skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elastic Transcoder lacked a lot in support of a bunch of codecs and output formats, especially broadcast and movie formats where unsupported. With MediaConvert they are likely using the conversion engine they got when they acquired Elemental.
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I’m at university and often find myself ignoring the lecturer and reading through the slides in my own time, making my own notes. The only reason I show up is because the lecturers often give extra information they don’t put on the slides, so I always keep an ear open.
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I guess I'm wanting people to realize that they already have a library of building blocks in their own imaginations. "writing music" is a vast thing to say. Writing music in the manner of Mozart or LMFAO or Bruno Mars is narrower. But you have to study those exact folks to do that and then immitate their vocabulary of chords, rhythms, forms, orchestrations, styles... even to say "writing jazz in real time" isn't narrow enough. Jazz is too vast. I think people limit themselves when they get vast unknowingly like this. Better to improvise as one's self than to immitate someone else. If you want someone else to play it back as you wrote it... record yourself.
Things have got a little better since Viner stepped in. Good take on the state of newspapers, and the particular success of the FT, from ex-editor of Guardian Peter Preston.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/26/financial-time...
Corporate charitable donations were under $19B in 2016. The NIH budget alone is about $27B per year.

The idea that corporations would decide to replace federal funding for charitable reasons is absurd.
Apparently the EULA oversteps. Gives sony the right to grab data from your pc when connected.
Look at sectors that benefit from the political environment.

Things like pharmaceuticals with ok pipelines, good companies in shitty sectors (say a company like Costco in retail), health insurers and companies like McDonald's that do well when the rest of the world does not. Think about smaller players who benefit from net neutrality going away.

You should have a running list of good companies and invest as you see corrections or downturns.
A tourist-based space economy is bollocks.

"Space tourism is not a market, merely a way to kill rich wastrels until parents, heirs and trustees organize to stop them." http://launchloop.com/UpwardBound Keith Lofstrom

There's real money and economy up there. Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGcvv3683Os
Wait, questioning the venting and rage level of a suicide note is "religious defensiveness???" Wha....????
More likely it is a competitor to Azure Media Services, as they had a lot of the same type of services already. This is really AWS catching up.
The folded eggs used to be made from fresh eggs. Did this change?
Also, individuals paying for a subscription have no effect on the editorial line of a given newspaper. There's been a case recently in France where a billionaire was involved in the infamous Paradise Papers. Some newspaper wrote a lengthy piece about it and it turns out said billionaire pulled 600.000 euros of ads from the outlet a few weeks later. Totally coincidental of course :)

That cannot really happen with actual subscribers. They can pull their subscription en masse if the editorial line doesn't please them, but they cannot endanger the livelihood of the newspaper as one fell swoop like that.
> The GBP I hold is a promise that the issuer will go to almost any means necessary to maintain the value of my wealth in respect to its fungibility.

That's an absurd notion, if that were true they wouldn't keep printing more of it and giving it to someone else.
This is an impressively aware article. I do find myself wondering though, whether all this should be a requirement for entering the software industry. Why is it that software rarely seems to offer apprenticeships like other engineering disciplines?
Practically speaking, new employees, and fast rotating contractors don't know shit about what your code is _supposed_ to be doing.

As you scale codebases and teams, it becomes necessary. With small single-developer projects, it's not.
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I don't actually know the answer to this riddle is. And US is present abroad because it wants to be and because it furthers their own interests, in a lot of places their presence is not actually welcome.
The link is literally in the article... anyways, here you go: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-in-munich-no-comp...
The accounting isn’t zero sum with stocks in that capital is supposed to beget more capital through value creation. That’s the intrinsic value of company shares. So, while there might be a winner and a loser, the world still ends up with more ‘wealth’.
When I think about UBI, I keep picturing a group of pidgeons fighting over pieces of bread.

I don't see UBI as freedom. It shares a lot with slavery, in that someone else is feeding you, and therefore has control over you.

What I hope for in the future is a fully independent machine that each person owns and is capable of caring for them, by providing food, shelter, etc. and is capable of building a clone of itself.

In this way, you truly are free, having a machine which you own, and can shutdown and leave at anytime if you wish.
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It goes further than that.

