skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure Search and Maps will still be operating under the Google organization. They're just spinning off their more "wacky" projects that aren't directly related to Internet technology.
Great list. A few questions:

* How could this be used to test 'corrupt' characters? Isn't the process of savign the file itself as UTF-8 un-corrupt...the file?

* Is there some recommended way to group these into "strings that should pass validation" versus "strings that should fail"... or is that too application-specific?
How LinkedIn got us over $12k/mo in new revenue
If someone's willing to pay, sure! But more realistically, a ML researcher doesn't want to know the differences between Haswell-E and Skylake, or which DIMMs are rated at which speed, or what's the optimal Linux driver situation, still less to know how to fix any of the myriad things that can go wrong. When Caffe starts screwing up, it's really nice to be able to call nVidia and make your overheating Titan their problem.
Maybe the only Google "failure" to have people protest its closure: http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-arts/2011/10/occupy-google-read...
Re: edit 2: the stock holds all the stuff it held yesterday, right? The stock is now for alphabet.
Google Video was merged into Youtube

Orkut was wildly successful in Brazil and India, until they stopped building it for Buzz and Plus

Reader was hugely successful, which is why the outcry on its closing

Chromebooks are doing great, atleast on Amazon, the world's biggest retailer.

Dart pivoted into a compile-to-JS language, but is still alive

Motorola streamlined it's product lineup under Google and is doing fairly okay for Lenovo

Calling above items as failure is inaccurate. None of them were moonshots btw.
Google stock is converted to Alphabet stock. X moves from Google to Alphabet. No change in future value here.
I don't know if there's a list or not, but many such sites have appeared here on HN over the years. Search through the history here and you should find quite a few. Not sure if they're all still active or not, but it's something that seems to get launched quite frequently.
This works well when considering people in your own field, you know what it took for you to get there and you can assume they've had similar experiences.

However when you are considering the general public it is best to presume stupidity and design with that in mind.
Wow, they are doing letters? Really? Letters? Hey is Eric Schmidt still in the building somewhere? Ask him how well Planets worked out for Sun Microsystems.

Interesting strategy, hard to second guess from the outside of course. Sun's motivation was to figure out whether the other parts of the company could stand on their own[1], it also makes it less fiscally complicated to discharge an entire group into the void. Think HP selling off the Agilent half of itself.

Generally though this sort of move is a way of containing and then "fixing" cost problems. Divestiture is so much easier once you've created the framework of a whole organization around each chunk. It can also be weirdly inefficient, at Sun each of the "planets" paid in a sum of money to IT (Bill Raduchel's organization) for "Corporate IT support" except that Corporate IT didn't work for them, they were just the only vendor you could use to get your IT services, so what you ended up with was really crappy IT work that you couldn't shop around for. It was maddening. But the 'collection of companies' design pattern requires either that you have your "service providers" that everyone uses (HR, IT, Legal) which gives little incentive for quality service, or everyone gets their own version which means a lot of excess overhead and duplicated work.

I could think of at least two other ways Google could have re-organized without bringing that pain upon them, and as Eric lived through it at Sun as well I'm sure he has an opinion.

Oh, and having one of the sub-companies get the world's #3 brand? I wonder how that works out.

[1] Answer "No" for SunSoft, "Yes" for Sun Hardware, "No" for Sun Labs.
Most certainly not the only reason why and possibly not even the most important, but the EU has started to load up on the anti monopoly against Google recently, with talks about breaking it up in Europe (similar to the Microsoft case in the US some years ago, although it didn't go through and in this case it would only split in EU).

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/27/european-p...

> The European parliament has approved a motion calling for tougher regulation of internet search, including suggesting breaking up Google as a solution to its dominance in Europe.

