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The very nature of the houses in question are built for the sole purpose of showing some sort of opulence to the viewer. The people who buy these kind of houses look at that sort of opulence and say "yep it's got all that opulence I want" and they buy it. Now that same exact person could potentially buy something with taste, or potentially even design a house. It's not like these people are forced into having a stupid looking house.

On the contrary, you'd be hard pressed to find a lower class person with the financial freedom to buy whichever house they please, and because of that they kind of have to live in houses that are made in a more functional sense of "a place where humans can live."

The blog isn't about tearing down wealthy people, it's about tearing down shitty architecture. She showcases really great architecture as well that obviously isn't affordable.

I don't think your argument has any basis.
Unless you manage to carve out a monopoly position, capitalism is pretty much a race to the bottom.
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I was referring to suggestions of EU as a final solution to the US issue. What you are referring to is to decide on hosting locations on a year to year basis, which joins my idea of portable conferences.
I hate to break it to you but take it from someone who has traveled all over the world to all sorts of weird regimes and through some crazy hairy checkpoints: the US has developed a major attitude problem in the past 20 years.
Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches
Its actually pretty neat if somewhat expensive.
1.It saves transporation/labor costs.
2.Allows to monitor/control plants 24/7
3.Immune to all weather conditions/theft/birds
I imagine it would be available to individuals too:
allowing people in cities to grow personal food indoors, without any gardens. The potential of this "digital agriculture" is huge, since it allows to control 'natural environment' variables.
According to this [0], which was the press release for Intel's fine, it gets taken off the EU central budget so the member states pay less net. The EU budget is ~145bn EUR I believe.

[0] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-09-235_en.htm?loca...
Europeans could always use one of the other (European?) search engines if so they wished. http://searchengineland.com/alternatives-to-google-in-europe...
Not sure I get the logic here. Will they be fined next for showing the Google Maps embed (and street view) when you search for places nearby? What's the difference?
"I've found that you can think in your sleep. Maybe this is just me again, but I've learned that as long as I clearly layout a problem, solution, and tools before I sleep, I wake up with the answer."

- This is something that occurs to me too, which is why I always scribble the hardest problem I have at hand before I sleep every night. Does wonders. :)
>This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...

On the other hand if you have[1] the "good life", you might want to legitimately reduce access to it to those outside[2], especially if you view the outside world as some kind of second rate wasteland (or rich but weirdo culturally, e.g. EU/Japan) that just comes to grab a piece of the pie [3].

With its large internal market, the US was never much for foreign tourism, its average population never cared much for world affairs (except from intervening where their interests are and hating the "target du jour"), and it was never that open to cultural imports (foreign movies, foreign music, foreign books, etc) with the exception of British music, anime, temporary fads (like Caribbean music), and whatever immigrants brought themselves (e.g. national cuisines that got bastadized).

[1] or you think you have -- since in reality they are lagging in several aspects, from education to infant mortality, and the middle class is pressed too much, and let's not get started with guns, police violence, etc.

[2] Whether current Americans are themselves immigrants or children of immigrants doesn't matter much. It's not illogical or hypocritical to want to stop others from getting to where you've gone -- it's just selfish/self-serving.

[3] It's also not illogical to not believe that much in the "pie analogy is wrong because the economy-pie can grow" argument, because they (the US middle/working class) don't see it much happening in actual practice.
Storm also has a Scala api, but is filtered when selecting Stream Processing and Scala.
Is this a basic parabola effect by focusing the suns rays on a single point?
Hahah, I was also on mobile. The mobile website of Wolfram Alpha works pretty good, they also have an app but haven't tried it yet.
Unjust enrichment of disgusting bureaucrats. In this case, google did nothing wrong other than display what they want on their own site, and for that they have to pay their hard earned money to an undemocratic authoritarian commission. No thanks.
Haha thanks, I sorted it I think. If "e" and "r" makes any difference to a word then why are the keys right next to eachother?
You could use nonce to determine what server to use. But I didn't want to choose directly, just the ability to chance the output of the hash for whatever reason.

I did not want to use just any non random rebalancing mechanics to avoid advesaries attacking that implementation. With a hash the output is deterministic, but unpredictable.
The press release is well written. It explains why Google is fined in an easy way to understand, covering most aspects; what is the problematic behavior, why it is considered as problematic, which data lead to this decision, etc, whilst not painting the company in a negative light.

Opinions on the decision will sure differ among readers, but I think the decision is in place with the majority of EU citizens' consensus.
Thank you, I am aware of Google entering the market since November, when they presented the Jobs API.
Does it hurt them at all?
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Unrestricted capitalism will just converge to one single corporation.
The question of relevance reminds me of an anecdote. (Before that though; I tend to agree with your points.)

