skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And A is for Anti-Trust avoidance
http://hooli.xyz is a company on the HBO show "Silicon Valley" - modeled after, and parodying Google.
> Arguably, from that point of view, it's a part of you whether or not you want to be a part of it. Every human life suffers, and brings suffering to others, that can't be avoided. We're limited by hate, fear, greed, hunger, mortal terror, the need to survive and see our children survive.

I have no idea what message you're trying to convey here. No, none of those qualities (other than survival) are innate, and if you believe they are, you'll do less to stop them. We can be better.
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I wonder if part of this is to make it easier to kill the side businesses if they fail, since these ventures are inherently very risky, and require people with very different skills than normal at Google. Say 1000 people are working on Calico, but it ultimately fails, and there isn't a natural spot for them in Google anymore. If they were all Google employees, this turns into "massive layoffs at Google." Now it's just "Alphabet folds Calico business", which sounds less bad (and possibly even makes layoffs easier? Don't know, IANAL).
Of course with the widestream acceptance of GF there are now many straight up substitutes/replacements so that benefit will likely disappear.

It's a double-edged sword. Yes, lots of grocers and chefs now provide gluten-free substitutes. And some of those options are quite good. But, with the wide-spread fad, I have to very careful when ordering that the wait staff knows I have an actual allergy and not just a preference.
Do be cautious that you go both ways, as the beach is usually angled, and running at just the one angle supposedly isn't good for you (crowned roads being the other thing to watch for). I heard this "tip" years ago, so who knows what the source was or if it's even valid.

My anecdotal data says that if you don't live near a beach, dial back a bit while on vacation at a beach. I can't say why, but too much leaves me with connective tissue soreness. Probably just not being used to it, because I otherwise typically run a lot.
This is why, last time I checked, Gwern's site explicitly says that they aren't interested in selling what you want to buy.
Wrong. You cannot have your profits and let someone reallocate them for you too.

You would be right if you owned a controlling interest, but you don't. Because you don't, all the profits of the money-making businesses go where Larry and Sergey want them to go. That's not (necessarily) going to be your pockets. If you owned a controlling interest, you could throw them out if you're unhappy with their performance as capital allocators, but you don't and you can't. So those profits are worth little or nothing to you, both now and in the future, because you aren't entitled to receive them.
I wonder how much it will be worth when all of its glaciers melt.
will people who post WSJ links please indicate that they are subscriber-only?
Any progress on getting OSS drivers for the PowerVR prodcut family? Security demands I keep an updated system, but that's not really practical with closed-source drivers.
Apple is very very good at telling everybody else what not to do, then going and doing it themselves.
Google's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android. By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine.
Not directly related but

Realm (https://realm.io/) was started by two former Danish Nokia developers working out of Denmark. I met Bjarne back in 11 or 10 at a Danish hackernews meetup and already back then were they talking about it and how Nokia had started to close down places like Denmark.

Just goes to show how there are always great startups with great insights hiding inside large organisations. And that the problems or discoveries they make inside those organisations can be extremely valuable.

http://www.businessinsider.com/realm-started-by-former-nokia...
I'd hate seeing it too if this was the result of 1-2 bad comments or a mistake but a quick look through this poster's history shows their "contribution" is hardly better than spam.

Things like:

> No. Way. Everything big business does is for the greater good of man. Not for their own bottom line.
Who are you vegetables? [0]

> Why don't you just... Exercise? [1]

> No shit. [2]

> Thanks for that captain obvious [3]

> Hope you go away forever chairman Pao. [4]

> Have you heard women talk? [5]

And many more you can read for yourself. Being shadow banned sucks, no doubt, but this poster is obviously not contributing anything of worth to this site. It was just under a year ago that they appear to have been shadow banned for the last comment and nothing of any real value has been submitted since. So while I'd normally hate seeing this I can't help but think this is exactly what the system was put in place to do. The poster is free to create a new account and try to follow the rules and and realize this isn't reddit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10031953

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10031725

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954209

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9915459

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866755

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874811
You probably already know this, but as a heads-up to others browsing that site, quoted prices for cruise ships are per-person based on double occupancy, so you'll only get a rate as low as $50/day/person if you're traveling as a pair sharing a room. If you're traveling single, you pay anywhere from a 50-100% supplement. Picking a few of the ones from that site at random, it looks like most are charging the full double price if you want to book a room as a single, so ~$80-100/day. Add in the ~$10-15/day quasi-mandatory gratuities and you end up not saving much vs. the $120/day container ship, though certainly for a much different kind of trip.
Is it me or is alphabet.com timing out? Can't wait to see what they put up there. :D
> it's not just raw material floating around

Not with that attitude it ain't. :)

Any metallic or plastic bits can likely be melted down and turned into new parts. And even totally-unusable stuff - like perhaps that glove - can always be ground up and used as propellant in some sort of crude thruster (perhaps by ionizing the resulting bits of junk and pumping it out an ion engine, or perhaps by vaporizing it into various pressurized gases).

