skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good response and I appreciate Malte's effort to engage publishers, but it doesn't calm my nerves about the biggest publisher complaint about AMP:

Google owns the chrome (top navigation) on all AMP pages. This makes it easy to navigate back to Google (why would you ever want to leave?) and other publishers in the AMP ecosystem, but much harder to navigate to the publisher that created the page in the first place

In essence, this means that what was once a publisher-owned page is now shared property: between the Google and the publisher. By controlling the top navigation, Google more easily controls the content the visitor sees, keeps visitors on Google longer, provides greater opportunity to track visitors, and perhaps most importantly has the opportunity to earn more ad revenue.

Now imagine if this was a requirement for ALL pages served in Google search results. You publish a page and it appears in Google, but when the user clicks on it Google has pasted a new navigation on the top of your page. This is exactly what is happening with AMP.

This is especially troubling in light of all the anti-trust controversies Google is finding itself in, both in the US and abroad. A recent study showed that 49% of all Google clicks go to Google properties of one kind or another (Maps, YouTube, Ads, etc) http://www.slideshare.net/randfish/intro-to-mozcon-2016/24-L...

Does AMP count as another Google property that will push more than 49% of clicks their way? Hard to say, but it's a disturbing trend for a monopoly and a hard pill for publishers to swallow.
Political debate in the US has traditionally taken place in a framework of shared values. Some of these are: you accept electoral defeat, you nominate people with a basic minimum of human decency, and overt bigotry is not acceptable.

Within that framework, people have sharp disagreements over issues, some of them life-or-death (like abortion). But the framework is something that was sacrosanct, until this election.

The problem many people, including conservatives, have with Trump is that he breaks basic norms around how our democracy should work, and represents a threat to it. That's why Thiel's vocal support for his candidacy is so troubling. It's not just a case of someone whose politics I disagree with, it's someone financing the destruction of the whole apparatus those politics take place within.
Camp Pendleton is developed on the coast, and does not allow public beach access. There has been a reduction in access.
Why Google A.I. is the last user interface
I can't tell you how much I hate that idea. Humans should always come before machines. Numerical street designations would be unusable for anything but automated transportation, with the exception of cities laid out in regular grids and numbered with small integers. That is: completely impractical for anywhere that I'd actually want to live.
Even reading your comment charitably, I am left with the thought that you consider me some country bumpkin that hasn't been exposed to high quality programmers.

I'll point out the previous conversations about selection bias of universities and the companies who hire their students. I'll also point out that people go to different places because a variety of factors, many of which are beyond our control. Few actually get to walk the straight path, and I find people who don't recognize the luck they have received are poorer in spirit for it. I think you suffer more from selection bias and a need to uplift your position than I.

"I wouldn't call any random programmer from a random company writing CRUD apps great." - I suppose someone could say the same about those who serves up ads or writes webmail clients. I believe the world is amazingly interesting with the unique problems we face as programmers and challenges lie in the heart of many pieces of software. We are much too young a profession to think that the world is routine.

"Many people consider a programmer to be great if he writes very clean, logical and easy to understand code."

I would also say the best sprinters are fast. I guess I have a reverence for those who write in a clean, logical, easy fashion. I like elegance in all things and find it a very high complement. How else would one show in-depth understanding? The code is the expression of programming, not the spoken word or lecture. I guess I'm a simple man, and believe in people showing me.
> and overt bigotry is not acceptable.

I'm scared to ask- is this really true?
Maybe Bob Dylan is too busy reading dasharez0ne
Yes, accept our platform, design choices, and navigation framing or we won't put you in a competitive position with other search results. While AMP isn't a ranking factor (Google has stated this) AMP results are displayed more prominently. Arm twisting at it's finest.
Previous HN comments on the original story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722590
I've used a similar approach, but never thought about explicitly requesting someone to be angry at. I like that and will have to give it a try.
Ok, now I understand the confusion. When you said "unless you have clear blue sky overhead," it seemed like you thought the weather was important, like there is a satellite broadcasting video back down to earth that would be interrupted if it were cloudy. What you meant is that it's visible from above, not blocked by some kind of bridge or something.

And yes, that's absolutely true. I've been on streets that are right underneath bridge decks and drivers can't find. One way to avoid this is to set your pickup location to a business if one exists (i.e. a bar, hotel, restaurant), so the address is correct.
US Navy commissions the Zumwalt, a destroyer like no other
Yeah, I was quite surprised how positive a reaction the original complaint got, considering it was long-winded, repetitive, and seemed to go out of its way to misunderstand AMP.

