skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from being an ad network based on data-mining search what did Google successfully monetize ? are they making money with Android directly for instance or is it Ad-sense that is paying for that ?
How much of the issue was internal (how Google builds) versus external (how Google sells)? The popular myth is that Google is much better at the former than the latter. I'm curious about your insider's view with respect to acquisitions.
I was referring to the RFCs. They also seem to include language changes. Happy to be proved wrong.
Thank you for the link, I'm watching the video while I write this message.

But - I just checked again: My xmpp server of choice (Prosody) doesn't support MAM today¹. That's a killer, without that xmpp isn't even in the same league as WhatsApp, Telegram etc. for me. I expect to be able to open my client and be able to continue a conversation at this point.

1: There's https://modules.prosody.im/mod_mam.html but it is unclear if that's in a usable state. It states at the bottom of the page that this 'works' for 0.9 and 0.10, but the 'storage backend' sections gives an example that works for 0.10 only and links to https://prosody.im/doc/storage where you'll find a table with backends. ONLY the 'sql' backend seems to support the archive store, and that's for 0.10 only. 0.10 isn't released yet. The takeaway is: MAM seems to work if you're using the unreleased version 0.10 of prosody. And .. I haven't even checked the client support yet.
We needed a study for this ? ;)
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Can you look at my other comment in this thread about MAM seemingly not being available for prosody < 0.10? What did I misunderstand? Is the documentation unclear, can you clarify the situation? Or .. are you running a 0.10 snapshot?
It's missing Chrome, weirdly.
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I suspect it's strategic more than lack of intelligence. When you sell a company, you generally have to sell the people associated with the product. (A code base isn't worth anything on it's own without people who know it, and people selling it)
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Thanks for your testimony, so that service did make money. What was the name of the company that build it at first place?
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the street doesn't make that distinction
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but vampires can't have their pictures taken, so I have to assume they can't be sensed through a phone in any way whatsoever.
There was Motorola, which was sold to lenovo
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I run 0.9, and the documentation says

0.9 Works

and indeed it does (I am using it with the default storage backend).
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This is quite a surprising view. "Not evolving" bit especially. As a factual example of evolution in the non-satanist non-warrior sense Nightwish's latest album 'Endless forms most beautiful' "was primarily inspired by the work of naturalist Charles Darwin". [1]

Pun intended :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless_Forms_Most_Beautiful_(...
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The first thing that comes to mind is the sale of a part of Motorola. That's probably not what you were aiming for since that was not a "product" and Motorola was already bought with splitting the company in mind.
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> still singing the same stuff after decades, is a sorry one.

I imagine you consider classical music backwards, then, and look down upon it. It's stayed the same for centuries...
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> Well, but they call their genre "black metal".

As far as I know they call it deathpunk, and their discography tends to be classified as punk.
Misleading renders given the sensor is a Lepton. It has a resolution of 80x60 pixels.
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I read an entire book about the Tunguska explosion when I was in junior high, but it's interesting that astronomers now think an event like this could happen every 300 years.
Except that they even identify that the law they added is almost impossible to follow, and default to letting a human pick the fate of the universe.

This is among the stories that had me thinking Asimov wanted to communicate the 3 laws were not sufficient and that you might be able to have the correct reaction to events, but the 3 (or 4) laws do not give the ability to grow and change as a human race.
Speaking of Norwegian DM from 90s I think Cadaver and Fester are quite great.
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There are plenty of new genres since then, power metal, space metal, pirate metal...
you really have to work on your communication skills. plus you are not correct on several points. karma proves that this isn't just my opinion (i didn't downvote you because i can't)
Instead of relying on proprietary software that is out of your control for storing your passwords (and getting burned like you have described), why not use something open source like KeePass? I don't have an iPhone, but on Android there is KeePass2Android, which is open source and (if you choose to use it as such) offline-only.
In a theoretical world, I would make the tax progressively larger after "financial independence" has been reached - either via step functions (every 1x over financial independence, 50% of the remainder is taxed) or some kind of parabola.

This may be too hard to explain clearly (even progressive commission plans are hard to understand!) so perhaps I would just settle for a higher tax rate.

My thought is if the founders want to make multi-millionaires out of the later engineers, a 50% tax will only do this in the extreme (10+ billion exit) cases. And in those cases, the founders will be billionaires themselves.

