skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that pretty much sums up the tragedy right? I'm happy to not block advertisements that are part of the page and "well behaved" but the bad actors compel me to employ an imperfect club which is not selective in its action.

I recall visiting Dr. Dobb's offices back when they were a print magazine and there were a bunch of people who were responsible for ad sales/layout/checking and AdSense out sourced all of that for web site owners. Which was cool, until it was abused. So how many web sites are willing to do ad sales? Interesting opportunity there.
We have two major surveillance efforts from the government moving down the pike and we do not have the attention of the Internet.

1.A set of surveillance bills under the guise of enhanced cyber security. https://stopcyberspying.com/

2. Patriot act renewals that would reauthorize the governments phone and Internet metadata authorities. https://fight215.org/

Anything you can do to increase awareness of these bills would make an enormous difference...
It's not just system administration...

Minecraft is a meta-game about downloading unsigned JARs from the 'net and running them with your own user account.
T-Mobile already offers basically the same international plan. The only catch (and it is a headache) is they cap the international data at 128kbps, whereas Google is capping it at twice that.
To be fair, there's a big difference between marketing a new MVNO that runs on existing networks and actually expending capital to build network towers. So far Google is only doing the former.
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> still in the concept phase

Multiple generations of prototypes and hundreds of thousands of miles driven is well past the concept phase.
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Video borrows a lot from Apple's "Designed by Apple in California": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQfye4vAQ8
New super battery
Amazing. How do they tell whether you're tethering, though? If you're using your own smartphone, I mean.
> Or better yet: why aren't they offering an unlimited data plan like what T-Mobile and Sprint (Google Fi's "partners") already offer?

Because they're acting as an MVNO, and have to pay Sprint and T-Mobile for each MB they deliver to the handset. Google is not trying to replace carriers, they're trying to improve the experience as an MVNO (they providing what Republic Wireless does on a much larger scale).
I have been using one for the last 6 months and it's the best phone I've ever owned. Great screen (size is not a problem), stock Android (no bloatware) and decent battery (lasts till 10pm in the night with heavy usage).
Good point. I guess you could still wget the script though. It's maybe like ./configure over http? I guess even if you could do it, it's probably not culture. A Dockerfile would probably just curl sh the thing and not wget it. So the default culture probably does depend on whatever.io being up.
Adblock Plus whitelists all sorts of malware infested and annoying ad networks (for instance, Outbrain and Taboola). All they seem to care about is who will pay them the most money. I switched to uBlock and was reminded what a real ad free experience feels like.
For the Like button issue, there's Shariff, which provides a privacy friendly social button bar: https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff

It only tracks when you actually use the button.

(also mentioned in the comments of the original article, but IMHO worth spreading)
http://www.straighttalk.com/wps/portal/home/shop/serviceplan... has a 3GB plan for a year at $41.25 per month. Google's pricing for the same amount is $50 per month. So the question is whether all the new features (wifi calling, international roaming, pay-for-usage) justify the extra $9, plus the cost of a new phone for those without a Nexus 6.

(Wifi calling should probably be left out of that list, since it's most likely going to come to the other carriers later this year.)
They are basically adding a wireless network as an paid add-on to hangouts. I love it.
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Same with the new Pixel. A device to inspire Chromebook makers to make better, more powerful Chromebooks. And they (Google) themselves said that they don't aim to sell a ton of Pixels and make a lot of money out of it. I think they do it fairly.
The FAQ isn't particularly helpful, considering that instead of directly answering the FAQs, Google just kind of weasels its way around them.

For example: "Q: Does moving between networks affect my battery life? A: We like full batteries too. Our software is optimized to not put extra strain on your battery by only moving you between networks when absolutely necessary."

Just say "Yes", Google. Just say fucking "Yes". It's not that fucking hard to say fucking "Yes".

Another example: "Q: When will Project Fi support other smartphones? A: The Nexus 6 is the first smartphone that supports Project Fi's network of networks. During Project Fi's Early Access Program we plan to only support the Nexus 6."

That doesn't answer the question at all. The question asks "when", and Google just resorts to repeating the same exact information that prompted the question in the first place.

Google does understand the point of FAQs, right? To answer common questions about things? Or are they too busy half-assing their Fiber rollout and building self-driving cars to stop and notice how much they suck at giving straight answers to even the questions that they fucking wrote?
> If it were written in Go instead of Java, I could have done `go get apache.org/hadoop`

This complaint is just about packaging, and not the language itself. Any project can have good or back packing scripts, and for Java there are plenty of ways to make it "good".

Not to mention, the BUILDING.txt document clearly states they use maven[1] and to build you just do: mvn compile

> Go's win is that it makes the actual running of real software in production better

This might just be a familiarity issue, because once you launch the program, all things are equal.