The only valid criticism appears to be how google displays search results using its own URL and this toolbar – it seems to break rather fundamental assumption about http and has the potential to break all sorts of tools that rely on the established structure of the web and open standards, as has already happened with the refer(r)er as mentioned in this response.

I wonder if there's a way to get the same result without rehosting content on their own URL. Couldn't they allow publishers to achieve the same result with a CNAME, possibly for amp.<hostname>.<tld>? And do the google servers add anything beyond being distributed caches? Because if not, it seems this level of indirection is redundant for websites already hosted on CDNs.

Regarding the toolbar: yeah, that's a terrible idea. I have no sympathy for publishers who object to it because if it reduces your retention rates there's probably more wrong with the content than the presentation. But as a user, it's the sort of "assisted browsing" that feels intrusive, like resizing the window or a "you need flash" popup (I don't).

Considering their market share in browsers isn't far behind the in search, I wonder why that function isn't just a chrome feature. Funny thing is: it's a feature that exists in Safari ("Search results snapback").
I'd personally like to think we've gotten better as a society over the years.
I think what a lot of people don't agree with is the marketing of Soylent, but they don't understand that and so they harp on other issues with it. This article, while wordy, is better than some because it does discuss the marketing and idea of companies, esp. in SV, "disrupting food", even if the argument is very roundabout.

I will never drink Soylent, not because I think the idea of Soylent is bad (it's verifiably not, look at the number of people who do like it) but because I have no interest in it, because I know that real food is absolutely better in every way I care about (nutrition, taste). But I also understand that Soylent, even if it is marketed as a meal replacement, will never replace meals, so I don't really care. In my eyes, it's my generation's version of my mom's Slimfast.
Well, they still have the instance types where instance storage matters most, IMO: d2 and i2 (which are great for running things like Cassandra and HDFS).

Also, complementing toomuchtodo's comment, there's also now EBS types focused on almost all kinds of workloads: sc1 for cold data/archiving, st1 for workloads optimized for sequential scans (a Confluent benchmark even reported that Kafka ran better with st1 EBS than instance storage), io1/PIOPS for databases and gp2 for everything else.
Twitter is now worth less than Weibo
He avoids really hard addressing the only bit that matters

> Guess what happens when the "close" button is clicked inside the AMP view?

And the amount of disingenuous on this just rubs me the wrong way:

> If you are not comfortable with traffic on your AMP pages, please do not publish AMP pages.
Joerg Sprave of the "Slingshot Channel" might be interested in how the grain is formed in the crooks of certain branches, because those might make for good slingshots. Most of us wouldn't even notice.
The misunderstanding seems to be because of "unless you have clear blue sky overhead". People (including me) thought that you meant clouds, rather than man-made overhangs.
Given that no twitter user was specifically mentioned by wikileaks' account, how do you know this?
I think that is a rub. With the goal just being to find some variables that correlate together, it is a neat project. But, ultimately not indicative of a predictive classification. If only due to the fact that you do not have any independent samples to cross validate with. All samples being from the same crash.

This would be like sampling all coins from my pockets and thinking you could build a predictive model of year printed to value of coin. Probably could for the change I carry. Not a wise predictor, though.
Melania+defends+Trump+over+sex+boast+tape
You could do well with

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derive...

and

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

edit: and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_with_dua...
> Dynamically typed languages are dead

The author seems to overlook existing efforts from the dynamically typed end of the spectrum to add type inferencing and optional static typing to dynamic languages. Either as type checkers e.g., mypy [1] or for runtime improvements.

[1]: http://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Guess I won't be using computers then because google doesn't understand a word I say.

So long, it was nice knowing you all.
So if I built my own personal ad network, I could make a PR and have it be accepted?
I think in general one should try to be nice to everyone but yes, in my own experience, collaboration and being nice all the time is probably not the best strategy. It can be very demanding on one's mental health.

I say it because lately I have found myself engaging in far too many emotionally draining conversations with a few friends and coworkers. These are generally negative/depressed/anxious people. Of course, they need someone who they can talk and lighten their loads but they end up passing their load on me. After lunch or dinner with these friends, I feel too tired to contribute anything positive when I am with my other friends or more importantly with my wife.

One should not be sounding board for everyone but only close friends and family.
I'm always fascinated by how people choose to live while traveling, so thanks for sharing! Curious though how you handle food. Do you prepare your own or eat out? Judging from the lack of utensils, etc I imagine the latter.
As a user I've learned to avoid AMP pages because the UX is horrible:

* back button is broken 1/2 the time

* the bar wastes 1/3 of my screen

* I can no longer see what site I am on in the url

* it's hard to navigate to the / of the site

* I can't forward the link

* being on a good network in US it solves no problem that I have

What I'd really like to see is a way to opt-out of seeing AMP'ed pages in my search results. Or at least a way to navigate from AMP page to its native version.

