skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
follow the money. they are a monopoly if it can generate penalties and further the careers of politicians with regulatory powers.
The next step in presentation design and sharing?
Presentation decks are a great way to communicate and share ideas. Imagine a tool mixing the share-ability of Google Slides, with the power of native apps like Keynote or PowerPoint. Up to the expert features of Sketch. Through the integration power of Slack.

Please meet Ludus One. We aim at solving the equation, by being the single destination for content creation and sharing. We gather the best of the web in a simple and intuitive tool for everyone - especially professional designers and marketeers.

www.ludus.one
Pre-breakup, Bell Labs produced a very large percentage of the scientific/engineering breakthroughs that power our modern world.

The breakup arguably changed Bell Labs, hurting its ability to hire talent as well as its access to resources.
I'd like to see an in-depth comparison with Google Cloud Spanner.
Sounds like its a long jump to say "its the same IDE you love, on the mac"

It sounds like its BASED on the same IDE, but fundamentally provides a completely different feature set, and ability to compile to completely different platforms. That's fundamental enough to suggest its not the same IDE.

If anything, MS is simply capitalizing on the brand recognition, and taking a similar approach. But if the extensions don't work on Mac - its not the same.

That's like saying "Microsoft Word, the same word processor you love, on a mac" and then not support .docx files.
My name wasn't popular in the 70s but became one of the most popular baby names sometime in the 90s. So I had the effect of not growing up with a common name, but my name suddenly becoming common in adulthood and suddenly heard a lot in crowds which is... disconcerting.
Enxerto ósseo dentário recuperação
Whoops, sorry about that. If you're looking for more on how it works (rocksdb, raft, distributed transactions across multiple raft groups, etc), you might find the design doc interesting: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
That's great. Thanks for the response and I'll keep an eye out for the blogs.
What comment did you leave on gofccyourself.com?
That's a really silly way of doing it then. Besides, "do the right thing" is more restrictive than just "don't be evil"
I hear ya, appreciate the follow up!
These patents aren't cheap to develop or obvious. Of all the tech patents that are out there, high bandwidth and low latency communication is the hardest to develop. Apple is sitting on a mountain of cash, Qualcomm is absolutely in their right to charge them at the threshold it would take to develop an alternative.

In terms of "good to society" it's hard to say what expiration date is the optimal one at maximizing innovation over all possible futures. I think it's probably greater then 0, but below 100 years.
We would like more people to speak up about this.

We need your votes, your voices to make the case that we should release all this goodness on Linux.

Little know fact: some of the engineers on the Visual Studio for Mac team are still developing it in Linux itself. So it already works there.

At this point it is a matter of hearing your voices. Speak up often :-)
Why is Umbraco CMS so rubbish?
I've began using Rider from JetBrains and it's working well on Mac for .NET Core APIs. VS was always better with Resharper (+ few other tools from JetBrains). Actually VS is the best IDE in the Enterprise, especially combined with some 3rd parties tools. Coverage, profiling, refactoring ...
> -P: inhibit the generation of line markers from the preprocessor (I've used this before, but can't recall the problem it solves? Not expanding __LINE__?)

It prevents #line directives which are useful for a C compiler but erroneous for javascript.
The point is that is doesn't work. Yes, the name makes the product stand out but that benefit doesn't compensate for having your product associated with filth and disease.

There's a reason Toyota has never named a car 'The Cockroach' and a soft drink company has never released 'Cockroach Cola'.
Very interesting Would love to see how this will develop in the future
Italian village offers $2,100 to boost falling population
Kefka, allowing bankruptcy on school loans is unfortunately impractical when doctors have the ability to abscond with hundreds of thousands of dollars and a career which well net them millions.

That is not a market correction either. In practice if we took away the student loans entirely, we would see a much more reasonable school pricing. Their audience is captive because they know that they can extract an extra $10k/yr from federal assistance alone.
Can someone please flag these shills. The article is about how evidence-based behavioral therapies like cbt can reduce crime, and should be applied as an alternative to prison for kids. For those that don't know anything about cbt, in this context it's basically about reducing cognitive distortions that convince people to commit crimes.
I think the key point here is not whether Google is abusing its effective monopoly willingly, its that it exists at all. There may be alternatives, but not viable ones.

Try not supporting Chrome or ignoring Chrome requirements such as security mandates, you will go out of business. You can say these are 'good' for the consumer but the fact that Google has the ability to unilaterally change the web itself is partially the issue, they are not a standards body.

Whats the viable alternative to Google Search? Sure you can use Bing as a customer, but if you're a website operator you HAVE to stay on Google's good side. (not always easy to do)

Whats the viable alternative to Adsense? Especially when it comes to many Geo's that are hard to monetize.

Whats the viable alternative to Android?