A distant acquaintance interviewed for a secretary position. It didn't go well, because she was asked a general knowledge question (something along the lines of: "name some of the planets in the solar system"). She was furious with how irrelevant and unfair this was. It makes me wonder though, would I have hired her? I probably wouldn't have asked that question, but still. When someone is missing some really basic knowledge - even if it's irrelevant - it's not a good sign, per se.
I tend to agree with the underlying judgment, yet the record-breaking fine seems disproportionate to the debatable degree of wrongdoing, compared to the Intel case, where the (obviously reprehensible) extortion of distributors etc. only led to a fine of about €1.06B.
Groupware Bad (2005)
Vertical AI = Expert System, just an updated rebranding from 1980s to now. An expert system may be defined as:

>a piece of software which uses databases of expert knowledge to offer advice or make decisions.

The methods of inference have improved from predicate logic to statistics and "machine learning" now that computers have gotten much faster.

(I'm bootstrapping an expert system myself)
Controversial way to look at this, but surprisingly close to the truth: markets exist for the people. Companies have only one purpose: to serve the people. Their profits are merely incidental. Any type of regulation (or lack thereof) can be traced back to this rule.

Freedoms exist only to let companies thrive insofar as that then lets them sell goods that benefit the people. Once that stops, the freedoms stop.

I'm being slightly dry cut, but this is a good rule of thumb when looking at society. It's easy to forget about the bigger picture and think that companies have any type of inherent right to exist. They don't. They're here for us. Of course, theory vs practice, yada yada. but again: rule of thumb for regulations.
I had issues with (1) caused by a VM clock drifting out of synch with real world time.
Chronostasis
"and a mechanical brake"

This is what you want, they built in into their product.
I avoided the word "monopoly" for a reason. The internet isn't a finite natural resource, Google doesn't own it, there are other players in the field, and nothing stops new players fron entering.

You're also interpreting the word "big" perhaps too literally. In your example, Apple is not big in the sense I mean. Microsoft might be, but that doesn't mean I agree with the judgement against them.

If people like your product so much that 95% of the market uses it, I don't see the abuse.
I don't mind elaborating. I need to know which parts of the American voting record concerns you to be specific though.

I will say that America is very diverse. Various states and postal codes have wildly different attitudes about things and very few Americans want to change or homogenize that.
I'm not disagreeing that the web page says that. But what it says is terrible inaccurate wording. ESTA simply determines whether you're someone who is, in general, eligible for visa-free travel (which is primarily determined by your country of citizenship -- everything else involved in ESTA is secondary to that). It doesn't grant a visa or guarantee anything about being allowed in.

Australia uses an almost-identical system (IIRC the US one is based on Australia's).
Well it's the truth, isn't it?
Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. This is not an old computer producing colours in a paint shop. This is on a war machine, can't believe it.
And they do. I can't see how google makes that impossible for competitors, also as there are many other big player's around.
And it is allways hard to get big from being small.

This is more about politics and EU bragging itself, for doing something "fair", for the people.
what's stopping google from shutting up shop in the EU. would they have to block EU access?

how much revenue do they make from EU clients?
This is simply not true (I posted the exact message it shows you at the end of the process somewhere else in this thread – it explicitly contains the phrase "approved and authorized to travel").

Yes, it does not guarantee you entry. However, it does much more than just to check whether you have a required nationality. If that were all, the system weren't needed. Practically every country has visa-free entry for some nationalities and such travel authorisation systems are very rare among them. Airline know how to check if you have one of the visa-free nationalities and do so every day everywhere in the world (probably much more reliable than having the travel fill out a form, too – they even check again in the case of the US, as we see in this example). The US introduced the ESTA system much later than visa-free travel for certain nationalities.
That is also fraught with difficulty.

Most wealth (not GDP) is indeed in real assets... and these assets are obviously owned. They're typically owned by companies, not by individuals (directly), which is why in the response I gave below I mention foreign shareholders. If somehow you mange to exclude them you have dozens of other loopholes and contractual mechanisms to contend with, the most obvious being leasing by the property company of a real asset owned by a bank, wherein the lessee in turn sublets the asset out.

If you get past that you have to deal with the fact that in a very real sense these assets constitute the bulk of wealth because their prices are high, and that if you make it extremely difficult (or undesirable) to own them the price will plunge as current owners try to sell off their assets and get cash to take out, and nobody with the relevant criteria to own them has enough funds to buy them. That in turn would wipe trillions off wealth, hundreds of billions off GDP, and send the banking system into a new systemic cardiac arrest demanding of bailouts in because the assets underlying their outstanding loans no longer cover the risk they're exposed to.
I don't know whether my approach would work for you. I got a job at a systems integration firm based on my *nix OS skills and then learnt VPNs on the job. I agree reading isn't that helpful. Getting your hands dirty is good but you really need a mentor.
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Voting is literally one of the two types of support that actually counts, far more than for-or-against posts on the internet. The other one would be giving money.

If you voted for Trump, you supported Trump. It's OK to change your mind, but people need to own and take responsibility for what they do at the ballot box.
I have to say that's a good question about maps. not sure why you're getting down voted.
Not the money part of it. Not sure about legal/strategic implications down the road.
Yeah.. Everybody always lies.. The only way to get or transfer the truth is to hook up(or read) brains (ideally neuron by neuron, and change the receiver's brains to reflect the same. :-P
I wish they would add an additional 1 billion fine for AMP.
The funny thing is that Google Maps is even worse than the shopping comparison IMO. But I think the shopping thing got traction as a few competitors bundled their forces and sued them.

