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The author needs to clarify what portion of total revenue Google derives from ads, and then to break those ads out by service (Youtube, Gmail, Sponsored search), platform (desktop vs. mobile), and geography. Those stats probably aren't publicly available, but it would be good to have a rough estimate so we could have a more nuanced conversation around relative values rather than just one big pot of "ad revenue".

Otherwise, you're really just fumbling around in the dark, saying that monetizing mobile searches with such a low average daily click rate are a big problem for Google when the reality could be that they've never made much money from mobile search ads, especially in developing countries where they are adding the most users whose ad clicks are worth less because they have less disposable income than the average American or European. Similarly I'd wager that mobile search ads are a very small portion of Google's overall mobile business, and that Google never planned to make much money from mobile search in the first place, understanding that building out the app ecosystem and getting Android onto a ton of phones was more important in the long run.

People don't explore on their smartphones: they consume.

This as a cool thought experiment that could have been improved with more insight into breaking "ad revenue" into meaningful chunks to see whether or not Google actually cares about the slice considered in the headline: mobile search ad revenue.
If you're talking about limiting to certain TLDs, like American CAs not being able to issue .ca or .in or .paris, there is a spec for that, called name constraints. It is intermittently supported, and there was a thread on mozilla.dev.security.policy, primarily focusing on government CAs, which argued that doing such a thing fractures the open/egalitarian nature of the internet, by making zones where security is less important:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.security.polic...

I can imagine other ways you would restrict certificates (for instance, I'd kinda like to see a spec for a "half-CA", where you need two half-CAs under distinct organizational control to sign you), but I don't think anyone has specified the problem for those precisely, let alone proposed a solution.
I had heard awful stories first-hand from former employees long before this story came out as well. I'm not even in the information tech industry, yet they complained to me without prompting.
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I would love to see a similar proposition with proprietary products run by companies.

If you run an infrastructure style product, there should be a living will involve where the product will become open source upon the bankruptcy or shutdown style sale of the company.

For example, FoundationDB was bought by apple and the product was shuttered. Under a living will, the product would become open source, as it is no longer developed by the company.

I realise this may lead to a lower selling price, all things being equal, however people/companies are also more likely to trust you when you are small, as they have a greater chance of survival should you fail.

My personal feeling is that most of these products should be open source from the get go, and it will probably have to be this way going forward, however this is a reasonable middle ground.
You buy 50 shares, because in your proposed strategy you want to make money whether the stock goes up or down. Because the option strike price and underlying price are the same, the appropriate ratio of underlying stock to options is about 50% if you want to be neutral to the future direction of the stock movement (delta-neutral as they say).

If you bought 100 shares with 100 covered, then you are purely betting the stock is going up by more than the option price. You would break even at $107, but lose on anything lower.

Implied volatility is the amount the stock is expected to move as implied by the price the market is charging. Sometimes it is easier to think of an option price in terms of volatility rather than raw dollars, especially when you are making trades of the type you proposed.

In the Netflix case, the current price of the option "implies" that the stock will move plus or minus 3% per trading day; if it moves more, say 5% a day, you are likely to make money.

Of course, thinking of options in this way also means you are on board with a ton of assumptions in modern options pricing theory, and lots of smart people point out flaws and objections.
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I've been using Yast https://www.yast.com/ for about 5 years now and I still love the simplicity.
I don't know about you, but in my mind when I see a yield sign...i'll stop if it makes sense. I don't feel that the stop sign changes my desire to not run over someone all that much. As a driver I want the flexibility to make a judgement on if stopping is required based on the situation. Maybe a red sign makes sense to provide additional information ("this is a bad intersection, be extra careful!") but I don't like that the sign requires me to stop, even if it doesn't make sense.

This goes back to my ongoing complain that driving laws are very relaxed (i.e. speed limits never complied with - but for some reason we still have them?) and its causing an inconsistent approach to driving. For example, hardly anyone signals when turning or changing lanes, and if they do its by the time they're already well into the turn. Its just bad driving, dangerous and quiet frankly while I do not want stricter laws, or more enforcement...i'd appreciate some consistency in how people behave on the roads.

