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They are separating web and tech companies from its other companies. Google might be a wholly owned subsidiary but other companies like Google fiber they could probably now IPO separately to get the capital investments needed to expand without diluting the google shareholder value or loose control. Today Alphabet has some good things coming up but as they are tied to google they are unable to attract talent as they are not expecting much growth overall as these days as most employees are expecting stock options but those are not worth much if the upside is so little.
Getting stock options in a Alphabet owned subsidiary that is worth maybe less than a billion but has the upside of being worth 100 billion. We are looking at the beginning of the Umbrella corporation.
Cruises can be waaay cheaper than that. Six adults from my family recently went on a 9 day cruise that was really nice to the Bahamas, I think the whole thing was under $4000.
Medallia - Palo Alto, CA - http://engineering.medallia.com

Medallia is hiring engineers to build our microservice platform. World-class companies (Airbnb, Mercedes, Nordstrom to mention a few) use Medallia to create awesome customer experiences.

We are a fast-growing (70% per year), Sequoia-backed company that recently became a tech unicorn; our mission is no less than to transform the way the world's companies view and interact with their customers. We allow hundreds of thousands of employees to access, analyze and take action on large amounts of customer data in real time. We are still a small engineering team, only about 50 or so of us, thus everyone counts.

Dividing our codebase into independent microservices will make it easier for new engineers to get up to speed, enable much faster deployments of new code (by the engineers themselves) and make it easier and cheaper to scale with much better resiliency.

Despite the popularity of microservice architectures, and plethora of available frameworks, there are still many unsolved problems (especially around RPC performance, storage and freely moving processes around) in operating at scale in production. We not only want to solve these for ourselves, but share our findings and tools with the wider community.

We are using a blend of the best tech out there: Docker for containerization; Aurora/Mesos for data center / server management; CEPH for fully redundant storage and putting it together in a way we haven't seen anyone else do. Check out this presentation we held at a recent Docker meetup (hosted by us) for how we are going about it:

http://files.meetup.com/10524692/Relocatable%20Docker%20Cont...

Please send me a note at kristian@medallia.com if any of the above sounds interesting to you.

Kristian Eide,
Software Architect
Arguably, there are two kinds of political movements (and leaders), those that bring people together, and those that play on tribalistic instincts and divide them. One kind has much better results for humanity.

There are two kinds of political movements (and leaders), those, like narcissists, forcefully change others into themselves, remove differences between peoples, demolish language and culture, and those that remain resolute in being non-interfering of others, even while being interfered with, allowing other humans to live according to their humanity.

In Firefly - you would be part of the alliance. In Star Wars - you would be part of the empire. In the People's Republic of China, you would be part of the CCCP. In the U.S. you would be part of the Federal government. In Europe you would be part of the Troika.

And I accept that is your nature.
That entire movie is probably the most beautiful one I've ever seen.
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I'm presuming this is some kind of analytics function. Just as most sites send DOM events to GA based on every user's activity on your site, I'm guessing Microsoft wants to gather aggregated search patterns to better its usability. It's not cool that they didn't provide an explicit opt-out for this.
I generally use "Menu" alongside the burger icon to remove ambiguity, and still show 2-3 primary nav options alongside to minimise loss for those who don't use it.
That reminds me of one of the short fiction works that was posted to Kuro5hin.org back before the site fell apart -- the story was called T.E.U. (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/3/19455/41933), and was based on a wealthy guy who traveled by having his container-house moved from place to place.
On the other hand, if what other people believe is outlined in Mein Kampf, the attitude that you should work together with those people in spite of your differing ideals is quite wrong. We know this because of what happened in the Holocaust. Today, we have the luxury to judge this tree by its fruits. Even if someone else believes that the Holocaust was justice, there has to be some line of appeasement we won't cross, where we say "no, this really is evil" or we become complicit in worse things than just war, and will only be able to recognize that in retrospect.

This becomes concrete when we are talking about a state which formally supported the Nazis.
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Man, what a weird question. I'm 61; been programming since 1968 (Ferranti Atlas -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_%28computer%29 -- the first machine with a whole bunch of stuff). What have I learned?:

* Software isn't eating the world. Software is the world.
* Software has very little to do with the next 'disrupting X'. That is just VC twaddle trying to pull one over on the rest of us. Do not mistake floozy business models for solid value add.

If you want to 'hack life' then solve really hard problems (or play really hard music - your choice). Do not fixate on 20 year olds and their next big thing. Finding and solving big problems will juice your Amygdala, and said juicing will ensure a happy life hack above and beyond 'the average Joe'. Though quite why that is such an important goal is beyond me (do you really want to be the "last man standing"?).
> If we worried about spoilers for a 27-year old movie, this article wouldn't exist.

