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It talks about modern streaming indeed, but if you take a closer look, most of the video consumption today is done by streaming: on Desktop you still have a small portions of download then watch, but on mobile, Set Top Boxes like AppleTV and Roku, connected TVs, etc. You watch everything from the web.

Besides, the decoding/sync/rendering part didn't really change in the last 10 years, the innovations mostly arrived from the Web streaming use cases, with adaptive bitrate formats, that partly solved the multi-devices streaming problem we started to have with the rise of Mobile and OTT (over-the-top) video streaming.
Where is the pricing for this API? I tried googling around and could find nothing. I can easily find this for Lambda but if I would consider this a competitor I would need to be able to compare pricing.
Algorithmic personhood seems like a pretty good path forward for all the inevitable legal questions this will stir up. You could prosecute the individual instance of the algorithm when it breaks a law, and if that's successful charge its employer for something like negligent training or negligent hiring.
Maybe I'm in an odd position, but is email really such a big communication tool? I mean sure in business world, but for that companies have their own email servers anyway. I only receive email from 2FA-things and order confirmations/paypal recipes. I hardly ever actually send anything from Gmail or receive anything from actual people. All my communication with actual people is either through apps like Signal or WhatsApp or through IM like IRC
Right, because ideological purity is much better than pragmatism. You have no preference at all between the candidates, because none of them favour complete legalisation? You'd rather have no decriminalisation than just some?
Amazon leads and everybody else - copies! There can't be a better ad for AWS than this!
Funny, the keyboards video was mentioned here a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLJSdNYcdpk

btw: who else enjoy long synth chord progressions like in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN4La6qmSnk ?
Probably free while in alpha.
Great response. Makes the articles even more amazing.
Yes, I believe there was a paper that hillclimbing with random restarts almost always did better than genetic algorithms.

However does it really matter? It might save a little bit of time at best. But almost everyone has heard of genetic algorithms, so it's easier to talk about, than talking about particle swarm optimizations or whatever. Also genetic algorithms tend to excite people in a way that other metaheuristics just don't. People are fascinated with genetic algorithms, not so much with hillclimbing.
most people probably don't have the patience anymore to just pause and wait 30 minutes until the download is finished.

And most of the new modern video players support adaptive bitrate streaming, that adapts the quality to your network conditions. Of course if you want to stream 4K video on 2G, you won't be able to do it today, but in that case it's probably easier to download the mp4 file directly
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How does your statement differ from the parent statement? And yes her new company had a choice, they could have kept her and dealt with the court issue if it came up.
He also seems to support single-payer healthcare, and has complimented the system in Scotland. Funny that GOP voters seem to give him a pass on all of the sort of issues that would kill other candidates' chances.
> to prevent emails being read or modified in transit

Except everything you send and receive with your Gmail account is read by them and whatever government agencies anyway... So what's the point?
Marc Andreessen just offended 1B Indians with a single tweet
"locked into a single kind of infrastructure"

What does that mean? A mail server can be a small perl script running on an embedded computer, or it can be a hundred front-end SMTP servers using a database as a back end datastore, there's no real infrastructure limit other than being able to make and receive connections on TCP port 25.
It's the worst when ITEM_X is a large TV. I wonder what percentage of TV buyers will impulse-buy a second TV because of "you might also like.." recommendations. Can't they make a list of products compatible with my TV and sell me that?
Outside of selling your company why do we have these and why are they enforceable? Well I know why we have them, but why are they allowed to exist? What is even worse are companies forcing noon compete on essentially unskilled workers
Hardest part for Sanders is that Clinton already has some ~400 superdelegates pledged to her. Those "pledges" can change at the convention, I think, but aside from that, Sanders really needs to win by a very wide margin to overcome the heavy handicap.

It would probably hurt the Dems significantly in the general election if Clinton acquires the nomination by party-insider superdelegates, circumventing a large popular vote in favor of Sanders. There is considerable truth to Sanders arguments that he'll draw a much larger voter turnout for the general election, even if a portion of those come to vote against him.
Actually as the article mentions, most broadcasters today are using adaptive bitrate formats like HLS and DASH, that are solving this issue by serving you a bitrate that is low enough for you to handle.

Today the major broacasters often have 6 or 7 different qualities, going from 300kbps up to 4000Mbps for HD.
that is one object with a suggested redshift of z=8.6. However, we do not know the distance of that object because not only was the image taken in the visible spectra (by Hubble), but the spectroscopic results re: it's distance have not been reproducible, and so the distance figure is challenged.

