skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't answer the spirit of your question, but regardless of the product/service, I would build a company with an emphasis on employee happiness (which also doubles as a recruiting tool):

- Full-remote

- 4 days/week instead of 5

- 2-3 months mandatory PTO

- Bootstrapped

This isn't lofty or anything, it's really what I aspire to do some day soon. To me there are few sane reasons to build a company predicated on the 40 hour work week in an era where work is intellectual and not based on quantifiable throughput (like working in an assembly line). Today, I would gladly take a 20% paycut to work 20% less per week (e.g. get Fridays off), and so I'd want to build a company in the same way.

I personally think the world is already headed in this direction (with remote work being the first big change).
Will Alphabet's parts be superior to Google whole?
Just a terminology difference. In gamedev postmortem tends to mean a retrospective on the development of the game written a maybe a few months to a year after publication. You're probably thinking of the general engineering meaning, where it's usually an analysis of the failure written in order to prevent the same root cause from causing more failures.

So in this context it's not a negative term but a neutral one encompassing both what went right and what went wrong. (And seems to me there were a couple of core lessons there, such as needing to consider ease of console ports when choosing development tools, and that data of indie game sales from a couple of years ago is mostly obsolete).
Ok, ok. How about these buttons?

[Select] [DO!] [Context]

You're right of course. At some point a trade off has to be made among usability, discover-ability, and simplicity. (Pick any two).

Adding another button reduces simplicity, but enhances the other two. Apple's one-button mouse—at the other extreme—makes things simple and discoverable, but often not as useable as I'd like. I still don't know how OSX's equivalent to Windows' [Alt] key access to menu items (does it exist?)
Oh man, I am racking my brain trying to think of the tool I used to have installed on my PC at my last job. It was built by somebody who posted on HN, lightsomething or something? It would warn you about new programs connecting to the network and do other neat stuff. Not quite the same as little snitch, but similar and very pleasant to use. I'll update if I think of it (or maybe somebody else can name it.)

[edit] Glasswire! https://www.glasswire.com/ It's super slick. Apparently the paid version has an "ask to connect" feature.
Wikipedia got 30% faster with async loading of JS
The decryption is done in a web worker, not the UI thread. That shouldn't be the cause.
> Why use the landmine analogy when you can use the Space Race analogy?

I was focusing specifically on the "war" part which, to me in part, means targeting enemy assets in space, e.g. artificial satellites for communications and other purposes. If it were a race between nations to accomplish a specific goal, then by all means, let the games begin.
We are doing some larger scale desktop stuff with Ionic right now, and someone from the community wrote about doing something similar: http://www.raymondcamden.com/2015/07/23/some-initial-thought...

It's interesting. Not sure where we'll take it, but I love the idea of one code base running everywhere, including desktop.
> Nobody is more familiar with what a curse airplanes can be when deployed for evil than the Japanese. Airplanes dropped the canisters that burned their cities, the mines that starved their children, and the nukes that instantly made vast irradiated graveyards out of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — for the first time in history visiting solar-temperature hell upon human habitations, and hinting at mankind’s full capacity for suicidal madness. But their intimate familiarity with the “cursed dream” of airplanes also stems from the Japanese state’s own misuse of the great invention for its imperial dreams.

So the bombing of Japan was "evil", Japan's own bombings were just a "misuse" in pursuit of a "dream". How very neutral.

> The economic sanctions against Iraq that condemned hundreds of thousands of children to starve to death were an atrocity just about exactly as bad as the rape of Nanking. Just about exactly as inexcusable. We need to get to the point where we stop looking for excuses for such actions.

Economic sanctions are an alternative to war. Are you suggesting we should have bombed Iraq instead at the time? Or just let Saddam do what he pleased? Ironically, when the USA does nothing (Rwanda, Pol Pot, North Korea, Srebrenica) they are accused of complicity in inaction, yet when they do something, they are war criminals. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
But how much would they get for selling Greenland today? If the answer is higher that $15bn, and I think it might be, then the Danes were shrewd indeed.
The closest thing I can come up with is that the're modeling after companies like this:

http://www.textron.com/

Textron owns Bell Helicoptor, and EZ:GO Golf Cart company, among ~12 others, but the stock is all Textron stock.

