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Popular entertainment becomes popular culture, and if you want to participate in the society and build relationships with other people, you kind of have to be at least aware of some of the current offerings of that popular culture.

Oh come on. Are you really claiming that if you can talk with your friends about Stranger Things, but not Game of Thrones because you don't have HBO, then you face some kind of serious impediment to participating in society? That strikes me as completely ridiculous.

Customers don't like a big monolithic bundle because the single bill is too expensive.

Customers also don't like a la carte content (which is available on any number of platforms, including Google and Amazon and Apple) because each individual bill is too expensive.

Customers also don't like medium sized bundlings, because when things get split up across different bundles then people feel left out, and everyone feels the need to watch everything.

So what's your proposal? It's not like the market isn't trying to cater to customers here. Do you propose we pass laws that restrict companies from creating exclusive content? Or should we pass laws that restrict content from costing more than a specific amount? Will we also have to pass laws to keep the quality up in that case? Why? Just because customers insatiably want and want and want?

There are lots of real problems in the world for us to solve. This is not one of them.
Except you know humans aren't fish. It sounds obvious but the challenges and dynamics of being human are so different than those of being salmon that any similarities between the two can only be true in the most abstract sense. It's like reading a story about tasmanian devils and thinking: "That's a pretty good metaphor for how we're engaging in sex, we humans should start biting our partner's faces off before intercourse too". Even going by your analogy we would all be "hatchlings raised in tubs" by virtue of being social animals, there is no real equivalent to wild salmon because a human child left to their own in the wild would just die.
GitHub and open-source are Amazing, for sure.

But if you're looking at something close to inventions(and not "just" useful product features) from open source, I would look for open-source projects that are publically funded , maybe with some criteria to filter important projects from the noise.
While late is better than never, Disney is too little too late.

I'm not saying they will fail. Of established players they are the strongest and making the boldest moves so they have a chance at being a no 2.

But they launch when Netflix has 150 million subscribers. They almost saturated the US market and are quickly devouring international.

Taking market share from a dominant competitor is almost impossible.

If Bob Iger wasn't asleep at the wheel, just like the rest of the industry, Disney would have launched a competitor when Netflix had 10 million US-only customers.

They had a chance then but not now, competing against Netflix's 150 million subscribers and asymmetrical warfare from Amazon.
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Oh I really didn't get it. Thanks for explaining. I still don't find it funny.
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As someone doing hiring we have begun doing a very basic screening exam - quick writing sample, some basic (EXTREMELY basic) applied work - 1st year college quality is fine.

We have folks with degrees who can barely string together the most basic concepts (literally out of the intro to X course) in their field.

I'm seriously curious how this is even possible. Yes - some are from degree mill places - but even those have to be teaching something for the $$? Is it the pressure of being tested that is throwing folks off? Do people forget what they learned and are not really tested as they progress? We let them sit on their own, use computer etc. If you do hiring do a 5-10 minute screening test at some point - it can be eye opening.
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If your playing with a six deck shoe and the casino is cutting at deck and a half, how much of an edge can you really get? Even if your the only player.
Mazda has productionalized it and is shipping it in cars today: https://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/env/i-eloop/
I’m not making a value judgment on the “quality” of Netflix’s content vs Disney’s. I’m only talking about business models. Netflix’s business model isn’t competitive by any objective measure.
Which is it? " " or ".". That's an easy way to confuse people whilst trying to be complete. This is supposed to be a 101 class.

. is the designation for root in DNS but it is not spelt out except where it is!

For example: In a (BIND) zone file you terminate an entry with . otherwise it is considered relative to the "current" domain. When you type into your browser something like www.example.com you don't include a trailing dot.

Finally, the empty string was shown like this: " ". That's a space.

So, that's why I switched off.
Hello, this is a really interesting comment although I disagree with some of its points.
I recently had my first full time Clj/Cljs job and it made me realise some points:

- although figwheel is an awesome build tool, shadow-cljs with its near seamless npm integration
is imo the most powerful Cljs build tool atm [1].

- cljs-bean[2], recently released by Mike Fikes is a really cool tool: it makes working with
POJO really easy without too much performance penalty

- the new react hook API is imo a game changer for CLJS frontend frameworks: the decision to overload
native function for componenents instead of using ES6 classes makes working with
react componenent much more easier, imo this new API suits CLJS perfectly: hooks are just js functions
that are called in the same order at each render pass.