I'm assuming that Financial Independence is a large number (somewhere between 10 and 50 million) and that afterwards, the founders are in it "to build something great" rather than to keep score. Otherwise, you wouldn't consider the plan.

This isn't meant to diminish Detour. It's kind of like making fun of the first company to give equity just because equity can go down in value - I'm just making suggestions on a groundbreaking idea.
My understanding is that the testing regime for organic is very weak. I would be surprised if this doesn't happen a lot. Perhaps genetic testing could give some hints? (Of GMOs if not pesticides?)
>plants aren't sentient

Is a venus fly trap sentient?
Is a cricket sentient?
Is a starfish sentient?
Is a worm sentient?
How about trees that communicate with other trees nearby?[1][2]

>and animals also eat plants

Plants also eat animals[3] animals also eat other animals, so i dont understand how this is an argument.

>This is just conjecture

61% of all farmworkers have incomes below pverty level, average life expectancy subtanstially lower than rest of population[4]

cites migrants earning 7500$ per year, 52% having no legal status in US[5]

>Why not turn this question around and ask, how are slaughterhouse workers treated and what their experience must be like?

you could certainly make that argument, but i dont think its likely to mirror agricultural migrant labor

>Pretty ironic to hear this from someone who beliefs him or herself to be superior to animals, and justifies their destruction.

Thats quite a label to apply to someone you've never met and whose never said anything like that.

You seem to believe you are superior to plants though...

[1]https://karban.wordpress.com/research/
[2]http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden...
[3]http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/publications/volunteer/young_na...
[4]http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/migrants.html
[5]http://articles.extension.org/pages/9960/migrant-farm-worker...
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I'm so happy with this thing that you've made!

It's displaced my todo-list as my chrome new-tab.

I live on the east coast of Australia - pretty much on the centreline of the field of view, and it's so cool to see our planet from my point of view in real time - really makes me feel like I'm living on a rock flying through space at great speed!

It's late in the evening here - this is the image right now: https://www.evernote.com/l/AJwr2IhgBtlHJrQS_ksivwvaYtahS01IO...

thanks :)
Ah, I miss grunge with a fiery passion.

This thread reminds me of the underrated film Airheads, when the band is asked what kind of music they play - the three members all start saying different things ("kinda this, but not really") but end up converging on "power slop".
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There are just 512 cache lines in both L1 code and L1 data cache.

512 * 64 = 32 kB. 512 is 8 * 8 * 8, I'd guess if they add more (up to 4096) L1 cache lines that access would take 1 clock longer. Which is very likely a net performance loss.

Maybe it's time to increase cache line size to 128 bytes. That could of course break a lot of old code performance wise. It'd cause more false sharing [1] and double memory bandwidth requirements for random access. Maybe we should start to organize shared data to have 128 byte alignment.

It'd also break some read bandwidth-saving code that assumes 64 byte streaming (non-temporal) stores eliminate need for RFO [2] access.

Writing a single byte to RAM would require CPU core to first read a 128 byte cache line (RFO [2]) and then eventually write that cache line back. Currently "only" 64 bytes need to be read and written in the same scenario.

128 byte cache lines would mean L1C and L1D caches are both 64 kB, up from current 32 kB. That'd definitely help with monstrous codebases.

CPU design is full of compromises...

[1]: Atomic ops unintentionally touching same cache line cause performance loss through false sharing. The effect can be very significant, up to 2 orders of magnitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_sharing

[2]: Read for Ownership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESI_protocol#Read_For_Ownersh...
It's cute but it's all kids play (althought the -4 to 140 step, and the pristine look at the end was cool).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n6mX8Q1waA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bb2QexOTl4 (beware, high moronism)
In a lot of reliability-first applications at least one-two generation old hardware is used and simple designs mean you won't get cutting edge specs. Before they probably opted for proven reliability (proven in the sense of a well known failure rate) rather than first-to-consumer components.
A semi-educated guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeatThatQuote.com

And a funny footnote there: "BeatThatQuote.com was penalised by Google for search engine spamming the day after it acquired it."
How in your opinion should a material which informs potential buyers of a product be created? They seem to fit the same definition you use for ads as manipulative... I really don't see a way for a seller to inform about his product, highlight its good aspects to convince it is worth its price, without being charged guilty of manipulation by the argument you present.

