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"The results reflect YouTube’s struggles to expand its core audience beyond teens and tweens. Most YouTube users treat the site as a video repository to be accessed from links or embedded video players posted elsewhere, rather than visiting YouTube.com daily. Google executives want them to turn on YouTube the way they turn on television, as a habit, where they can expect to find different “channels” of entertainment."

If they want me to sit in front of this as passive entertainment, why not start by giving me an interface to view my subscribed content, in order, as an RSS-reader-like experience? I should be able to hit 'play' and have it scan through all the new videos on the channels I am subscribed to, without hitting 'click to skip' length ads, going into a mysterious related videos algorithm, or manually navigating through a list and clicking on each one.

For that matter, I should be able to interface with a channel in that way regardless of whether they have created a playlist or not, using 'autoplay in order of upload'.

If you wanna get complicated, give me a search functionality that will do the same. 'Autoplay feed of anything mentioning Minecraft mod XYZ in the title/description'

Right now, Youtube has a nominal subscription function that actively deters you from using it smoothly. Fix that before you assume you can't turn it into a 'habit'.
I have nothing to do with the Rust language, but here's what gave it away for me:

- giant rusty-looking "R" logo

- "... you can use Rust for ..."
Your concern is valid. Whenever complexity is abstracted away you may suddenly introduce an exponential order algorithm in an otherwise simple looking query.

Having said so, Postgresql has actually surprised me very little throughout time. The planner's "reasoning" is quite comprehensible. Inevitably I trigger a slow plan here and there but, once identified, correction is usually straightforward. My overall opinion is that postgresql has quite solid theoretical foundations and it shows.

What I mean is that, in advanced stuff, there'll always be some "magic", and that postgresql has the least amount of black box magic I've ever seen on a RDBMS (I'm looking at you, Oracle).

(Postgresql has been my non-clustered database of choice since about 2004. I'm definitely biased.)
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Beyond the tech circles, I bet nobody really cares about this at all.
Next time someone wonders what the point of linear algebra is, send them here
Unlike China, Germany is under the thumb of the U.S. Their state prosecutor won't even start an investigation into the tapping of Merkel's phone because 'there isn't sufficient evidence'. Never mind that the U.S. gov't admitted to it.

I don't think Germany or any other E.U. countries will follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0
>why not start by giving me an interface to view my subscribed content, in order, as an RSS-reader-like experience?

Can you really not do that? I've never had a youtube account. The plan at the back of my head to build a hideously boring looking "advanced" interface for youtube is creeping forward...
I use tmux rather than terminal tabs, but aside that I'm the same as you in that I never bother with vim plugins.

Though a large part of the reason is because I'm constantly switching between different servers so it's one less config I need to synchronise (and being reliant on plugins that aren't present on half the systems you manage quickly becomes less productive than never using those plugins to begin with).
Yup, personally I don't see the point of doing anything if it's only going to give me one synergy...
YouTube is an astounding platform with a remarkable social relevancy that many people over ... 25? or so probably don't appreciate. Even more astounding is the degree to which google consistently drops the ball in regard to its development. Much of its success has come in spite of, rather than because of, major changes and "features" google has made to the site. Partly that's because of google's almost pathological inability to develop a real product or to manage a serious customer relationship (where the end-users are also the customers, rather than the merchandise).

At this point I hope merely that google doesn't do anything that inadvertently destroys whatever magic is happening at youtube before a diversified field of real competition exists elsewhere.
Went through two of these recently. Despite programming for more than a decade since university, I noticed the the unusual stress level and awkward situation (coding on google docs or a plain editor with no debugging ability) while the interviewer is umming and aahing (way to be judged) while you're thinking your way through a problem with stops and starts. I managed to solve all the problems given, but failed to get past the phone interview without the any feedback as to why. Thinking retrospectively, I'm almost never in that situation and pair programming with real tools and problems is not approximated at all by these types of phone or hangout screens. Neither are the time based coding tests like codility. That being said, the big software companies spend lots of money and time on hiring and swear by this process, so we're in a "like it or leave it" situation.
By comparison, Facebook Inc. generated more than $12 billion in revenue, and nearly $3 billion in profit, from its 1.3 billion users last year.

I didn't realize Facebook had such a small revenue figure - could anyone explain their market cap in that regard? It's highly unusual.
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Isn't a bit magical to grow a $4Billion a year business and end up spending exactly that amount to run it? I know this gets talked about a lot with regards to Amazon, but do the people running Youtube actually get any extra benefit from being profitable?
Make mass takedowns harder and you will have a lot of increased traffic in youtube. And more popular too. Google also have the legal funds to win cases now.
Of course it is – you've got this back to front. The grant of additional rights to use any patent Facebook may hold is an additional benefit and in no way places any restriction on you.

