skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With old TV, you at least had a unified interface - channel numbers or DVR - to access everything. You were also a bit limited with devices - TV of course worked, but being able to use a pc, tablet or phone was only for the few of us savvy enough to run something like mythtv.

Removing price and commercials from the discussion, the big benefit streaming brought was a way to overcome the technical limitation that meant there was a broadcast schedule. Instead, you can watch any show at any time.

The new services are much worse about several of these. Let's again assume price is a non issue so you subscribe to everything.

First, you have annoying problem of remembering which service or app to use for each show. If available on multiple services, you have to remember which one you were watching on so it preserves your place.

Second, you also have problems with availability: service x doesn't work on device A, but service y only works on device A. This means switching inputs, or limiting what show you can watch based on what devices you currently have available. There's even more frustrating problems with this, where for example, service x will work on PC, but not with surround sound.

Third, you have to use a different user interface and navigation structure for each app. Annoyingly, these will sometimes update and change their UI in radical ways without asking, and these changes won't happen on all devices at the same time, so you have even more interfaces to remember.

This reminds me of the old "pirate vs paying customer" infographic [1] where the overall experience is markedly worse for paying customers.

I haven't had cable for over a decade, and when I did, it was all PVR'd via mythtv. My tv watching experience has been via mythtv, xbmc, Kodi and Plex. I tolerate Netflix for convenience, and YouTube as a separate app because it's unique. I've tried having other services, but found them too annoying for the reasons I started above - and it didn't help that they all had significantly worse interfaces than Plex and Netflix.

[1] https://m.imgur.com/gallery/DnQYR8S
> making sacrifices for yourself, as a voluntary moral choice, and just expecting other people to do the same is not going to be a successful strategy, because you're up against human nature itself.

I have the opposite experience in my life so far (40yo), and I am a perpetrator of this “strategy”.

Ask yourself, for example, why the nature of humans is that hopeless for you. How are the humans around you? (also those in the news)

What if - before fixing earth - i fix myself? My circle of friends, of colleagues, the family... from my most intimate partner to the whole society it looks like a long way .

But I will be surprised how many humans can change for good, just because I was the one changing first.

it will never stop.
it came from the concept that they sought to replace : in-person rental companies.

Blockbuster didn't only stock Paramount pictures -- and people wouldn't have had much patience for rental groups that worked that way when there were alternatives that didn't -- piracy being the alternative here.
I thought this was really well articulated, goes for all mass surveillance:

> But why?

> You might not think that your secrets are worth keeping, but with enough data, everyone’s a suspect. Maybe you’ve sent a Merry Christmas text to the suspect of an ongoing investigation? Maybe you’ve googled “manure” the week before a homemade bomb is found?

> Maybe you’re the only person with a mobile phone that’s been near the scene of a crime, and maybe you’d just bought binliners. Mass surveillance flips the burden of proof. Your movements are recorded and can be used against you, but not in your defense. You might have left your phone at home on purpose.
It's myopic to blame the enforcement of existing laws on Trump. Laws make it clear that stepping foot on US soil without authorization requires federal detention pending a court date. The court system is clogged due to the ease of entry and massive backlog. In early 2018 Democrats boycotted an opportunity to negotiate a change in the laws and build a wall. Despite all the criticisms of a wall, it is the only tool that would physically prevent and deter the majority of the 100k migrants stepping foot onto US soil every month, and thus solve the current overcrowding of facilities. Facilities that are on par with the rest of the developed world, if they aren't overcrowded.
You can try to blue screen it and debug the crash dump.

"Forcing a System Crash from the Keyboard":

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
Agreed, but it's incredibly naive to assume they are not. Google's product is it's users, and it's a known fact they manipulate results based on what they want you to think or what they think you want to see. They are completely shady on privacy.

I don't know why HN seems to be so stubborn about things like this. It's clear as day they fingerprint users, but seems like the majority of users here refuse to believe a corporation or government has done anything wrong unless they literally admit it in a press release.
This is a significant release for Kong. If you are a Kong user - or you just want to give it a try - I welcome any feedback that can help improve Kong.
In the DVD-by-mail days it really did. Even obscure movies made in communist East Germany! Maybe it still does (I like most people who were early Netflix customers, haven't subscribed to the DVD option in nearly a decade).
>If you can fill one with stolen CC details and then either cash out in a store or sell for a discount, that's a pretty basic launder, no?

that just sounds like credit card fraud and fencing[1]. if you replaced starbucks card with something else that's valuable (eg. beats headphones), would you still call it money laundering?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)
I did, notepad and Netscape was where it was at..
A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
dc: The RPN arbitrary precision calculator already on your Unix system
Yeah id say its likely closer to a PB a day globally.
For mobile:

