skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, and it doesn't include standard GCE egress pricing, which is something like $120/TB.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
Google already wrote AMP which parses page content and presents the user with Google's ideal version of the page. Just include the delta in the ranking. The more a page has to be "cleaned" by AMP the lower it ranks.
It's telling that space, electricity generation, crispr, self-driving cars, and this are thought of as 'non tech', but messaging apps and phones are.
Going to mobile websites directly would load a lot faster if they natively served AMP. But it seems like most sites adopting AMP only end up serving it via Google, and not if you go to their site directly. Directly serving AMP would probably also avoid the sticky Google toolbar and scrolling oddities that you get when you go there from search.
I've always understood PCA as SVD on a whitened matrix. Is this too simplistic of a view to take wrt implementation?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitening_transformation
Once people started worrying about allergies, they started avoiding various foods, which caused more allergies...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/23/388450621/fee...
At least this way you convince the educated public that you are credible.

We should avoid names inspired by what amounts to political correctness, because people who see through the names may distrust us further.

However, I do appreciate your point, and I agree that it is a problem. I think the attitude, at least from young white collar professionals, is warming up to nuclear.
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This "raise prices after crushing competition" piece is something that practically never happens unless you manipulate governments to institute rules that preserve Monopoly. Even then as SpaceX & Uber showed, rent seeking gets punished by market.

If they raise prices significantly, someone else will come at a lower price with lower service quality (as already happens in Asia) and take a share of more price sensitive segment of the market.
or just use cryptocurrencies that support anonymous transactions?
> When I'm looking for news, I want the highest-quality source first.

Well, no, you want the highest quality source first that loads fast. Otherwise you wouldn't care about AMP in the first place!

> AMP gives everyone the option of going fast now while kinks are worked out back home.

So, do you expect that Google will ever give up their stranglehold on the sites that use AMP once they are in?

In my experience such measures tend to become permanent fixtures with their own hooks embedded in the various fabrics making removing them hard to impossible once they have achieve critical mass. We may have already passed that point, in which case you can safely ignore me.

> They might. But a lot of things might happen. If AMP makes good journalism more accessible I'm all for it.

That's your privilege. I have yet to have a day where I could not read more news than I had time for so I'm not familiar with good journalism not being accessible but I concede that this may be your situation.

> If Google abuses that privilege down the road, it's not like they're legally unassailable.

Who will take that up? You? The EU? The publishers?

My guess is that once entrenched it will be impossible to get rid of, a parasitic element in the pipe between content producer and consumer.

> Lecturing newspapers about why they should have speedier websites went nowhere.

True.

> Seeing that the same content produces more views through AMP, however, seems to have gotten the message across.

Well no, I still don't see news websites getting any faster. But they're already ridiculously fast, consider that 30 years ago you had to wait a full day to read the news and now you can read it in 10 seconds. It's great if that can be cut down to 0.01 second and I'm all for doing that and incentivizing those companies to do this but in the end it is their web property and the market should be allowed to sort this out rather than that a search engine monopolist that is already the gateway to almost all pages read on the web becomes the gatekeeper to our news.

> In the meantime, Google's cash flows get to subsidize this IT expenditure for the news industry while consumers get faster news sooner.

No, Google's cash flow will not subsidize this because they now have the eyeballs. Sooner or later there will be a push for monetization.

> Killing AMP and forcing to choose users between crappy websites and efficient walled gardens, however, is counterproductive.

There are other choices besides.
Same. These have perfect sound for me, are comfortable, and can be had for $60-70 bucks.

My only wish is that I could wear them around walking, but they have a long coiled cable.
Cokie Roberts might have been the worst example of that, I had to tune it out when she started speaking on her bits in the 90's! It felt like she was a concession to the constant attacks on NPR's budget from conservatives.
Perhaps driving is not an option if you live in major cities? Whole Foods has prime locations in urban centers.
>Having them so gives the employer all the power

That's why they are secret; nothing more to it.
Interesting answer. Can you recommend one of those textbooks?
The can't tell if someone's a subscriber when the person opens a link from facebook on their phone, so they just allow all access from facebook.

(It's also possible they want to encourage sharing on social networks.)
Your response feels like a lame excuse, and I think is insulting to the HN crowd.
Also, if every site slows down, the fastest ones ares still slower than before.
The post is critical and frank but well within the bounds of civil discourse. Pleasant and understanding is not always the appropriate tone (though it's a good default). Sometimes people or companies do harmful things. To respond with patience and respect is to normalize them.
I'm in the same boat. To me as a user, AMP has worked well. Loads content quickly, with from what I've experienced, very little drawbacks.