- clojure.spec and clojure.spec.gen in a REPL are really powerful tools for frontend development that
are unavailable in the wide JS world.

All in all I am actually much more optimist than a few months back about the future of CLJS frontend
dev, those are still relatively new tools, clojure.spec is still a work in progress (although I would
recommend to take a look at the metosin spec-tools which are really nice).

Edit: formatting

[1] https://code.thheller.com/blog/shadow-cljs/2018/06/15/why-no...

[2] https://github.com/mfikes/cljs-bean
That's really interesting. If that's what people mean, I agree with you.

When I hear someone deny the existence of free will, it sounds to me like they're saying a person's decisions are not really their own. If that's what they mean, I think it's preposterous -- of course your decisions are yours, that's definitional.
I tried making a few SVGs a while back by hand. I loaded them into inkscape and...

ugh.

Numbers like 10 30 became 10.0000023 29.9999948 and basically everything became complicated.

It was like running a one-line program through a compiler and then a disassembler.
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I think it's more likely you were seeing refraction caused by the change in density of the layer of hot air: "heat haze". Any dark colored material would have the same air-heating effect.
Thanks, HN for all of the signups, critique, and feedback! This my first posting here; I learned a lot in the last day, and grew the product far more than expected.

I'd like to broadly respond to the many positive and negative comments made in this post.

Product definition:
-- Booste is currently a tool to spin up a full-fledged remote desktop. You access it via a third party RDP client. The full product vision is to make individual apps run remotely, yet seem local. Primary use cases, learned here, emphasize the need for cross-platform access and flexibility. Surprising learnings include a de-emphasis on the device cost-savings.

Product maturity:
-- Booste is an MVP, built entirely by me over two months. My intent of this post was not to mislead with large promises, but to assess interest in the value proposition so that I make something people want. The comments, new user signups, and feature requests have been strong validation of this. Now, there's building to be done!

Product distribution:
-- The initial build, launched here, had infrastructure and security components that did not scale. Following valid complaints, I've temporarily replaced the direct-download on the site with an email waitlist, so that incoming interested users can get access in the near future.

This was great. Cheers, all. Please contact me at erik@booste.io with any and all thoughts around this.
What is the async story for clojure if it isn’t core async? How do you make server calls? If you’re still using callbacks, you’re really missing out on the convenience that async/await provides.

Also, are you using core.spec or transducers regularly? Do you find them understandable? How has the clojure community responded to react hooks? There’s so much that I’m curious about regarding present-day large clojure codebases, sorry.
From the Read Me on GitHub:

> It's become a truism among iOS and macOS developers that Apple's documentation is often incomplete or missing altogether.
> This project aims to provide some objective metrics for evaluating the quality and quantity of the docs on developer.apple.com/documentation.

https://github.com/NSHipster/NoOverviewAvailable.com/blob/ma...
> "I have never heard anyone say that male birth should be limited, but it obviously should… we can steer ourselves towards a population with a predominance of females, and those females should have only one child, and 75% of those children should also be female."

Yikes. So how does this mesh with the idea that the modern left is about gender equality? That's pretty much naked eugenics and this individual does not seem to be broadly vilified as one would expect.
Does it make sense to use Clojure while reading the book?
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Seems a bit odd given that the stores are still filled with alcohol, and they seem to target the pot smoking crowd with some of the eye drop products.

It seemed pretty clear to me their business was prescriptions and addictions in one convenient place.
I was under the impression the battery packs are where a LOT of the depreciation comes from, so that's not really a valid comparison unless it's used with a fresh battery pack.

Public transit has a great economic argument today for both reducing city emissions, monthly and repair costs, and having a great profile for harvesting brake energy. In many cases you can electrify via wire and save on battery costs. Consumer cars though? Still 100% a luxury. I imagine a lot of other parameters would factor into why you would electrify vs buying off the (still tiny) market other than price.

I bet you see these first used in bulk by people re-electrifying hobby cars + upgrading fleets of vans and taxis.
Well, it's kinda too late for that, as our species' winning survival strategy has been "have fewer offsprings, but value their lives so highly that they are well fed and trained to make further offsprings." It starts with giving birth to an underdeveloped infant that can't even hold its own head up, so that it will grow into a superior predator with a bigger brain.
YouTube two hours advertisements with Asian folks?
You're both right.

In any case, I think doing something from first principles is important to understanding a faster tools-based approach.
Don’t trust LinkedIn. Period.

