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I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think you're going to spend just $1B to get to $10B/year. Does Google get to that number with anything apart from Search and Youtube?

Though I think even $1B for a $100M/year business is a pretty decent deal at this point...
+1

It seems few big companies are able to maintain a culture of continuously trying to reinvent themselves and find the next big thing.

In addition to buying the next big thing (effective but requires $$$) I think intentionally trying to disrupt/reinvent your own products before your competition does is a great way to not miss the next big thing.
You've now brought value judgement and morality into the discussion, and neither apply here.

The blogger said Meyer acted on an email complaint about the turnstiles. The commenter said that's incorrect, that Meyer decided to have them removed on her own accord.

There's no value judgement. There's no appeal to moral authority. It's not politics. Core1024 is claiming to be objectively correct about Meyer's internal motivation for removing the turnstile. In this case, it's acceptable to ask: what evidence do you have?

If he says "She told me herself" or "It was a water cooler rumor," then great, we have our answer. If he says, "It's my strong suspicion based on [...]," then he passed off suspicion as fact. And if he says, "There is no evidence, this is a social narrative I've constructed without regard to objective truth," then we have a serious problem.
I've long held that self-driving cars are a marketing ploy by Google. Their lead, Chris Urmson, frequently speaks as if it's only a couple years away. One of his famous phrases was that his daughter, 14, should never have to get a driver's license, if he met his goal. He's spoken in front of Congress, acting like the laws are the only thing holding them back, which is false. I'd absolutely call him out on the things he said to Congress being outright lies.

At the same time Google has bragged about their car's previously impeccable safety record, they've admitted in reports to the DMV that the only reason they didn't cause 13 accidents in a year was their test drivers... trained humans. The real safety system in the car.

But everyone thinks Google is the leading edge of innovation "because they make self-driving cars and stuff".
Cython can be used to auto-generate optimized Python C-API code that gets source-mapped line by line to original Cython code in the form of HTML annotations. This stuff is very hard to write by hand.
What that dbus doesn't depend on systemd? It's good that it doesn't because people that don't run Linux want to use it.
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Anything. It's a state function measuring energy, so pick a number and keep it the same. Usually zero is a good choice.
What would you change given a greenfield opportunity?

What would you add? Remove?

Why?

For myself: the basic RF282 concept of sender, subject, recipient (or newsgroup), date, and references, plus body, seem reasonable.

How best to take these to present capabilities (and needs) is another question.
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Any spectrum recordings would almost be guaranteed to include copyrighted content, and in the US distributing those recordings would fall afoul of the DMCA.
Here is blog post about python list implementation, one of 2 main data structures used internally: http://www.laurentluce.com/posts/python-list-implementation/
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1. The number of samples must not exceed UINT32_MAX, that is, 4*10^9. The number of clusters must not exceed UINT32_MAX too. Number of dimensions must not exceed 12288 (GPU shared memory constraint). We successfully tested with 4M samples and 480 dimensions (the product is greater than UINT32_MAX) against potential overflows. Practically speaking, it will not take ages if the product of samples, clusters and dimensions does not exceed 10^14.

2. No, unfortunately I don't. Implementing a tree on GPU is a real pain and the performance will still be bad, so I didn't even consider them.

The common problem with advanced approaches is the memory overhead. Hi-end GPU has only 12 GB and you have to fit. E.g. Yinyang becomes unapplicable on 500000 samples, 10000 clusters and 480 dimensions (though only the product of samples and clusters matters much).
I guess the problem for yelp and for businesses is that yelp wants to be the crowd sourced zaggat's. Semi honest reviews of businesses.

For most people it's a place to complain about businesses and most don't make an effort of being a good reviewer, even when they want to just provide a public service review. They tend to be subjective personal opinions of businesses.
Making street spaces free would actually make the problem worse: the price is already well below what I'm willing to pay, the problem is that I'm unlikely to find a street space at any price (below the cost of a ticket) near a given destination.

To provide free parking in popular destinations such that it never completely fills up, the city would have to buy property (shutting down or relocating the businesses already on it) and build parking structures on it.
Yeah but Google _does_ make self-driving cars. You can see them all over Mountain View. They drive themselves. It's amazing.
Key features on the homepage match my recommendations to Rust/seL4 project head. The amount of commit activity and features outmatched anything I'd have expected from that or this project. That you all started with strong architecture, strong language, and strong effort in something that might end up practical is very impressive. I rarely see that.
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I'm always interested in what Kelsey has to say but Solomon was right when he said that Twitter was the wrong medium for this debate. This is a perfect example of the Twitter-is-fucked story that topped HN the other day. It is impossible to carry on a coherent argument in 140 character sputters. When I read Kelsey's questioning the first time, I could not make sense of it...and then realized that Twitter was presenting it in reverse chronological order and I was reading it backwards.