> Under the terms of the transaction, Pivotal's Class A common stockholders will receive $15.00 per share cash for each share held, and Pivotal's Class B common stockholder, Dell Technologies, will receive approximately 7.2 million shares of VMware Class B common stock, at an exchange ratio of 0.0550 shares of VMware Class B common stock for each share of Pivotal Class B common stock. This transaction, in aggregate, results in an expected net cash payout for VMware of $0.8 billion. The impact of equity issued to Dell Technologies would increase its ownership stake in VMware by approximately 0.34 percentage points to 81.09% based on the shares currently outstanding. VMware currently holds 15 percent of fully-diluted outstanding shares of Pivotal. The transaction is expected to be funded through cash on the balance sheet, accessing short-term borrowing capacity, and approximately 7.2 million shares of VMware Class B common stock to Dell.
> Why would you not roll your own payment processing?

There are various "financial hammers" these types of breaches will induce, depending on the network (Visa, MasterCard, etc.). Plus, processors (the banks) will put the liability onto Merchants which are shown to have violated thier ToS. Storing PAN's in clear text (or at all in some cases) is certain to trigger one or both of these ramifications.
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I'm showing 1M and 200K Google results for those phrases, respectively.
> Competition is fragmentation.

No it is not. I don't have to buy a separate car or a separate gas cap or whatever to go fill up my car with gas. There's a standard that car manufacturers follow and a standard that gas stations follow that allow them to interop without issue. I can stop at a Diamond Shamrock, a Wawa, a 7-11, a Sinclair, a Texaco, or a Phillips 66 and get gas at any of them.

And while I'm filling up that gas, I have to pay for it. At most places I can use my Visa, my Discover, my MasterCard, or walk inside and pay cash. American Express is of course the outlier here.

Competition can exist and flourish despite agreed upon standards. A standard to watch all your video from one app despite buying/renting/subscribing to multiple services does not mean an end to competition. To the contrary it would make me significantly more likely to try new services.

In fact Amazon's model for this proves it can work. It's just that their frontend is tied to their subscription service, rather than being its own entity. But I watched Ash vs Evil Dead on Amazon by buying a Starz subscription. I watched Game of Thrones by buying an HBO subscription on Amazon. It was seamless from my perspective and I was able to watch in my favored player.

Now we just need something that can do that but is not tied to a specific service. We'll call it MetaPlayer. I open up MetaPlayer and search for Stranger Things. Since I have a Netflix subscription, I watch it and that's it. I then search for The Simpsons. I don't have Hulu, so I'm prompted to sign up, preferably with one click, and then I can watch the Simpsons the exact same way I watched Stranger Things. And so on.
Totally agree about Toastmasters. I went from being completely unable to speak in front of people to being pretty OK doing it. I am not a great speaker by any means but I am doing fine and not having anxiety is great.

And if you are really interested you can go much further in Toastmasters.
It's that open. I happened to be nearby on one of their tour days in 2017. It was cool in a low-key way. There's a combination office and visitor center where they manage the telescope and do at least some level of processing.

There wouldn't be much for you to see unless you were there for a tour. But there are plenty of public roads where you could totally drive up and see the dishes if you wanted.
In theory it doesn't have to be a single entity. With compulsory licensing there could be multiple competing services that have all available content. In music there are a half dozen services.
WeWork Is Valued 10 Times Greater Than This Profitable, Public Rival
I work on the TS team, I have built two pretty big TypeScript projects in the lsat few years:

- https://github.com/danger/danger-js
- https://github.com/flappy-royale/flappy-royale

They don't use bleeding edge concepts, but are solid & simple codebases which have scaled well. (Though whether you should ever take code advice from a game is a worthy question)
> don't forget how India slowly started to get rid of the caste system and other deep rooted inequality problems ... China spent no time with such sentimental stuff.

You might be interested in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
Growing smartly: Cerebras unveils the world’s chunkiest AI chip
Anyone remember when Geocities was a virtual city with neighborhoods?

I remember having to click around a visualization of a neighborhood block, and having to reserve a homepage. Homepages were limited per neighborhood. Each neighborhood had a name that was part of the URL path to the page.

That was very early in Geocities' life, and the artificial scarcity they tried to create didn't last long. But that's the story behind the name "Geocities".
One poblem with that idea:

Many streaming services are quite shitty, don't allow you to link directly to a show, and don't allow streaming on PC (or don't allow it any higher than standard def), and most people want to watch their TV on TVs, which means your service needs to work with the various services available on the various common streaming hardware.