If you're going to worry about anything, worry about the squillions of open-source projects that don't include any patent grants. But you probably shouldn't worry about that either.
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Genuine question: What on earth is interesting about Facebook, especially why is Facebook more interesting than YouTube?

I agree that YouTube's ads are invasive and annoying but finding stuff is fairly easy. Agree on comments. Twitter is not at all interesting to me but I can at least understand why some find it interesting, but Facebook - I just don't see that.
Yep, you can't. It will give you a list of videos uploaded, but there is no easy way to just hit play and sit through them as if they were a long playlist.
Oh, they care. It's a huge problem. Spend a ton of effort putting up a let's play video or a review of, say, a video game only to have it taken down or the revenue snatched away. Or, have someone abuse the system against you, which happens, and be forced to struggle through the kafkaesque bureacratic nightmare to get things fixed. Dealing with the broken aspects of content-id and the particular way youtube has implemented DMCA compliance adds a significant amount of hassle and overhead to a great number of folks who make content on the site.
Hey guys, just released my first app for windows phone, thought someone on here would find it useful. It's a github browser app, which also alerts you when you get a notification. The trial version has all the features of the paid version, so no need to buy it (although I would like you to :)). GitHub repo is at https://github.com/DaveWM/MyGit
It should be noted that all of this is based upon "a person with knowledge of the figure". It's easy to manipulate these kind of numbers, and Google might very well have an interest in doing so.

For example, they might attribute the costs of building a new data-center to their YouTube branch, but actually use it for all their services. And they're probably not making their collected data on you into account.

Why might they do this? To make their main business seem stronger at the expanse of YouTube for whatever reason, to help justify lower CPM on YouTube content, because admitting that data-mining your customers is your long-term plan is generally not a smart idea (even if you're Google and people should know by now).
AKA: Nothing new yet (for web).
They don't want you to 'consume' 'content' in submitter order, they want to submit you to the related videos and especially the ads to make sure you are monetized appropriately. If they wanted you to have RSS they wouldn't have killed Google Reader.
There's this: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions Which displays the videos the channels your subscribe to have uploaded (newest first).
> Youtube's problems are that their costs are too high.

Is that true? I'm definitely not saying it's not, but it's not self-evidently true.

Is $4 per user per year a lot to pay for being the platform they watch video on?

I agree with your point that their challenge is not about making their product more attractive to new users, but an equally valid conclusion would be that their problem is that their product isn't generating enough value per user, so they can't ask enough value in return - which would be a product design problem, or that their product is generating significantly more value for its users than it's managing to demand in return, which would be a "monetisation" / revenue stream issue.
Youtube is the most frustrating example of feeling like software innovation for the user is getting stagnant. I'm sure there is constant progress being made behind the scenes, but it feels like it's the same at best, or worse even than it was 3 or 4 years ago as a user:

- I watch a lot of games channels, yet have never watched and constantly tell them I'm not interested in channels that are about Minecraft, yet every time I go my 'What to watch' list there are more Minecraft channels to tell them to ignore.

- I watch a lot of powerlifting/strenght training and rehab videos, and then get recommended with lots of sports channels that are entirely about soccer.

- Recommended channels are almost always non-sensical related to my preferences and browsing history. Currently they have tons of Bollywood/Hindi channels and Jimmy Kimmel in there. No idea why.

- The subscriptions list doesn't order them to put the ones with unviewed new videos near the top of the list. On my laptop there is only room to show 3 channels before the rest get put into a hover-to-show overlay, so I have to take that extra step every time to discover whether there are new vids in 90% of my subs.

On the plus side:

- They also finally removed the need to click twice to not be interested in a channel, even though it was the only option in the click-to-show list.

I'm not suggesting that change for the sake of change is an essential part of UI innovation, the opposite is often true; the right experience can stand the test of time. But the Youtube user experience has been pretty poor for a long time in my opinion, and in places feels actively worse by design.

My only real success story with it is their live stream service for watching live League of Legends is awesome compared to Twitch or Azubu.

I think failing is perhaps an overly strong interpretation of the situation though.
Precisely. Amazon and Youtube are both in the same position with regards to profitability. If it were desired they could make it happen, if it's not seen as necessary then they can simply plow all of what would have been their profit margins back into growth and development.
"to read a full story" and I didn't actually even care...
Context is everything.

