skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> our data show that people usually prefer links that take them directly to the products they want, not to websites where they have to repeat their searches.

If you would link them correctly, there wouldn't need to search again, but would be on the search results of that other site with their (usually better) results.

Also, considering that product search results are sponsored, usually the top results at product search are crap. There are three things that people usually prefer links to when they search for a product:
1. High quality product information - that's usually the website of the manufacturer. Amazon is not too bad in some cases but smaller retailers usually lack a lot of useful information.
2. Best offer - when you pay for being a top result on Google product search, then it's hard to claim you will be able to provide the best price.
3. Buyers feedback - sites that are larger usually have more prior buyers and thus more feedback. Google's very own ratings (which the scrape from other sites that allow them I guess) is usually crap compared to what you find on Amazon.

So basically, if Google would want to provide actual useful search results, this would just be a link to the manufacturers marketing site, a link to the best offer and/or the result page of a price-comparison site, and a link to Amazon and/or comparably large local retailers. Results based on who payed most is not what people usually want, don't try to argue that this is true.
See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31594956
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> Completely off topic but I don't understand why wikipedia doesn't simply select the desktop/mobile version of the website based on the user agent

It actually does, but only when deciding to show the terrible mobile site instead of the desktop one. Even on a bloody iPad.
> have healthy job market

Reminder: the EU's unemployment rate is twice as high as the US'.
That's complete rubbish. If they were really interested in helping customers get to the products quickly the products would be displayed underneath each websites search result.

What they really want is for the retailers to pay for the privilege of having their products at the top of the page.
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The documentation for djbdns covers a lot of it, including in particular descriptions of mistakes made by a lot of people (and software).

https://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

You can also go right to the source.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
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Does Facebook have to compromise its user experience in order to keep growing?
So this is like archive.is, but I can't search through archived sites?
> For me getting a visa was a pretty easy process

Just because it went well for you doesn't mean you have to turn a blind eye for other people. As soon as you don't come from a list of "nice" countries crossing borders is a living hell.
> All your SMS's are automatically copied to Apple computers for surveillance or safe keeping, one or the other

Although since iMessages are encrypted client-to-client and Apple can't read them, it doesn't really help surveillance here, does it?
And then I never played baseball again.
My impression has always been that comparison sites have affiliate deals for everything they link you to. They're certainly not transparent about that (I'm sure it's in small print somewhere), but I assume it must be the case.
Because then she'd be a designer.
Uber was not the worst offender in the tech industry
Yeah, but trying to say they represent Canada is a great way to get punched in the face from the rest of Canada! I grew up in North Western Ontario, the worst mobility region and where most people hate Toronto and if they end up moving to the "big city" it's to Winnipeg, which we can see also sucks for the most part. Living up there, yet being in the same province as Toronto and all the surrounding successful places in South Western Ontario (where I live now), makes for a bad time as everything done for the province is generally about South Western Ontario or Toronto. People live all over, it's a big and diverse country, but people only ever focus in on the big two that are practically their own worlds.

Those places have insane, ridiculous housing costs. People keep moving farther and farther away, even commuting 1-2 hours just because of that, which then drives up housing costs in the next sets of cities and towns. Many other places are much more affordable.
Of course not. Who cares?
Sorry to burst your bubble but all prices on pricewatch are paid for.

"Tweakers.net brengt 24 uur per dag, 365 dagen per jaar informatie over technologie, consumentenelectronica en daaraan gerelateerde onderwerpen. De bezoekers van Tweakers.net hebben een bovengemiddeld groot budget voor de aankoop van hardware, software en consumentenelectronica. Om deze mensen te informeren over de laagste prijzen en beste aanbiedingen worden deze bijgehouden in de Pricewatch. In 2014 werd de Pricewatch door het Nederlandse publiek uitgeroepen tot Beste Vergelijkingssite. Op dit moment bestaat de database uit ruim 800.000 producten met 2.5 miljoen prijzen bij ruim 350 winkels. Heeft u een webshop en wilt u deze graag aansluiten bij de Pricewatch? Neem dan contact op met onze verkoopafdeling via pricewatch@tweakers.net of telefoonnummer 020-204 2133"
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You can trigger the Internet Archive manually as well.
Disclaimer Oh I contain multitudes how can you process this comment? Sorry it's not reduced to one non-dissenting ideological line, but contains ideas you may have trouble reconciling. Abort now if ambiguity crashes your harddrive.