I have to say I really dislike ads, and would like if product promotion was done in a way most benefiting society in general, but the points that manipulation and changing views are very close, that ads change your view is not the bad thing about them and that we need to be careful about regulating ads (both legally and morally) as not to harm other beneficial things is very legitimate.
I called the number in the article and experimented with it. It doesn't appear to do anything like the article says, it just says "hello... yes?" over and over again. Maybe I am not using it right.
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There's another one based on Asterisk called Lenny - it's an old man who plays the whole "can't hear you" card and it works so well. There's a whole channel of Lenny recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcinQuDXYn8
This is exactly what i was getting at, but vastly more well worded
Plus the sites you visit and all the bundled information that gives (your interests, orientations, political leaning, hope, fears, desires etc. etc). All the contacts you have plus your relationships with them. Your daily movements, right down to guessing bathroom breaks. Plus information on the connections you use and potentially the devices around you.

The list goes on...
We are definitely more known for our "true norwegian" black metal, but we got some other stuff too...

http://www.last.fm/tag/norwegian+death+metal/artists

http://www.last.fm/tag/norwegian+thrash+metal/artists
What about a different approach? A society does want to allow access to information for investigative purposes while protecting security. Then what about allowing court orders for companies to bypass security in their products with the caveat that the access method is made publicly reproducible.

This forces the company to fix the vulnerability and forces the government to carefully consider which cases are important enough.

Just brainstorming..... not a solid proposal. Shoot some holes in it please.
The scaling with meteor size is impressive.

A 100 m object will flatten some trees in Siberia.

A 10 000 m object will kill 75% percent of all species on the planet (the KT event).
Also hard to "open source" free top/center ad placement of the widget :) Perhaps the most relevant feature vs other existing financial services comparison websites.
This tells everything there is to know about the popular appeal of heavy metal in Finland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhhlYdySqQ

http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/blog/meet-hevisaurus-from-finla...
I'll start by saying these are my opinions and perspective based on my experience. I can't speak for senior management or other acquisitions.

I agree with the sentiment. Google can build anything but they struggle to sell. I think part of that is being subject to anti-competitive practices and constantly under scrutiny which makes it difficult to use typical sales practices. It's also just not part of their DNA. They underestimate the need for the sales process and the human element of customer service. Being an acquisition that gets dropped into the big machine, everything slows down and all those tools you once used aren't so effective anymore.
Yes there has definitely been a lot of experimentation in the last decade with blending very technical death metal (following Meshuggah's lead) with elements of jazz and melodic elements from prog rock and metal.

Gojira, for example has been carrying the Meshuggah sound forward while Between the Buried and Me, who was born from very technical and chaotic metal, almost devoid of groove, to extremely proggy and theatrical like Dream Theater.

Mastodon moved closer to rock from technical death metal and Opeth once a paragon of death metal, doesn't even use death vocals any more.

For me at least it has been very interesting to see the exchange of ideas.
Room temperature on the FLIR or invisible on the regular camera, one way or another they're in the soup.
Based on your statement I asked in the (excellent, friendly) prosody chat room. So, that mod_mam works for 0.9 because (from the mod_mam documentation) 'If no archive-capable storage backend can be opened then an in-memory one will be used as fallback.'

As far as I understand this means that a service restart (or a crash) wipes your archive and I assume you won't be able to migrate your archive between versions either?
So if you use Inbox regularly but still go through GMail to get there, eventually it starts taking you to Inbox directly? Seems like good design to me.
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Yea that's the one. That quote is quite amusing. We didn't do anything different the day after the acquisition, Google didn't do anything either. People just started talking about us, posting articles, blog posts, etc which had an effect on rankings. We dropped down in natural search because hey a thousand other higher ranked publications posted stories about us.
Unfortunately, unless it's changed recently, SNS can only send SMSes to US numbers :/
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I used Telegram for awhile, but then suddenly started having problems with the iPhone app. I can't remember what happened, message notifications didn't appear, or maybe the app crashed, or something like that. Essentially it became unusable, so I switched to Signal.
So I'm wrong because people disagree me?
In the case of question author: neither. He needs RPC server, not a web service or message queue.
I am with you on that, despite the fact that I am part of the rich 20% world population [1]. But you will probably find this issue to be drown soon enough under the flow of other first world news our media love to swamp us with.

