skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they do not comply within 90 days, they can be fined with 5% of the daily average revenue of Alphabet, Inc.

For FY16, they had a revenue of approx. $90.27b, that leaves a fine of approx. $12.3m.

*edit: forgot to divide by 365 (days). I apologise.
Not well reasoned. Mostly of the complaints boil down to 'not knowing' whether a given piece of data is mutable or not.

If you're doing FP with immutable data, there is no ambiguity: you never mutate. Doesn't matter which language you're in, nor whether the data-structure is mutable or not (e.g Redux mostly uses normal mutable JS objects, with the spread operator to avoid mutation when returning a new state).
Again, that's understandable. Russians are afraid. And arguably, with good reason.
More likely, the manufacturer simply couldn't be arsed to use anything better. This sort of contract is rarely decided on features - it's settled by long-winded political process (where will the ship be built? What country will supply parts? Etc etc) between a very small array of suppliers (if there is an array at all, more often it's a single company in each country), where OS choice is probably the lowest priority. In fact, UK Navy upper echelons might have even preferred XP because it didn't require any extra training for their existing workforce.
Noon Pacific Moves to Spotify, Starts Fan-Owned Record Label
The blog works on two levels. The first is pointing out established architectural principles and traditions.

The second is poking the US tradition of "I have money and therefore I'm right about everything, even when I have no idea what I'm doing" squarely in both eyes.

For the first, there is an embryonic science of aesthetics. Features like self-similarity, scale coherence, integration, and symmetry tend to score more highly than random content blobbery and mash-ups.

For the second - of course it's political. But in a country where freedom of speech is supposed to be a thing, I see that as a feature, not a bug.
What is the point of it then?
Montreal and the rest of Canada would love to have you as well!
I believe the border control personnel act as if that vetting hasn't been done at all. All in all, I think this path is worse, since you get denied to entry after a long flight, and you have to flight back...
Actually, I'm not sure you get it. It's not about being big, it's about using a monopoly position in one field to gain entry to another.

If you're big but not a monopolist, and you do the exact same thing, then way less of a problem. Hence Apple could bundle Safari with iOS but Microsoft couldn't bundle IE with Windows XP in the exact same way.
Potential dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643712
Can they really not? I guess it really comes down to if people will shop at Amazon much less or at all if they raise prices by a few percent or don't decrease prices over the next few years (just an example). Both achieving the same thing. Not saying for all products, just some potentially.

I personally don't think they'd take that much of a hit. But i could be convinced by otherwise.
ESTA does not tell you you're "approved" -- it simply tells you whether or not you are in one of the eligible populations for visa-free entry to the US. Nothing in ESTA guarantees you'll be allowed into the US, or even to board your plane.
I presume the author of the comment is refferring to incidents such as https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/12/23/hacking-me/

If you write a general-purpose utility and it gets included in some kind of bad software, the people writing the 'bad' parts aren't likely to include their details, but if your 'good' code has your details....
People suggesting to move conferences to other countries like France or Germany are wrong: you can't guarantee that your country is not going to turn into a US-like isolationist in the future. The US wasn't and your country is also only 1-government away from being one.

What we probably need is a new form of portable conferences where the location doesn't matter and/or is flexible and/or regime-proof. We should stop taking democracy and openness for granted.
"I once saw him kill three men in a bar with a pencil, with... a... f#@king... pencil." © John Wick
Meaning that the fine is about half of what they make in a day. A slap on the wrist.
Hmm. If food is not waiting for you when you wake up, then you should sleep some more!

Not surprisingly, I don't have proof of what I said, but I've read in articles and studies that breakfast (and meals in general) tend to anchor your circadian rhythms (Although, light is a stronger signal). I might have extrapolated from reading about fixing your rhythms after experiencing jet lag and also from my own experience.
Google hit by record-breaking €2.4bn fine from EU
Thanks, will check out her website
The problem is not being big but the effect you have on the market. And that effect is naturally a lot bigger if you are a defacto monopoly ergo why there are a different set of rules. It can't be all party if you are at that position.

If you would not have that kind of control (and fines when they break those rules) it would be virtually impossible to beat these kind of entities or they can use their weight to strong-arm them-self in a lot of markets. See what happened in the past with Microsoft.
> Trump won mostly because he was not Clinton, not because there's some ideology being advocated here (modulo Supreme Court justices).

1) That doesn't explain him beating out ~12 other seasoned GOPers in the primaries.

2) His platform.

3) Clinton was portrayed as toxic by attacks, not because she was. "But her emails" was something GOPers and DNCers had done for decades before and Trump staff continues to do today. It's not right, but it's not isolated and there are much worse things going on. It's not an excuse, but it was a distraction.
That's three counts of conspiracy to degrade system maintainability, manufacturing tooling with intent to degrade system maintainability, possession of tooling to degrade system maintainability, one count of international travel with intent to degrade system maintainability, two counts of manufacture of false documents[0][1] in support of a conspiracy. Bail denied. And... that's life.