I guess its kind of like internal diversification. I realize Google is a decently unique company, so I'm not sure exactly why they did what they did, but the model they jumped to seems common enough.
An open source JMAP proxy, JavaScript library and webmail demo
if your rom is in a zip file, extract it & drag the rom into the window. Also, try a different rom if that one doesn't work :)
I greatly admire Trefethen's writing. I worry that there must be some really important aspects of numerical analysis that I ignore, simply because he hasn't written about them and so I understand them less well.
You're not a guilty white person. Nationalism is not en vogue.
is it even possible to get perfect privacy with a smart phone?
There are a couple things to consider though - one, it's not just raw material floating around, it's actual debris: a screw, a paint chip, maybe a panel for some sort of satellite, and for awhile there was even a glove[0] floating around in orbit. Even if it were feasible to use some of the debris floating up there, retrieving 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.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2009/02/spacestuff/
Have you tried GlassWire?

https://www.glasswire.com
Actually, the price of Google's stock is based on expectations of future demand for Google's stock. It has little or nothing to do with the expectations of profits or the ability of the shareholders to receive them. This is true of all listed companies, and the more liquid their shares, the more true it is.
I wonder how it'll affect their SERP ranking
What about an Android phone running a AOSP variant without Google Services?
It makes life harder for people with celiac.

Why? Because people following a gluten-free diet by choice are inconsistent. They'll make a big deal of asking for gluten-free pasta, then order a fruit tart for dessert. Or they'll order a hamburger without the bun, and a beer.

It trains wait staff that gluten-free is not a big deal to get exactly right, when in fact a person with celiac does need to get it exactly right.
Yes. http://repo.xposed.info/module/biz.bokhorst.xprivacy
The main difference between Ubuntu and Windows 10 is that Ubuntu will respect your decision to opt-out.
Obviously it is a problem, but it will get you much further than the original suggestion to select some arbitrary number of days to go back.
Right, this is about power. Specifically, it makes clear that Larry and Sergei are now in the capital allocation business. When you buy a share of Alphabet, you are buying shares in Larry and Sergei's opinion about what should be done with money. If you think they're much better at spending money than you are, this is a great opportunity. If you don't, it isn't.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033517
I am not talking about RNA. I am talking strictly about. The way DNA stores information has nothing to do with the way it is folded. Proteins and some types of RNA require proper folding to function, DNA does not.
The F-35's Vertical Landing – 60 Minutes
This. I previously loved Spotlight but it's getting strange in its old age. For example, if I type "i" or "it" or "ite" or "iter", Spotlight predicts "iTerm". But if I actually type "iTerm" in full it takes me to "Go2Shell" in the App Store – because it has the word "iterm" in the patch notes of the most recent version. Useful.
I read the whole article, and I thought the same thing as the parent. I appreciate a pacifist sentiment, but outside of the critical analysis of the films, this essay was fairly insipid.

There's such a thing as "pacifism", where you believe that violence should always be the final alternative. Then there's the sophomoric thinking of defining "pacifism" as "we should never go to war, ever". Sometimes, you have to fight.
This course is a great idea. Since so much of what we do each day is impacted by computers a basic understanding is important for everyone
Well sure, they all have their faults. Just like anything else, if you do it poorly/with bad form, you're probably going to hurt yourself.

Everyone should learn how to swim, properly. For safety reasons if nothing else, and this would reduce injuries I think. I was a competitive swimmer for ~12 years, and learning how to swim correctly, I never injured myself.

Weightlifting, same deal. I've been lifting for ~8 years now, and having someone teach me how to squat and deadlift _correctly_ probably saved me countless injuries.

