skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Gmail, Maps, search, and, to a limited extent, the original, "basic" applications within Google Apps (is that still what it's called?).

For the rest, Google has basically taught me not to make the investment.

(I don't have any Adword nor advertising needs, at the moment. Otherwise, I imagine I would be using them.)

I was thinking of switching from the default text messaging application to Hangouts, on my phone, for the sake of maintaining a history of texts that the default app will dump beyond a certain count, but after incidentally running across comments about how fucked over Hangouts apparently has become, I'm pretty much not going there.

Google seems to be doing fine, revenue-wise, but they are losing me as... well, I guess I'm one bit of the "merchandise" that forms the basis of their revenue.

I don't hate Google. And I like the initiative on security and, "true names" aside, privacy. But I'm not excited any more about their product development.

Even in the physical world, I understand the impending, huge market for autonomous cars, and I like the pressure that Fiber has been providing to the erstwhile moribund large-scale ISP marketplace. But I miss the "moonshots." Although maybe they gave e.g. solar power enough of a nudge -- if not a push -- when it needed it, domestically.

P.S. Personal pet peeve. In my work, particularly in large organizations, I saw the need for something like Wave. (Anyone who's ever wasted time and effort on the outside of an extended and essential email chain conversation might relate -- as one example. Or trying to effectively maintain same and keep all in the loop and revisions straight, when on the inside of one.) But the terribly overburdensome (in terms of client processing demands for average clients of that time) and partially cryptic UI were a big initial turnoff.

Back to Gmail and Apps and whatnot. What Googlers actually seem to use for their own work, and lives (Maps, Picasa now become whatever...), seems to be better maintained. "Initiatives" to "secure markets" (Plus, I'm looking at you)? Yeah, not cutting it.

Initially, I would have given Plus a chance. Except that, for much of what interested me on it, I didn't care to go about publicly using my "true name" (health, psychology, and technical topics where some of my opinions might put off a potential employer).
That seems like a harder thing for the advertisers to measure than impressions or click-throughs and incentivizes the sponsor of the ad to lie about units sold.
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What we really need to find a way to support long-term, high risk projects driven by young scientists with breakthrough ideas. At the moment all scientists have to live from grant to grant which makes it near impossible to go after the really risky projects. If you try a difficult project and fail then you are out of a job.

We also, because of the wonderful system of peer review, pretty much only give grants to old established researchers with long track records. These scientists are great at running mini-empires, but not so good at coming up with the really novel ideas that we so need.
Are you able to give us an update on the status of Truffle? The page you linked talks about 2014.

The JRuby wiki states:
Truffle is a research project, there is no expected release date

Overall, it's an exciting project, "Ruby is slow" is an overused meme that's caused a lot of issue for me.
Hey, I run NewsBlur and I'd love to know why it's slowing down in safari for you. I use Safari myself as my primary browser and NewsBlur's always instantaneous. Are you running any extensions, specifically adblock? Email me: samuel@newsblur.com.
A lot of the world is moving/has already moved to chips in cards and PINs. However, this comes with tap-to-pay/PayPass (for low-value purchases at least) which removes the need for a PIN in some cases.

(That said, it sounds like the person you're replying to is in the US.)
A related idea:

It should be possible to write a zip (rar?) file that encodes a PRNG, such that it contains one zip: itself with the PRNG stepped forward one. (Even a "PRNG" that just outputs 1, then 11, then 111, etc, would be sufficient in most cases)

The hard part is making sure the checksum is consistent.

This would wreak havoc with any file checker that checks for recursive archive files.
What you are trying to do is blame the actions of the bad guys on the police and making the bad guys blameless and without fault. You are saying that, if it weren't for the police, there would be no killings and shootings.
Can't wait for the movie.

BTW this short story by Andy Weir is also a great read.

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
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How so? 2017 is plenty far out to work out the bugs in Falcon 9, and this failure won't impact Dragon 2 development at all.

What's ambitious is when they say they plan to complete their original 2015 launch manifest in 2015. That made me sit up and take notice.
Usually an SNTP client will add the latency/2 to get the correct time - I.E. if a packet takes 350 msec to return, then you'll want to add 175 msec from the wall-clock-time in the packet to get the "current wall clock time".
i am utterly baffled about this, not that his death is not sad for some people but these quotes:

'A true technology pioneer and visionary
'His contributions, which helped to lay our region's innovative technology foundation, will not be forgotten'

what is visionary or pioneering or innovative about stealing musicians songs to make money out of them!? youtube already did it along with a bunch of other sites, all of which did it illegally at the start and then tried to do deals afterwards to monetise their illegal content. its all fleas on the back of musicians work, and i find it disgusting.
"We see a whole ecosystem of startups and businesses that seem to exist only to serve one other[sic]"

This line should have "...with ads" appended to it. Or "...Javascript Frameworks".
Aren't cyberarms arms?