That certainly wasn't a done deal nor even agreed that's what the commission would really aim for, but the heat was mounting and Google's move cut them short just in case.
I'm right there with you. My hopes are that enough developers and designers are paying attention to why and what the hamburger menus are doing in Outlook and Xbox and some of the other Microsoft-built Windows 10 applications rather than just duplicating whatever they've been doing on iOS/Android. I've got a feeling that maybe Microsoft themselves hope that their smarter use of hamburgers might be contagious in the other direction (just as so much of Material UI copied some of the flatter styles of WP7/8) and iOS/Android developers might start using the Windows app bar-style of hamburgers. I'm worried, of course, that designers/developers won't be paying attention and will assume the consistency in iconography applies a consistency in functionality. That said, I also see Microsoft's point that the global consistency in iconography may be more important than consistent functionality in a world where users are using applications on multiple platforms (ie, so many people are using some admixture of Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android these days).
Microsoft is doing the right thing. The whole point of that string is to trigger such behaviour. It's so you can use it to test that your antivirus is working.
When Nokia decide to get back into the smartphone market they will have a straight choice whether to go Android or "something else".

If they decide to go the "something else" route then expect them to acquire 'Jolla'. As great as 'Jolla' is that is sadly the best exit strategy they can hope for at this point in the smartphone markets lifecycle.
Pixar Animation Studio's Universal Scene Description to Be Open-Sourced
A very good point. Didn't look like Sundar Pichai was going to oust Larry Page as CEO anytime soon. This gives everyone the ability to continue their upward mobility (and responsibility), with increased independence from aligned (but separate) businesses within Goog--er, Alphabet.

IOW, Nest reports to Alphabet, and so does Google. Both are aligned, but separate.
Its probably simpler to think of it this way:

* What was called "Google" will now be called "Alphabet", with Larry and Sergey as CEO and President.

* Much of the core business of the old Google will be operated in a division/subsidiary of the new Alphabet called "Google", of which Sundar Pichai will be CEO.

* The rest of the old Google's business will be in other units of Alphabet.
"C is for cookie, that's good enough for me."
Makes sense. Hopefully this can stabilise the Google brand as something more reliable (fewer products that are launched one day, taken down the next), while still allowing them to experiment. The name is genius too; it suggests that there will be other companies equal to Google's stature one day ("G is for Google, H is for ...another billion dollar company?").
I think the real question should be: Are users using the hamburger menu and do they know what it means?

Also this may not apply to apps, but on the web the hamburger is an indirect result of responsive design techniques where a navigation menu has to compress due to limiteds screen real estate in mobile.

But the funny thing is that as a designer I hate the hamburger because it does feel like a hack. Yet I can see the popularity is due to trying to have something work on both mobile and desktop.

In fact if you look at mobile only apps they tend to avoid the hamburger trap (example: Instagram) but if you look at any app with a desktop legacy (example: Facebook) you almost have to need it (unless you are willing to cut features or make a suite of apps).
Colo versus cloud is not a typicial flamebait subject, but the way he worded it may as well have been trolling.

For example, think of someone writing "Do people really believe that Vi is better than Emacs?".

Yeah, I feel that starting off one's comment by bluntly stating one's incredulity at relying on the leading player in the cloud hosting industry is a bit inflammatory. There are a dozen other ways to word the question.
And Nokia (the profitable company that remains after they sold the phone division albatross to Microsoft).
You can't really make this analogy work, because the Ottoman Empire's basic problem was how to handle succession. It's not that they went broke paying for pyramid maintenance.

This parallel will be more apt if Alphabet board members start constantly strangling each other with silken cords, and the company develops a mercenary slave class that dominates decisions over who runs what division. Time will tell!
I like when random people try to pretend that they've defined cool, who has it, and what constraints it puts on their behavior.

EDIT: hartator disingenuously changed the content of his comment to be more measured. The original comment was "I like when Google tries to pretend they're still cool".
It's still pretty weird to see someone running in New Delhi, for example. I know heat and air quality are part of it but there are days where it would be perfectly fine. I think it's just considered weird to run.
This isn't that surprising as a thing that generates value. My questions are 1) how is this legal, and 2) what kind of agreement was forged with the credit card providers to make this possible?

