skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think big companies especially tend to view it that way. Governments have passed some of these rules about employee travel having to use the miles/points for official purposes mostly because it's politically popular to hammer "government waste", even using tools that aren't very efficient hammers. Companies tend to take a bigger-picture view when they're worried about travel budgets, instead of the relative penny-pinching of going after airline miles. For example when there's internal pressure to cut corporate travel budgets, two common policies are: 1) direct managers to reduce unnecessary travel, e.g. cut out 10% of trips entirely, and 2) institute a rule that employees have to book through the corporate travel agent and normally must pick one of the routes that's within x% of the cheapest business class fare.

The miles themselves, yeah, I think they just see as a minor compensation to employees for travel, since they don't pay them overtime or anything. Plus in some cases it's not precisely a kickback. Sometimes it is, but other times it's intended to incentivize the traveler to stick with their main airline even when the airline has worse routes to some cities. For example, you usually fly United, but today you want to fly to a city where American has a nonstop and United has only a 1-stop, for similar prices. Absent any kind of loyalty program, you'd pick American's nonstop for convenience. United's perks are supposed to encourage you to take the United 1-stop, even though it's a bit less convenient. This isn't precisely a kickback in the normal sense, because they aren't incentivizing you to buy a higher fare, and it's basically a wash from the employer's perspective. Instead they're incentivizing you to accept being personally inconvenienced with a worse flight, in return for receiving some personal perks.
In Brazil, the greatest amount of CO2 emissions come from deforestation.
What if you relax your formulation from "shoot a gun" to "carry a gun"? My day to day life is very much influenced by many people carring guns in a way that deters criminals without their having to fire a shot, and this was true long before my state allowed civilian concealed carry and I started carrying in it.

In one of its most famous formulations, "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Congrats on this launch pretty exited to see its evolution
This in no way follows from your initial equation, which by itself doesn't make any sense.

Visuals contain meaning, but they are not meaning.
> Power users definitely know the difference between paid results and real results, and over time will steer everyone they can off of Google if it persists in showing a lack of respect for the intelligence of its users.

When I start seeing technical people, HN comments, etc. advocating for using Bing instead of Google, I'll believe this. I don't think it's ever gonna ever happen. Google's power users are, if anything, an even more captive and loyal audience than Joe Public, and they know it.
You can't have a hot war on a cool medium. Always a pleasure to meet another McLuhanite!
AWS doesn't have AppEngine or the Datastore. Yes, there is similar products, but they are absolutely not 'the same'.
Nice, reinforces the point that Spotify likes and Spotify gets discounts on infrastructure :)
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
Spotifier here. This is an important point. I have nothing bad to say about Cloudera or HWX (disclaimer: we're an HWX customer - we've had a pretty good experience), but I don't really see a compelling reason at this stage to manage your own cluster(s) (HIPAA/regulatory constraints, maybe?)

Getting shared-storage and indepedently operated/scaled compute clusters on top of that storage isn't easily achievable with the standard Hadoop stack, and building that on top of HDFS is non-trivial.
back in the win2k days i used to use the windows port of rxvt. it worked pretty well, though it didn't have splits or tabs.
Fancy an Anti-Piracy Threat.To Your Dropbox Email Address?
And don't forget that the developed countries like to export their most pollutant industries. So great part of China pollution is for producing things for USA and Europe.
So facebook doesn't have viable competitors, it owns its viable competitors? ;)
Sindeo is hiring a UX Director
I am not surprised. Spotify is a big company. The question is will it work exactly same for Joe's Inc.
Both everything I and you have said can easily be verified with simple Google searches. You are being dishonest if you think more animals are killed by vegans than meat, dairy and egg eaters, or just trying to start a flame war. Either way, I think you've learned some interesting things through our discussion and I hope you'll consider it with less personal bias in the future.
Being first to migrate to the hot new infrastructure has never worked out for me in any project.
To be fair, the presentation that that article is using as a reference for Spotify's infrastructure was from 3 years ago, and during most of the presentation I talked about what was wrong with how we were doing things.

How we do things is quite different now. Check out my DockerCon 2014 presentation or our tech blog for details.
The World OS [slides]
Cygwin is a GNU port, not a small, random, and non-compliant[1] subset of POSIX shell utilities.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/utilities/con...
Install Hacker Keyboard from fdroid (or the Play Store...). There's an option for a persistent notification that you can click, which will enable the keyboard wherever.
Critical infrastructure is a growing cyber target – Defense Systems
For starters, I heartily agree. Full stack vehicle automation will save a great deal of lives and property damage.

And then we need to look at "What happens when we have 5 million people unemployed in a short time, due to rapid advancements in automation?" The Democrats aren't looking at this, and nor are the Republicans. Really, no party is looking at this. We have a few economists and scientific-y types talking about Mincome, but aside some experiments in Europe, it's being drowned out.