And yes, you can bundle a JVM with your java app, which makes it exactly like GO's statically linked runtime and just as portable without any fuss.

[1] https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/BUILDING.txt
Works enough for iMessages, Google Maps, Uber, online banking apps, booking hostels, hotels, airlines, etc.
Who can't read a Makefile? Who can't at least read the output of make -n? It's terrifying to me that you're suggesting that people can't and don't.

It's not even a security thing. I've had poorly-written Makefiles that would have blown things away thanks to an unset variable on a certain platform, for example.
How is flashing $2.5 billion in orders at super-human speed not "algorithmic HFT"?

You maybe have equated HFT and ultra-low-latency trading in your mind? The latter is almost always high-frequency because it is hard, on a few pennies per trade, to make any money without the F in HFT, frequency. But all areas of HFT aren't necessarily so latency sensitive as areas like index-underlyings arbitrage where you have to be colocated at the exchange to be competitive and 4,000 miles away sounds like a ridiculous punchline.

At a heavily automated market-maker I worked at, we, not so long ago, had all our servers almost a thousand miles from new york, even farther from Chicago, and still did about 8 or 9% of all US equities volume. It sure as fuck didn't run on Visual Basic, but you would be surprised how much algorithmic trading does out there.
Agreed, These offerings are competitive if you have a Nexus 6 (or want to buy one) and don't have a family plan.

Rates on T-Mobile can get down to $25/2.5Gb of data/month
My current AT&T plan gives me unlimited calling and text along with 15GB of data per month for $90. Fi would definitely be expensive for me for the same data usage.
I've signed up for an invite nonetheless (I have a Nexus 6) and interested to see how it goes.
In a similar note I wondered what the patent on the railroad ties on the Caltrain bed were (#5104039) and found this: https://www.google.com/patents/US5104039?dq=5104039&hl=en&sa... which has an interesting discussion about how the tracks manage to stay underneath the trains.
For the 99%, raising money is still hard: so hard that it kills more startups than succeed by orders of magnitude. Middle-class, earnest engineer and professor types just aren't bred to barge into a rich man's office and tell him to give them $8 million, and now, lest they miss out on a huge opportunity.

For the 1%, which has more to do with connections than net worth by the way, it's incredibly easy and any idiot can do it. So, many idiots do.

The difficult part can be what happens after raising money. Some investors are hadns-off and some will micromanage. Some will add and others will detract. Since your investors will determine whether you can get future funding, and will probably make the introductions that lead to partnerships and clients (if you're a service company) you want to make them happy enough that their resources are deployed to your benefit.

The one bit of good news is that "free ride" investors are a minority. Most have too much ego, which can be a force for good (if they help you succeed) or bad (if they try to manage you). They exist, but they're not common. They do seem to be more common in New York than in the Bay Area.
This is called a bubble. Where a lot of these start-ups are getting their funds is from the Bank of Mom&Dad, regular old credit cards, or they are 'bootstrapping' out of their jobs at places like Starbucks. Not many investors are actually doing this, it just seems like it because most of the people are lying, trying their best not to lie per se, really good at saying their cousin is a big time investor because he gave them 20$ for pizza and they got too stoned to buy pizza.

Do not believe the hype out of SV, this is going to crash no sooner than 4 months from now and no later than 16 months from now. Evidence: Housing prices. The property bubble is back, because people think they can flip houses again and make a quick buck. Why is it back? Because people think that other people are actually buying houses to live in for that price because they think there are 100,000 people that FB employs because they are, like, as big as Boeing, right? And, like, they all have like bucco bucks from all the stocks, right?

Surprisingly, Mark Twain has written a lot about this kind of stuff. His "Roughin' It" talks about his time in Virginia City, Nevada and all the leeds that folks would buy and sell from adventures in the silver country. The lessons there are very good.
I've been having this problem for a while. Reading Google Play descriptions are nearly impossible on default scaling.
Server: Plan9

It's on plan9 so it will be in the dump. Plan9 does daily incremental backups.

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/yesterday

It's not shown up on 9fans yet, I've passed it to someone who can help

http://marc.info/?l=9fans

The message will get to Geoff / Jim who should sort it out
I have a situation that this doesn't account for. With my mortgage, I pay into an escrow that covers my estimated property taxes & homeowners insurance. Some years, those estimates are wrong, so my monthly payments change.

It might make more sense, in my case at least, to input a "current balance" field, rather than interpreting it based on the originating date of the loan.
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> no new features

Go gets us better performance and concurrency out of the box.
I wouldn't think so no. Google is not a dominant player in this market (cellular carrier).
To offload to wifi, the wifi doesn't even need to be fast. Voice traffic uses very little bandwidth. The connection simply must have low packet loss and as little latency as possible.