That being said, I believe part of the issue is the balance of power has changed into corporate hands with marketing taking a front role into leading us (the mass of consumers). The morale values that were one of the corner stones of previous institutions like the Church or the State to motivate nations are now just another commodity traded openly by economical actors that have but one goal: the bottom line.

Should we find a way to coerce those ruling private entities that are corporation into performing actions that would benefit the rest of the society, we might actually be able to spread the wealth a bit better. Until then, you and me are bound to fight over the left overs of those new overlords.

Sorry for the long rant, which is partly ironic.

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/13/half-world-weal...
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But that's different, because in Argentina they have replaced the second person and "tú" by the third person and "vos". For them it's not a formal addressing at all.

However, I won't deny that for most Spanish-speakers Argentinians sound surprisingly polite.
> The FBI has called for an end to effective crypto in the hands of US citizens.

This is where it will end, and perhaps rightly so. There is no physical space in the US where US citizens can hide from the FBI and other authorities. Why should there be a virtual space where US citizens can hide. US citizens are not free to hide from the authorities and the law.
Woah, it's an inch thick!
Alternatively, it may be an example of an actual slippery slope - and therefore not a fallacy.
I could read rachel's writing all day long.
I'm not autoreleasepool, but IME, I find myself using !g about 5% of the time (counting only general searches, not things where I would be using another bang expression). About half of those times, it ends up giving me a better answer.
I'd like to point out about your statement on Windows Phone: your monetization plan is about business users, right? Well, there's quite a few enterprise players that are a good chunk on Windows Phone (now Windows Mobile), if not entirely Windows stack. I do not think it's wise to ignore a not-so-small target, given that your competition do support the platform.
We have done a lot of things to prioritize adoption, though we could do better.

We have done some almost-studies like this: we had a series of conference calls with companies using production Rust specifically to work on their pain points, for example.
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For gmail it has an outlook of "sketchy" -- claiming that people are being moved over to inbox on mobile. I think this is a bit disingenuous and makes me wary of the other claims on what google projects might get the axe next. Gmail is google's mail service. It is just as, if not more, critical to their business than search. How else would they get such juicy detailed information about users? Changing from an app named "gmail" to an app named "inbox" for accessing gmail on a cell phone has no bearing on the health of gmail as a service.

Considering how sketchy google has been on services in the past this web site is a great website, but I think they need to fix the "health of gmail" status.
Yeah, Google are fortunate enough with their existing products & services that what might be a pretty exciting opportunity to other companies might be a sunset candidate for them.
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We have and will add language features; though we haven't added any HUGE things in a while. You are right that RFCs contain language changes. A lot of them are small. Some of them are big, and there's certainly more big ones on the horizon.
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> FBI investigators have said that Farook and Malik had become radicalized over several years prior to the attack, consuming "poison on the internet" and expressing a commitment to jihadism and martyrdom in private messages to each other. Farook and Malik had traveled to Saudi Arabia in the years before the attack. The couple had amassed a large stockpile of weapons, ammunition, and bomb-making equipment in their home.

It's pretty offensive to focus on the shooters' skin color, instead of what they were: violent Islamic fundamentalists.
> Given a long enough time period, there is a nearly 100-percent chance an asteroid large enough to destroy most life on Earth will impact our planet.

No worries. Since quantum mechanics dictates that, given enough time, anything can happen, we can also say that given a long enough time period, life will spontaneously reappear.
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Godot is awesome. It's a great alternative to Unity. It has a friendly community (IRC). The all-in-one editor is nice. The scripting language is easy to get into and if you need to, you can extend the engine and scripting language with C++. And the export to windows, linux, mac, ios, android and web works actually quite well.

What's really nice is the notion of scenes which I prefer to the way scenes are handled in Unity. Scenes in Godot are are simply node-trees which you can instantiate in existing scenes. For example you create a character in a single scene which you instantiate in a level scene. I always had the impression that this favored encapsulation compared to highly interdependent components in unity.

What brought me back to unity was 3D, scripting and debugging. 3D in Godot feels limited. Shader graphs are not really usable, yet. It's a lot simpler to create something nice in Unity with the standard shader and some assets. And well, the debugger, it's simply not comparable to Visual Studio. Variables are sometimes not inspectable. I missed refactoring alot. And sometimes you need to dig very deep to understand how stuff works because many things are not yet documented.

All-in-all, I love Godot. It's a nice cross-platform development environment. I simply hope that I can come back later when all rough edges are gone.
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