skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think whether this hurts people, at least in the long run, depends, though.

Taking a job which provides no on-the-job training, and takes no skill keeps someone where they are. Because they aren't learning anything they are stuck doing jobs at this level forever.

If a person is prodded into learning a skill in order to reach the bottom($15/hour) rung, and then at the $15/hour level, the person is doing skilled work, they will be defacto receiving on-the-job training, since they are providing some skill.

As long as there is a big enough social safety net, and access to resources like the library and the internet, unskilled and unemployed people will at least have the opportunity and a motive to learn.

It's really too early to tell whether a higher minimum wage will result in a more skilled, educated populous in the long run. But it does fit the data that most (all?) first world countries have a relatively high minimum wage and social safety net. It could be argued that a high minimum wage is partly how they got there.
> If people like your product so much that 95% of the market uses it, I don't see the abuse.

Which is why the fine is not for 95% of the market using the product, but for abusing that position to unfairly disadvantage competitors.
In ES6 modules, it is. In other code, ES6 is backwards compatible with ES5 (i.e., code is strict mode iff there's a "strict mode" declaration).
> nothing but preference or lazyness

Those two (but especially preference) are extremely strong motivators for humans to choose one product over the other.

But even if it wasn't, the law is there the protect the citizens and their livelihoods, not one company's supposed right to hold a monopoly.
How to get your support team ready for a big launch
Yesterday's risks were exogenous. Few were existential.

Today's are engogenous. Several are existential.
PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 was released on May 18, 2017, see https://www.postgresql.org/

Here is the discussion about the release from a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14367311 (166 comments)
Interesting problem though.

How would Google differentiate between a search and an address without having the Maps product deeply integrated ? Sure they could identify the address and then render the map using say Apple Maps. But what if Apple Maps didn't understand the address or if their API implementation didn't match up.

Seems like it would very much hurt the overall experience.
It's not that complex!

Corporate law is extremely complex.
Not if morons like Trump keep getting elected, no.
These are good points. In my experience other platforms have the same tooling as JS has been getting over the past few years.

Look at Android for comparison:

- ReactJS: React Native, also any overall architecture like MVVM or MVP.

- ES2015/ES7: JDK 7/8

- Transpilers: Kotlin

- Minifiers/packers: proguard and others

- Gulp and co.: gradle

- Other libraries: android has a number of libraries to handle network requests, image loading, animations etc.

What I'm trying to put across is that JS has transitioned from a language that would show and hide elements of the DOM to a serious language used everywhere.

A good developer takes the time to understand the tooling around their platform and language.
Google Fined $2.7B for Search Results Manipulation
That's not really a good model of phones.

Our phones are so powerfully captivating because of the high-speed Internet connection it hides. New information at the tips of your fingers, just a swipe and even more things! Facebook, Instagram, messaging apps, HN, Reddit, news, and so on.

Sure, there are addictive offline things (games mostly), but that's not the things people usually complain about.

Phones are made to be efficient magic boxes of interesting things. It can load anyone's poison in just a few blinks.
I guess they assume, if you're actually loading from Chrome, you're probably not a bot? They're probably checking for more than just a simple user agent?

That said, as far as I know (I'll keep an eye on it), I haven't always received an instant check in Chrome when dealing with a captcha.
Right, but you still need a device. So you can just switch your smartphone into airplane mode and only turn the airplane mode when you want to make a phone call / use wifi.
This was just a low quality comment.

Google are in the wrong here, and essentially saying that SV's ignorance towards anti-competitive and despotic behaviours is a good thing is just stupid.
This is a really interesting topic; you might not care about a random small business, but you probably care about the future of Wikipedia. There were complains as Google snippets were basically cutting Wikimedia funds by showing the info but not the "fund us" banner when needed. If Search integrated it further without providing any other funding, they'd basically kill Wikipedia in the middle-long term, which would be a really awful thing.

I can see the same happening with many other products and companies and EU point of view here. I can also see Google's points for making a smoother user experience and getting more money by keeping the users longer in Google web stack. It's not a black and white issue at all, instead a balance must be achieved; USA is more pro-enterprise while EU is more pro-citizen/small company.

You might remember the first notorious case that happened: Internet Explorer. At the top of IE usage, EU started mandating Microsoft to give a choice for its users to use the browser that they prefer. This implied in practical terms that all new systems would ask the user on loading the computer the first time what browser they preferred, with the choices including Opera and Firefox.
Readings still get assigned, even in the python version - although my impression is that a pretty small portion of the class reads them. :)

They're at composingprograms.com - written by Denero to use Python, but based very heavily off of SICP.
Hands down one of the best articles on the topic I've read - so many "wish I had known this years ago" types of insights.