I greatly miss mailing lists as a format for discussions like this. The latency involved encouraged the participants to organize their thoughts carefully before sending them to the world.
Also this blog post about modifying CPython internals is very interesting: https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow...
> It's also sad to see no mention of really improved tooling, to put F# on the level of C#.

Could you clarify what you mean here? Perhaps I could have written more about it in the blog post, but sitting the language service atop the Roslyn Workspace layer is critical work that:

1. Gives F# a "modern" editor experience out of the box.

2. Gives F# an entry point into the large amount of Roslyn-based IDE features. Workspaces are how they "talk" to the language, so that means that they can now "talk" to F# as well. This is not possible with tooling today.

This also has another big impact: F# will be able to use the CPS-based project system that is being built for C# and VB right now: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn-project-system
probably those products which are only sold 'used' and only have 0-3 reviews total.

on anything with over 100 reviews, non-verified ones are just noise.
Subtly dishonest journalism in my opinion.

This article could just as easily be titled "Alphabet invests $859M on long-term projects".

In fact, that would be a more accurate title since that is precisely Google's intent.
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Well for me, my Macbook Air will not boot Windows 10. The nVidia graphics card panics because of something to do with VGA-emulation under EFI booting.

In theory there is a magic incantation of hex in an EFI startup script that will turn back on the necessary emulation, I dunno.... As soon as Windows installed the nVidia driver, the next boot would never succeed.

Plenty of CPU/GPU power to run it, but I just couldn't get it to work. I had to go back to 7 (please don't mention 8).
Why should any organization have net profits at all? "Loses" here is being used to mean "spent". You can't just keep stacking up cash forever. That would be pointless and stupid.
This article makes it sound like Google frittered away $1b on the "X" lab last quarter.

X lab includes self driving car, Goog Glass, Project Tango (editorializing here but Tango is badass!), more crazier bets (1)

Ok, some crazy stuff there - pretty pretty risky.

Wow $1b last quarter for that stuff.

Geez corporate responsibility grumble grumble, stupid silicon valley assholes snark snark.

But wait, spend 30 seconds doing research and in reality the $859m headline is actually referring to Alphabet's line item "Other Bets"

"Other Bets" includes Nest, Google Fiber, Google Ventures, and Verily among others(2)

Nest = iot + Tony Fadell (pre fallout) looked like a damn good way to beat Apple to a new important consumer market. Still holding out hope.

Google Fiber = fast speed is fundamental to Google's biz, heck they could probably look at this as CapEx. Please come to my 'hood!

Google Ventures = bought $258m of Uber stock @ $3.6b valuation. What's that a 20x so far? Pays for entire fund's lifetime by several multiples? Lots of other follow-rounds that make sense (3)

Verily = profitable healthcare division. (4)

So come on NYT spend 5 mins getting the story straight instead of writing a lazy click bait headline.

(1) https://www.solveforx.com/

(2) https://www.engadget.com/2016/02/01/google-alphabet-q4-2015-...

(3) https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-...

(4) http://www.recode.net/2016/4/13/11586102/verily-alphabet-pro...
I'm going to venture a guess that programming will be among the last jobs to be automated away. It's not clear that there will be a career to change into.
About $500 billion globally, with ~$100 billion online, last I'd checked. Based on a global world product (GWP) of $75 trillion. Or 1.5% of the global total.

If that were to be split 3 ways between Google, Facebook, and Everyone Else, Google might get $167 billion in revenue, or (at 20x PE) $3.3 trillion market cap.
It's a Lagrangian, so this is the function nature tries to minimize. In common everyday systems, the Lagrangian is kinetic energy minus potential energy.
My understanding is that this is precisely what services such as Google Now (or Apple Siri, or Amazon Echo, or Facebook's Faceless Voice) are addressing. True conversational interfaces, ask question, get answer.

(Also true integrated global persistant vocal surveillance, but that's another matter.)
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ok, my criticism is directed towards Wall St analysts. I could be wrong but it feels like the vast majority of them see X as a money pit that's hampering Alphabet as whole. I've been hearing this for about a year now. If ad revenue wasn't up, the chorus would be louder.
There has been an update in the comments thread:

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/com...
I hear the phrase “hardware is hard” dozens of times a week.
Repeating this cliche misses both the point and the opportunity.
If we want to live in a world of autonomous cars, consumer space travel,
and a green energy grid (I know I do) we have to stop defining hardware
by its difficulties. The truth is, it has never been easier to start a
hardware company. Why is this phrase so common?