[0] Exhibit A: man curl

[1] CURL website
I like the specificity of this comment ;)
I have Global Entry so I don't interact with US customs officers aside from waving a receipt at them on my way out of the immigration hall. So I don't have experience of them. But my personal worst stories of border crossings all involve either Canada or Germany, for what it's worth. Canada's CBSA in particular seem to revel in it, yelling at you for asking a question, yelling at you for doing what they told you to do, and just plain yelling at you.
Capitalism is like a competition that when you win you don't ever get to play again.
As an argument of running on Windows maybe, but I can't really see how that would restrict you to Windows XP. It will probably cost them more to make sure new software can run on Windows XP, than porting the few pieces of software that couldn't run on more modern versions.
Yeah, poorer people can be elitist, but that doesn't necessarily make what McMansionHell is doing some elitist sort of enterprise. It's a guy/girl pointing out architectural flaws in buildings and discussing why they are flaws. It's as elitist as movie critic talking about a new film, and in that sense it's ridiculous that the site is being pulled down over this. You aren't entitled to have somebody agree with your taste.

Edit: You're right, nobody is arguing that it was pulled down for that and I didn't realize until I read a bit more. My point about entitlement still stands though.
> Regarding Daniel - like others here I'm sure it's because cURL has been used extensively for bad purposes he was kicked off the ESTA program. Yes it sucks that they didn't let him know in advance, and they didn't have the smarts to figure that he had nothing to do with the bad actors.

Very strange paragraph right there. I could easily generalize this to Windows powershell is increasingly being used in cyber offensives by non-state actors, let us eject Microsoft from the United States
See also current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643712
I'd actually avoid daily stand ups assuming a distributed team. Focus on async communication that has a written record.
Half didn't vote for Trump. Look again at the turnout rates. Also keep in mind that most "Trump voters" voted against Clinton more than they voted for Trump. I think that is kind of silly but that's the thought process of the Trump voters I talk to.

I can't comment about your personal experiences in small town America other than to say that my experience is very different and that referring to areas epithetically (1) undermines your point. America is a very broad and diverse place, though, so there are idiots and bigots in places. But I would just like to point out that kind and welcoming people are easy to find. They don't make headlines. And good impressions don't last as long as bad ones, I guess.

(1) Boonies or boondocks implies a judgemental attitude that people are backwards or unsophisticated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondocks
Humankind has to. On smaller scales, they did many times. There are plenty of examples. Here one I really like: https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air:

In Europe, emissions of many air pollutants have
decreased substantially over the past decades,
resulting in improved air quality across the region.
> probably the most solid operating system Windows have ever released

That's damning with faint praise...

> It got progressively worse with every SP pack installed

Well, SP2 removed craptons of exploitable scenarios. Anything before that was a security nightmare, and that includes my beloved Windows 2000.

> I hope these computers are air gapped and USB ports are removed

That's optimistic. At some level, there will be some sort of port for servicing requirements anyway. Chances are that it will be an USB.
In the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, roughly 63 million votes, of a population of 325 million, were cast for #45.

That is 19% of the total population. Reliable sources inform me that this may in fact be significantly less than half of all Americans.

The notion of the nutcase fringe in politics has been around for a while -- there's about 20% of the vote you've got to be very aware of. Where other voters are insufficiently motivated, or actively discouraged by various means (voter suppression efforts, media, uninspiring candidates), the fringe can win.

That said, there's a range of types throughout the country, and a worrying fraction are worrying. Or worse.
https://www.blog.google/products/search/connecting-more-amer...
a = Appointment 1 start
A = Appointment 1 end
b = Appointment 2 start
B = Appointment 2 end

The only predicates are: a < A, b < B

The complete set of orderings are thus:

aAbB - no overlap
bBaA - no overlap
abAB - partial overlap
baBA - partial overlap
abBA - complete overlap of one appointment inside the other
baAB - complete overlap of one appointment inside the other
If an attackers rouge process lands itself on a target, using something trusted like cURL is better than opening a socket directly, no? Less likely to attract attention?

Same goes for wget, links, etc.

Sorry no sources, it won't take you long to verify this yourself using google. I'm sure there are competent infosec guys and gals here who can provide a better explanation.
Why a moratorium on microaggressions policies is needed
runaway free market ends with standard oil. regulators need to keep it within bounds where competition is possible. it's doubly important in the internet where geography doesn't matter most of the time and winner takes all pretty much globally, because there's no other option really.
This looks more like practising software development following a precise specification than copying.
In the UK, Contactless is PIN free, hence the low floor limit. Anything over that amount (£30 typically) requires Chip+PIN, and remote authentication.
"Even people paid by the hour obviously need contracts that ensure them an amount of work"

I wish this were the case everywhere. I've just signed my first job contract in Norway, and I gotta say I prefer it. Folks working here have a right to a job contract. Even if you are part-time or temporary/seasonal. Even if you work fast food. Even getting paid hourly.

