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> Vice Media Had YouTube Shut Down My Gaming Channel Without Even Contacting Me

Shouldn't the complaint be “YouTube shut down my gaming channel at Vice’s direction without even contacting me.”?

Though I'm not sure even that is a particularly valid complaint given the authors admission that he was probably infringing the trademark: because in that case, as soon as YouTube was aware of what was going on, it was also quite likely knowingly violating trademark, and the only option that did not involve risking incurring liability was to stop doing that. Now, if there was a contractual relationship which exposed YouTube to parallel liability risk for cutting of a channel for potential infringement improperly, then they'd have to carefully weigh their action, but like every online service provider of broad public services, they've structured their contracts well to minimize liability risk for actions against their users based on site policy or legal compliance issues even when the decision is ultimately erroneous, so there's a definite assymetry in disputes even where the who is in the right is a 50/50 tossup from the info available to YouTube. Or even where the complaining party is most likely wrong, as a small risk of large damage is still a significant risk.
Come on, that’s like saying Google has no business having datacenters because they are an Advertising and Search company. Of course large companies will have contractors to scale up and down. They will have FTEs doing System Administration and Software Engineering on the servers.
The theory is that your ability to memorize a 7 digit number (working memory) IS fluid intelligence.

The problem is that memorizing an x digit number is proven to be trainable, without much carry over to g or even other working memory tasks. I.e. - it's hard to train fluid intelligence rather than train the specific task which it is applied to.
Unfortunately the document is under heavy load, which means it sometimes loads in presentation mode, which doesn't have the show notes.
Ah I see, so it's the same as when I buy food at the grocery store, store it in my freezer for a month, cook it and then finally eat it during lunch. It doesn't count as being collected until I eat it since I obviously don't know if it tastes good until then.
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YouTube shows kids how to commit suicide
I still use Reaktor by Native Instruments. It's been on the market since like '96 or something and it's ugly and clumsy as hell but it still sounds way better than anything else...
My friend lost trustless cryptocurrency that would be worth well over $400k today by forgetting about it and formatting his hard drive.
To host your own infra, you dont need to build data centers, etc. Many just rent out physical space in datacenters.
Infinity vs. Error for Division by Zero
It still stands... $8mm monthly is over 350 full time engineers making $250k annually (ya that doesn't cover hardware, but it just illustrates the point). That would be a 22% increase in Lyft's total number of employees.

If you have engineers making less than $250k annually, then you have a lot more staff. $8mm monthly is a LOT...

Amazon's clearly making a profit after $8mm monthly.
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This is such a weird thing. Amazon gets the tax gifts that they desired and then pull out of NYC because of bad PR. Now business leaders, the governor, and the mayor, are trying to get them to come back? You want a company back that leaves because of hurt feelings? Maybe I'm missing something.
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Seems like the most effective way to get one's channel back.
I’ll have to try it. My lamp is about a foot higher so the light can travel down to the paper while I’m sitting against my pillow. I’m not sure the globe would be able to do it without turning my book or body.
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IMHO they are practically begging to be regulated.

It's too bad nothing has happened yet because some guard rails need to be put in place or this type of questionable behavior will never stop.
Periodic Table of AWS Services was a hit at the office.
Having hundreds of messages with no way to tell them apart is an absolute nightmare. Zulip doesn't require a subject for every message, but it does impose some discipline, and that's a good thing.
Some thoughts:

- custom cancer vaccines - the idea being that the vaccine, which triggers a person’s immune system to identify a tumor by its unique mutations, could effectively shut down many types of cancers, but this could also easily be retargeted and used to shut down the whole body (or just a vitally important part). It's still a question of delivery, the toxin would need to be delivered to the body in an undetectable way to be really dangerous... This is explored in an episode of The Expanse [0].

- carbon dioxide catcher - I wondered before to what extent does production of [...] synthetic fuels, using the captured carbon dioxide as a key ingredient even make sense - more energy is spent (likely from carbon) to produce the fuel than is released by burning the fuel, so this really only makes sense if we have enough clean energy to power the whole world (e.g. solar), but not enough batteries to run the economy (cars don't just need energy, they need energy in a convenient portable form). The CO2 -> fuel processes could enable us to go to zero-net-CO2 energy cycle, while keeping current infrastructure (fuel-burning cars, planes, ships).

