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I think youtube gaming is decent, why do you think it is screwed up?
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My immediate impression from the name (after I re-read the header and realized this is not about RedTube) - is Google/YouTube entering the adult video streaming market?
I believe Nim's creator has a background using Borland's Pascal compilers (Delphi, Turbo Pascal). Nim is basically a modernized ObjectPascal with GC, generics and whitespace sensitivity. He even started out prefixing type names with T and P, just like Borland did, though fortunately that's going away.
There is nothing about the 100,000 token limit that makes any sense. People present it as Twitter wanting to "control the core experience". That's bullshit and always has been.

Twitter could have easily said "we will serve ads in this format. All apps that want to use the API must display the ads according to rules XYZ". Congrats! Now you can monetize and app developers can keep innovating.

The whole Twitter client fiasco remains one of the dumbest moves and for nonsensical reasons that Twitter itself could have easily solved.

I saw nothing in this announcement that addresses this problem or changes any policies related to it.
an interesting business model to support the grandparent's use case is for video owners to pay google not to show ads, and then hope that the subscribed viewer income is greater than the hosting fee.
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This is no longer true going forward. You must pay to use the newer versions at all; the RoboVM github repository hasn't been updated since early September and will no longer be developed.
Maybe it has. The financial sector has attracted many people who are extremely smart and skilled. Over the past few decades, they have designed some truly elegant (albeit maybe too chaotic) stuff. Even if prosecutors can find competent experts, trials devolve into expert duels. And juries just can't cope, especially with a "beyond reasonable doubt" standard.

Imagine a future with AI-designed finance ;)
> It's understandable for startups who don't yet have a business model not to make any money.

I don't understand how anybody can value a company without a business plan and some idea of how to make money at anything higher than zero dollars. Do they even meet the qualifications for the traditional definition of "company" if they have no plans to make money?

It seems to me as long as venture capitalists are okay investing shit tons of money into silly "startups" that don't know how to make money we're just going to see bubble after bubble after bubble.

It's tempting to speculate that the people inflating this bubble are the ones who managed to cash out of the first dot com bubble before the crash came. Most "real" investors learned their lessons the first time around, and want nothing to do with it. It would explain why so many "unicorns" get such a tepid response when they finally IPO.
I've been hearing this -- "Twitter is just not inventive enough, they know what everyone is doing in the world" and so on.

Yet billions of dollars later and nobody there realised it? I can't imagine people there are so stupid and that they'd come read HN, smack they hand on their heads and say "Oh, we never knew, thanks HN commenters for saving us. We'll make a great profit and share it with you!".

But not to miss out, and join HN armchair analysts group, I for one, don't believe Twitter is that useful or valuable. Does it know what my neighbors are thinking? My boss? My grandma? Me? No, because I am not on Twitter, they are not.

I see a lot of garbage on Twitter usually. Silly status lines "mmm, yummy green salad!" or "what is the meaning of life..". Developers would do something like "Compiling takes too long, we need a new compiler!". And so on. Then of course it is the quintessential platform for spats and misunderstandings. It is hard to express ideas in 140 character lines so everything feels short, mean and snippy and people get into lengthy back and forths that are mostly stupid and pointless.

Is it impossible to monitise what they do? No, but I think it is not as clear-cut as it may seem.
Mostly because when Uber's marketing gets hostile they at least go after ostensible bad actors.

In this case AirBnb seems to be taking their frustrations out on an innocent third party that has nothing to do with their regulatory/taxation woes, and doing so in a condescendingly smug way.

An ad that targets hotels would still be pretty hostile and probably come off as petty also, but at the very least it would be targeting someone who actually has something to do with the issue.

Who the hell has an axe to grind with public libraries?

[edit] Oof, it gets a bit worse:

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/10/21/passive-aggress...

"A follow up email, explaining that we were in fact seeking confirmation as to whether the ads are actually from Airbnb received the following response: "Are you seriously writing on this?""

So not only did they issue a bunch of petty, passive-aggressively condescending ads, they seemed to have no idea why anyone would find it in poor taste.
By the same standard we should count people using SSH and TLS (really: about any given protocol) as clueless, as implementations of both have had wide impact remote vulnerabilities.