So you assume folks who are in their teenage years have to forget about seeing older movies without any spoiler? Is that your conclusion ?

Instead of you know, putting a spoiler tag, which takes 5 seconds when you write an article.
While they analyzed Tweets from Los Angeles, they seem to have contributed nothing to the question of whether or not Disneyland is, in fact, the "happiest place on Earth".
PentesterLab is an easy and great way to learn penetration testing
A for Apple! hmm does that mean they are going to acquire Apple ? :)
It's debated whether the US has made money off of the purchase of Alaska from Russia or not[0].

The question of whether the US has made a return is not exactly the same as whether Russia profited off of the transaction (the costs to the US of governing the property may not be representative of what Russia would have paid), but they are related.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
This is what I use it for. When I do mobile bootstrap I'll always have something else in navs besides the hamburger, and treat it as overflow.

A hamburger on its own is, like the article says, dead weight with no meaning. If its on a bar with a bunch of other nav options and you feel like the one you want is missing you often use it.

If I ever get around to it I'll hack up the bootstrap code and make it tab based (icon + text underneath) but that seems like a PITA with how bootstrap does its layouts in nav bars from my paltry experience.
Yea, I don't downvote comments unless they are straight-up counterproductive to conversation. The original comment is very useful.
> I might not have read it correctly, but I didn't spot the point where they said their J-1 was not approved - just that it was in progress (and from what I hear, months-long approval processes seem pretty common in the States).

A J-1 is initiated from a host institution, similar to how a company needs to file a Labour Condition Application (LCA) before they can hire a H1B/E3 etc.

That provides you with the invitation, and you take that and all supporting evidence to a US embassy in your country of citizenship and they assess on the spot whether to approve or deny the visa.

They either couldn't get sponsorship from a host institution, or the consulate officer rejected the application because of some other criteria.

There's not really a "months-long" approval process.
ARC: A compact, high-field, fusion nuclear science facility and demonstration power plant with demountable magnets

Can it be miniaturized to power a suit?
The bombing of Cambodia cannot possibly justify anything Pol Pot did to his own population.
Yes. They had several years as teens to have watched the movie if they so choose. They decided not to, maybe because they hadn't heard of the movie (and, really, would have probably heard of the movie based on the interests before seeing the spoiler), maybe because it didn't interest them (in which case, whatever, the spoiler won't ruin anything). Too bad for them. They had their chance, they didn't take it. It makes no sense for everyone else to suffer for this absolutely ridiculous hypothetical. And it is ridiculous. It won't happen, and if it does, then big fucking whoop. It's a spoiler. It's not the end of the world. You're making this seem like a far bigger deal than it actually is.

Plus, many platforms don't have spoiler tags by default, so have fun putting these magical spoiler tags in.

Edit: And you know what? If you were a 15-year old teen with an interest in Miyazaki's movies, or war movies, or whatever interests you to want to watch said movie, and you've just been let onto the internet, what are you going to look for first? The movie that you so desperately want to see, or an article about it that could potentially spoil it? Like seriously, that's how ridiculous your hypothetical is right now. The chance of it happening is so absurdly low.
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Thanks for this -- defining a local copy of the class is brilliant!
What're your opinions on algorithmic swing trading based on fundamental analysis / trends / other market measures?
OK. Cool, I assume you trade either VIX put spreads or calendar spreads, or short VXX or long XIV on a VIX spike? If so, I do this as well. :)
is 2000 protesters a split?

is clickbait?
http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/ is my favorite. The implementations of the algorithms are really nice (quite a feat, considering the lang is Java :-p) and each section builds on top of a previous one, when needed (e.g. many algorithms require a Symbol Table, which is built in one of the chapters of the first volume). The resulting implementations are incredible terse but at the same time clean and easy to understand!

Cormen's book is a bit more thedious to read and I don't know it that well but I think is a little bit more rigorous with math. Sedgewick's book doesn't mention asymptotic limits or BigO notation, rather talks about the run time / memory requirements in more informal terms, like "run time being proportional to the square of the number of input items", etc. But, there's another book from Sedgewick (and Flajolet!) if you want to go deeper into analysis: (1).

Skienna's book is great to have a wider outline on all sorts of algorithms, including some less widely known and (I think) not covered in either of Sedgewick's or Cormen's book. It is, if I'm allowed the pun, more of a breadth first than a depth first approach to the subject.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Analysis-Algorithms-2nd/d...
For those confused, this is referring to the UK radio series, not the recent-ish movie.
> Actually, I think that this may not have even constituted unlawful presence; since the author was not yet technically in the country until exiting the airport, she was essentially just turned away at the border.

