtual credit card apps...
For some reason, reading your comment gave me a flashback (no pun intended) to the dark days of sIFR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Inman_Flash_Replaceme...
I don't use Google Voice anymore but I was never able to get call recording to work. For one, I think it only worked on incoming calls which is pretty useless.
Auto playing trailers can’t be disabled on the Android TV Netflix app
> It's available now through the app DoNotPay, created by 22-year-old wunderkind coder and entrepreneur Joshua Browder.

Hmm this needs explanation. Why's he a wunderkind? What did he do? I googled him and found his wikipedia explaining that he created DoNotPay. Is that enough to justify a wikipedia entry or is it because of the forbes 30 under 30 thing? Can I create a wikipedia page about myself for the apps I created?
These projects were on the scale of lifetimes.

Not quite, given that Sneferu had at least three built.
Most people I talk to don’t want to dedicate 70 hours of their life to a mediocre show that is clearly manufactured to last 70 hours.

Frasier was from a different time, when there weren’t many choices, so committing to one show for 10 years made more sense. I think people lose attention easier now and there are so many other things to occupy your time in the entertainment space.
>tend more towards violence or other destabilizing actions / allowing elites to continue to have a robust debate

This is actually crux of the issue for me. People are losing their minds over alt-right operating openly and undermining western institutions without applying the parallel to China. China is not a woke place. Chinese nationalism is legitimate problem - widespread calls for retaliatory killings after Uighers terrorist attacks, extreme dissatisfaction with foreign/white privileged of expats, out of control anti-HK/Taiwan/Korean/Japanese sentiment during diplomatic spats - all this is suppressed for civic order and development, and occasionally, very judiciously weaponized. Social media in the last few years have demonstrated that a broadly unfiltered public commons is not conducive to social order. See the shitshow that is Indian MSM nd increasingly runaway Hindu nationalism for the alternative. It's not that I don't value western liberal values, I just don't think China is ready for it now. Escaping middle income trap is more pressing than liberalization in the mid term. Also consider that the Chinese demographic pyramid is dangerously composed of angry, unmarried men. We're all familiar with that demographic right? So yes, the current system is fine in my opinion.

Brief touch on other points: I'm not inclined to give western corporate posturing brownie points until they actually deliver, which by and large China has. Doesn't matter if a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice. Well one cat's not catching mice.

>Chinese people to be able to read Liu Xiaobo's take on June 4th, on Charter 08, on 996.

Again, any Chinese person can read this via VPN that takes 10 minutes to setup, by and large the people who are interested does. There's something to be said about the greater Chinese cultural apathy towards politics deliberately engineered by the CPC, but to insinuate that a curious person in the mainland can't be just as informed as someone in the west is false. Personally, I'm more worried about misinformed Americans with enfranchisement and the ability to select loony presidential candidates that upends world order every 4 years than a revisionist Chinese state that has every geopolitical interest to continue the current world order, albeit with a more influential role.
Registrars will generally auto-renew domains for their registrants regardless of any TLD-specific policies.

And that makes sense; letting a domain name lapse absent explicit instruction is generally the wrong thing to do.
Any Nathan For You fans here?
Stop mulling over it and just do it, it will be a great talk!
Credit cards in the US have sane policies. There's a grace period following renewal during which, if you cancel, the annual fee is refunded. Also, if you cancel at any other point, you get your prorated annual fee back.
Adding a a gate with jellybean logic was a noticeable expense in the 80s and would still be today.
> The reason it is "bent" is because they ran out of boulders and so had to reduce the pitch to reduce the number of blocks required to finish the project.

The article contradicts you.
Netflix streaming might be like the big box hardware store coming into town.

You might be able to get lots of cheap stuff, but they will eventually destroy the market for quality fixtures or tools or paint or whatever.

I do like the DVD service.
Serious questions:

Could Netflix actually go out of business? If so, who buys their IP?

Who will be the major players in the streaming entertainment space in 5 years? How will this impact film and tv production/distribution? (Less variety in theaters?)

Is consolidation in the media industry something lawmakers would take interest in breaking up? Can we lobby to decrease copyright duration?

Can an aggregation service charge a flat fee and provide a single interface to all of the various streaming platforms? Can we fight this somehow? The situation is becoming worse (and more expensive) than cable.
If there was a KeepAlive system for paying maintainers then this sort of thing might be less likely to happen.

Not sponsorship, not donations, not support subscriptions - those concepts are not the same a simple payment for nothing more than Keeping a project funded and Alive.

KeepAlive payments in which companies pay a minimum $100month fee to KeepAlive projects that they depend on.

How many companies have a dependency on Kenneth's requests module? Alot. Hundreds if not thousands. And if there was a self interest obligation for companies to make monthly KeepAlive payments then those companies would not be now wondering what it means to have so many projects that depend on Requests now without the project author.

