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It doesn't matter if it's "political" or not. It's completely 100% google management's choice whether the punishment for a serious (or tiny) rule infraction is anything from no action at all to firing. There is no rule that says it has to be consistent either.

You can't fire a worker for organizing, or on the basis of sex, race, etc. But you CAN fire whoever you want for breaking even the most minor rules or even just poor performance. And the choice can be as politically motivated as google likes, doesn't change a thing.
I invested 2 minutes of my time and found:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/live-streaming-on-aws/

and

https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/pricing/

Assuming you trial a MVP using AWS those two pages might give you some indication of ball park costs.

If you are looking at co-lo provisioning then you will probably need to plunk down in the order of USD10,000 to USD50,000 to test the waters.

Either way, in the long term I think your per minute per connection costs will probably be in the order of the AWS costings. After all, they do that sort of thing on a massive scale and have a great deal of experience.

Good luck with your planned venture.
> at a moment's notice

That's not a requirement in this case.
Funny Anecdote: Software design for an elevator system
During my undergrad years, I had never travelled to US/UK/Europe. During my final years, while interviewing for FAANG, I was asked to design an elevator system. Of course, I did not know about the type of elevators where you need to enter floor number first and you are assigned elevator number separately. I went ahead and started designing for elevators I had seen with up and down buttons.

Later, I received feedback that I did not ask for clarification. I am sharing this today so that interviewers out there are also mindful of the culture and background of candidates before judging them.

I am in one of the FAANG companies now where I have the most amazing manager and frequently discuss drawbacks in the current interview system and this has helped us build an amazing team.
Demand exceeds supply of cognitive ability. This job requires well above average intelligence and there always will be a relatively limited pool to select from. I would guess the average intelligence/competence of developers has decreased over the last 10 years.
Can you explain how? Wikipedia states:

>With the measurements oriented at intermediate angles between these basic cases, the existence of local hidden variables could agree with/would be consistent with a linear dependence of the correlation in the angle but, according to Bell's inequality (see below), could not agree with the dependence predicted by quantum mechanical theory, namely, that the correlation is the negative cosine of the angle.
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Do I? Absolutely.
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Chris M, I appreciate you responding to this. I was a PIA customer for years, until recently, and it's nice hearing something from your company other than "Don't trust, verify!". Direct information like this goes a long way towards reestablishing PIA's credibility. Unsubstantiated (and likely impossible) marketing ploys do the opposite. Most of what I've read and deduced about the recent changes in your company's structure has been extremely negative, and full of red flags. In my opinion the first half of PIA's new marketing slogan is an ironic reality: "Don't trust."
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This does seem conveniently timed, right after the controversy of a few weeks ago has died down.

Hopefully wireguard will be accepted into the mainline kernel soon and it will become much easier for people to run their own VPNs.

I will not be using PIA for the remainder of my subscription, and won't be renewing it.

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682
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Last time I tried to store items in a collection and iterate through them (List in Java), I counted 11 different types I could call it in Scala (List, Seq, SeqLike, Traversable etc). And different tools.used different ones. It wasn't easy.
Yeah, 900€ just for two years is nothing. And this is just for the IntelliJ IDEA, not the whole pack. The standalone Office suite is 650€ for life. Photoshop from Adobe is quite a lot cheaper (some variant goes for $120/yr).
It will be shameful to be an Indian and not to oppose it, this is completely against the idea of India and the foundations of India. Today Gandhi and all the martyrs of Indian freedom struggle must be crying in their graves. India turned into a religious dictatorship with a handful of politicians using divide and rule and slowly peeling the democracy one layer at a time (by draconian laws, infringing human rights, infringing right to protest, and forcefully suppress dissent).

Hopefully sense will prevail and supreme court rule this development as unconstitutional (not so hopeful though, based on recent judgements).
Here's an interpreter with docs in English:

https://github.com/beadleha/libreDSSP
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"How not to Die" by Dr. Michael Greger is all you need.
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"Elite" schools literally have classes devoted entirely to teaching students how to pass FAANG level interviews.
I don't think I had either in Santa Barbara.
I remember him from the original Xbox hacking. I believe he was the one that originally figured out how to load custom software on it, and maybe even got sued?
No, I mean, why me, specifically? Did I accidentally say something to give the impression I find your odd rantings interesting? Because if I did, please let me know so I can correct the misunderstanding.
I think there's a piece that some people are overlooking. There are very specific statutory protections about when, where, and how you have a right to organize.

