skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"AMP's policy states that platforms should share the canonical URL of an article whenever technically possible"

Apple is just following AMP's policy.
I took this photo of the milk at whole foods around the time the merger news with Amazon first broke, and people were going on about $8 milk. A gallon of non-organic milk is $3.49.

http://i.imgur.com/vfj52mx.jpg

A gallon of organic milk is $6.49.

http://i.imgur.com/Bly3ium.jpg
For real. Being wrong and having data to back it up, is a pretty honest mistake. We don't need a witch hunt over it.
Now that's a business model screaming for disruption.
All Google had to do to fix this was move slow sites down in search results. Instead we ended up with this huge walled garden
So, basically, the point is so handwavy that disputing the details is pointless?
>I was able to eat bread my whole life up to last year. Now whenever I eat it I get so tired I have to sleep.

i got similar situation after moving to US and for several years eating cheap white supermarket bread (i.e. bleached white flour as the main ingredient, and the bread is produced with quick rising achieved by too much yeast and sugar, in short it is very different from the way bread was done for millennia and what our gut is used to). Took some time to find better, more correctly done, bread. As result of this (and some other similar - ie. less of the food filled with sugar/corn-syrup - dietary changes) glucose level jumps with lesser amplitude (ie. much less of that roller coaster ride of sugar rush followed by the slump).

Beside wrecking havoc with glucose system (and potentially paving way for diabetes), the large consumption of bleached flour, sugar/corn-syrup and yeast have been, if not implicated, strongly correlated with things like Crohn disease, autoimmune issues, etc... (note: i'm not a crusader against sugar - i'm actually a big eater of carbohydrates, including sweet pastries, cakes, etc. - it just took time to find the places which do it more "european" style. To illustrate the difference for example consider cake frosting - European style contains a lot of high-fat butter in addition to sugar, egg, high-fat cream, etc. where is American frosting is very high on sugar and deals away [partially or completely] with butter and cream, thus losing much of the taste/aroma and becoming very unhealthy in my view)
Is it just my memory or do you have to manually thumb your way to the top of a very long page in order to press said X button?
What a dumb idea to base one's argument regarding these things on price.

As a new tech it will cost a lot (like computers once did, now you can get one for $5), but the price will eventually go down.

Perhaps my generation won't enjoy fake meat like a real steak just because of the idea, but younger people won't mind.

Personally, I'll take anything that can stop killing all those animals to then throw away huge quantities (if unsold).
Same here, I always give preference to AMP pages. Load much faster and have far fewer display problems IMHO.
Yes, it's fixed width on mobile and doesn't reflow, so you have to scroll left and right constantly, or deal with tiny text.
berkeley db 185. it has served me very good over the years and it was fast enough for real time market data and indexing and many more.
For you to make that argument, you must first make the case that 2,700 actually constitutes bloat. Who exactly would you say is expendable and why?

(Not getting down to brass tacks is the great weakness in the article too, I think. The author seems to have an idea that these expendable positions can simply be identified by filtering out anyone who can't explain what they do in non-jargon terms, or asking the surplus employees to simply name themselves so they can be cut. Nothing in business is quite _that_ easy.)
Google likely offers significant discounts to companies which write these sorts of pieces for them. And obviously a lot of Googlers participate actively here, so getting upvotes naturally is likely not a challenge.
Connection count multiplied by number of bytes transferred.

That would get rid of the cruft on the web in a heartbeat.

Every SEO consultant would suddenly have an actual job, playing code golf on CSS and HTML to deliver the content in the minimum number of bytes possible.
Despite that bogus use of the term, I found the article surprisingly good. I'm really coming to dislike headline writers (who are usually not the authors of the article).
Bitcoin's anonymity, or lack thereof, has not changed. This article is poorly titled.

The problem is with the endpoint - the person or business you are transacting with (or the technologies they use for the interaction).

This problem will exist with any cryptocurrency if the endpoints still operate the same.
It would probably be illegal to market a product that wasn't butter as "Clean Butter", because there are rules about labeling things as butter.

So I won't be surprised if the animal products industry lobbies for rules about what can be called meat (or if such rules already exist).

Of course such labeling concerns don't apply to an internet discussion, but they do indicate that people care about what's in a name.
Question: Hypothetically, if Apple were collecting similiar data that would allow reasonably accurate geolocation of any iOS-running device (without explicit user consent), would this blogger be similarly upset?

In other words, does his protest extend to all unconsented collection of data that can be used to geolocate, or only to collection by certain parties of which he does not approve?

To clarify the term "unconsented", I mean outgoing connections to the third party's servers that are not intentionally initiated by the user.