It does take care of things like getting wages cut and having trouble getting unemployment for it. You have proof in your contract.

That said, the contracts really don't really make wages more fair, merely affects some of the reactions to a rising minimum wage. There really isn't anything about a contract that would stipulate a better wage offer. Instead, it forces folks to be a lot more upfront about the job, wages, and promises of pay hikes/time off. The employee can sign it or not, the same as they can accept or deny a job now.

I'm gonna guess you can do away with minimum wage laws, but only if you actually have a balancing force against employers, even in times of economic downturn. Laws do that, especially if updated and adjusted to make sense for the times, but I don't know of anything else that could do that. Theoretically folks can just change jobs, form a union, or get schooling/training, but this doesn't realistically work for many minimum-wage workers. A strong safety net might make those sorts of things more possible, though.
It was never the solution. It's actively making things worse for most of the people it was claimed to be intended to help. Tying it to inflation is just going to make displacement of low skilled workers increase automatically every year.
Is WASM really a proprietary code blob? Or the WebAssemsblers will be proprietary code blobs? Isn't it being done by guys at Mozilla, Google and folks. Or are you confusing Assembly lang that is used with different CPUs and this.
If so try this:

[1] https://auth0.com/blog/7-things-you-should-know-about-web-as...

[2] https://gotechster.com/2017/04/web-assembly/
Completely agree with this. Based on historical cycles, we're probably heading into even more protectionist times ahead.
Mind you this is certainly NOT the case, the Author is seemingly a very nice chap and has all the good intentions in this world.

But "free" still means "free", and "tool" still means "tool".

It is not strictly speaking a "tool" it is some form of SaaS, you have to connect to that site, authenticate yourself, etc.

It is not "free" the sheer moment it asks (indirectly, through your e-mail address) your identification.

That there is "nothing bad" in it is another thing.
It's more like a game where others should have the chance to win at one point, just like you did.
An Ikea Bowl Has Been Setting Things on Fire
The online ESTA form does not "approve" someone to enter the US. The online ESTA form is required to determine if you're in a population that's generally eligible for visa-free entry (so that the airline and other systems know whether to require a visa for you).

Filling out the ESTA form does not grant a visa, does not grant the right to enter the US, and does not even guarantee you'll be allowed onto the plane. It simply says "Yes, you appear to be a citizen of a country which, in general, has visa-free entry to the US".
Not profit revenue google this fine is 15-20% of google profits
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Who receives the fine, and is it disbursed in some way to the citizens of EU member states?
It literally tells you

> Your travel authorization has been approved and you are authorized to travel to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program.

It then goes on to say (but this is the same for visas as well):

> This does not guarantee admission to the United States; a Customs and Border protection (CBP) officer at a port of entry will have the final determination.
> Sorry but they don't get off that easy when almost half of them voted Trump into office.

Not to rehash the past, but I thought we had gotten it clear by now: voting for the guy does not indicate support. Americans vote for the candidate they fear and despise the least.
> But this too shall pass.

Probably not for several generations if the GOP get to stuff SCOTUS (which is looking increasingly likely with Kennedy's rumoured retirement and the age of the existing Dems on there.)

[Edit to correctly reference Kennedy instead of Roberts]
I would probably wrap the shell command in a file and at the end of the file either fire off an email to yourself, or send a text message, or call a notification API - whichever works best for you.
Another idea (which I'm sure is not going to be popular but is probably a pretty good one): choose countries where the head of the state is stable: eg. Open Kingdoms, like Morocco, where the royal family is there for more than centuries and has a history showing a welcoming attitude towards international gatherings / foreigners, or where most people can get in without needing a visa.
Facebook and Telegram does not support forms
The UK Trident strategic nuclear submarines also run Windows XP.

https://mspoweruser.com/uks-nuclear-submarines-runs-windows-...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19061/brit...
>you can't guarantee that your country is not going to turn into a US-like isolationist in the future

If it does, you can move the conference again. Just because it can change sometime "in the future" doesn't mean we shouldn't do it now.
My feeling with the ever growing list of fotm js frameworks that are now firmly dead and buried in the ground is this:

10 ShinyNewJSFramework = 1
20 Use framework
30 Do conference speech about how much better it is than JQuery
40 Hit problem X
50 Find ShinyNewJSFramework is nigh impossible to debug
60 Eventually come to loathe framework because of problem X
70 ShinyNewJSFramework += 1
80 GOTO 20
Thanks. I've heard of it. I am afraid it'll have to wait for if I ever start disliking Elixir though. ;)

I am open to new concepts but once I get the concept and I like it, I am rarely looking for it implemented in several different languages.
There is no need to regulate this with laws if the parties of the labor market are of comparable strength (which is the definition of a functioning market - that the parties involved have some kind of parity).

