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This looks too expensive for what it offers. Doesn't Hulu cost a small fraction of this? You get shows slightly delayed, but you also get coverage from a bunch of cable networks.
Well, if you're going to say that, then C++ with smart-pointers is Garbage Collected, and nobody says that!
That depends if you're willing to pay for the cost of hosting all your content twice and the development overhead of managing that. Twice the persistences means twice the chance of an issue occurring.
They have a minimum of 1 year deprecation policy in their terms of service.
That is literally what he would say. If someone would wander over and say, "I want $500K per year", he would tell them "Well, the CTO makes that. So you're going to have to get into management. The best way to do that is to do some technical work that makes you stand out and also show that you can do the management work. I'll give you a technical project to do and it will be up to you to make sure that it is successful. After that we can talk about what parts of my job I can hand over to you so that you can show that you are capable of doing them. Once you show that you are capable of doing everything that I do, I'll recommend you for a promotion. I warn you that you will probably have to put in a lot of unpaid overtime in the mean time."

(Apologies to him if I have misrepresented his ideas -- taken from a discussion I had with him where I asked him exactly this). Anyway, he told me that many people often were quite happy with a lower salary expectation once they understood what was required of the higher salary expectation. Also "I'll tell you what you have to do" doesn't necessarily mean that the person will succeed. If you want the bigger salary you are going to have to choose the harder projects. So it might be "Take this failing project and turn it around. Hmm... yes I know it's a piece of crap legacy app that nobody else wants to touch. Find a way to make it work and I will find a way to get your raise." A lot of people will say, "Oh. No thanks. I'd rather work with the new shiny greenfield project. It's a lot easier and a lot more fun." His approach was to let people self select for their level of performance. And if someone took the gnarly legacy problem and failed miserably, then he would gently (?) suggest that they focus on easier problems until they have built up their skills.
> In total, YouTube TV gives you access to more than 40 networks

Not bad for $35/month. I do wonder how much the add-on networks like Showtime would cost.
Apropos of nothing all of the sites that talk about driving for Uber seem to recommend a recording setup both a dash cam and 'passenger cam' to provide backup in the event of a dispute or accident. I would be really surprised if he didn't expect this to be recorded at some level.
Bullshit. He gets paid the big bucks for exactly that.
Singularity University is looking for climate change solutions
$35 is kind of steep.
> Plus you've only handled the subscription portion, even if somehow we fix that. Where do I view this content? Is there a unified media dashboard that connects to 3 parts of youtube, play, and such?

Why does there need to be? YouTube Red/Google Play Music All Access are combined in one subscription, but YouTube itself has a really large number of Google-provided front ends (just for apps, off the top of my head, there is YT, YT Music, YT Kids.) And Google Play Music has its own app, which also.links to video content in YT.
If you're somewhere between a casual and a die hard sports fan, the $35/month price tag is rather competitive for the sports alone. Alas, seems to be US only for now. :o(
philosophy of philosophy, a godelian knot.
The lack of GC is a benefit here. Remember, WASM as an MVP is meant to bring C/C++ codebases on the web.

There is plenty to be excited about here. This will enable faster [media apps, games, etc](http://webassembly.org/docs/use-cases/) on the web. Wasm is knocking at the door and I can't wait to see what it's bringing with it.

Edit: HN really should support a few more formatting options.
> A big part of the advantage is more consistent adoption by browsers. […] Firefox/SpiderMonkey and Edge/Chakra have AOT compilation for asm.js, but notably Chrome/V8 doesn't

Not quite. SpiderMonkey has AOT compilation, whereas Chakra and V8 throw it at the JIT, though Chakra's compiler is specially optimised for asm.js AIUI.

Thing is, specific support for asm.js is unnecessary, a sufficiently good JIT is good enough. V8 hasn't implemented asm.js AOT because it doesn't need to. I assume the same would be true of WebAssembly.

> Asm.js also still hasn't become a formal spec

Though it is a spec.
philosophy of philosophy, a godelian-gordian knot
Carl Sagan used to make that point. From a science perspective, you get a much, much better bang for your buck sending robots. But as Larry Niven pointed out to Sagan, every time you convince someone that manned space doesn't make sense you convince them there's no reason to go into space at all. Yes, NASA could do a lot more with its budget if it didn't do manned space, but if it didn't do manned space NASA might not exist at all.
> potential business lost

My startup's op team had a great discussion today because of this that basically boils down to "if we hit our sales goals, an incident like this a year from now would end our company".

Looks like our plans to start prepping for multi-cloud support will be a higher priority.
> Any cursory reading of history will reveal that cities are and always have been where humans go to die.

(I'm honestly not sure if this is a troll comment or not. I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt though.)

Alternatively one could say any cursory reading of history will reveal that cities are and always have been where humans go to prosper and innovate.