If we recall back a few months, analysts at Capital One were investigated and charged by the SEC related to insider trading of consumer stocks by examining very similar information streams.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-23/capital-one...
It's an easter egg. It's a pretty common thing Google does.
Google Creates Parent Company Called Alphabet in Restructuring – WSJ
Chromebooks are pretty popular. The first generation wasn't very good but the more recent ones are selling well.

Reader was very popular relative to the size of the RSS reader market.

Google bought Motorola for the patent portfolio and sold off the rest, so I'm not sure how that was a failure. Motorola also turned around their mobile division with the Moto X under Google (over 100% increase in mobile sales due to the Moto X and company line of products)

I remember Orkut being very popular in Asia for a while.
Yep, I misread it the second time through, sorry!
keep in mind that the article was about people who are not domain experts, seeing things they don't think make sense within a domain, and deciding those things are stupid prior to gaining proper understanding.

I feel fairly confident not entertaining someone who claims to be able to turn a lead brick into gold in their living room, because I know enough about physics and chemistry to understand the energy difference between lead and gold. But I would entertain someone who had nuclear-lab-grade equipment who claimed to be able to convert a small number of atoms. They might actually be full of crap, but my domain knowledge is not specific enough to be able to say.

When it comes to religion, I think the same thing with non-experts happens, and you're doing it. You claim to know all religious are "man made belief systems", "unjustified", with "no logical backing" -- claims that a domain expert can make regarding perhaps a few religions they're intimately familiar with, but not that anyone can actually make for all religions. How many religions have you studied deeply enough to really be able to make that claim? If Christianity is on your list, have you ever read the Didache, or De Principiis? If Mormonism is on your list, do you know about the Seer Stone or Elijah Abel? If Judaism is on your list, are you familiar with the Midrash or Siddur? These aren't particularly obscure references; they're things anyone well-enough versed in any of these religions to say "it's bogus because..." should know about.

If you don't know about those things, but you're sure each of those religions are "man-made", "unjustified", with "no logical backing", you should consider where your certainty comes from and how certain it really is.
I hope Eric Schmidt won't manage Google Talk / Hangouts anymore. Then there will be a chance of fixing this mess back.

UPDATE:
Hm. Judging by downvotes, some folks here liked the fact that he killed XMPP federation of Google Talk and didn't propose Hangouts as an alternative open protocol. What an achievement.
I think this is more about changing what Larry and Sergey do all day.

This is in line with their prior strategery of continually maneuvering towards "give us more authority but no responsibility."
How did you guys make this? Can you guys upload it on github?
Well, I had no doubt that I was interpreting it correctly, so I'll mark it down on my personal scorecard as well:)
You mind elaborating at all on these other exercises you mention?
Chasing the next billion with Sundar Pichai (May 2015)
Facetious as you are, it's true. There are real impacts to it, and it's recommended that you not train for several months after a training and running a marathon. And not to do more than a few a year.

I think it's partially because Nike ran a lot of ads for running shoes that was selling the idea of it as a sport. And it's one of those sports that seems rather natural and "free" as it were.

I have trouble figuring out a sport that I can do regularly to improve my health. Though I never considered running because I frankly can't keep my motivation. I stop running for an instant, and I'm done.
I wonder where platforms (the HW company inside of Google that builds all their machines and switches) ends up. If they make it their own 'letter' (H is for Hardware?) then they could potentially have it build data center hardware for other companies. That would be interesting.
Is Abc.xyz a Google Leak or a Spectacular Coincidence?
Not sure if that's good or bad for Alphabet International. Why would thousands of people (just a guess) hearing this news just assume that's the new domain??
Which in this case, depending upon your editor, can mean autocomplete and validate as you type. In spite of liquibase's newer YAML and JSON support, XML works very well here.
Danger? You mean benefit? Companies not succeeding themselves even as they fall from relevance is a massive reason why large companies fail.