To me this is just adds to the vibe of the 'broken window' issue with roads and how people interact with them right now.
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added to that most websites dictate how they will display their information to me

Yet you say you miss native apps, which absolutely dictate everything about how they work?
Right. All I'm arguing is that making that statement does not amount to evidence of brain damage.
I use the OK Google voice search and do "XYZ near me" all the time. I guess many people have not caught on to these "near me" searches
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You're overestimating the significance of material left behind after death. What'll happen is children or anyone left behind will harvest the photos folder of your laptop and then throw the computer to trash. It's extremely unlikely that they'll find the time to go through your digital documents otherwise, let alone figure out passwords or continue your life work. Life goes on, assets will be sold, money distributed, and so on.
As a web plumber, the Arduino (and Photon and all the other similar platforms) is very very easy to get started with. With minimal C experience, I made a mobile phone[1] and the software was, by far, the easy part.

I definitely recommend buying an Arduino or one of the clones that sell for $2 or so.

I'm very excited about MicroPython as well, though, can't wait to buy something that will run it. (EDIT: at almost $50 per pyboard, it turns out I can wait :( )

[1]: http://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/
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Is it "disgusting" to believe that in general people should pay for their own food, clothes, and housing, with government assistance to those who can't afford it?
I did read the whole article, which was why I was laughing.

Most of those recommendations operate under the assumption that private firms can be trusted when unregulated and left to their own devices.

Believing this is to repeat past mistakes.

Private = for profit. Quality of service and public safety are never high on the list of priorities for such firms.
I always forget thet my phone (iPhone) offers ctrl-f page search functionality. It is one of the options after pressing the share button.
I see the exact opposite trend happening. Weak typing is plateauing. It's the last moment of apparent strength before long, slow, but inevitable collapse. Most interesting work is being done on the static side right now, partially because there's no more work to be done on the dynamic side. (A great deal of being dynamic is precisely throwing away all the structure you might build further features on.)

You can also see this in how all the dynamic languages are working on adding "optional" or "incremental" dynamic typing. Static languages, by contrast, generally create one dynamic type, stick it in a library somewhere, and let the small handful of people who really need it use it. Few, if any, of them are adding any dynamic features. The motion trends are clear.
This is likely the number one reason for rejecting agile: it has already failed. I've worked at over a dozen places claiming to do agile and have found exactly zero that actually do. What's worse, the process degrades into 30-60 minute "stand-ups" or "scrums" or whatever, eating into a good chunk of the day for absolutely negative gain (as it's mostly people talking about shit that's irrelevant to 90% of the team and wasting everyone's time because the "process" says they should). I've also seen it degrade into another reason for management to enforce deadlines in all places, including places that only employ deadlines when development is really behind schedule (as is all software development I've ever seen in the business world).

And what are the advantages? Little Joe over there in the corner can feel brave enough to speak up about his problem once a day? Seriously? Is this a process for the socially inept? Is that what we're trying to solve here? Disrupting the coding flow? Allowing the manager to be even more lazy in his contact with the team by limiting it to a few minutes a day (closer to 30 than 5)? Having it replace those couple of hours you could have spent designing your app with a few months of 16 hour bug-tracking right before release? Oh, please ... I think it's time to acknowledge the process doesn't work, that anyone can come up with hundreds of points showing why it doesn't, and that it's time to ditch this resource-wasting process altogether.
I don't think anybody in a tech role would say they have low pay. Many problems, but that isn't one.

Edit: I meant in a tech role at Amazon. Amazon are not known for low pay.
Yep indeed, French here, it's not even an option currently. Maybe in the future it will improve but for now it only works in theory.
The concern was over the alarming percentage on heroin.
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> Lua would be better than Python, imho, because it doesn't require an editor

Can you elaborate on this? How does Lua not require an editor? Is it spoken programming language or something?
I really dislike the fact that a CA is able to bless a new CA completely independently. Does this cause anyone else the slightest amount of anxiety, or am I just being paranoid?
A lot of native "apps" have either very flexible configuration, or some sort of scripting/plugin framework. Maybe not iTunes, but things like foobar2000 or conky.
And yet, curl is always available, widely supported by various "Copy as curl" features in debuggers and proxies and it also makes zero assumptions about content-types of form data you might want to post, so it's always very clear what's going to be posted.

It also follows unix conventions in option placement and syntax, so there's never any cognitive hurdle to cross when the question arises where to put headers, where to put form data, where to put query string data, how to handle the case of query string data being supplied using overlapping methods and what the form data is encoded in.

It also doesn't force me to write json in yet another syntax that's command-line friendly. Instead I can just write json.

Yes. HTTPie looks nicer, but the wide availability of curl and the much more predictable syntax make it a better tool for my taste.

If I need formatted JSON output, I can always pipe the result in to jq.
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Eh, either you die the hero or you live long enough to become the villain.

