planetjones

It's bait and switch. I know in /r/DataHoarder some people have uploaded (allegedly) 1PB of data, which is excessive. However given the growth of 4K video 1TB as a basis does seem low when the whole selling point of ACD was unlimited storage.

Also very unimpressed that they banned rclone's usage of the ACD API and then flat out refused to re-allow the app if the developer changed to not include the secret key in the source code.

Giphy employs 70 people. This I find an astonishing high number.

It also seems that they are partnered with netflix to automatically create gifs from their content; this is interesting. But what about content providers who aren't so happy about unauthorized clips being created of their content - I would have thought giphy is a copyright disaster, should owners assert their rights.

Hmm the BBC already built a front-end for this a while ago. See http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34066941

I always fail to understand how an organisation like Google, who value mobile so much, can keep churning out web pages that can't display properly on the smaller screen.

If Trump manages to stop this wage dumping he will have at least achieved something which very much benefits the American economy. I don't know why previous administrations showed no interest in this - did they not understand what was happening or were their capitalist values comfortable in allowing it ?

I wrote an article about the very same subject 3 years ago. Little has been done to make it better:

http://www.planetjones.co.uk/blog/27-04-2014/web-internation...

The killer quote for me is:

"It’s incredible to come to work everyday alongside hardware and software engineers, food scientists, designers, farmer partners, and all our other team members who are committed to building a new way of delivering raw, plant-based nutrition."

He moved from a dynamically served website using node.js backed by mongo DB to a website that reads markdown files in asp.net and renders them. The website is his personal blog. Alternatively the author could have used Hugo and generated his site statically before deploying it.

I respectfully disagree. Humans have imagination and some imagine we are part of a simulation. Yes it can't be proven but those who think of what the possibilities may be shouldn't 'get out'.

But couldn't our universe be being simulated by a species far more advanced and discrete to anything the human race has ever encountered? How do we know that another form of life doesn't find everything that we find super complex extremely trivial ?

The general feeling is that this vote will now succeed. However, I think it's now almost certain that if Scotland does vote to become independent they will be forced to take the Euro as currency. Westminster said this would be the case with the first referendum but few believed it. Now voters in Scotland must believe it, given brexit. I think this will influence voters very strongly - and I think the issue of currency will be a central issue (if anybody other than the SNP can be bothered to campaign - the Westminster Government will have their hands full with brexit negotiations, so I doubt Scotland's independence will be top of their agenda)

Well when there is a codebase of the scale of Facebook's, with so many activate contributors of course there will be a code quality problem. I see so much stuff at Google breaking or becoming inconsistent too (away from the core search features).

Even if they didn't move fast and break things, they would still have code quality issues. It's just the nature of a huge codebase like they have. And let's face facts - the development process needs to be suitable to the type of problem being solved. This is not a life and death situation and users would value new features, more than extreme reliability and consistency.

What's the deal with getting SSL on your custom domain name now? I moved away from app engine for small projects previously as I think they wanted $60 a month for this.

I did look on the website but I couldn't find the information. I have to say on a mobile device the GCP pages are very poor IMO. Too big a font, too much spacing, intrusive sticky header and too many scrolling effects where content magically appears or disappears. And even worse - when I click the pricing calculator it doesn't fit on the iOS safari screen so it is unusable. It does feel that some CSS and JS wizard got given far too much free reign.

I have an lifetime plex pass membership. I think it cost $120. I am not sure how they will be able to continue to offer me plex cloud, as servers which plex are paying for must be doing the transcoding. The bill for CPU must be fairly hefty if people really start to use this.

I don't want to 'stick up' for the CEO, as there's lot about uber I fundamentally dislike - especially the way they typify this 'race to the bottom' business model which seems to be becoming prevalent.

However, I really think for this incident he has nothing to apologise for.

Rclone scheduled tasks to Amazon cloud drive with its unlimited amount of data.

And a 5TB USB drive too that I occasionally backup to manually e.g. Time machine backup.

This kind of stuff fits the Hacker News bill perfectly!

It is no surprise to see many Swiss vocally supporting the 'Grundeinkommen' - which is a basic income for everyone. In the age of corporate greed (move the jobs to cheaper locations) and automation (bring in the robots) Switzerland, like every country, will have to ask itself 'what do humans do'.