Look at Blackberry, they had an internal project working against the rest of the company (namely Android on Blackberry hardware) that could, had it been allowed, saved the company. Instead Blackberry are either going to be purchased OR go bankrupt.

Honestly internal competition is an argument for doing something like this, not against it.
True story. Rather than speed, I'd say independence is the goal. Warren & Charlie (BRK) have proven that this model works - purchase great companies, then let them continue to do their thing (albeit with more resources). All roads report up, but Dairy Queen doesn't wind up run by the same person as GEICO on the executive level.

So long as Sergey and Larry (& Co.) keep from micro-managing, I think this structure will be enormously beneficial. I can't see how someone running Google's web properties would be able to move quickly when also having a hands-on responsibility for developing a self-driving car and a glucose-sensing contact lens.
It's almost as if they read "the outsiders"[0]

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Outsiders-Unconventional-Radically...
What made egypt and the levant albatrosses? Source? I'd love to learn more.
An in-depth analysis: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-end-of-sanctuary-in-spa...
Do you know if running on the beach (or sand) is better on the joints? It seems like it would be better on the joints, plus it seems harder (better exercise). And hey, you're on a beach.
When the letters for the new companies run out, will they form kan.ji? ;-)
I think spitfire was being sarcastic, eg, "nobody looks for tech businesses in annual piles of irrelevant paper anymore"
A lot of things they were getting in to like cars just didn't fit.

It's going to remove the 'is this a thing Google should be getting in to?' question when evaling ventures/acquisitions.
Perhaps this partly pre-empts threats to split up Google's search from 'other businesses', https://recode.net/2015/04/20/eu-competition-commissioner-i-...
T is for Tesla
I may have misinterpreted the above webpage; I'll try to update tonight.

Either way, he should have been taxed at ltcg, so at most 20%.
Here is the free full-text (provided by Nature as an in-browser read-only version):
http://rdcu.be/dCSH
Algorithmic trading from home isn't new at all, it has been around for a while. You can even buy backtesting and live trading software with a DSL that makes it easier to do, e.g. Tradestation or Ninjatrader or as was mentioned, InteractiveBroker provides solutions.

For the most part, people doing this are not on the scale of people doing HFT. The net latency from home to market is much higher and the software lower performance but I do know some people that have done it successfully. Their bots trade anywhere from maybe dozens of times per day to once or twice per week. It is a difficult business though.
State of the Email Stack (Tools and Services)
> Does this mean that running high-risk project inside Google started to damage the reputation of Google?

I don't think it hurt the consumer reputation, and it can't be about the investor reputation, since those things are still inside the entity (Alphabet) that investors will care about (at least, until a way to invest in the new "core" Google directly is offered, which may be part of the long-term plan -- it would explain why they indicated that they will report Google's financials separately within Alphabet's.)
fwiw here is a "hacker news for x, which lists a lot of such sites, with various purposes: https://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com/
Sure, but they all still trade in one big GOOG pile.
is this just an admission that they're trying to monopolize every industry in the world?
Alphabet is only missing a startup accelerator, why wouldn't Sergey and Larry now focus on earlier stage themselves? All those ambitious things can be achieved better by a lot of startupa competing in parallel.
There are countless examples of mutations that are single letter transcription errors, insertions, duplications, recombinations. Quantum effects and superpositions aren't necessary to explain those. I wonder what extra explanatory power this theory adds over more conventional chemical models of DNA and what evidence exists that quantum effects are anything more than negligible.
How tech titans are harshing the mellow in Venice Beach
https://github.com/stars?direction=desc&sort=stars
So the students who postulated spin were never rewarded. Then there's this:

"Ironically, spin helped clinch confirmation of Pauli's exclusion principle of 1925, for which Pauli won the Nobel Prize in 1945."
Algorithm Aimed at Combating Science’s Reproducibility Problem
If direct profit generation is the measure of failure for Google then they've failed at basically everything except for advertising.
Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure – Investor Relations – Google
Federal Appeals Panel Rules Cell Tracking Data Is Protected by Fourth Amendment
The Google Guys are now VCs.
Why? Programming as a bottom-of-the-org-chart employee is boring and powerless. Every 5 years you have to re-learn almost everything because the fads change, but the substance doesn't change.

