skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me personally[0], the difference isn't being able to speak in terms of marketing, but in terms of engaging with users who have problems. It may not translate to much in terms of run rate, but I like to think (or at least hope) the presence of GCP staff on HN, Stack Overflow, and in any other community we happen to be part of will in the long run pay off in terms of goodwill.

I am free to comment on posts about GCP here on HN. If there are workarounds, I can post them. If it's a bug I can comment as such and file it internally. I can express opinions as long as they're clearly marked as my own. I didn't have to take any training or end up on a whitelist; Google expressed their faith in my good judgement when they hired me. If nothing else, it was a morale boost to feel trusted to act responsibly.

At the other end of the spectrum, GCP has started building out in terms of large-scale engagement. Cloud has been a big part of Google I/O; now there's GCP NEXT as a Cloud-specific user conference: https://cloudplatformonline.com/NEXT2016.html. Building more in this space seems easier to me than a cultural change which encourages (rather than prohibits) customer and community engagement on the individual level, but perhaps I'm being naïve.

[0]: I currently work at Google on Compute Engine; I formerly worked at Amazon, although not on AWS.
Utility trumps compliance.

That's not to say that standards are bad and shouldn't be followed. Just that, sometimes, you really don't need a 250 page committee-designed specification to get some basic shit done.
That sounds like the Field of Dreams[1] theory of civic planning, and I'm pretty sure there are plenty of examples outlining why it doesn't always work out well. For one, Detroit.

1: "If you build it, they will come."
Interesting. I do subvocalize but my memory is terrible. The best way I can describe it is that I have a inaccurate lookup table so I can kind of remember things but recalling specific things is hard particularly when I need the information. I don't usually have issues with spelling though.

So I end up using a ton of Google and obsessively taking notes/making lists. Quip has been a lifesaver.
Thank you - I'm going to check out those blacklist providers. I have the ability to disable by host; up until now I haven't had the need to exercise that feature.
Every 1st of the month there is a discussion thread for job posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring In between job posts from non-Ycombinator companies aren't allowed.
Hi pdknsk,

I'm a Product Manager on App Engine and wanted to reach out and say that 100% we are invested in app engine and are working to make it your favorite platform. For example, we heard that GAE documentation needs enhancements and we've kicked off a large project to do just this. It's an ongoing effort as you can imagine, but please take a look at the new landing page and managed VM content as well as the left-hand nav reorg we did. Here is the link. More to come of course.

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs

Please give the new set of docs a try and please give us feedback when you see errors or generally when the content is not up to par with what you expect. There is a feedback tool on the top right hand side of every page.

Thank you!
Amir
How much food does a cow need to filter to get that nutrient-dense liver?

My estimate is that it's probably equivalent to several families dining on protein rich, nutrient rich grains throughout the whole year.

Your arguments that appeal to tradition, history, and culture, cannot be considered rational arguments. They also aren't derived from morals (product of rationalism). They are empty.

I wonder how did the Chinese solve their food crisis, I guess it was raising billions of cattle to feed their hungry people beef liver?

It's a luxurious food, not necessary, and given Bill's arguments - he obviously is missing the point.
Given the recent WHO report and thousands of papers, including the discovery of mechanistic-molecular processes, causal link to meat consumption and heart disease (LDL cholesterol), they are just papers away from finding the causal link between cancer and meat consumption (sugars found in animal flesh alone). Given the huge amount of evidence it is not rational to call it a healthy food.

Freedom of Information Act documents reveal that the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned the egg industry that saying eggs are nutritious or safe may violate rules against false and misleading advertising.

Same will happen with dairy and milk, for dairy there are also hundreds of papers linking consumption with iron and calcium deficiency.

Claiming that meat, dairy and eggs is good food for developing nations is irrational, incorrect and contrary to the majority of evidence available.