The video contains bits that aren't fully reflected in the post itself, so it's worthwhile to watch the whole thing. The most important part IMHO is that you absolutely have to start with a known problem and work out the solution from there, not vice versa. This is a trivial insight for most startups, but a surprisingly common trap for even the smartest AI/ML people.
It's very easy to get blinded by the sheer awesomeness of the data/model you stumbled upon, all while ignoring that you haven't fully grasped the problem space yet.
Would it be possible to change the license of cURL to one that denies usage inside the US? :P
there's one obvious and it's logistics. amazon is all about optimizing the supply chain from the factory to the consumer door (or back yard in case of drone delivery. only half joking here :))
Btw, how do you use italics?
You are correct - I meant Kennedy. My apologies - I was reading something that included both of them immediately before commenting and my brain conflated the two.
I say those words as probably the biggest USA-fanboy one could imagine, the guy who defended almost any obscure US policy. But right now, I can not do this any more. I can live with the liberals, I can live with the conservatives, but I can not live with aggressive political stupidness.
Although I don't like advertisement, my understanding is that Google provides massive added value there. So why on earth do they have to skew their results ?

Or, maybe I don't properly understand "skew", i.e. the european commission condemned not so much a voluntary bias from Google rather than a "natural" bias from Google...

The good news is that if we can constraint Google on economical ground, we can also constraint them on more ethical stuff, such has fight against terrorism...
I take it that you are aware that the US has anti-trust laws too?
He wasn't denied entry into the US. He was denied access to a fast track system for entry into the US, so he has to use the slow, annoying, more methodical way.

It certainly sucks, but your summary of the US legal system is irrelevant.
CEOs use VR headsets to experience 'realities' of homelessness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WokFi
To have a good chat I would hope they drew a coordinate system, mapped both appointments in Euclidian space, and then did an intersect between vector A (first appointment) and vector B (second appointment) to see if there are any data points in common.
I thought the same thing when I saw the title.

I've seen similar patters before. I assume the famous "things break on weekends" is because of somethings similar, ex. because there are fewer people to look for and fix small problems before they become bigger and make things fail.
> If they are forced to stop doing this it will make my search experience worse for me.

This seems to be the whole point of the fine. Currently Google's services just so damned conveniently integrated that no one uses competitors' services, even if they are better.

The thing is, though, I am totally with you here. I don't want to use one of the other services for maps, or flights, or these snippets for information. They are just search results for me. The integration is more important for me than ... better filtering, or whatnot. I can always go to one of those sites, but there really is no need, And frankly, it would really, really suck if I had to now.

Edit: From the text:

> Google has to apply the same processes and methods to position and display rival comparison shopping services in Google's search results pages as it gives to its own comparison shopping service.

What does that even mean? Right now Google has a link for Maps, Images, Shopping, Videos, ... in the top bar. Do they need to change it to Maps, Images, Shooping (Google), Shopping (Idealo), Shopping (yet another service), ...? Embedding results would not work. Have a link called Shopping that does not list results, but points to more shopping sites, maybe with the search term already preappended? Meh...
But you don't see Google getting penalised by US though
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Russia seems to have influenced the American voter. But non-American-citizen HN commenters weren't exactly refraining from commenting on the election out of a desire for electoral purity. Granted, the Russian approach was especially scummy, but it was American who voted for Trump at the end of the day. And for better or worse foreign speech will influence the American voter at times.
> People that support themselves on jobs that pay less than minimum wage generally need support from the state to live.

Unemployment does exist and it is not lethal.
JavaScript is unlike other languages, it take the big 4 (Chrome, Safari, Firefox and IE/Edge) to come to an agreement to get something done.

And standardization takes many years to reach mass adoptions. No language come close to such a mess. Even Python 2 to 3 migration wasn't as complex.

Yet, they move fast, faster than those languages that are controlled by one authority.

Frameworks are important because at the lower level, things are not as simple to get done as those language with only one authority.

They API agreed by the authorities will definitely be thin. So the community step up with frameworks.
When carpenter will try to use toothed disc from circular saw on the handheld angle grinder(1) instead of abrasive disc and it will disintegrate at overspeed he'll know. Maybe it will be too late but he will, for sure.

(1) because "it is faster" and "my dad always did this" and "you don't pay for my saw, so shut up"
Now try the same thing with cookies deleted in both browsers. Or in incognito/private mode.
The new RISC-V Arduino Cinque will let you 'control' the industry
I travel into the US constantly, as do many people I know, and I have never in person come across a single person this has happened to.

Not saying it doesn't happen, just that it's easy to blow this stuff out of proportion.