So I'm not sure whether AMP is just something controversial as a lot of things from Google tend to be it seems, or if there is some real technical merit as to why it's so bad apparently.
On the other hand, the gorgeous scenery and mild weather will always be around. I’d pick up a Post Amazon Condo at Detroit prices in a heart beat.
There are company cafeterias and private restaurants and food trucks. Amazon does not force employees to buy food at Amazon cafes. The campus is just in a city where normal city things exist.
Early Frontiers for Computer Creativity: TX-0 Writes a Western
> many environments were children play are close to sterile

[citation needed]
I doubt it. My wife and I were completely allergy free until 4 years ago. She developed a bunch of allergies then. I'm picking up some over the last 12 months. (And... I don't think too clean applies in my case. I'm a firm believer in the 5 second rule :)

A friend of mine developed serious allergies over the last few years as well.

Sure, it could just be age. But there's a two decade age difference between my friend and me. I've so far blamed it on LA's air quality, but it's interesting to see it seems to be part of a wider trend.

(I have no idea what causes it, but I suppose that article means I should widen the search for potential causes.)
Except there's no balancing measure to make the various events equally impactful. There's nothing out there to even out or amortize luck effects. There's no nice pseudo-randomness mechanic to make things "fair" or "fun". The effects are often catastrophically long-term and there's no smoothing out. Why would you think otherwise? Why would you compare life to a human-made game? Life is explicitly not a game, it's not fair, it's not fun, it's not balanced.

Being born a human is huge. Being born in the right country is huge. Being born without genetic problems is huge. Being born to decent parents is huge. These account for the vast majority of a given's person experience pool. Once you get to individual decisions, all the most important things have already been determined. If you're sitting at a place where you feel like you can make all the important decisions yourself, you're already way ahead of the game.

The other problem is that decisions are not fully free and are very strongly influenced by luck, as well. Things like education, information availability, clarity of mind, and, if you want to go there, fluid intelligence, likely influence the quality of your decisions, and that's also luck. Everyone wants to make all the best decisions, otherwise you're saying that lots of people are deliberately trying to reduce the quality of their lives...
Tamper proof modules that store the key? Like Secure Enclave?
Oh my god thank you for understanding this and explaining it so well. I spend a lot of time trying to suppress the sinister-LWR myth.

Real reasons MSRs declined include [1]:

* The existing major industrial and utility commitments to the LWR, HTGR, and LMFBR.

* The lack of incentive for industrial investment in supplying fuel cycle services, such as those required for solid fuel reactors.

* The overwhelming manufacturing and operating experience with solid fuel reactors in contrast with the very limited involvement with fluid fueled reactors.

* The less advanced state of MSBR technology and the lack of demonstrated solutions to the major technical problems associated with the MSBR concept.

[1] http://www.energyfromthorium.com/pdf/WASH-1222.pdf
> There's no other point.

Having eaten at Google's internal cafe, it is most definitely a perq, and is useful for attracting employee candidates.
Non-blocking file copy, Snabel style
This was the followup post our front-end lead wrote:

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/06/vue-big-plan/

I don't think it's exactly what you were asking for, but I'll pass this suggestion along to our front-end lead that wrote these two posts.
Well, the post he/she was replying to had a provocative line in it as well, so I think we can excuse the tone a bit.
Wanna buy me a lottery ticket?
Well then let’s fix this. Post below with your title, years of exp, and salary in USD (sans bonuses or stock etc.).

SW Dev Lvl 1 : 0 years : 76k
I owe my life to luck.

Two years ago I suffered an extreme bout of depression and hung myself. I'd apparently called 911 beforehand so that someone prepared would find my body. The police got there first and cut me down, but I was not breathing and had aspirated (vomited into my lungs). The ambulance arrived and took me to a nearby hospital where they performed an endotracheal intubation (tube through the mouth, down the esophagus) and hooked me up to a ventilator. I was sedated for 10 days, put on longer-term life support (tracheotomy and PEG feeding tube, etc. It was expected that I would almost certainly have brain damage if I survived. The aspiration had lead to substantial pneumonia, further complicating treatment. When I awoke I was hallucinating from the sedatives and had lost all memory of the week leading up to the suicide attempt. After a few days they were able to take me off the ventilator and just use oxygen, and eventually the tracheotomy tube was removed from my throat. Luckily the opening healed, and I could speak and breath on my own. I was transferred to an inpatient mental health facility and learned to better cope with depression. There was no brain damage. Hanging has a higher rate of completed suicides than shooting. Almost all of the incomplete (survival) hangings result in permanent brain damage. I am ridiculously lucky. My survival is due to the hard work of a large number of people, for which I will always be grateful. But there's still a lot of luck involved.
Are you aware of anything else that does this? I'm an individual so nothing with "Contact Sales" is useful to me.
There was a previous discussion on HN that helped me understand the value of Google being "the bad cop" and making AMP restrictive. Before AMP, you'd have product people and ads people demanding to add all these bullshit ads and trackers to pages. Engineers would often try to push back with the performance argument, but it was a difficult argument to win (ads people could argue, "well, it doesn't really slow down the pages that much, and look at this revenue we get - maybe you just are coding it wrong when you're including the ads code!") With AMP, the discussion is very simple: "Sorry ads guy, I can't add your bullshit ad network JavaScript because it's not possible with AMP. You know Google favors AMP now, don't you, and you wouldn't want to be the guy responsible for a shitty SEO position because we didn't use AMP, do you?"
Must've resulted from this: https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/851111291229847552
The chart is a little deceiving considering Redmond (Microsoft) and Everett (Boeing) are within the metro area of Seattle and just a few minutes drive. It would be like publishing a stat about Manhattan but skipping companies in Brooklyn and Queens.
Of course, but while still being itself.