Things that would likely require legal review and Google has the budget to test the waters of at this point.

The last clause in the link below pertains to this scenario, I think, which may bite Google. Or it may not because it all depends on case law and what union leadership is willing to push back on (which could take years to sort out via legal proceedings)

Really, at the end of the day all Google has to risk via this kind of behavior is some lawyer time, setting precedent, and potentially being required to post a notice if they end up losing.

Source: https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employees/i...

> Working time is for work, so your employer may maintain and enforce non-discriminatory rules limiting solicitation and distribution, except that your employer cannot prohibit you from talking about or soliciting for a union during non-work time, such as before or after work or during break times; or from distributing union literature during non-work time, in non-work areas, such as parking lots or break rooms. Also, restrictions on your efforts to communicate with co-workers cannot be discriminatory. For example, your employer cannot prohibit you from talking about the union during working time if it permits you to talk about other non-work-related matters during working time.
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At any time during the transfer, do my unencrypted files end up on your machines? There is no such thing as free anymore ;)
Much of the mercury came from the New Almaden mine located in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains west of San Jose. The mining polluted the Guadalupe river with high levels of mercury. The river, which flows into San Francisco Bay, polluted much of the bay with methylmercury. To this day, many decades after mining stopped, the river and the bay are still contaminated with mercury to a degree where consuming fish and seafood from the bay can still be unhealthy.

Adobe, Google, Facebook, etc. are all right there on the shoreline. You might work in software, but (metaphorically at least), you're a lot close to those mines than you might think :)
> I imagine privacy will be viewed as a quaint notion from the past

This has been going on for some time. Do you imagine a respectable person from the past allow his wife to be groped by a stranger before entering the train? Yet, this is totally acceptable with airplanes.
Folks spend countless hours manually entering their private data into sites like Facebook and LinkedIn too. In the myopic vein of “just to sell is more stuff” they’re doing it just to look at ads.

I’m not saying I endorse either (I personally do neither), but folks to seem to get more out of these cameras and social media sites than just the return the companies providing them get.
Was in Shanghai yesterday, at Pudong. Got all 10 fingerprints and face scan.
It could be like what they are doing with Google Fiber where it doesn't die suddenly, but it doesn't grow either.
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Thanks for doing this. I think that what is practiced in the US a lot is the fast food of capitalism. Utterly unhealthy and aimed at short term satisfaction. As the differences between rich and poor grown they will find themselves in society that's not fun to live in anymore. Capitalism is a thing of beauty but it is sick when money buys political power, risky shuffling with money make you more than producing something of value and young people enter the job market with a debt that will take decades to repay.
>With NCR everyone will have to prove citizenship(probably, govt hasn't given any clarification regarding this) regardless of the religion.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

-Anatole France
Ah, most of it? You know that dark pools of communication exist too right?

They even have code words for the names of well known insider traders, e.g. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the UK politician is known as the “profiteering ghoul” because his massive short on the pound, why else was he pushing Brexit so much? The will of the people? Get real

Which makes sense, do you think that given the financial amounts involved, and the only thing stopping most people is ethics (and knowledge that it’s illegal but easy to get away with) that it wouldn’t happen??
People with the same skin color and religion as the economic and political elites tend to not need to worry about eugenocide.
Like you say, legal barriers can only prevent things that rely on a legal market, like insurance carriers from discriminating against people's genetic makeup. Against genetic weaponization and other state-sponsored uses it would be a bit like banning nuclear bombs -- a great idea for everyone but a foolish one for each individual state.