Rock climbing, same deal. Don't use a hangboard for the first 2-3 years you climb, you're going to get hurt. Learn to crimp correctly, or you're going to blow a pulley.

Running even, bad form is awful for your joints, really really bad. For whatever reason I did cross-country in highschool, and I grew ~6 inches that season, destroyed my hip flexors. =((

I appreciate and agree with all your points, but I do not think there is many active ways in which one could not injure themselves without proper technique. =))
> There are new phones coming out like Ubuntu's and Mozilla's that, while not perfect, absolutely are better alternatives.

The last time I checked, Mozilla's Firefox OS phones appeared to be sending all home screen search queries to some unknown company in Israel, with no clear way to disable it.
Octicons got bumped to 3.0

https://github.com/github/octicons/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#...
Here's repositioning cruises, for less than $50:
http://cruisesheet.com/?rt=0&max_cpd=80
Agree. Same can be said about countries. Laws/incentives vary drastically and change what the "correct" strategy is from country to country.
Yaa, $1 for a domain like hooli.xyz or Google, I mean Alphabet ( https://abc.xyz ). I'll try it out.

Just snapped up prefi.xyz, suffi.xyz, picka.xyz, icebo.xyz, equino.xyz, mailbo.xyz, postbo.xyz, rolode.xyz, soapbo.xyz, toolbo.xyz, lunchbo.xyz, letterbo.xyz, chatterbo.xyz for about $15 total for all of them.

I skipped on conve.xyz, laryn.xyz, proli.xyz, and surta.xyz, which were all open a few minutes ago.
Pardon my ignorance, but what's hooly.xyz? Google's innovation lab?
JVMs can try to dynamically adjust their GC heuristics by trying to match pause time goals. The thing they'd be missing is a "global" scheduler that can inform it of upcoming work and its latency sensitivity.
> the same terrorist rationale and collective guilt fallacies

Collateral impacts on civilians is not the same as collective guilt. When did the US or Israel say they wanted to punish ordinary Gazans or Iranians for the crimes committing by their leaders? The unfortunate reality is that dealing with difficult international problems like this often lead to actions that impact the innocent - be it through bombs or sanctions. Yet the guilt should be attributed to those who create the problem, not those forced to take action. Or are you actually siding with Hamas and the Mullahs?

It's easy to point the finger of blame at those trying to resolve some of the most tricky and difficult problems in the world, coming up with solutions that work is an entirely different matter.
I can't see why the same logic couldn't applied to any country selling any piece of its land. Why doesn't the United States sell Pennsylvania? Why doesn't the United Kingdom sell Trafalgar Square?
> Economic sanctions are an alternative to war.

And frankly one of the reasons I think they should be taken off the table entirely is because they are far too easy an alternative. At least in war, some of the victims have their faces broadcast on television. The victims of economic sanctions are never heard of except as dry statistics.

> Are you suggesting we should have bombed Iraq instead at the time? Or just let Saddam do what he pleased?

Saddam had already been stopped from doing what he pleased. He had been comprehensively kicked out of Kuwait. It should have stopped there.

> Ironically, when the USA does nothing (Rwanda, Pol Pot, North Korea, Srebrenica) they are accused of complicity in inaction, yet when they do something, they are war criminals. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

This is only a contradiction if the two kinds of accusations come from the same people.
This statement worries me. It's equivalent to small-c conservatism and sounds suspiciously like "You don't know enough to have an opinion" - which is perfectly fine when it's reality-based, but can also be an easy excuse for enforcing groupthink when it's not.

There's also the implication that alternatives have already been tried. But what if they haven't? How are you supposed to tell?

Clearly you can't, unless the alternatives have been documented historically. If there's no documentation you're firmly in the land of convention, tradition, and opinion - not effectiveness.

I'd prefer a model that assumes running a start-up is like running an experiment on a market. You probe the market with a complete package of technology, marketing, networking, and funding. Then you assess the results. And then - the hard part - you try to work out which parts of the package aren't working, and design a new experiment.

