skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data Studio actually isn't part of GCP at all, it's part of GMP (with Analytics & DV360/DoubleClick). There are integrations between the two, but my guess is that Data Studio continues to exist in GMP and fills the role of dashboards for marketers, while Looker will fulfill the BI role.
Also, there's an assumption that the car is going from someplace in the city to some other place in the city.

It almost certainly will not be faster to bike from a suburb 20 miles out of the city into the city than it would be to drive.
Yet you say that "they can do what they want to an extent." I'm not sure that we disagree at all. I support private businesses right to do what they want, until they become large enough that they've reached "escape velocity", if you will, where they have become so large that it's unlikely that any meaningful competition can come close to matching them in budget or influence. Companies of Google's size should see even fewer freedoms when they get massive kickbacks from the government; Google receives millions in public money but has nebulous "rules" they arbitrarily enforce over the public.

I don't know if breaking up these massive "tech" companies is a good approach, but something has to be done at some point, and there needs to be rules over how YouTube can regulate its platform. At the very least, YouTube needs to be forced to make all of its rules explicit and to not insta-ban entire channels while deleting all their data.
Wikipedia is not a primary source. Even so it's more trustworthy than The Daily Mail.
30 feet = ~9.14 meters
Huawei to develop 5G with Russian firm
They did not. We use it with snowflake and it's just fine right now. What they did do was put most of their roadmap on hold while they figure out what future direction looks like.
IHS Markit forecasts EV sales to reach US market share of 7.6% in 2026
Check out QMK, and any of the many many keyboards that support it. Every single aspect of the keyboard is programmable, down to the LED animations (it also supports super and hyper). Welcome to your new and expensive hobby. :)
Where do you see a monopoly? The fact that people choose it doesn’t make it a monopoly. Specially with that price tag. You can choose many other options. There is no real economic argument to call it a monopoly.
I think it's interesting that "can you write a LL" allegedly made for a "hard to fake" signal.
I don't have time to argue the point much further, but I will pick at semantics because they completely change the tone of the argument when it comes to politics, and is why I replied in the first place.

>People do not want freedom and democracy, they want authoritarianism that favor their point of view or agenda

Those were your words, not-

>I never said everyone wanted one thing.

The way I read it, you made the implication that everyone - see "People" - don't really want freedom or democracy. Nowhere was "most people" or "some people" or some other semi-quantifiable variable used to convey your meaning. We can argue all day about what percentage of people want one form of governance over another, and don't get me wrong while I don't agree it's "most" I'd say a decent amount do prefer authoritarianism of their own taste over democracy, to say "people" out-right is what changes your argument from a discussion starter to hyperbolic ignorance.
Just like Stackdriver (acquired in 2014)?

Seriously, it seems like Looker is filling a specific hole in the Google Cloud offering.
Well, I suppose there was value for some people in these atrocious inventions.
A hundred thousand dollars? Where are you getting that from? It has got to be expensive, but $6k base ($12k with monitor and stand) to $130k fully specced seems exceedingly unlikely. Are the GPUs and 28-core Xeon that expensive? What component causes the sudden jump in price?
She did invent a process to isolate radium.
But if you want to put it this way, nobody never invented anything, even a plane is just about manipulating things that always existed in the environment.
I think in general 'big visions' are pretty bad and dangerous -- they're what get you the anit-encryption data logging laws. In general things are pretty good and so anyone making radical changes would most likely move in a worse direction.
Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts:

1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison makes sense.

2. Looker's sale team is so aggressive and their support team is great. In fact, that's why Looker became so big in the last few years. Google is not famous in terms of support.

3. Google is serious on BigQuery and I'm almost sure it will make Looker part of the Google Cloud. Since most of Looker customers are enterprise companies, Google will probably chase them to switch to BigQuery. On the other hand, Google has tons of BI tools (Data Studio, BigQuery BI Engine, etc.) so I'm not sure if Google makes Looker part of their analytics stack.

P.S: We're big fans of the LookML and we have developed a LookML alternative based on Jsonnet (https://jsonnet.org/) and the great data pipeline tool DBT. (https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt). Here is how it looks like: https://github.com/rakam-io/segment-recipe/blob/master/event...
A horizontal list, where each item has variable width based on its content. Inside each item there is additional hidden content, which should factor also into the item width. The hidden content should display behind the primary content.

When hovered, the hidden content will appear via an animated dropdown. The height of the content varies as well.