And that's only if such legal barriers are even constructed which I'm not sure they will be. Look how the privacy battle has turned out thus far.
It’s seemingly an excellent aircraft so far but it is not in the same size class as the C919, B737 or A320. In that market carbon fiber hasn't really hit yet. It clearly will in the next generation since the size class down (this market) and size class up (787, etc) both are carbon fiber designs. But the 737/320/919 size class isn’t there yet.
So, how about Vim 9?
If you don't feel in your bones the difference between "someone might be watching, and perhaps—unlikely, but perhaps—if they're a real weirdo or I've done something to really draw their interest, recording, but probably neither is happening" and "several someones are, at all times and wherever I go that's not somewhere I have complete control over, definitely recording", I don't even know how to begin to have a discussion about this.
Its so weird how there were no complaints about China for the past decade or two while they were just making your iPhones, but the second they put their own interests ahead of the US all I hear & see is about how crooked & corrupt they are...
Check Privacy Possum/Badger. The tracking headers are being blocked, which seems to break Outline.
Here's a good doc on multitasking in FORTH: https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/mtasking.html
One million ought to be enough for anybody
Try downloading "Logi Options", that is the newer logitech mac management software and it solves number 1 at least.
This is an old news. Can mod change the title to add (2018) suffix?
Why should money and effort be expended to, in particular, keep top AI talent in the USA? "AI" is just a name and in most usage today means "machine learning" and especially "deep learning". Neither GOFAI nor machine learning are even halfway steps toward useful true artificial intelligence. Do not mistake a name ("AI") for the real thing (artificial intelligence).

Meanwhile there are many, many ways other than AI to spend our dollars for both research and education: healthcare, energy, climate change, a more modern military, etc.

We tend to treat the term "AI" as if the technology were already true artificial intelligence but it is little more than a set of pretty good recognition and classification algorithms. Investing billions in a teechology prematurely is always a mistake since it will divert those billions from other uses. But I see no technology remotely approaching the intelligence of a 6-year-old child even on the horizon today. Now I'm not saying that we couldn't use a zillion 6-year-olds (after all, Victorian England did so with their workhouse system) to do useful work, I'm just saying that "AI" (the poor version, not artificial intelligence) is very likely to become a financial sinkhole and cause possibly decades of lost effort if we get carried away by mistaking a term for the real thing:

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS NATURAL STUPIDITY
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https://homepage.univie.ac.at/nicole.rossmanith/concepts/pap...
"Mylan now offers the authorized generic for Epipen for roughly $150 to $350 for a two-pack" (which expires after 1 year.)
I love this article and while reading it I realized that I wish I could scroll down exactly one "page" with my mouse so I mapped the MX Master side back/forward buttons to space/shift+space so now it's really nice to read long articles like this using the button to scroll down one page instead of the mousewheel.

Also nice for HN comment threads. :)
This is bad and I fear that the next thing they are going to do is remove socialist and secular from Preamble which was added in the 42nd amendment in 1976
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GB18030 has no 3-byte sequences. Only 1, 2, and 4.

There are more important qualities than optimizing byte length. Processing GB18030 as Unicode scalar values involves lookup tables. A single byte error cascades potentially further than in UTF-8.

If optimizing Chinese byte length is really important for you, UTF-16 is easier to work with than GB18030.
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I self taught myself a few things over the years and I can play my way through a lot of songs. But I'd like to dig deeper into music theory and have never been able to sift through a vast array of music theory blogs and tutorials to find something that made sense. I want a different perspective from the HN crowd. How did you teach yourself music theory?
This is chalk full of bad advice like "use GNU make and bash" that it's obvious to me it was written by someone who only knows GNU/Linux and doesn't know UNIX (or much else). Blind leading the blind again. Don't write GNU-specific constructs unless you have no other choice; use ksh instead of bash, it's portable and a standard and has been long before the GNU/Linux abomination. What nonsense I get to read...
Never said they did, but it makes shopping Costco online not really worth it.
That's such an obviously false statement that I can't believe you bothered to type it. I've been related to enough social workers to have a better grasp of their views than you do, apparently.
When I was there last year, many vendors outright refused cash. Perhaps it would have been different if I were looking actually serious about buying in quantity.
The problem with that quote is it's saying the intelligence of the crowd increases proportional to its size.

But I suspect he really means the opposite, that the larger the crowd, the less rational it is.
Code Complete seemed to be a book with a lot of dense, redundant content. Reading what was written had me feeling like I was reading information that could have been written by myself. Clean Code on the other hand (along with Refactoring by Martin Fowler) changed the way I write code for the better.
A CompTia Security+ cert is actually pretty trivial. It's complete regurgitation, and not even of industry standard best practices, but of CompTia defined "best" practices. It's the lowest and most basic tech cert you can get. It certainly isn't evidence of any engineering discipline.

The board and shareholders will have to decide whether this action was, or was not, in their best interests. But history has shown that Wall Street would generally agree with this one. It's certainly not a "massive" liability. Should the employee prevail, years from now, in a wrongful termination suit the cost to google will be trivial compared to the employee.