- an ECG on your wrist - how about an ECG in your wrist - a chip implanted into your body that would be able to not just measure the heartbeat, but also continuously monitor various blood markers - glucose, cholesterol, stress hormones, ... Is anyone aware of any company working on this? Are such sensors even possible from a medical-technology perspective (disregarding energy, data transfer and privacy issues)?

- sanitation without sewers - a similar technology (full dirty feces -> clean carbon & water process) will need to be developed for space habitats...

- smooth-talking AI assistants - this almost seems like a solution in search of a problem. Do we actually want to haggle with an AI (hyperoptimised and hyperexperiences and almost certain to beat us while giving us the impression that we're getting a great deal!), don't we just want to get a fair price (in the free market sense, i.e. with most profit competed away)? I wonder what are some problems that can/should be automated at scale, but that cannot be automated via other means (e.g. buying plane tickets online)... I'm guessing Google's application of an AI booking appointments (with people) is one of the best applications, as it treats speech as a kind of a universal interface (originally developed for humans)...

[0] https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/The_Monster_and_the_Rocket
Backblaze B2 is $0.005 / GB / month [0]. 1 TB of backup is $5 / month. Downloads are $0.01 / GB, so a one-time recovery of 1 TB is $10.

How much raw content (in GB) does a typical Youtube content creator actually have?

[0]: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
Sadly there's tons of dead code just lying around in the chromosomes just waiting to be activated.
Holy shit that is depressing - as a senior engineer in the UK working at one of the largest UK tech based companies I struggle to earn even $100k.
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Note that the author has zero proof of any of this. He just knows that his channel was deleted, and assumes everything written there. The correct approach would've been to contact Youtube and understand the situation. Since the content has nothing to do with Vice, I honestly don't see why Youtube would want to take down the content. Seeing that the channel is back up, it seems like it was indeed a misunderstanding and it has been resolved.
What sort of promotion metrics did your peers experience? Are we talking lateral moves, with more interesting technologies, or are we talking about movement into leadership with significant pay bumps? Also: based on this experience, what's the best technology to invest in and then abandon completely because nobody else wants to deal with it?
Except that one is still likely using a company-owned laptop/desktop to access that account. Any data or activity on company hardware (such as private keys or cookies) should be considered visible by them as there’s likely to be remote management software, an IT admin account, encryption key escrow, etc. The legal precedent (in the U.S., anyway) gives an employee no expectation of privacy on a company computer or network.
We’re thinking about un-slacking our team. We’re utilizing Airtable and Atlassian for more contextual discussion but want to keep a chat system around - especially as a 100% remote team. Rocket.chat has been our planned destination for some time now, but we have looked at Zulip in the past as well. Can anybody compare and contrast Zulip vs Rocketchat, or link to something that does? I’m especially interested in if this new release changes that equation in any significant ways.
> person who knows how hard it is to run your own infrastructure

> fierro Profile: SWE @ Google Resource & Capacity Planning

I think you mean "Person who's job it is to convince others it's really hard and they should just buy your product"...?
> performance in educational setting != ability or intelligence

especially when the educational setting has an incentive to increase their performance metrics (not the same as standards)
The YouTube adpocalypse wasn't just about ad blocking. YouTube has gone through multiple rounds of "you can't monetize", or "you can't be a partner anymore", or similar ways of cutting people off.
This would explain so much of electronic music. It also makes me wonder if there are any 'movies' of moving color that actually take place solely in the mind, with the aid of the after-images of what has come before?
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/open-letter-new-york-state-...
I've actually literally never found Momo creepy. It's like it's trying so hard to be that it overflows and becomes goofy.
I have been using Zulip for a long time now. One of the complains I get too often is that design is not very appealing compared to slack or discord. Though it's very fast most people just don't care, and hence it's hard to convince a team. Are there any plans for UI changes? I wish you guys did.
I agree, however "just put your device on eBay" is really too much work for a lot of people, particular Apple users (sorry, but it's true). I sell my old stuff on Ebay a fair amount, and it really isn't that easy if you want to be successful at it: you have to take photos, look up similar auctions/items to see what it's worth, maybe copy descriptive content from other sellers, possibly edit your photos (I think eBay rejects ones from my phone because they're too large, so I have to shrink them, and so I crop them in the proceess), weigh the item, etc. It's really kind of a PITA. I haven't tried the eBay mobile app so maybe that's a bit easier.
Like other fading industries, the established news media industry realized their core business was screwed after the newspaper circulation gravy train left the station. The only advantage the news industry has is that their product ('news') carries more persistent demand from consumers to produce it - i.e. in an abstract sense, people want to receive the information and utility that news provides.