Isn't the right to bear arms an 'inalienable right'?

I don't get it. And I don't get why this is a 'privacy' or 'free speech' issue or why corporations, as Google argues, should be exceptions to the law.
> These scientists are great at running mini-empires, but not so good at coming up with the really novel ideas that we so need.

Sounds like some IT departments I know.
This is similar to an early proposal on the Skylon and other systems. Generally works much better in dense air, and it makes an interesting beam weapon when you aren't launching things with it. I read an earlier proposal which I can now not find which used the same sort of laser aggregation that the NIF was planning on using for fusion containment but as a field of smallish (10kW) lasers which could all be trained on the same target to input a bunch of heat which the target would use to convert a liquid gas into the necessary reaction mass to lift into orbit.

They all seem to peter out at 25 km or so. The goal with lasers was to pick a wavelength that the atmosphere was relatively transparent too but could be easily converted into heat through absorption on the receiving end. Microwaves would work to if you are careful about your wavelengths and don't point them at satellites.
as a musician i agree! but spotify et al comes under record companies, this is why i want to build something open source for musicians that replaces itunes.
Eh, I guess I don't mind. Our lever on the chicken-egg problem is that we'll always go out to find the best and most impactful science, and this type of science will always be funded because this type of science is always growing. We'd rather have 1000 $1k projects than 1 $1M project. The halo of small groups is what will bring meaningful scientific results. Caveat to all of this is that there is one project right now that's so far raised $1.55M (http://experiment.com/curebatten) for orphan disease research.

Researchers who use Indiegogo are only using it because 1) they are locked-in by their institutions (a small number of universities coerce their faculty like this) or 2) they can't yet use Experiment because they are outside of the US.
Alternatives to Mixpanel?
Currently my app is right around the 200K events mark (yes we could be a bit leaner with our events) so I'm deciding whether to pay Mixpanel or switch to Google Analytics/AWS Mobile Analytics.

Any suggestions/advices on how to decide one vs. another?
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People with years of experience who have already been in industry should already have lots of money saved up. The $12K is useful for college students with no money and loans.

Joining a startup is only not feasible later in life if you're living paycheck to paycheck, which you shouldn't be doing for other reasons.
Why not dispatch the ambulance as soon as the call is received, and call it back a few seconds later if the doctor determines it's not an emergency?
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Same here. I was an early adopter and they maintained early adopter pricing until the end. I think I joined in 2009. I lived in 3 different countries and 5 different cities since then, and my playlists on Grooveshark were one of the few constants. I resisted using any other phone besides Android because of the app (which wasn't even on the app store) and only moved to an iPhone after they had been shut down.

I am going to miss it sorely.
Isn't the right to bear arms an 'inalienable right'?
I'm amazed banks don't provide a read only login to use with services like Mint. I never understood providing your banking full access username/password to any service.
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On January 7, 1999, in a congressional procedure not seen since the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the trial of President Clinton got underway in the Senate. As instructed in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (William Rehnquist at this time) was sworn in to preside, and the senators were sworn in as jurors.

Five weeks later, on February 12, the Senate voted on whether to remove Clinton from office. The president was acquitted on both articles of impeachment. The prosecution needed a two-thirds majority to convict but failed to achieve even a bare majority. Rejecting the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted “not guilty,” and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50. After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was “profoundly sorry” for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.

*Yes, he did go through impeachment proceedings, but was acquitted on the articles of impeachment.

Sorry, should have been more clear. It was just an example anyway. Didn't mean to endorse, or imply anything about Clinton, just to show how the two coarse factions I mentioned in my comment differ and impact how sex related things very often plays out.
This seems to be an older version of the talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwhZ3KEqUlw
I think it's a transcript of the interview-style video at the beginning of the article, so it kind of flows topic to topic.
Could you give someone who has ABSOLUTELY no idea (even after reading your comment) about any of this what it is you do to hack the system?
Having read the definitions of what is controlled in the proposed rule, I'm pretty confident a patch wouldn't come close. And in any case, since the rules don't apply to public software, that only matters in the case of private patches, which aren't really a thing, and would be a pretty big moral hazard if they were.
Can you solve it? How can you engineer a country with more girls than boys?
A patent being worth billions is absolutely not a flaw of any legal system.
I have an Australian friend who does this, so it's definitely possible outside of America. I know it works because he's flown to visit me in a few places (Asia, US). However, the insanely tight international travel schedules sound to me more like a boring and unpleasant experience than enjoyment. Glad you enjoy it though!
Constructors may need to allocate a sentinel, I see no reason for the move constructor to do so. I'd also question the performance benefits of having a sentinel (basically avoiding additional null pointer checks) has on performance given todays relative cache penalties.
The solution is to ignore the law. Governments have no moral legitimacy and therefore no legal legitimacy.
How feasible is it to use compressed air instead of hydrogen as a working fluid? Would make the craft extremely light.