What do we have that can absorb such a hit on our financial system and not drop in a recession? How do we make sure these people don't simply sink when the 'bots come to take their job?
All we need now is a big fake plastic gun mount for our sensor, and a VR phone holder and we will be talking. Everywhere is a war zone.
I don't see why there needs to be other universes that actually exist in order for the anthropic principle to apply. It seems to make perfect sense to apply it to a set of conceivable universes, even if such universes don't actually exist and even if it's not physically possible for them to exist.
I's say it would be more like comparing a male who rapes a female with a male who watches that rape.

Regardless, though, the term "pedophile" by definition is someone who is sexually attracted to children. There is no distinction about whether or not they actually committed a sexual act with a child. A person who commits a sexual act with a child is by definition a pedophile and a rapist, since children cannot legally give sexual consent.
Mainly, if you don't take valium much, on the rare occasions you use it, you pass out within minutes. And it feels like you go from stone sober to completely lit in those few minutes, which is quite pleasant. For one to a few hours you will sleep like the dead. With luck you'll sleep through the flight, or through the night, or whatever.

The next time, it won't work so well.

The next time, it won't work so well.

The next time, it won't work so well.

And down the path you go. Up the dose, etc, etc.

Don't use valium unless you have a real and only very occasional use for it. And try to keep that in mind: it's a use case. Not a need. You never need valium. You need food, and shelter from weather. But you don't need valium.
As I said Google's reputation is what made me not even bother to try. We all know that AWS and AZURE both are state of art and very competitively priced. If Google wants to beat them they have to win the perception war too. (OR reduce prices substantially).
You should probably take another look at some discussions around the definition of race in modern times. It certainly can be used to refer to a grouping of people by common culture, such as the "Jewish" race.

As a side note, I've seen some pretty heated arguments about this. It's a bit strange to me why this is such a contentious subject. Is this coming from people who still think we have cleanly delineated "races" like Caucasoid, Mongoloid & Negroid?
Promises to do something for a year which you can change or withdraw after 30 days are really promises for 30 days:

"Google may make changes to this Agreement, including pricing (and any linked documents) from time to time. Unless otherwise noted by Google, material changes to the Agreement will become effective 30 days after they are posted, except if the changes apply to new functionality in which case they will be effective immediately. If Customer does not agree to the revised Agreement, please stop using the Services."
https://cloud.google.com/terms/, Section 1.7b

Also, Sections 13.1-13.3 means even though Google promises nt to do something, you really don't have any recourse if they do it anyway and cause you damage.

Although in the grand scheme of things, not the worst terms of service document I have read. The mere fact the drafters addressed the issue is worth ... something.

Disclaimer: IAMALBIANYL.
Video: The Drone Racing League Officially Launches
For those interested this type of multiplayer "solitaire" is commonly known as pounce or nertz.
On the other hand when more wealthy countries don't meddle some people claim apathy, not caring, like with the Sudan or Georgia, etc.

It's not that simplistic and whatever happens, there is a significant voice against interventionism, except when another faction wants it.
So you're saying my experience is unique by providing your sister's experience that is the same?
You can pretty much throw out any certainty of events before the British Empire invaded an area of the world. After that the recorded history will both have the same bias and consistency. Before that history will have been recorded (or not) and possibly lost by civilizations that did not win the game of Civilization (infinite): Real Life.

What is recorded as happening in Europe, that dense painting of many 'small' battles that consumed whole cities/towns/etc, can be assumed to have happened generally /everywhere/ anyone would actually want to live.
Thanks /r/learnprogramming. I landed a great position at Google
The Daily Routine of Creatives
This is like the "text" brush, also introduced in 2012, in DeviantArt muro: http://muro.deviantart.com/
My immediate take-away was that this was some sort of stand-alone application or utility. After realizing it's a hosted service, the real benefit comes from being able to slug a URL and pass it along.

There is still a number of folks out there that might understand there is a mobile web, but might not necessarily grasp responsive design, or the variety of screen sizes and what they mean for a design... the initial UI on the resizer alone explains it pretty well.
Row_hammer

You're citing a hardware flaw as a reason not to pursue programming tools and techniques that produce fewer software defects? That's a false dichotomy; we don't forego researching cancer treatments just because some of the people that are saved will end up getting shot.

Earlier you wrote "Security is all or nothing".

That's another amazingly bad point of view. There is no "all." Nothing is absolutely secure. There is only raising the bar. Important things are provided more protection than less important things. That is the best that can ever be achieved. Since your premise relies on a fiction your conclusions about the value of Rust are meaningless.
Not sure I get the idea. Why does it matter? There is no messaging protocols for people, except for IRC, maybe. No human normally speaks XMPP, MSNP, MQTT, MTProto or anything like that.

And, for example, Signal essentially uses GCM (thus, XMPP, although in an uncommon manner) as a primary choice for their transport layer.