Because hardware requires more rigor and process to handle correctness in its implementation than software does because the iteration cycle is longer and more expensive than just pumping a PR into a CI pipeline, and people keep getting the advice when starting a new company that they should avoid applying any engineering rigor to their development cycle for as long as they possibly can because it's supposedly a giant waste of time until after you've got your product-market fit sorted out? Perhaps?

So in that vein, "hardware is hard"(er) because what counts as "minimally viable" is a more strict and higher bar than what people have been incentivized to create with software.

Or at least that's the impression I get from people when I hear them say, "hardware is hard".
Net profits are how you pay shareholders dividends, which are often demanded, and the futurr promise of which are the root basis of how the company can attract money through IPO
> The cost for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs was more than $25 billion at the time more like $110 billion in today's world.[1]

Moonshots are expensive. Doesn't mean they aren't worth it.

[1]: http://news.utexas.edu/2014/07/21/anniversary-shows-us-that-...
Except revenue continues to increase 20-30% yoy
I'm still using VirtualBox. Could you elaborate why Docker is better?
A powerful aspect of foursquare is even if you don't check in, they've likely marked you as having been in a restaurant.

Feel like Yelp could at least use this for popularity measurements
Yea i agree, Slack's native app is pretty good in terms of design and performance. This is totally unnecessary.
Notice that GP said Google while you said Alphabet.

If they pay off, it benefits Alphabet. Maybe Google (the search engine monetized through advertising) but possibly not.
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I have this 2012 Macbook Pro, with the i7. It's been my everyday machine for the last 4 years.

The integrated GPU has improved dramatically, power consumption has improved, performance has improved in the latest generation i7s.

None of that matters. My computer is very rarely running flat out, and I'd venture the same is true 99% of the time for 99% of the people who own them.

There's no need for a faster GPU for most people. There's no need for improved performance if the computer is idle most of the time. E.g. right now my computer is drawing 8.73 Watts. Much of that is going to the display. That's pretty darn good, overall.

A little disingenuous to say performance is on par.

It's very much on par, given the way 99% of people use their laptops.

I don't know why you linked to those two ARK documents. Sure the newer chip has slightly better specs. But is the difference, in real life, between Max Memory Bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s vs 34.1 GB/s anything to be concerned about? Not for most people.

Same with the GPU. It doesn't matter that the old one is HD Graphics 4000 and the new one is Iris™ Graphics 550. Screen redraws are almost instantaneous with either. Maybe if I played the latest games I might care, but then I'd probably be using Windows for that anyway.
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How is BSD init not useful? All it's supposed to do it start and maybe stop services, and it does that quite well.

BSD init is pretty small and clean. I would argue systemd is much less so because of the large scope of the project. The more lines of code and features you have means there's going to be more bugs and more ugliness, and that's true for all large programs. New doesn't mean better either. If it isn't broken and still works well, then you don't need a replacement, which really is why systemd exists to begin with. Sysvinit was a god awful and byzantine program IMO.
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He has every right to sell license exceptions.

You're basically arguing for FSF's supremacy.

In any conflict, that FSF is or may possibly in the future be party to, all other right holders lose their rights and they have to accept whatever the FSF manages to achieve.

That's particularly grating in that the FSF's main goals are not exactly aligned with everyone else's.
Bugs caught is only one axis though, they other is effort. Unit testing is much lower effort, particularly for edge cases (what happens if dependency x throws exception) which may be hard/impossible with integration tests.
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AFAIK thinking out-of-the-box is prohibited in Corporations :)
How does he "trick someone"?
Businesses making profit off entities with positive reviews has been the norm: e-commerce etc.

Business making profit off entities with negative reviews (GlassDoor, Yelp & friends) reek of protection-rackets. These services are best decentralized rather than be profit-seeking.
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I hacked up something quickly for a one-off need to render two websites as images and diff them a few years back (warning - I'm not a developer (clearly)) - https://github.com/sammcj/urldiff
I don't think it's right to equate R&D spending with "losses". Google makes a profit, not a loss, so technically it does not have losses. It has expenses, and among those, investments in future technology.

If all Google could do with their cash flow was pay a dividend, that would be very sad, and it would call for a much lower P/E ratio. This article completely misstates the facts.

