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I've been a Google Play Music subscriber from the beginning, which means I've enjoyed the grandfathered $7.99 price. That has also extended to YouTube Red.

However, this announcement muddies the waters a bit.

> If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, good news, you get a YouTube Music Premium membership as part of your subscription each month.

Cool, I guess, except I don't go to YouTube for Music. I really am incredibly interested in YouTube Red. I mean YouTube Premium, I guess.

> To extend the features of YouTube Music Premium beyond the music app, we’re soon introducing YouTube Premium, the new name for our YouTube Red subscription service. [describes YouTube Red] If you’re already a YouTube Red (soon to be YouTube Premium) member, don’t worry you’ll still enjoy your current price.

So, if you have Google Play Music, do you get YouTube Premium?
Here are a few that have the potential to produce interesting responses -

"What keeps you up at night?"

"What's one thing you'd do differently in your career?"
Two related stories:

I went to a recruiting event in 2013, or 14 perhaps, for a major telecom network in Canada. They were proudly showcasing their ability and interest to analyze people's data. I was shocked, so I spoke to the hiring manager:

"You should be concerned about google and Microsoft, they have much more data" he said. They do, but much less sensitive data. And I am paying you! And google gives me free excellent services. You are an expensive oligopoly with not the best customer protection track record.

2. I had a free modem from a major network that came with the internet. I used the modem at another location while I was away. I got charged for my usage! The modem was not just a modem, it was sensing more information to their system. That is how they tracked my usage, if that is the only thing they tracked. Their technical customer service avoided any form of discussion. Cancelled my internet line with them, and using VPN for trackable stuff ever since.

I am seriously considering cancelling my cell phone until their practices changes.
Thanks for posting, to me that was a much more potent illusion. I can hear whatever combination of brain/green and needle/storm I’m thinking of.

It’s interesting how both this and the yanny/laurel example are recordings of low quality speakers. I guess the added harmonics from the distortion in the playback causes the sounds to be more ambiguous than they would otherwise be.
You have to be in the conversation first, and then recognize that the conversation takes place at the private security contractor level. They are the people tasked with security of a hotel, shopping district, mall, sports stadium, airport, high school and college campus. They are they people adopting FR far more than the local police. They are also largely private companies, looking to be the most cost effective, and composed of typical security guards, education wise.
Security breaches aren't the problem with harvesting private individuals' data. It's a matter of ownership and sovereignty, in the large and small.
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I really hope it doesn't screw up my Google Play Music workflow / usage but I was just thinking today why can't I just listen to YouTube songs on the same app. Other weirdness was my GPM app didn't load all morning so I listened off the YouTube Music app as a fallback.

Btw! Thank you for all your hard work! I am die hard for Google All Music Access! I was happy when Google grandfathered me on to YouTube Red too. You guys have done great work overall.
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Clojure plug: You can cover server, frontend & mobiles with Clojure as well - mobiles with the Re-Natal, leveraging React Native.

(This is also part of the "JS wins" story since two out of those three are ClojureScript, using JS as a compile target)
Step 1: Less shouting.
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Sorta reinventing the wheel?

https://nixos.org/nix/
That's a very far limit, though. It will not have practical consequences for a long time.

Also, if you don't squeeze as much as you can into a small space, you can scale sublinearly ad infinitum (in practical terms, which don't include heat death of the universe).
We, and the media mainstream, are still discussing Snowden, five years on.
I mean I’m not making any groundbreaking claims here. Simply stating that Salesforces core product is definitely not their marketing software or their data offerings such as data.com.

They make their money primarily off od subscriptions- not sure why that statement is so controversial.

And that last point you quoted was specifically made to illustrate that their data services aren’t even that popular. Companies that buy it often dont even use it.
Lol why does google make these also-ran services? Too little too late, I legit dont care. Like what is the differentiator here.

Google really doesn't get culture and the internet. The internet lets me listen to weird shit, make it easy to discover underground shit, not fucking Drake and fucking Havana. You know the things played nonstop on the radio.

God their product launches legit piss me off. So many resources to make something dope and they produce this watered down diarrhea.
I've played a little with this demo and still can only hear "yanny". I've started to doubt if I know how "laurel" should be pronounced (English is not my native language).
Was listening to Bloomberg Radio this morning and Tom Keene brought this up randomly...I was surprised to hear only ~1500 were ever built; seems like a low number for a plane that's been around since the 1970s. One thing I have always wondered about tho is, where are the relatively short domestic route (2-3 hours) where a 500+ person 747 would make sense? It's almost like airlines need the inverse for which this plane was made. Same goes for the A380.
So certain you are.
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nope, you have to pay $12 to continue having Red. :(
Normally when I see this kind of announcement, I think "It will take long before they learn and nail it like the main competition" - in this case Spotify.
Spotify seems to be doing a great job curating new music or building playlist specifically for me according to what I listen to, and I can only assume it's 100% automated obviously.