For example, periodic automatic outgoing connections would be "unconsented" unless the user has to do something to initiate them and is aware she is initiating constant network traffic that will continue indefinitely. (The traffic might plausibly be used for geolocation.)
Some say everything is luck, indeed if you want to take it to a philosophical extreme there are those that question the idea of free will entirely. I've read about research that showed that those at the top had similar beliefs that they were the main determinant of success as opposed to luck; but if you are at the top of course you are more likely to pat yourself on the back and not admit perhaps it was just a case of right place right time.
GP is absolutely correct. Whole Foods does not cater to the Walmart market. In SaaS terms, WF is Enterprise which sometimes dips into Premium with its 365 brand. Those complaining about WF prices are those that want to spend $5/mo on basic service.

P.S. I want a Ferrari. I don't want to pay $150k for one. So I'm not Ferrari's market.
Until Amazon credibly deals with its counterfeit problem, I'm not buying any foodstuffs from them. While it's likely that Whole Foods / AmazonFresh supply chains are currently separate, that's beside the point. If the problem goes unchecked, Amazon may consider expanding the strategy further.

People are paying a premium for organic / fair trade / gluten free / $FAD_OF_THE_DAY groceries, so there is margin for counterfeiters IMO.
Don't forget that many pages won't even load if you have some adblockers loaded. My typical usage also requires a "reload without content blockers" to get anything at all to show up on AMP pages. Crazy idea, I know, but maybe Google could provide even a way to get to a non-AMP version from a SERP. Even better, let me disable AMP completely, but forcing it on everyone like this and refusing to back down just shows how they value their users, AKA their sources of revenue.
Coursera is maybe not a great example - they don't even vet their courses before starting to sell them, and they won't necessarily offer refunds if you want to drop a disappointing course partway through. It's full of courses with two weeks of 'intro' material which references the exciting things which will (not) be taught in future weeks, and it seems more like a diploma mill or collection of half-baked blog posts than any sort of real education. I've had overwhelmingly negative experiences with them.

EdX is a quality platform, though, and MOOCs in general could fill that role.
I imagine the odds of winning the lottery, as low as they are, are significantly higher than Buffet giving you $300M.

It's not deceiving yourself to recognize that miniscule odds are greater than zero.
The Newsroom captured this pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI
No, it's the difference between a liberal arts college and a university.
Walmart partnering with Google to take on Amazon
AFAIK, you do NOT get better placement for using AMP. You get better placement for having a fast site, which you can do easily without AMP.
You may know these as "Magic Eye" puzzles. Here's a video on how they work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8O8Em_RPNg
On HN you aren't allowed to discuss the details of AMP. It's AMP 101 all the time.
In large part it's an unfortunate consequence of how academia works; but I think in large part, what you're asking for is happening: the proportion of instructors who are lecturers and adjuncts, rather than tenure-track/tenured professors, has steadily increased over the years [1].

Meanwhile, tenure-track/tenured professors tend to focus primarily on teaching upper-level classes, which suits them infinitely better. The students they get are much more knowledgeable, which frees profs from worrying too much about background knowledge; by sheer virtue of selection bias, students that aren't interested have been filtered out; and the material is much closer to the work the profs themselves actually do.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-eve...
Seems like a very close minded thing to do. Unless of course you're not eating meat at all. In which case I understand.
That still doesn't sound much like a company town, if all they're doing is setting up convenient stores and services that their employees choose to patronize (or not), rather than making it nearly impossible for their employees to do anything else.
This was somewhat of a solved problem with sites like Satoshi Dice. They could still cheat but everyone would find out the next day and stop playing.
Happy to have a technical discussion, but not sure you are really interested.

TL;dr AMP is 100% build on web tech. Pre-rendering achieves the performance but relies on history.pushState and iframes, which doesn't allow presenting a URL that is not on the same origin as the search page.

We think that the UX trade off in the URL is OK given the performance benefits. Given that it is a trade off we now have a bunch of projects to mitigate those trade offs. More coming soon, including lots of improvements to Safari. My team works directly on WebKit to fix bugs that affect AMP (but also the web as a whole, since AMP is just web tech).
There are a really large number of companies working on eliminating up stream causes of Alzheimer's, many with promising results. So early detection gives you time to find out if there is something you can do about it, to prepare for the eventuality, and to save a bit of money for treatment.
What you describe is the bigger fool theory can certainly have a relationship to dividends, whereby the assumption is that in some future state after growth slows or plateaus, then that's when dividends will start to be returned.
The hard limit is just that the ones who survive survive. And the reasonable people die. The reasonable are those who don't consume more resources than their environment provides.
> talks about Google's (less than neutral) motivations/actions.

Google is a company, its motivation is profit. Did you really expect otherwise? Do you really think Facebook wants to "make the world more connected"?

Where do (or would) you put your savings? Let me guess, in the assets that provide the best return/risk? Why do you expect that the companies you're investing in expecting the highest returns would act in any different way?
With the cost of education in the US being so expensive and the constant call for student loan forgiveness ($1 trillion), it might be worth looking into the extra cost. I’m sure Stanford isn’t unique.

