skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just last week I started using Firefox as my main browser (after three years of using Chrome), mostly due to "Sign in to Chrome" annoyances.

At one point I inadvertently signed into Chrome with my Google apps account, which then stored a lot more personal data in the cloud than I'd ever intended. When I noticed this sometime later, I tried to disconnect my account from Chrome—which is apparently not possible for a Google apps account—so the only fix was to delete the Chrome account and to lose my browser history and saved passwords...which I did, right before opening Firefox.
I might be a little late, but does anyone have any examples of simple CRUD web applications written in a functional language? There seems to be a lot of meta discussion about the suitability of functional programming for the web, but not very many concrete examples. Thanks!
Google gives us all a lot of amazing technology completely free of charge. I use their search engine, email client and browser every day and for me their products are second to none. Google is one of the few companies that is really investing in the future with things like Google Glass and self driving cars. Personally, I'm okay with a few ads if that's what it takes for them to keep innovating and making the world a more interesting place.

That said, all these attempts to strong arm people into using Google Plus are really getting old.
Agreed. However, an uneven distribution of merit might still be a social problem; it might be indicative of vast inequality of opportunity for developing said merit. However, in this case, the problem is not one specific to silicon valley in any sense.
If startups are luck, you should found as many as possible.
Nobody leaves Facebook, it is just used differently. That's a big detail that only a few articles seem to get correct. Kids are still on Facebook, with grandma and mom and dad, but they also have a Tumblr account.
I would be intrigued to know the delta between person-targeted advertising and mere search-term targeted advertising.
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No, I read Bruce Schneier's blog post only minutes before the above comment.
Or, you continue using their services since they are the best value available, but also complain and point out problems you have with it. I think Google is happiest with this option, so they at least know what their users complain about.
Based on this audience, I'd have tested it more on "hello world" ;)

I understand there's been some effort in tuning the dictionary for size vs completeness. Can you elaborate a bit more on this point?
What is AngularJS (and why is it awesome)?
Cdist 2.3.6 released with support for locale
This! Check out MiniML http://andrej.com/plzoo/html/miniml.html

It's tiny and way more powerful than yet another C dialect.
kids these days, when I wrote my first compiler I had to write my own yacc equivalent, and parser

FYI: My generator allowed for dynamic resolution of shift/reduce conflicts which allows you to compile some languages yacc wont let you (languages that let you change the priority of operators for example)
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liberals don't believe in meritocracies. They value labor and the 'effort' put into something. i.e. someone who dug ditches all day should receive more compensation than someone who wrote code for 2 hours.
"If they can't even get search right, who would trust them with anything more?"
I agree on some level, but you also can't say that this is a great thing. All these extreme opinions...

Can't we all just agree that Google is pretty great, but going through an annoying phase right now? Google _is_ taking advantage of the fact that most users won't leave, and I don't appreciate that. But at the same time, we are all slowly losing our patience, and in the long run this behaviour could hurt Google. I hope for everyone's sakes that this all settles down.
Me too. I've done pretty well for myself in tech, but if I knew how much people in finance made back when I was in college, I would have made the switch in a heartbeat.
They're such investigative journalists that they won't even provide any details of their own transaction. Oh, wait.
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Spot on. I think it's important to mention the context of Taleb's philosophy. You have to keep in mind that in certain jobs, like trading, it is fairly plausible that successful traders are plain lucky because all traders eventually blow up. In the startup world, this analogy doesn't hold for a number of reasons. If you are genuinely skilled, you will succeed. Perhaps not on the first try, but you will succeed eventually.
Its more complex than you would think, this is a good tome on the subject (albeit a bit dry) http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients/...
It's a cost benefits analysis. Medicine does this, and is constantly updating their recommendations for screening based on the data that comes back. For example, it used to be recommended that all women perform a breast self exam every month, then data showed us this didn't prevent cancer and actually caused harm because it lead to needless surgeries and biopsies. (Sources here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_self_exam)

Things like Prostate-specific antigen screening of healthy men is no recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force because "the potential benefit does not outweigh the expected harms." (Source in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate-specific_antigen)

The jury is still out on mammogram screening of healthy women for breast cancer. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamogram)

