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I love how they buried the "Sundar Pichai is new Google CEO" bit in there. In any case, this sounds promising and it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
I am sort of new to this stuff but I believe Django essentially does this correctly as long as you have your site under version control. Although having a DB instance for each developer seems a little bit tricky to me but that may just be my inexperience.
This article reminds me of the scariest joke:

What do you call the guy who graduated last in his class from medical school?

Doctor.
Why is there no Arbnb or Uber derivative?
I think my main issue is that with automation and labor beyond a certain scale, there is no sensible tracing of individual labor to that which is produced. We're on Hacker News; its trivial to demonstrate that an individual or group's knowledge is often directly responsible for products and services the original party doesn't even know exists. Production and capital are no longer primarily guided by human will.
That's actually one of the reasons they've been pushing the new (2013, very new in terms of how quickly most visa situations evolve..) entrepreneur visa(s) in spain.

There's two types: one gives you 1 year residency (can be extended, of course) - application is decided within 10 days.

Another gives you 2 years, decision in 20 days.

Entry requirements are low. It's worth checking out.

In 10 days, you could be in Spain. There are many decent tech companies hiring as well.

http://foundersgrid.com/spain-entrepreneur-visa
So all google divisions are now individual companies inside a conglomerated called Alphabet where Larry is the CEO and Sergei the President. Sundar Pichai is now the new CEO of Google. Is that right? Why do you think they are moving this way? Regulations? Taxes? What about Eric Schmidt?

I don't know much about trading, but look at that "after hours" spike! http://postimg.org/image/ho5ecyr99/

EDIT: All google subsidiaries are now subsidiaries of a conglomerated called Alphabet. Google is a subsidiary too. Google stock will now be Alphabet stock.
You'd think that the founders of Google would think about SEO friendliness for their corporate names. "Alphabet" will be as searchable as "Go" is.
I do not know much about big business financials, but this seems like a move that would allow Google to separate its experimental or research-based businesses that do not turn a profit from its giant bulging revenue beasts. It will likely allow Google to post better quarterlies, and push their stock up even higher.

Appointing Sundar as CEO also allows them to focus more on the cool stuff in Alphabet and let Sundar run the meat and potatoes Google operations. Interesting moves.
Blame the leadership not the x-ray tech. Most likely leadership told the tech to do whatever the doctor says and did not advise on what action to take if the patient disputes the orders. Unlike software rarely are these policies and procedures QA tested.
Wow, this is really strange. Has there been any precedent for things like this?
Meet Alphabet, Google’s New Corporate Boss as Sundar Pichai Takes Over
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Ubuntu 14.04

noel@Aspire:~/Downloads/demonsaw_linux64$ ./demonsaw
./demonsaw: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-sync.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Interesting. I suppose they'd fail PG's test of owning your own .com.
I also think this is the case :)
This seems largely, at my admittedly brief viewing, to try to quell some of the structural concerns around all of these "non-core" businesses that the Artist Formerly Known as Google are participating in.

I think it will streamline the management of all of these different businesses, at least make it clear where Larry and Sergey are focusing their efforts.
Meanwhile, MIT's fusion program is likely to be shut down soon. Their Alcator C-Mod has the strongest magnetic field of any tokamak in the world, and made a serious breakthrough in tokamak physics several years ago.

I had a chance to visit a couple years ago. A grad student showed us a metal tie, about a meter long, and said they'd calculated that two of them could hold down the Space Shuttle during launch. To hold the reactor together when they switched it on, they needed 38 of them.

They hadn't run the reactor for a year due to funding issues.
Does this mean that running high-risk project inside Google started to damage the reputation of Google? Many (most) of the moonshot projects failed (which is normal), and I have the feeling that these events had a somewhat bad fallout on the image of the whole company (questioning its invicibility to some extent, mostly in the eyes of the press).
> Each technologist has a choice whether or not to work on these systems. The answer should always be NO.

While I agree that in theory this is true I don't think in practice this is always the case. It speaks to a larger morality issue coupled with economic/personal conditions of the professional involved. For example is it moral to develop space weapons if you are sure your enemy is/may be doing the same (see: military industrial complex)? Or what if the professional in question is threatened with career ruin if they don't comply or even have their loved ones threatened?

I'm just trying to say this isn't the black and white issue some people want to make it out to be.
> To be fair, I assume they use left/right from the perspective of the patient.

That's correct. The trouble is in anatomy and hence in radiography, the standard position is having the patient facing you. Left and right are thus systematically inverted in medical images
I would go one further, and say that's the primary motivator. Preemptive restructuring.
Is there a list of moonshots failed?
I'm a firm believer of marking the affected area before any procedure. It's cheap it's simple. HOWEVER only the patient is allowed to apply the mark.
Only using direct SQL works, but I've always relied on redefined model classes IN the migration, a la:

http://railsguides.net/change-data-in-migrations-like-a-boss...