The cost of a university education has far outpaced inflation. Harvard cost $2,600 in 1970.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/16/why-college-costs-are-so-hig...
> At least on iOS, this is an easily solvable problem on most web sites even without AMP: tap the "Safari Reader" button in the toolbar to get a text-only version of the web site. I assume that something like that is a thing on Android and elsewhere.

You need to load the page first to do that.
Your experience as an end user will terminate when the only two sites you will still go to are Google and Facebook, with all the content co-opted bit-by-bit until there is nothing left.

Google SERPs that contain a cribbed copy of the answer to your query rather than a link to that answer and so on. As long as you stay on Google's properties with their ads on that page.
Especially since a _ton_ of jobs were cut almost at once in the early '90s.
Facebook happy to do business with nazis and racists on your behalf, because
If this article (https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/the-ma...) is any guide, the money made by the athletic department mostly goes to the athletic department and not to funding anything else useful.
There's a pile-on because now people are having to solve problems that AMP is creating instead of just killing AMP.
If you hate AMP you should try and use DuckDuckGo.com these days.

I'm astounded at how much better it is than the last time I tried it.

Switched to it in Chrome a few weeks ago and don't miss Google. Which is shocking to me.
Broken_Hippo sez: "Heck, even the joke could be cured by simply being honest enough to admit divorce or an open marriage might be a better option than staying married."

No, the point of the joke is that most people are not in fact as appealing when nude as we _imagine_ they might be beforehand. The joke is a poke at the optimism of imagination.

As for cancer:

- Certainly its complicated. But I question the value of and wisdom of the history of cancer "research", and especially chemotherapy, where people become essentially lab rats. And this has gone on for generations.

Broken_Hippo sez: "It seems to me that you are dismissing all the work we've actually done on these fronts. Of course there needs more money, as the research isn't finished."

Spoken like a true advertising shill for a cancer institute. Considering the amount of money spent, the actual _results_ are disappointing, to say the least. And money? Well, money! "Of course there needs more money, as the research isn't finished." [and one almost hears "... with luck, never _will_ be finished. We can milk this cash cow forever!"]

Considering the money spent, the war on cancer is a black hole that pays, pays, pays for institutions, laboratories, inflated salaries for doctors, big pharma, and mostly useless research.

http://www.newsweek.com/cancer-breakthroughs-cost-too-much-a...

How much will you pay to keep your child alive? [usual answer: everything you have and everything you can mortgage or steal.]

Who benefits? [Ans. cancer institutes, cancer hospitals, cancer doctors, big pharma, and their wives and families.]

Want to buy a new Mercedes for an ontologist? Contribute to one of the cancer charities/hospitals/institutes.
Here's a point by point rebuttal of Pat Brown's comments I wrote: https://medium.com/@sethbannon/cleaning-the-record-on-clean-...
> There's a huge internal system of restaurants, cafes, and stores

This made me laugh out loud. The only thing you get at Amazon for free is water and coffee and a $100 credit on Amazon purchases where the seller is Amazon.

There are a handful of coffee shops that are in the buildings that serve some food but that space is leased by those companies. The food and drinks are absolutely not free.

Most Amazon employees go outside to the foodtrucks and buy from there.

I will say that just like most people living in cities a lot of things are purchased through Amazon and so in that sense it is a bit like a company store.

Outside of that, it's just laughably absurd. The employees would be much happier if they got those perks.
If AMP was so innocent Google would give users an easy way to disable it. It seems trivial to do, the fact that it's not in V1 says to me that there's ulterior motives.

There's more reason Google wants you to use AMP than "it makes the web faster!". That's just the sell. They REALLY want you to use it, enough that they don't want you turn it off. Maybe something to do with protecting ad revenue?

I heard that AMP was developed by people connected to the search team. And search team is probably another name for "AdWords cash cow team"
OMB Circular A-21 is a good example of a significant set of regulations on universities use of federal grant money:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMB_Circular_A-21
There is a mention of that in the post: "Another issue encouraging a sale has been the difficulty of creating a post-Roy ownership structure for ThoughtWorks. Roy has often talked about setting up some kind of trust to own ThoughtWorks and maintain its values into the future. But setting up such a trust implies a change of ownership, and a change of ownership involves taxes."
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I just think the funny thing is the new feature is instead of taking the hit on price for the current level of service their shiny new feature is “standard” networking! Woot!!
Org mode is fantastic, have you tried auto correcting with abbrev mode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhI_riv_6HM
I mean, quite a bit of that stuff people pay premium for is already counterfeit even at stores like whole foods. I don't know how common it is, but it does exist.