Your first link included Office Open XML as one of its office formats. The US site is about data in "machine-readable formats" being released by governement agencies. None of it seems to indicate an effort to move away from proprietary software, just interchangeable formats.
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It isn't unfair. Amazon hired a spin doctor, and spin is what he produces. My guess is that Amazon will be just fine after this scandal, though-- they're too big to let a petty thing like "bad culture" impact profits.
Oh wow that's just horrible. I wish I hadn't looked now!
It's somewhat disturbing to me that a former President's press secretary is just a gun for hire for the biggest megacorps.

I mean obviously it's totally predictable but at the same time very disturbing.
Or like TextMate? Not sure which came first now.
None of that absolves the NYT from checking sources and attempting to determine the credibility. This is journalistic malpractice.

If we excuse a "news" organization from fact checking because "well, I've heard stories along those lines" we're screwed.. because where will most people hear those stories? The same organizations.
Does that google image show any markings on "Kinetis ARM chip"?
Yep that's horrible whatever the basis for it is.
They seem to be mostly self-applied labels you use depending on the audience, in my experience.

Not that a degree in a very specifically named program should be the one and only gatekeeper to an occupation, it's just that these seem to be fairly ill-defined titles that tend to be thrown around these days.

I'm kind of tempted to put "software engineer" on that list as well, though I think people tend to understand that it is more than just programming at least.
Except that the courts are used there time and again to strong arm well meaning companies into paying millions out to fight frivolous lawsuits that run them into the ground. Exactly the kind of tactic you'd expect intelligence agencies to use to strong arm encryption companies into giving up their data.
Or it could indicate that Charles Arthur's analysis of the data provided by Google is flawed and so using it to speculate on productivity is a bit of a fool's errand :-)

(See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10419034 for my reasoning)
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A contract is a contract is a contract. Every lawyer TV show has an episode on this - even if you write an agreement on a napkin, it's binding.
I've also got an Oculus dev unit (dk2) and must admit to checking out some of the porn content out there for it. Right now it seems to fall into two main categories: wide angle 3d movies and virtual scenes/environments.

In the former, you're looking at mostly paid/premium content that is ideally played in the company's player application. Still, it works in some other more general VR players. These are shot with cameras that, while not 3d/360 due to current tech limitations, give the illusion of sitting in front of performer(s) doing your typical sexy stuff. It generally mirrors the viewer's assumed seated position so it gives the illusion of watching a live sex show. You can turn your head and look around to some extent but doing 3d/360 is still difficult due to the way dual-camera 3d works. There are several non-porn examples of this as well.

The latter is more like CG porn since the tools for creating and viewing 3d graphics in VR are a lot more established. The flip side is that you're basically watching video game porn. Some of the stuff that can be done in Unity or Unreal Engine is pretty realistic, just like your average modern AAA video game but in the end, it's still cartoon porn so it will appeal to some but not others. On the viewing side, it's more flexible since you can turn around in a full 360 degrees and change your viewpoint just like any other CG virtual environment.

Basically the live stuff is like the evolution of 3D movies while the CG stuff is an evolution of video games.
You don't have to stop using curl because httpie is available. I find httpie very intuitive for my own use, but would share curl commands with other devs as it is ubiquitous.
I'm not disagreeing with what you've included above, but I'd like to add a fourth, new use case.

Excel is increasingly being used as Microsoft's gateway drug to an excellent self-service BI platform, Power BI. There is incredible power in providing a smooth (and approaching seamless) upgrade path from workbook with embedded queries, to a proper dimensional modelling tool (Power Pivot, AKA SSAS Tabular columnstore engine), to a proper dashboard visualization tool (Power View), to a hosted, centralized team solution (Power BI portal - mobile app batteries included), to an on prem enterprise-grade analysis engine (SSAS Tabular).

Again, this is not a refutation, but a new use case and powerful new functionality to address the concerns you raised in Fallacy 2.
I wonder what's up with those annual 15%-or-so dips. Maybe a religious holiday? I'd love to see an X axis there. And does it continue to this day? (The photo is from 2011.)
404 page not found. Certainly simpler and faster.
I take it back lol. At that velocity, we'd be screwed. We have nothing that could get something big enough, to a high enough orbit, and at that velocity...So yeah, it's pretty reassuring lol....
I don't consider social networking to be about social contact, because the physical contact is missing and most of the time we aren't even talking with our "friends" on these social networks. A "like" or a retweet is not a dialog.