I agree this all is testament to widespread cluelessness, but more on the software industry level...
Good idea! There's already a way to print out html to the command line, but it should really be the same as what gets rendered in the browser. I've added a Github issue to track. this.
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The PNGs are insanely high resolution I think so that the OCR works better - it doesn't say, but I assume the OCR'd book can use lower resolution.
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Very, very off-topic, but that quote reminds me of the magic of the first Mass Effect. I was quite disappointed that they went on to remove any and all mystery about the Reapers. The element of Lovecraftian horror was destroyed when no mystery was left, and all their claims about their nature turned out to just be fabricated.
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Do you have examples of a color scheme which would work better, or other suggestions on how we could improve it? I'm thinking the ability to customize color schemes would be a useful feature to add.
Remember Youtube's object is not to get rid of ALL ad-blockers, it is make the use of ad-blockers really uncomfortable for the MAJORITY of the internet users.
What is "evil" about instigating a more efficient use of capital?
Nice, how did you come up with KIBO?
Governed by rules, yes, but not so strict as to resist change or so esoteric as to require such fervent pedantics. After all, written language is speech made into symbols, not outright invented independently. I still can't figure what the use is in lecturing a person on spelling. Are we concerned for the person's job prospects? For his standing in the world of online discussion forums? This from someone who "doesn't want to be a nazi" about spelling. If that's the case, why correct the commenter at all?
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This is a great point. More times than I'd like to admit I've found out someone working for me had worked themselves up worried about something that we could've resolved in 5 min with a simple conversation. If you're anxious about something at work just come our with it and find out where you really stand. The thing about worrying is the vast majority of the time it's wasted on things that aren't true or will never happen.

Speaking on behalf of all non sucky bosses don't let issues fester - just tell us what's up. Maybe we can help.
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Disclaimer : I never had good relationship with any of my bosses in 10+ years, may be my fault or may be theirs. I cant change my attitude.(i'm not bootlicker and all my boss's expected that in my Indian environment/culture)

There are quite lot of good comments on approaching boss and talking about your issue. I agree with them but let me ask:

your boss doesn't know that you are overloaded ? Can't he see there are people in this team working less and probably getting paid more than you? If that's the case, why he didn't act so far? Is he biased towards few members?

Bottom-line is , if your boss doesn't know that you are overloaded and work is not split fairly- you can explain him about burnout issue, I'm pretty sure he will solve the issue.

If your boss doing all this intentionally, in order to make you to fall in line. I'd highly recommend getting a new job and then talk to him. Just to be on safer side, if talks didn't go well.

Again read my disclaimer :)

EDIT : Oh..wait..there is one boss. He's kind of technical guy,which i admire & respect. I can say I had one only good boss in these 10+ years. I changed 4 companies and met around 10 boss's in different projects.
If you were happy after you left the job, didn't your boss do you a favor?
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This has always been something I thought would be interesting to pursue. There's quite a bit of science involved when replanting a forest. It's much more than just scattering seeds.
Yahoo tried to be a snap chat channel but got voted off the island.
More like Vimeo
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Owens Valley was a prosperous farming community before LA diverted all the water and dried up the lake. Now Owens Valley has been abandoned for about a century.
So, both men had guns. Both were in 'plain-clothes'. Both felt threatened in a different sort of a way. Now, if the guy who shot the other was not indeed a cop, what would you call this incident ?
"Loose" is a verb, too, though with another meaning.
CATIA v5/v6 has toolbars on 3 sides of the screen. Every toolbar part can be activated and moved around, snapped-in, etc like in common UIs. There are no floating windows that stay there or are there by default. But there are dialogs that open to set specific settings, dialogs are a common UI pattern as well. In v6 some of the dialogs have been replaced (made obsolete) because of the 3D editing mode. In comparision, the Blender UI doesn't follow common UI patterns at all.

You can do everything you can do in Blender also in CATIA (except fluid physics, game engine) but you can do advanced simulation like finite elemente physics and electronics. Also CATIA is a CAD software, so there are of course differences and it will usually take longer to create a 3D model, but afterwards it can be built in real world with real world physics.
Terms of service - not a contract

TOS can have a line that say terms can change, etc
Btw there was a very good article about this in National Geographic Magazine earlier this year, with interesting insight from the people who live there.
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I think that's the point.
How is YouTube turning their backs on content creators?

I find it surprising that HN, a community full of people using ad-blockers to watch YouTube, would be against this. And on every freaking article discussing ad-blockers we decry the impossibility of paying a subscription instead. Well here's the subscription. And in the long run I'm sure it will benefit content authors as well.

But then Google is in a position like damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Is the below content ownership language (from their site) fairly common?

By posting Content to the Service, you grant us the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through the Service. You retain any and all of your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Service and you are responsible for protecting those rights. You agree that this license includes the right for us to make your Content available to other users of the Service, who may also use your Content subject to these Terms.

