skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, abusing their search dominance among other things like making ads indistinguishable from organic results and paid placement on verticals like shopping/hotels etc. was eventually going to pay out.

More details on how Google manipulated search rankings manually to make more money:

From http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-skewed-search-results...

>A previously undisclosed report by staffers at the Federal Trade Commission reveals new details about how Google Inc. manipulated search results to favor its own services over rivals’, even when they weren’t most relevant for users.

>In a lengthy investigation, staffers in the FTC’s bureau of competition found evidence that Google boosted its own services for shopping, travel and local businesses by altering its ranking criteria and “scraping” content from other sites. It also deliberately demoted rivals.

>For example, the FTC staff noted that Google presented results from its flight-search tool ahead of other travel sites, even though Google offered fewer flight options. Google’s shopping results were ranked above rival comparison-shopping engines, even though users didn’t click on them at the same rate, the staff found. Many of the ways Google boosted its own results have not been previously disclosed.

>One way Google favored its own results was to change its ranking criteria. Google typically ranks sites based on measures like the number of links that point to a site, or how often users click on the site in search results.

>But Marissa Mayer, who was then a Google vice president, said Google didn’t use click-through rates to determine the ranking for its own specialized-search sites, because they would rank too low, according to the staff report

>Instead, Google would “automatically boost” its own sites for certain specialized searches that otherwise would favor rivals, the FTC found. If a comparison-shopping site was supposed to rank highly, Google Product Search was placed above it. When Yelp was deemed relevant to a user’s search query, Google Local would pop up on top of the results page, the staff wrote.

>Other regulators have found similar practices. European antitrust authorities in 2013 said Google had a different, “specialized” search algorithm for ranking its own content.

>To bolster its own listings, Google sometimes copied, or “scraped,” information from rival sites. According to the FTC report, Google copied Amazon’s rankings of how well products were selling, then used that information to rank its results for product searches. Amazon declined to comment.

>While Google promoted its own results, it sometimes demoted rivals, the FTC staff found. For example, Google compiled a list of comparison-shopping sites and “demoted them from the top 10 web results,” staff wrote. According to the report, Google users in tests didn’t like the changes; only after Google tweaked its search algorithm at least four times, and changed the ranking criteria, did the new results get “slightly positive” feedback, the staff said.

>Google’s efforts paid off, the FTC found. It said Google’s maneuvers reduced Web traffic to rivals, and increased traffic to Google sites.
Also interesting to see in this earnings report is that Google's "other bets" aka moonshots are 3.5 billion in the red...[0]

[0]https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2015/Q4_google_earnin...
But using those bridges, how can I be assured that someone on the other side has access to stuff like file transfers or code snippets, or any of the other features?
Just to be clear, I was only commenting that GMail's search can be used for chats. I was not commenting on other features, but I'll try to answer your questions if I can.

> Does hangouts have a concept of topics?

Yes, in that you can title group conversations. It's weak though.

> From my limited uses of it, if you chat with a single person, you can't create a new chat with that person around a different topic.

AFAICT, this is correct. If you try to make a group chat with only one person, it will just open the existing chat that you have open with that person.

> In hangouts, how do I easily see the files that have been sent?

I honestly have no idea. whenever I've needed to send a file to someone over hangouts, I share a dropbox link.

> Also, how do I star a comment? In slack, it's handy to star a comment, or even pin them, to make finding them easier.

This is not possible AFAIK.
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> Not sure exactly what you mean by the "hardware support" part,

Yes I should have been clearer, and said no penalty or minimal penalty, support for base+offset address calculation. A fair number of machines a couple decades ago, had additional latency or throughput penalties for addressing modes that required address calculation. This is still true in some cases for more complex calculations. So the use of pointer arithmetic was in many cases noticeably faster than using array syntax even though they are functionally the same. This was also partially due to the compilers not being smart enough (or not having enough registers) to dedicate one explicitly for the resulting address (and using register indirect) if the programmer was using a base[offset] calculation.

For example, the ARM I'm using at the moment has a 1 cycle latency penalty for certain scaled displacements. This means that if your looping over an array of 16 bit ints it will be faster to use a pointer to the integers if the compiler fails to increment the index by 2 and instead uses a (base+offset * 2) load/store. This means the compiler has to be fairly smart about code that uses the index's absolute value as well as its "offset" value in an array.

(BTW the particular ARM in question does base+offset*4 or 8 at full speed).
The actual computational work this app is going to be doing is rather small (waiting on IO). I would be more concerned about wasting memory leaving this running all the time.
Judging by some of Apple's patents that filter through the USPTO, there are clearly broader applications of those capabilities being studied deep within R&D. Yet the institutional memory of the disastrous, nearly-bankrupting sprawl of the 1990s is certainly at the heart of Apple's resistance to commercialize a lot of the wilder things its researchers and designers come up with.
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> Is there a discussion somewhere that outlines some of the reasoning behind this pick?

