skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, at least they're paying lip-service to enterprise users who may have internal extensions to deal with:

What about private add-ons used in enterprise environments?

We haven't announced our plan for this case yet. Stay tuned.
In the interim, ESR will not support signing at least until
version 45, which won't come out until 2016.
I agree, its nice they have finally come out with some of the stuff they are/were doing. The Jupiter stuff sounds especially tasty for east-west heavy workloads.
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Having TurboFan compile the interpreter from machine-independent templates is what struck me as unusual.

The rest is familiar enough, true.
They can't be taught, nor do they care to be. Education is not the solution to the problem of users who don't want to know.
Is it just the cynic in me that thinks "We wanted to move Larry and Sergei upstairs, but Eric's in that seat; so we had to create a cool new upstairs to move them to"?
I think it is more than that. My tax rate probably comes out to 35% total.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
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> one of the most important factors in designing websites was realizing that users don't scroll

It's not really that users don't scroll, more that relevant informations should be on the top of webpages rather than in the middle or the bottom. It don't think anybody ever said that users don't scroll in 90's .
It's too early to tell what this means. It may be a first step to spinning off some of the non-core businesses.

Who gets Google's airport in Mountain View?
> One concern would be connectivity. Maybe you could read Hacker News via an (expensive) satellite hookup but it seems like it would be more difficult to have streaming video.

I know this isn't really your point, but video is actually one of the better use-cases for satellite internet. The problem with Satellite isn't bandwidth (I mean, it is, but that's only because most of them are old and there aren't enough of them.)

The fundamental problem with satellite internet is latency; the speed of light to get up to where we usually put 'em and back down is... significant.

The only realistic way to overcome that is to put the satellite in a much lower (and thus much less stable) orbit, which means replacing them frequently; there have been a bunch of cool-sounding proposals to do this, but it hasn't happened.

But... the point is that satellite is great for non-interactive stuff. If you can buffer, say, half a second without causing problems, there's no reason why you would be unhappy with Satellite, so streaming video would work beautifully.

Games and skype would be unusable. Web pages would load noticeably slower. But your streaming video and large downloads, potentially, would be competitive with the shitty broadband we're used to here in the US.
an old business professor of mine from college, who took a company public at one point, taught us that "if you're not growing, you're dying".
the same mantra is now repeated here in silicon valley in the form of "move fast and break things" and "grow as fast as possible",etc.

regarding your spreadsheet, it doesn't take into account seasonality. factors such as weather and tourist activity certainly affect revenue.

if you take the total revenue in months Jan-June 2015 and compare them to the same time period in 2014, the delta is -8%. if you look at the last datapoint and compare to the first, you get a drop of 1%.
> For me, a cruise is basically a hotel pushed into international waters (or some other legal fiction) for purposes of cheap labour.

It's not a complete free for all once in international waters. The law of the flag the ship sails under (i.e. the jurisdiction where it is registered) applies. However, in practise many ships fly a flag of convenience, e.g. Liberia. The minimum wage in Liberia for unskilled labour is $4/day(!)
Lenovo announces laptops using new mobile Xeon processors
One of the biggest things I've had to unlearn as an SRE leaving google is this: RPC traffic is not free, fast, and reliable (So long as you don't go cross-datacenter). For most companies it is expensive and slow. Facebook's networks are still designed for early-2000s era topologies and their newer topologies won't fix that; They've still got way too little top-of-rack bandwidth to the other racks nearby.

Microsoft hasn't even caught on yet, and is still designing for bigger and bigger monolithic servers. I can't tell what Amazon is doing, but they seem to have the idea with ELBs at multiple layers.
Agreed - it's fuel to push things forward. My house gets a lot cleaner when I'm angry.
The previous post on the blog has a similar tone too https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/is_your_shell...
For the current instance (China devalues yuan), the Google search itself bloats to 2GB and crashes. The comments on the article both refer to the paywall.

This is highly typical.

I've flagged in past. I won't in future. But it's decidedly annoying, ranking well up with Scribd and Quora.
Yeah, is Chrome becoming a separate company?