Sounds like it is, but also sounds like kind of a sketchy deal for someone who makes their living creating 3D models -- granting a random company who's only hosting your file permissions to use/perform/etc.
I think I was only disappointed that they dropped the ME2 thread about some weird things happening with stars. Some Lovecraftian horror obviously had to go as the nature of Reapers was explored (the big part of the fear effect is what you don't know), but the end result wasn't bad - the story turned into surprisingly deep treatment on transhumanism and artificial intelligence safety.
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Ask HN: Has anyone else had to quit hulu because of Flash?
I am not allowed to have Flash installed on my computers, and not even allowed to use the built-in Flash within Chrome. Too many security flaws. hulu insists on making us choose between TV or refusing to leave those security holes open. Anyone else?
What I wrote is true for MS BI on Sharepoint 2013 with MS SQL Cluster 2012 in real world. It's probably the co consultants fault to use SQL2012 instead of SQL2014. MS mentions the new 2016 release on the upcoming MS SQL version will do away some of the current limitations, as you mentioned.
It's this easy.

http://youtu.be/NSC4Y8yA-jY
Technology is the reason I cheat
Are dynamic IP addresses personal data?
"If you don't want to do something stupid, you probably don't want to have higher expectations of your abilities than you should..." I disagree with this statement. I believe that enlightenment, not stupidity, results from pushing our expectations. I think modesty is more important when it comes to understanding the factors that contributed to an outcome, "stupid" or not.
Perhaps we should consider replacing line count with something like "parameter weighted statement count" as a measure of software size?
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Yes, it is (not my personal channel obviously). And I couldn't care less how they ask me, I care about how it affects the users. And frankly, your thinly veiled attempt to defend them asking me if I'm unhappy that they "didn't wine & dine" with me is utterly disgusting. This is a bad move for users and a bad move for content creators.

Blindly defending Google is very passé, you know.
Oh, that is the society we live in, they just make it so nobody is actually following the letter of every law in the first place, there's too many laws with too many letters. They can always get you if they want.

Except, apparently, according to the OP, if your crime is large and complex and financial enough.
White collar crimes can quite often be measured in dollars, just as banned substances can be measured in grams.
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There are two ways VCs can make money from investing in companies like this:

1) Hopefully by increasing prices + slashing their own expenses (i.e. Uber reducing the driver's share), some of these cash burning companies can be instantly profitable. Idealistic for sure, but not out of the question.

2) Using the startup as a vehicle to raise more funds from investors- Remember that the VC is mainly just concerned with getting the company to the next funding round. Take this hypothetical: VC firm invest in company X at a 50m valuation. In 1 year that company raises at a 100m valuation. Even if it's an overpriced valuation and the company eventually has a huge chance of dying, the original VC firm can say that their fund already has a 2x annual return before that happens. They use that as marketing material to raise the next round. Remember that VCs get around 2% of whatever they raise for operating expenses, regardless of how the funds perform.

If you are a VC in a bubble, it is in your financial interest to raise as many funds as possible in the shortest amount of time as possible. That in turn means you have to invest big and invest quick.
Yep, core "twitter" protocol should have been written up as an RFC and set up de-centralized, like SMTP.

Orgs shouldn't have twitter accounts, they should have their own twitter/microblog services!
>If your core "product" is massively unprofitable, it's not really a product at all.

Tell that to Instagram or Snapchat.
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I agree that the ad is tone deaf, but this criticism is not relevant. AirBNB doesn't determine how much of its taxes go to libraries, and the $8m they've spent fighting Prop F probably pales in comparison to what the hotel lobby has spent.
One big positive is that it uses the same class libraries as Android, so if you're already targeting Android and not using runtime code generation, you don't have to port any of your non-UI code.
A friend of mine has a theory - much like the expression "I'm not racist but", anyone who uses the term "My tax dollars" almost always follows it with something ignorant and distasteful.

This ad really is the equivalent of that, and is a bad look - to the point where I would consider using a competing service if available.
There are also people in San Francisco who use AirBnB when they travel elsewhere.
> I took this to mean that he has seen this mistake made multiple times by multiple people, which would indicate an alternate spelling has emerged

"I've seen this happen many times" doesn't mean a new spelling has emerged, by several orders of magnitude. If my pals and I decided to go wander around online forums, spelling "fish" with -sch, that wouldn't make it magically correct.
Um, sorry, I don't get it. I thought you were implying living in a decent house generates a lot of trash.
Pay twitter for what? To read messages? Or to get their message out?