News publishers that relied on newspaper circulations for the vast majority of revenue have still not found a sustainable solution to deal with the changed landscape and the "death and rebirth" of the industry.

Imagine the evolution of the newsroom:

- Changing from designing printed stories with the reader/subscriber in mind to designing digital content with the internet in mind.

- The workflow of writing and producing news pieces has changed; more focus on staying in-house to produce more.

- The barrier to entry is much lower for competition without the need for newspapers. Almost anyone could turn a Wordpress site into a "news site".

- It's harder to maintain a competitive edge when content is easily accessible; it's trivial to re-post content somewhere else, read about the content in comments, or get around paywalls.

- The mindset of the industry has changed from [the Times] "does not soil the breakfast cloth" to "move fast and break things" to meet 24hr uptime.

The news industry today is going through a similar phase as the Penny presses in the late 1800s. There's an abundance of supply to meet demand, and the value of a single piece of content is quite low on average. The ARR is also less reliable, which means it's an unstable employment prospect. This leads to "innovations" not very far from muckraking and yellow journalism. While it may look like a temporary solution, it's unsustainable in the mass market. Over time, there is much less of an incentive for consumers to pay for BS or rehashed material than useful information.
Cats Protection has a story to tell about Kaupting.
True, but we are also in a golden age for building things like that and accomplishing scale without a ton of money. It does take time and care, but it no longer takes a massive R&D budget.
Wikipedia:

"Finnish is a member of the Finnic language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence."

"Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use a single inflectional morpheme to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features."

"An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination. Words may contain different morphemes to determine their meanings, but all of these morphemes (including stems and affixes) remain, in every aspect, unchanged after their unions."

"A synthetic language uses inflection or agglutination to express syntactic relationships within a sentence. Inflection is the addition of morphemes to a root word that assigns grammatical property to that word, while agglutination is the combination of two or more morphemes into one word."

In a hardcore synthetic language, the difference between a word and a phrase is just about meaningless. The "words" can get full on crazy-pants, too.
I mean, that's like saying that the number one car manufacturer contributes the most to traffic. Can you elaborate?
"Here's a free service, give it access to your bank statements" does not inspire confidence.

(And I imagine that if you paid $10/month and it didn't find anything worthwhile, you could probably request a refund.)
>> centralization won and will continue to win and so we need to use the big lever

It may have won the current battle, but who really knows if centralization will be the norm in say 10, 20 or 50 years. There have been lots of instances where a technology or company seemed to have won only to loose to an upstart that they never saw coming. And when they loose they tend to loose big. Getting completely obliterated within a few short years. Nokia and BlackBerry phones are relevant examples.
Have you ever tried contacting Google?
Yes, when you don't count expenses it sure is a lot easier to make a profit!
I think you're underestimating how much it costs to do what Lyft does. There's a list elsewhere in this thread.
I've heard multiple content creators express their displeasure with effectively not being able to get a response via any support channels. These are people with plaques on their walls from YouTube for meeting subscriber thresholds, not a dude with 2 views on all their videos.

If you have years of experience sending support queries to /dev/null, at what point is it okay to just start assuming it's a waste of time? 2 attempts? 10? 50?
This is a town with less than 30k people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williston,_North_Dakota

> The 2010 census[6] gave its population as 14,716, and the Census Bureau gave the 2017 estimated population as 25,586, making Williston the sixth-largest city in North Dakota

Of course a tiny town that nearly doubles in population in less than a decade is going to experience a sharp rise in rents. This is a classic example of cherry picking outliers.

In contrast, the median home price in all of North Dakota is just over $200k.

This still demonstrates my point: it's supply and demand that dictates the price of housing. If demand rises and supply stays the same rents go up. If supply keeps up with demand, they do not.
At this point it seems clear that media exposed to kids needs to be manually curated.
> I prefer Discord over Slack

can you explain why? I use slack at work and discord at home (for games). I find them to be pretty similar products, except that discord seems more oriented towards voice command and slack seems more reliable and less buggy (on a regular basis discord takes a very long time to connect). I personally prefer slack mainly just because I find the UI more pleasing.
>One problem with listening to the other side is that most people are so ridiculously misinformed about issues (on all sides), that listening to the average person of the other side is unlikely to make you learn something.