Google is so strong with ML today, and not stopping, I don't know what will allow smaller competitors to stay differentiated.
I just had a call with a G recruiter, and pretty much 100% of the roles they have in all their European offices are ML-related roles, on most products. And they hire without ML experience, which I think is a sign of how much they are investing in ML.

This is no news, but having this call and seeing how little non-ML they had was really eye opening on how much this is G's focus now, and it can only be exponential I assume.
I wish people would stop the unhealthy and irresponsible and dangerous life-destroying hype and promotion of psychedelics including cannabis.

All medical experts warn against the use of drugs and psychedelics except as medical tools of medical experts.

Drugs and psychedelics can trigger all kinds of long term mental disorders that even the best experts might not be able to heal.

Medical science and psychology are still very limited and primitive with regard to addictions and mental disorders and understanding and (healthy) manipulation of the (unhealthy) brain.

If "you" do not believe me, check the internet for reports of people suffering from addiction or mental disorders and their sad quest for help.

Even bad diets and lack of sports and lack of dental care are unsolved health problems in societies in 2018.
Also four engines are a must if you operate long haul from hot and high airports like Mexico, Bogota or Quito. Due to engine failure performance requirements a twin engine needs to cut back almost half the traffic load(cargo and passangers) to be able to take off within the tables.

Once they have to retire 747 and A340 airlines din't really know what to do in those airports. New hot and high versions of the twin engines are being studied, but they have failed to meet the expectations previously.
Even better: if you upvote a story you should share the subsequent karma points on a pro-rata basis, i.e.: everyone who upvotes a story gets karma points equal to the total upvotes divided by the number of upvotes the story had when they upvoted it (or something like that). You'd have to balance that out by having it cost some karma points to cast an upvote. That would encourage people to seek out quality content on the new page.
The capital flight occurs when people buy the Ethereum or Bitcoin which they need to purchase the ICO.
I've uninstalled the Youtube app because of this, I understand the business case for it but making the video stop when the app isn't focused is making the Youtube app utterly pointless.

The app looks beautiful and obviously they took a lot of effort to build it but this small detail makes it completely unusable unfortunately.
> I have indeed made Docker images containing exactly one file

To anyone reading this, you need some magic compiler flags in both Rust and GoLang to make sure it's a statically compiled binary (doesn't dynamically link against GNU lib-c).

But yes, this is super neat. I also like how it reads in the docker file:

FROM scratch
...
I don't think anyone here is saying that using psychedelics is going to 'expose hidden secrets'. It's more that they can help you become aware of the holes in your usual way of thinking.

One pattern I've noticed while reading reports of bad trips is people being so miserable during the experience that it forces them to acknowledge that existing in this universe can be really really shitty at times, which shattered their notion that everything's going to be okay due to their limited experience as a relatively well-off white person in 21st century USA. The reports are often written as if whatever drug they took is to blame for their new existential crisis, but I see it more as the fault of the bubble they were in. If they come out of the experience having more compassion for others who are less privileged then I'd say it's an improvement.
This is extremely disappointing. I’m sure the amount of $7.99 GPM early adopters is minuscule to their metrics, but the cost of goodwill is far higher.
Loyal YouTube Red subscriber here. I don't care about music. I have Spotify for that. All I want is for them to unbreak Chromecast in the new desktop interface.
Also, it’s a clinical study. They need to control the conditions or it’s not science.
Isn't that the necessary viewing distance to distinguish 4k anyway? I often hear people make the opposite scoff, that people sit too far from their TVs to take advantage of the resolution they're paying for.

I've got a 75" 4k about 10 feet from me right now. Plus it has the added advantage of being only about 15-18 feet from our dining room table, which means if we throw a game or the news on it during dinner, we don't have to squint to see the scores.

Most of the use of the TV is OTA (we don't have cable TV) but plenty of Netflix/Amazon/Apple/HBOGo type stuff. That said, we use it like old people; leave the news on as we do other things in other rooms. We don't have any shows we religiously watch.
I was sort of forced into double entry accounting as a youngin, and have been meaning to do a) a local sqlite general ledger/accounting system and b) maybe extend that db beyond local, into Apple grade territory with FoundationDB.

Hit me up if you're a VC funded by the US with huge amounts of cash.
Planes are an easy target because they're so big, but the industry as a whole is hyper-focussed on efficiency. If you want to rail against emissions, don't look at the plane, look at the endless procession of single-occupancy 2 ton cars the plane is flying over.

And you can get a lot of parcels on a plane like the 747F. Amortised by unit the emission numbers are in fact very good. It's almost certain that your last fast food run or uber trip used much more gasoline than it took to get your last parcel all the way from China.