XMPP isn't dead. It's just that a) it has some warts and b) large vendors don't give a damn about interoperability or anything (Google tried to persuade others to interconnect, haven't worked for them, they shut it back) and prefer their own walled gardens.
(I live in Colorado)

>I don't like the attitudes of pro-legalization people in the US. They wont accept that there are negative sides to drug use and seem to think there should be no restrictions.

Who's saying that? For example, I don't think anyone is advocating selling to minors.

>It is as if there is never any middle ground in the US. Either you got the moralists who spell doom or you got people who think you should be free to do however dam you please. Where are the pragmatic people who accept it is a bad thing to do drugs but that a strict regulation is a better solution than a war on drugs.

Why do pragmatic people accept "it is a bad thing to do drugs"? Do they drink coffee? Avoid OTC painkillers?
You're mistaken. There's no censoring going on at all. Höcke is free to say whatever he wants in public. He even gets more publicity and reach than most people. However, freedom of speech doesn't mean that statements are without consequence. He already collected a warning for voicing extreme right tendencies earlier (before the AFD even existed) and well, now there's consequences. He's a history teacher and fringe right wing people are just the kind of history teachers that are unfit for the job. (fringe left-wing nutcases as well).
Might have been posted before, but there's a rather interesting documentary on this madness:

https://vimeo.com/7167640
It's interesting to take a view that contrasts with Sivers' article and most of us on HN -- that of someone on the edge of homelessness. I remember reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and thinking about cooking and baking. When she was living in a motel room rented by the week, it was hard to cook healthy food because she didn't have the budget to buy a pan, a pot, a spatula, some silverware, a mixing bowl, etc. Besides the budget, there was the problem of storing them in a precarious living situation. They're annoying to schlep.

To start off my minimalist college years, my mother brought me to the local Goodwill where I bought one fork, one knife, one spoon, one bowl, etc. Had to add chopsticks to get a really complete eating set, but these got me off to a good start. Even this minimalist set (chopsticks, knife, spoon, bowl, wooden mixing spoon, pot) require space, and they don't allow you to bake cookies (need a baking sheet!). I was nowhere near homeless though I could fit all my belongings into one room as wide as the length of a twin bed.

Sivers knows that if he wants to make pastries, he can buy or borrow pastry-making equipment -- just as I can. So he doesn't need to keep it around. Those with little by necessity rather than choice don't have that confidence.

Not wanting stuff is for people who have access the stuff they need.
This is amazing. Really great work. Thanks for building this.
Spotifier here. Frankly, price is not the biggest factor in a decision like this. If we were going for the lowest cost cloud option, it probably wouldn't be either AWS or Google - there are other providers who are hungrier for business that would be willing to do deep cuts at our scale.

The way we think about this is that there are basically two classes of cloud services: commodities and differentiated services. Commodities are storage/network/compute, and the big players are going to compete on price and quality on these for the foreseeable future (as with most commodities).

The differentiated services stuff is a bit more interesting. Different players have different strengths and weaknesses here - AWS has way, way better capabilities when it comes to administration and access control and identity management, for example (which is actually pretty important when trying to do this in a large org). The places were Google is strong (data platform) are the places that are most important for us as a business.

Compelling: dataproc+gcs, bigquery, pubsub, dataflow
Made it safe: high-enough quality, cheap enough.

What more would you like to know?
And at some point your company might decide that it's already its biggest customer for its cloud products and close it to the public.. or it might not.. but it's up for me to decide where I host :)
This was mentioned somewhere deep in a thread, but Spotify (and others!) will be speaking at our upcoming customer conference (GCP Next) in a few weeks:

https://cloudplatformonline.com/NEXT2016-schedule.html

You'll be able to livestream the sessions here:

https://cloudplatformonline.com/NEXT2016-Live.html

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine (and I'll be at Next).
Well I for one am glad it was posted again because I missed it three years ago. Also I am pretty sure there are quite a few new members to HN in the last 3 years.
The plant-killing argument is extremely trite and appealing to it to justify the animal holocaust just shows you are desperate for any reason to keep engaging in animal abuse. Please - do have the humility to read again and see just how ridiculous your arguments have been. Claiming vegetables are enslaved and killed is just silly and you know it. What's more, I've repeatedly told you more plants are killed for livestock feed, but somehow you choose not to address this apparent contradiction.
We will not solve the problems of the meat industry by convincing people to eat less meat, asceticism never works as public policy.

The way forward on that issue is to develop synthetic meat products that can out-compete animal meat on economical/ethical/environmental dimensions.
I think he's wise not to tackle this issue.