Edit: compressed air taken from the atmosphere in-flight
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Child pornographers are a criminal enterprise. They have to do physically significant things like kidnap children and produce pornography, and then sell it and accept payment for it. That's not "private criminality" at all. That's comparable to detecting and prosecuting counterfeiting, or a protection racket, or other forms of human trafficking. Any time you are doing something criminal for money, that takes it far outside the realm of "private criminality." It's racketeering. Organized crime.

Are you referring to the buy-side of CP? Yes, that's hard. But those are also the low-value targets. They would mostly get rolled-up once a producer of CP is caught, no?
> ‘If anyone can think of any possible reason to hold off on launching, they should call me immediately on my cell phone or send me an email, whether their manager agrees with it or not.’

Two thoughts: if you need to send a message like that, the culture of your organization needs some work. Also, does he really think a person can send a message like that - when their manager does not agree - without torpedoing their career?
I loved it. Quit using it when forced in to G+ land.
People who have a family generally aren't excited to burn their safety net on a hope and a dream. At least I'm not. I would imagine most, like me, would expect that safety net to carry them through finding a new job should the YC thing not pan out.

Or are you implying that you think everyone with 10 years of experience has a year of living expenses in the bank? If so, I tip my hat to you, but paying off student loans, buying a house, and having a kid haven't really made that a possibility for me.
It should go back as long as the test stays below the yield point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_(engineering) ... but there is also fatigue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material) . This is just for raw material though, I'm not sure how it works on the connectors.
VS 2015 is version 14.0. VS 2013 is version 12.0. What happened to version 13.0 ?
Oh, so now your disgusting defense of cop pride as an excuse for them shooting us makes total sense.
Spoken like someone who doesn't have a first initial + last name gmail account.

https://xkcd.com/1279/

I could also talk about how Verizon won't stop contacting me about a wireline account in Maryland, how several banks can't be convinced I've never been their customer, how hard it is to get my email address off an eBay account I didn't create, how much trouble I went through to get my email address off a general contractor listing, how the loyalty program at {Sears, Ulta, GameStop, Kmart} is impossible to get off of, how I've been sent payroll information for an entire company, the countless slide decks marked "company confidential" from companies I've never even heard of, or maybe that one time when I got sent blue prints for a gas turbine power plant in South Africa. And how I've never had any business dealings with any of the aforementioned entities where I gave them the email address in question.

It's a real problem for me that there are tons of companies out there that do nothing to ensure the email address a user types in actually belongs to them. And for those companies that do try, they can't contemplate that their process has failed and that someone would want to get their email address off an account they never created.
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It does still seem to be offline, for a whole bunch of projects - I like to check in on dosemu from time to time and it is fucked !

http://www.dosemu.org/

What's happened to the mailing list archives for all these projects, are they just down the toilet now? And of course the source, this is bloody terrible !
Please only submit one application! Figure out whether you'd rather work on your solo project or with the co-founder, and then choose whichever idea you think is more promising.
Just wanted to point out Haskell does have exceptions.
Silly summary; the talk isn't the thing that raised the money.

(I am an investor in Experiment.com)
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> a single accumulator register per counted entity.

That requires O(n) memory space, where n is the number of counted entities. If you're willing to spend this much memory, the problem is easy. Algorithms like the one in the article (or the paper I mentioned) are for when you want to use far less memory than that.
If you like this dude (or maybe if you don't like him) you can help send him to Antarctica: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-wor...
Wow! This turns my perception of the piece on its head. He is such an eloquent speaker that I mistook his ad hoc answers as a somewhat ramble-y but nonetheless interesting essay.
those podcasts look super cool thanks for the suggestion
Sure, but LZ doesn't necessarily allow that.
If /r/spacex wants to pass the hat and buy a flight, maybe they can get priority.