"Under the new operating structure, its main Google business will include search, ads, maps, apps, YouTube and Android and the related technical infrastructure (the “Google business”)"
I don't think he was specifically talking about grinding applications per se, but the overall build accuracy of the machine. If you had a perfect grinder or cutter, most machines would have some twist or lack of rigidity or distortion of components that would lead to inaccuracies as the part is turned. Because of the way this machine is built, it is capable of achieving 1 micron accuracy. It most certainly takes extremely careful setups (and accounting for wear) to achieve this accuracy, though.
Swiss clocks feel impressive, no doubt. Quartz clocks, though, have the advantage of being accurate.
The main takeaway (which should be obvious) is that you should test your navigation and probably test it a lot. It is very important and it does matter. I've caught myself thinking of it as a pesky thing and I'm not a designer and usually don't optimize for pretty because well I'm not good at it. But the fact of the matter (imo) is that focusing on content and navigation until you get them perfect is the best approach.
"Silly" exercises like card sorting early with potential users (or regularly for an existing site) are actually pretty solid methods to improve sites and apps greatly.
Is that post for real?
https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/630972473945817088
The grinding wheel has to be "dressed" to make it flat. This is typically done with a diamond-faced tool.[1]

[1] http://www.nortonindustrial.com/DressingTools-BladeTools.asp...
> I think you'd then end up interacting with all those people and finding the majority of them to be just as annoying as everyone who currently frustrates you where you live already!

Perhaps, except I don't meet many people who'd be willing to permanently relocate to some remote village in my everyday life. (As opposed to the travel-back-and-forth-to-a-swanky-coworking-space-in-Thailand type people. Nothing wrong with that, but different breed, I think.) There's a higher chance I'd get along with them than with most people around me.

> Too idealistic to plan just for creatives when so many in that category have less-than-creative partners who need regular jobs to get by.

I agree, and I didn't mean creatives exclusively. More like, "mostly people who want to work on their own projects" as opposed to, like, radical isolationists or farmers or something.

> Do you snatch up cheap-but-remote housing in your own country? I know I don't.

Yeah, because by myself, I don't really have the funds to do so. :)

> These just seem exotic and enticing but I imagine they're an expensive pain to fix up in reality.

I agree, and I'm not talking about the villages in the article exclusively. Communes and ecovillages[1] have been successful in the past.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage
I like the sound of living in Japan and Thailand. What type of visa did you use to stay in those countries? Travel visa?
Not saying this is better or worse. Just explaining the way he was thinking - and noting that we were on the brink of nuclear war in two times in the 60s and the 80s, with actual total annihilation being very close - if it had happened you would not be there to pass that judgment in the first place, and LeMay may have been proven right.

Most observers agree that it was "mere luck" that we did not annihilate each other at those precise time points.
HN plz stop making certain comments nearly impossible to fucking read on my phone. Thanks.
Just finished reading this chapter - a really awesome recommendation, I'll probably buy the whole book. Thanks!
Larry Page has been described as possibly the most ambitious CEO on the planet, and this announcement certainly bears that out. Alphabet represents an ambitious attempt at reinventing Google. Possibly fraught with risk - but again Larry seems to be following his own advice of "having a healthy disregard for the impossible". So they are attempting to do something crazy - break up and restructure the company rather than stay comfortable.
They're not eating the yellow/green cabs lunch, but they are taking jobs from livery cars. Unfortunately we don't have data on their earnings.
I'm German and the name "uber" of the taxi company irritates the hell out of me whenever I hear it.
What does the company name "uber" mean? The German word or something else?
I did seem to get the impression that he could start at a reference point. He also mentioned zeroing out the set up. It also seems very possible even without calibration that once the apparatus was in operation that subsequent operations would be relatively accurate to each other within a micron. But yes, overall it seemed to me that absolute precision was potentially a whole other can of worms.
I heard the opposite. That they won't have to disclose how google is doing if they don't want. Just as Amazon doesn't have to release AWS numbers.
+1. This bugged me about the excellent Schema Evolution Manager. Ended up porting it and extending it to take an optional name to add after the date.
I've looked at screenshots of Little Snitch and I don't understand why it's so interesting.

Isn't this what e.g. Zonealarm has been doing for 15 years on Windows?
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> I don't make the rules, I just play by them.

We all make the rules.
Schema Evolution Manager is excellent for managing Postgres databases in a language-, framework-agnostic manner!
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> Orkut was wildly successful in Brazil and India

If you are Google that reads as "Orkut only got traction in Brazil and India, hence failure". Maybe they could have sold it to some smaller company, but they tried to move the customers to their other services instead.
Your comment is becoming invisible because you are a denier. Suck it contrarian.
You're right. Per this calculator [1], the tax is 36% for single filer making 100K annually. Canadians can't possibly be taxed higher than this, can they?

[1] http://www.esmartpaycheck.com/freecalculator/free_calculator...
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who knows – in many ways it's even better if it's satire, because it's just believable enough.
> The thought of a little Clojure or Haskell in my life right now sounds like a beach vacation.