Hopefully that makes sense.
If you're in America, that would (arguably) be a violation of your constitutional rights. Basically, the gov't isn't supposed to bother you until you committed a crime (until they have reasonable suspicion & a warrant or are in hot pursuit). The same thing bothers me about databases, surveillance, biometrics, TSA, stop-and-frisk: the government has no business treating me like a criminal, collecting my information, etc. until they've got a warrant.
> But state is integral to the experience of a web application

HTTP is a stateless protocol and the desire to maintain a state-full session on the server is why web applications are fundamentally broken, at least within the context of HTTP.
The above image comes from a 600-kilogram, refrigerator-sized robot travelling at about 15 miles per second, around 170 million miles from Earth. They can be glad that the asteroid is also around 170 million miles from earth, travelling at 15 miles per second and this even in the same direction.

Relative motion is smaller though:
The gravitational force between the probe (660kg) and asteroid (4.5 * 10^11kg) is just 0.1 N. The probe has therefore to be circling the asteroid with about 0.25m/s or just 1km/h (0.57 mph for american readers).

And how else could it be: the asteroid was assumed to be a point mass and the probe in a circular orbit of 450m around it.
Context here matters. I would uber if I were in work clothes, and its Houston in August in the afternoon. Im not trying to walk 15 minutes and arrive drenched in sweat to a work meeting.
YouTube’s viral philanthropist explains where all that money comes from
I think one of the big differences is that during development the pipeline DAG is inferred from the data catalog and not explicitly coded in the same way you need to do in something like Airflow.

The logic being that once you've finished experimenting and iterating it's much easier to move to AirFlow.
Given the distance to the sun and proximity to the asteroid, shouldn’t the vehicle and its shadow be essentially the same size?
Start investing now, even if a crash looms (or so you think)
I really wish people would stop comparing this monitor to the $35k monitors. Yes, it's almost as good, maybe even 95% as good, but guess what? People are not paying $35k for the sake of it, that 5% is really bloody important. If it isn't important to you, you weren't going to buy the $35k monitor already. The reason they're so much more expensive is because they have features and specs that a small number of people find really important and will pay the premium for it. If we want to go down that line fine - but people can just as easily point to $2k displays that are 95% as good as the Apple one.
Watched each Episode twice already, episode 5 is only airing Sky next week over here!
A verifiably tracking free anonymous Auth service provided by the likes of duckduckgo or eff would be news/privacy worthy.

But this celebration of having the opportunity to give your info directly to a different faceless megacorp is beyond me.
AirDrop reception has three modes: everyone, contacts only, receiving off (send only).
Which led me to find this knockoff

https://www.amazon.com/SK-8845CR-Keyboard-TrackPoint-Thinkpa...
At the end of the day we can rationalise _everything_, even the most insane life styles. If the "cost of doing business" is slowly killing everything on earth maybe we should find a better way.

Do you really have no place to change at work ? No public transport at all ? Not even car sharing ?

I bike to the gym before work, change there and head to work on my bike, I'm perfectly presentable no matter the weather, and that's in Berlin where it rains 50% of the year.
I think that’s a pretty natural progression. A well run dictatorship is probably superior to a democracy in the short term so it’s always tempting to give up freedom in exchange for efficiency. The question is how long the dictatorship can keep it up before going downhill.
To me that demonstrates the click-baitish nature of the content that this publication pump out
Oh no, I loved that app! It was so easy to create lists of stuff to visit, as it was basically a "special view" for Google Maps.
Durrrr what is a business model. Go back to banging out python you learned at that shit boot camp.
They are not particularly tied to spheres -- it's just nautical miles per hour, no? As such it can be a totally abstract unit, regardless of the origin (the same way feet can be used to measure something that doesn't involve a walk).

Aviation also uses them (though they still fly above a sphere).
Are you claiming that history Did It Wrong, because econ-101 says so?
The editors of an encyclopedia talking about their own rules is literally a primary source. That's what a primary source is.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, surely if there's anyone who knows which sources are worth using, it would be the editors of the world's biggest encyclopedia?
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During Pride Month, YouTube shows its true colors
I really, really doubt it; Google has never killed a product that it created or acquired to serve as a complement to enterprise Ads/Analytics usage.

Google kills plenty of its consumer products if they don’t catch on in a big way (Reader, Google+); and it certainly “transitions” developer-targeted product/service startups into plain features (Firebase, WordLens, etc.) But this is neither—it’s BI software, for enterprise customers who build it deeply into their decision-making in the same way they build Google Analytics itself into their decision-making. These are not the people even Google wants to make mad. They’re precisely the people writing the checks which make up the majority of Google’s ad revenue!
It is not like that. My point is that there's a barrier to entry to RoR that you should own a Mac. I gave up because my home setup is Windows based and I won't change it for the sake of a hyped framework or tool.