Linking cigarettes with lung disease was done decades before they decided to make laws to ban the marketing. Thousands of papers were written, and everyone was denying it, because cigarettes were the cultural thing of the first-world countries. Call to tradition isn't a rational argument.
> Before, being stoned at all was illegal.

Nope! The only relevant crime is possession, and "in your bloodstream" doesn't count.
US patents are generally not valid in India. As I understand it, you have to patent something in every country where you want protection. In practice, you choose how many countries you need, in order to protect a reasonable market. Sometimes you can guess wrong about this, of course.
Who's upper management? As I mentioned in another thread, we acquired Diane Greene's company so that she would run Cloud and Apps at Google, back in November:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/technology/google-picks-di...

and Sundar (CEO) and Ruth (CFO) mentioned Cloud a lot on Alphabet's most recent earnings call. I'm not disagreeing that AWS is massively important to Amazon, but to say that Google (and Alphabet) aren't serious about Cloud is incorrect.
So from the article, Zynga was going to post a loss (if I read that correctly), but because of the sale, they'll post a hefty profit. Given the artificiality of this profit, are execs still expecting to be paid performance bonuses?

If so, wow, very shady.
Hasn't this judge seen the Matrix?
For Oculus, 2016 Is the Year Virtual Reality Gets Real
Microsoft does not seem to bother with older software. It is because they don't support and upgeade it anymore.

Microsoft only goes against piracy of software they still support and upgrade.

They don't bother with the old software because it isn't worth it to sue or send a c&d letter because they don't earn an income with it anymore. So they don't lose income if someone pirates software they no longer sell.

In fact they gave away the source code to an early MS-DOS and MS-Word as part of their own open source license.

It is good PR for them if someone emulates their old software in the web browser and gives them free publicity.
Belgian woman, 24, granted euthanasia death over depression
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11157328
Would you have said the same thing about Amazon when they started AWS? "Data centers aren't their core business: retail is".
Part of could be that it is easier to fuck up a finger prick blood draw and cause inaccurate results. Improper cleaning [1], not getting the blood out in the right way, or even certain patient conditions. Less likely to mess up (in a way that causes test inaccuracy) when you drain a whole vial out of their arm.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1238762/pdf/brjg...
Thanks for sharing.

>In the streaming case, documents arrive at a very fast rate (e.g. average of 6000 per second in the case of Twitter) and with this kind of velocity and volume it is impractical to build the inverted document index in real-time.

Actually, it's completely practical. It's expensive, but it can be done. When I was at Loggly we built a big ES cluster, pumped 10,000s log messages into it per second, and served queries. Ingest to query was on the order of seconds - it still runs today. The key, of course, is not to build a single inverted index.

I don't want to underestimate the work, but it is practical. And expensive.

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/infrastructure-a...
The Long, Rocky Road from Idea to Successful Biotech
So—to be clear—you're arguing that because weed is the largest problem in spite of the fact that you cannot choose where to live? It seems like the weed problem is a symptom of generally inflating rent in the metro area. Either you can afford to live in the metro area, and you choose a healthy place to rent/own, or you can't, and you're instead complaining about a symptom of being forced to live in a place you don't like.
Handwritten recursive descent parsers offer much more control than the output of a parser generator. Most major C/C++ compiler front-ends do this.
Does this make UI innovations unpatentable? Can GUI be considered a hardware?
I can't remember where I read it, but Japan apparently has a history of playing fast and loose with nuclear stuff. Their safety record prior to Fukushima was far from spotless.
Scientist4J – A Java Port of GitHub's Scientist
How far can an untrue rumor spread?  Outer space music, indeed.  Ha, Ha
Maybe you can answer who was the person that decided that your library was so special that you have to use a damn application to add it to a project, rather than use the same exact procedures to add a library that every other library uses? No, I don't want to use your application to add the library, and no, I don't want to have to go through the onboarding every single time I need to add it or update it.
You can't argue that one failure to achieve accurate results mean that it's inherently impossible to achieve accurate results.