That's the very mindset that prevents people from listening to other sides.

Instead of focusing on the "misinformation" of those on the other side on a matter (which could even be misinformation on one's own side attributed to the "enemy"), it's best to try to understand their point of view.

Especially on issues where there's no hard and fast right and wrong (as is the case in hard sciences), but are more a matter of moral values, culture, personal experiences, etc.
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We’re helping over a million teachers and students eliminate printing and scanning and the associated costs and effort - so our teachers can spend more of their time on achieving better learning outcomes for the next generation.

At Kami, we don’t believe in keeping our engineers locked in the backroom implementing specs sheets - you’ll be talking to the teachers who already love our product, and figuring out how to make Kami work even better in their classrooms. This position will suit an Engineer with a good product sense and is comfortable working relatively autonomously.

We're constantly pushing the boundaries of what you can do in the browser - I just spent the past week tracking down Chrome bugs on the new stylus-enabled Chromebooks! Our frontend is a SPA built in angular, and we have a Rails API/Postgres/GKE/JRuby backend that it talks to.

Most of our users are based in the US, and there may be occasional travel to attend conferences and visit schools using our software, which is a lot of fun! ( See the wrapup from our last conference in Chicago, IL: https://blog.kamihq.com/iste-2018-wrap-up/ )

Our office is in Central Auckland, New Zealand (with great public transport connections), and this position is local, though I will also consider remote candidates :)

More info: https://www.kamihq.com/careers/#frontend , email me your Github and CV at devjobs@kamihq.com. (mention HN)
OR is fine (hopefully the sort order is by most matches first though?) - what's confusing to me is that it starts on a non-zero number. Is that the number of companies that don't match anything? Is there any value in listing them at all, if that's the case?
I can’t help but share a slide from my talk at EuroClojure 2016 that’s gone viral:

https://goo.gl/images/m5QgbE
The original Babylon 5 script books are amazing as well.

https://b5books.com/babylon-5-scripts-overview/

They contain all of the original scripts for every episode (in some cases multiple versions) as well as commentary written by JMS about both what is going on on-screen and off-screen. They have some really detailed information on the challenges he faced running this show in an exceedingly raw and real fashion. Sadly, they are only available in print and are very expensive.

http://jmsnews.com has complete archives of all of JMS's usenet postings, which span the entire period the show was on the air (as well as many years before/after). Again, some of this is very raw, like where he discusses the feature film due to be announced "in a few days" about the telepath war (which we never got :().

Anyway, revealed myself to be a huge B5 nerd here, but, I do believe it was in a number of ways one of the most visionary TV shows on air at the time, highly serialized plots 5 years before the sopranos and computer VFX that movies couldn't touch at the time.
> What's nice about git is that you also get this propagating to the directories all the way up to the root, so you can quite easily see which areas of the code have been changed recently too.

Exactly! It's easy to see at a glance, for instance, that the code changed recently but the documentation hasn't been updated in a long time. Or that the LICENSE file just got updated a few days ago. Or that a new top-level module got introduced.
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Often the rendering of GUI elements happens in an off-device image buffer which is then copied periodically to the device. This can be very slow in python if bit-fiddling is involved. Sometimes utilizing numpy for the copy
can help a lot.

If you want to roll your own, this might be a good starting point:

https://github.com/robertmuth/Pytorinox/blob/master/spi_disp...

It was written for raspi but should be easy to port.
Exactly. From all my years working at "enterprise" companies, I learned that it doesn't matter how useful your product is as long as you get it sold. This is especially true for entrenched products because the friction involved in moving off a given platform is far too high.
Zulip (and Zephyr) is indeed much better for threads. You can actually find them to use them later. In Slack, it's more like a side-bar, instead of a topic that you could come back to later and anyone throw into.

Whereas I used threads all the time in Zulip, they are really not great in Slack, and mostly just useful for reducing noise for off-topic discussion.
> Note that the author has zero proof of any of this ml

Well, yeah, I was focussing on problems with the complaint under the assumption, made for the same of discussion, that the authors interpretation of the factual events were entirely accurate.