UPDATE: having read https://journal.kennethreitz.org/entry/r-python maybe Kenneth would be exiting anyway. But who knows, maybe if companies actually paid to Keep their dependencies Alive then people like Kenneth might remain engaged.
Where is that setting?
Yep, and it does so pretty easily. You just connect Amplify Console projects in each of the two accounts to a particular branch (or branches if you want feature branches in dev) of your git repository.
I like the idea, do you have a photo of the end result (on a PCB)?
Credentials are not shared under the hibp password system. the first five characters of the hex encoded md5 of the password is shared and the server responds with matching hashes. If 20 bits (2 and a half characters) of hashed entropy can compromise your password you have bigger problems.
Foreign purchases of American homes plunge as Chinese buyers flee the market
Or someone on slickdeals is good at marketing because that's what half the article talks about.

I'm surprised Amazon honored such a big price mistake. A few weeks ago, some Western Digital drives were priced incorrectly. About half off. Everyone got cancelations. And yes, I heard about it on front page of slickdeals...
https://github.com/libra/libra/blob/master/scripts/nightly_f...

From Reddit:

> The intention of that particular script is to eventually help us move towards eliminating the use of nightly features and limit depending on new ones so that we can eventually be on stable. Some features (like async/await) we'll need to wait until they've graduated to stable while others we should be able to make sufficient changes to stop relying on them.
If you use paypal, scrub pre-approved payments page: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_manage-paylist

I've caught two unintended renewals and cancelled a lot of pre-approved payment authorizations. Out of 20 authorizations, only Google and Valve were legit recurring payments, all other just set it up after a one-time purchase.
Deconstruct Conf 2019 Recap
The problem is that the errors are too small for most users to care about. Few care if a date-time value from 2015 is a few hours out or if a location in Australia from 2008 is a metre out. So hardly anyone cares about finding a solution.

The problem would be taken a lot more seriously if continental drift was 10m per year instead of a few cm.
I don't care about how companies allocate their funds. Results matter more.
It's cool to see a congressman who has this level of software dev knowledge.
Ding! Ding! Ding! This feels like the right explanation. And if not, I am going to use it for future marketing efforts.
Probably not relevant, we have wikiwand.com, so the UI somehow does evolve after all.
This reminds me of an article describing how bad restaurant food in San Francisco is getting because housing inequality is so high that all the food-prep workers are getting pushed out of the cities.

You can’t have head chefs commuting four hours a day to cook you fish...

I could believe this is happening in Paris as well.
Depends on the Roku app. I have a roku and it never autoplays for Netflix but does autoplay for prime.
Do the math at how many shows have LGBT characters there are, then go look at how many there are in the US. The numbers are hilariously overrepresented. Groups like native Americans on the other hand are sorely underrepresented.
For non-tech users, privacy isn't a very good selling point.

Both my parents use Chrome because it's already installed on Android and works fine. My attempts to convince them to Firefox didn't work out even with multiple attempts.
When I was working at Best Buy at least, the register wouldn't let you price match if it fell below a certain margin. If that's still the policy, that means that managers were likely involved, and very likely approving the price match.

I guess that's going to inspire some serious good will in those customers, but geeze, that's a $12,000 loss in the day's profit. Is it worth it?
I am interested in making games, and looking at market data, either you can build a good game and pray you get lucky, or you can make a much easier game and build in pay to win and hope you get lucky.

It's much easier to make a pay to win game, so I could try a few times more than by trying to make a good game off the bat.

People just don't like to pay money up front, so getting them to start for free and then adding in the paid features to skip past your intentional delays is a pretty strong tactic to get people to pay when they otherwise wouldn't. I just refuse to do it because I find it unethical.
QI department?
Classic AWS. I have a SA Pro cert and I still couldn't reliably articulate the difference between Lightsail, SAM, and Amplify CLI. It feels like they keep adding to each without any apparent strategy. I didn't even know there was another product also branded "Amplify" separate from the CLI.

AWS really needs more centralized decision-making. It feels like individual product teams are allowed to go way off in the weeds without any frame of reference for whether their solutions make sense when plugged into the full suite.
I canceled my prime subscription, but they charged me anyway..

I called and got a refund, but I also told them I wanted a $25 'convenience fee' --

They paid it.
Python is a little more readable, but both Python and Kotlin are perfectly clear in this case:

sorted((u for u in users
if u.last_name.startswith("S")),
key=lambda u: u.last_name
)[:3]

If last_name is a function, which it often would be in Python, it gets better:

sorted((u for u in users
if last_name(u).startswith("S")),
key=last_name
)[:3]

However, I think you probably got the sort key wrong if you're taking the first three items of the result. Maybe you meant key=abuse_score, reverse=True, or something.
After a couple of cancellations of shows I was liking, I'm not generally that enthused about starting a new show. Especially given the trend of not resolving anything at the end of the first season, where you get no payoff at all. I don't mind cliffhangers, but resolve the season's main problem first! (ref: The Expanse)
If you listen to the audio he probably did say it, but it appears to be audio that is consistent with a type of McGurk effect where you can change what you hear based on what you are thinking.
I agree. But you have to admit it is unethical.

People justify stealing $16 million from the government because it is just a rounding error every day :)