But why let the facts get in the way of some good old righteous outrage!
> where are the relatively short domestic route (2-3 hours) where a 500+ person 747 would make sense

SE Asia and Japan, mostly. The 747 was never intended for domestic US routes - Pan Am, the launch customer, only had international routes.
> I'd suggest an option for forever-scroll presentation for the article list.

As long as it's optional - if I get to the bottom of the front page, that's my trigger to stop wasting time here and get back to work. :P
This demo is awesome! I only heard “yanny” or “gary”, and for the life of me could NOT hear “laurel” after a dozen tries.

But after using the demo, I can now ONLY hear “laurel”.
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It wouldn't have taken much more time for you to back your point with examples so we'd have some idea of what you're talking about. Please also explain the ideology of how proprietary software is not worth fighting with a practical implementation and ethical discussion.

Most of the time when people object to GNU or rms they fail to convey that they understand what software freedom is or how continually relevant software freedom is today. I'd bet that the majority of threads on these (overwhelmingly corporate) repeater sites are easily handled by stressing how important a user's software freedom is. Every DRM, proprietary software (Windows ignores user settings, this new device from $VENDOR spies on its users, etc.) is easily dismissed by getting into the same discussion about how software freedom would allow the user to alter the software, protect their privacy, treat their friends and neighbors better by sharing improved versions of the software, inspect and modify the software (or have someone they trust do it for them), and run the programs when they want (instead of losing access when a proprietor feels like ending "support"). Snowden readily credits free software for his success in leaking sensitive NSA documents to us all (docs which still make media stories years later). Three cheers for software freedom, rms, and Snowden!

Posts like the parent post tell me sites like these are the thing losing relevance by showing how ineffective public moderation is and how unacceptable it is to dare to say something not echoed in corporate tech media.
I just gotta say, all the pro-watching-video-on-a-laptop-or-tablet folks simply astound me. I'm only 37 and don't watch all that much video content (see my thread about how I can't understand YouTube addiction) but I HATE watching video on a tiny screen with terrible speakers.
Even better: submit an article about getting to the front page of Hacker News.
I find it useful, in politics, to keep a list of issues in respect of which I would, singularly, disregard party affiliation for. (The same with a black list. I won’t vote for a candidate on the wrong side of certain issues.)

Putting it on paper is valuable. It clarifies your thoughts. And it makes it clear how draconian these red lines are. (I constantly re-evaluate them, with the goal of talking myself out of them.)
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These mining ICOs are incredibly scammy. Look at what happened with Envion. 100M raised in ICO which promised huge returns. Now the founders claim the CEO had illegally taken control of the company.

It's all just smoke and mirrors. The reality is that they never had the capabilities to compete in the mining business. But they sure sold a ton of their shit tokens!
What sells me on spotify is the ability to control it from any device. Listening on my phone while at my computer? Hit skip on my keyboard and the phone skips to the next track. Playing on my Dot? I can pause right from my phone. Ditto with volume control.

I wanted to like amazon music but I could not because of the lack of these features.
Honestly, the tooling in go seems very poor to me. There are lots of potential solutions, none of which remotely compare to the efficiency and ease of use of cargo. Golang needs a project independent manager, a la carton,bundler, or pipenv (although cargo is the best imho).
> Google is so strong with ML today, and not stopping, I don't know what will allow smaller competitors to stay differentiated.

If they use the same algorithm YouTube uses to pick videos for me, Spotify doesn't have to worry at all. It just gives me the same things over and over and I never discovered anything worthy from their video suggestions. I have to actively search to find anything new.
You appear to be in the minority: YouTube is the #2 highest trafficked website as of April 2018:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_website...

The most recent example: 134,000,000 views in 7 days for This is America. Plus millions more reaction videos, remixes and more.

Speaking personally, I absolutely create playlists from music videos.
I wonder if this news means chainer/cupy will gain more weight?
UPDATE: Got something up and running here: https://hackerforums.co/

I've tweaked it a bunch, but I'm sure there's a lot more to do. Please take a look if you're still following this HN thread...I'll post a Show HN in the morning for this.

I also have a post with my notes from setting this thing up...suffice to say that DigitalOcean's 1 click installer requires a few more clicks...
In Germany, and in my experience, the "guaranteed" delivery date isn't honored 40% of the time and when you call or email them, they just say that they are sorry and extend your prime membership yet another month. Especially DHL is just a joke in Hesse.
What you’re saying seems like it must be true... Google must be so strong at ML. How could it be otherwise?

And yet, YouTube recommendations are terrible lowest common denominator nonsense. It’s just “more of the same” for some surface level definition of “same”. There doesn’t seem to be any playfulness to the learning algorithm at all. No Bayesian experiments. There’s no flex.

Amazon too... so much data, so many smart people.