And there are plenty of abandoned satellites up there, too. If a satellite breaks down (often because of the sheer quantity of space junk pelting it every waking moment, by the way), it's not really feasible to go and repair it, so the usual approach is to wait for its orbit to eventually decay (which isn't entirely feasible in higher orbits) while possibly launching a replacement. There are likely whole satellites or significant fragments thereof ready for repurposing.

This isn't to mention the presence of things like launch stages sitting in orbit (at least one Saturn V launch stage, for example, is in a near-Earth heliocentric orbit and is tracked as if it were a near-Earth asteroid; Apollo 10's lunar ascent module is also - as far as we know - intact and in a heliocentric orbit, though its location has been unknown since 1969). That's a lot of stuff that's probably recyclable.

> it would be akin to building a car by walking a few thousand miles from your starting point and then trying to catch bullets that have been fired from a gun

IIRC, thousands (I forget the exact figure, and I'm too lazy to look it up at the moment) of grapefruit-sized-or-larger chunks of space junk are actively tracked on radar by the likes of NASA and USAF (or maybe NORAD; I forgot exactly who manages the data) in order to be able to warn the ISS and satellite operators of possible collisions. The ISS also gets pelted by golf-ball-sized-or-smaller bits of debris regularly enough that all the modules are built with whipple armor designed to withstand such constant pelting.

It's really closer to walking a few thousand miles in a world where all the air molecules are replaced by bullets. The tiny bits can likely be caught pretty easily by setting out a large, flat ablative shield to catch them with. The bigger bits are tracked on radar and can therefore be sought after specifically by a recovery craft.
S is for shark. J is for jumping.
It looked OK on my 4K screen when I installed it. I however fairly quickly went back to 8.1. It's soooo slow, lagging mouse pointer slow. There are lots of 'proportion' issues as well that aren't there with 8.1 (task bar too small, title bars too large), I couldn't get the Display settings to anything close to comfortable.

It also looks a mess, mainly the random font sizes, but also the fact that they've tried to modernise everything, like menus, etc. (that they clearly didn't get around to with W8), but there's still aspects that have been forgotten and are in the W7 style. So there's W7+W8+W10 all in one. I didn't mind so much with W8 because 'modern' was 'over there', and W7 with some flat tweaks is 'over here'. But now it's all thrown together. Not pretty.

Then when it would only randomly 'see' certain domains on my work VPN, and just be blind to others, I'd had enough... and bailed. I've never bailed on an OS before, always given it a chance to settle in. W10 just doesn't feel finished.
There was a time when nationalism was a much more powerful force in society. 100 years ago, millions of young men marched out to be slaughtered in the name of king and country.

Now, in many circles, people have adopted a guilt ridden opposite of nationalism. People genuinely believe that helping a countryman is an ethical dilemma so long as there is someone worse off.
In a substantial app like Facebook or Spotify, the hamburger menu is still there, in addition to the thumb-able tabs. Large applications have a significant navigation structure, and you can't reduce them to 3 or 4 tabs. While the OP's arguments are good, is there a valid alternative?
Coke's and Pepsi's marketing has actually responded to that trend - rather than try to win non-drinkers, they try to get current drinkers to buy more.

Obviously, the second part of that strategy is to create a range of products to cater to the kids like us not drinking their syrup.
Spirited away is probably one of the most creative, beautiful films I've ever seen. Part of what makes it so rewarding are the fantastic landscapes it paints and the amazing adventure it portrays, but there's also an entire other level of symbolism in it that you don't have to know to thoroughly enjoy it.

http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/Vol8No2/boydShinto.htm
Google seriously didn't register abc.wtf? WTF.
There was speculation on the last Tesla call that they're going to do another equity round (to which Elon said he couldn't comment). Would be interesting if this was part of the strategy, as Tesla is extremely capital intensive at the moment with the gigafactory and other manufacturing spend. Google almost did acquire Tesla before it's successful Hail Mary in 2013, so the idea isn't without merit.
No, because the AH session uses a separate order book, it has much less liquidity. You can see one 1000-share lot move the stock $5. During the normal session, it would've moved it under $1, possibly just pennies.

It's possible much of this move was short sellers who chose to cover AH today. It's also possible that there's a lot of smart money buying AH and we'll see it grind higher tomorrow.
Fully agree. Not to mention the fantastic artwork.
(The nice thing about this metadata hack, if it worked, is that you could deploy variants of it without having to rewrite or modify your existing RNNs, necessarily. For example, you could do this easily with 'char-rnn' by simply using 'paste' or 'sed' to prefix some metadata to each line of the input file, without any changes to 'char-rnn' itself, since it already reads in files and has a '-primetext' option in generating samples. I've been meaning to try this out.)
I fail to see this as anything but some preemptive move against European Union findings/rulings.
The hamburger menu's entire value is that it's a simple default that you can generalize even programmatically across all websites. It's why the frameworks mentioned in the article can implement it for you. It's a place to start.