Not all aspects of Google's business are so dominated, but where they are, you have little choice but to go with Google and the fact that are dominate in so many key segments is troubling.

Let's be honest, it's not like Google makes themselves easy to contact, interact with, or get support from. They are in many ways a black box.

Ever notice how the transparency reports for Safe Browsing never includes Google Properties or how they are happy to report DMCA issues for the internet, but never for Youtube?
You can have email everywhere with IMAP and SMTP. Even phones. One thing that is difficult running your own mail server is assuring you do not get spam filtered for running on a cloud server netblock. I had to set up DKIM, DMARC and SPF.

I used this for setup: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix

To get a full stack going with proper SSL auth it is somewhat involved. The good thing is once you do it, it works reliably and you OWN your email. Complying with every anti spam measure is critical though because you will be most likely sending mail to others on large servers that will reject your mail otherwise. Even then I had a lot of problems with Yahoo to get whitelisted, and Verizon just summarily blocks Digital Ocean hosts.
Yes, when I looked into it I found there is actually zero evidence that institutionalized peer review is helpful at all. In fact, it looked like it's primary role was to impede science by enforcing whatever prevailing bias exists at the moment. For example:

>"In addition to being poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless for detecting fraud it is slow, expensive, profligate of academic time, highly subjective, something of a lottery, prone to bias, and easily abused."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/
Lee? Harvey? Oswald?
Very much so. Google is less dominant in many markets where Opera is strong, so the bidding between Google and the local search engines is probably tough.
Geometry puzzle
Any remaining rights in UK is gone for good.
Announcing New Innovations to Help Every Developer Achieve More with Microsoft
Caloric value is a pretty awful way to think about it. You should be measuring the nutritional value.

As we can see by the rising obesity rates in poor communities, caloric value has been emphasized for far too long.
The Bell System was allowed to exist as a monopoly because it was assumed telephone service would produce a natural monopoly. The US government stepped in to regulate it because of the lack of effective competition, and the result was a pretty cozy situation for AT&T for many years. Eventually the prevailing theories changed, and AT&T was forcibly broken up by an antitrust suit.
> If you are concerned about privacy, then having a common name may provide you some benefit, but if you are concerned about your own personal brand, then having a unique first+last name identifier is hugely beneficial.

Indeed. My real name is completely ungoogle-able.
Body Farms – donated bodies left to decompose for science
If you lack the intellectual capacity to consider the motives of the other side believing that a freer healthcare market is a superior means to save lives (a notion backed by history and economic theory), then you have completely discredited yourself with regards to speaking about political topics.
Wes Montgomery, Erroll Garner, Django Reinhart and obviously Roland Kirk are probably the most well known that couldn't read at all. There are many, many more jazz musicians that were/are very poor sight readers.
Who doesn't have a TV or at least a laptop?
Rockefeller was an ardent proponent of Monopoly because to him it was obviously the most efficient system. He controlled the price paid for crude, the manufacture of oil, and the prices paid for transportation. Under this control he substantially lowered prices for the consumer. Of course this also meant that all profits went directly to him making him one of the richest people to have ever lived. Interestingly he also railed against using monopoly to price gouge. He could enforce minimum prices to preserve market stability but rarely charged exorbitant rates. That restraint however is not intrinsic to monopolies and, in fact, the contemporary populace had a hard time believing his motives weren't purely short-term and profit seeking.

Today Google might be in a similar situation where the thing that will take down their huge position of control is not bad behavior toward their end users but a well justified fear that that power can be abused (and would be abused by most people)
Seems AdaCore is working to add some form of borrow-checker to Spark :-) https://cps-vo.org/node/34575
That's just economics at work though. The guy with more money to blow will always have an advantage.
Low level? D3 has some of the most jargony docs I've ever read for a JavaScript library. Not to mention the steep learning curve to make anything of value using available data, that is, if the data is formatted correctly.

And don't even get me started on trying to make D3 charts responsive ;)
Smart Profiles of Blockchains in Healthcare
Exploiting the Linux kernel via packet sockets
Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU
awesome vision!
>How does Google's search monopoly lead them to self-driving cars? This is why I question the Google vs Bell comparison. It seems to me Google wins because they are really, really good at producing technology, not because they have a systematic first-comer advantage.

I don't think you can really call self-driving cars a win for Google at this point. It looks like they might be beat to market by actual car companies, which would be a really devastating outcome for Google.
Then nobody should be employed as a decision-maker, because everyone is affected by their feelings.
Love Your Logs. It Pays Off
I am probably gonna look like a dumbass typing this comment but who's Alphabet ? Never even heard of them while the other are consistently bombarded on my face but you menting it with them is making me feel like I live under a rock haha Whats something that they made thats really popular ?
Hey Steve, the website definitely makes it seem like it does. You should send a message to whoever manages that.

