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Larry's standard M.O. Hire and empower megalomaniacs because he thinks everything runs too slow and the right way to speed it up is to act like a startup, with one huge personality driving everything.

He tried it with Andy/Android, Vic/G+, and Conrad/Verily, among lots of other places. It doesn't work very well, but it looks like it has great 'velocity' so he's happy.
This is a terrible article that completely treats depression as the fault of the individual. Pretty irresponsible frankly.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

Can you say more? Did you just spin up too many nodes?
You could get this project setup in Meteor (JS framework) in ~2 minutes using Telescope

http://www.telescopeapp.org/
I disagree with you and think they're completely typical, and that Zuckerberg's and Steve Jobs' megalomania and complete insanity of vision are completely typical of that success story. Take airbnb for example.

you get the idea.

I am saying that lowglow is like an NBA basketball coach who will only draft white men under 5 feet tall and over 30, on the theory that they'll try harder since they have something to prove. well, good for him.

it's true that Michael Jordan is an outlier at 6 ft 6 in. But if you're only going to draft white men over thirty and under 5 feet tall, your team is going to suck.

The investment thesis needs revision.
OK downvoters convinced me I am wrong having 10s of billions of $ at stake obviously is unlikely to incentivise parties on either side to finance studies that would be favorable to their position and to spend their PR budgets on having those studies highlighted in the press.
Someone asks "how much RAM does it have", 8GB. So that's equal to a modern day laptop.

In terms of pure processing power though, still no idea
If some of the tests consistently err towards a false positive but are less invasive and cost 80% less, that sounds like an acceptable trade-off for those tests. The patients with abnormal results would have to follow up with a different test, but the majority would save a lot of money.
How do you mean unsubstantiated? If you mean it's less than certain than sure, but SSRIs and SNRIs and NaSSAs and such improve depression greatly for many patients. That at least says something about serotonin levels in patients with depression.
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> We design our interview questions to see how engineers work through technical problems they don’t know the answer to yet.

That's the way to do it, I think. In my own technical interviews, I pose (relatively) simple questions that require some problem analysis, a strategy discussion, and then some coding and testing, with a goal of testing aptitude for basic programming abilities like modularization, indirection, recursion, defensive programming, unit testing, etc. I keep things interactive and collaborative and see how much the candidate can do for themselves.
Honestly, having coded a lot of C# path code, I'd rather an object that properly encapsulates this, as long as there's easy APIs to get a string copy from it and vice versa - I mean, you're going to be throwing away oodles of string refs anyways since they're immutable, so one more for the path conversion wouldn't hurt and the path API would be a lot cleaner.
Well, anything Trinitron-based didn't have nearly as much curvature for technical reasons, so if you always used higher-end sets and monitors you might never have had one with this kind of curvature.
Very not free.
In that case I'm not sure I see the point in buying something like this just to run Linux. Linux looks pretty much the same no matter what it's running on.
Can anyone please enlighten us on Elizabeth Holmes's qualifications (formal or informal) for inventing blood screening technology? E.g., is she known for having won science competitions as a child? Or for tinkering around with blood screening technology in a garage as a teenager? Etc.?
Yes

Sometimes I might recognize legitimate reasons for getting down voted, in this case I clarify or review my opinion

But sometimes I just keep the comment there, because that's my opinion and hopefully some other person shares it as well even if it costs some down votes
what exactly is RSU? What's the difference between it, and stock you buy from a broker on the market?
I don't care about my karma. I've got plenty. It's easy to gameify to earn more.

But there's no reason to spend time on a comment if you know it will get downvotes and subsequently ignored. It's like yelling into a brick wall.
I am a mainframe developer. It's sad that IBM isn't more open about z/OS and z/VM to hobbyists. I think it really hurts the mainframe in the long run.
I agree with this, but I also think a lot of "non-real depression" is too easily diagnosed as the real thing. A lot of depressed people could be "cured" by just changing circumstances in their life (not that it is always easy, but saying there is stuff in your life you can't change and it is making you depressed, doesn't make it a mental illness).

But you have worn out doctors facing a tough choice: do the near impossible and try and help someone change their life, or take 40 second to prescribe a pill from a billion dollar drug company that is paying for him to go on a conference in the Bahamas next month.
As you allude, Google's ability to deliver depends on the share price. While they are free from activist shareholders, they aren't free from competition for talent.

Starting up interesting long-term projects and then canning them at the first sign of a cloudy quarterly forecast is not how you compete for top talent. It just makes the entire company look spastic and irresolute.