Also, and more importantly, the majority of dense, walkable cities do not have high costs of living - e.g. Berlin, Barcelona, Istanbul, or even much of Chicago. Just because the most expensive major global cities are dense and walkable that does not mean that all dense and walkable cities are expensive.

If you look at the most expensive zip codes in the US [1] you'll see that eight out of ten are in low-density suburban or semi-rural areas. Does that mean that low-density suburban areas are all super expensive?

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/betsyschiffman/2015/11/10/full-...
I have to disagree with you, not everything is about money or commerce. Laws are put in place to protect people, so that everyone feels like they are part of the society they build. Honestly, it's about respect for the local people. I don't see how having a sign in both French and English so that people can understand you better is a big deal.
On C++ streams: see http://fmtlib.net/
Hulu is what, 15 a month? So you'd be paying ~20 more per month in order to get access to shows as they come and (most importantly) live sports? It's a bad value if you don't watch sports, but $35 seems pretty reasonable if you do.
The military is something like 20% of the budget. That's not where most of your money is going.
That's one of the reasons I built GroupTweet. To facilitate private group communication on Twitter with any number of participants that can persist through permanent Twitter accounts (instead of temporary Group DMs that are limited to 20 people).

Would love any feedback or suggestions on how it could be improved.

Happy to offer free use to anyone on this thread looking to test out the service.
>Uber can hardly be faulted for playing the free market.

Why? Seems like we should be holding them responsible in any way we can (even if that's just talking bad on a message board) for their bad actions. I don't know why we need to give them a pass on actions we don't deem moral just because it's legal.
I don't think security is a good reason to pick between Linux and Windows, or between Java and .NET.
> Point 2 has almost no value these days unless you don't have Hulu/Amazon/Netflix, which I guess some people don't.

A lot of their content is from sources that aren't on Hulu, Amazon, or Netflix (or which are on one or more of those with a significant delay), so DVR is still valuable.
Why would this affect Amazon's stock? Amazon generates $136B per year. AWS comprises $8B of that. Even if 5% of customers left because of this (and that's never going to happen), it would barely create as much as a tiny ripple in their ocean of revenue. Investors care not about Amazon's cloud services.
Travis isn't responsible for the driver bankrupting himself. That's poor life decisions. I'd never buy a brand new luxury car just for Uber Black. I don't know the circumstances of how that driver lost $97k, but that's a lot of money to lose over Uber Black as a driver. I don't know how he did it. Whatever he did, blaming the CEO of Uber is hardly appropriate.
Microsoft is redirecting rstats.org to their R product page
I really don't understand--those channels are free with an HD antenna. I don't know if this is possible anymore, but those channels used to be free through your cable cord, even without a cable box. ABC, fox, nbc, and cbs are free. Why pay $35 just to remove adds.

Are they including, AMC, MTV, etc? I don't think so or they would say so.

Ps. This is a serious question. Please someone help me understand how they are charging for free channels just to drop their ads (presumably)?
> "Don't think something we've done or something that we're doing that isn't visible yet is a signal that our priorities are elsewhere," Cook also told investors.

Instead, use the fact that the Mac Pro is languishing without an update for nearly 1200 days as that signal.

I don't think there is really any way around it, they are currently failing this market segment pretty badly.
Note that to acquire imagery you don't necessarily need to request a new one be shot. Historical imagery often covers what you need, depending on what part of the globe you want to see, and when.

Each image with sample distance to differentiate cars seems to be $10-$48 each.
I would add an edit button.
I have A LOT of pdf's I'd much rather listen to than read. Can't wait for this!
This is decent for sports lovers. I might end up going with this once my current comcast promotional plan expires.
I don't think that is a good reason to say they are employees.

What happens when you look at it like this; A Uber driver must accept some % of request sent their way (any class), but if you want to be sent uber black request then you must have an appropriate car.

I feel like you are looking at it from a top down view, vs a bottom up view. I am not saying ether view is right or wrong. I just find it hard to follow the logic to how that makes them employees.

But I have struggled with the employee argument from the start, so I am a bit bias at this point.

A big part of why I think people feel the way you do is because the system is programmed, and automated. If i was a guy looking for contractors to do jobs for me naturally people who were more consistently available and that I have worked with in the past would get jobs before people who can only be available "whenever". The only difference is that was some sort of decision I made in my head vs a system who had thresholds programmed.

What I feel like uber has done is automated the process of hiring contractors for on the spot jobs. And somehow people don't like the automation of it, or the rules. I feel like the solution is simple. Don't drive for uber if you don't like the terms. Go get a taxi medallion if you want to make your own rules, or drive for one of the competitors.
And in that, we'd expose the hypocrisy of Google claiming 90 days is enough time to fix and distribute an update. ;) Since the majority of users of their OS don't get security updates at all.
Oh, I agree completely. I just think the incentives for the politicians aren't properly aligned.
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Gamache's point is that making your production environment cross-regional means setting up all those things in another region and managing them as well. It's not a tickbox.