Further, I noticed that AMP is a signal for low quality content. I am guessing sophisticated publishers are conservative enough to wait and see. And individuals haven't bothered dealing with it. So you get low-end publishers in between.
Guantánamo files: How al-Qaida and Taliban members were spotted
"Gosh, I mean, you have a right to sell oil, sure, but maybe if you play by our rules, you'll have an easier time shipping it on the rail networks we own." It's plainly Standard Oil-style monopoly behavior from Google here.
http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Main_leaf
I'd also be interested in this.
How to Operate Your Frog
Perhaps Thiel dislikes the hate speech as much as you do, but dislikes Clinton's policy proposals even more.
Really? Curriculum decided by government committees sounds so much worse. University computer science curricula lags behind industry by at least five years, a sizable portion of coding bootcamp students are actually CS grads because they complete their degrees without competitive and employable skills.
Software has a long, long way to go before it accounts for every possible situation where normal people use cars. We'll need manual controls to work around shortcomings in the software for a long time after mostly-autonomous driving becomes the norm.
Looks like people have gotten pretty far indeed!
The latencies to various locations are listed in the blog post -- us-east-1 to us-east-2 is < 12ms.
In the first paragraph, did I understand the author right in saying that happy homosexual couples are a recent invention?

"[other couples] of more recent vintage with chromosomes exactly matched,"

To me, literal reading of that fragment would posit identical twins as married couples. Any other interpretations?
I've never been to a conference that didn't have a high percentage of first time speakers. In many ways that is what provides the value of a good conference. One of the largest ACM conferences is SIGGRAPH, in which graduate students generally present.

As long as there's content, and the speakers receive some communication about being prepared, practicing, and ensuring they will meet the time limit, how is there so much worry that it's preferable to reject good abstracts than take the risk??

On top of that, it seems like risky presenters with good abstracts could easily be given the opportunity to send in a video of them speaking or have a phone call with a conference organizer.

Given these things, it's seems sad to trivially reject based on inexperience, it hurts the conference more than the applicants, and of course gives the impression the conference cares more about style than substance. I realize that's a rash decision making wild generalizations based on a small amount of text... OTOH that is probably how some of those less experienced applicants feel.
Alien, Blade Runner, Minority Report, 12 Monkeys, Primer, Tron
No, that's not what's happening. The bacteria are evolving resistance to antibiotics.
It depends what you consider to be corruption. I don't have any confidence that they will enact the policies they describe. Trump is a well-known charlatan and liar. Clinton, however, comes closer to corruption via corporate interests and wealthy friends.

Disclosure: I support neither candidate and will probably vote the Party for Socialism and Liberation this cycle.
Siri is really bad. Another grievous example is once you choose a Bing result to explore from the Siri screen, there's no apparent way to get back to the results screen to try another one.
ISS needs 7 tonnes of fuel each year to stay in orbit, so it would need yearly refueling runs just to keep it were it is (or expensive modifications to get larger tanks, I think it only has enough capacity for a year right now). And if you deorbit it you can be sure it's safely gone, and stop worrying about defects that have it crashing down somewhere random anyways - you certainly don't want to have to go out and fix it.

For a decade or so that might be worth it, but on a more long-term timeline it would be more efficient to just launch what you need when you actually need it.

EDIT: what I didn't think about is that one maybe could push it further out and reduce atmospheric drag and thus fuel needs that way, but I suspect the safety aspect still wins.
You've made incorrect assumptions about what I have or have not forgotten. I don't see why you think that making trivial observations about the nature of emotion moves the conversation forward.

You seem to conflate the idea of logic itself with that of 'a self-serving rationalization'. You can approach a discussion about empathy and patience using logic or without using logic, just as you can approach a conversation about 'getting what you want from other people' using logic or without using logic. Using logic is completely orthogonal to choices of focus.
Are you really surprised that a military base has an exception?
Clumsy on my part- I was asking historically.
I disagree wholeheartedly, that being happy in the face of being treated like shit will get you what you want in that type of situation. What is the author basing his assumptions off of?
Try disabling adblock/ghostery
Calmn + determination I believe is the most effective approach.

Unfortunately maintaining this demeanor is beyond my own abilities though.
As of now it's not a requirement, so I'm not sure how your hypothetical is relevant.
KDevelop 5.0.2 for Windows and Linux
Sorry, it means a Joint Venture call, for Cross promos, affiliate promos, etc.
How tied to Disney is munki and reposado? I use the Server app, but the functionality is continually hamstrung and honestly these open-source apps probably have more functionality than was ever in Server.