Google/Alphabet is in a good position to build the next Bell Labs. Instead, they're building the next Lucent. That's a bummer.
Agreed, as long as the language provides quick and fast go/from string mechanism, great them as their own objects. What drives me batty is when I know something is just a string under the hood but getting my string into that object is a nightmare and inconsistent.
Rather than an "anonymous feature", how about a "please moderate this post" flag? A post that requests moderation would not be eligible for upvotes or downvotes, or would even appear until it passed moderation.

Of course, that means added work for the mods, or a new class of moderators altogether.
Paywalled.

Maybe we should refrain to link articles that cost money to read (I wonder how many of us will pay), but on the other side it was pretty normal to tell friends about some newpaper articles they didn't read. Maybe we need an abstract to let everybody know what those articles are about?
I don't know if I'd go quite that far, but yeah if you have to do stuff cross-platform, packaging your own dependencies is a great solution.
Reminds me of Geordie Rose who said most people in Silicon Valley work on things that don't matter and won't last
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Can they be turned off or conveniently covered, malfunction, repositioned, break, run out of power, stop recording, corrupt data or have the recorded data be 'just not in the system' when an officer is alleged to have committed a crime?

All of those things will happen because it happens all the time with video evidence from dash cams and audio from body mics when it's subpoenaed.
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If one of those headless machines is running Linux, this script [1] says it will control Hue using Redshift [2].

[1] https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/189 (the Gist in the comment)

[2] http://jonls.dk/redshift/

Edit:

There's also this, which is a bit more polished: https://github.com/deuxpi/redshift-hue

And this, which even has a GUI! https://github.com/poinck/lampe
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Most video glasses have quite a small field of view... Are yours the same? So it's kind of like seeing a screen floating somewhere in front of you, whereas with the vr headsets you basically can't see the edge so it's a lot more immersive.

I expect that's the main reason you don't get nausea.
Python+Flask is awesome

so lightweight, yet extendable... some extensions that might be worht looking at: Flask-Login, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-WTForms, Flask-Admin
You could do this, but it's still a lot of money for most people to shell out in addition to a VR headset. Most people use laptops, so now they would not only need a desktop but a sufficiently powerful one.

These solutions here are on the low end. Will they still be able to run new VR games in three years? That's another barrier. If I'm shelling out a bunch of money for dedicated PC for my VR headset, I expect it to run new games for at least five years.

On top of that, all of these solutions require people to build their own PCs. Most people don't do this. So the more relevant question is, how much will it cost a consumer to get an off-the-shelf PC that can run all of the launch Rift games?

I'm waiting at least a few years before trying VR. I don't have a desktop, and if I got one just for VR, I would want to make sure the VR solutions are really mature and must haves. Nothing today is anywhere near there, and I expect most consumers feel the same way.

It may be that VR doesn't take off until there are good Playstation and Xbox VR solutions that work right out of the box.
Just using the roulette analogy from above. Roulette wheels have 36 numbers (well, they also have 0 and 00. Maybe that's recession and global thermonuclear war.)

In reality it is worse because you don't actually know the number of companies, and you don't get presented with the same options as everyone else -- a good part of being a top investor is access to top dealflow.
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So he's not willing to generate a kernel crashdump? Is that what you are saying? Not an attack, genuinely curious.
Well, you can generate suggestions all you want, but obviously, making a solution see the light of day is part of the problem.
PG had a few comments about downvoting. Two were like you said - people use upvote for agree so it makes sense that they downvote to disagree. But he also said that downvote for disagreement was a problem. That's (one of the) reason(s) why comment scores are no longer visible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683

Here's pg trying to address incorrect downvoting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057338

I think pg is wrong in this next comment, I think people vote to disagree, and I think there's a pile-on effect. But I don't have the data, and he (and dang) did (and do). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716

EDIT: Some of those threads talk about the "meanness" of HN. I know I'm sometimes dumb and sometimes mean, so please if you see me doing that downvote me, flag me, send me an email.
dollars are tax credits.
Now you're just being pedantic.
> VR software waiting to be unlocked

VR has been around since the 60's, and has not "unlocked" anything noteworthy.

Sure, this "round" of VR might be the best yet graphically, but it still hasn't solved any of the problems that prevented the original 1960's implementations from taking over in storm.

These being: No "AAA" support, too few games, too expensive of devices, motion sickness, and more!

It's almost like folks think this is the first time VR has come to market... "imagine all the possibilities!" - the same promises time after time after time again. What makes this iteration anything different?

Maybe some folks have high hopes due to the Facebook stewardship - I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but Facebook has been anything but a good steward of Oculus.