Can you process that I am both: happy that Google is fined.

And also: it's a bit rich of Oracle to say that. Larry: "It's not enough that we win. Everyone else must lose!"

But losers are always gonna hate and pile on the winner. They wouldn't be making up their own fictions of Google's "evil" if they hadn't lost.

Are they gonna take responsibility for their failed business practices? Or keep blaming the Giant? By golly, if they were successful they'd have a mighty different view.
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> opening map links in google map

Clear down the default intent then
I used to work for a defense contractor. MS does offer continued support for XP if your pockets are deep enough. The US Navy has deep enough pockets IIRC. I dunno about anyone on the wrong side of the pond but it's possible they shelled out for it. A different commenters mentioned paying to have an OS maintained indefinitely. That's probably exactly why they're running XP.

Systems like this have the same "we proved it worked correctly once, do you really want to screw with it?" factor as the space shuttle. Proper functionality has been verified with those systems using XP. That goes out the window if you do a major upgrade. All the layers of security you need to implement elsewhere because the OS is fundamentally outdated and insecure is still easier than upgrading the OS. Finally, if an attacker can manipulate those systems then you've already lost. Defense in depth is important but serious defense at these levels is like a "no trespassing, police take notice" sign on the inside of your bank vault above a pile of gold bars.

I agree they probably should have been based on a unix system from the beginning but a lot of these hardware/software system passed the point of no return for the OS portion of their design a decade or more ago when XP wasn't an insane choice. The industry is slowly coming around.

edit: There are a lot of people in here who need to realize that you know very little about the hardware, performance and software requirements of the system. Just because you can write code in the trendy language of the day and use docker to cover up systemic reliability issues that would cripple a LAMP stack does not make you qualified to armchair engineer a software stack that people's lives depend on. This article should make you wonder what set of constraints resulted in them running XP. They did it for a reason. Nobody runs an OS that old without a really good reason.
The big question is: Do we want Google to grow into a black hole that sucks in all data on planet earth and leaves no room for small companies?

I for one don't want that. I like startups. Let them do the shopping comparison. Let them do all kinds of stuff. Don't let the giants swallow everything.
there's a certain level of abusive advertising beyond which I think whoever decided to put it there deserves to have their software pirated.

sure, the ad networks also carry blame, but the devs provide them with a platform and medium. both are guilty and the cumulative effect of the ubiquity of abusive ads is very damaging to society.
I really would like, that google stop be hypocrite.

They started with slogan "don't be evil"

Lately google is been everything else than that. Spying and reading my emails "for advertising - yeah right", keeping tracking of my location "android", listening my conversations and also blocking me and thousands of other users out of they services.

I don't want to sound too cynical, but is there anything else google could violate in my privacy?

This e-commerce favouritism is just a very small top of very very big iceberg that is waiting to be exposed.

Sad times for humanity, its really sad how greedyness of corporations is endless and how much they are ready to violate our privacy.

I'm happy that google have to pay penalties, but I wonder do they come more evil than berofe now.

I hope that people would stop to use these corporation products.
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Yeah. The evidence is pretty overwhelming at this point:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-...

The fact that Reality Leigh Winner is being charged with leaking classified information on the Russian government's phishing-attack on computers at an American voting machine company confirms that leak was valid. Then last week a DHS official said the Russian government was targeting voting systems in 21 states. And these two things happened just this month. The evidence has been mounting for over a year now.
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Are you suggesting the ruling is out of line with the regulations?

Previous anti-trust rulings seem pretty similar to me. If microsoft gets into trouble for making IE a default browser or bundling windows media player, I'm really not surprised with the way this went.

> It's absurd to think displaying relevant content in the context of what the User is searching for is illegal

It's not absurd to think that using your dominance in a market to heavily push people towards your own other services is illegal.

The Commission also note that it's not just the relevance of the link, but the position that makes a big difference.

> b) Furthermore, the effects cannot just be explained by the fact that the first result is more relevant because evidence also shows that moving the first result to the third rank leads to a reduction in the number of clicks by about 50%.

Since the introduction, it massively increased click-throughs to their already available service, with a corresponding huge decrease to competitors.

Was their own service good?

> Contemporary evidence from Google shows that the company was aware that Froogle's market performance was relatively poor (one internal document from 2006 stated "Froogle simply doesn't work").