Why can’t these companies lead me on a garden path of delights? Why can’t they take my hand and walk with me through the full content space? Why do I continually feel that there are vast delightful segments of the catalog I will never see unless I query for them?
It's very sad that you believe that. It doesn't have to be, and shouldn't be in my opinion. That's a tactic immoral people resort to and make excuses like "Everybody does it." for their behavior.
Wow, wtf.

So in the "other sellers" section with seemingly more normal prices, <<$1.01 + Free Shipping Sold by: ATammy>> they have the same effect. Huge 8-10 shipping charges once you continue to checkout, but still not visible in the cart.

What a scam!
Wendover Productions did a great video YouTube on overnight shipping that goes into the use of old planes for shipping cargo. [1] . The short version is that cargo planes spend most of their time sitting around, usually much less time than an equivalently sized passenger plane.

[1] https://youtu.be/y3qfeoqErtY
That ship has sailed, but they could up their vendor standards from grey-market to perhaps a soft creamy beige.
Interface looks beautiful
Don't forget the MD11, also a favourite of the cargo operators due to having plenty of spare thrust for hot and high ops. Although it's also a truism that high altitude locations don't generally have a lot of heavy things to export. AFAIK Quito's main outgoing cargo is cut flowers...
Will Uber aquire the necessary licenses from the FAA to fly these things or will they also ignore those because they want to 'disrupt' the industry? Theses things better be safe before they get used.

I for one don't want one if these things crashing on my house.
This is related how? Ok why launch a new product? What can I do with this that wasn't possible before?
I would like to try this. How did you 'land' this gig? How would you suggest finding something similar?
So, this tool has more than Jira minus the Jira complexity.
For me it's not a matter of taste or choice, I just could not use the new model. It's slow and it looked like my laptop had turned into a toaster.
The same goes for facebook. And that's why I use it in the mobile version, even when on the laptop.
Podcasts are great at this. Sponsors create podcast-specific URLs which are advertised on the show. It's completely up to the listeners, and I find I'm happy to support my favorite podcasts by telling the sponsors where I heard about them by visiting the custom landing pages.

Podcasting's zero-telemetry "just an audio file" nature makes the ads feel harmless too. Podcasts are an anachronism, but they're way less user-hostile than the web.
There is no consensus for what 0^0 means.
What would you do instead, in their position?
Google trying to get into everything it can.
Well, the study took on about 20 people with treatment resistant depression and immediately helped about 80% of them, harming no one, so yes, they know what they are doing.
The issue with nature is that you can't control the environment, which is critical in a pilot study when you are trying to legitimize a long forbidden research subject.
The article is wrong (edit: it might be more complicated; see discussion below). The reason you can hear both is because someone took the high frequencies of "yanny" and combined them with the low frequencies of "laurel". If you apply appropriate high-pass and low-pass filters, you will consistently hear yanny and laurel respectively (assuming your speakers/headphones are capable of reproducing all the required frequencies and your ears are capable of hearing them). Essentially, it's the audio equivalent of the Einstein/Monroe illusion [1]. So this audio illusion doesn't imply that yanny sounds like laurel any more than the visual illusion implies that Einstein looks like Marilyn Monroe. It might be incidentally true that yanny and laurel do in fact sound similar (and this may in turn make the illusion more convincing), but you could probably do the same trick with any two words that have similar cadences, no matter how different they sound.

[1]: http://www.123opticalillusions.com/pages/albert-einstein-mar...
I really enjoyed this article.

Summary

Coyotes are too clever because they know that people shaking jars full of coins can’t hurt them. Thus the animal control patrol has to get called and when they don’t shoo, the animal control person who loves animals has to shoot the coyote.

Coyotes are winning the mini-game of each human interaction, but they are losing the meta-game of what society will do if coyotes aren’t scared.

Personal Connection

This reminds me of a turning point that I had in high school. When I was young, I would get in trouble and try to get around the rules each time I got in trouble. /“Well, technically…”/

But at some point I realized that most of the time you aren’t getting in trouble because you are breaking the rules. You are getting in trouble because you are making the rule makers unhappy. Once I had that realization I was able to focus on relationships with the rule makers and figure out what they actually cared about. This allowed me to break the rules just as much but without getting in trouble.
On a related tangent, there was a general expectation that the A380 superjumbo would find a lot of customers on core domestic routes between Chinese and Indian megacities like Beijing-Shanghai, Mumbai-Delhi, etc. Aside from the odd filler hop between long-haul flights, this has entirely failed to materialize: there's tons of traffic between these cities but the vast majority is single-aisle 737/A320.
While it's totally fair to criticize the editorial direction of YouTube toward highlighting mainstream stuff, the unexplored edges of YouTube are definitely deep, dark, and weird. And when I've used Google Play Music, I've been consistently pleased that I've never heard of at least a third of the stuff it plays for me.
Cool, now we pay for poorly ripped 128kbps streaming music?