But none of this is surprising considering where RoR is coming from, I'm not sad or upset about it either :)
How do you define enough money? The fact that you don’t like it doesn’t mean you can get the government involved. Protest all you want, but that doesn’t give you the right to call for help from the government to enforce something because you consider they had “enough” success. Go build your own company, compete. If it is that bad developers would go somewhere else.
the skin in the game here is incredible
An Ngrok Tutorial and Primer
It's the premier middle-class British pastime to be forever proclaiming how much you hate the Daily Mail.

A: No, I hate it more.

B: No, IIII really do despise it more.

C: Oh my gawwd, the Daily Mail. Groooan!
You might want to check out the dactyl. https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard
The best part is the title!
Software Engineering for Machine Learning [pdf]
The solution to homelessness is {drum rolls} giving people homes.

Who knew?
I am not partial to 'handout' economy, but one wonders where did capitalism go wrong.
I've never tried to run MacOS on a virtual machine. I'm assuming you can't get a license for that, so it wouldn't be an "official" solution, but do you have a link?
Is there an official project for your LookML alternative or is it part of a larger Github repo?
Would the recent work on const generics help with this?
google is an index of information sorted by what it thinks is most relevant to the searcher, and always has been. pagerank was a information quality and importance evaluater. pagerank is what made google google.

I would argue that dailymail fails the SPIRIT of the original pagerank, even if its heavily linked to, the information they hold is paparazzi stew. They have every right to choose to derank something so worthless.
I've found that "what are you going to do about it?" goes a long way with this stuff. My previous job banned vertical monitors and I'd often come back to my desk with mine turned back to landscape and a post-it note from the IT guy, and I'd just throw it away and put it back. Nothing past that ever happened. My current job has one approved text editor, EditPlus [1], and one approved config with a non-fixed-width font, which sucks. I use Atom and Sublime anyway and just have to deal with the IT guy trying to lecture me about "we don't know that a / in Atom is the same as a / in EditPlus. You can't prove that it is." anytime he walks past my desk.

I'd give anything to work somewhere without an IT staff, but in my experience as long as you get quality work done you can do it how you want.
to further clarify the power of qmk: you literally program (parts of the) firmware in c. so you can put modifiers everywhere you want, make layers until you are going crazy, make keys behave differently on press/hold, absolutely everything. and it's firmware you flash, so no matter where you plug it in, it' all there.

qmk is just awesome, check it out https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20114214
This was very insightful. I never thought about what the natural wing position of a butterfly is like.
No, they exist for motorists' convenience, as can be seen from the example. Cyclists have been brainwashed for the last 50 years to believe that riding on the regular road means instant death, that's why they stay in the bike lane even if the normal road is empty.
That’s the point. It might sound vaguely human but without the context to find and deliver information it’s completely useless
Business decisions are often made based on forcing requirements onto a commercial third party solution that gets you 90% there instead of spending money up front and in ongoing maintenance to get 100% there. If your company isn’t going to have a competitive advantage, make enough money or save enough money to make that 10% difference worth it, the sacrifice is often worth it.

How many companies adjust their entire process around Salesforce, some Oracle enterprise solution, or project management software?
> To past generations of Americans, cars represented freedom. Cars transcended race

No they didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
All the web sites that go with British newspapers (and for all I know, other newspapers in the world, but I live in Britain) have been doing grey-SEO stuff that's bound to get hit by algorithm changes.

By "grey SEO" here I'm thinking of articles that are intended to get "natural" traffic as a result of people asking questions, e.g.

"When is the new Avengers movie out?"
"Which channel is The Crown on?"
"Was Michael Jackson a Paedophile?"
"Who is that girl from Stranger Things?"

An encyclopedia is often the natural result for questions like these, or some sort of specialist fact database, IMDB for example, or a TV channel's own listings site. But the newspapers decided they could get some of those clicks. If some people who were wondering if that's the same girl in Godzilla (yup) click through and see four adverts and read speculation as to whether Kate Middleton hates her brother-in-law's new wife (probably not, also who cares?) that's more profit for the publisher.

Anyway, Google's thing has always been trying to put the answers you wanted at the top. In defiance of Babbage's oft-cited remark, Google wants to give you the answer you were looking for even if you ask the wrong question. This may often mean that a Daily Mail article trying to get you to click through to more slop about nothing is NOT the best answer when you asked a mundane question and Google may tweak their algorithm to prefer say, the Netflix video trailer for this season of Black Mirror, higher than a Daily Mail article speculating that Charlie Brooker might be gay when users ask it "When is Black Mirror new series?" even if the Daily Mail team worked really hard setting metadata tags and fiddling with the layout.
The Google UI seems to have changed also. No more numbered pages you can navigate back and forth, just a button to reveal more search results on one page. So for instance, you can jump straight to the "long tail" of a search for the less important results; you have to click through umpteen "more results".
No, Pierre was Justin's father.
“We're basically waiting for the boomers to die off at this point, before being able to fix the shit they left behind.”