You absolute should examine competing models for validity, and you absolutely shouldn't assume they're wrong because you're just that awesome.

But assuming they're a better market fit without reality-testing and evidence makes as little sense as assuming they're bad at what they're doing.

If that were true, there would be no room to innovate at all.
DNA needs to be _unfolded_ during transcription. Anyway, the information stored in DNA in a very much non-quantum nature.

> Also, the way how RNA polymerase work (i.e., transcription) is of quite a quantum nature too.

Proof?
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, and our own point of view.

But perhaps the center path is itself evil if you refuse to stray from it. That would lead many Western minds to the parable of the Good Samaritan, after all. Who would refuse to feed the hungry because hunger is just part of human nature, or refuse to clothe the poor because poverty is just the result of bad luck and bad decisions?

Well... plenty of people who fall prey to the just world fallacy, but that's digressing.

All of the suffering of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was done in the name of good, and people were slaughtered until it was decided good was done, because the greater evil had to be opposed at any cost, and it was thought to be the lesser of all conceivable evils. But when you oppose evil with evil, where is the good to be found?
Military officers don't need college degrees
Yet another web page that requires JavaScript to be enabled simply to read some text: https://abc.xyz
truth.
>Today, most of the people who think they have a gluten problem are making it up

Citation please? I've yet to meet anyone who was making it up. Most people just don't want to talk to a stranger about their poop.
Your link that you are taking as minimum wage doesn't account for people trivially above minimum wage. Yes, 'most people earn above minimum wage', but that's not the spirit of the discussion - someone earning 25c/hour more than minimum wage is still earning a crap wage. There are significantly more people on a crap wage than "the numbers go up and down a bit from 0.8%".

Similarly, that link only takes the federal wage into account - of course it's going to be abnormally low, given there are states with higher minimums. For example, Washington state has a minimum wage of $9.47/hour. A minimum wage worker in Washington won't show up in a study claiming $7.25 is the minimum wage.

Also, where do you mention 20%?
Actually, more like a "We don't use the hamburger because there's now ample statistical evidence that it doesn't work" blog post. :)
Aplphabet is likely to ipo Google fiber now as it is something that needs big capital investments.
I spent 6 years traveling full time from 2008-2014. One of the things that I really liked about the way we did it is that there was not tourism involved... we lived in each country as long as a visa would allow. For instance, in Bath UK we got a basement condo in an ancient methodist church that had just been converted to condos for 6 months.

This form of travel- on container ships- will show you a side of the world, the shipping industry, the people who work in it, working ports, etc that you'll never see on a cruise ship. The accommodations and value is probably not competitive with a cruise ship, but the experience is not going to be similar at all.

We spent 2 years in Chile, starting with Startup Chile-- but it really got good when we started making friends with locals.

Tourism is a totally different experience from travel!
Thanks for the breadcrumb.
Wonder who Bighetti is supposed to be making fun of.
So the obvious fact that PP (along with other abortion "providers") routinely shreds tiny living human beings (dehumanized by labeling them "fetuses" or "fetal tissue") by the hundreds of thousands per year doesn't bother you in the least?
It gives the market more financial transparency into how the core business is doing, w/o merging in the effects of these other projects. More transparency means more accurate pricing, and thus a more reliable investment
I have been wondering the same I don't know what happened but he is not responding to emails anymore at all. Someone should try calling the number that is listed on the whois for wrapbootstrap.
This aversion to software you describe may just be an age / generational thing, because I've noticed that almost all "older" people have issues with technology.

I think that being a med school student today probably means osmosis of cultural information from other med students, including student solutions like Google Drive and Dropbox, as well as Tinder. Along the way, that probably means comfort with email, chat, downloading apps and files, browsing, buying, PDF reading, and so on.
Ask HN: Help me choose the best first book for Algorithms
I am a programmer and no formal CS knowledge. I have the following books on the topic Algorithms/DataStructures. Can you please help me pick the first one to start so that I am able to get up to the speed. It will be great if you can specify an order as well.