Our webservers were hit by this outage. In order to make these cross-regional, I'd need to set up VPCs properly, security groups, instances, datastores (several databases), so on and so forth. I don't store anything on the local disk, but I'm not going to run a server in Europe hitting my db servers in us-east-1. AWS doesn't offer all the databases we use. Cloudformation isn't trivial to use once you get past the tutorial examples either.

Basically, your comment is a version of "you're holding it wrong!"
why is the times doubling down on dehumanization? are we supposed to believe that moderately intelligent Russians who speak English are evil sub-humans? this is literally the war on negative thinking, and it is being fought right now. What is shocking is that the new york times is leading the charge, ordering us into a two minutes hate of the "trolls".

This is nothing more than operant conditioning. You are being ordered to hate the trolls. The New York Times is ordering you to hate the trolls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4zYlOU7Fpk

This level of dehumanization is absolutely abhorrent. The New York Times is determined to assert its right to misrepresent the lives of these people. 100% sick.
Based upon what little is posted there, I thought they were taking the original recording, then training the model on that recording against the text of the recording... reproducing the recording. I would think next step is to sample enough audio and text to be able to produce new outputs entirely. It should in theory even be able to learn when/where/how to use inflection.
Which is why he made the distinction between the two.
Sports! That makes more sense.
Smlr – Make your stdin smaller (a simple abbrtion util)
Twitter should offer a secure chat channel like Signal, and the ability to publish some of the best phrases that come up as Tweets.

Too often I have to take screenshots of a Signal convo, format it for Twitter, etc.
If you made a .NET library that allows easily connecting to both AWC and GCS by only changing the endpoint I would certainly use that library instead of Amazon's own.

Just saying, it gets you a foot in the door.
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That explains why all the information you can find about SharePoint development is so muddled I guess.
From what I've seen from working on two projects with more than 100 engineers is that they break down into these categories:

20% - Not productive. They can't get their tasks done, and after awhile, no one even expects them to. They get routed around.
65% - Neutral. The quality problems and technical debt they incur matches their productive work.
12% - Net negative. They introduce hard to fix bugs and technical debt beyond their productivity.
3% - Gods. They do almost all the productive work. Without these types of people, no large project would ever get done.
The WP theme market is pretty saturated, there are still theme creators making money but it's more competitive that it used to be.

If you are skilled at WP development I would look at marketing plugins. Consider investing time in developing free plugins with paid add-ons. There is less competition as your plugin would fill a unique task/niche.

Sure there would be competitors and copy cats but it's much easier to provide a new feature/better support with plugins vs themes.

You could always test the water by creating a theme. Some are still doing really well.
Fox News trained half the country to ignore facts and got them to think everyone else is lying, which led to a politically naive and easily manipulated group of voters. Then Fox News legitimatized Trump into a political figure by giving him a platform to attack Obama and de-legitimatize him as a President. It's a very ugly moment in history for America and frankly I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. Until America reinstates the Fairness Doctrine and we have real campaign-finance reform that overturns Citizens United, this is the new America that we will live in.
> nobody would disagree.

People have disagreed in this very thread. And can you honestly say that finding out the author was being hypocritical didn't weaken his argument in your mind? It did in mine: this is a very human impulse and in this case it leads us wrong. Now instead of evaluating whether what the author said it's true, we're evaluating whether the author is trustworthy. This needs not to even be considered because the author's statement stands on its own, independent of who said it.

> The point was that there is no accountability in the article. It even says "they're sleeping" instead of "we're sleeping".

I get the point, but why make this point? It's not an ad hominem attack because the logical leap from "the author was a hypocrite" to "the author is wrong" was never explicitly made, but it's hard to imagine a reason why attacking the author is relevant if you don't make that logical leap. And many readers will make that logical leap, as evidenced by responses to my post. If the intent is only to attack the author, it's off topic; if the intent is to undermine the author's statement, it's an ad hominem; either way it's counterproductive to the kind of discussion I want to see on HN.

Security is the responsibility of people who implement software. That's important and it's worthwhile to stay on that topic.
> You don't get to challenge everyone in your life who makes decisions that directly or indirectly affect you.

Where did you get that idea?
Conservatives = Low-Effort Thinkers.
Once you have a manager though, you can set up jobs that are highly configurable and repeatable. Learning the job system really took my DF productivity to the next level.
We have one in the office. My boss taught me how to do it - took about a week as everyone else has said.

We do it when we're on long phone calls. It sounds like a distraction, but I find it actually helps me focus. It's just turning cubes from rote memory, paying slight attention to where things need to go. It's far less distracting than picking up the phone and firing up Twitter.

