skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another Netflix engineer here - have you tried with something not popular? It may be that the other shows you checked were cached via OpenConnect but Puffin Rock wasn't.

My email is my username at netflix.com. If you can send me the email address connected to your account, I can see that your problem gets to the right people. (Disclaimer: I'm not on the OC or related teams directly)
I think startups* have a bullshit enforced 'fun' problem in general. Whats fun for the founders may not be fun for me. Its still a job, I'd rather put that wasted money into higher salaries.
Thats how IBM do it, their offices are crap and have shitty bare bone facilities but they pay well, you can buy whatever whimsical crap you want on your own dime.

*At least the stereotypical silicon valley style ones
CyberChaff: HaLVM unikernels protecting corporate networks
Nice Guys Nice Ride
I do. And I recognize the hypocrisy of that. I think the difference for me is that my phone isn't a permanent fixture in my house - it's not explicitly a surveillance device. Echo/Home are explicitly audio surveillance devices, though ostensibly benevolent in their design. I can stick my phone in a Faraday bag easily enough if I want to.

I guess what it comes down to is that while I recognize that I sacrifice a measure of potential for privacy with my phone, I judge the benefits to be worth it. I can't say the same for Echo/Home, and it somehow feels qualitatively different in that phones aren't designed to be always-on microphones constantly processing audio to send it off to a server somewhere else for analysis.

To be honest, I trust that Google and Amazon are probably acting in my best interests with these products, for the most part. I don't think it's all an evil conspiracy to get microphones and cameras into my inner sanctum or anything. I believe it's very possible for a product like this to be mutually beneficial for provider and consumer. And hey, if a state actor wants to surveil me, it's going to happen regardless of these devices being in my house. But as we've learned just how fragile security is, it seems foolish to me to rush off to install black-box monitoring devices all over and just hope that they do what we think they are doing. I love the idea of these things, but they are such potentially powerful windows into our lives that I think that we have to be really sure the value they provide is worth the security risk they entail.
Hillary Clinton AMA Session
This entire keynote just keeps highlighting that one sentence from the end of Maciej's wonderful http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm

"Yesterday ... I realized how long it had been since I looked at a new technology with wonder, instead of an automatic feeling of dread."

EDIT: Speaking of Maciej, if you're not already following him on Twitter, today is the day to do that. He's having a field day with this keynote.
I find it creepier and creepier by the day when people keep insisting that they want to be uploaded into the Matrix.
Hey, I have that pasta strainer. The one that's being used to store citrus fruits for some reason...
A company that makes money by collecting and selling access to personal information about people is offering to put a microphone in your home.

If you need a product like this, for the sake of your privacy, buy an Echo.
I don't really 'trust' either company, but the fact that I'm in so deep with Google already makes me less hesitant to add this one thing.

Google already knows me. I've basically slept with Google, so seeing me naked is just not a big deal. If Google uses that against me or gets compromised by a third party I'm screwed anyway and the transcripts from my living room will be the least of my worries.
I am one of those who (would) publish their code source-open, but not Open Source. The reason is not that I reject the legal system per se (although I do dislike and fundamentally criticize it). The reason is that publishing code without a license gives me the effect I want.

People can look at my code, they can use it privately and do whatever they want. They cannot build a business with it or use it in any way I don't like without my permission. Yes, people with a contempt of copyright law (which tend to align with me politically a bit) profit from this. People who have internalized copyright law and won't even look at my unlicensed code in secret, on their phone on the toilet, because it's 'wrong', are disadvantaged. That's great!

Most importantly, I don't give any rights away. "All rights reserved" is the default. And I don't enter any obligations. Remember, we like to talk about licenses that are attached to code. But how are they implemented? In reality, licenses are in fact like contracts between you and the license taker. I'm extremely hesitant to sign contracts with strangers - I especially don't want to offer a blanket contract to everybody who reads my code and wants to accept it. I can't be 100% sure that such a contract doesn't create any obligations for me that I don't want - the legal system is so complicated that even lawyers have problems finding all side effects of clauses. At the very least, I'll be giving courses of action away if I license my code.

Without a license, putting code online is a bit like writing a poem in a park. People can look over your shoulder, read what you're writing, you can interact with them if you like, they can take your words and pass them on - but they can't publish a book with them, and you have no obligations towards those people.
Show HN: Rheo Is Video for the Swipe Generation
You gear content towards Apple vs selling out the trunk and the content will change. Arguably for the worse. People will get paid but it definitely will not be the same.