The Cochrane analysis of screening indicates that it is "not clear whether screening does more good than harm". According to their analysis one in 2,000 women will have her life prolonged by 10 years of screening, however, another 10 healthy women will undergo unnecessary breast cancer treatment. Additionally, 200 women will suffer from significant psychological stress due to false posivitive results.[10] Newman points out that screening mammography does not reduce death overall, but causes significant harm by inflicting cancer scare and unnecessary surgical interventions.[11] The Nordic Cochrane Collection notes that advances in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer actually may make breast cancer screening no longer effective in decreasing deaths in breast cancer, and therefore no longer recommend routine screening for healthy women as the risks might outweigh the benefits

This is why we use science and do studies and always question if we are doing the right thing.
You're right, because lives lost due to delays include some rich and therefore worthy people, so a system that saved them and killed more poor people would intrinsically be an improvement.
typically blinkered comment that doesn't even admit the possibility of funding the service, employing more responders and attempting to fix the problems. Perhaps it could be funded with this new thing I thought up where it takes money from everyone based on their ability to pay, based on the assumption that everyone is better off in a society that has reliable emergency services.
There are hugely disproportionately more Indians and East-Asians than there are whites in the Silicon Valley. Why do you think that is?
> a good trade off for geographic permanence and a lack of financial movement

Many people, even Americans, see things the opposite way. They don't like the idea of having to move far away from their parents to find a decent job, or have to uproot their families at the drop of a hat when a job ends.

I grew up in D.C., went to college and worked in Atlanta, went to graduate school in Chicago, got a job after in New York. My wife grew up in Oregon, went to college in Iowa, worked in Chicago and D.C., went to graduate school in Chicago.[1] Now we work in Wilmington and Philadelphia, and next year we're moving to Baltimore. This is the nature of the modern American economy, where you move around to find opportunities, but unless you're a single childless early 20-something it makes the rest of life very logistically complicated. Certainly among my friends, who are getting into their 30's, long-distance relationships are quite common and nobody is really thrilled about them.

[1] In comparison, my wife's parents grew up in the same city and went to high school together, less than 50 miles from where her dad's family settled during the wagon trail days.
Perhaps the new TOS includes reactivation of a disabled G+ account. Anyone else seen them? The article is light on details.
It's more the cognitive dissonance of believing one thing while seeing invalidation of that belief right in front of you. For a while it will be "this must be a mistake" before it gets to "Hmm, I guess I interpreted their motivations much differently than they actually are, time to move on."

To its credit, Google has a couple of fecal units worth of dashboards and data about retention and quality so somewhere there is a chart where the line has started to go flat, perhaps even down. Questions will be raised, bonuses will be put into jeopardy, and eventually a new consensus or messaging will be reached. It will be interesting to see if the company has reached the point where its ability to respond yet fatally trails the markets ability to change. Every company seems to get to that point eventually.
That sounds ideal, but I share your concerns. I suppose I would use the heuristic that the amount of latitude/free time you have now will roughly equate to the amount you have overseas. Add or subtract additional time per any logistical issues (network access, syncing with your team, acquiring rent, figuring out groceries/cooking, etc.).
This has been the very essence of Google for the past two years. Forcefully assimilating existing services, where users already had data, into G+, changing functionality and terms, and generally leaving users to feel insecure about how privacy and access to their long-held data might or might not change.

What a far cry from '99-'03 Google, which used to release clever and surprising new data-browsing tools, each with a singular purpose, that just worked.
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While I hate this tactic of pushing monetization more obviously down our throats, what real option do they have? Amazon has slowly been eating their lunch in terms of product sales (heck, they even piggy back off of Google Ads and rake higher margins) and people are willingly telling Facebook what they like and dislike, so it seems that the end is nigh for advertiser spend primarily going to Google Search based ads. In this case, the pie of "eyeballs" getting bigger, advertiser spend isn't rising commensurately, and neither Google Search's share (they're both still rising, hence Google's recent stock boom). I'm not saying I have an answer, but nobody is really providing a viable alternative for them.
Ok I see, makes sense. Anyway, nice hands on tutorial, I like it. :) Thanks
you would not take serious action in any condition based on an cheap DNA test, would you?
I would suspect that it might serve as a possible flag and then you can talk to your doctor to further investigate any issue.

Plus 23andme is clear when showing the results that everything is based on probabilities, there's not a single %100 change of anything, it just tells you that people with similar DNA markers (in X, Y or Z study) seem to have a higher/lower chance of X or Y.
So where is your data showing that?
Those qualities are what's needed to build something out of nothing. It has never been easy. If you don't think females can do it, well that sounds sexist to me.