Just like you would like to be personally successful, but won't sell your soul or betray your principles for it.
Yes, tuition is actually going up by that much (20k vs 50k). Even inflation adjusted it's still almost double. Room and board has also almost tripled (5k vs 15k). At this rate, in fifteen years or so, I'd expect to pay 100k a year just in tuition or almost half a million per child. Luckily I have no kids, but if I do they're going to learn prefect German or other language that gets them free tuition in Europe. Fuck these prices. Even for a software engineer making good money, they are simply not achievable.
> I think they meant internal to South Lake Union.

That's an absurd statement though. A company town exploits the workers by making profit from them. Amazon is not doing this. It's clickbait.
From my anecdotal perspective, at private institutions (especially the Ivy's) your statement seems accurate. For public universities tuitions have been skyrocketing without any increase in scholarship funding. In fact my school recently cut funding to merit-based scholarships because they no longer have the money from the state to offer them.
I think being born white, male, and good at math at this particular time in history is the very definition of luck. I'm definitely playing the game of life on "easy" mode.

That being said I think there is a minimum level of effort, intelligence, and resilience required to take advantage of certain lucky opportunities if they present themselves. When I look at how much some of my peers had to endure and overcome to reach those minimums compared to what I had to do, it's easy to see how lucky I've been.
The system would seem setup to allow it, but at the moment there are not.
Or the MWP, which ended about 700 years ago. Which also coincides with an Indian Warming Period.
Is google working on opt-in or opt-out functionality, or is that something that might happen in the foreseeable future? I think a move like that would go a long way in the goodwill department.
Thanks for this font, I really appreciate the mix between Roboto and Helvetica or San Francisco. The cuts of Interface are more horizontals than Roboto (look the S for example) and I find it more readable, rational and beautiful. Good job !
A GCP product marketer responding to negative commentary on HN within ~20 minutes of it being posted strikes me as automated.

EDIT: It is a double standard though, HN readers want access and responses from people on the GCP team but at the same time tinfoil hat subliminal marketing etc.
Bamboo can be used to make biochar and then buried, sequesters carbon and enriches the soil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
Amazon isn't setting up most of these stores. The overwhelming majority of the businesses in SLU are not owned by or affiliated with Amazon.
Monero uses ring signatures in conjunction with one-time stealth addresses, so even if you figured out a transaction's link to a previous transaction, you would still be stuck with stealth addresses.

This is further hardened with RingCT

Please explain how this is undermined, using techniques applicable within the last 9 months.
No, it isn’t unique. Many elite/expensive schools offer either free or heavily discounted tuition for lower and middle income students.

http://nordic.businessinsider.com/how-ivy-league-financial-a...
I get

Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

after about 30 seconds.
Usually, though, lab-grown meat is actually meat. It's possible that it'd have to be labeled "synthetic" or "lab-grown" (similar to how synthetic diamonds are named), but claiming that meat is not meat is nonsensical.
The headline is blatant clickbait.
I really dislike it as well, as I think a sizable portion of the HN does according to these threads that occasionally appear. You're in good company.
When I worked at Microsoft I couldn't help but think that the glitzy construction on the eastside, especially Bellevue, would also end up abandoned as Microsoft fades.

Detroit was the primary example I would think of, but also the 1963 promotional video of Rochester, NY (home of Kodak and Xerox, also where I went to school) reminded me a lot of Bellevue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v5x6qIy4Xc

I was pondering all this before Amazon rose to its current stature, and as a former SLU resident in that time period I can say they changed the town. So maybe that's actually an argument that the region is a bit more diversified now.
> If it’s unimportant maybe they can simply eliminate it for everyone

Sticker price is an important value signal, which draws elites who, as alumnae, support the institution, so what elite universities do is have high sticker prices and then internal need-based financial aid packages that cover much of the costs for non-wealthy students. This also, incidentally, maximizes tuition revenue, as those who can pay from their own pocket or outside scholarships do pay. But maximizes revenue is incidental, because tuition is not the main source of revenue.
Texas Hold'em is IID -- events are independent and identically distributed. Life is non-stationary, with autoregressive conditional variance. Heck, for some aspects of life, the mean and variance are undefined.