It's really interesting to hear that they could be tied so closely to Disney though.
Yeah - I do. Look at any politician with more than one term of anything under their belt and you're going to find similar problems. I'm voting for Gary Johnson anyhow.. not because I expect him to be more consistent, but because I very much want a viable third party.
Thanks for sharing – I appreciate it!
There's also the entire argument that Thiel doesn't really support Donald Trump, and that this donation is more of a strategic move that is coherent with increasing Ted Cruz's chances of election in 2020. Cruz got as close to a public denouncement of Trump as possible, and he will probably need the support of many of his voters (who knows if they'll even remember, doubt it) to be able to secure a victory. Thiel could perhaps be the trump card necessary as support, as he double counts as both a gay man and someone who remained "loyal" to Trump. I think that Thiel's opinions on how the world should look are more in line with Cruz's, and he himself has called Cruz "very smart". I don't know a lot about politics or Peter Thiel, but to think that a former chess champion and fairly renowned silicon Valley figurehead legitimately supports Trump is a little outlandish. The odds of there being an ulterior motive are far greater than the opposite. Not to mention that he probably saw all the negative PR coming, as well as the resulting dissociations. He probably believes it was all worth it.
Yes, happy memories (1972?) of sitting at a terminal next to Harvard's CRCT IMP (56Kb connections to 2 other nodes, woohoo!) late at night and picking up the phone on the side when it rang, with BBN network ops folks calling and asking me to reboot it manually...

(The IMP also functioned as a local router between the PDP-10 and the PDP-1.)

I also remember Ray Tomlinson well from the first email list on the ARPAnet, meta-appropriately about email lists, protocols, and clients.

Those were simpler times when receiving an email was done by anonymous FTP appending to your mail.txt file.
Cut out Kafka by writing directly to S3 and bulk loading from S3 directory (optimal for Redshift). The article never details what "near real-time" means, which is bothersome.
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It's nice to see Google investing in direct responses to the community. If you build a developer product, monitoring HN for criticism and responding is very high ROI. Few companies actually do this.
Suspicious Updates Around “Google's ‘Director of Engineering’ Hiring Test”
A great account of the building of the IMP: "where wizards stay up late".
It is a requirement for certain placement; such as the high ranking top-level news carousel.
End users, in generall, don't know and don't mind about these complaints against AMP.

What matters is if one gets the results he was searching for. And somehow those pages that have "amp" written nearby open faster, so let's click more on those.

Market pressure will drive decisions on whether it's better have amped pages (with those claimed drawbacks) or try to capture attention to the whole site with navigation and lighter pages.

And as a prisoner's dilemma, if sites that don't have amp are as fast as the amped, having "amp" near your link won't matter. If they are slower, the distinction will matter, independently of your specific optimization.
Yes. It was far easier to get into college in the '80s, in part because far fewer bothered to attend; this resulted in more legacies then than now (I believe the percentage of legacies at Harvard is in the single digits).
Is accessibility best measured by:

P ( student_is_poor | student_attends_ivy )

P ( applicant_is_admitted_to_ivy | applicant_is_poor )

I take the view that the latter is the better measure, but I can see people arguing that the former has some relevance.
There's definitely much easier to use tools out there in terms of the UX, learning curve and some features that just aren't in scope for munki/reposado/autopkg but in many respects the commercial competition has been (and still is) playing catch up. Back when it was first introduced the divide was even greater.
> We're in the middle of some crazy propaganda war right now, and it's been this way for quite a while. It became completely transparent when the Podesta e-mails were released mere minutes after Trump's videos regarding possible sexual assault were released.

Huh? I remember the leaks coming out first then the video? I remember because I had fox news live on in the background, they started talking about the email dump and when they came back from break it was pussygate.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hear+hear&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

:)
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This matches my own experience using AMP via google search. As a _user_ the experience is excellent but it pushes me toward using content in a very shallow way. If I were a content _publisher_ I would be thinking very carefully about the cost this has on retention.
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Maybe. The trick is stripping the wordlists themselves. Scraping, etc. But that shouldn't be too hard.
I certainly don't get worked up but I do use i3 and several KDE programs. I think your more right 5 years ago then where we are today with Systemd in our world the differences between distros is getting smaller and smaller. Once again the RPM I download work and they work for me.

I get "worked up" when the only thing offered is a ppa and a source :)
I hate the request to "hop on a call". That suggests the person hasn't considered their questions well enough to write them down. Whenever anyone asks me for a call, I always reply asking them to write their questions instead. Often they ask just one or two questions I can answer trivially. Much more efficient than a call.