In this case, it's conceivable that there could be a tip geometry, tip composition, cleaning technique, normalizing strategy, prick location/depth, etc (or combination of the above) that leads to good data. Of course, that's not a guarantee that it is possible, and it still puts the burden of proof on Theranos (for example) to prove that they have actually overcome this problem if they want to run tests that way.

It is mighty suggestive though.
Recommendation algorithms and models don't do you any good if you don't have users.
The idea of multiple vendors making the same "beige boxes" and only competing on price is bad. One of the things on my wishlist for an Intel/AMD branded laptop is a high quality UEFI implementation.
How to Kill a Supercomputer: Dirty Power, Cosmic Rays, and Bad Solder
Still not sure what it does - provides monitoring, analytics, and a nice UI for cocoapods?
I don't generally hear an "audible" voice in my head, the thoughts just appear, as concepts, or at least as atomic words. I look at the words on the page and the shape of them manifests the meaning. I still kindof imagine speaking the word, but it's not like imagining any other sound.

In contrast, I can imagine music very vividly, with different instruments and their timbres fully defined. It's very close to the sensation of hearing music, to the point where I sometimes have to stop myself from dancing to music that only I can hear, definitely not something to do in public! (The music never has lyrics btw. Even if I'm imagining a real song that has words, they just end up as wordless vocalizations.)

The closer to being in the "flow" state I am, the less of an experience of inner speech I have. When I've been programming or doing music for an hour, I don't really think in words at all, the concepts just seem to flash past, going almost directly from the unconscious to motor actions. With art especially you don't have words for most of the things you're doing anyway, so how could you possibly think in a monologue?

However when I need to think carefully about what I'm doing, when I need to use deductive logic or it's very important that I make absolutely no mistakes, I do veer more towards inner speech. The other major one is rehearsing possible social interactions, or having hypothetical conversations, which is something I actually do quite a lot of (I think it's quite common) and obviously that involves speech.

Finally, at times of emotional stress or fear (but not panic), I'm forced into a consistent inner monologue. It's very similar to the way you can't deliberately give up conscious control of your breathing once you take hold of it, and I can easily see how it could be scary for some people. Sometimes it does feel like a step down the road towards madness, in comparison to my normal state. If I woke up one morning and was stuck like that, I would 100% be going to a psychiatrist.

Don't get any of that stuff about being able to see numbers unfortunately. I have very poor imaging ability. I can't really see pictures in my head at all.
“Taylor Swift” by Maggie Thompson Featuring Justin Myrick
exactly. People like to pretend that e.g. PEG grammars don't have ambiguities because of "ordered choice"... But the truth is, they simply mask ambiguity away! Even yacc will always produce a valid grammar, resolving conflicts in a well-defined manner - while also letting you know how to fix your grammar to make it even better!

Edit: this is actually explained much better in the article.
Apple stand is a bunch of BS. The main issue should be that the safety and protection of humanity. Terrorists are not humans they are bent on destroying humanity.
Yes. But, Amazon is known for their customer service, even in the AWS space. Google is not.

If Google wants to succeed in certain spaces, they need to commit to them for a duration, and evangelize them. I don't see them doing that anywhere as well as Amazon does with AWS.
>since when do you NEED to spend less than 30% of your take home on rent to survive?

While on one side the 3x rent rule might be just "good sense", most places won't consider you if your salary (or the salary of all tenants) isn't 3x your rent.
My clients' upper management. It's a common sentiment as you can see from other threads in this post. Google has a persistent credibility problem in the cloud services market. It drives me crazy (full disc: I'm a GCP certified engineer and I work 100% in AWS. I really miss AppEngine, BigQuery and Datastore.)
This is pretty incredible, and congrats to the research team!

But, could you please not use phrasing like "Reduces Power 10,000x". I don't think I'm the only that has an aversion to this: http://timesless.com/
Is this for statistical debugging as well?
So since the "internet" existed in the 70's, nothing exciting happened in the 90's?
It makes a lot of sense in .NET land, because it maps to SQL, which people tend to have some kind of grasp on.