Yes. The decisions was actually made on the open source GitHub Pages Gem repo, based on both user feedback and actual usage stats: https://github.com/github/pages-gem/issues/179.
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If I might extrapolate with anecdotes, I know some people who are prone to extensive storytelling about every event. This leads them tremendously astray at times, because to make a better, more truthful story they weave in their hopes, fears, and biases. A short news item becomes another data point in making the myth of conspiracy, invasion, or the inherent failures of the other. And self-encouragement to act on a task tends to take the form of saying out loud, "it'll be better when it's done."

But in both cases, talking it up does nobody any good. It's the mind being directed towards rationalizations about the future as a destination, a place to arrive at with a tidy fairy tale ending, and life doesn't really have those. What life has a lot of is journeys conducted by routine, accented with pivotal chance events. Whatever happens, you wake up the next day and continue. And that is depressing if you're convinced that an ending should take place!
"When you, as a free software project maintainer, rely on proprietary software for your infrastructure, you send a bad message of "I expect my free software to be good enough for you, but your free software is not good enough for me.""

No you don't. You send the message that you're using what you believe are the best tools for your team.
Impossible? Yahoo had gross income of $4.6B in 2014. That is one hell of a cash flow stream. I find it very hard to believe that turning that into a profitable venture again would violate the laws of either physics or economics.

I think a much more likely explanation is that Marissa failed because she brought no new ideas to the table, and also made a whole bunch of boneheaded blunders like this:

http://gawker.com/5987043/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-installed-...

and this:

http://nypost.com/2016/01/18/marissa-mayers-job-safety-joke-...

while she unashamedly pocketed $36M for her first six months worth of work.
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How can one China Ponzi sheme have $7.5 billion, but the the best ponzi sheme to date, bitcoin, market cap only stands at like $5 billiion?
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If you're an advertiser, you've already seen this. Mobile viewers click on ads less often than desktop viewers.

So, absent any other variables...if mobile traffic is growing faster than desktop traffic, year over year, click growth would slow.
I think he is suggesting that it is possible to drive growth in paid clicks by misdirecting organic click intenders to paid clicks.

Of course, one imagines there are many other explanations for growth, too.
The corn thing is just running the numbers to make it logical, rather than illogical. Instead of buying $250 tablets, they could buy $50-$100 tablets. They could sell by the dozen, which would mean they'd only need to close one or two sales each day. Since their parents run a music festival / camp, and three B&B suites, I am generous enough to consider that they had enough traffic make enough to afford a tablet of some sort.

As far as timber futures or even the financial side of that business, I admittedly don't know much about. I do know of and see people that plant and maintain several acres explicitly for selling the lot's wood in the future. I assumed that such a time-expensive thing would have been turned into a financial product years ago, but that part I admit is a guess rather than fact.
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I use IRCCloud.com, but this looks very interesting to throw on my Linux server on Google Cloud to play around with.
We actively did this with our kid from the start. We didn't play with her that much, she figured out how to entertain herself perfectly fine. (We didn't ignore her, before someone reads too much into it.) Just don't "train" the child into expecting that entertainment is produced by a third party at all times and they'll figure out to keep themselves happy.

Now, at age 3, she can be in the back seat for a 1-1.5 hour car trip WITHOUT ANY ENTERTAINMENT WHATSOEVER. Just looking out the window thinking, asking questions about stuff she sees, maybe singing something. No DVD player, books, game consoles, phones or anything.
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It would be fantastic to see this fix accompanied by a patch that adds a test that runs that primality check again.

It's a check that probably doesn't need to run in CI over and over again, but boy would it be nice to have it codified so everyone reading now could reproducibly run the check if we felt the desire.
This would be a really fantastic program to have running in Go. Deployment is drop-dead simple and usage on resources is very light.
I wouldn't count on that. Apple seems to have a lot of volatility lately.
Lots of them in fact, when you consider logging to disk.
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Yeah, this got better and better as it went on and I kept seeing more and more interesting items. I don't know when I'll end up in Kansas City, but this will be on my itinerary when I do get there.
You guys have just had a fairly serious exodus of staff right? What was the deal with that and why're you hiring so soon after? I used to work for one of your competitors YourParkingSpace but I love what you guys are doing - parking is indeed a very broken industry.
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Get off your high horse. You cannot reasonably expect people to use sub-par alternatives and be happy with it.
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> It can't slow your car down for you

AEB systems can, though: http://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-rewards-explai...
> "The palm tree is the dead giveaway: This is El Paso, not the Himalayas."