Perhaps the way they break out their financial statements is confusing to someone without an accounting degree. Just because "Other Bets" is negative, a growing negative number in this case is a good thing. This is showing Google has more free cash to invest in growth and has good ideas they believe in and want to pursue. I would be worried if instead they were stockpiling cash. You would then have to ask, why can't they put it to work effectively?

Of course, everything they do that is making money is no longer an "Other Bet" by definition.
If you can share, I'd love to know what network stuff you couldn't do in Erlang?
> about your special food needs

special food choice. This is a choice not a need.
I've brought neither value judgment nor morality. I merely said that it's legit to think about perspectives as having degrees of correctness, just as it's legit to think about moral philosophies as having degrees of correctness. It's fine if you want say, "I don't believe you," and that would be a valid interpretation on your part. But it is politics in the true sense, and you're participating in it with this conversation. You're attempting to assert that your interpretation of a word or a concept or a situation is correct and that mine is not, even though there are no objective truths to be said about either perspective. As far as I can tell, OP doesn't claim that he is correcting the specific fact-claim about the turnstiles but that he is correcting the anecdotes as a whole. What I believe the OP wants to correct is the framing or the tone of the anecdotes, not any particulars facts inside them.
This would be really useful to speed up Atom/Electron startup time.
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I read through this and you sound like a really high maintenance employee. Sorry Im on your side and sympathize with people having different dietary needs or choices but you are making far too big of a deal about food.
Wow, I could not agree more. What you are calling grit is massively under-measured in the current bullshit whiteboarding interviews for software developers today.
Its not that they don't realize. It is that they don't want to accept they would be paid less at some other companies.
"I believe in standards [... that we control]"
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> But what about the stories of people bringing their laptops into the bathroom stalls

There's no where else to put it if you need to go to the bathroom and you take your laptop. I mean, some people just leave it at the sink but eh. But laptop into a stall to work? No.

> which are always packed to the gills because why would Jeff want to waste money on, you know, extra bathrooms and stuff

Most of the buildings weren't owned by amazon. So they have a normal amount of stalls. Which is a problem on the floors with lots of devs because we have the normal dev demographics.
If his interpretations are as outlandish as you say he'll certainly lose whenever someone pushes back. Has Schilling ever "won" an argument?

Considering that McHardy seems to go after companies and not some poor individual, I suppose that pushback will occur.

If I take your claims at face value (and I tend to do so), then the FSF and SFC side still doesn't look good.

They are basically saying that

(a) whenever they're (potentially) interested in enforcing the GPL nobody else may also do that

(b) they reserve the right not to collect what the developers are owed(!), in order to further their institutional and philosophical goals

To hell with them! I'm certainly supporting any individual developer's right to enforce the GPL, and maybe even especially agains FSF/SFC's wishes.
I did wonder that to myself as I stood in the rain yesterday trying to compose an email on a damp screen with the phone typing garbage due to conflicting inputs.

Touch screens are great for consumption and lousy for creation. Even this comment required eleven corrections to the swiped words. Twelve.
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It's R&D expense. Nothing new here.

It only takes one of these moon shots to be successful to bring in extraordinary revenues, and Google has always been crystal clear that following such path was in their DNA.
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Snowden is the only responsible one of the lot. Assange is an attention addict and Manning's leak was essentially a slow-burn temper tantrum.

I don't like the way their respective governments are treating any of them, however.
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All I had to do was to fix everywhere that used ansistring which meant rewriting compression, variants handling, hashing and porting a bunch of delphi library stuff that changed in the past 14 years.

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Can you clarify how what you're looking for is different to "alert me if a certificate is created" ?
If you try to embed or extend Python in C you will be exposed to PyObject very quickly. The official Python documentation can walk you through that process (visit the embedding or extending parts).
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I wish they'd do something a long the lines of using all of their traffic data to design better lighting systems for cities. Gotta be able to do better than what is currently happening.
NB: you've fixed the styling (renders fairly reasonably on my 10" tablet) but not the markup.

<pre> should be used for preformatted code blocks or similar.

When you're quoting something, the appropriate markup is a <blockuquote> tag pair.

Most sane CSS should render that reasonably, preferably simply by indenting the content.
The business model is so simple, I doubt the people who start those companies are interested in complication.
One data point is clearly indicative enough to be conclusive.
Speaking as former employee, I see the board as the ones where the blame actually lies.

They were the ones not wanting to make handsets with GNU/Linux originally, allowed some internal political wars between Symbian and GNU/Linux camps when they finally went for it and the best of it was having a contract clause for Elop giving him a bonus if he managed to sell the company.