(I was 39 when I learned, FWIW. Recommended to anybody.)
Lex by AWS.
Its the same deep learning tech. used as used by Alexa
"there's absolutely no reason for Kalanick to give an Eff about the driver's situation."

Considering that, without the drivers, Uber doesn't have a product, I cannot agree with that statement.

"Its just the nature of how Uber has been set up. I understand the driver's frustration, but what more does the driver expect?"

For the CEO of Uber to act like a human being. But given the news recently, that's far too much for anyone to expect.
Probably depends upon who you are. This (based on their list of partner logos) looks like a solution pretty much custom made for those who have considered "cord cutting" but can't because of live sports.

I don't fit into that group of people, but I know a lot of people who do.

I suspect this may spook cable TV providers (who also happen to be the biggest ISPs, at least here in the US) and I'm somewhat afraid of what happens from here given a FCC that seems hostile toward net neutrality.
JPMorgan software does in seconds what took lawyers 360,000 hours
You don't consider college/university to be a professional environment?
Yes, though there was a divergence later. For various strategic reasons you want your ICBMs to use solid rockets, so while the early manned rockets were liquid fueled ICBMs mated to capsules, money spent on ICBMs today probably doesn't do much for a civilian space program.

On the other hand, I doubt we spend much money upgrading our ICBMs. The technology is mature, and that's an area where "good enough" is, well, good enough.
>The top two are representative of what it sounds like when doing true text to speech. The middle five are just resynthesis of a clip saying the exact same thing.

Gotcha, now I understand.
No. I've never worked for GS. In the case I'm talking about, the employee was sued 4 hours before he was fired. Federal criminal charges came a few months later.
Is Diane really that good?

I was at a talk last year, where she spoke, and as much as I love Google, it was one of the boat boring talks I've ever heard in my life. So monotone and uninteresting... and I'm probably one of the biggest Google fans out there.
The parent comment included a verbatim quote from the page. It's what they said.
See how Zika infection changes a human cell
I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one. REST is one of the more successful strategies we've come up with for connecting systems, this is just another case of letting perfect stand in the way of good enough. Using GET for non-destructive operations and POST for updates and deletes is a nice, portable compromise. I've been trying hard for years to find a reason to bother with PUT, but so far I've found it not worth the effort.
Search engines are a specific type of tool where algorithms just make more sense. Between the amount of data that needs to be processed, and the relatively low impact of being incorrect. There are a lot of places Google wants to apply algorithms (like customer service, censorship products, and driving cars) where I do not believe it's warranted to replace humans with software.
Facebook and Google pay 200+ total yearly compensation to most engineers with over 2 years of experience.
charging for product is significantly more solid than ads.
it's not everyone's game though, not everyone has a sellable product.
Whether I would be happy about it or not does not make it right either. My unpopular opinion is that this video is in the public interest and that matters more than whether or not the CEO of Uber is happy about it or feels like their privacy was violated.
I thought web-assembly still had the view-source implemented even though it is sent as binary, is that incorrect?
ah - sorry i misunderstood. Thank you.
Is there another system you know in which no one has experienced "extreme hardship?" Are you saying the driver in this article is an example of that?
How did you get the pass?

Been trying to get one for IO (can't attend NEXT unfortunately)
Which is absolutely wrong. They're deciding, as a contractor, to not take jobs which are not worth their time. As a contractor, they're supposed to be able to do that without punishment. If Uber is doing this, it is a punishment.
Wish I could +1 this more. Any time I get some error, I spend hours sifting through old documentation and forum posts.
This reads like a The Onion article. I had to double check the URL to authenticate it is an actual article.

U.S. border patrol is getting more ridiculous by the day, but considering the ignoramus idiot at the top, it is not surprising. It's good that more and more horror stories are surfacing.
As of 4:30PM Pacific, we're still having trouble with EC2 autoscaling API operations in US-East-1. Basically very long delays in launching new instances or terminating old ones.
But let's have some perspective, please. NASA was the beneficiary of years of research in engineering and basic science by the German government. They didn't make anything as a result of their own original effort.

So what? Nobody reinvents the wheel if they don't have to.

And I don't know why you think China started behind SpaceX. China benefited from US technical assistance in a way that SpaceX didn't.
I'd love to know what the current advantages are over running asm.js? I understand that it will definitely be faster eventually, but if I have a project that uses asm.js today, would it make sense to run it with WebAssembly instead? (ignoring the fact that not all browsers support it)

One potential issue:

"If you have lots of back-and-forth between WebAssembly and JS (as you do with smaller tasks), then this overhead is noticeable."

As far as I'm aware, asm.js code does not have an issue with this, as it is just js code. Is this correct?

(edit: I should have mentioned that I'm primarily interested from an electron.js point of view at the moment, where Firefox asm.js optimizations are unavailable)