If you use 50 as an example, he absolutely would not exist with his early mixtapes. You cannot release those on an official platform without running the risk of getting sued into oblivion. No label is going to back something like that. I also am not a fan of the curation process with a lot of these streaming services and definitely do not have any faith that you will be able to discover some unknown talented rapper in the way that you could with someone you've been buying shit from and you know they only carried good stuff.
price?
Google Duo makes mobile video calls fast and simple
I wasn't implying or assuming anything, I was genuinely asking... I'm more familiar with windows, than other OSes, but iirc, windows apps can only get 4GB per process. (Maybe that was just 32bit windows apps).
Google’s New Allo Messaging App Gets Its Edge from AI
Am I just slow today or did they really overload the "AWS" acronym for this?
Google: Chat Smarter with Allo
The former Intel & AMD agreements were about patents, as far as I'm aware. (The latest actually expired a year or two ago. Still, neither will sue the other because it's mutually assured destruction.)
Your main profile picture is always public, as is your cover photo, so you will have to use a picture that doesn't identify you, which may be confusing to your friends.
Interesting, do you have the pricing set so we know what it will be after the alpha is over?
Well I'm not surprised that a class on etiquette is going to make a point of teasing out the finer nuances of social interaction, but in most cases a simple "no thanks" will suffice. Most people don't care because in the real world there are plenty of people who don't drink (e.g. recovering alcoholics, designated drivers, people with health issues, legal issues, safety concerns, religious objections, or even people who just want to wake up on time for work in the morning).
GPUs work when the data is small and the calculation can be parallelized. Random access to memory from a GPU would be slow. It's more like a separate computer (or lots of separate computers) that you can send a small program to execute and get the result.
Well, this is the keynote, which is generally used to debut things and get people (and especially the press) excited about the new things. I'd expect the subsequent sessions will have more developer specific details.
Speed is halved using fast.com (140 down) vs speedtest (287 down) and I'm currently on Paxio in Oakland http://www.paxio.com
From your article:

In the example Google showed us, a graduation photo came
through. The suggested replies were along the lines of
"Congratulations!" and "You look great!" Think for a moment about
what it takes to do that. Google recognized it was a graduation
photo and then went a step beyond just guessing what it was, it
guessed at appropriate responses.

Umm. Its suggestions are no better than a simple like. It's less than greeting card sentiment. And it removes the need to even know what you're looking at. I'm not sure that's really a positive thing. Thread full of messages responding to pictures that the users never looked at. It's bad enough that for many people birthday and anniversary and holiday well-wishes are a simple "Happy Holidays" on someone's FB timeline or a text. Do we really need to automate sending those so that the sentiment is delivered but never actually shared?

Dystopian future headline from December 25th, 2040: Millions of zombie "Happy Holiday" texts, Google to use death certificate database to fight zombies.
“Mega Cable” is here, as Charter finalizes purchase of TWC
The hardware for this is the easiest part. Understanding voice that's far from the microphone (sound gets muffled, echos off walls, etc.), with other sounds in the background, is significantly harder than understanding speech near the microphone.
> you might think is meant to replace Google's other messaging app, Hangouts. But you'd be wrong.

Oh thank goodness! I'm so happy to have another vaguely defined and horrifically executed messaging/chat/collaboration/VTC/whatever app from Google. This will simplify things.
Uber's Trip Tracker allows you to view other's ride in real time
There's no way to eliminate smallpox completely now that it has been sequenced, unless you can also get rid of the digital copies as well. It's getting easier and easier to print DNA and RNA. We might not be able to print a full virus yet but it's only a matter of time.
Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform...

I want to be able to control my Apple TV with my Google Home device.

I want to be able to control my Phillips Hue and LiFX bulbs.

I want to be able to build my own custom home automation server endpoints and point my Google Home commands at them.

I want to be able to remote start my car with a voice command.

I want to be able to control my Harmony remote, and all of the devices connected to my Harmony hub.

I want to be able to access my Google calendar.

I want to be able to make hands-free phone calls to anyone on my Google contacts.

If my grandmother falls, I want her to be able to call 911 by talking to the Google Home device.

I want to be able to ask wolfram alpha questions by voice.

I want to be able to have a back-and-forth conversation to arrive at a conclusion. I don't want to have to say a perfectly formulated command like, "Add an event to my calendar on Jan 1, 2016 at 2:00 pm titled go to the pool party". I want to be able to say, "Can you add an event to my calendar?", and then answer a series of questions. I hate having to formulate complex commands as a single sentence.

I want to be able to have a Google Home device in each room, without having to give each one its own wake-up word. Just have the closest one to me respond to my voice (based on how well it can hear me).

I want to be able to play music on all of my Google Home devices at the same time, and have the music perfectly synchronized.

This is my wish list. I am currently able to do more than half of these items with Amazon Echo, but I had to do a bunch of hacking and it was a pain in the ass.

If Google Home can deliver on these points, I would switch from Amazon Echo in a heartbeat.
Google's Duo is another video chat service taking on Facetime, Skype
Speedtest is a more accurate measure of what you're actually paying for - which is a connection to the ATT network. The speedtest server is right on their network most likely.

