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bencoderon Don’t ruin streaming by turning it into cable

The problem with the cable bundles is they bundled maybe one thing/channel you want with a bunch of crap you don't to bulk it out and make it seem worth it. Honestly I'm happy to pay for the different 'bundles' like Netflix, prime and hbo (and Disney if I had kids). But I want it under one service, with the ability to pay a one-off fee to watch something I'm not subscribed to. At the moment the fragmentation is crazy, and Netflix wins so if it's not there I'll rarely go looking on Amazon to see if they have it, even though I pay for that service. I really think there is a good opportunity for someone to unify these services, but it probably has to come from inside the industry. Hopefully in a few years when they realise that less friction will win in the long run

bencoderon Ask HN: How does your company do performance reviews?

After reading points 1 and 2, I thought your post was satire. This sounds awful.

bencoderon Kite Responds to the Minimap and Autocomplete Issues

https://github.com/kiteco/kite-installer/pull/50 was linked from the post, but it's not merged

bencoderon Ask HN: What personal finance advice would you give your 25yo self ?

Don't sell those 1000 bitcoin

bencoderon Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

That would still be very high for London/uk

bencoderon Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack

A coworker paid one for an organisation he helps out with it issues. The files were unlocked

bencoderon Show HN: Cheaper flights when flying multiple destinations by route optimisation

https://jetlookup.com

This is a co-worker's project that seems to match what you want

bencoderon In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income”

Saving up a 10%, £40k, deposit while renting here is quite tough though, even on 70k. And most devs don't earn that much

bencoderon Behind Carder Kingpin Roman Seleznev’s Record 27 Year Sentence

Only if you consider prison to only be punishment and that punishment should scale linearly to the 'badness' of the crime

bencoderon PHP 7 Virtual Machine

I don't think there are implementations of twig outside of PHP, so this isn't useful for the op

bencoderon A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

Senior

bencoder on World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117

> I think, the long-lived, are not the best sources of information on how to live long.
Yes, my great grandmother died at 101, smoked until 90, and generally didn't have much positive to say in her final years (she may have been suffering from dementia or other old age related disease).
I agree, advice from the long lived doesn't seem particularly useful when compared to scientific study

bencoder on George Orwell’s Letter on Why He Wrote ‘1984’

Slightly misleading title as this was written 5 years before 1984 was published - but really interesting to read the original insights and ideas that led to the book.

bencoder on 22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

That was pretty much how I learnt programming

bencoder on Not Everyone in Tech Cheers the H-1B Visa Program

I'm not the person you're asking but I hold similar views. An alternative argument could be that should your particular zone have a reversal of fortune - war or climate change, say - It would be good to have the ability to move freely to somewhere with better prospects. The world isn't static.

bencoder on Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

Just bought myself a piano, so I want to learn to play - to a beginner level - I'm aware that probably even after 5 years one is still essentially a "beginner", so it's a long road.

bencoder on How pure is the beer in Germany?

> BBC Worldwide (International Site)
> We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com.

bencoder on Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets

Looks like someone has found an XSS attack :D

bencoder on Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss

Same in UK - My work week is considered 37.5 hours with work day of 9-17:30.

bencoder on FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

next message in thread is saying that it hasn't been announced yet: http://lists.freepascal.org/fpc-pascal/2016-June/048216.html

bencoder on I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet

I only have limited experience with the headtracker + monitor combo but I much prefer VR.
With the headtracker it more felt like just a convenient input method for head position, whereas with vr, well, it's like you're really in the plane. It doesn't feel like there's some translation between me moving my head and the camera on screen moving.
The loss of visual acuity is an issue, but since I fly only GA this is not so much of an issue - I'm mostly looking out of the windows and try not to focus on the instruments, just like in the real world.
If anyone you know owns a headset (DK2, CV1, Rift), I'd highly recommend borrowing it and trying the free version of FlyInside (15 minute demo limit) to get an idea: https://flyinside-fsx.com/Download

bencoder on Clickbait and Traffic Laundering: How Ad Tech Is Destroying the Web

I've recently had a recruiter send me emails with clickbait titles, that I've fallen for:
- Java vs Scala - The JVM Battle...
- Elasticsearch vs SOLR within AWS...

bencoder on I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet

Yeah, I use my DK2 pretty much solely for a flight simulator (FSX with Flyinside).
I'm learning to fly in real life and it turns FSX into a realistic way of training for GA flying, rather than only instrument procedures - being able to look around out the windows makes all the difference.

bencoder on Bay Area Home Prices by Transit Stop

http://www.findproperly.co.uk/price-per-square-foot.php#.Vv-...
This map has areas of london by square foot for a closer comparison, but isn't by tube stops. Looks like we are more expensive than the bay area, if you go by area - We live in much smaller houses than in America, I believe

bencoder on What can doctors learn from pilots and cyclists?

Somewhat off topic, but as someone with an interest in aviation I enjoy reading the aviation safety reports, like the aaib reports [0], airprox reports [1] or the CHIRP newsletters [2]. (All UK based)
I try to find a similar 'tone of voice' when conducting or participating in RCA's for incidents during my day job
[0] https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports
[1] https://www.airproxboard.org.uk/Reports-and-analysis/Monthly...
[2] https://www.chirp.co.uk/

bencoder on Oculus Rift is Shipping

Most video glasses have quite a small field of view... Are yours the same? So it's kind of like seeing a screen floating somewhere in front of you, whereas with the vr headsets you basically can't see the edge so it's a lot more immersive.
I expect that's the main reason you don't get nausea.

bencoder on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?

Probably they do use that if they need left padding but also have a dependency on another package that thinks 'lodash is too big when all I need is left padding' so we get to this situation

bencoder on Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B total

My uninformed understanding/guess: Flight is low margin and fuel is the primary cost. So you can make an estimate of the CO2 impact; if the average seat price on a normal airliner for that journey is $1000 and the average seat price on this aircraft is $5000 then I think you can say it's approximately 5x the impact.
Happy to be shown wrong, this is complete conjecture.

bencoder on MIT researchers plan “death of the traffic light” with smart intersections

Could something like this be done/tested with human drivers with optional speed signs some way back from the intersection "speed required to hit the green light"?

bencoder on [VR] Virtual Desktop 1.0 Trailer – Ultimate Programing Display?

That would make you sick.
The point is it feels fixed in 3d space, like a monitor. Fixing it to your head movements is not going to work, you'll just have a low resolution monitor stuck to your head