Today we need a 16 layer deep toolchain to create a HTML page because everything is javascript and dynamic and slower than generating server-side HTML, but it's The True Way Forward (ignoring the last 8 True Ways Forward we've had since 2002).

When you're competing against 22 year olds for job roles that didn't exist 6 months ago, the 22 year old has just has much experience in the new framework or toolchain or platform as you do at 35. They probably have even more experience because they have less to "unlearn" and more free time to understand all the quirks. They are more excited about learning it for the first time than you are about re-learning it for the 8th time.

Now we're using Go? Except it's no better than what we were using 10 years ago? But everybody else likes it, so we have to like it to? Great, let's kill my productivity for 8 months while I re-write all our systems and have them become less maintainable than they currently are.

I hear gardening is relaxing.
What websites would allow me to get writing jobs for startups?
I'm between novice and intermediate as a web designer/developer, but can figure out how to write an article about any web design/JavaScript/Node/HTML5 tech that is thrown at me.

I actually met a few people through HN a little while ago who wanted to work with me, and that worked out. Is HN the proper place for this kind of engagement, or is there another place that I should be looking?
If you're not asking about running replacements in particular, there are books and books on primarily bodyweight exercises. That seems to be the appeal for running, that you can just do it with very little investment.
Something tells me the kind of visitors Alphabet hopes to attract to their new website will be sophisticated enough to find it, and if not, they would be gently nudged by Google search results.
They gonna fail cause they don't own the .com ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Show HN: GameTime – JS emulator supporting SNES and GBA
What huge ideas? Social network inside a browser was never a new idea, no matter how hard Google was pitching.
"A great tailor does little cutting" ;)
Amen. I owe my career to that film, and I'd love to thank Matthew Broderick in person one day over a raspberry pie or some pints. That movie was like a revelation to me. All that computer stuff! And he got the girl! And he saved the world! Gotta get me some of that sugar.
Google will do no evil - we know, because we've been told so long (tax trickeries excluded). But what will Alphabet be allowed to do?
I think that'd be pretty cool, as a fairly new programmer!
>In 1968, Sen. Strom Thurmond found himself stopped by a police officer in Greenville, South Carolina. His suspicious activity? Jogging.

Funny. Happened to my dad too. He started jogging in 1970 and continued (almost) every day for 40 years. That very first year he was the only guy out there and people occasionally got freaked out and called the cops. He had to explain this 'jogging' exercise thing.

But within a few years it had caught on like wildfire.
Misleading title; garbage collection is never free. Better would be "Optimizing the garbage collector" or how about "Using a stop-the-world garbage collector without stopping the world all that much". I would have liked that. Because the article is good.

Also, I am a huge fan of V8. When testing my HTML5 games, V8's performance is unmatched across the board.
Not really. Alphabet.com is crashed and is down since the press release. So a lot of people are doing what PG suspected.
I'm not sure I was clear or understand what you're saying. It sounds like you mean this:

Python source -> Python bytecode -> Python bytecode interpreter -> JavaScript engine -> browser

And what I meant was this:

Python source -> WebAssembly bytecode -> browser

Does that make sense? It's not like there's a bunch of Python bytecode sitting around that we can't possibly re-compile. It makes a ton of sense to create a Python-to-WebAssembly compiler, but very little sense to spend time adding functionality to a browser that's specific to Python bytecode.