I swear Google Play Movies is the most convoluted difficult to use UI to play video I've ever seen. I bought a show in it once, but I bought the entire series, which shows up in the UI separately from every other season. (So it shows as seasons "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1 through 6"). Every time I want to watch an episode, I need to open, go to my library, go to TV shows, pick the show, scroll to the "full series" season, then scroll from episode 1 to the episode I last watched to play it.

It's insane that it's that difficult! And knowing how difficult it is I absolutely will never order another show from that ecosystem again.
My FF is up to date. I’m on NordVPN, maybe it is a time issue?
As humans have evolved larger brains, intelligence went up extremely. Human brain size is limited by a lot of factors specific to human biology, like the fact that it needs to be small enough to fit through the birth canal, it can't take up too much of the body's energy, and it can't make us too top-heavy. It seems unlikely that human evolution ran into these limits right at the same time it finished making a maximally-intelligent mind. None of these limiting factors apply to AI. If/when we figure out how to make intelligent software, we make AIs, and then we improve them to be human-level intelligent, it seems really unlikely to me that we'll hit a limiting factor right there. I think if we ever create near-human-level intelligent AIs, we'll blow right past human-level intelligence and hit a limit further on that's not coincidentally placed at human-level intelligence.
Is it reasonable to expect an all-in-one streaming service?

Sure, if you're willing to pay $200 per month. (Which, frankly, would be a fair price to access all movies and TV ever made.)
> The media on the other side...

If politicians like Sanders created their proposals based on what the other side was saying, we’d never have major discussions around our culture, policy, or anything else of consequence. In this hyper partisan, bifurcated media environment, we’re constantly bombarded with accusations of Nazism juxtaposed with accusations of Red-scare socialism. I don’t know many people that actually care what the other side is saying because we tend to focus on what our side is saying.

The big problem I see is that people want proposals to be perfect on arrival, which isn’t possible because A) perfect is subjective and people disagree on details, and B) in our legal system, just like life, nothing ever goes exactly to plan. As I said earlier, legislation is often passed by making trade-offs, and the ideal is often a moving target.

We shouldn’t look at proposals like this and expect them to come out exactly the way they’re advertised because our system has never, ever worked that way.

Look at the early drafts of Obamacare compared to what was eventually passed. Was the ACA a failure because dems made serious concessions around several aspects of the bill? How often do you hear that Obama was a failure because he wasn’t able to pass the ACA as he originally envisioned it? Never.
I would much prefer a blanket ban on production and distribution in the same company.

We would have none of these problems if Netflix couldn't produce its own shows and Disney couldn't make its own streaming service

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_P....
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The sum forms a necessary but not sufficient condition for being within a certain Levenshtein distance. In your example, the inequality I gave above does not apply since |c1-c2| = 0. You would have to calculate the Levenshtein distance. In cases where the inequality is satisfied, you do not have to calculate the Levenshtein distance at all.

The idea is that any edit operation on a string will at most change the letter sum by |A|.
Sure: Smith was responding to, and opposing, concentrations of wealth and power and their negative, distortionary and discriminatory impacts on the economy.

His harshest criticisms were against those concentrations and abuses of power. His strongest and most heartfelt arguments were for the common man. He wasn't some wealth gospel preacher, despite often being portrayed as such. And his attacks on the power and dangers of corporations were well taken.

J.K. Galbraith's The Age of Uncertainty explores this in depth. As does much of the writing of Emma Rothschild. Among many others.
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Look from the other side as well. I doubt such transaction moves the needle enough in Oracle’s performance to mean anything to the pension fund’s investment. However, it’s almost an asset for the fund to be able to pursuit such lawsuit.
A lot of people were displeased with the way the Korea was divided at the end of WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._1

The Soviets had declared war on Japan 9 days prior and were allowed control of half of Korea.
OT: Why are so many mathematical objects named after some dudes and not after what they represent, i.e. in this case edit distance? Never understood this obsession.
But if he doesn't eat the steak someone else will!
Doesn't China require that a lot of ventures be majority owned by Chinese citizens? I could see that money ending up 'contaminated' and hard to pull back out of the country later.
Got a question, what is the standard workaround to the fact that Readline's forward search (Crtl-S) is also XOFF (effectively pauses the terminal)? Other than turning off software flow control via stty -- I'd like to keep that on.
You can connect the SV housing bubble fairly directly to pension funds piling money into tech stocks and venture capital after the late-00s global financial crisis (because bond yields were in the gutter and they're more or less obliged to seek returns somewhere, and they weren't available in less risky instruments).

Same kind of problem Berkshire Hathaway has; once you're big enough, available returns are limited by how much you yourself distort the market. Pension funds used to be able to buy almost limitless bonds in order to lock in annuity returns, but a) a bunch of them are a long way underwater and b) the effective rate of interest on bonds was below zero so they were forced to seek riskier assets, bidding up the price on those, which... etc etc etc.