Palm trees aren't native to the Chihuahuan desert, yet certain places that can afford it (UTEP as seen here, NMSU in Las Cruces, banks, etc.) plant a few of them anyway, since it's someone's idea of desert landscaping.
Also, just normal efficiency and error handling tend to obscure the basic idea of code. Keeping a commented-out copy of the original can document the basic idea.

Or, it's epicycles within epicycles until a paradigm shift to a simpler theory. Though most real-world programming goals are not intrinsically simple, but a mish-mash of mess.
> I can turn your comment on its head and it works quite well: we can't settle for technically inferior free software if we want to see a world in which users can control their computers.

Well, users can't control their computers in that example. They can hope to control their computers, or hope that the developers which actually control their computers don't do anything nasty to them.

> There are some people like you who have an ideology that pushes them to always choose free software. There are some people who care a bit about free software but will abandon it if the costs are high enough. Then there are some people who don't care about it at all.

> You better at least have something to offer the second group if you don't want to die out.

Free software isn't going to die out. And this skirts around the fact that free software has plenty of innovation behind it. In any case, people are quickly rediscovering issues of freedom with the whole eBook thing. It's very condescending that people don't care about freedom. It all depends on how you frame the solution. "This open source software is always better" or "This free software protects your freedom".
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Hmmm.. still not activated, and I received an email offering a refund.

Too bad, I was looking forward to launching a server, and running the IP address through ARIN. I suspect the service is just software running atop Digital Ocean or AWS.
> Knowing how the floating point number is packed, we know a right shift is equal to divide by two and negate it.

Shifting an IEEE754 floating point number does not have that effect.[0] The fact that it doesn't do that is the source of the "mystery" of fast inverse square root.

[0] https://gist.github.com/jessedhillon/386fa964e822e529f6c1
# Run Miller-Rabin on the prime in the blink of an eye:

from gmpy2 import mpz, is_prime

p_list = [0xCC, 0x17, 0xF2, 0xDC, 0x96, 0xDF, 0x59, 0xA4, 0x46, 0xC5, 0x3E, 0x0E,
0xB8, 0x26, 0x55, 0x0C, 0xE3, 0x88, 0xC1, 0xCE, 0xA7, 0xBC, 0xB3, 0xBF,
0x16, 0x94, 0xD8, 0xA9, 0x45, 0xA2, 0xCE, 0xA9, 0x5B, 0x22, 0x25, 0x5F,
0x92, 0x59, 0x94, 0x1C, 0x22, 0xBF, 0xCB, 0xC8, 0xC8, 0x57, 0xCB, 0xBF,
0xBC, 0x0E, 0xE8, 0x40, 0xF9, 0x87, 0x03, 0xBF, 0x60, 0x9B, 0x08, 0xC6,
0x8E, 0x99, 0xC6, 0x05, 0xFC, 0x00, 0xD6, 0x6D, 0x90, 0xA8, 0xF5, 0xF8,
0xD3, 0x8D, 0x43, 0xC8, 0x8F, 0x7A, 0xBD, 0xBB, 0x28, 0xAC, 0x04, 0x69,
0x4A, 0x0B, 0x86, 0x73, 0x37, 0xF0, 0x6D, 0x4F, 0x04, 0xF6, 0xF5, 0xAF,
0xBF, 0xAB, 0x8E, 0xCE, 0x75, 0x53, 0x4D, 0x7F, 0x7D, 0x17, 0x78, 0x0E,
0x12, 0x46, 0x4A, 0xAF, 0x95, 0x99, 0xEF, 0xBC, 0xA6, 0xC5, 0x41, 0x77,
0x43, 0x7A, 0xB9, 0xEC, 0x8E, 0x07, 0x3C, 0x6D]

p = mpz(0) # Edit: should be zero, not 1

for num in p_list:
p = (p << 8) + num

print("Q: Is p a prime?\nA: %s" % (is_prime(p) and 'Yes' or 'No'))
For practical purposes it should suffice if they create an exhaustive list of the encryption software that is used, say, in 99% of all cases. Finding those and documenting some vulnerabilities of each is quite a realistic goal.
> A good chunk of the highly educated people from the economic fields, Law, Public Relations and business world are much more manipulative and opportunistic than most "science people" understands.

Maybe so, but conspiracies generally require that they all act in concert with no one defecting. If even one of them decides to change allegiance (which should be somewhat likely if we are describing these people as "opportunistic") the conspiracy ceases to be pure speculation. For example, look at the sequence of events that eventually outed Lance Armstrong.

> They simply do not fathom the ruthlessness of the political or business world.

"Ruthlessness" is a spectrum. I'm sure there are lots of shady things that happen in Washington. I'm also pretty sure that no one in Washington is both as powerful and ruthless as Frank Underwood from House of Cards, for example.
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You can also do it on paper. Make your VC shares subordinate to your employee ISO pool. Talk is cheap ;-)
...and I sincerely hope you are using log rotation or your server will eventually become useless, too.