Although that LINQ expression syntax can go die in a fire. It's a great way to end up with people using borked up joins in Linq-to-SQL and EF that don't work the way they think they do, rather than the actual foreign-key relationships.
This is called a number form:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form
Nice catch, I haven't read the paper yet but I wonder if it belongs to the device generating the frequency.
Is there any public available information where we can read about deployment process in the company?
Do you think other forms of energy are immune to this?

Yet, in the actual world Nuclear power kills so many fewer people than any other kind of power - solar included - that's it's not even in the same ballpark.
"Sit down, little Timmy. Grandpa wants to tell you a tale, a tale of yogurt parfait in tiny cups as far as the eye can see, a tale of padded deluxe banquet chairs and Starbucks coffee pods from worn hotel percolators..."
The goal is to explain "why is the number this value and not some other value". Unless the number actually takes on multiple values, the anthropic principle has no explanatory power.

If there is only one value, the universe can't "plan" or "choose" a value that is conducive to life, and so pointing to its suitability for life is a teleological argument-- it explains a cause (the value of the constant) in terms of its effect (the eventual existence of life). That's backwards and circular-- causes come before effects.
I wonder if it might have something to do with error reporting. The usual way to handle error messages in a CFG is to make a superset of the grammar that contains all likely mistakes, along with custom error messages for each one. As you can imagine, the resulting grammars get pretty hairy. You also have more information available for reporting & recovery with a hand-written parser: think, for example, of how Clang can spell-correct mistyped keywords, something that's not possible without the ability to interpret an identifier as a keyword if it happens to be a certain edit-distance off.
I never liked the word corruption because it lends itself to too many interpretations. I see the problem as tribalism. In most third world coutries, the poitical set up is a couple tribes that share power, control industry, and insulate themselves from the problems of the rest of their country. Everyone else not part of the tribe has to fend for themselves. A tribe is more than a collection of people/families, it is an institution that can impose social mores on its own kind.

What foreign aid does is insulate these tribal systems against change. It often supports repression, but also does provide needed medicine or food to people you would otherwise die. That, to me, is the problem.
The NSA ANT catalog of spy devices (leaked by Snowden) also includes cheap analog retro-reflectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
I think this is more about competition from Amazon than other search engines. The focus on "commercial queries" tells me there's a mini death spiral of buyers going straight to Amazon to do those commercial searches. This will let them get in between more purchases short term but drive more users straight to Amazon long term.
Boston Dynamics' New ATLAS Robot Is Quiet, Robust, and Tether Free
I have some questions based on previous experience many moons ago experience (3 or 4 yrs).

When I tried to port some of our platform to AppEngine I had some issues with various Java libraries (writing tmp files, opening sockets, etc). Once I sort of got past that and used some of Googles own APIs (which is sort of annoying that I had to couple my stuff) I had timeout issues. See we have to integrate with all these enterprise third parties (SOAP/REST) and these guys can be really slow.
We also couldn't use our own pub/sub (AMQP/RabbitMQ) so that was going to have to be ported as well.

Things must have changed because its hard for me to imagine Spotify being able to get all their needs met on a rather coupling platform.

* How does one write code for Google Cloud while being agnostic of Google Cloud?

* Maybe appengine supports AMQP?

* Or maybe the container engine fixes these problems? (ie need something more custom run it in a docker image).

Our current platform runs on Rackspace and Digital Ocean. These guys are IaaS so your basically doing DevOps which is a pain... but Rackspace does have kick ass customer service.
I didn't mean to imply my relative went insulin free. He definitely did not. Based on the replies, I realize I probably shouldn't have posted what I did. I was trying to be helpful, but I'm no expert in this, so I should have stayed out of it.
Maybe Google figured it out from the activity your link provided in the last 8 hours, but when I click on [1], the top result is [0], and there is a prompt asking if I meant "united.com".
The article actual says that anything less than 4 drops is inaccurate for measuring haemoglobin.