FTFY.
Yeah I think GM called them BAS or some such. I brought it up not for existing, but for being a retrofit kit.
Holy crap.

How is that legal? Is there no law by which they could be sued for misleading representation of a life-saving medical product or something?

It seems like such a no-brainer of a law. Serious question: why is this the first I'm hearing about it? I've literally never seen an article about this in any newspaper and I read a lot of news. And this is exactly the kind of stuff that journalists tend to discover and expose.

Where is the outrage, and how is this still being permitted?
> String instruments are tuned by pure intervals across the open strings

Depending on what you mean by a 'pure interval,' it might come as a surprise that string instrumentalists tend to tune their fifths narrower than 3/2 (and apparently sometimes narrower than a 12-EDO perfect fifth!). This is so the perfect fifth above the highest string is tuned correctly as the major third (and some octaves) above the lowest string. Otherwise, the interval would be a Pythagorean major third (81/64) which is somewhat dissonant.

(In "How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony," Duffin recounts how in the late 1800s, even the best piano tuners in Britain were unable to get exact equal temperament, being off by about 1 cent per note in such a way that favored common keys. And, even so, equal temperament for pianos was not popular until the 1910s -- non-equal temperaments were favored due to their sound rather than just their practicality.)
I'm surprised by how little content will be offered for the price point that will increase shortly. The Simpsons and a new star wars show plus 500 movie titles. Max 50 titles by 2024.

People may pick it up to try it but if there is nothing to keep them watching many will drop them.

Surprised they are only spending a billion in new content per year and spending 150 million for 10 star wars episodes.

Surprised they are going in-house for the most part. The level of quality they are demanding is high. High movie ticket prices use to cover those costs and generate record profits. Under this new model they will start losing money until they reach peak subscriber if those targets are slower than expected that will put pressure to reduce the amount of new content and live off of their back catalogue.
Why does there even need to be a cloud service? Why does my lightbulb need a cloud service? My thermostat? My security camera? If these so-called smart devices really need some service running another computer (rather than the computer on the device itself), why can’t it be my own computer on my LAN, behind my “no uploading” firewall rules?

I had a dropcam for a while. Infuriating device. It records video, uploads it to its cloud service, then when I want to watch the video, the player downloads it back from that service through my same internet connection! what kind of bonehead decided that was a good use of my bandwidth? Why can’t I just connect locally directly to the device and stream video from it? It’s as if someone said “well we have lots of cloud engineers here, so we obviously need to write a cloud service!” without regard to whether it was needed. Or more cynically, they said “We could make it stream video locally but then we couldn’t offer a monthly cloud service for sweet recurring revenue.”
So, anyone tried Radbot? I really like their approach: "There’s no need for an app or another online password. Do you really want to see more of your radiator? "
Not legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

And a more recent case from an employer that was trying to be more careful: https://fortune.com/2015/08/24/target-discriminatory-hiring/
The problems were a chain -> starting with terrible maintenance not pilots.

And part 121 planes in the US do not fly multiple legs with the problems described on these planes.

I know it's partly a labor issue, but mechanics at united will take a plane out of service for practically any reason.
From what I understand, the relationship was that project-trident was built on top of trueOS. ixsystems sponsors trueOS.

I dont think there is a direct relationship other than that, aside from ixsystems apparently also supplied some forum hosting for project-trident (more correctly: a subforum on their forum)?
I just started the first video. This guy is a phenomenal lecturer. Thank you for posting the link!
Awesome, that'd be huge. Only issue with them are the SD cards being the canonical place to store footage... so if the criminal (or weather event) destroys the cameras.... not so useful.
A well planned, high volume external sprinkler system will go a long way.
Disney’s definition of success and Netflix’s definition of success is completely different. Disney doesn’t have to depend on subscription revenue to fund its streaming content. It’s already made money on most of its content by the time it gets to Disney+. It’s just an additional revenue stream.

Netflix lives or dies by being able to create or license content at one price and sell it via subscription revenue at a higher price - it has never been able to do that. It gets it more debt every year trying to keep up.

