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I see what you're getting at and understand what you want to accomplish but I do not agree. These revelations concern tons of engineers, especially those working or considering interviewing for Uber right now. It's also a service many of us use, hence why it's so jarring to see that privacy is handled with such little respect.

This negative article is no different from the articles posted about Theranos, Amazon, Facebook etc. Uber does not get a free pass.

He previously posted one about someone emailing him about a hacked Instagram after finding his name and the email @haxx.se in the licenses.

EDIT: Here's the link: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/01/19/subject-urgent-warnin...

Account age 19 minutes...

Hopefully trolling.

You're not wrong in the sense that 5G isn't actually that much of value for the users directly, however there are many other reasons that directly benefit the users.

Telco's pay 2 big costs for running a cellular data network: Infrastructure and Spectrum licensing. Your cost of data is supposed to cover these two with an added profit for the telco. What 5G brings to the table is faster data, which means you are able to transfer you file quicker, which means the average spectrum usage per "facebook load" is lower since the transmission happens much faster. Instead of you occupying that spectrum for 30 sec while loading over GPRS, you instead fetch all the files in less than a second, making the average potential bandwidth in the network much higher for everyone, thus lowering the price per gigabyte.

In addition to that, with 5G the phone can fetch data much more fast which means the radio can enter power-saving mode much faster. If a page on 4G takes 4 seconds to download and on 5G takes 1 second, it might end up being a 4X reduction (i'm stretching it for the sake of the example) due to the radio not having to be powered for that long.

So the consumer wins on pricing and battery consumption while the networks can squeeze more out of the already occupied spectrum.

As someone who recently moved and previously spent 5 years within the Northern Europe underground techno scene, what's a good in to these circles in the bay?

Keep an eye on Alliance of Open Media ( http://aomedia.org ). Basically Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix got fed up with the licensing model of H.265/HEVC which is even worse than that of H.264 (dual patent pools which different licensing terms where you have to pay both).

Intent is for it to be royalty free, open and supported in major browsers and devices.

Very true in my case. Although the problem of me getting into bed early is the vicious circle that quickly happens when staying up late. You stay up late because you're working on something fun, which offsets your sleeping pattern. Next time you try to go to bed early you can't fall asleep due to having gone up much later in the morning.

But yeah, in general this is my problem, i should go to bed BUT there's always so much more you can do before going to bed.

For someone interested in how bad it is, this is how it looks on a iPhone 6S: http://i.imgur.com/LFL0QgJ.jpg

Content seems nice but I really can't read it on my phone sadly. Hope author can fix it!

Basically V for Vendetta but with more tech aesthetics.

Actually you are right. I remeber this also, people seem to have catched on. Although my question is probably more aimed against the media endlessly throwing articles of this cycle out.

It's interesting how fast the narrative shifted, about one year ago i was reading a long in depth article here on HN on how Marissa Mayer was out to transform Yahoo into a company fit for 2015 and how she was succeeding. Fast forward 1 year later and the articles are mainly about how Yahoo is failing.

What does this tell me? I don't know really, is it hard to transform a company like Yahoo? Probably. Is the media surrounding tech and startup culture way to fast to draw conclusions, for sure.

No, f.lux only tweens the color profiles of the OS in realtime to shift the white point. It's basically a wrapper around a function already in the OS together with a tween library. The only thing f.lux does is control a hidden API /9 it's not comparable to email or a browser.

Or are you suggesting f.lux passes the entire framebuffer at any given point through their code and adjust the color temperature using a shader on the GPU? (No.)

"Almost a decade"

About 5 years tbh: https://blog.risingstack.com/history-of-node-js/

"hardly find any large, well-known website being powered by node"

* Netflix - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-net...

* New York Times - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-the...

* PayPal - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js/

* Medium - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/on-building-with-node-js-at-...

* LinkedIn - https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-lin...

* Uber - https://www.joyent.com/developers/videos/node-js-office-hour...