Don’t rely on the next generation to be any better. The brightest and best of the new generation are busy selling ads and creating total surveillance systems. I don’t see much improvement.
Didn't debian change to the AGPL version of ghostscript in a patch security update? If you use imagemagick or other pdf related libraries that maks use of ghostscript, this could happen easier than you think.
How bizarre - how rich do you have to be to become a vampire?
I am curious about why you think climate change is an important issue in Australia. It's a relatively small country, without much of a manufacturing industry.
I thought that was methanol or is it both?
> Heroes exist due to incompetent management.

Yep - in the article incompetent management was laid out pretty clear:

* The project is 3 months late
* but he also wants you to finish your colleague’s project
* But of course the original two projects are priority. But please fix the bug because it’s important

I've been the "hero engineer" and I think that this manager is totally ignoring what he's already postulated. I'm not happy if I'm on a team that's three months behind and being tasked to do other's work because they're incapable, and I'll end up with a chip on my shoulder when I'm the only producer on a team (seriously, who wouldn't?). And mostly - you're damn-straight I'm gonna leave! Why would I STAY!?

This sounds like a manager who has no business in picking a team of engineers to work on a project, which IMO happens way too often. We should be whiteboarding our leadership just as much as the engineers. In the US it's a pattern of zero technical competence at the middle management level... this leads to articles like this where high-performing developers are demonized for "bad attitude" immediately after the author outlines REAL reasons anyone may be unhappy with their employment.

Welcome to the new work world though - where it's about the narrative of work more than it's ever about the work.
A search engine should return high-quality results, right? Obviously quality is mostly subjective, but for most people a "reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication" — Wikipedia's words [1] — means low-quality.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia...
It's a mistake that sometimes even Americans do, but the USA uses the US customary units system, which is closely related, but slightly different to the British imperial system.
Robust.ai launches to build an industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots
Probably because an attorney (in this situation) wouldn’t help “ensure the company keeps running smoothly (decision-making, compensation, incentives)”.
Publish Location Data from a Raspberry Pi to Here XYZ and View It on a Map
This entire conversation is about the Daily Mail itself, when the facts of the story are that in a forum post with no replies, the SEO person at the Daily Mail complained that traffic dropped for a whole 2 days.

Numerous sites are impacted when Google's algorithms change. The Daily Mail is not popular because of Google, it's popular because it's a low-brow tabloid and there are many people who love low-brow tabloids.
Ask HN: Resources for First Time Acquisitions
A friend has been tasked with orchestrating the merger between two similar (small, together bordering on mid-size) competitors. The actual terms of the deal have already been scoped out by the respective CEOs; what's left is really everything else. Are there any good resources or pieces of insight the HN community can offer for someone, and a company as a whole, going through this for the first time? I understand that this is an extremely broad question, but I guess specifically outside of general learning materials, things from your experience that went right or maybe more importantly terribly wrong would all be helpful, even if these may be different every time.

To be clear, this question is coming from the perspective of the acquirer, but perspective from the other side seems equally if not more valuable here.
USC's online social work program is the world's biggest. Then things went wrong
I think the baby boomer generation did a lot of damage by eroding social systems and piling up deficits. But the question is whether whoever follows will do any better.
I have experienced this first hand while chaperoning school field trips - it's an amazing ad-hoc local area social network! Definitely emerging cultural patterns via technology. Going to apply for grant money to study, brb.
Nobody's mentioned notable yet:
https://github.com/notable/notable
Yet many of them read it.
once they decided to get into the game of determining what is and what is not the truth is where they step over the line. if I search for something I want what is popular to come up, not was is approved.

daily mail isn't gaming the system, people know it is a tabloid. the real issue is that many supposed respectable news agencies have been shown to have more than their fair share of misinformation.
40% of the worlds coal and new mining in a place called the Galilee basin and shipping it to India. I think if they mine the whole thing it can create 1deg of warming just by itself.
> San Francisco and LA are at 12,000

Small nit. SF is about 19k people per square mile. (Almost 900k people on 47 square miles of land)
They're light and so probably caught in an updraft. Then, sensing your CO2, they found you.
It reminds me of Ed Emberley. Or Trogdor.

"S, more different S... Close it up real good for his head, then, using consummate V's, give him teeth, spinities, and angry eyebrows."
The thought of a steam-powered bicycle made me do a bit of a double-take at first, but apparently it was actually quite a viable little contraption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper_steam_velocipede
Cloning Files from Git into a Docker Image
Wow. That's probably millions more jobs gone then for tyre shops, though obviously there will be a slow switchover.