When in non-T-mobile coverage areas, I use my Verizon hotspot for wifi calling with my T-Mobile iPhone, even if the hotspot can only provide 2/3G.
For family plans T-Mobile's Simple Choice Plan beats Google Fi in most respects:

- No contract

- Unlimited domestic talk, intl talk from US to ~100 countries

- Competitive intl talk

- Unlimited domestic + intl text

- 2.5GB 4G LTE data

- Unlimited domestic + intl 2G data (128Kbps vs Google's 3G 256Kbps)

- Use any GSM phone, not just Nexus 6

- Phones purchased from T-Mobile come with Wi-Fi calling

Most of my family members portion is $30 / mo. Some higher bandwidth users pay $40 / mo for 4.5GB LTE and data rollover. Our family travels a lot in Asia, having unlimited data / text is really useful.

However Google Fi looks like it's really appealing for low usage, single individual plans.
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There's also things like exec4j which bundles everything including a JVM into an executable which one can just run... and things like AdvancedInstaller and Install4j will also allow one to bundle a JVM.

So producing a binary which doesn't require a separate runtime really isn't a problem.
@dquail - understood. I certainly did not mean to suggest that every startup or most startups operate like this. Only that I have personally seen at least one whose founders seemed to be out of town more often than in the office - especially over the summer. Of course, under the pretense of 'business' it's all well and good. For example, they simply had to attend a conference at SXSW but I'm sure enjoyed some of the extracurricular activities during their week-long stay. 1 week trip - for one conference.
I think Python's mandatory whitespace has a similar nature as Go's unused-as-an-error. They are definitely great in production code, but when I play with code, sometimes I do want to mess them up while adding and removing the parts of the code. Even though I've used Python for more than 10 years, I often feel like "I don't want to indent these lines for now. I wish there were a way to wrap them up without changing the indentation" after copying and pasting some lines.
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I think that's a hardware issue, not an attempt to lock you in. (I assume) you need something special in order to seamlessly switch between networks/wifi. That or it's their own way to filter out demand while they start slow and test it out.
If bandwidth is scarce there's always an incentive to go towards "pay for what you use" schemes, though.

It's like an insurance "death spiral"[1] -- if one provider provides fixed-cost internet (or wide "bands"), the customers who use the least data will subsidise those who use the most. If another provider offers them internet at the true marginal rate, they'll move there. After they've moved on, the fixed-cost internet provider has to increase its rates, rinse and repeat.

Of course, customers may prefer to be insulated in the months they use more data than usual, and moving between providers may not be free, or they may just not care at all...

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance)
On that thread, for us early adopters who got permanently free Google domains for up to 50 users before Google Apps for Work was ever a thing, declined to upgrade, and kept the free service...

I have no point really, other than to be the one saying Thanks Google in a gripe thread. I have been bitten by this before, but now that the sting has eased I don't miss Google Apps on my personal vanity domain account even a little bit. I have a real gmail /g+ account that I can use to sign up for betas and giveaways like this, for mailing lists I'd rather keep separate from more personal comms, and for any other pseudonymous communication, etc. that saves me from a lot of hassle, and my employer is a paid subscriber to Apps for Work, so I even am really aware of all what I'm missing.

tl;dr: thanks for the free e-mail service, Google! You're a real bro
Maybe that's okay -- end-user support isn't exactly one of the cellular industry's strengths either :P
The problem with Crashlytics is that you can't get your data out besides through their pretty website. Their search is limited and there's no adhoc querying. There's no API so you can't integrate with any of your other tools. Also, you have to trust Twitter with your app's data.
Leading in self-driving cars is debatable. They surely have the most visibility, but some car manufacturers and academic institutions like VisLab also have some impressive prototypes, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNcyuApIlFw (the autonomous car is the one in front)
Not sure about the per minute pricing, but the data cost is low.
They invest the float.

edit: Removed reference to cash conversion cycle because it doesn't really have anything to do with that.
On an unrelated note - very cool to see Polymer used in production by Google. I was afraid it was left to the wayside.
I thought of the free rider in this way: If we stop, everybody else is still doing it (free riding on our reduced risk) and we would be still affected by the risk they produce, but without the benefits of the energy, so lets just keep doing it.
I have a lot of problems with surge pricing in general, not the least of which (in this example) is that it creates two classes of 'net users: those with enough disposable income to probably not care about surge pricing ever and those for whom it's a burden. Yes, that's a reflection on larger societal issues, but it's still there.

Worse, surge pricing is often a distraction for nearly everyone. IMO, it's not ethical to implement surge pricing without allowing a user some mechanism to opt-out of it and to understand why they aren't getting bandwidth at that time. But having put that stake in the ground, the UX now requires that the user waste mental decision energy on ... business bullshit[1].

Last not far from least, it aligns the incentives of carriers against providing enough coverage to handle capacity. We're learning how to handle higher density wireless scenarios (cf. articles on stadium and other heavy-use event network systems). Would we rather incentivize trickle-down of these systems into high-traffic public areas (e.g. commuter zones), or just further line the pockets of a few near-monopolist carriers at our own expense?