That's what I'm trying to do here - offer the view of someone who does this every few months for nearly two decades.
It's not about users that _could_ do something else. It's about the fact that in reality 95% of all clicks as a result of a google search go to the top 3 results and 90% of all search in the affected countries goes through google.

Sure those users could use ddg but it's not about what users could do, the reality of the matter is that other comparative shopping sites depend(ed) on google and got cheated.
I feel like I am repeating myself. When ESTA was introduced, only a single requirement was added: "You need to fill out that online form". Somehow, the eligibility was determined before it was introduced. The things you list (nationality, passport validity, ...) are all easily checked before boarding by airlines. This happens everywhere in the world, for all kinds of destinations. An online form is not a reliable way to determine your citizenship anyway.

You seem to be unaware that even if you fulfil the formal requirements, ESTA applications can and are being denied by the system (and are sometimes checked by hand which can take a few days). This can have all kinds of reasons. I know at least two persons that were denied their ESTA even though they ticked off all the requirements. Both later got a B1/B2 visa without any trouble.
Thought experiment: could we host Facebook on AWS?
Change takes time. It's a complex problem deeply rooted in fear, mongered by people who now successfully occupied the White House.

In the mean time, I agree, probably a simpler yet more aggressive tit-for-tat approach would be more fruitful.
From last year:

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-our-new-aircraft-carriers...

If a mirky shot of a login screen is the only thing informing this article, it's poor journalism IMO.

The Royal Navy have a specialisd version of Windows, and I'm happy to believe they didn't spend a lot of time tarting up the login screen.
I don't think very many (or any) people are defending Zillow's attempt to take down the site. Most of the critiques expressed in this thread specifically address the content of the site itself not whether it should stay up.

One big difference between McMansion Hell and media criticism in general is that the former relies much more on appeals to canon, e.g. "You should never put one of /these/ next to one of /these/."
Sorry, based on personal experience, I don't agree at all.

1. I believe that there is a link between ego/confidence and being creative/innovative. To consider or suggest doing something different --whatever the domain-- takes self-belief - the confidence that your ideas are better than the prevailing status quo that the rest of the world is satisfied with.

2. Mostly, in addition to #1, I see being creative/innovative as just a mental habit. Some people examine the world around them critically, and want to improve some aspect or other, while others don't. Practise this sufficiently often, and you'll improve, as with most pursuits.

(1 & 2 would become a virtuous cycle - you believe that you can improve things; you more regularly look for opportunities to do so; you [get better at] find[ing] them; you [or others] provide positive reinforcement.)

3. Personal belief: there may also be correlations with certain personality types. For example, people with certain traits may be more prone to noting imperfections in their experience of the world, leading directly to the thought processes which result in ideas for possible improvements.

4. I think you're conflating being creative with actively pursuing generated ideas or opportunities. The difference may just be circumstantial: that someone lacks the financial wherewithal to pursue an idea, or for personal reasons (e.g. conflicting responsibilities) can't dedicate the time or energy to pursuing that idea. Action ≠ creativity. In fact, the opposite may often be true: it's well noted that creative people need to be teamed with people that can/do execute their ideas fully (e.g. 'implementers' and 'completer-finishers' in Belbin's team-roles).
It'll get factored as a cost of business. If the cost of business exceeds the benefit, then they'll close down their EU operations. Otherwise, it sucks they're not making as much money as they want/should, but they're making enough to continue for now. The fine is both large enough and small enough that it probably won't act as much of a deterrent but rather an incentive to more closely study EU rules to see what more they can/can't get away with, and whether they can use any of their knowledge against potential competitors to stomp them out.
Postgresql does not silently truncate your data by default. That in itself is reason enough to use postgres.
They do a lot of profiling. Like if you're logged into a google account at the time, and other session checks. Perhaps your browsers had different cookies/localStorage, which could explain it.
How the monopoly arises is irrelevant to the law. Even if it's just collective laziness, it is still illegal to use that monopoly to influence other markets.
An Oxford University AI startup has raised £17M to check code for errors
Unity Technologies' Danny Lange on How AI Can Enhance Gaming
You are right. Consolidating and ruminating are essential. Feeling bored is important. Having the patience to tolerate it is a very important skill.
Just refuse to pay it, operate only from the UK and Switzerland in Europe. Can't fine someone who isn't in your jurisdiction
Companies are free to do (or not) business wherever they want; they must follow the rules and regulations. We just have stronger laws and regulations about monopolies in Europe and apparently Google is ignoring them. Then it has to be fined to comply the rules as it makes sense.