Fast.com is a more functional test, specifically measuring how fast a connection on the ATT network in that area to the Netflix servers is. You're not paying ATT for a 24mb/s connection to every server on the entire internet because that would be impossible (how could your ISP promise you that much bandwidth across a transatlantic cable, or over a satellite link, or to a server connected via dialup). More generally, you're testing the strength of their peering and the route available for a specific purpose (watching Netflix).

They aren't measuring the same thing at all. It would be like buying a 100mb/s router, plugging it into 20mb/s internet and then complaining that your router is broken because you can't download at 100mb/s. Your router will still show your ability to contact other computers in your house as 100mb/s (analogous to speedtest), but reaching computers outside your network (analogous to fast) is limited by the speed of your connection to the next larger network.
I appreciate that this feels like an arbitrary distinction from the programmer's point of view. The way to think about it, I think, is this: what creativity is required to design the API? Designing a class with particular methods and appropriate names requires at least minimal creativity. Putting the disk I/O routines at INT 13h instead of INT 12h doesn't; it's arbitrary.

I think that's the crux of it or at least, of my confusion because I don't see the fundamental distinction in creativity (or really, fixedness of media although that seems like an easily avoided technicality). A BIOS API is still an API in purpose and intent. It has structure, design choices (parameters and returns, what calls to and not to provide), a specification, etc. Is the legally significant difference really that methods in classes have names and interrupts don't?
Or perhaps the more obvious: you try to disallow 'npm install' in some limited environment but allow other npm commands?
Except in Brave New World, soma is used to maintain a lie (which you're punished for refusing to believe) that life isn't unpleasant. In the modern world, alcohol is used by some people to cope with the common-sense fact that life is unpleasant.

One of the central themes of Brave New World is the collapse of realism and individualism in the attempt to maintain perfect order (and thus, ironically, control over reality). It's hard to leave that out of any conception of soma, especially when you consider that the pretentious fuck complaining about his coworkers taking "soma" really isn't all that much more enterprising or self-aware than anyone else, in the first place.
Google knows that this part is being watched by lots of people. This is where most media coverage will come from that the average user will encounter.
I've, fortunately, only ever experienced this a single time. From a coworker of the opposite gender who was already a few drinks in, at an event where I was the only person not drinking.

I've never suffered the line of questioning that people always talk about. Perhaps a single "Why?" which is easily answered with "Personal choice." And honestly, if you deviate from the "norm" a "why?" should be expected and factored into the decision.

There are other decisions where you can expect to be asked "Why?" For example:

I don't have a Facebook account. "Why?"

I don't watch movies/TV shows. "Why?"

It could be argued the "why" isn't important. The question isn't asked out of importance, but out of curiosity. They're curious why I made the decision I made, especially because it is an unpopular decision.
> Not putting this in hangout is a death blow. I'm not installing another chat app.

This is a big one for me. Unless I can have my A/V calls and SMS messages in the same app as other chat, I'm not going to use it.
> The NSA will likely record every sound from your house, if you own this.

It would be very easy to detect something fishy was going on. Even if the device was locked down and the connection was encrypted, they couldn't hide it if the device was uploading large volumes of data with no explanation.
Real estate slowdowns usually begin at the top.

It starts with the $5M+ homes taking longer to sell. Then, it impacts the homes that are affordable to software engineers costing between $2M and $3M.
http://www.themixingbowl.org
that should have been painfully obvious from the outset.

Has no one but me had friends try to trick my phone into going into voice command by yelling "OK Google" at it when i unlock it?
Help Name Android N
Just looked up the channels you mentioned as well as the hydraulic press one from the article and they don't look like viable sources of education to me. The Hydraulic Press and Red Hot Nickel Ball channels are purely entertainment along the same lines of "Will It Blend?" The other two are more in depth, but are still low (Thunderfoot seems to be a feminism/politics/atheism channel?) in educational value. They might serve to get people interested in science, but they're unsuitable for learning.

Is this the same as video games getting children interested in programming? Is that how it works, or do kids turn to programming because they want to make video games? If the latter then there's not much value at all in these channels. No one learns computer science from watching Call of Duty videos.
My guess is that that would be a tougher law to pass. The real estate developers and construction trade unions would pretty much swear to block something that extreme.

It could also wreak havoc with small-time landlords who want to improve their properties, so that's another interest group that would militantly oppose it.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875
What should Android N be called? You Can Vote on it
Why not just build the same features into Hangouts? It's already got enough momentum, instead they have to start from the ground floor yet again with a completely new app. Is it going to have SMS/MMS support built-in? Do I have to use it alongside Hangouts in the future? What features from Hangouts will I have to give up to use Allo? Are they going to sunset Hangouts, now that I've finally convinced (most) of my friends to at least install it?