But it requires some deliberate thought, effort, and app-specific solutions to replace it with something better, and that planning makes you answer all sorts of hard questions you might've not ever had to answer about your website/product, like "how are my users actually using this?"

I'd wager that everyone agrees that their own site's hamburger menu is a sore spot, suboptimal.

But the next rung up is a taller order than these types of articles admit.

I think a good follow-up blog post would be "Design patterns for escaping the hamburger menu" that showcases a variety of real-world approaches.
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How about menu on front page only and driving visitors around with breadcrumbs?
Looks like a simple typo. The line in question:

https://github.com/matthewbauer/gametime-player/blob/5f982df...
This reminds me of the -- Chigago? -- city app where citizens could report the locations of potholes on the roads in Chicago and the city would send repair crews time permitting...

What happened? The upscale trendy neighborhoods were all pothole free and the lower economic class neighborhoods got bumpier.

Making jumps from foursquare and twitter to "valuable information about land use and utilization of services in urban areas" seems like a recipe for disaster.
Or, Berkshire Hathaway
Subsidized loans are subsidies, in the form of 0% interest when you're in school and very low interest rates after. Those both cost the government a lot of money that the borrower would otherwise pay.
>Canadian here.
...
>Too bad immigration is so difficult.

What about TN1 ?
I got the same impression from a cursory read. Profiling in the interpreter has its downsides, chief among them is lack of inlining causing profiles sometimes to be less useful. Tiered compilation can help here, but requires more careful code cache management.
This is exactly what I rant to people. Working IT support at a library where I sometimes help out patrons on public computers, it boggles my mind that many people still don't know how to do simple things like double-click or copy text.

We've changed our policy where we don't provide instructional services anymore, only tech support, because it would take up so much of our time trying to teach basic concepts.
A - AirBnb
U - Uber
P - Pinterest or Palantir (they need to work hard)
May be they should create a sub companies for the collisions.

Btw, i was thinking Amazon A2Z was doing this virtually.
At the Guggenheim, writers and artists cross-pollinate
I would argue that certain personality types are more likely to "tweet" and "check in" and therefore cannot be statistically representative of the general population. So to base your research on such a dataset could be skewing the result quite significantly.
> It's almost always true that holding real estate is better in the long view than selling it.

Actually, the usual belief held by economists is the opposite: that it's almost never true that holding real estate is better in the long view than selling it and investing it, since the value of land as a fraction of industrialized economies has been constantly falling and conversely, labor/capital rising. (There's also the diversification and uncompensated risk issue.)
> I'm pretty sure it's better for 100,000 Africans to die than for my sister to die. That's not warped judgment.

I don't see warped judgment but it's something we see frequently these days: An attempt to take down liberalism, with its embrace of reason and compassion, by aggressively making illiberal statements - as if to challenge the very ideas. The crazier and more illiberal the better; it almost becomes a contest to see who can say the craziest thing, which also serves as a proof of ideological purity common in such movements. You can see it in the statements of GOP candidates (Trump is on the same continuum they've been on for a long time) and on Fox. The only solution is to letting these hateful ideas dominate our country is to start calling people on it.
Hi wilshiredetroit, it's currently built in Python with Flask, custom front-end :)
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> If the answer is higher that $15bn, and I think it might be

Why's that?
A system that's as good (no, better!) at teaching as an individual teacher, at worldwide scale. (Not sure if it's doable.)
Ah I was confused when I saw bull-fighting :). Is the condition on Patients Like Me? I think there's definitely room for supporting communities like this. How's it going so far?
Also, most people can't trade after hours. So this price is artificial, in the sense that a lot of holders of Google stock wouldn't be able to sell at this 6% increased price.
not.
not faster, especially in big group hangouts.

Not morte beautiful, just more green.

and accidental hangout calls or video sessions are still waaaaay to easy to trigger.
I took a look thanks. Pricing seems good, however we have a very international audience. We need to get timezones for geocodes (preferably Google Place IDs) from all over Asia and the Middle East.

How good is your global timezone data? Is it possible to map Google Places (from their places autocomplete form) to a timezone?
If I were you, I'd show off the gem that is your pricing system on the front page. There are a lot of PR firms; show right away what makes yours different.

Couch it in friendly language, like: "We'd love to help you X! For $400 a month, we'll Y to help you get there--or check out our other pricing plans [here]."

When people see "Sign up for free!" on a web site, they're used to having it mean, "Give us your email and we'll send you a ton of ads for free until you hit unsubscribe!" So, not a great tactic. Being up-front with your deal in that space instead will make you seem a lot more legitimate.