What on earth is "web" in this case? Its hosted on a webserver, its a website.....

lots of web for me....
I suspect Youtubes main opex is bandwidth. So it all depends on how traffic costs develop over time in relation to advertising revenue. Could this be a motivator for Google Fiber? By cutting out the middlemen, they can lower running costs for their own services.
But what value does the overhead of having the foundation and all its associated risks (such as those highlighted in the article) have over the current scenario, when many marks are happily going along day-to-day?
And the video quality is (still) terrible, or possibly even getting worse.
I expect the difference is that when extracting helium from natural gas, the volumes are huge and therefore the purification process is economically feasible.

Trying to do the same for small amounts of helium collected here and there is possible but not economically feasible. It makes more sense to use it as balloon gas.
Log-in in order to read the full article is really bad to me
We don't have a TV unit in our home. People in their 30's or older find it awkward. Kids under 15 absolutely don't care about it, they always have something waiting to watch on YouTube and they consume it using whatever device they have access to.

My 2.5yo can open YouTube app on whatever device she finds on the coffee table and usually find content through suggestions. 8yo already got banned from YouTube by watching excessive amounts of Minecraft videos, until summer.

We hosted a reunion event for kids of close and distant relatives during the semester and 1/4 of the day spent on YouTube, a stat based on 5 kids ranging from 2.5 to 11.

I don't see any other platform reaching every kid in the world other than YouTube. Are there any? Google will sure monetize it better than today, all TV entertainment in the future will be consumed through companies like YouTube, Twitch etc. It's easier to see it if you live with younger people.
That's very interesting—I'm much less interested in a candidate solving a problem in that situation, than I am in seeing how they approach it. That includes things like 'Hey, you made an unusable O(n!) algorithm, what gives?'

That's always made clear though. I guess it goes to show that there's rarely one approach to this sort of thing.
Is the evolvability of complex information systems that this article speaks of related perhaps? (was shared on here a while ago as well)

http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/the-strange-inevitabili...
To be fair, you only need three to cover the vast majority of actual uses: variant, Variant, VARIANT.
I would really appreciate a short summary to get a few more of the basic ideas taught in this class or book.
The really incredible thing to me is that I could sit down with this and write a chess engine using the method outlined here and it would work. This paper is the Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation By Machine of the computer chess world.
Their market cap is based on fantasy (but which growing tech company's isn't?) Facebook's valuation is founded on the nebulous idea that somehow facebook's combination of tech talent and userbase will result in massive profits in the future. Meanwhile, facebook managed to game the IPO system deftly and extract a huge wad of cash from investors (and win a massive payoff to its early stage investors), it took almost a full year for the market valuation of facebook to get back to a state where the folks who bought in early to the IPO could finally pass their stock off to other suckers without taking a loss.
Maybe if the site wasn't a bloated mess of useless or barely working features, people would be willing to turn off their adblocks.

Plus I bet they do get their money through some tax loops or some other form light money launder.

If not the money, they do get gigantic userbase they can harvest for data, unlike G+.
I think Henry's decision had very little to do with foresight and wisdom and a lot more to do with his gonads.
I'd make a stronger statement: Outside tech circles I'd bet that, in practice, the vast majority of YouTube viewers would abandon it in droves if YouTube removed Content ID. I'm sure they don't like Content ID in the abstract (and plenty may be frustrated by personal encounters with it), but I bet most of them care far more about the first-party content on YouTube from the entertainment industry that the Content ID "treaty" has made possible.
The term to search for would be "supermassive black hole binaries". Apparently, these systems have a characteristic fingerprint.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/supermassive-black-ho...
Market cap is an estimate of future value. Investors believe that Facebook will continue to grow and provide services that generate more money than it makes now. Should they stop thinking that the value of the stock will fall, and, obviously, the market cap will contract. A company could have $0 in revenue and a $100bn market cap if people were convinced that in the future that stock will be hugely valuable.
Thank you! And I can't help but notice a couple more interesting titles in that directory:
http://worrydream.com/refs/
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"Why he picked the door that he chose is irrelevant"
I disagree. If he picked the door at random and it just happened to contain a goat it's 50/50.
If he picked the door because he was always going to pick that door if it contained a goat then it's 50/50
Definitely. They try to compress the videos as much as they can, load comments only if you scroll down etc.
I only meant that their costs are too high compared to the revenue per user. It's absolutely true that they could solve their profitability issues by increasing their revenue per user assuming that didn't in turn increase the costs.
With Ap Ops since 4.3 you can twiddle them individually.
Very happy to see all of this talk over the past few months on the power of modern--or anything beyond basic--SQL.