That's why other companies often flagrantly intentionally ignore NLRB protections. It's a very limited civil liability with a very high burden of proof on the employee.
I thought about that, but people move, people can live in apartment buildings with thousands of neighbors, and people can have packages delivered to their work address or a convenience store. None of those are even corners cases.

I just find it baffling that someone would write a letter that boils down to "We are punishing you!! But there is no way to enforce this punishment, so, uh... umm..." Seems like a huge waste of time if you ask me.
It would be funny if Google started using AWS instead of their own datacenters. While the compute capacity per space unit have kept growing exponentially, growth has stagnated as they already got 100% market reach.
It can also jail you for a crime you didn't commit.

amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/408709/

Or otherwise criminalize your existence
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Been over 40 times this year, get my finger prints checked every time I go through the Shenzhen border.
I've met a couple of really good FORTH programmers over the years. They were humble about it, were also happy to use other tools in their work, and they just happened to be working on projects that were really good fits for FORTH's strengths.

I've met a lot more FORTH fanatics, people for whom FORTH was the answer no matter the problem; people who just would not shut up about how superior and fantastic it was, and have you seen the light, brother? Okay, most of them weren't that bad, but a few were (one guy I worked with got fired because (a) he told his boss that FORTH was all he was going to use, (b) the FORTH runtime was over half of his code budget and he had kinda been keeping that secret, and (c) none of that fantastically <insert some adjectives here> FORTH code was compatible with the ROM it needed to run on . . . so you can imagine that fun little tete a tete).

Whatever the languages's wins or faults, it's still a great idea to write your own FORTH at some point. It's a ton of fun, and quite instructive when you've gotten a fully functional programming environment that fits in a few tens of kilobytes.
The main issues at Google doesn't seem to include the size of salaries.

That said I wish we had a dedicated code monkey union in my town. The existing choices either wouldn't cover everyone in the field or is covering way to many other fields. With the end result of doing a really crappy job at some parts (no, we don't need or want companywide agreements saying everyone get an extra 2.5%).
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If only it were not the case that our top talent aspired to work on advertising technology we might have nice things like an HIV vaccine or mass adoption of renewable energy.
Don't know how relevant these statistics are, but the Unreal subreddit has around six times the users of the Unity subreddit. I've always found it much easier to find help for UE4 than Unity.

Granted I've run into a few bugs in UE4, but then again it seems to include a lot more features out of the box. Lastly a lot of people seem to appreciate having the source code available which I don't believe is the case for Unity, as least last time I checked.
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Competitive advantage takes weird forms.

Over here in Japan the streaming platforms have fueled a massive boom in anime production. Established studios are full up on productions and work is slowly getting out sourced to related fields.

By my count the biggest competition is coming to game's on 3d modeling side. Modeling used to be split market wise but as games have gotten higher poly, and movies/rendering has moved to realtime rendering, the two markets are competing more for the same human resources.
Well, there are normally seven hops for that, not just three. So malicious relays are less problematic.

But then there's the risk from undisclosed vulnerabilities. In early 2014, CMU researchers deanonymized an unknown number of Tor users and onion sites using the "relay early" bug. The bug allowed relays to communicate covertly in the process of circuit establishment. So malicious relays run by CMU could identify each other, and cooperate to deanonymize circuits.

And then the FBI subpoenaed all their data. It took over at least one onion site (Playpen) and then pushed its NIT malware to perhaps hundreds of users. Who were then arrested and prosecuted.

So when did the Tor Project learn about the "relay early" bug? They claim that they didn't know, and didn't notice the suspicious relay activity, until after the CMU people went public. But how do we know? Indeed, from what I've seen of the FoIA production about the Tor Project, I'm not so confident that they don't cooperate with the FBI etc.
It doesn’t.

Your expansive view is something different entirely from free speech. It’s just your opinion about how you want others to accommodate your speech—that you believe you have a right to have others broadcast your voice and your words because that’s, in your view, “fair”. That’s fine. maybe CNN should make time for everyone to get their two cents in, because that’s fair. But that has nothing to do with free speech.

No one here is talking about “never electronically or in print”, because that’s not being restricted. You can print whatever you want and distribute whatever you want on your own website. Facebook isn’t taking down other people’s websites.

It’s not a free speech issue. You can think whatever you want, but you are wrong. You should probably find a different term of philosophy, or just another way to describe the obligation you feel others have to be fair to you—because free speech is not it.
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