They have not used their size or bank accounts to convince "AAA" studios to embrace VR, nor have they subsidized Oculus purchases to lower cost-of-entry for consumers. About the only thing they have done is go against all of their initial promises to not "Facebook-ify" VR[1] and turn the thing into yet another extension of the Facebook Social machine.

> The platform has tons of potential in fields such as art [1], manufacturing [2], education [3][4], health care [5] and the list goes on

VR will ultimately do nothing for these fields. AR advances will ultimately be what these industries end up embracing. You lose far too much environmental awareness when both eyes are staring at a narrow-focus screen without peripheral visibility, etc. AR allows the user to work and behave like normal, only their vision is augmented with additional useful information. It's less intrusive and disruptive, and has very few of the issues that plague VR.

AR is already widely deployed and in mass use. Any HUD is a form of AR (this covers everything from airplanes to cars to robots to google glass, camera viewfinders, etc...).

[1] http://www.wired.com/2016/02/mark-zuckerberg-plays-zero-grav...
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Is this "technology" just a fancy version of Franzia, aka inexpensive box wine?
Thanks for the analysis :)

I've been around for many years here on HN. I tend to change my password to something random from time to time, so I don't get too attached to my karma, burning man style.
It helps.

I don't think there's a fixed HN style for comments.
Some people like flash comments and replies, some people enjoy longer, more thoughtful conversations. I guess it depends on the article/subject.

I tend to be a slow thinker and a slow writer and apart from their length, I also spend a lot of time writing them.

But once again, thanks for taking the time and maybe next time I'll remember to keep it shorter and to the point :).
This is the same misunderstanding that many people are having. Your frame of reference while on the treadmill should be the surface of the treadmill.

Once you jumped off, you switched your frame of reference to the ground of the earth.

Keep your reference on the surface of the treadmill, and you'll see you've experienced negative acceleration.

This is why you always get an "extra boost" when you come off the escalator.
Counterpoint: The majority of Google employees aren't anything near "heavily invested" in Google stock. Sure, they get some, but the amount is dwarfed by their regular salary and bonus. For them, stock is "nice to have", but not a big deal. In fact, I'm pretty sure most of them would rather say "Who cares about stock price? Let's do some cool stuff!"

I think most Google employees would fall into either (1) those who don't have enough stocks to care much about stock price, and (2) those who have too much money to care.
I appreciate the feedback, but we're holding off on making it look prettier until we've finished with the technical heavy lifting. (Front-end design is not my strong suit.)
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Why not go with Alphabet Cloud, or ABC?
Come on, that's not nice. daeken's been a fine HN user for years, and hasn't posted this project since 2014. That's hardly overdoing it, and HN is supposed to be a place where people can share their work.
I suppose it depends on your definition of a string. If it's an ordered collection of glyphs, than paths and URLs are definitely strings with invariant restrictions. But, of course, that's hardly a useful definition when you need to take a URL as input, is it? So I agree that treating them as separate types with an external string representation is a very useful tool to have, even if I don't agree that it should always be applied! Having worked with the Path class in Java, I personally find it an impediment to understandable code, but I'd also be willing to accept that that particular implementation and my intuition simply don't mesh well.
Thanks for this is was very helpful.

Honestly I think the main thing that trips people up here is the naming convention. If it was String and StringView rather than str I don't think people would have nearly as much trouble. I guess the name was chosen for brevity considering how pervasive &str is in rust code.
To preserve history and collect it.
He actually talks about that in the Q&A at the end of the presentation. Funniest line: "China has been trying to login".

Very impressive kid.
An economy without innovation will reach a stable state and at that point it is a zero-sum game.

However, capitalism is still our most effective tool for accelerating innovation. This is why we willingly accept some of it's negative consequences.
> This could become a safety issue in the future if a robot misgenders a trans person publicly...

This bit confused me. First off, how is that a safety issue? And second, how is that any worse than if it misgenders a non-trans person? I can understand it being annoying (as I am often mistaken for a woman when on the phone or in the drive-thru) but how is that a safety issue or strictly a trans issue?
As they say: "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up".
I am getting downvoted a lot and I really don't see why.

I didn't mean to be offensive towards the user that posted this entry, but just highlight this "issue".

My main "wtf" is due to the fact that in the past I submitted links that were already in the system and I got redirected to the comments page, as usual. Considering this is the exact case and there are eighteen hours between submission, i guessed this is a noticeable glitch.

So please, stop dowinvoting me.
Incidentally a lot of antidepressants (like the one I'm taking) have generics available that make this kind of thing less likely. I gotta say though, life with antidepressants for me is a life I haven't experienced in a very, very long time, in fact I can't remember when the last time I felt this way was.
There is plenty of content that will always be free and free of advertising. That's content made by people who either care about a subject or that are otherwise given the feeling that they contribute to something larger than themselves (wikipedia for instance, plenty of blogs, courses and so on).