If you can’t get an accurate result measuring the most common protein in blood then the concept is not going to go far unless you can get a few ex-generals and war criminals on your board of directors.
> How much food does a cow need to filter to get that nutrient-dense liver?

Cows eat food humans can't. That's the entire point of having them!

In some places they feed them other things, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Mario Kart ‘hacked’ to have 101 players
I recommend the commercial game Hexcell (and its sequels) if you want to turn the same logic into a really crafty puzzle.
Depends, different people respond differently to benzodiazepines. For myself, a 5mg valium relaxes me but does not induce sleep. Similar to having a glass or two of wine, really. For others, they'll basically be knocked out. I'm not convinced it's necessary for flying myself, but if you have any sort of flight anxiety it can be a game-changer.
Awesome, good to know. Thanks!
[IANAL] The PCT makes it possible to shotgun patent applications globally though, right? India is a contracting state.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Cooperation_Treaty
True that Google stills uses it internally, but external usage exists way beyond Snapchat (although they are a fun customer). App Engine hasn't been in maintenance mode, although we have set aside engineering cycles to improve the reliability and stability of the service in order to ensure the highest level of support for production-grade customers. In tandem, we've some large features such Go, PHP, full-text search, and Cloud Storage support. We've added integration with the Cloud Console as well as Cloud SDK to allow developers to build hybrid solutions that span, for example, App Engine and Compute Engine. And, yes, we've invested in the App Engine Managed VM environment with a host of new runtimes including Java 8, Python 3, Go, PHP, and Node.js. We have more coming there over the next 2-3 months. Guido leaving was tough, I used to share an office with him. That said, I'm not sure that his exit was the writing on the wall.

Disclaimer: I'm the lead for the App Engine product team.
There are a ton of Slack apps popping up.

Are they typically side projects? Or on the VC / startup path?

(This is not a dig at Slack apps, just curious whether people see a big market here)
If I cared what the order was, I'd expect that I'd have to order it myself, e.g.:

var foo = things.SelectMany(thing=>thing.SubThings).OrderBy(subthing=>subthing.PropertyICareAbout)

Particularly if things is some interface that I don't know the details of, like IEnumerable, ICollection or IDictionary.
I assume your business is GearLaunch? If so, why do I need to enable javascript just to see the landing page, which is just a logo...? I'm curious if this was intended, or a consequence of the framework you're using (e.g. Meteor).

Edit: It seems to be on purpose, with the use of noscript tags.
Why shell out for that effort before you get bought, though? Seems counterintuitive
The teacher of the future is neither human nor machine
My girlfriend intended to suicide herself in December 2014. This was a few months before she met me in March 2015. She's mostly better now.

There are reasons that people feel depressed. American psychiatry does not treat causes, it experiments with drugs that hopefully help the undesired symptoms go away. [1]

I wonder what the mental health system is like in Belgium. If it's anything like the American state-of-the-art, it's ineffective at best.

[1] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-doctor-isnt-...
They don't tend to work (you end up clicking a "script error" acknowledgement a lot). It's less fun than it sounds like it would be.
Fair point, I'm talking about the "SMOKE WEED ERRYDAY" sort of crowd.
what's a "competitive price tag" for a "pretty lame raise" mean in valuation for you? I was shocked to see the article say:

>I'd close the first, say, $200k from the first reasonably good investors that offer it on reasonable terms--say a $5 million pre-money valuation or higher. This removes some uncertainty and pressure, gives you capital to execute with while raising the rest of your round, puts you in a stronger position, etc. It's worth a discount for all of this. (Emphasis added.)

Which means that a $5M seed-stage is a 'dicount'! (The true price would be at a higher valuation.) That is a shocking phrase to use, when selling a company for $5M outright is a pretty good outcome for 95% of people who create a company in the tech space.
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