In most parts of the US labor market there is no such power parity between employees and employers - and minimum wage laws are just trying to band aid the problem instead of addressing the root cause.

I doubt the US will see scandinavian levels of worker organization any time soon, but a reasonable fix would be to have a social safety network that is so strong that it competes with employment. A non time-limited unemployment insurance that paid a reasonable fraction of the minimum wage (e.g. 50-75%) would likely have a significant effect on the bargaining position of workers.
''Despite the concerns of some engineers, SMCS-NG was created as a port to Microsoft Windows of the SMCS infrastructure and applications, a move which some commentators have termed "Windows for Warships".

The UK's Defence Ministry later gave assurances, through questions in the UK parliament, that this is a low risk use of Microsoft Windows. However, some other suppliers have taken a different path.

The console for the new Sonar 2076 supplied by Thales Underwater Systems for the Astute class submarines, and which may be retro-fitted to other classes, are built as PCs running Linux rather than Windows.''
The original kerberos explanation
Google hit with record €2.4B fine by EU regulators
I started my career in front-end world with similar ideas, and copied couple of websites (mostly markup and css). So, while I can agree that it is a good thing to put into your portfolio in the beginning, when you are closer to some middle level, I can't really recommend it.

What does it show, when you just have copied websites in your portfolio? And what is the problem to _almost_ copy (e.g. create a twitter clone, but allow to use only images, or some other limitation)?

So I believe that one should be inspired by existing solutions, but don't copy it blindly. Don't know nice colour scheme? Just go to bootstrap and copy their colours; or simply get it from a website, which design you like.
On a related note, the visa issuing system of the US sucks. I was denied a tourist visa and then issued one on reapplication in a matter of 5 days. The process is highly irregular since absolutely nothing changed between the two 30 seconds interviews except the interviewer. The only inconvenience was I had to reschedule my YC interview and throw away an additional $300 in visa form and travel cost.
The fine is 5% of daily Alphabet revenues, per day.
Google's flagship product is the Google search engine,
which provides search results to consumers,
who pay for the service with their data.

anyone else finding the plainness of that last sentence to be staggering? ...
Just to throw out an anecdote: a while back I nearly was denied boarding of an international flight, because it turned out the airline had mixed up my passport data and decided I was not a US citizen and would need a visa to return to the United States.

I discovered this at the airport, when trying to drop off my bag. Fortunately, the airline agent was able to get a supervisor who took a look at my (US citizen) passport and fixed something in their records that allowed me to get a boarding pass and catch the flight, but I could easily have just been stranded there by someone who took the attitude of "computer says no, can't help you when the computer says no".
I understand your sentiment and the reaction.

But I think it would be wrong to have an eye-for-eye-approach. US Citizens should see, how easy it can be to travel to a country, without jumping through hoops like ESTA. They should feel wrong why they force it onto others but enjoy the freedom to travel easily.

Otherwise nothing will change. It's easy to start a "oh, they do it to us, let's annoy them even more" spiral and that would really, really suck.
Depends - if you go long on X and your collateral is all (or mostly) X, then it's a normal risk to lose everything.
You are coding while having a lunch? How does that work? So you have a full time job and you leave at 12 for one hour to have a lunch break. Do you just get a takeaway food and go sit in your car and code? I don't know how you could get any meaningful work done that way. The same with coding while going to work. Although that might be easier if you are not driving.
Do webpages from techcrunch load correctly for anyone on Android. I have had problems for a long time thinking they would fix it but they never did.
Yes you can generalize this to Windows powershell.

And no that does not have anything to do with ejecting Microsoft from the US. Microsoft isn't a private foreign individual using a privileged entry mechanism in the US that given any reason whatsoever can be revoked in favour of a perfectly functional visa process that most countries have to use.

ESTA is only available to a few countries, and not all people in those countries.

I don't think Microsoft will be ejected from the US because of an ESTA invalidation.
> As much as I hate looking at these McMansions, they do give me one consolation: money can't buy taste. Maybe I'll never afford that monstrosity you call a house, but at least I've got the sense to not want it in the first place.

My theory is that people who can afford such houses are usually very busy with their jobs or companies and don't have the time or mindspace to think about what kind of place they'd really like to live in, not to mention "details" like aesthetics. They're in perpetual hurry and thus they buy a house like the handle a project at their company.