[1] This relates to why users rightly don't like metered billing -- it creates decision pressure. A payment structure that alleviates use of decision energy is a value add.
This does look promising but it is in no way cheaper than existing options. I am currently using a family plan from AT&T to get 1GB (10GB shared among 10 to be precise) + unlimited calls+text for $27.17 per month.
It's not just international roaming. StraightTalk does not support international texting. There is no way to text canadian phones from StraightTalk US. If you want International calling you can get that, but it costs more.
Do barges count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges
There's a few innovative approaches to this, some of the done in real time. The "histopyramid" approach is used in the demoscene, and it's explained in the Fairlight rendering secrets talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPGd3DDfMU

It's maybe not suited to billions of points, but it's a decent start.
There are more trams with axle-less bogies now.[1] The goal is to lower the floor height, eliminate steps, and improve wheelchair accessibility. It gets complicated. Some systems use big driven wheels and small trailing wheels. Some have a geared axle between the wheels. Siemens has a system with motors on each wheel, with the wheels locked together electronically. AEG tried something like that, with less success. Speeds of the more elaborate systems are rather low, below 70km/h (44mph). That appears to be a limit of the axle-less design.

[1] http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_02.pdf
Prices sometimes seem a little high which is an obstacle. For example, NYTimes alone is $15/month for their smartphone subscription.

So, unless one is a heavy user of NYTimes, if the $12.70/month rate from Mozilla is applicable then it could well be "cheaper" to skip the subscription.

Which is, I suppose, where a truly frictionless payment system could come in. There's no way I would subscribe to random websites I visit once or twice a month by happenstance- but if I could automatically pay them whatever the ad revenue of my one visit is worth (fractions of fractions of a penny) instead of seeing ads, I would probably do that.
I'm hoping that their Wifi <--> 4G handoff for calls works better than the T-Mobile handoff. I've noticed that on our enterprise network the extra time it takes to authenticate causes the call to drop. I do understand that the problem has to do with the software implementation and not android, but I'm assuming systems like that are reasonably similar or are provided by some outside vendor?
It's really that easy. Pick your favorite software that happens to have broken SSL certs (such as RVM as of a few months ago), and tell them to install it. If they balk a the prospect of disabling SSL cert checking on the wget command, then they're worth their weight in gold.
Thats a choice though, the Sprint iPhone also supports GSM/CDMA (as does the verizon one, and the unlocked one too)
Look at the name. I think their goal is that most of the time when you're out and about, you're connected to Wi-Fi. I think the cellular partners are a crutch to get them there. If they manage that, you'll wind up paying a lot less than with T-Mobile.
They are referring to Netcraft survey
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I don't. But it helps make a straightforward deployable of highly coupled libraries and tools in a way that's more comprehensible to other people.

But I'll get off your lawn now.
You can do this once, but rarely ever twice. The world is surprisingly small and word gets around quickly when you take that "free ride" at the expense of the people funding you. Besides, it's different from 1998 in the sense that VCs are placing more money on later-stage startups than seed/A-stage startups.
Google is also in a much better position to make use of that data & metadata than the typical ISP.
It can do continuous scrolling of the terminal or line-by-line scrolling of the pager. Both are poor options for trying to actually read prose content inside the terminal, IMO, and opening a browser is easier.
You can get that for free with Google Voice already, though. If Google already offers something for free, we shouldn't count it in the value calculation.
I have joshhasacell@gmail for my devices, and then josh@josh[.mn] for my personal stuff.

This is exactly why I don't just phone@josh[.mn]
Slicehost did very well to sell to Rackspace when they did.

That person was probably Seats.
And then .. no one did and now we're all stuck with Chrome.
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You forgot healthcare [1,2], but point taken. ;-)

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/introducing-our-smart...

[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-collect-data-to-define...
I don't know why you're implying malvertising only hits random jackasses. Google has been hit several times by exploit kit-based attacks over the last few weeks.
It's just culture. The U.S., maybe the Anglosphere in general, lacks the same esteem for engineers and technologists that much of the rest of the world has. So you're less likely to see such people rise in American politics. I don't think it's a matter about democracy vs. technocratic dictatorships. Ahmadinejad was a civil engineer, Angela Merkel was a research scientist, and who's the only presidential candidate with a CS degree in the 2012 elections? Herman Cain.
So we are tracked by facebook if we are logged in and see the like button on a different page. Does this mean that other sites are doing the same, if we see a button for their sites, like twitter or p interest? Or is facebook the main perpetrator here?
In fact that is their stated reason for developing Chrome.
data is paid per-MB with no limits as far as i can see
This would be nice for hearing aids too, just sayin.