I'm a pretty good writer. If you don't mind, I'd like to give a little free nitpicking--er, editing advice about your front page.

>"Publicize is a next-generation PR company.

>"We help leading technology startups grow faster."

"Next-generation" is a pretty meaningless phrase. It may have been meaningful at one point and I can see where you're getting it, but it's become an overused buzzword. Avoid. Plus, you're using two sentences to say not very much. It's just clutter.

How about: "Publicize is a PR company tailored to the needs of lean, fast-growing technology startups. Here are some of the services we offer:" and then list your services so it doesn't seem like they're just randomly stuck there.

>"I had a great time working with publicize"

Did you mean to capitalize "Publicize"? From what I can see, it's not one of those always-lowercase names. Be careful about how you represent the writing on your web site, especially if you're offering a service that manages press releases! Capitalizing your company name is like fixing a spelling error; it doesn't invalidate the quote as long as you're not intentionally trying to warp what he said.

Greg Laughlin's review sounds genuine and earnest, but it has a problem: its sentence structure doesn't quite flow. I suggest basically keeping it how it is to preserve the quote, but maybe make Alan Grant's review the one that shows by default instead. It has a more professional feel, better punctuation, and better flow.

Just suggestions! It looks like you've gotten a lot of good feedback already on this, but a little bit of polish on the writing on your site would really make it shine. When you're a PR firm, you have to really make sure your own marketing is stellar. If you can't market yourself really well, customers will assume you won't do any better for them.
Well this is debatable. These anomalies figure into the so-called nodal gap in the antiferromagnetic, not the superconducting phase, of certain high temperature superconductors. There is hope that this might spread light on the nature of superconductivity.
Definitely agree. Fantastic film.
You can change the order (and availability of) Spotlight results in the System Prefs http://imgur.com/iElMwe7
Watched her on TWIST Friday and Jason Calacanis (who is an investor in her company) heaped praise on her for being an elite manager. Same guy who rips entrepreneurs he invests in waiting until the last minute to ask him for help when they get in trouble. According to news accounts she reached out to him 24 hours later ;<(
Sedgewick and Kleinberg are both solid introductory books that are well-suited for someone with little CS knowledge. The Algorithm Design Manual is a great book, but seems to focus more on giving a tour of different problem types and their associated algorithms than developing a deeper understanding of the theory behind it all. Cormen's book is fantastic and very thorough, but may be a bit harder to soak in for a beginner. Finally, while TAOCP could probably be considered the most revered texts on CS, they are not well-suited for a beginner trying to get their feet wet.

All in all, I'd say Sedgewick is the best of these options.
Glad to see innovation in action. This is the kind of stuff that makes the web worse - domain squatting.
> Despite the lack of communication from leadership ...

Despite the lack of leadership ...

FTFY.
Checkr (YC S14) is hiring Full Stack Hackers to build the future of online trust
If you watch a video on youtube today it's actually hosted on googlevideo.com or something (i know because uBlock). I assume they threw the youtube backend away when they bought it :) So in that sense google video is still alive, just a different name.
Not if they allow sub-ventures to be financed semi-independently.
No, not if you view it from the perspective of statistics. The chances of you dying in a traffic accident are still much higher. In fact, it seems like you're 20,000 times more likely to die from this than in an earthquake living in California [1]. And you can always increase your chances of survival by living on bedrock, or not directly on a fault line, or living in a newer building (skyscrapers are actually safer than a 1-story house due to higher requirements in safety).

[1] http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ears5/handouts/Prob_dying6_25_99.h...
Not many, but the effort is parallelizable. If you find a security problem and report it in public, others can verify it, and still others can benefit from the fix even if they never would have bothered to look for themselves.
If their intent is to continue to be a non-traditional company then it makes sense to NOT stick to a predictable/conventional .COM domain. Specific to their chosen domain name, while I'm not crazy about this .XYZ domain extension, I give google...er...I mean, Alphabet awesomely big props for choosing a very different domain extension. Even though one might consider these guys Da Man, I feel choosing an alternative domain extension is a mild manner of "sticking it to Da Man". Since so many decent combos for a .COM are taken, its like having all new real estate created from next-to-nothing. I for one greatly favor having an internet with myriad and varied domain extensions. Kudos to Alphabet/Google for at least this seemingly small gesture!!
Grammatical error alert!

Creator’s can seek funding

^^ should not be a possessive, should be "Creators"
maybe they’re banking on global warming to turn it into a vacation hotspot, or a continent-sized refugee camp

c'mon you were thinking it too
Only if it is invested offshore. If it comes back to the US, it will be taxed. Same situation as before.
Cool stuff -- author doesn't mention that Roman cement had a usability life of >2000 years, while Portland cement starts to degrade after 50 years (for rough harbor usages).

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-06-14/ancient-roma...
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