More or less any job a human can do, technology will do better. If not today then soon. And so even if we purely took a market point of view it's pretty obvious that humans and work isn't really an optimal cocktail once there is a technological alternative.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-in-munich-no-comp...
That isn’t true. You can import much more than a few days, especially the way milk powder is concentrated. You aren’t supposed to import for multiple babies, but the Chinese customs agents aren’t going to bat their eye at a suitcase full of milk powder packages.
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This is what allowances are for, teaching them how to make right decisions with their own money early, with all the resulting consequences for bad decisions.
The same happened to me. First, I started unfollowing people I don't interact with in real life anymore, after that, I unfollowed people I care about but who posted uninteresting things, then, I noticed there were tons of irrelevant Facebook pages in my timeline (pages I've "Liked" a long time ago maybe because I saw a good post from them or maybe the page's name was appealing) so I unfollowed all of them.
I used to check Facebook several times during the day, now I check it two or maybe three times a day, because my timeline is almost empty. After several tries of quitting by deactivating my account, I think I finally found a good way to quit it, and maybe I don't even need to totally deactivate it since it doesn't absorbs my time anymore.
Honestly, I suspect the consensus would be to use there $10,000 to start a savings account where you keep 6 months of living expenses for those times when your opportunities blow up in your face. That's risk management, and I'd have no trouble tattoing it on a 22 year old's forehead in reverse.

Further, I'd have no problems telling someone with a 6-figure income to max out their 401k and then invest more in index funds. Take it from a 50 year old, it's easy to come out if that 10 year window with nothing but painful experiences.
From the announcement, you have:

AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaLive
AWS Elemental MediaPackage
AWS Elemental MediaStore
AWS Elemental MediaTailor

When put together, the combined scope of it seems to be a "backend services of Youtube" type of product. Youtube-as-a-Service: create a similar Youtube website without reinventing the wheel -- just use AWS Media Services.

The market positioning of this is interesting. Instead of creating a "DroneFlying" channel on Youtube.com and attempt to monetize there, you create a url www.DroneFlying.com with AWS Media Services to serve the videos. I would expect some folks to come up with spreadsheets to compare the two strategies.

(Another commenter mentioned it's a clone of Microsoft Azure Media Services. I looked at Azure and it seems to missing the backend services for ad monetization. That seems to a big differentiator with AWS Media Services and it makes it more like a Youtube-as-a-Service rather than an Azure Media clone.)

The current offerings seem to favor some types of video sites but not others. For example, the AWS Media Services seems to be turnkey for a clone of Youtube or possibly Twitch.tv.

However, it doesn't seem to be a good fit for replicating elearning sites like Pluralsight.com, Lynda.com, Coursera, Craftsy, etc. Training videos need chapters, timeline bookmarks, student commenting, chats, student & teacher interaction, etc. The AWS Media Services doesn't have the metadata infrastructure for that. You'd have to custom build a lot of extra code on top of it for a video training website.
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I need to choose the best Parental control App. What would you recommend to me, which one is the best: Kidslox, Qustudio or Screentimelab. I only need a child schedule for my iPhone, and block certain apps, like Snapchat.
They also make use of offshore tax structures to minimise their taxes, such as the £302m profit from selling Auto Trader magazine.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/will-the-guardian-now-...
VPN is not supposed to hide you, it just provides access to some resources that are not available without VPN.
You do not understand. I am not saying it is similar or inspired, it is the same app.

I assure you I am not mistaken in this claim.
I haven't read Time in ages, but "Top 10" lists were their bread and butter in the 90's. The whole mission seems quaint now, but you really could feel sort of caught up with US news and pop culture by reading a slim magazine once a week.
I think this is what Google and the others aim for - no hand-tuning. You simply specify the problem (some function to optimize) and the data. Everything in a nice concise package running on Google Cloud using their custom software and hardware.
PLATO was the Concorde of its time. It showed how technology and social interaction would create new tools and cultures.

Since ubiquitous computing and communication were far in the future, it never had the breakthrough it deserved.
A great post and great discussion; how is this post already off of the front page despite having ~80 votes in 1 hour?

I was reading this post on my phone and missed the subhed "My daily life (outside of work)". When reading her habitual to-do list (read 2 tech articles, solve 5 CodeWars Kata) I had assumed it was her weekend list, or maybe week list. Maybe she has an extraordinary amount of energy, or maybe I've totally forgotten how much energy you could have as a teenager (or both).

Something she wrote reminded me of a fragment of a story I heard on NPR about women coding:

> I started coding when I was 15 years old. I had a booming health & lifestyle blog on Tumblr and gained tens of thousands of followers in no-time. This is when I started creating my own responsive layouts with the regular HTML, CSS and jQuery, as I didn’t like the themes that I could buy, so I decided to just try it myself! From there on, I kept on improving my skills, gained more knowledge, and my interest in developing grew.

Here's the piece that I apparently caught a bit of on NPR: http://latinousa.org/episode/tech-industrys-leaky-pipeline/

There's not a transcript unfortunately, but there's a bit where someone is talking about how, in the age of MySpace, kids had an opportunity to be exposed to coding because customizing MySpace profiles required writing raw HTML. Sure, it often looked ugly as hell, but we don't seem to have a similar mainstream entry point for the average Internet user to get sucked into coding -- that is, coding not for coding's sake, but just because coding was a way to improve your daily life (yes, even social media profiles count as "daily life").