Nobody has a magic wand they can wave to give startup success to timid, easily defeated people. If it is your nature to make excuses, I suggest you go get a government job. No amount of feminist cultural revolution is going to convince VCs to throw away their money in order to be politically correct.
Anyone writing an article like this should also write what would change their opinions and a plan to fix it. Imagine you've won me over completely and SV is an elitist boy's club. Now what do we do to change it? When is your standard met? Of course defining those views would be harder to defend. It's much easier to have arbitrary standards of fairness and point out how others don't live up to it.
While you're complaining about Google, how about you fix your website to stop giving away your viewers' data to third-party advertising/technology companies? A cursory glance at the source reveals:

- tumblr.com

- googleapis.com

- netdna.bootstrapcdn.com

- ogp.me

- google-analytics.com

- yimg.com

- nol.yahoo.com

Think you could tone that down?
That's an interesting question, is there an institution or subculture in the world that is more meritocratic than Silicon Valley? If there is, then the author's argument has some merit. If there isn't, then the author is wasting time attacking the one institution that comes the closest to embodying the meritocracy ideal. To what end?
Given the blind paroxysms of nerd rage that I sometimes fly into when waffling on the nets, I really wouldn't worry about it. :)
I actually don't get this mentality. You are saying you would prefer to receive irrelevant ads? To me the worst thing about advertising is its lack of relevance most of the time. When ads are targeted I at least feel like I'm getting offered things that appeal to my tastes. I find that much less bothersome.
You underestimate the amount of jingoism among anonymous people on the internet :)
Even in North America, houses are considered a depreciating asset. The property on which the house sits is what tends to appreciate, hopefully offsetting the losses on the house (at least from the owner's point of view).

But with negative population growth and virtual no immigration as is the case with Japan, fewer properties are needed to sustain the decreasing number of people. Supply exceeds demand, so prices fall.
No one should own the name. Bitcoin was put into this world to be decentralized and for everyone. Use it as you wish in your trade. Claiming exclusivity to "Bitcoin" in most industries now would be like claiming exclusivity to the terms "Email" and "Internet."
I interpreted that as "people are blowing the whistle on being scared to work for the nuclear industry", not "people who are known for being whistleblowers are now scared to work for the industry"
"SV thinks it's extremely meritocratic. It's only very meritocratic. This is a big problem."
Bigger nit: If lisps just have expressions (and not statements), then they clearly have a separation between the two :).
It feels like the upper management at Google switched from being a tech-oriented company to a money oriented company. It's always been an ad agency, but the products used to be great. Now I have a hard time using their products, and EVERY SINGLE product I'mn still using is from lesser quality than 2 years ago.

And google+ is not helping.
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I work a lot from home and what I can say is:

- you're definitely more productive when working from home and it saves a lot of time

- communication is much harder

- traveling and working is difficult and I would not recommend it

- working from home is a bit depressing over time and you can easily lose touch with the team

For me what works best is a mixture of the two.
Flag, and move on.
http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capit...

According to that report, 87% of funded founders are white; 92% of funded founders are male.
The crucial difference might be that the finance world is zero-sum while the startup world (wealth creation) is positive-sum.
I have been working remotely for 7 years now. I love it, but it is not for everyone.

I remember a few months in when it really sunk in that I was actually working out of my home. My house was my office and my office was my house, and everywhere I went I could not get away from work. I had a sudden feeling that the walls were closing in. Lucky for me that went away, and I find that I get more done and am able to be more focused than I was in an office.

A few pointers to those starting to work at home:

1. If you are like me and tend towards being a work-a-holic, working from home can mean turning your normal 8-10 hour workday into a 24-hour workday. Set limits and work by them get...

2. ... a home office where you do your work. Make sure it has a door which closes and treat it like an office. You don't have to work in it 100% of the time, but it helps me to have a place I can leave my work. My office is great - I have a big desk, a couch, music, big windows. It is the office that I would like to work in.

3. Get out of the house. Not to work, but to play. Get around people. It is going to happen - you are going to have a crazy project and find yourself locked in your room for a few days. This is pretty normal, even in a normal office. It can easily become your life since there is no one telling you to go home.