Written about 20 rails apps of varying levels of complexity, never been bitten by this approach. YMMV
I use Google Apps Free for my personal account, so I doubt that's your issue.

But I don't think I've initiated any group MMSes, just received them (and subsequently replied, which worked). You might be hitting a bug that I didn't. :/
Daily+Protein+Digital:+Broadcast+networks+switching+to+digital+technology
Doctors are probably better, or at least no worse, than the general population on that account.

The problem is that "statistical reasoning" is so alien to normal de facto human reasoning that you need years of training before it sets in. Doctors are already taking on a completely different set of extensive training, and their elders did fine with only the most basic statistics knowledge, so clearly (sigh) there's no need to dig into the fancy pants version of the thing.

Epidemiologists probably know better, but how do you have them explain to the GPs that this is a useful tool to have???
Something similar to Virgin I suppose. To keep other ventures from harming Google.
A corollary is that actual bugs tend to become the sturdiest, longest lasting fragments of code. Because they're by definition incorrect, so no one can really fully and correctly "describe why they're there", and thus people tend to feel afraid to fix the code ("dangerous and risky to fool with it"), because maybe that's not a bug? (and thus "someone might punish me later for touching this code")
aha! Yes, OCaml. And F#. Although I think, OCaml was first.
Oh! right. yeah. T-boned. thanks for the clarification.
Doesn't this completely change what you are buying when you buy GOOGL shares?

It used to be you were investing in a search/ad company that owned a lot of other stuff. Now you are investing in a company that owns the leading search/ad company.

The difference is obviously academic but I think it will make a difference in how the shares are traded. Perception drives the market after all.
New York Startup Funding Applications Trump the Long-Reigning Valley
So Alphabet will start a new car company, and google can continue on as a search giant. It makes a lot of sense.

So many people keep saying their biggest fear of google is that they will turn devices like Google Glass, or the Google car into products to collect information on people. When those products themselves are viable business models.
To summarize (correct me if I'm wrong):

- Google will now be operated as a subsidiary of a new company called Alphabet.

- Alphabet will be publicly traded under the same symbols as Google is now traded.

- Stock will just transfer as-is.

- Sundar Pichai is now the CEO of Google.

- Larry and Sergey will run Alphabet as CEO and President, respectively.
Wave, Plus, Glasses at least.

If we are to include less ambitious stuff, Google Video, Orkut, Chromebooks (never went far), Reader, Google Code, Dart, nothing much came out of Morotola, etc.

And let's see were those "self driving cars" will go, market-wise...
Obligatory
http://sci-hub.org/10.1038/nphys3416
Our radiographers always use common sense. If we order the wrong side, they will image the right side or chase up with us. If we order the wrong type of ct they will call us to discuss what we are looking at/reason for test and advise us in the correct test.
Very important to put the full reason a doctor ants the test to assist in this process
> Well it's not like there is only 1 porn site on the planet... There lies the issue with that method.

How is that an issue? They get literally no revenue from theses users. I get there's some sort of worth of mouth marketing from theses users... but usually is the same with adblock so essentially it just mean more user that doesn't worth anything.
Congrats the founders of Google. Monumental move.

I have very fond memories of early Google.com, and there always used to be a vivid spirit in their products that everything was so experimental and technically on the edge. That feeling has been gone for a very long time, but since Larry has come back it's been slowly returning. Call me what you want, but I feel like this is such a smart move for the founders' freedom to explore.

And the way they announced it is totally in line with the spirit. I'm sure there was a lot of technical work, and will be more, but they way it's all hidden in the back so that they can focus on the most important parts. I'm a fan.
Wave and Plus were not moonshots

It would be a good thing explain why the downvotes
For bigger menus I like how it is implemented here under the 'Mer' section:

http://www.idg.se/
Seems like Alphabet (Google/Page/Brin) and Facebook (Zuckerberg) are in a race to become the Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet.
Microsoft will let shareholders nominate board members
Yeah, me too. And its amusingly frustrating to watch. And we know why double-clicking is a thing, and why it's not consistent across widgets, but I wonder if we'd be better off if the mouse originated not with "left" and "right" buttons, but instead "do" and "select" buttons. The Do button would open the files and visit the hyperlinks, the Select button would add the object you're looking at to a stack of selections, or provide more information about the thing you're pointing at, or some other lower-cost action.