Fortunately, we have other galaxies, such as EGSY8p7 (z=8.68) have been imaged in the infrared, and as such, their distance confirmed.

However, you've just reiterated what GP has said. I maintain that nobody is denying that the object that has been observed is more distant than it was 13Gy ago, however, the light that we are currently observing emanated from an object that was only 13Gly away.

As I stated in my previous comment, the galaxies that we are presently observing are much different, and much farther away today, it's just going to take a lot of time for us to see what they look like today.

You're seeing a baby and claiming to have seen the senile crank that the baby potentially became over 19Gy. The baby we're currently observing may as well be dead.

If the article author is stating that 13Gly is the maximum distance anything can be from us, then the author is false. However, that's not what the author is saying. The author is saying we cannot see past 13Gly because the light has not arrived, and this is patently TRUE. The author makes NO claim about the current location of the objects.
You should see this fascinating stack overflow thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1538235/what-are-good-ex...

My favorite is the guy who got e-ink displays to work using them.

Also see the Hummie awards, for the best use of genetic algorithms outperforming humans: http://www.genetic-programming.org/combined.php
> I only called you a dick.

oh we're going down that route. Well if it's literalism we're wasting time with then try reading your own comment

> You are being a dick, offering no reasons other than the opinions of people you presumable agree with.

That isn't just "calling me a dick".

but lets stop here
In the Bay Area, where I live, guns are completely illegal to carry outside of your my house unless I am a celebrity or have a residence elsewhere in California where I can actually get a license issued.
Or zero.
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if we think some pattern should be called "censorship", then it is called that. if your interlocutor refuses to move beyond "argument about definition of words" and you still want to communicate, you then have to taboo the word, which slows your thinking+communication down a bit, but so be it.
Try McDonald's, or Burger King.
Dear Wired: just sell ads and place them on your page. I'll have no problem with them. Don't have services track me as I view them. Don't have companies correlate my viewing of them with more data about me and then sell that data to yet more companies. It's simple really.
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SQL is an abbreviated acronym.
This isn't a big deal. The NHTSA defined levels of autonomous vehicles back in 2013 They are roughly:

Level 0: manual.

Level 1: some automation, maybe radar cruse control. (available now)

Level 2: smart automatic cruise control plus lane keeping (Available on several high-end cars now. Tesla is at this level, not Level 3)

Level 3: automatic driving good enough to handle ordinary driving tasks and route planning. (Google, Cadillac/CMU have this in test) but driver sometimes has to take over manually.

Level 4: full auto, all road conditions, driver not needed. (nobody really has this yet)

Now, the NHTSA is discussing modifying the federal safety standards so that, when Level 4 is achieved, vehicles which achieve will comply with federal motor vehicle standards.

Whether to allow autonomous vehicles on roads is a state matter. California DMV currently allows this in test, with manufacturer test drivers only, and requires reporting of incidents. Current DMV thinking is to stay with that for three years, see how things are going, then reevaluate. There's some whining about this from Google, but realistically, Google doesn't have the technology to go beyond that yet.

The accident reports are on line.[1] Almost all of them are from Google, and most of them involve someone rear-ending a Google car which was driving cautiously. Except for one incident.

Cruise (YC W14) had a crash with a parked car last month, driving on 7th St. in San Francisco.[2] The report indicates that the vehicle swerved to the left under automatic control, then corrected to the right, then the driver took over manual control, and then hit a parked car at 20MPH. Both vehicles damaged, no injuries. The reported location [3] is across from the SFPD's Southern Station and a popular parking place for police vehicles. They hit a parked Toyota Prius.

I've written before about the "deadly valley": automatic driving good enough that the driver stops paying close attention, but not good enough to drive reliably. Cruise just demonstrated this. You cannot rely on the human driver to suddenly take over from the automatic driving system.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...
[2] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/bc21ef62-6e7c-4049...
[3] https://goo.gl/maps/DoNdYSV8cgq
Ask HN: But are MY shares actually worth something?
I have read many times on various HN threads people's disdain for taking equity in non-public companies as partial compensation. I've heard them say, "they are likely worthless." I'd like to know if they are referring to my particular type of equity.

I was offered 5% of the common shares of the profitable (most years) company that I work for because I was an early employee and I've contributed a lot to the growth of the company over the years and the owner wanted to keep me around. In exchange, I accepted my salary being frozen for about 5 years (no raises etc.)