So to be clear the problem is that they had a pretty naff service, which when treated similarly to other players lost out. They then promoted it far above other results, resulting in a huge shift towards them and away from their competitors. They did not compete by making the service better, but by using their huge dominance in one market to step into another and significantly harm the other players.
Somehow you gotta give it to security researchers for slowly pushing the industry towards formally verified software. How long it is taking to even notice any change at all is a testament to how awkward (or at least peoples conception of how difficult) it must be to write formally verified software with current methods.
Every time I try to look into setting up master-master replication in PostgreSQL, I walk away more confused than when I started.
Maybe it's arrogant to call out valid criticism as attacking the work of others, rather than just the paradigm.
Argument based on what their data says consumers prefer kinda misses the point of the fine - the EU doesn't argue whether people prefer it or not, but whether Google is abusing it's market dominance in am anti competitive way. That way might well be innovative and could even have good customer satisfaction, but still be anti competitive.
My old rice cooker at least a had hold cycle that would keep the rice warm 'indefinitely' after it was done. I'm guessing this is what is being used to cook the ribs.
Compared to other antitrust cases, this seems very thin. 2.4 billion for nefarious price comparison site ranking? I don't get it. This is on a par with the fines given to banks for literally ripping off their customers (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...)
> How on earth was this your takeaway from the article?

Perhaps he looked at a map[1]? I have to admit, while there are some clear deviations, as I flip between the two images the areas with the highest mobility do seem to follow the Conservative-leaning areas. It is definitely not a perfect 1:1 mapping, but interesting nevertheless.

What really stands out to me though is that the areas with arable land[2] (and oil) generally have the most mobility. Makes me wonder if the food and energy commodities boom from a few years back has skewed the numbers?

[1] http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2015/10/na1020-election...

[2] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/16-002-x/2015002/article/14133/...
Just add some goofy accent marks and an extra 'j'. Ärchïmêdëš Bjol
When I visit rivalshoppingservice.com then I would expect to see that rival shopping service. When I visit google, I would expect to see google.

Are the rivals going to be required to show google results now or is this really not about choice but about crippling google or is it about extracting an easy multi-billion dollar payday?

When I go to the SNCF (French rail) website, are they showing me flight and bus options or only their train results?

Nobody is forcing anyone to visit google. It’s a website. Perhaps if the EU really cared, they’d ask themselves why Europe hasn’t produced a credible Google rival.

That settlement money ought to go directly to funding EU startups. Instead it will likely make its way into CAP agricultural subsidies. The Common Agricultural Policy is about 35% of the entire EU budget despite supporting an industry that that is just 1.6% of EU GDP. It’s clear that the EU prioritizes some industries over others and then they wring their hands when American tech becomes ubiquitous.
And the fact that laws are proposed and made by unelected officials in private. Is that the future?
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The immutability comes in with the definition of 'function', which, in some circles, means something more specific than an arbitrary unit of code that is callable and which may or may not return a value. While neither 'function' nor 'functional programming' can be used in computing with any precision unless they are qualified, there is a distinct paradigm in which functions have no side-effects and are the only mechanism of elaboration.
Could be to learn grit?
Oh neat didn't realise that, my mistake :)
Yes, you must. Or you will encounter the normal annoying captcha like I do and I don't complain because it's my own decision to not be tracked and I know there are consequences for profiling and live with it.

You can't have your cake and eat it too, either you are for privacy and should expect the hassles this create or you want the convenience and have to pay with your privacy for it.

I don't really understand why are you pressing so much on this issue, you have choices with tradeoffs, as most things in life.
> PostgreSQL is ACID compliant out of the box, whereas MySQL requires the use a of specific data store to get ACID compliance

I'd rephrase that: MySQL is ACID compliant out of the box; it requires the use of a specific data store to avoid ACID compliance. InnoDB is the default, not MyISAM. Other than that I mostly agree.
The US might have a better job market (by some cherry-picked metrics), but the EU doesn't have a bad one (I'll grant that there are notable exceptions, but then you'll have to grant me the same for certain US states).

The point is that you're playing with words.

Moreover, you have to factor in things like healthcare, life expectancy, literacy rates, access to education, danger involved in unemployment, crime rates, unemployment pensions, etc if you want to make a useful decision as to which of the two systems is more dysfunctional than the other.

-=EDIT=- : viz "cherry-picked metrics", the quality of a job market is more than just the proportion of people employed. Let's not forget other relevant factors:

- job stability

- employee protection

- workplace hazards & injury compensation

- vacation & sick leave

- retirement pensions

- mandated employee benefits (transportation, remote-work assistance, etc.)