Yup, it's officially referred to as "Denied Entry". You never enter the country, officially.

> (with a brief detention for practical reasons)

If there was a return flight 4 hours later, they would have been put on that. The fact that the timing didn't line up was unfortunate, but as you say, it's practical.
I think it's more an acknowledgment that instinctual forces are more powerful than ideals could ever hope to be. That when push comes to shove, people will violently protect those closest to them and that its fantasy to pretend otherwise.
+1 on Sedgewick. Also added some "light reviews" on another comment.
This doesn't get into the part of anti-lag that I find most interesting - namely preventing lag while preventing cheating via exploiting anti-lag.
yeah, the person mentioned in the article trades a $200K pot with 3 others.
I don't know if either have the funding, but Github or Atlassian would be better stewards of sourceforge, at least in terms of migrating the whole thing into the fold of Github or Bitbucket.

As it stands, I get a little sad when I see a project still on or using SF.
Sure, but would it have become that if it had been segregated in 'A' after acquisition? Would it have "graduated" into Google proper at some point?
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Please read the HN guidelines, which say:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

It often takes threads off-topic as well, as here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is not an authoritative or trustworthy measure in the least, but from running Little Snitch (and denying most things), I'd say OS X tries to contact maybe a quarter of those domains, maybe half as many. And that's not just on boot.
Its actually very wise move. Now they can ipo out other businesses to get capital investments for something like Google Fiber without diluting the control they have over Google.
This is an extremely good move the more I think about it. They will retain control of the main company but sell shares or give stock options to get talent and capital.
"I've heard that we still don't know how they produced the dome, another nonreinforced wunder construction that's survived for millenia."

We didn't, but we do now. It has recently been fully understood to have been volcanic ash mixed into the concrete that makes it so strong and stable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete

http://www.romanconcrete.com/docs/spillway/spillway.htm
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"The politicians howling to defund Planned Parenthood care nothing about the truth here.."

This sounds like "propaganda" too. I mean "howling" and "care nothing".

I think that there is at least a pretty legitimate concern on both sides.
This post ignores the massive social movements away from such highly tribalistic human associations. It ignores how technology, state, and economic structures have utterly dictated family structures since the neolithic. It does not actually establish some causal link between 'human nature' and what current familial affiliations people have. It is a statement of 'common sense' dressed up as an unassailable assertion about 'human nature'. How dare anyone question 'human nature'?

Furthermore, the idea that any particular inborn kin affinity implies any particular social structure, falls flat on its face on purely logical grounds: If it is human nature to maximize the utility of one's parents and one's children over other relatives and other human beings, it is still possible that the best way to do so is to create a more egalitarian, free associating society based on large scale cooperation between human beings and compassion for non-kinsmen. The assertion relies on unspoken intuitions which are shaped by the institutions and cultural powers that raise us. Convenient for someone trying to justify their world view, pitiable for anyone trying to understand 'human nature'.

Furthermore: We are all related and the time horizon of this kin favoring behavior has not been established. It is not clear why it is inborn 'human nature' to care for your immediate relatives and not more distant relatives. It is conveniently left implicit as that which makes most sense for the capitalist nuclear family, and maybe a generation or two down. If you care about your offspring into the indefinite future, and if you care about your relatives going back indefinitely, you care about all human beings.

What I truly believe 'human nature' to be, if such a thing could be well defined is our ability to apprehend what lot we have in the common good, what our place in the way of things is. Not just in our communities, but in our species and on our planet.

It's certainly not an excuse to grumble about taxes.
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The problem is that in practice the alternative to nationalism isn't universal humanism. It's pernicious individualism or strong group identification along other dimensions. Many Netizens, for example, feel closer to the educated elite in other countries than they do to working class people a couple of neighborhoods away. I don't think that's actually a good thing if you're trying to create an egalitarian cohesive society.
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I still can't fathom how the search results on Google.com ought to be controlled by the laws of every country that Google operates in. (Surely, some of those laws contradict each other.)

Why should France be allowed to control what Google (an American company) does outside of France? It seems fair that the French government should get to control Google.fr. But if they don't like what's on Google.com, then they should simply block the domain, like China does with its Great Firewall or the UK does with adult websites. It's nearly tantamount to censorship, anyway.

Firstly, please excuse my lack of legal knowledge. It seems to me that Google is analogous like a US citizen operating in France, where it is subject to the laws of the US and France. Why, however, should its operations in France be subject to the laws of every other country Google operates in, and vice versa?
Because thermodynamics at the time espoused normally distributed error as dictated by Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics; Born used a normalized wave function to solve Schroedinger's equation.