Being a common share holder, I am entitled to a distribution each year based on our profit (5% of the profit). This is commonly anywhere between $20-40k (to me). We've had years where it has been zero though due to slower business. Additionally if the company were to be sold, or if I were to leave the company, the company would get a valuation and I would be paid out for my percentage. This seems like a pretty good deal to me. The contract was pretty loose/poorly written, but this is how it has been working so far.

Can someone tell me if all the advice I always read on here about the non-value of equity is not really intended for my particular equity situation? I really don't know a lot about these things, just how its been working so far for me. All of the advice always makes me question if I'm making the right decision for my career.
Rethink has been my gotodb since last year. Absolute love it. Just waiting for your windows release.
Maybe D.C., but as is well known, their opinion generally doesn't count...
The VMS admins said they slept at night. Some didn't but it wasn't VMS that woke them up. Was that your experience? ;)
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Using healthcare.gov might not have been the best example of health care's simplicity, considering its estimated size is hundreds of million of lines of code and cost tens of millions of dollars. The process may be easy for the consumer, but it's obviously much harder in the backend.
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You can create an space/room that family can't enter (at office hours), or if you want an easier route just work from a coffee shop near you.
There is the fact that criminals are less able to commit further crimes while in prison.

It's not foolproof by any means, but I'm kind of comforted by the fact that the man who deliberately ambushed and murdered mom with a hammer, then later threatened to do something like that to grandma cannot, in fact, pay us a visit barring some failure of the prison system.
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In case people are wondering:

"SDV" has been in use since at least 2011: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=10460039591121716...

The level classifications appear to date from 2013: http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/U.S.+Departm...
You're comparing apples and oranges: reported accident != knocking over a traffic cone.
What are some good use cases for this or aws lambda?

I.E. when would you use this over a plain old simple appengine app
Hi, Thanks for comment. Personally speaking by "Full stack" developer, I expect someone who has enough knowledge of client as well as server technologies so S(h)e could understand (or better anticipate) problems or challenges usually s(H)e would face while working on it. It's not about working for "enterprise", even if it's an in-house product I expect a programmer to know what S(h)e is doing well. If someone do not know what tool/framework really doing while one using it,I wouldnt consider it ideal.
"I recently switched from iOS to Android, and personally I feel like I’ve been let out of prison. My phone now is as fast and slick as my iPhone ever was, but it sports a better camera, a removable microSD card, and an interchangeable battery too. Plus, it costs less than an iPhone."

I will be the first to bitch about Apple's software UI, but compared to most Android flavors, iOS has nothing to worry about. Performance and battery life are not great on the best Samsung Android phones. I absolutely do not want removable battery or SD slot. iPhone camera is almost always the best in shootouts.

There are valid concerns about the direction of Apple's revenue sources and the quality of their software design. This article does nothing to highlight these concerns. Instead it focuses on hyperbole, opinion and terrible predictions.
>Course, then there are cases like the leaded gasoline that should be considered one of the greatest crimes of all time.

And the man who was responsible for this was also responsible for CFCs. "He had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr.
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Hmm I think someone else had "Cloud Functions" before AWS had lambda...
git has built-in word diffing with --word-diff, though. --word-diff=color does almost exactly the same thing.
I would use it to host a web site for your mom
> Web frameworks are no longer supported, in Javascript we have seen Backbone, Knockout, Angular, Ember and React in rapid succession, with older frameworks massively losing momentum and community.

Uh, all of these are supported quite well. Each has a place in the ecosystem and will be around for a long time. Anyone who considers rewriting an app because a new one of these comes out has a serious problem. My old apps use older ones and my new use newer. What is the problem?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx

In the early 1990s, ~70% believed gun laws should be more strict. Today it's ~55%. It's unchanged from ten years ago.

It's extremely clear that American's aren't, and haven't been, in a hurry to further restrict guns in any major way.
> more experienced candidates like Mrs. Clinton

OK, she's run in a presidency campaign before but I think Mr Sanders has considerable experience as a politician, more direct than being first lady.
Is GNU against good user experience design?
I have a great respect for Marc Andreessen who have invested in great tech companies at early stage and they are part of my daily life. I have learnt a lot by reading his essays and his bullet points in twitter about startups and building companies.

I'm not able to understand why he has to make this comment. He sits in Facebook board and recently TRAI had declined Facebook's Free Basics which violates Net Neutrality. Does this have anything to do with his comment?