The perks of working from home are great - no commute means more family time, and the you get a personal bathroom and kitchen. If you need to take a 20 minute nap no one is stopping you, and going for a jog is as simple as opening the door and taking off.
Just a wild-ass-guess, but I bet the order of importance for factors driving Google's search ad revenue goes something like:

- Search terms (AdWords)

- IP geolocation

- Demographics (age, gender, income: derived or otherwise acquired)

- Search/browsing history

The line between the last two blurs a bit, since surely Google will try to fill in your demographic blanks based on your search and browsing patterns. But regardless, the first two they can do completely anonymously, and anyone who wants can likely escape the last two with the right browser settings or privacy extensions. Personally it doesn't bother me that much, since the results relevance I "trade" my privacy for has value for me as well as advertisers.
A start founders charisma points must be very high. You have to get others(co-founders, future employees, investors, ealry customers) to believe in your vision. And I'm not sure that's teachable. But, there are many ways to pull it off.
Math is a field famously overrun with white men. Probably not the best comparison to make if you really want to talk about what a "meritocracy" should look like. Unless, of course, you think white men naturally have more merit than everyone else..
Or the diagnosis might confirm the patient's suspicions, and they might have to monitor their gluten intake for the rest of their life. Either way, there should be actual evidence available before a definite conclusion is reached.

Low-cost screenings, such as 23&Me mail-in swab tests, elimination diets, or common blood and urine tests are a great way to start building up that objective evidence without first doing harm to your patient's wallet.
That would be cool. This looks like a very useful tool especially in the initial development phase, where Phonegap also happens to be useful.
OR

I realized that this was always the case! When I signed up for GMail in beta (remember they had ads based off your email BUT you got a gig)

I still use Google and I use Google+ shot me :)
I have been in interview debriefs where people were concerned about a candidate not advancing enough in a previous position, but I can't imagine one failed startup being detrimental, at least where I currently work if you get interviewed by those same exact people. :) The important thing is what you can talk about from the startup.
...and none of them talked to each other at all.

Yeah, I happen to like the integrated Google. When I get GMail confirming a flight, it automatically shows up in my Google Now. I can search for it with "When is my next flight?" I can search my Docs and Gmail both at once.

I happen like how far Google has gotten from those old, random, completely non-integrated days.
It is because Google + is their new identity service. Everything requires it, instead of a gmail account. Google + is your Google identity. At the same time it is also a social platform because so what? Don't use it. Or, use it since it's really really useful.

The amount of rage people express about being "forced" to use Google + is as perplexing to Google as it is to me. It's an identity service.

You don't need to have a gmail account to use Google's services anymore you just need a Google identity. That's what Google + is. I don't know how many times I can say it but so far it seems like a lot of times. People want to rage.
Navigenics, with Navigenics Health Compass, was a competitor to 23andMe with their PGS offering, but Navigenics appears to have discontinued the competing offering (Navigenics was received initial contact from the FDA at about their product at the same time 23andMe did, they also went through similar rounds with the State of California for licensing to operate their before that.)

There's a number of other offerings that have been made in the same general space, as well.
Moving off Google is not as hard as I thought it would be. I expect to only be using maps and Zagat in the near future, but this will be anonymous, the rest has been replaced.

1. Finally got my Google+ deleted. The reason I even had one to begin with was that Google forced it on me.

2. Started using DuckDuckGo, took about a month to get used to, but I am starting to like it more and more, not sure if I would go back to Google even if they weren't info vamps.

3. I could migrate to another email provider, but I am waiting it out for a bit longer to see what interesting alternatives pop up in the wake of this. But at that point, forwarding and phasing in a new email should be relatively easy.

4. Waiting it out with messaging, but will definitely move of GTalk/Hangouts for non-work.

I don't have anything to hide from Google, but their pushy approach is making me sick. It is just not worth doing business with people like this.
I fully understand what this means and I hope you do get calls about alternate licensing, but remember that people like me do not make these decisions.

I thankfully don't have to - this means I don't need to talk to lawyers about this.

Because AGPL took away the most important bit of unassailable ground I had to argue with when it came to deploying GPL - "Using this code implies no criteria we have to comply to, only if we distribute it".

Clause 12 and 13 - basically took that away from me completely.

Look, I'm not going to tell you what license to use.

But leave me enough room to complain that I have had trouble convincing people that we can use AGPL code in a critical function without obtaining a previous commercial license by paying the developer.
I expect a very public resignation within three months.
Somehow I don't have a problem with that. What annoys me about ads is how they have nothing to do with what I want to be watching, and try to get in your head. Sing-song commercials and commercials for baby diapers make my blood boil, and that's not what I want when I'm trying to relax.
Yesterday I was editing a spreadsheet on Google Docs and pressed Cmd+C to copy some text. A window popped up saying "You need to install the Google Drive app to enable copy & paste functionality". Good one.
Jeeze, you think he can just do all that typing for free? He has to pay the bills somehow. Unlike those greedy corporations!
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