(I just changed the setting on my desktop to use single-click-to-open, and was immediately punished by it. Couldn't merely select files anymore without fear :) )
The Catholic Church has done well to distance itself from arguing against science as a refutation of God. It took them awhile, but they eventually learned from that Galileo kerfuffle. If something in the physical universe is proof God, it will someday be understood, thereby shaking the foundations of the belief system. They are slowly removing all links from the physical to spiritual to make for sounder system. Maybe they should use a proof assistant, ;)
Another person from West-Flanders here :-)
Edit: already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037157
Is this purely a function of sharding liability across a conglomerate of businesses? It seems like concentrating Google's ad revenue in a smaller, more efficient business unit is a nod to Berkshire Hathaway's method of business.

I can't recall this sort of thing happening in my lifetime, so it will be really interesting to see how this plays out. I also wonder how this would be treated if Google didn't have the crazy corporate structure they have now (where public shares are essentially non-equity and non-voting).

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/the-many-classe...

Edit: I am reasonably certain this is a tax and liability optimization strategy. It allows their more risky units to operate with separate liability from their cash cow.

Edit 2: I'm actually surprised the stock value hasn't tanked because most of the future potential of Google just got moved outside of the company. How much of Google's future value was based on X? I would say a non-trivial amount of the stock price is the anticipation of future profits, which are now no longer a part of the company the stock is intended to index.

Edit 3: Disregard Edit 2, I misread the release the second time through and assumed X was not part of the company :).
So much for "you need that .com".
So make a strong argument for Earth being flat, right now you have only made strong argument for why people perceive earth as flat.
Crazy they picked a name where they don't own the .com
I'm 38, and have been working as a professional programmer for 18 years, since I was 20. Here's what works for me:

- Fitness: Eat reasonably and stay in good physical condition (I box and run). I enjoy food but eating in moderation is important as you age.

- Other interests: I've worked as a professional musician since I was 18, a parallel career. After 20 years of working as a guitarist, I've recently embarked on learning upright bass. it's wonderful, and mind opening.

- Varied career: I've been very fortunate to have played a lot of different roles, doing all kinds of development, management, etc. It's easy to get stuck in a rut and not challenge yourself with new experiences, don't let this happen.

- Self awareness: I have a natural inclination to work on things I'm not good at, but have also learned over the years to play to my strengths. This is one of the great advantages of getting older.
>Supposedly, they've been written by professional algorithmic traders

And discarded by them as not profitable enough for their own use.
Mastering the Ultimate High Ground - Next Steps in the Military Uses of Space

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1649.html
I had knee surgery recently. Before I was given any medications, I met with my surgeon, we verified what he was going to do, and he marked and signed the area to be operated on with a sharpie marker.

It took less than a minute and gave me an awful lot of peace of mind that I wouldn't be a victim of a bad memory or procedural screw-up.
They are not consumer-facing, so this would not matter.
Because self-driving cars are socialist to an extreme. The real benefit of them is not to free the human of the tedious task of driving, but to take the human out of the traffic system so it can be optimized for the greater good. The same could be said about taxes: they sacrifice individual wealth for the greater good.

There will necessarily be a lot of resistance to self driving cars...people like driving! But they are quite inevitable, not necause people will "prefer" them but for totally societal economic reasons. And that is why your argument doesn't make sense to me, it's as if we will have any choice about it, when the current system is so messed up and under funded that it's obvious we won't.
.biz domains suddenly get more visible.
>Each technologist has a choice whether or not to work on these systems. The answer should always be NO.

The answer NO makes sense only when ALL technologists do it. Prisoner dilemma.

Anyway, our technological civilization started when apes learned to use stone and stick as weapons. So, no surprise that most of the technological development is driven by weapons development. After all, Cro-Magnon had bow, and Neanderthal was physically stronger and had more peaceful spirit as result ...
> Before we move to CS for all, can we at least solve the problem of Computer Literacy for all!?

This is only "CS for All" Harvey Mudd students; I don't think real computer illiteracy problem there.

> There's a huge population of people who simply cannot effectively use a computer. Can we fix that first?

If you mean to shift topic from what "CS for All" means in the title to "CS for All in the world", obviously, that inherently requires solving Computer Literacy for all. So, yes, we can solve that first, if we can solve either at all.

If you mean "CS for All" in the sense actually used in the title, then, demonstrably, no. Since the source linked from the title is the solution to "CS for All" in the sense used in the title, and yet, as you note, Computer Literacy for all (in the broader sense of "all" that you wish it solved for) is not solved.
Can someone explain the double taxation part to me?

Could a bounty system with equity have worked?
ex: https://www.bountysource.com/
Or their own facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alphabetINC
I'd assume it was a move to make failure easier. Sclerosis is the natural fate of large corporations but variation and selection is an obvious way to help with that.
Aren't Chromebooks the best selling laptop on amazon or something?
I wonder how the current push towards cubesats and nanosats changes the equation. People seem to seriously think that launching hundreds of satellites in one go, half of which will turn straight from payload to debris, is a good idea.