It's a tool, and like every other tool comes with its pros and cons. I am not saying Node is the perfect fit for any project, because it isn't. However stating it isn't used and almost a decade is just wrong.

I don't think you can kill it in the same way you can't force Intel to stop selling CPUs because they enable piracy. There is loads of emulators out there that would get shutdown if it were true.

Genuinly interested in understanding your viewpoint. If you have some time, please elaborate. I have always been under the impression that municipal fiber to consumers has the best benefits in the long run but I might have missed something.

The Swedish developed train X2, launched 1990 in Sweden as X2000 is still in service and is using tilting technology to increase speed. It's been running the most popular commuter line (Stockholm <-> Gothenburg) for 25 years at 200 km/h. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_2000

Sadly it's replacements focuses on efficient brakes over tilting.

Well tbh we got answers but they usually were; nope not offered, cannot be fixed. 3 weeks later I met a Google engineer working with GCE at a party who fixed it for us the day after hearing about our issue, which means it probably was able to be fixed from the first time.

Pricing is fine. Tech support is a joke. I wish I could pay more for Google to actually offer good support. We tried GCE for a while but it just didn't cut it in terms of mean response time to questions. AWS really leads on support.

Why is this on HN? Seriously a blog post made up of reaction images with no concrete facts and the strangest conclusion.

Thanks for both of these (also sub comment). These were great reads, kept me up last night.

Very insightful comment. I have long been interested in what the actual approach and factors are to generating better forecasts and you explained the important parts. Thanks!

You can make it more efficient by capturing the images to a buffer and rendering a low FPS h264 stream, serving it as HLS fragments and displaying it with hls.js ( https://github.com/dailymotion/hls.js ) as a background element. There is a lot of inter frame compression benefits to be had from this sort of content + it will look more nice with a constant stream of frames. With a low FPS, the CPU usage should be low enough to not be noticeable and also, you can serve a static JPEG as a "preview" when loading the stream in the background for having a background picture on load.

Is it detecting "Big Buck Bunny"? Would be hilarious.

Fully agree, the few times i visited the U.S. it always surprised me that a country with such technological speed still relies on the "unsafe" magnetic swipe. Not saying the chip is foolproof in any way but it's a good step from the magnetic system in place.

The same problems was raised when countries in the EU switched to chip but it was mostly vendors who was on old cash registers with no interfaces for the new card systems. That was solved through a manual total price entry into the EMV system, acting as it own system basically.

And as the parent comment mentioned, contactless payment is just really nice for smaller transactions. The ability to buy a coffee without opening your wallet (goods under $20) makes lines in stores so much faster since no signing/code entry is needed.

1. I understand coming from only swipe but in my mind (Sweden) you insert your card while you perform the entire transaction as a identifier compared to swiping. That's at least how me and my friend think about it after asking him.

2. Machines in Europe has been doing this for a long time and it's never been an issue. I guess in the rare case power goes out (aren't these machines on UPS?) it you just call the provider hotline, cancel that card and get a new one in the mail the day after.

3. I have never seen this but i agree this is an issue. That is a unnecessary UX roadblock.

This is my exact thought. It seems "Billy" here won because he paid $200 for something worth a whole lot more? adekok's response is perfect and really shows how to deal with this situation. Be clear about your rights, don't let people like this get away.

It's a very good game, fun, easy and addictive. Keep working on it as a side project and this might turn into something really great. A really nice showcase for your agency!

Although i will echo what other people said, once you go mouse look you never go back.

agar.io seems to have done fine for itself in HTML5 as massive, popular multiplayer game in browser.

Sennheisers are great but i swear by Beyerdynamic. I have a pair of DT-770's that lasted me for 9 years.

You bring up an interesting point that there's no real center in the U.S. that carries audio gear online, Europe has Thomann (thomann.de) that basically carries everything but now in SF it's hard to find something else then B&H Photo Video NY to deliver stuff.