See: http://imgur.com/a/exQvj
I have such fond memories of wasting hours driving down the old Dixie Highway.

That area of Florida is predominately potato farms (chip potatoes), and in another life—before I was a programmer and after I was grad student studying poetry—I found myself selling crop insurance in a town nearby when I suddenly had to take over my father's business.

Any chance I got to take a drive down that old brick road, I would. There were quicker routes to the farmers I was visiting, but none as pleasant. It was truly the best part of a fairly awful period in my life, and I've never been sure if I should recommend the drive to others as it's really out of the way. But if you want to see some "old Florida," it's one of the nicest ways to do so.
Open the link and check for yourself...
I charge my watch every morning for 60-90 minutes while I do my morning routine. That usually gets me through the day + night, unless I do over 2 hours of exercise.

I also only use my watch for activity/sleep tracking and notifications so I only have default apps running on it. That likely helps my battery life make it through the day & night.
Yeah, the whole "monopoly" word brings stuff to mind that is more a distraction than useful.
RTL-SDR is the Arduino of EMC work. :)
My primary IDE is Xamarin Studio for both mobile and asp.net development.

Is there a roadmap for Xamarin Studio?
One of my fathers friend's used to drive a grader on the Stuart Highway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Highway), from Adelaide to Darwin in Australia, through the desert. 1700 miles through some pretty inhospitable country, in stifling heat (pre AC days, too, I believe this was late 60s, early 70s). He'd get to the other end, have five days off, and drive back.

I simply can't imagine that.
So move to Monaco, get your pay adjusted upwards crazily. Then leave but just rent a PO Box there and use a VPN to make it seem like you are there. Simple :D
Try to start a video-sharing service. Go ahead, I'll wait.

What will happen is that you will get a flood of DMCA takedown notices, and Google will get a flood of DMCA takedown notices for your site. Then Google will penalize you in search rankings for being a source of so many DMCA notices. Meanwhile, YouTube -- which generates far more takedown claims than you ever will -- is exempt from that ranking penalty because it's a Google service.

The same is true of a lot of other areas; Google can and does use ranking penalties and placement priorities on the search-result pages to give preferential treatment to its non-search businesses. How will you compete with that?
An European Map of Implicit Racial Bias
DocumentDB is KV.
AppOnBoard raises $4M to create engaging demos for mobile apps
Are people really that against interacting with someone, even if it is forced, for a few minutes? Money saving aside, it's hardly conclusive to whether or not self-checkout is superior. Such reasoning such as reluctance to make conversation says more about the person making the claim than standard checkout as a whole.
Unix Architecture Diagrams
Hi there, we actually released the product today, so it's generally available and fully supported. Hope that clears things up!
I use self checkouts regularly in both the US and Switzerland. The contrast in UI design is staggering. The US self checkout machines (e.g. at Safeway) are enormous, employ voices constantly hectoring me about bags, items placed in the wrong location etc, and do everything to disrupt my rhythm: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8382/8539442967_7917df5cde_b.j...

Swiss self checkout machines are small, silent except for beeps, and fast: https://subito.migros.ch/dam/jcr:afca29de-d490-4621-8844-868...

The latest option is that you can grab a scanner before shopping, scan items as you place them in your cart, and just walk up to a station to pay.
The Hearing Aid's Pursuit of Invisibility (2016)
We were told that the slides would be uploaded by Applicative (hence we didn't post a copy), but we can't seem to find it on the internet either, so here's a copy from our Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByQnrkOiRT_LMmZ6SXFmbk5wTDA...
While it's not in the guidelines, 'pg is on record years ago saying that downvoting for disagreement is okay, given that people upvote for agreement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

That said, I think many on HN do think that downvotes should be reserved for uncivil or unsubstantive comments as they don't contribute to the conversation. Some will still downvote for disagreement or for other reasons.

I think it's best not to let it bother you or worry about it because there's not much you can do about it, other than contribute as civilly, substantively, charitably, and in good faith.
Exactly, although cloud is not my best suite, I am so exited. This is serious fight.
Oh nice, finally a D3.js based charting library of reusable components!
I believe Opera is simply loading the webapps for these services in a web panel, so it's "official" in that it loads the official UI, but unofficial in that it's not a corporate partnership.
Marketing Design – How we got a 35% bump in our conversion rate at Highrise
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14308521 and marked it off-topic.
We just did a benchmarking for a PoC on DocumentDB side-by-side Cassandra. It does the job, I have not yet seen anything revolutionary. Cassandra benchmarks seemed better.
I am sure it is a nice product, but the name is causing confusion. In the last few months I have witnessed misunderstandings between clients and consultants who think they agree to deliver a project as a "visual studio solution/project", and only when deliverables start being passed around do they realize that the original win32 visual studio is not the same as the other visual studio offerings, and that you cannot just expect the other offerings to produce the win32 visualstudio .sln and .csproj solution project files or anything that builds with msbuild.exe out of the box etc.
Reddit, we did it again.
The classic "I'm going to make all the decisions but you're responsible for our success" spiel.
That's true for almost all large companies. Why would invest in some startup X if Boing announces the same product?