The basic income is the solution in my opinion. Let all citizens live to a basic level, but not too good a level that the incentive to innovate or do more is gone. The basic income will, in my opinion, lead to a more entrepreneurial society where risk takers are supported - and also a more socially responsible and caring society, where people can donate their time to help others.

So can Chime allow more than 100 listeners. I interpreted the 100 limit as a hard cut off on the number of participants irrespective of their class.

Great product idea. At work we use Skype for business and it's a disaster - especially bad is it seemingly randomly says 'your device is causing poor audio quality' and mutes you. The only way to recover is to dial out and in. Before that it was the AT&T solution - such an ugly application with poor usability. If Amazon really polish this product and provide a great user experience and quality they could pick up a lot of business.

Edit: there's a problem here. Skype for business allows up to 250 participants. The AT&T solution (webex maybe) allows, I think, an unlimited number. Amazon Chime has a limit of 250 people. This wouldn't cut it for presentations in large companies e.g. announcement of annual results or divisional virtual 'town hall'

As expected on HN I am not surprised to see people defending one's right to privacy and encryption. However, what's the solution then ? If all the "bad guys" who distribute illegal material do so encrypted volumes and refuse to give up the decryption key then what do we do ? It's a different world now; the police can't just take a drill out and open the safe.

Truly terrible, but consistent with the Economist. I don't want to bring Trump into every comment; but with "solutions" like this floating around and decision making based on an unemployment statistic - not happiness, job fulfilment, job challenge or job earning potential - you can really see why he picked up the votes.

Is this disagreeing with Blake Irvine. See

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/02...

This is the man who refers to H1B visas as genius visas. I have worked with many Indian outsourcing companies and while talented people do exist, calling their employees genius is wholly inaccurate (as would be calling most software devs in the Western world genius).

I did laugh when I read irving's original post on LinkedIn and some former employer of GoDaddy expressed just how Mr Irving was using his H1B allocation I.e. to get the same job done for less dollar...

Show me a measurement that determines if the developers can write clean code, maintainable software, analyse and gather requirements plus design user interfaces and systems that add real value - then we can have a level playing field. Algorithmically the Chinese and Russians may be better, but that is a terribly one dimensional view of developer skill.

I am finding it difficult to find collaborating sources. Does anyone have a link to the commercial. Did it actually air ?

We can assume that companies are deciding what's financially best for them, but not what is best for the country they have a social responsibility to. Look at some of the monumental IT failures we have seen recently and will see in the future (some UK banks for example). And with globalisation it's not bound to happen anymore because people are finding a voice. Do you think trump or brexit would have happened if people thought globalisation was working for them. There's more than low income people supporting these 'movements'.

And your argument for full globalisation doesn't work for me. Should we send all manufacturing to a country in the Far East with questionable labour laws and regulations. I don't feel comfortable with that. Certainly not the level playing field you think it is.

I don't think so many people would disagree with you i.e. Hire the best person for the job irrespective of where they come from. However that's not what is happening with many of the H1B visas. Here cheaper foreign workers irrespective of skill are being recruited instead of more expensive local workers. With your global outlook how do you solve this problem? Or do you just let it be and let the cheaper workers depress the wages of the local workers, thereby making the local workers struggle financially and bringing unhappiness to many ?

This is wage dumping. The article explains the problem perfectly i.e. a 130K job is replaced by a 60K job. Call this globalisation and efficient markets if you like. However, on a personal note, if Trump manages to put in place policies to make it more of a level playing field and stops some of the greed which CEOs apply when replacing jobs with outsourcing contracts then I think he may have found a policy which will carry a lot of favour with middle class workers.

Must be unlocking the same thing that Amazon Prime Photos is doing. I have to say that scanning photos automatically and allowing me to search by what is in the photo is the only solution to cope with the proliferation of photos, especially from camera phones. I still curate my better photos in Lightroom and publish them to Flickr albums. But that approach just isn't scalable for all the "normal" photos I am taking with the iPhone; so privacy concerns aside, I am happy for a machine to help me find the photos I am interested in.

I'd hope the interview / assessment process already gives the interviewer the answer. If not I doubt the interview process. A good answer to this question will mean very little.