Capital concentration – huge pension schemes, enormous corporations, big university endowments – has weird effects and it happens in all kinds of places.
> It will give legitimacy to what would have been necessary anyways, and which was likely impossible politically to avoid given sluggish labor and wage growth after decades of equity bull run and growing inequality.

what would have been necessary anyway? I'm reading currency devaluation?
nope, even for others some don't get it. people will still ask you if it's possible for you to deliver speeches with only a few hours or less heads-up. making you feel bad for saying no or endure all the stress if you say yes...
Wealth at that level isn't cardinal, it's ordinal.

"Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power."

-- Adam Smith
I just base it on living in the 21th century.

Humanity is stupendously rich, by the standards of all previous generations, and yet most of us work like crazy, certainly including many of the richest ones.

Or maybe we're talking about slightly different things?
Also, the printf can be used to display floating point in hexadecimal notation.

The printf specifiers:

%e Scientific notation 3.9265e+2
%a Hexadecimal floating point -0xc.90fep-2
> Also, don't forget how India slowly started to get rid of the caste system and other deep rooted inequality problems, similarly grassroots efforts to curb corruption progressed through the various courts and legislatures. China spent no time with such sentimental stuff.

China has a full blown caste system via hukous.
So, are you making the case that the examples present are common in JS as well? Because the whole point of the comment was in the uncommon usage of comma operator, as stated in the first sentence.

And to be clear, even if it is common in JS, that still doesn't reduce the usefulness of the original comment, because we aren't talking about JS, we're talking about C, and the commonness of the features notes in the C ecosystem. There are plenty of obscure oft-ignored features on one language that are common in another. For example, taking someone's interesting C macro that allows some level of equivalence to functional map and apply and saying "that isn't very obscure, even lisp has that" is missing the point.
A wall would ensure that far fewer economic migrants are backing up the court system that asylum cases must also go through, and resolve the facility overcrowding issue. The problem is not with the facilities (which are on par with other developed countries), it is with the overcrowding causing medical cases being unseen and abuse between detainees.

After conducting blood tests, up to 1/3 of migrant children were found to not be related to the adults claiming to be their family. It is for humane anti-trafficking reasons that the separation rule was instituted in the first place.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-s...
where's Brazil's (or environmentalists worldwide) Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him?
Because instead of helping me enter a long filename by its distinctive parts, it forces flat mental read-decide-skip loop based on first few letters, which is slow and cannot be narrowed down without typing out additional letters by hand. It is like selecting from a popup menu through a 1-line window.

If it presented a real popup for file selection, combining both worlds (tab to longest match, untab to undo, up-down to navigate), that would be great. But it doesn’t.
I've made a timeline with the video of the original world-shattering announcement and demo of Wave at Google IO, and some of the Google Wave related submissions to HN. How pretentious and audacious it seems in retrospect! It’s hard to appreciate all the snarky jokes in the Pissed Off Wave Tutorial, if you don’t remember how, um, over-confident they were when they announced Wave.

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 (May 28, 2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. (May 28, 2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630427

https://techcrunch.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-drips-with-amb...

Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today (May 29, 2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630470

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-wave-what-might-emai...

What problems does Google Wave solve? (Oct 15, 2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=883116

https://danieltenner.com/2009/10/15/0012-google-wave-html/

Google Kills Wave (Aug 4, 2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575892

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wav...

What makes Slack so successful whereas Google Wave wasn't? (Oct 10, 2015)

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-Slack-so-successful-whereas...

What in the Hell Was Google Wave Trying to Be Anyway? – Gizmodo UK (May 27, 2019)

https://gizmodo.com/what-in-the-hell-was-google-wave-trying-...

On a lighter note, the Game Helpin’ Squad (who made the Wave tutorial) also has several spot-on parodies of various video game genres!

“Time Travel Understander” is a parody of Braid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fABGyVzVwI

“Severe Running” parodies those Flash running games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrUWFo2D1Xs

And “World Quester 2” is the ultimate D&D RPG parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy9hJauXns

"Pretend Gas Station" is a SimCity parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMeWas4kXM

“Solitare Party” parodies all those card games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBbMb3X2R8A
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Regardless of whether it is a firm request or not, a proper response to that shouldn't just be a flat "no". It should be along the lines of "no, because X and Y I am working on right now seems to be a higher priority, do you agree?"

Saying flat "no" just wastes everyone's time, because the next few sentences would just be wasted on the manager trying to coax those reasons for "no" out of the engineer. It has nothing to do with politeness or social rituals or anything of that nature.

I view it just as wasteful as people messaging me on work Slack with "Hey" and waiting for the person to respond before the OP will post the reason for trying to reach out to you. [0]

0. http://www.nohello.com/