Amazon probably wouldn't help much though yeah.
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I've heard so much negative feedback about AMP that I'm not sure I have the full story. What link(s) would you recommend someone review if they wanted to build their own informed decision on the merits of this technology?
I think university laxity peaked in the 80s. Starting in the early 90s the PC movement began to police behavior as it had from the 60s on back.
I'm a big fan of NOAA's Hourly Weather Graph. It tells me how much weather will happen when.
I mean it's a stretch, but most of the lines in the .gitignore from the first commit, compared with Gemstash now, are similar.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserve...
https://github.com/bundler/gemstash/blob/master/.gitignore

I hope Google can afford a good lawyer!
I'd also recommend checking out https://github.com/Yelp/undebt which is a bit more robust it seems in the search aspect, since it's grammar-based instead of regex-based.
Calling meat grown in a lab clean meat is just a marketing gimmick that could potentially make people believe they eat natural grown meat.
The Food People Hate the Most in Each State
Veggie burgers? Word. Lab-grown meat? Hell no.
Plot twist: this is actually all staged by Google to get some attention to their project.
> I guess I'm one of the odd ones who hardly ever reads anything on their phone, so maybe that informs my opinion.

Odd ones on HN might be, but HN readers are the odd ones in a mobile-only world.

I once put an ad on AdWords, and noticed that >90% of the views and clicks were on mobile. That's when it really hit me how different we are from the average user.

Nobody uses desktops or laptops for personal use anymore.
>There's no need to dox the kid.

Linking to someone's linkedin page is not doxxing. That's information about himself he freely chose to make publicly available. It's linked from his github profile, which is two links away from the the Github issue that is the subject of this post.

Doxxing would be revealing his home address, phone number, private email, etc.
Cool to see Whalesong up here; it's worth pointing out the incredible effort put into making this really work for Racket, _including_ support for continuations. That is, you can compile a Racket program that uses call/cc and friends to JavaScript.

This is huge because with powerful control operators like call/cc, you can simulate pre-emptive multithreading within a browser tab. This gives the runtime:

- The ability to simulate synchronous functions backed by asynchronous library calls (e.g. apparently make a synchronous request to a URL from the program's point of view, but have it backed by an AJAX request)
- The ability to add a pause and/or stop button to an IDE within a browser tab, even if the program goes into an infinite loop

In fact, work on Whalesong (and a few earlier prototypes) more or less run the Racket-using parts of www.wescheme.org which 10s of thousands of students use each year.

Most x-to-JS implementations don't have this level of feature richness; Doppio and GopherJS are two that have similar levels of execution control.

I worked in the same office as dyoo while he was implementing Whalesong about 5 years ago, and learned a ton from him and from the system. Pyret and code.pyret.org directly built on some of the code for the "framework to program the web in functional event-driven style" in reactors (https://www.pyret.org/docs/latest/reactors.html). Whalesong's APIs for programmatically saving and restoring the stack inspired the ones we use in Pyret, as well.
I find it fascinating that people talk about self-driving cars as though it were a binary thing, like either you have an entire fleet of them or you don't and that this happens in all markets all at the same time.

Any proper analysis would consider the myriad ways things play out depending on how gradual and uneven self driving cars will come to market.

And even if L5 were available tomorrow, it would have to be cheap enough on a unit basis manufacturable at scale to compete with driver income plus cost of a Prius over 3-4 years. In the US the unit economics might already be in favor of an L5 vehicle, but in developing markets that may not yet be the case. Furthermore, you don't just replace entire fleets to service entire economies over night.

And even at that point, you need to build out all the infrastructure to support and maintain these vehicles.

Gradual changes always favor the incumbents if the incumbent is aware of such changes and planning for them.
Ulterior motive? Thought it was pretty obvious, shitty mobile page performance pushes people towards using ad blockers, which is obviously bad news for google. Most people don't mind basic, non-intrusive ads so much, which is what AMP retains.
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It’s a google solution to a google problem, the problem being that websites tend to come preloaded with a dozen or so non-google trackers. The google solution is to incentivize stripping out the content and hosting it on google’s servers, so only they see what you are up to.
I live a few miles from both the old and new Apple HQ buildings. Apple doesn't really dominate the character of Cupertino. You'll see a lot of Apple employees eating at restaurants near the office, but aside from that, you can't really tell. When the new office opens up and causes a traffic nightmare, that will be the largest impact Apple has had on non-employees.
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml
https://medium.com/@cramforce/why-amp-is-fast-7d2ff1f48597
https://medium.com/@cramforce/why-amp-html-does-not-take-ful...

People here are opinionated about it, but users love it.
Blockchains don’t scale. Not today, at least. But there’s hope
It's also done to DECRAPIFY the links that people try and share with their friends, providing a non-crappy user experience.

In this case that HAPPENS to align with what Google wants.

Of course google could've decided not to screw up the web in the first place… but we're obviously way past that.
FTC Approves Whole Foods-Amazon Merger