IMO, the coding -- including the language that you have to figure out -- isn't important compared to the revelation that digital entities can be hacked and changed to your liking. These days, I can still impress a classroom of people by seemingly defacing nytimes.com using the web inspector. It's not the sight of HTML being typed that's impressive, but the revelation that webpages somehow are mutable.

(not sure how many of those people realize that I didn't change anything on the actual nytimes.com server :p)
Ask HN: How do I get my designer to use Interface Builder?
I'm the founder of a tiny startup, with one or two other engineers + a part-time UX designer.

I'm trying to get the designer to use Interface Builder to prototype UIs, and finally deliver them as storyboards. As opposed to PDFs, Sketch files or other formats that require a massive re-implementation effort.

Some designers I've worked with earlier refused flat out, but I'm making the argument that it's not his productivity that matters, or mine, but that of the team as a whole.

Have you gotten your designer to use IB? What are some effective ways in which designers and engineers can collaborate without each re-implementing the UI using tools they like but the other side doesn't?
And yet it's not at all simple.

If you want to avoid sugar and corn syrup, you'll be paying 3x as much on food. You have to remember to cancel all of those superfluous monthly charges. If you get parking tickets, you're set back. If you don't check your physical mail for too long, you'll discover you accidentally ran a toll road and now they're billing you $150. Whenever you get a phone or internet plan, they never tell you what the final bill is, so you have to remember to add +50% to whatever price they're saying. If you live with someone, you have to get them interested in managing finances too, or else you'll discover you're hemorrhaging money. The list goes on and on.

If you live in the US, it costs ~$400/mo to have health insurance under the ACA. If you can't afford that and go to the ER for any reason, your credit is screwed.
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Certainly hundreds of thousands, even the low end official figure for the Iraq war alone is 110,000 (top-end more pessimistic estimate is 1m+)[1]. Add on to that Afghanistan[2] (estimates of 110,000 to 360,000) and you’re up to a lowball quarter of a million total.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war...
TL;DR the plan was deemed impossible to pull off for a bunch of obvious reasons and nothing came of it.

This is basically meeting minutes of BSing at the water cooler.

The military/intelligence part of government cooks up all sorts of hair brained schemes for stuff that will never happen and even though it never goes beyond the brainstorming phase it still goes on record because the on the off chance that aliens invade Argintina it's really nice to just take an off the shelf plan that's close and adapt it and get sign offs rather than waste time trying to schedule a meeting with all the subject matter experts and make the plan from scratch with all the poor high speed decision making that comes with the fog of war.
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No, it is highly unlikely that life on earth would cease to exist. There are too many places where extremophiles or other similar creatures are surviving beyond the reach of nuclear radiation, fallout or nuclear winter;

* We have found caves that have been closed off for millions of years, there might be more
* Extremophiles are living around thermal vents at the sea floor
* In the Russian Permafrost, Microbes have been found in suspended hibernation since a couple million years ago

In general, even if we were to nuke this dirtball to shit and back, something would be likely to survive
Some good examples collected here: https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/08/22/guardian-columns-look-l...
In addition to generally being a garbage piece of writing, the linked article doesn't actually provide a citation for AT&T being "forced" to invest in anything.

Please somebody downvote this.
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" enacting a UBI and paying for it by increasing the federal debt would grow the economy (and increase GDP)"

Printing trillions and trillions of dollars of money would increase the debt and increase GDP. Let's do that too!
One hopes neoconservatism is good and dead. It was an ambitious ideology which presumed everyone in the world shared western values or wanted them.

I think the American public tired of this neocon hawkishness and I'm hopeful we see a change in our foreign policy.
The only place I can think of that has done something similar is the oil and land rights of the native people of Alaska, who get checks somewhere in that range. How has this turned out for them?
Mind, it would really help if I could get the newspaper I actually want delivered to where I live. Call me snooty, but I want to read the New York Times, not the Boston Globe. The Globe isn't local enough for those of us living outside Boston proper, but it just doesn't have the national- and global-scale content of the Times.
I don't find it particularly unusual when someone with a 9-5 job spends 5-6 hours at home working on their passion project. But I don't think I could have the discipline of the OP, to spend 4 hours daily on a personal project, and also completing coding exercises and reading tech articles, on a daily basis.
I think I can understand some complaints about Linux because I use it as my main desktop OS since many years, but I want to fix two points:

- "compatibility headaches" is a problem caused by the usage of Microsoft office. Linux has no compatibility problem with itself or with standards.

- "apps and hardware that absolutely needed Microsoft's platform to run, and those were destined to stay". Since 2003, these products are 14 years old. It is hard to believe most of them could not have been renewed without this dependency.