Another thought - maybe the future is not in satellites, but in aircrafts, like Project Loon's balloons and solar-powered high-altitude drones. Both will be much cheaper to make and launch, could easily take over most of the Earth-related responsibilities of satellites (meteo, agriculture, communications, spying) and offer much more flexibility (you can't exactly tell the satellite to hover or circle over a location for a while, and then circle over another one).
I agree with this sentiment. Finding a problem to solve is part of why I became a lawyer, and, now that I'm practicing, I am fortunate to be discovering new challenges every day.

Some of the challenges may be addressable with software (or hardware), and my past experience as an engineer has helped me conceptualize what a potential solution could look like.
Ask HN: Would people be interested in working on tiny projects with stranger(s)?
I know that github and sourceforge has lots of open source projects that needs contribution. However, sometimes I feel they have this barrier to entry for new programmers. Would people be interested in somethings that introduce new programmers to each other to work on something?
Are they really on the same playing field, though?
isn't amazon already doing the a->z thing
From the abc.xyz source code:

Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort<a href="http://www.hooli.xyz/" target="_blank" class="hidden-link">.</a>
Except it is the conglomerate that is going to trade on the market, not the individual business units. They are changing their corporate structure to be more like GE or Lockheed. All the units will still be summed together come earnings time.
I didn't read it that way. All of Google's subsidiaries are subsidiaries of Alphabet, as is Google. But divisions inside of Google (Android, Youtube, &c) remain Google.

The big news is that Larry and Sergey are stepping back into a more Warren and Charlie kind of role, and Sundar Pichai is taking over as CEO of Google.

My question is, what does "slimmed down" Google mean?
None of them are moonshots, I thought that the moonshot part is the one under the X Labs Umbrella

Dart and Chromebooks failures? Since when
This is great. I would love to see these kinds of discussions across different communities/lines-of-work!
I had hoped shouldexist, and similar attempts to collect this kind of information, would get there; but none seem to survive.
Soha Ali Khan at Johnnie Walker’s Digital Mentorship Program
Successfully explaining things gets people to shut up. I've never been able to say 'no thanks, I'm good' without there being follow up questions.
Mocko Sketchbook: Prototyping mobile apps on paper
Looks like Alphabet.com whois was updated on August 3rd through a domain holding company. Maybe they do?
All I can think of is "Hooli XYZ - The moonshot factory".

http://www.hooli.xyz/#inspiration
Is $GOOG going the Berkshire Hathaway route? Conglomerate with a lot of non-related subsidiaries?
Probably was done to be ahead of apple and amazon in the yellow pages.
Why do you think they are moving this way?

It's a twist on "adult supervision". They have put an adult in charge of making money. Meanwhile, Larry and Sergey get to keep playing around with all sorts of exotic projects that may or may not eventually make money.
They were absolutely moonshots. Reforming the entire way we do realtime communications? Reforming the entire way we do social interaction? Total moonshots, they just failed, but if they succeeded they would be billion dollar businesses.

BTW, the best result of wave is hackpad, IMHO.
What are other VR software companies doing to build enthusiasm before the devices go mainstream?
I would argue that the issue with math and perspectives isn't so much a decrease in your raw brainpower, more like your brain has become more "specialized" to the things you do very frequently. I'm sure there is a small decrease in raw processing speed, but I expect the largest change is the reduction in flexibility.

As for your reduction in memory/recall, one thing that can help is to learn more diverse information. The connectivity of a network is a function of the diversity of its inputs/outputs, and the more connected a network is, the shorter the average path to any given node (in this case a memory).
Will Google split off Android as a "separate company" under Alphabet to try to hide it from the EU's crackdown?

This is the most traditional-corporation definitely-evil move Google has ever made, whether their letter claims otherwise or not.
Looks like they're on abc.xyz.
i'd say it makes perfect sense. google search becomes google, and the rest of the company (cars, cubesat internet, balloon internet, more down-to-earth ideas) belong somewhere else.
Things like the self-driving car don't really fit the Google brand or corporate structure.
This is great. The best thing about Google was their willingness to try interesting things. But the Apple-ification of Google lead them to look like a company suffering from identity crisis, at least from the outside.

This will keep Google products unified and work together, and will give them opportunity to throw mud at the wall with Alphabet.

Also worth mentioning is that this kind of corporate restructuring is fairly common. Usually it is done by X company expanding into X Industries with X being a subsidiary of X Industries. It is just more visible because they went with a different name, reasons of which are in the post.
My own guess: it allows upcoming management/leadership to exercise more independence in the various divisions of "Google". Further, People like titles, and it's hard to share them.
I had to look at my system clock a few times to make sure today isn't the first of april.
some sort of aerogel?