A similar thing is going on with the food. We have a more strict regulation, and there was some talks about deregulating it to do more business with USA; however this would in practical terms mean lowering the quality of our food. Of course everyone complained! The same is going on with the internet.
This is a ridiculous figure, how can they come up with a figure more than 2x times the amount of the previous record (for Intel's egregious behavior) for deciding what content goes on their own platform, which wasn't previously known to be illegal?

What do they want to force Google to do now, prohibit being able to advertise on their own platform? give their competitors priority placement for free? How many rival comparison services do they need to show now? There could be hundreds popping up to take advantage of the forced exposure with scam and ad-ridden pages. Does Google have to show them all? Who decides? Will this ruling extend to all other relevant content Google shows around Search results?

Guess we'll have to see, but this ruling could force Google to provide a degraded Customer experience which I guess is one way to make their Services less appealing and allow competition to catch up.
PostgreSQL is also a SQL database. For a GUI tool there's pg-admin. For backups use pg-backup.
Postgres is generally a better database (imho), with a rich set of features and great stability.
Mysql (especially on INNODB) has had bugs open for years (probably decades now), and is plagued by oracle.
MariaDB is better from what i've heard.
That sounds horrible though. Another abomination in the making. The effort to align all those map providers is probably quite significant. Such a massive waste of efforts and engineering time.
I have absolutely no framework for understanding this attitude.

I've got to assume you're aware of things like unfair competition, antitrust laws, market distortions and so on. The idea is that a disproportionately influential market participant can cause the market to become less free by virtue of inhibiting competition – competition being a vital part of a free market.

Rules against abusing a dominant market position are there specifically to try and prevent abuse from happening.

I could understand the reasonableness of arguing about the specifics of Google's market dominance or the degree to which this activity was a problem. But "increasingly specious violations and terms" and "absolutely sickening" seem to suggest you haven't really considered the validity of such rules.
Keras[1] does a pretty good job of making NN's simple to use. That said, you still have sort of know whats going on. I do think tools like Keras make using NN and ML easier than a lot of basic programming things.

I believe Google is building or has built some services which you can feed an image or text and it will do some NN magic and spit back the answer.[2]

[1]: https://keras.io/#getting-started-30-seconds-to-keras
[2]: https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/
I wonder if that's payback for the US gov fining VW so hard:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/04/21/volkswa...

It's almost the same amount, US$2.8B. It's like the EU telling the US "F with our corporations and we'll F with yours".
I would say, if the transformation makes the code and the reasoning behind it simpler then do it. Otherwise, know that any decent optimizing compiler can do this trick by itself so what you write only influences readability.
The anti immigrant voter in the US doesn't have a good life or amazing career prospects. Or at least that voter is concerned about Americans in that situation. Concern over importing more unskilled labor is at least superficially valid, in my opinion. This plays into your third point.
Umm just have the conference in a place that has a good climate for travel
now. It's not like someone is arguing to have the conference in France because they will be a friendly democracy forever. Just now.
While I think net neutrality (as it is defined) is important Google is a serious consolidation risk. Gmail has 1b users the internet has 3.2-3.5. Google probably controls 2/3 of that. Not only is search quality going down, but this is absurdly dangerous. Controlling shopping results is tame compared to the potential for misuse
The curvature of the bowl would also influence the "focus point", apparently Blanda is curved in such a way that the mirror's focus point is within the bowl, thus being able to set its contents on fire (in the same way the walkie talkie is curved such that its focus point is the focus point is on the sidewalk opposite the building)
You're acting like the outcome of this decision was in any way predictable based on the "rules of the EU". If I owned a website that had a search engine and comparison shopping and email, I would not expect that it's somehow wrong if my search engine shows results from my service's comparison shopping and email. I would not expect that it's somehow my obligation to seek out comparison shopping services operated by my competitors and show them on the search engine in the same way as my company's product. There isn't even a general way to do that -
am I obligated to design a custom protocol? This is borderline ridiculous, but is apparently the ruling.

What precedent is there for imposing rules this this on other businesses? "You have to design new technology and build custom services that show business information for your competitors on your advertising/websites/properties"?
Yes I didn't do a great job explaining it but this is what I meant. You end up with a lot of couple + single filled rows and couple + empty seat rows. If you selected the seats you wanted instead of trying to game everyone else on what is probably a full or nearly-full flight anyway, there would be more rows filled with 3x single passengers.
Well, most AVs just check icon + some data like sections, import table and only sometimes put some signatures on code. By using packer(not hard to find one) you can make almost any executable undetectable.
I like getting results when I search, not necessarily Google ones. Google Flights/Hotels sucks, for example, I'd rather get Orbitz or Hotwire. Like how Google does it for Uber/Lyft when you pull up a Maps location.