It doesn't always smooth out in the long term, except for that in the long run we're all dead.
When your core business is teaching, you have more admin than teachers AND your teachers still have spend a lion share of their time doing admin work, I think it's safe to say you some of those 2700 administrators are unneeded and possibly a hindrance.
Yeah, cheers, (i looked it up) https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bucky
The how is handled by providing a language-specific "personality" function in the generated exception tables. The D runtime library has one for D. But with D as Better C, I'd have to find a way to make the C personality function work for D.
It seems increasingly likely to me that the whole academic model is on the verge of existential crisis, and headed towards profound transformations. I'm curious to see where this leads. Hopefully someplace better than before. (I shoul mention I'm a PhD student)
It looks like @indirect has admitted he made a mistake, apologized, and closed the issue:

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserve...
Although oddly enough when I moved out of Chicago.. my Indiana title search was not significantly cheaper. Still a big rip.
Wow... you was around before the iPhone. How was it in the long long ago?

but seriously... it's interesting to hear multiple people, at various ages, say they gained allergies. I've always been able to eat anything, do anything and never get sick... it's annoying but nice.

With as much as the world has changed in 10 years, I wonder if there are commonalities that can eventually be tracked down...

And if there are actual groups that are trustworthy enough to discover it (aka: not paid for by special interest groups)
Well the Impossible CEO has a good point in that if we can grow tissues on demand in a reliable and efficient process the first use will not be for food but for healthcare. Why grow quarter pounders when you could save lives and grow organs?
> Cranston got to play Walter White, the school-teacher-turned-meth-dealer in Breaking Bad, because two talented actors, John Cusack and Matthew Broderick, refused the part.

If you buy into oversimplifications and weak analysis, this article probably appeals to you.

Success, overwhelmingly, looks a lot like hard work. That hard work might present in a lot of different ways, but it is almost always there. And mostly when it's not, the "success" was not truly earned.
Interesting to see no mention of Fooled by Randomness either in the article on in the comments. Isn't that the central thesis of that very influential book?
I wasn't expecting to see George Lucas on that video, I kinda got distracted because of him.
Didn't work on my machine; it was FX and Win 10. Didn't even test it with my Linux laptop.
Comparing modern Seattle to the insane totalitarian, 100% owned by Steel and Coal refineries company towns of the 19th century is sensationalism at it's prime. These towns controlled everything about your life and were willing to use night sticks and rifles to prevent unionization.

Amazon owning 19% of "prime-office space" is even remotely comparable.
If it makes you feel better, only on sites like HN would that ever be the case.
Narrow body production is still just south of Seattle in Renton. Both Renton and Everett (wide body) are in the Seattle Metro Area.
Who owns the land that the restaurants in SLU lease? Serious question. It's all been built up so quickly and is all so new -- it looks like it could be Amazon-owned, or that could just be a natural consequence of being built around the same time.
Well, that's my point, it's not trivial to automatically recognize which photos are content and which are style. You want to have many content photos, but having many style photos probably means cruft.

How do you recognize which is which?
I feel like that's the final straw that will break my streak. Don't want to overplay my hand :P
I think luck is mostly blamed for failure because no energy is expended on it in that direction.

I.e., if you are lucky enough to be able to work on something that earns you lots of money, you may still end up having to spend energy/effort/time on something to earn that money. Even if the situation is lucky, there's effort being expended, and in a relative sense, the amount of luck is irrelevant to the amount of effort.

I.e., "you're lucky to be able to be a software engineer" != "you did no work and got everything for free".

On the other hand, bad luck can hit out of nowhere in the form of random medical expenses.

I think that's generally what's happening. When people work for something and then get it, they generally aren't going to consider that the availability of the situation itself is luck, because they're more focused on the work they put in. When bad things happen to them, or when good things don't happen, the individual often has nothing to do with it, hence it looking like pure luck.
So they're building Ark B?

This video overview of the project is dangerously close to parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKY0QdSElgc

Featuring the:

* Managing Director, Development
* Vice President of Public Affairs
* Vice President Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer
* University Architect and Executive Director, Campus Planning & Design
* Director, Architecture
* Assistant Vice President for Business Affairs Finance and Facilities
* Associate Vice President of Sponsored Research
A lot of investors are interested in Memphis Meat. From what I understand, people have been trying to grow meat in laboratories for decades. Does MM have some special technology?
Image Classification Tutorial in detail (by grad student in Computer VisionMIT)
As an update looks like he thinks he was wrong.
As Max said, mistakes happen, and most people are not very willing to publicly admit when they make them, so I'm generally very supportive of anyone who is willing to do that move on.