* The Algorithm Design Manual
by Steven S Skiena
Link: http://amzn.com/1848000693

* Algorithms (4th Edition)
by Robert Sedgewick et al.
Link: http://amzn.com/032157351X

* Algorithm Design
by Jon Kleinberg et al.
Link: http://amzn.com/0321295358

* Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition
by Thomas H. Cormen et al.
Link: http://amzn.com/0262033844

* The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set
by Donald E. Knuth
Link: http://amzn.com/0321751043
This seams like the best practical way to schedule garbage collection next to tracking the users eye movements (joke from the Go lang presentation about 1.5 GC).

In all seriousness: since the environment is pretty well controlled compared to native, why not exploit it?
> However, my opinion isn't ill-informed.

Yes, it is. Let me illustrate.

> But there are no guidelines about how to know what you're ready for, and certainly no warnings anywhere i've ever seen about running before you're ready.

There has been so much accessible literature written on the subject over the last 50 years I can only conclude that your search skills are poor, or you're cherry-picking your data. The mere fact that you went out and ran 17 miles for the your first time makes that crystal clear. I'm simply at a loss to come up with a more appropriate term than "ill-informed", sorry.

As for all the harm that can befall a runner, for $DEITY's sake don't look up things like soccer, cycling, or even tennis. Even typing comments on HN can give you RSI.

> But I guess I just don't know what i'm talking about.

At least we agree on that much.

Look, if you don't want to run, then don't. I'm sure not going to judge you based on that. But given your insistence on doubling-down, I'll leave you with something I've never said on HN: you can have the last word, because you're not worth arguing with.
Simple: because both forms work, and HTML does what it thinks you want it to, and yada yada yada.

Less prescriptive languages (the "do what I mean, not what I say" variety) invite this sort of inconsistency of expression. If you like it, run with it (more power to you), but it's not for me. Sadly, XHTML and schema-validated markup seems to have lost the war. These days I just let my JavaScript code generate my markup for me and I don't worry about things like closing tags.
Well you're still mostly investing in the growth potential of Google's existing businesses. Don't forget that Alphabet still completely owns all the money-making businesses of Google.
Has sentiment analysis successfully conquered sarcasm yet? Twitter is ripe with it.
It takes a lot more than cutting Google out of the OS to truly make it secure and private:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...
This is incorrect: DNA in the folded form of chromatin stores information. In particular, chromatin state is epigenetic and is used to deactivate many genes during the development process.

Further, even a duplex is a "fold" (coiled coils are a structural motif).

You're fixating on the A T G C base form of encoding; DNA contains a lot more information than just that, encoded in its quatenary structure.
A Former CIA Executive's Advice on How to Make Hard Decisions
Sometimes I wish there were "gwern-as-a-service". I give him a topic, and he researches and writes it up. Payment in bitcoin. That would be pretty fucking awesome.
Thanks, I stand corrected. The odds aren't too bad in that case. Hell, now I am intrigued by the prospect too.
I'm using Firefox.
it's just a simulator.

Like Camelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Two main areas.

It prepares you, in terms of financial visibility, experience, etc, if the most painful of anti-trust remedies (breakup) ever happens. AT&T, for example, would have likely proposed different terms for their breakup if they had better visibility into how Western Electric would have performed on its own.

It provides more public financial visibility into some areas of concern, early. For example, it looks like Google fiber isn't staying with Google. Google fiber is probably a concern for at least US anti-trust regulators.
Yes. Otherwise the only way to verify an anti malware system is working is with something actually malicious. So, you know, that's a bad plan. Think of system administrators deploying and validating a security package.
I'm not sure why people have down-voted this response. All wheat flour contains gluten. Gluten does provide much of the texture to baked goods (try some gluten free bread - it's mouth-feel isn't the same).

That isn't to say different varieties of wheat or flour might cause different reactions in people. But that isn't the gluten; it's something else.
Could you elaborate on that?
am I the only one who wants to hurl reading this?