India has been growing great in recent years and it's headed for enormous growth in next few decades. India has the largest youth population in the whole world and it can transform itself into a great super-power if it's run by great politicians and put India back in track.

- The British East India Company was the original Free Basics. We all know how that ended.
Frogo app
What would be the benefit for the mom over Lambda or another solution?
Since you are obviously concerned about public safety, I presume you're for making alcohol illegal as well?
I'm sorry but you're quite wrong. We still have federal regulations that disallow smart directional dimming headlights because the regulation dictates high beams need be activated by a binary switch.

The biggest, slowest sticklers to this progress thing are at the federal level. This is a huge deal.
In the linked consul documentation, we see a `LockIndex` field in the lock state; https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/kv.html confirms that "LockIndex is the number of times this key has successfully been acquired in a lock. If the lock is held, the Session key provides the session that owns the lock."

So you can do fencing with consul.
> For some reason, though, we don't allow that sort of privacy violation in our actual lives.

Not so much. Your phone carrier tracks all your movements. Your credit car company knows every swipe. Your bank sells your information to retailers. The leasing you did on that car got you into a database of new car owners. Right after you married you started getting offers from Home Depot. And with your mortgage you started getting calls from brokers, asking if you want to put it back in the rental market...

The "real world" may not track your anonymous movements yet (NYPD cameras, anyone?), but other than that I don't see much difference. In fact it's the opposite; the non-online world is more opaque, harder to opt-out, and much more invasive, as it usually involves PII.

Another difference to consider: the motivations. In the 'real world', we used to pay for goods. In the past you'd walk to your newsstand and buy the NYT edition for $2.50 (with ads). Nowadays, people feel outraged[1] if the exact same goods aren't given away for free (as in beer), and with no trackers, no registration, no ads, no anti-ad-blockers.

Something has to give.

[1] http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/12/16/95221/
In case more people are wondering still:

"SDV" is not an acronym but an initialism. TIL that in today's thread about TIL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11069206
I don't really get this - it says you can use any npm dependency as well as access loca data. What do they mean by local data? Is there any persistency library for this e.g. to access a cloud sql database or a google big table instance?
really nodejs ?? well done Google
A lot of hope. Your brain is still incredibly capable of uptaking new skills at a high rate in your mid 20s.

Your brain starts to slow down around 25-30 years of age or so, based on the major studies I've read. Eg:

http://time.com/63500/brain-aging-at-24/

Per that, the drop between 25 and 40, is only around 15%.

Becoming better at learning, and wiser in how you spend your time, can offset some of the cognitive decline that comes with age versus the raw capability of youth that is perhaps more squandered due to lack of wisdom.
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Nothing over other solutions but it is being built on more of an elastic system, so you are only paying for the time your mom is using. (It took all my strength not to phrase that another way)
This is interesting because of Google's suite of consumer products. Imagine being able to run logic via events which get triggered when you receive an email, a file is added to drive or someone is detected in a photo.

Not that I care to have that level of introspection into my data but it opens up some interesting opportunities.
Indian here. pmarca is correct.

That is all.
I don't think he's saying no one needs gigabit fiber period, rather not everyone needs gig right now, which is demonstrably true.

Even 4k is doable without gig using HEVC (50Mbps is typical ref: Wikipedia) and when uncompressed a gig isn't enough.

Gig is cool and all but there are fairly large parts of the US where 10-30Mbps+ download with reasonable latency (not satellite) and no data caps (not cell) would be a gamechanger.
The shortest explanation would be:

These will allow you to automatically scale up or down easily.
You don't have to maintain your server.

It has its advantages and disadvantages.
For etcd: https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/0.4.7/etcd-api/

node.modifiedIndex appears sensible for fencing.
What node.js version does this run? Site doesn't say.
Spotify has preloading offline mode in the mobile player. Maybe not exactly what you are looking for.
I built a webhook consumer from scratch with API gateway and Lambda in a day. It's not the cheapest, but I don't have to worry about provisioning servers or scaling it up. Overall I'm pretty happy with it.
There are some interesting comments below the article. The article claims to derive Maxwell equations based on Newtonian mechanics (Galilean transformations), which sounded a little strange. I remember pretty well that one had to consider Lorentz transformations to obtain Maxwell equations. Sure enough, the comments indicate that this is required and the proof does not quite succeed.
Your shares are worth $20-40K/year, give or take. The value of any security is the discounted value of future cash flows. For many startups this is pretty unpredictable and often zero; in your case, you have a pretty good idea of what it will be.