- maternity / paternity leave

- etc
I hope Trump fines EU for all these non-sense fines they impose on American companies. Feels like EU is trying to compensate for their high debt.
I was in no way trying to undercut Apple's efforts, just stating what's written in their documentation [1], i.e they're currently only performing tracking with VIO as compared with Google's [2].

"Almost by default a robust VO system using some kind of sensor fusion does a form of relocalization but rarely loop closure."
This is not true, Visual(Inertial) Odometry systems typically estimate "odometry" i.e frame to frame motion tracking hence the name, such as in [3] and [4], whereas SLAM systems, such as [5], store a map of features, and their descriptors to relocalize which isn't necessarily a typical feature of pure VO systems.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/arkit

[2] https://developers.google.com/tango/developer-overview

[3] https://github.com/uzh-rpg/rpg_svo

[4] https://github.com/ethz-asl/rovio

[5] https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2
Thanks for the reply! What is your take on foundmyfitness.com and Dr. Rhonda Patrick in general?
I think these articles make really good points. But they seem completely off-topic. Nothing in there makes the connection between antitrust laws and a Silicon Valley economy.
Your link describes exactly the situation that boatloads of testing and a massive QA process are put in place to avoid. They slapped NT on something quickly and it broke. The result of extensive QA safeguards is that it takes time to roll out code and you get an outdated OS but with a far smaller chance of those sorts of failures.
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Personally, I love that Wikipedia doesn't coerce you into the desktop or mobile version based on user agent. Being able to switch to the (somewhat more complete) desktop version when browsing on a phone is invaluable.
Sorry for your troubles. In many blue states that didn't vote Trump, our votes are worth 25% of the votes of some red states. Not our fault- what was implemented to make it fair to small states is now a menace to the large states. Demagogues that cater to the GOP agenda manipulate the red-state populace like 3rd world dictators.

Our only hope is for the next Dem Presidential candidate to be sensible but also capable of charming or hoodwinking the red states in some way. I thought Bernie would be good, but he's too honest. We need someone like Bill Clinton again.
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Oh no I didn't say causation. But I get if pretending I did is the only way you can reply.

My own version:
"Guy didn't say it was his fault, so it can't be!"
"People always own their mistakes, never blame others!"
> The phone will now be able to delete apps for you without your permissions. Purge.

Not accurate - purging unused apps requires a specific toggle to be enabled in Settings > iTunes & App Stores.
If I had to guess: that macros in LISP are natural, owing to the fact that its syntax are all s-exps which make it parsing it easier than in other languages?
Ivan, I bought your book "Bulletproof SSL and TLS". It's excellent, and I recommend it to those who are charged with building, deploying, or managing a real world deployment that includes TLS.
I would try spending time with an "average user". They do not use right click, nor keyboard shortcuts (which have also been around for ages). The average user is a basic user.
I'd encourage you (and everyone) to read the comments in the other thread happening today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643712

You'll see people baffled by this decision and generally happy with the service and products google offers.

It's just a reminder to remember that what doesn't work for you may be pure bliss for other people.
From what I've seen, salaries in EU tech hubs are significantly lower than in provincial markets in the US - where weeks are close to 40 hours and managers would laugh at paying for lunch or putting in cots so you can spend the night. Most Americans don't work in the tech hubs, yet still earn significantly more on average. FYI, anyone with a decent job in the US has access to some of the best health care in the world. The US with a far more diverse and unwell population has better outcomes for the cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
BBC News

The Guardian

And much as I hate to say it: The Mail online
Take the money Google made by breaking the law and give it to non-profit foundations which are dedicated to developing free/libre alternatives to Google services.

This will kill two birds with one stone--firstly it will correct the economic damage Google has caused by abusing their monopoly position. Secondly it will make it harder for them to maintain and abuse their monopoly in the future.

The software industry today is filled with companies who seek to establish a monopoly so that they can extract monopoly rents. This behavior almost always skirts the boundaries of legality, and it's getting worse. Companies are being created with the explicit business model of throwing huge sums of money at illegal activity in order to establish market dominance--see Uber.

Monopolies are not good for markets and this belief is already reflected in our antitrust laws. We need to give those laws some teeth and come up with creative solutions that don't just punish bad behavior, but also encourage competition.
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