Size gives you advantage, but its not an auto win.
I think the elasticity of the demand depends pretty heavily upon the urgency of the problem.

And the demand - as you pointed out - also depends heavily on trust. That said, most health problems aren't unique enough to require a completely bespoke solution.

So at least hypothetically, it's possible to shop around IF pricing and other data were available. But they are not, at least generally.

I found this book rather interesting -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DRXKWRM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... -- where a company compiled their health care expenditures and made the data available to their employees.
At least people can pronounce your name.

There are, I'm sure, many brown/Asian HN users reading this thread, cringing at the days when teachers would do roll call, or on a daily basis annoyed at introductions taking 5 minutes longer than they would with a "normal" sounding name.
So far it has been Azure Build, not Microsoft Build. Everything is about azure so far.
I don't think Google Cloud SQL does either in a fully managed way. Spanner OTOH does that but it's NewSQL. Traditional sharding has been supported for a while: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-data.... you can create databases where ever you want.
It also freed their patent library and talent to develop a whole host of new products and technologies which lead pretty directly to Google and the WWW as we have it today.
I was reminded of this quote-of-a-quote from Wikipedia:

> The Italian climber Fosco Maraini argued in his account of the ascent of Gasherbrum IV that while the name of K2 owes its origin to chance, its clipped, impersonal nature is highly appropriate for so remote and challenging a mountain. He concluded that it was:

... just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last.

So yes, if that's the kind of mood you get into when climbing that mountain, I don't think reflections about death are very far away...

More seriously, I don't think we'll have deadly VR games: I think the challenge is usually about doing something no-one has done before or going somewhere no-one has been before. Mortal danger is a straight-forward reason why that is the case, but I don't think it's reason to do it on its own: The goal already has to be there and it has to be worthwhile.
The Unsplash API is now open and free
Yup. It's the 'vPro' option on Intel wireless chips.
Signally distributed blocked gophers
"But Google's search monopoly and concomitant cash flows also gave society free worldwide communication, self-driving cars, cheaper smartphones, free digital maps, and countless other benefits."

LOL
Well I don't see why funding should be a consideration. Maybe they should release a better product based off of a viable business model.
Similarly: paved rail-trails. These drive me nuts.
I noticed the same use of upload bandwidth. Worse, using dtruss on Mac OS, I could tell that it was reading files out of places other than where it was installed (e.g., ~/Music/). There was no way to tell what files it was exfiltrating from our network. I had to ban use of Spotify in my company for this reason.
Hi usaphp,

Thanks for the bug report! I will create a ticket for it and check it out soon.

From what you said, it seems scrolling is triggering a viewport resize, so we will review our viewport resize listener on the demos (it's not really inside Britecharts).

Thanks again!
Interesting article I think Blockchain technology should really be more looked into as I believe it could help us improve in multiple industries. In fact I was shocked when I saw that europe might want to try and ban blockchain https://news.bitcoin.com/europe-power-ban-blockchain/
> Ignoring status codes

My favorite is when everything returns a 200, but the response is something like:

{
status: "fail",
error: "forbidden"
}

Sometimes they even include the 403 in the response, almost like the developer is giving you a giant middle finger.
It's nice that a lot of the components were already cross-platform. Does this mean we're going to see a Visual Studio for Linux?
That makes sense- I think part of the reason such types of databases are well suited to cloud operations is the guaranteed throughput of the cloud providers own network backbone, which is almost impossible for any single "regular" organization to match, at least for the price. I think we are at a point where doing business without the cloud will become nearly (but not completely) impossible at huge scale with all these features.

Thank you very much for your detailed answer and good luck with the continued rollout!
I think a big part of it is that Google controls one of the single most effective advertising channels to drive the growth of a competitor, and can therefore strangle them in the cradle.
Data Robot is definitely cool but you have to be careful you aren't overfitting via hyperparameter tuning.

I think where we'll really start to see the needle move is when we'll have more automated feature engineering. The 'data wrangling' involved here is by far the most expensive part of the process but also best way to improve model performance.
Congrats Ben Darnell and team!
I am fan of his work on Tornado web server!
That implies a level of honesty and trust that doesn't exist in the US. In Switzerland, a store can trust customers to scan everything they place in their carts. In the US, they can't.

The result is a worse society, because in the US, stores have to take measures to not be ripped off. Those measures get in everyone's way, including the people who would not steal from the store.