Thermodynamics and Linear Algebra have gotten more advanced, since then.
Classlessness in OO systems was around a long time before JS was even conceived of.

Oh I know that. It's just that being the most popular programing language in the world helps setting trends, even when you don't invent them.
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I find it unfortunate that lack of classes is seen as some chief defect of JS. It's actually one of the things I like about it.

Messed up scoping rules, and bizarre type coercions, yes, ugly. But the object system I think is nice.
> Plus, many platforms don't have spoiler tags by default, so have fun putting these magical spoiler tags in.

you dont need spoiler tags, you simply write down in words:"careful spoilers" in case you can't even be bothered finding a CMS that does spoilers.

> what are you going to look for first?

What if you are on HN, you stumble on this article you had no idea of, and did not know about Ghibli movies - and poof, you are spoiled without warning. That's how ridiculous your point is. The possibility is very real. If you don't see it, no point discussing it further.
> spreads misery every place else

this is actually why bean counters exist!
That's probably because you live in a relatively wealthy country that would not be harmed so much by economic sanctions. One way to look at it is that that the economic sanctions against Iraq killed two or three orders of magnitude more civilians than the bombing campaigns of 1991 and 2003 put together. Another way to look at it is that if you were starving to death because of economic sanctions, you would probably change your preference very quickly.

In any case, I wasn't proposing to spend twelve years bombing Iraq instead of the economic sanctions. I was proposing that after Saddam had been kicked out of Kuwait, that should have been the end of the matter.
I must admit that I've researched this on-and-off for years. Surprisingly, it's reasonably expensive (ie. not inexpensive). That said, the reviews I've read have been nearly universally positive: as the article notes, the crews love interesting company (they spend months on the boat painting from stem-to-stern and you're naturally inclined to discuss the outside world and not-painting-bulkheads).

Boredom: if you step onto a container ship as a guest without at least a month of "work" to do, you're to blame. I admit, I'm uncertain of bandwidth and such; but there is some. Download sources before boarding! And I ain't much of a writer, but I might take a whack at writing the Great American [short story] during the journey so that I wasn't bored. Point is: riding a largely automated ship for 2-14 days without a plan is nearly the definition of boredom; plan against boredom!

Having taught myself Ruby on Rails while cruising in Alaska 8 years ago, learning without the internet can be pretty blissful. Just make sure you download the sources first! [Yes, Ruby doesn't need that. I'm looking to learn Rust...]

EDIT: I have no affiliate relationship, but this (http://www.freightercruises.com/) seems pretty solid (e.g. http://www.freightercruises.com/seaworthy_news_1310.php).
it's not an easter egg, just click the 'more' link
Not necessarily; both windows and linux allow firewall rules based on user.
I've already said it, then too fucking bad. Go cry to your mommy. It's a spoiler, so incredibly far from the end of the world. It's like the biggest first world problem there can be. Chances are, it's not even that dramatic (aside from Snape Kills Dumbledore or some other ridiculously huge plot point but those are few and far between) to even remember it when you watch the thing.

You are making a big deal about something that is neither a big deal, nor likely to happen.

I'm not even comment on the fact that this, of all places, is going to be the last place your mind suddenly opens up to the magic that is Ghibli. If you were inclined to enjoy those movies, you would have found them through friends, or anime discussion boards, or some other place, not by looking at some article about war films.
> For a desktop OS, try OpenBSD, Slackware Linux, Debian, or Arch Linux,

> or if those are too obtuse (they can be difficult for the uninitiated to get into) try Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

For the uninitiated I'd cut to the chase and go straight to Linux Mint, there's just less to contend with.

Some time after initiation, depending on interests and needs, maybe work your way back up the stream to Ubuntu or Debian, or portage over to OpenBSD.
More and more I think I'm going to hold off on updating from Windows 7 - possibly except for one system, since I may fiddle with some Windows Phone development and I'm pretty sure I'll need 8+ for that.

Though I may still jump through the hoops to do upgrades on a couple more laptops just to get Windows 10 Pro licenses activated on them - fortunately one of them needs a wipe and reinstall anyway since it was factory restored with Win7Pro 32-bit instead of 64, and the other will need a larger SSD within the next year.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some updates to add better privacy controls - particularly for environments where privacy may be legally mandated. Not every small medical practice is going to be in a position to get Enterprise with possibly better handling of such things, nor will every small law office concerned about someone subpoenaing all of their search terms from Microsoft while they're preparing for a case.
I just paid $250 dollars for a 4 letter domain today (igzi.com) after that post, and now that rule is broken? Today stinks.
From the article:

> A nationwide Kyodo News poll last October found that 60% of respondents opposed an immediate return to nuclear energy, while 31% were in favour.