In the words of Steve Jobs related to Dropbox. Streaming services are now a feature not a product.
I got Pyro to perform almost as well as Stan on a complex model under variational inference, with the upside that I could refactor it all into classes and integrate with a larger Python framework, all while making use of GPUs. Could it be any better? What do you see as wonky?
Last time I've tried popos the installer didn't allow me to install with custom LVM on LUKS encrypted drive, is that fixed now?
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subset of device will stop working if the company goes out of business includes device will be rendered useless if company is acquired ... shortly after Google and Nest acquired Dropcam the service became so shitty that I could no longer use it, it would be nice if annual subscriptions included requirements that certain performance thresholds must be met.
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> This risk of subverting qualitative data like this into a disingenuous claim that something is data-driven is really high, in addition to all the usual cognitive biases that lead people to read what they want into narrative accounts.

We have engaged on related ideas before[1], and I think your position represents something that I find quite common and deeply unsettling about modern tech culture, but which I don't yet feel I can fully characterize.

There is something about the need for everything to be "data-driven" and metrics-focused that I think represents an abrogation of moral responsibility to form, apply, and maintain our own value systems. It is easier and we would apparently rather assign this messy work to some external process or algorithm or metric, which can then be argued to be perfectly rational, correct, data-driven, unbiased[2].

To me this is a dangerous fantasy, closely related to scientism or the general failure to accept any reality outside of what can be measured, counted, or quantified. This is a characteristic failure (in my opinion) of people in their twenties and of STEM majors in our times, so it's not surprising that it would be a characteristic failure of tech, where both those categories are over-represented.

It also seems correlated with a general ignorance of and arrogance towards the humanities among tech workers.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21097061

[2]: A related symptom of this disease is in hiring, where companies come up with systems that look very logical and bias free on paper, for example having "objective" scoring criteria and technical challenges (which end up being almost random number generators, but with some bias that tends to reinforce existing imbalances in the industry, e.g. towards recent graduates), and equally "objective" ways of combining results from hiring committee members or interviewers that tend to create and enforce conformity and exclude divergent viewpoints, while giving the appearance of being bias-free, data-driven, and rational. In fact it's a great way that entire companies fool themselves and come up with terrible processes, and then they whine about how hard it is to maintain diversity (of gender, age, whatever) in their ranks. The people that design these systems aren't doing this as some kind of great conspiracy; as far as I can see, they're not evil, just blind.
An external, accountable force like the law can work but not a truly arbitrary one like heirs not subject to any constraints.
CBS/Viacom/Paramount/Nickelodeon/Showtime. Sony.

Disney/Hulu/ESPN count as one, though you can buy smaller packages.

ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, and Disney will still be the big 4 of all the ones you listed. Amazon, Apple, and Netflix have minuscule content libraries by comparison. After people binge through new shows, the big 4 will be the ones holding all the old content. Netflix cant afford to produce content fast enough to backfill all their soon to expire licenses. Warner/Turner, Disney/ESPN, NBCSports also own a lot of sports coverage (CBS has a play as well) while Amazon, Apple, and Netflix barely have any coverage.

People are underestimating the play ViacomCBS will be able to make against NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, and Disney now that they are united. CBS All Access and Pluto will be a killer combo, if they so choose to venture that route AND they own Philo to compete with Sling, Vue, ATT, Hulu, Youtube. CBSAA/Pluto/Philo is absolutely a threat to Disney/ESPN/Hulu's attempt at dominance; NBCUniversal(XfinityComcast), WarnerMedia(DirecTV/ATT/HBO whatever its named this week) wont go down with a fight either.

Discovery, Sinclair, AMC Networks all still exist as well. Verizon is making a bad play not gobbling up whats left.

At some point there will be a race to the bottom on price, and ad supported Pluto(CBS)/Hulu(Disney) like products will be dirt cheat to get people in the door. The extra money will come from people not wanting to watch ads.
And it corrects for kids who go to fancy private schools where grades are highly inflated (it's what parents are paying for, after all). The standardized tests correct for inflated grades.
I do not get a sense that these posters are incomplete or restrictive, except in the broadest sense that any work which attempts to teach a topic will necessarily not be able to capture the entire breadth of what is possible (and doubly so for a "cheat sheet").

The author of these posters is a theory professor, and the rules he describes here are perfectly fine cheat sheets, in my opinion, for students. They describe idioms that students will likely run across, both in the repertoire, or in their assignments. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, and I'm not sure the author is claiming that this is intended to be a prescriptive set of rules for composition. Just a useful one in a classroom setting where you probably need to start out learning some things, prescriptively, when starting out.

I'd say, take these PDFs for what they are - a learning tool for music students.

Species counterpoint was exactly that - a set of rules intended to be a pedagogical tool.
Hiring for what?