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$1 per stop is chump change for a company like Google. I don't see how this fee will create any difference for what the protestors are demanding. And this type of fee reminds me of…

I like how CTF is becoming more educational and less of a hacking competition. Can't wait to see what CTF3 brings.

+1 to this suggestion! Something that feels as seamless as Dropbox would make my dreams come true. And even better if it could sync to different providers of my choosing, e.g. Drop…

I believe F1 is the SQL DB that powers ads (AdWords, AdSense, etc.) and is used in production for consumer-facing apps. Dremel is more of a data/log analysis tool, but doesn't typi…

Is Presto meant mainly for ad hoc internal analysis or is it fast enough for user-facing features as well?

Tesla's still a young company and is bound to have some quarters ending in losses for various reasons as they try to reach economies of scale. As an investor, I still feel confiden…

I agree with you for the most part, but I think the point the author's trying to make is that "poor" people may not see it that way; instead, to them, lavish riches create a sense …

I had a similar experience with my cousin, except with Chrome OS. His laptop died and he asked to borrow any extra laptops I had around, and the only one I happened to have was a C…

I like this article as a thought experiment, but I think in practicality, it would probably be miserable to fly to-and-fro 4 days a week. The main cost that was ommitted that would…

Yeah that's absolutely correct. Google has more initiatives than they can produce internally and so a lot of work is contracted to external vendors/agencies, which can have securit…

Arg, there should be asterisks after every period.

It's silly to use BeautifulSoup to parse the page when you could use a simple RegEx: ?)\"(. ?)>(. ?) (. ?)

The robots.txt file doesn't seem to disallow scraping. https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

I only wish Hacker News could look that good.

I think Google prefers to support existing open source projects that are successful. Internally, a lot of Java engineers at Google use Eclipse, which is a great IDE for Java develo…