Start charging the folks (businesses, media et cetera) that have a million+ followers, these entities can surely pay to get their microblog posts published.
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I'm curious what method is being used for generating the words. I played around with humanhash a while back for similar purposes.
Entertainingly, I ended up at this match after watching the trials during a trip to Canada. Chatted with the team after the win.

Had to look it up (http://www.amazon.com/Hurry-Hard-Russ-Howard-Story/dp/047083...) but in here Russ mentions how he got pulled in by the guys to help advise on shots.

It was an unusual arrangement to say the least. They went through their lawyer, made a list of the top guys in Canada who could help, and Russ was at the top. The lawyer called, and he accepted.
Wait; I thought you didn't...
Do the robots get basic income too? I mean eventually they're gonna agitate for their rights...
More likely they would just own the cars themselves.
Not speaking to the price, this makes sense. To achieve FDA approval, their reporting is much more conservative. That's probably for the best.
That is a different quote, which means a different thing.

The quotes you posted above refer to human communications, and don't mention FTL. That's what I responded to.

The quote you posted now, is clearly referring to the fact that the particles both react to one measurement instantly, regardless of difference. It makes no mention of people communicating with one another FTL.

Edit: I agree with tgflynn that the Times just overloaded the word "communicate."
Like Gorilla Tape.
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Even if not "completely", there is a difference to me as a consumer
So what? Information is information.
Yes, I have, and Julia does look nice. It clearly has some very good libraries for scientific computing, and its syntax looks (to me) like an interesting combination of Python (which I like) and Matlab (which I don't like).

Aside from an entirely-subjective preference that caused me to fall in love with Nim at first sight, there are practical reasons for choosing Nim over Julia.

The overarching reason is that there is much more Python code in the world than Nim or Julia put together, and I think it will remain this way for a long time. (My startup previously worked almost completely in Python, for example, aside from some C or C++ extension modules and the usual Bash scripts for sysadmin.) Python also has some solid webserver frameworks, and is great for a variety of general-purpose tasks.

So, I wanted a solution that would enable us to incrementally rewrite code as necessary, without needing to rewrite everything from Python all at once. Also, I have no desire to rewrite our webserver code from Python. Flask & Django are just fine.

As I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), Julia doesn't compile to C. So I can't compile snippets of Julia code and call them from my Python main-loop.

In contrast, not only is this possible in Nim, but Nim's macro system & well-developed AST spec make it very easy to traverse my Nim procs during compilation, to auto-generate per-proc wrapper code in C.
New laws force police to put guns back on the street
Passive-aggressive bitching about taxes.
It's not about entitlement. It's about asking people not to be lazy. Twitter grew into what it is today BECAUSE of 3rd party developers. Their core revenue which is ads has its roots embedded in what other people invented like the hashtag, and the retweets. Their user engagement and growth was given birth to BY these same developers who created great experiences when Twitter didn't have the resources to do so.

And after that, Twitter felt like it's platform had been evolved by other people long enough and said "alright everyone, we don't want you anymore" and killed businesses overnight.

> And this is exactly how it should be. If you want to build your business on the back of someone else who is doing the heavy lifting,

In this case, it was a group of people who built twitter's business (and then their business) on top of the Twitter backbone. Put another way, Twitter wouldn't be what it is without the developers.

The side effect of all of this is that Twitter's innovation has since languished. They've settled into incremental changes such as the way you view hashtags of an event now. I get that that's not a trivial thing either, but their business model should have always been about increasing capabilities of Twitter's core based on what other developers made interesting (the retweet is an example of something like this done really well).

My first statement. It's about asking people to be not lazy. Twitter stepped in and thought "hmm we can't control our ad experience in a world like this so let's shut down the people who've built our business all these days"

That's lazy. That's the result of a bingo meeting that couldn't come to a conclusion on any alternative suggestion and instead opted to use a nuke.

If they really cared, they could have asked developers at the time. They had a great relationship then and they could have avoided this entire thing of asking developers for feedback now. They could have done that back then, and I'm sure people would have come up with great suggestions and compromises.
Many in the field consider it more math than engineering. It's arguably not a science though, we don't make hypotheses and don't do experiments.
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We're already seeing local gluts in housing in cities that retiring Boomers are abandoning. For the price of my DC-area half duplex, I could buy a literal mansion in Cleveland or Detroit.

Overall, the population of the U.S. is still (slowly) increasing, so even when the Boomers move into assisted living facilities and/or pass away, there is not likely to be a national surplus.
Thinking like "We are the first for this.." grants 250$/mo is really the wrong way to start imho.