I think that acceptance of Microsoft office proprietary format is the main cause of failure.
I don't think this is a particularly big deal, and certainly less serious than other publicly known events in the 1960s (and 1980s) that almost started WWIII, however...

> But note that the documents do not describe the mental status of the authors, they're just listing facts.

Do government documents normally describe the mental status of the authors, rather than sticking to facts (whether true or not)?

> The US government is a very, very large organization, that asks a lot of questions and produces a lot of documents.

What percentage are serious enough to get discussed by the National Security Council and/or Attorney General?

> Within the Soviet government, someone else investigated what it would cost to procure some F-86 and F-4 aircraft

I haven't seen any documents on that, but did the Politburo discuss how US planes could be used in a false flag attack? If they did, how would it justify or excuse the US doing so?

> it would be irresponsible not to check

It's irresponsible of the US government to not look into the possibility of murdering Americans in order to start WWIII?
At a cost of $24 trillion? Ha!

250m[1] * $1000 * 8 * 12 = $24,000,000,000,000

1. http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/99-total-populat...
sshreach.me is somewhat similar but solves different kind of problems (I'm the author so this is a shameless plug)

https://sshreach.me/
Companies typically do this to spread the media coverage.

Conferences such as reinvent naturally have a lot of touch-points, but it doesn't do well if there's more being pumped out than can be consumed, or so much that your target audience doesn't notice their particular area of interest amongst the noise.
Now I won't have to use Fastly and Wowza anymore. I'm more than happy.
It does say "I code".. how far away do you have to be for text to appear crisp at 80dpi? And how big do you need the font size to make it readable?
The Scott Trust was created to avoid the paying of inheritance tax.
There's plenty of "coding" work that's essentially gluing frameworks together, hacking around with CSS + JS, adding one more feature to CRM. You don't need CS degree for these the same way you don't need economics degree to do basic accounting. Also if you have a degree and are in a job like this, look around.

CS degree gets you open door to "real coding jobs"
- AI / ML / DL
- data science / BI
- multithreading, performance sensitive development etc
- Big Data

Can you learn everything yourself / from online material. Probably yes.
Show HN: Bump: Sublime Text Plugin to check and update npm/yarn dependencies fast
It will be interesting to see the AMA and IBM's Watson duke it out as Watson (or similar AI) makes diagnostic knowledge a waste of human capital. I suspect in 10 years or less we'll just need an empathetic person to deliver us bad news who has the bare minimum medical knowledge to strap on whatever test apparatus properly.
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They later changed the headline to add "If".
lvoudour didn't seem to be arguing against the research so much as agreeing with cjsuk that the lecture model of teaching is ineffective for some population regardless of note-taking medium. The research shows that, of people who learn effectively in the lecture-style learning model, more of them learn better from taking notes on paper. But, there is a significant - I would never claim majority - population that doesn't learn well in lecture-style learning. For that population, they could use electronic device, paper/pen, clay tablet, or direct imprints to the brain and it wouldn't matter: they don't learn well from being lectured to.
Bitcoin as a way for a few lucky folks to increase their net worth is certainly not something they are skeptical of.

Bitcoin as a means of achieving it's original goal (i.e. a world currency) I'm still highly skeptical of. Why would I want to spend Bitcoin when I could be the next guy who spent BTC0.0001 on a pizza when it becomes worth $100k / coin? The fact that I have to entertain that idea means psychologically I won't treat this as currency. I treat USD and EUR as currency because I don't worry about day-to-day (or even really decade-to-decade) volatility of the currency. BTC has volatility by the _week_. Whether this giant experiment succeeds or not, I have a hard time believing it works as a currency specifically.
Show HN: NEXT Browser – A Lisp-based power browser
nEXT redefines browsing by being keyboard driven and powered by fuzzy completion. nEXT is designed to get out of your way, and get you going to where you want to go.

https://next-browser.github.io

https://github.com/nEXT-Browser/nEXT

Still Alpha. Constantly evolving and improving.

New features added recently!

- Link hint based navigation

- history (sqlite db in home dir)

- bookmarks (sqlite db)

- new minibuffer controls (C-n, C-p) to go up and down candidates.

nEXT is not intended to replace your current browser. It is just like adding another tool in your toolbox, use nEXT when you want to get actual work done.

If you like this project, please leave a star! Thanks for your time.
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I actually prefer sharp pixels when programming. Seeing the pixels doesn't bother me. But blurred pixels does bother me.
Be carful here. You might not see the IP you expected even if everything is fine. BGP anycast and other load balancing technologies can make it look like the wrong IP. Make sure the IP is owned by the service you expect vs. being the exact IP you have configured.
What's the 8 for?

250m * 1000 * 12 = $3 trillion.