The problem is that newspapers evolved in lock-step with the advertising industry and that they had carved out an - in retrospect - extremely fragile position based on a balance that they thought was stable. Unfortunately for many quality news publications it turned out that wasn't the only stable state, the other one is the state in which they are simply gone, maybe a few with hopefully benevolent wealthy sponsors would endure. This was an unforeseen consequence of reducing the value of printing presses to near zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Digital

Pretty much predicted this, the only thing it got wrong was the timetable, it took a little bit longer.

So now the question is do enough people actually put enough value on real news to employ journalists to do their work. Right now it looks bleak.
This is pure generalization and does not apply to those who are clinically depressed or suffer bipolar.
See my replies to the rest of the comments. The point is, you have to use the surface of the treadmill as your frame of reference. Then, it's obvious that your body has moved relative to where it started.
> Our goal is not to simulate day-to-day software development...

I don't understand this. Why do they not want to see how well a candidate performs the tasks that they will be expected to perform on the job? Does this not result in them selecting for the wrong set of skills/knowledge?
"fractional-reserve banking permits the money supply to grow beyond the amount of the underlying reserves of base money"

I think you misunderstand the meaning of that quote. The money supply doesn't grow beyond the amount of underlying reserves because an individual bank lends out more than it has in deposits (and other funds). The multiplier is the result of this cascade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking#Exa...
It's not a matter of it being a rule violation. It's a shitty, pretentious tactic.
That seems to be the case, for example the number of "broken microphones" in the Chicago PD[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/01/29/...
You probably meant to disclose that information, not disclaim it. I suppose this is one of those cases like "literally" where persistent misuse will cause the word to be its own opposite, but I keep fighting the annoying fight anyway.
Do you find it strange that Bitcoin is the same price it was ever since you said it was dead?
I saved the post in a plain text file and fed it as input to Sqawk [1], which I develop, then modified the output somewhat. Namely, I removed the horizontal lines separating the rows (to fit the post in the 2000 characters HN allows) and manually centered the text in the header.

[1] See https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk#pretty-print-data-as-a-tabl....
I am often stunned at how eloquent some conversations are on 4chan, and am dismayed when I realize this is because anonymity allows us to be truthful without the baggage of reputation and consequences of controversy - which is how we make progress.

We must never lose our ability to remain anonymous when necessary.
The problem with using a purely neurochemical explanation like this is the rates of these disorders differ dramatically between societies and within societies geographically, demographically and over time. It is clear that the United States in particular is, especially in recent years, churning out unprecedented numbers of severely psychologically ill individuals. The idea this is solely due to previously undiagnosed individuals or otherwise not representative of a sickening society is difficult to support.

Frankly we have spent too long acting as if mental disorders could not possibly have anything to do with ones surroundings, upbringing and life in general, when it's beyond obvious that they have very much to do with those things, as well as genotype/phenotype/etc. We've used this idea that it shames individuals to suggest that the actual problems they deal with could contribute to mental damage in much the manner they can physical damage, which is simply dogma masquerading as science.

In fact, using purely neurochemical explanations denies people's humanity and lived experience, denies that we are sentient humans not some organic robots that need an serotonin oil change and some dopamine transmission fluid.
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I've used it when I wanted to provide a value which was statically initialized with a literal in the source, but which could possibly mutate during program execution. Instead of doing `String::from` and performing the heap allocation regardless, the heap allocation is only performed if you actually mutate it.
Is this really a widespread problem? A bottle of wine is...3-6 glasses. For one person, yes, that's a lot for one night, but for two people, not really.

Every time I've seen one of these new packaging options, it was actually a better value to open a bottle of reasonable wine, drink 1-2 glasses, and throw away the rest. (I am fine with the vacuum pump cork thing for a day or two, too)
To be honest, I think they are probably still better than Realtek or "Killer" NICs.
There are dozens of us!

You can get old SPARC servers super cheap on eBay too. I'm super tempted to get one. I was also trying to find an Itanium the other day but those are darn impossible to get. :(
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Doesn't discount the possibility that it moved right since Nixon and is moving left again.
The real nail is that each individual is unique. There are not X number of disease cases out there, there are Y number of more or less closely related disease states. We might say that someone is suffering from the disease of high blood pressure, but the underlying causes and hence ideal treatment is unique to that individual. Add in idiosyncratic responses and the drug discovery problem is almost impossible.
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Better solution: a smaller reusable container for storing your surplus wine overnight.

Even better solution: friends.