Being a fan and all is admirable, but I don't think it's "sad" that the Internet wasn't given a seat on the call. SpaceX has a business to run.
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I'd say you should answer that question honestly there, but explain the situation in the video you make. We're pretty understanding, and don't want to discourage people from giving their ideas a real try.
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Even if exaggerated, his flow is closer than yours for our area in terms of delay. The last accident with a family member of mine had very competent ambulance and team get to use within 5-10 minutes. I got to the hospital and registered before they arrived without speeding. There was another long delay before she was in a room with nurses talking to her. Several got the same information. The overall difference between "event is happening" and "a doctor is seeing her" was in the 30min-1hr range. If it was more serious, the consequences of delays might have been more serious.

So, you and your team seem to be very competent with no tolerance for BS that endangers those you care for. But be careful not to project what you do onto the whole system. The system varies in efficiency, how much people care, steps in between, and so on. A whole spectrum. An outfit like yours might have less need for this service but I've experienced many that could use it.

That doesn't even count the whole "help less competent people in a nursing home assess a potentially, deadly situation" part. I'm totally with them on that.
Banks give out airline miles to attract to credit card customers.

You can open a lot of those credit cards.

Redeeming those miles for international first/business class is a good value (some disagree but that's my use).

Really basic example: Citi routinely has 50k mile bonuses for their American Airlines cards. Round-trip business class US->Japan is 100k miles. Therefore, open two Citi AA cards and you can redeem for a free(ish) business class ticket to Tokyo.

It can get a lot more complicated but that's the gist. Understanding the alliances, the non-alliance partnerships, all the transfer arrangements. Taxes and fees. Routing rules. Flexible point currencies. Knowing how to work around deficiencies and bugs in the airlines' own systems. All that takes time to learn.

At the moment I'm sketching a trip that includes Etihad's new first class apartment, Qatar business class and Singapore's first class suite. Time in Dubai, Bali, Singapore and Tokyo. Four airline tickets, points from three airlines and multiple credit cards, banks and flexible point programs, plus numerous hotel point redemptions along the way. All told around 600k points.
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Rest in peace my friend.
I found it interesting that perhaps the questions were more due to the person had the degree in journalism. I am not sure which would be better for perception of the tech world, a college dropout or a liberal arts major?
Some cards I close. If there's an annual fee, I weigh the benefits each year. If the benefits don't justify the fee, I try to get the fee waived. Failing that, I cancel.

OTOH cards with no fee get tossed in a drawer. I have 5 no-fee Citi Hilton cards just sitting in my file cabinet.
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No thanks, I'll keep my photos in Google Drive. I'm sure the interface is much better, but it is easy to sync drive with another service down the road if the time comes where that is necessary.
10-20M sounds like a realistic projection for Dropbox. But they grew a little more than that.
I think that they are going to focus on the product Google Newsstand* following the idea of hosted content (Apple News, Facebook instant articles).

*I think they are going to change the name and redesign the product to push forward the adoption.
"Wait, where is it? We've been flying through space for hours."

"Weren't we supposed to angle a few degrees over at the last navpoint?"

"No, I'm telling you I was lined up with that constellation. It's on the route. I know what I'm doing. We just need..."

"There's the star pattern we were waiting for! Slow down now or your going to miss it!"

"(expletives)!"
Okay, yeah, bad example. I was trying to think of groups that actually met F2F in the days before the Internet.
A monad has two operations - bind and return - and they're used for chaining
That, the guarantees you are afforded by the monad laws, composability, and how generic solutions can be.
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If GUI's were not inherently ambiguous, the article would not have been written and we could all use hamburgers or ribbons or live tiles or material design and call it a day. But GUI's are and users have to deal with arbitary assumptions that are orthogonal to the business context.

If finding flights is a case of search, then we can look at Google. It uses text to maximize expressiveness. It uses progressive refinement rather than precise query to produce better results, e.g. maps results based on partial addresses. Google is understands that search has intrinsic ambiguity and that natural language is the best tool we have for dealing with it...and the hieroglyphs are not.
Not sure which assets you are talking about:

1. Half of US households have no retirement savings:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-12/the-retire...

2. One third of households making > $75K live paycheck-to-paycheck and are essentially one or two months of unemployment from bankruptcy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2015/04/16/o...

3. Disastrous healthcare costs (roughly $20K per family per year). You may or may not be paying it directly out of pocket (your employer may be paying for you, or you my be subsidized), but that's what it costs.

Also remember that asset (mostly housing and stocks) values are on paper and may (and will) go down if the economy keeps slowing down as it has been since the dead-cat bounce of 2010-2011.
> Right now - you have to manually [...] scale the ASG.

You have to manually scale the AutoScalingGroup, you say? :-)

More seriously, what's the barrier to configuring the ASG to grow and shrink automatically?
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