This article touches on one of my favorite things, too, which is built-in date and time arithmetic. That's something that basically just works and comes for free in the database but is often a hodgepodge of messy third-party libraries elsewhere.

The other enormous one, for me at least, is arbitrary precision math. Proper precision, rounding, division, and exponentiation isn't easy to come by. I'm so tired of dealing with libmpdec, BigDecimal (flimsy as it is), GMP, etc. It all works well in the database and it's pretty fast. Perhaps it's not suitable to 1000-digit scale scientific computing, but it sure does make building financial software easy.
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Yeah, this discussion points out an important point that it's easy to miss if you scan Facebook's patent grant: The license Facebook grants you is invalidated by any action that even alleges that any of Facebook's patents is invalid.

E.g. if you so much as Tweet that one of Facebook's patents, even one entirely unrelated to React, is invalid, you've lost your license.

Compare this with the patent grant in the Apache license, as used in a library like Angular: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/LICENSE

Here the license is only terminated in the event that you institute litigation alleging patent infringement by the software itself. You're still free to challenge shitty patents and call out companies about them. Not so with Facebook's license.
It's a hack with path strokes to make it appear as if being drawn, so yes it won't work with fills. Although if you approximate the fill with a zig-zagged stroke you could get a good impression of an animated, drawn fill as well with this.
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Apparently this is only interesting for people who are interested in Rust. The title should mention this because the domain and the text on the website make it seem like it applies to the whole web, so I was expecting to see something about browser feature support and HTML/CSS features.
It's a pretty good course on how to be not merely technically skilled, but effective. For example, how technological progress usually works and the importance of back of the envelope calculations. He teaches with a lot of personal narratives which are easier to relate to and remember.

The book is easier to read than watching the videos, though you could rip the audio and it would be an okay audio book.
Downvote all the way you like. Or start defining "secure".
I understand it's just a MVP/POC now but would it hurt to include let Austin folks have an entry in the location drop-down? :)
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My impressions:

Build this into a collaborative desktop app instead. I'd much rather have an incredible UX built on top of code snippets I can drag out into my IDE.

I think this already exists; I've used something similar, but the UX and searching was poor, and their was no collaboration.

You'd have to nail the indexing.
On the note of self-driving cars, check out http://www.getcruise.com/

I just heard of them from a friend who will be joining and I was skeptical at first. Their model seems to be to attach/install peripherals to a non- self-driving car and turn it into a self driving car. That way they can compete on a level with Google (optimistically) but don't need to manufacture vehicles.
I agree, isrustwebyet.com would have been a better choice
I prefer that the initial interviews be about knowing what the candidate wants out of the job he's applying for, how it fits into his master plan etc. Then I want to try and figure out if I really want to spend a third of my waking life working with this person. Only towards the end of the process, and only if I'm not too sure about the candidate ability to do his job (eg: did not demonstrate interest in keeping himself up to date; was not able to articulate how X adds value over Y; etc) will I go into full-on technical interview.

Sounds weird right? But the thing is, I'm not hiring rocket scientists so I don't need the best of the best, just someone who knows his stuff and isn't afraid of saying "I don't know (but I will find out)" when that's the case. I also take great care in planning work and defining deliverables so as to reduce the pressure on my colleagues' workday and there is hardly ever a situation where we need to rush to meet a deadline. If or when that does happen, I find that the culture of trust and a certain amount of friendship does wonders for the team's spirit.
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Is $4 per user per year a lot to pay for being the
platform they watch video on?

If the billion viewers are watching hours of HD video every day, it's a great price.

If the billion viewers include anyone who has viewed a single video at any quality in the last 10 years, it's a lot less impressive.
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> 8yo already got banned from YouTube by watching excessive amounts of Minecraft videos, until summer

How? I keep youtube in the background for music almost all day and didn't know you could get banned for "watching too much"
Good. One more thing that should be catered here while making conventions is that there should be a convention that should differentiate a block that is being used/overwritten from some other css file like bootstrap. So the css classes that are written by a dev should contain a small string that is common among every block name defined by a developer.
I don't think they do this or are allowed to do this. They can of course, not break out earnings by division if they want, but if they do, I don't think Hollywood accounting is permitted or useful.

There are other ways to play this; e.g. microsoft once included MacBU (very profitable Mac office) in E&D (xbox...). But at the end of the day, it doesn't really help anyone.