This is the reason, why I started to do little side-projects with clojurescript and reagent [1]

I love the way how programming with reagent is visual, with almost no friction. I just start repl, start browser, open the code, and every time I save file, I see how my program changes :-)

Compared to my work, where it can take me the first hour to get into the zone, and additional 20 minutes each time I need to switch frameworks, it really feels like a vacation :)

[1] https://reagent-project.github.io/index.html
DEFSTRCUT uses inheritance, too. single.
You know, this is probably a big part of it. On a touchscreen 'haha' and 'hehe' are way easier.
I think a great deal is being attributed to "leapfrogging" which should instead be attributed to idiosyncrasies in the Chinese market. Like that it's big, and that a great deal of software is bundled.

For starters, surely there are other places around the world with nation-dominating highly-integrated platform apps. I mean, they name LINE and KakaoTalk. Is their point that China is 3x bigger than Japan and 10x bigger than Korea? Those factors are certainly accurate with respect to their national PPP (3.7x and 9.9x), and explains the data they observe really well. But Japan didn't have a leapfrogging experience, as they claim. Korea is a bit more complicated, but nonetheless, not cut-and-dried.

Why WeChat in particular? The other apps compared—LINE and KakaoTalk—arguably became dominant in their countries the same way WeChat did: bundling. It just comes with your phone. By that logic, do we label the Apple App Store, bundled with every iPhone, a "service" that takes a 30% cut of many of the transactions that occur there? Again, the App Store absolutely fulfills all the roles described in the article, notwithstanding their particular points about UI.

A16Z just isn't getting rich off Apple, so they're not going around hyping up an arguably the platform to end all platforms. Apple made $4.8 billion in iTunes and software on 1 billion iOS devices total by Q1 2015. It's not WeChat's estimated "$7 ARPU", but honestly, I bet Apple's is actually higher.
http://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/doppio.pdf
Ok, call me skeptical but I did not think Intel would get these out for Q4 of 2015. That 15" laptop is probably way over kill but it has some really nice specs. I think what I really want though is one of these bad boys in the NUC form factor.
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I'm not so sure... even at the airport, with a traditional taxi I have to worry about whether they will take my credit card (or take it but complain about it), if the taxi is clean, if the driver is some weirdo, will I get attitude about my destination, figuring out the tip etc.

I recently used Uber at the San Jose airport and it was a glorious experience. The app switches to a different UI specially for the airport, I select the exit number I'm standing next to and the ride shows up in about 2 minutes, the driver already has my destination on his GPS before I get in (no more sightseeing tours), no fussing with payment at the end and I get a nice receipt emailed to me with the drivers details and the route taken. Taxis are going to have a hard time competing once more airports allow Uber properly. And they've got no one to blame but themselves.
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Clicking around the website, this is most likely not an actual company but a spoof of the evil conglomerate from the Resident Evil games/films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Resident_Evil_characte...
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It should still possible to fork Firefox and remove this requirement, right ?
I don't see how is that strange considering in WP8 they send all primary contacts and calendar entries to THE CLOUD with no option to opt out and of course without telling the user, and considering what they've shown in Win10. Microsoft clearly hates privacy.
How easy is for a bot to read fundamentals? I do not know if there is some place to gather this kind of data.

I mean, in "The intelligent investor" the author points out that lots of companies bury important information in side notes in their annual reports, that can totally change their attractiveness.

I wonder how easy is to check these things nowadays.
> It does make sense to keep the defaults where it prevents most users from harm.

Wait, did we have an extension-caused apocalypse recently leading to this requirement ? Erm, I guess not. So why do we exactly need it ?
Yes.

Depending on where you're from you can stay in Japan either 3 or 6 months at a time. Some people leave for a few days and then come back but that could be risky as your next visa may be denied.

Thailand has various visa options and is less strict with their policies. Many people keep renewing their tourist visas for years.
reminds me of my languished (v1) project that is the bullet-proof shoe for people who shoot themselves in the foot: http://frustrometer.com/

I just couldn't get a data model with results I was happy with. I should probably revisit it and tough it out.
I bought samaltman.xyz, let me know if you need it.
The arrogance is titanic. And her legal team apparently forgot to explain to her that certain jurisdictions permit reverse engineering and decompilation under certain circumstances irrespective of what Oracles license agreement says.
A couple of Las Vegas cabbies have indicated to me that they were hoping Uber would arrive in full force, because the deal they get from the incumbent operators is so bad.
In my opinion she is being paid for propaganda in support of Oracle. By that I mean the message is not beneficial to the whole population of Oracle Users, but only to Oracle Corporate.
I thought HN blocked paywall scam submissions?
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Yodlee is super insecure and their services are implemented like shit, source: I watched a startup fail over dependencies on this company.
A nice and relevant anecdote I recently discovered. When talking about the invention of the periodic table, everyone always focuses on the sudden dream that Dmitri Mendeleev had that revealed to him the table in it's full form, but they fail to acknowledge, as the story goes, the many hours of study and play with his set of "element cards" that preceded the revelation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_periodic_table#...
The biggest mistake I made in college was not listening to my advisor and thinking that "recommended" courses means I could get by with taking something out of order. For example, taking Circuits I without taking Electromagnetics (and likely Diff Eq) first is a bad idea even if it's technically allowed. Another mistake is to not understand that some of the harder classes need to be spaced out or you get burned out. There seems to be a big ramp up from first year to second year coursework.