I'm pretty tempted to give up on Google and just use Whatsapp. At least I can trust that there's a business behind it in brand and concept. With Google, I haven't the slightest idea how much genuine effort they'll put into Allo. It took them years to fix integration issues with SMS/MMS in Hangouts, and there are still bugs and issues that have been simply ignored.
This was my main way of finding new music when I was younger.

The problem is DJ Whatever will often just steal a bunch of popular tracks and turn them into a tape without any input from the artist.

Once you filter that out you'll find some gems. Bishop Lamont put out so many I feel he's already released his best work
If I had to fathom a guess, your downvotes may spring from "The NSA will likely record every sound from your house".

I don't know much on all the subjects that would converge over _the NSA storing all the audio from everyones house_ but it seems unlikely. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about though.
I was incorrect... Then again, I've never needed to address more than a couple gb of ram.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/11892191/43906
I don't work at vegan companies, or non-profits, their cultures aren't compatible with me. However, I wouldn't go around saying they have a "smug problem" that's their culture and their welcome to it, the moment I want to work at those cultures I'll either accept the conflict or do as the Romans do.

What is assholish is to insist that everyone else change what they enjoy just because you don't like it.
I upvoted you before you went grey because I do think that's a salient point, but I would guess you're being downvoted because the suggestion that the NSA will record the activity in your home around the clock is considered excessively paranoid. These devices usually perform hotword detection locally and don't start sending data up to the cloud until the hotword is spoken, at which point they capture only a few seconds of audio.

Beyond that, there's really no difference between Google Home and a Nexus phone. If Google wanted to record all of the audio around you, they're already equipped to do so for like 50% of the population that runs Android (and there has been speculation that intel agencies are able to remotely activate cell phone microphones and listen in).
Actually I would believe that your purchase history is far more lucrative to a company than anything else you listed.
Vulkan in Android N is huge
I think this is it. I was an alcoholic for a couple of years after I graduated from university, and in that time period as well as the time period leading up to that (frequent casual alcohol consumption, but not quite alcoholism), I made a good deal of friends who were heavy drinkers. Since December, I've had one beer and one glass of bubbly. I've started turning down my friends who offer me a drink. At first, they were confused.

"Are you okay?" they'd ask. "Yeah, I just don't feel like drinking." Of course, I let them know that it doesn't bother me if they go ahead and have a few. Surprisingly (to me, anyway), after the first couple refusals, I've had several of them tell me that they were envious, and that they'd like to cut back on alcohol, too. I told them to just do it -- it's not hard, and once you get past the first couple of weeks (month tops), you don't even have that urge to drink anymore. This was fairly recent, so only time will tell if they actually follow through.

The main thing for me is that they clearly respect my decision not to drink, a few of them seem to even respect me more for turning them down. I think that'd be very different if I were to make them feel judged or inferior for their own choice to imbibe, however. People in that situation tend to get dismissive and start to mentally justify their own behavior. It can really make someone grumpy ;)
> If an alternative airport wanted to do things a little different, such as "fly at your own risk" "no lifeguard on duty", aka no TSA b.s ...

... that airport and flights emanating from it would be perfectly safe! Why? Because, like everyone, terrorists, too, would love this airport so much, they wouldn't want to do anything to prevent it from operating.
GA is also orders of magnitude more dangerous than flying commercial. Most life insurance specifically excludes it.
The sense of free will is an illusion of physics and consciousness; choices are made by quasi-deterministic electrochemical processes before our conscious minds are ever aware of them.
Google shows off Duo, a FaceTime competitor
Namey McNameFace has a good ring to it.
OK, I get that. My point is at what point is a connection fast enough that NF won't serve you any faster? I get 101 download on speedtest but I've never downloaded an ISO file and had it download any faster than 5-6. The service on the other end has a say in how fast my downloads are. So my question is there some theoretical cap on the NF side that says anything over (arbitrary-number> is fast enough so clients are capped at that.

I'm on FIOS so I would not be surprised at all that VZ throttles the connection but on the other hand why cap it at ~50 and not at 5 or whatever? At 50 my connection is fast enough for me to watch full HD so it's not as if there turning me into a frustrated customer who decides cutting the cable is more hassle than it's worth...
In this case, the best troll answer would be Android Null.

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
Unfortunately tied to your phone number. I realise this is what makes WhatsApp popular, but it's a UX nightmare for travelers/multinationals.

I'm currently doing without WhatsApp because I have no way to activate it on my replacement phone (dropped original one) - the SIM tied to my WhatsApp account doesn't work overseas and I'm using a local SIM.

It's a frustrating, confusing experience. What's wrong with tying this to your Google account?