Food is more than just a means to an end, it's also a core part of human culture. We can't expect to fix cultural issues with money alone, even if philanthropists made it very easy to live a vegan lifestyle there would still be people who chose to eat meat regardless. It has to be a cultural change to stand a chance in succeeding, it's up to us as individuals to make this change.
Microsoft spends over $1B/yr on maintaining and improving Bing. So yeah, search does cost a fortune if you want to do it reasonably well without relying on others for results. Not only do you have to crawl the web (with different frequencies depending on predicted frequency of content update, etc), you then have to rebuild the index continuously, with reasonable latency. To do all of that, you have to have indexing infrastructure, which in turns requires storage infrastructure, high performanc data processing infrastructure (Hadoop ain't gonna do it, ask Yahoo as to why), which in turn requires high performance networking (or your mapreduce-like workloads will collapse under their own weight), your own datacenter, and your own army of machine learning researchers, systems engineers, hardware engineers, networking engineers, devops, quality engineers (people who improve your scoring function), human eval, etc, etc, etc. If anything, $1B/yr seems to be quite low.
Would you really characterize this Wilczynska, Webb, King et al. paper as an argument that there is "growing evidence", rather than (say) that it's a number-crunching argument that the small amount of observations that suggested a dipole variation to Webb et al. (and King et al.) show a \Delta\alpha / \alpha that's close enough to unity that one can cherry pick and say "oh yes, there's a (small) dipole variation" or "oh no, the data is consistent with no variation" ?

I prefer their earlier slide deck for gory details (it's mostly based on King et al 2012).

https://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2012/ESOat50/Presentations/...

See especially the "Really?" slide (p 27).

(The previous "What if it's correct?" slide undersells the impact to the standard cosmology of a violation of isotropy and the consequent erosion of the "must be homogenous at scales > 250 Mly" part of the cosmological principle. Also, "what if atomic physics is really obviously different only very slightly outside the horizon?" feels like a declaration of war against the Copernican principle with precious little evidence, and against pretty good theory that has other lines of evidence backing it (cf. Carroll @ http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/10/18/the-fine... who points to Banks, Dine & Douglas @ http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0112059 who in turn point to other work that shows that you probably can't vary \alpha without varying other constants like the m_e and QCD coupling).
I deal a lot with niche business solutions. In my experience, too many managers and staff think that Excel is the Swiss Army Knife of data management. Can't really blame them, it is typically the only app they know. An MS promotes Office as a "universal" solution for SMEs.

Whilst I can't eliminate the pain, I found two strategies that work well:

1. As far as possible, let them develop spreadsheets and treat them as prototypes. Then take control of the critical ones and polish them so that they work correctly (protect fields, audit calculations, write macros, etc).

2. Instead of importing data from Excel, I export from Excel into a database (designed as a receiver for that data). Then I run a collection of scripts on the database to clean up the data and only then import that cleaned up data into the production database(s).
I'm in a similar spot and totally agree. Despite buying tons of ads and having adsense on my sites, I use adblock and other ad/script blocking extensions.

It may be hypocritical, but I have a huge huge counterpoint that I've been thinking about writing a big blog post on: AdBlockers help Google. Here is the thought.. If you use an adblocker, you wouldn't be clicking ads anyway. So you are helping advertisers by making their targeting better targeted. We don't even load ads, so they are served to people more likely to click on them. This logic doesn't really work for cpc, but it does for cpm. Also haven't fully thought it through.
So cool!!
I think latchkey at the top of this thread is precisely "Joe's Inc".
> roughly the same amount of greenhouse gasses per mile per person as a car

I see. How much non-human cargo are these cars carrying? More to the point: how else do you propose one go from SF to Europe?

Reading between the lines, you're either suggesting people stay home or that they take a boat, both of which are absolute crazy talk.

EDIT: moreover, wikipedia's numbers suggest jetliners get roughly 70 to 110 passenger-miles/gallon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport...). I have yet to come across a car that gets that kind of mileage period, let alone per passenger.

Besides, gas turbine engines are pretty much the model of efficiency when it comes to hydrocarbon-consuming engines. I don't know where you people are getting your numbers but my BS detector is off the charts.
False premisis: it's not the safest method (see SSREN, the IPCC's study of carbon-neutral energy generation). It is safer than fossil fuel generation, but not solar and wind, nor, in Europe and America, hydro (India and especially China have had some spectacular hydro failures).

More specifically, when nuclear works well, it works very, very well. When it fails, however, it fails especially spectacularly.
This is one of my favourite quotes about pricing ever.
Yes. One would log into their bank website/app and into Quickbooks.

What am I missing?
I would argue it's much better. I don't want to give away too much of the story but it has lots of questions about physics, politics, and alternate history. It's quite a good read.
Your experience will depend very much on which Terminal you're at (there is a big difference in age and layouts of individual terminals) and, in particular, whether you're forced to switch terminals when transiting.

A good airport for transiting into Europe, and in my view usually more pleasant than London, Frankfurt or Paris, is Amsterdam Schiphol.