75% or more of what you learn is going to be obsolete or not needed in your career. The problem is you don't ever know which is the 25% you'll use. That may even change over time. And those English/Comms classes are helpful while still being less of a PITA than your other coursework so they prevent some burnout. The most fun classes I had were a Foreign language which was taught by an actual native speaker, and a Comms class which just had a nice mix of students.
I am in China right this instant and (like everyone) I have wechat on my phone. Perhaps the services mentioned don't have much use/appeal to expats, but I have never heard of any of the stuff mentioned in this article. Wechat to me is just a texting app because data is cheaper than texts (thanks China Mobile).

At first I couldn't even find any of the features mentioned. some of the stuff (taxi's, planes) are hidden in some submenu called "bank cards" which I originally thought was for unlocking emoji and stuff. Perhaps I need to run an update, but I can't even find a "sub app store" of 3rd party verified accounts.
This monkey robot will prevent the next financial meltdown – this is not a joke
If Navinder Singh Sarao could cause "one of the most turbulent periods in the history of financial markets"(aka 2010 Flash Crash) from his garage, we can stabilize the whole financial system with a few 10 dollar robots by doing quite the opposite what he did.

We are a group of monkey robots who are reverse engineering and reassuring other high frequency trading bots.

Our trading is inspired by Prof. Burton Malkiel and based on simple math, physics and python. We are providing real liquidity to markets and do not engage in any form of arbitrage trading. With our passive market making strategy, we are always doing exactly the opposite of human traders and other robots. While (maybe) preventing the next financial meltdown, we will (very probably) make at least as much ROE as the best performing investment bank in 2015.

"a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts."
- Burton Malkiel

Follow us to see how a group of monkey robots beats Goldman Sachs traders and prevents the next financial meltdown:
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It's two crimes: doing devops wrong, and having a huge security hole.
This is deeply disappointing.

Two details: the extensions need to be signed by Mozilla, and only US English speakers will be allowed to disable this requirement.

The point of free software is that users, individually and collectively, are free to modify it as they wish, without requiring approval from third parties. (And of course to use, copy, and redistribute.) This is a sharp turn away from the free-software ethos that made Firefox possible in the first place.

I understand the issue of users being tricked into downloading and installing malicious extensions. If you let someone program, they will be able to paste malicious code. I just don’t think that taking away users’ ability to modify their own browsers is an acceptable solution to that.

If this disturbing move sticks, Mozilla will become an increasingly tempting target for whatever group wants to control what software you can install on your own computer — whether that’s Sony Pictures, the NSA, or Amazon.

The old free software movement has died. We need a new free software movement.
Also writely just became Google Docs so its not exactly shuttered either.
In theory, but that will be very difficult.
Nobody cares about perfect privacy, but people do care about Total Information Awareness. This is going in TIA direction, in fact it's already there. It's sickening. So I am happy to be a Linux user, and it's the right time to switch. Say goodbye to your corporate overlords and come on down here. The privacy is fine.
Exactly, high intelligence isn't neccessarily a crucial ingredient in starting a successful startup. As Paul Graham mentioned : "There are plenty of people as smart as Bill Gates who achieve nothing."

He also mentioned that : "Indeed, if you want to create the most wealth, the way to do it is to focus more on their needs than your interests, and make up the difference with determination."

After reading this particular paragraph, I scratched my head to think of something I could build that users would love and came upon this idea : I realised that alot of people like to share pictures,videos and images with their friends and family.

Thus I want to create a well-designed image/video/picture sharing app that users would love. How do you suggest I go about doing this and what technologies would be best to create such a site ?

Thanks alot !

GengYang
I believe this can be generalized to all minority oppression. Minorities' views / needs not being honored since they're in the minority, or have a minority level of access to valuable / high-utility resources.

Solution: high-level resource owners share in the _human experience_ of low-level owners, determining ad-hoc and with empathy how to extend support / normalize quality of life.