Phone calls, SMS messages, IRC chats or even emails are way more healthy than whatever happens on social networks because they are bidirectional. And I'm not even speaking about the magic that happens when shaking somebody's hand or when receiving a smile.
It's not the patent trolling per se, it's the abuse of the legal system to strong arm companies into doing things they have no power to prevent that seems prevalent in that area of the country.
I definitely agree with you, and just want to mention another wrinkle that Amazon could be, inadvertantly, ripping into a large tear. Like you note, they might be able to discredit a few people willing to speak on the record, but if the problem alleged by the article is true, in principle, there potentially are more and more people who would be willing to come forward. People with 'squeakly clean' records. People who might even share more damning things that they've just simply moved on from so they can continue their careers.

Or, to toss out an allegory, it's one thing to step on a few ants, it's another to stomp on their nest.
From my experience it seems like in many technical roles the work-life balance can be as good as you can afford to make it. There is an obvious trade-off between career development and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
A private healthcare sector offering low-cost treatment. That never happens in reality.

Laser eye surgery is reasonably priced. People usually pay for it directly so there's a functioning market, unlike most of the rest of the health care industry.
As they say, "never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel."
It's easy to say things like that when it's not your corpus eighty stories up in the air.
There is a recent 5 page theoretical paper on this topic that I thought was pretty interesting, and it tackles both deep nets and recurrent nets: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08101

Here is the abstract:

This note provides a family of classification problems, indexed by a positive integer k, where all shallow networks with fewer than exponentially (in k) many nodes exhibit error at least 1/6, whereas a deep network with 2 nodes in each of 2k layers achieves zero error, as does a recurrent network with 3 distinct nodes iterated k times. The proof is elementary, and the networks are standard feedforward networks with ReLU (Rectified Linear Unit) nonlinearities.
> with government assistance to those who can't afford it?

This is the important part of your sentence.

The NHS is government assistance, paid for by everybody's taxes, for the benefit of everybody.

I am absolutely in favour of this, as well as government-provided food and housing.

Without free, universal healthcare those poor people than cannot afford outrageous prices under a US-style insurance system for example are, to put it midly, fucked.
I was more looking ahead into my 40s and 50s. I feel pretty comfortable that I'll have work well into my 40s but after that who can say?
You can pick up any of a dozen Android phones for $20 at Wal-Mart [1]. That's the low end. $200 is a big expense for most people.

1: http://www.walmart.com/browse/cell-phones/shop-all-no-contra...
I used to work at a place that gave everyone 2 machines for development: Their regular desktop, and a 5 year old machine, with a throttled internet connection. The programs had to be run on both. I wish more companies would do this.

Especially in mobile. Sure, your site loads fast when your in a major downtown area, but try using your 30 different java-scripts when your in Nowheresville Alabama
I'm fairly certain that in the last 10 years or so I've never bought anything because of a web ad or a TV ad for that matter. You could argue perhaps there is a subconscious element that drove a later purchase, but even if true there is no directly measurable correlation for the ad networks.
so.. a Unix operating system that IBM developed specifically for the rs6000/pseries/power8 servers runs better than Linux. shocking.. even more shocking that the article is hosted on IBM's own site to tell us so.

obviously, AIX has existed longer than Linux, so it's code maturity is better.
Linux on the other hand runs on way more processors then AIX has ever existed on.
with the flexibility and portability that Linux has to new processors there is going to be a processor specific performance drop.
You can also use rime as a tool to create profiles of others. Rime users can create anybody’s guest profile

So, is there any verification of this, at all?
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I have traditionally hated voice recognition since it's traditionally sucked. But Android voice recognition has gotten much, much better over the last few years. I certainly use it for search, and I'm even starting to use it for text entry at times. Coding would still be tedious "left paren function right paren", but outside of that, it's become quite usable.
Just look at the stupid way browsers treat self-signed certificates: these are strictly better than plaintext, but plaintext gets no warning and self-signed certificates are warned about and in some cases actually blocked.

Technically, yes. UI-wise, no. People have different expectations for https:// URLs, which would be broken if browsers simply accepted any self-signed cert.

No excuse for the mailer behaviour, though.
That is why I use my mobile; when I'm walking in the mountains during breaks in my head i'm working on things which I can do without sitting/standing behind my laptop which usually means researching things I don't know or that I could not get to work.
It seems like its an important thing to be able to express. They are extending their trust to the new CA. I believe this information is available to clients if they wanted to choose to reject cross signing.

You're right that this sort of broad power is scary, but I think it's being used reasonably in this context. Do you have specific concerns you are afraid of? The only problem I thought of was a compromised CA cross-signing a malicious CA, but if they are compromised, you could just issue the main CAs certs anyway.