I like it and hope that Google will stop promoting their services without listing alternatives for lots of things that they promote on the search page (Google Maps, Android, Chrome, Youtube, ...). See 'other cases' in the document that could be next potential steps (ads, Android)
AI is not like ordering your lunch : "I don't like to sour, can you make it a bit spicy", doesn't work for AI. Cutting edge AI solutions require highly customized frameworks. The number of ingredients involved are very large in number and you can't go on making on creating a list of parameters to create your own "recipe". Therefore, a platform or stack will only affect solutions which are have least variance across industries - language translation, object recognition, photo tagging etc.

Industry specific customized solutions would require SMEs to build solutions. At this point, you are essentially buying people skills and not products. You'd also see a large increase in price points here which companies may not be willing to pay. Everyone wants something quick and cheap. AI is not a panacea or a magic wand. The hype is more detrimental to the progress of AI. Once the disillusionment sets in - people will blame the technology rather than people who took decisions to use AI in the wrong contexts.
Perhaps that's up next.
Great. So what does this rejection accomplish based on your premise of having written software that has been repurposed by evil actors? Dan's GPS coordinates at any time t does not affect whether he writes code that will be used for good or evil, so what gives? :\
You can just as well look at it as an instance of collective bargaining, where workers collectively set the minimum wage they're willing to accept.
AMP is the best thing to happen to Android users, I vastly prefer sites that serve AMP content to ones that don't.
The EU are verging on gangsterism, extorting businesses for increasingly specious violations and terms. Of course Google favour their affiliates on THEIR web services, their property.
I agree, though the storm IRC channel is a bit of a ghost town the google group is fairly active.
Capitalism implies economic agents that follow fair rules. What this ruling shows is that EU haven't forgot what capitalism is all about.
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> Well, SP2 removed craptons of exploitable scenarios. Anything before that was a security nightmare, and that includes my beloved Windows 2000.

Well, I wouldn't mind if it only patched security issues. The problem was original Windows XP was very performant. I was running it on computer with 64MB RAM and it was very fast and snappy. After installing SP packs it became sluggish and I needed to upgrade my computer to be able to work.

Also, after XP my second favorite would be Windows Server 2003. Also a very solid system.

These days I only use Apple computers for work. It was Vista which annoyed me so much that I switched from MS to Apple.

> 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.

Yes. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.
And as I said in my other reply to you: the wording you are citing is terrible and inaccurate and you should never, ever, ever, EVER, rely on it as an exhaustive legally-binding declaration.
Yes for Daniel, no for companies. Either we protect them (at least slightly) more from lawsuits, OR we accept their silence. I honestly don't mind which. But it's one or the other. We make the rules, as people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/frozenvoid/wiki/userscripts/wikiped...
Legal? Legal implications usually can lead to a big fine, but that already happened, so I'm not sure if there's room for follow-up.
Technology is there (samsung know/android 7 work mode), it 'just' needs UX - separate distraction-free desktop with notifications only from few allowed apps.
What about the thousands of people they hire across their multiple offices in the EU?
I hope that never happens. Why? Frameworks solves a generic problem, but you in your project are solving a specific problem, hence you can never solve your problem better than what the Framework allows you to.

Problem is rather developers don't know how to organize their code without the help of the Framework. If they knew, Frameworks would not be needed, only libraries.

One Framework to rule them all will stifle progress, it locks the community into one size fit all mentality and therefore clouds the minds of the developers to not think about the possibilities outside their worldview.

Laravel will, of course, eventually be replaced, as with all frameworks. Current hype now are "micro" frameworks.

So all that effort put into the Framework will be partially lost due to it is locked to that Framework.

Lessons learned ought to be, write reusable framework independent libraries instead.
Business is what is stopping Google from not servicing Europe. Google makes huge part of its profit on search in Europe and pays almost no tax in Europe.

If Google stopped servicing Europe, one or more European competitors would emerge in days or weeks and Google's dominance would be threatened worldwide within months. It would be a completely suicidal move.
Did I miss something or is Google getting penalized for displaying ads too prominently?
Exactly. I think the most goods will be provided by 5-10 mega corporations in the next 10 to 20 years.
But what the web page says is exactly what the parent comment complained about. Saying "you are free to travel" and then, without notifying you, deny you boarding is not a nice thing to do (even if it happens for a very valid reason). It just shows the careless attitude of whoever designed that system.
What would Google have to do to ignore this fine? If they cut any physical presence in the EU, would the EC have any way to enforce this fine?

Put another way, if the EU tried to take money from some random e.g. American or Japanese company without a physical presence in the EU, what channels could the EU use to twist their arm across national boundaries?

Somewhat related, there could be good money in providing an explicitly non-hostile legal environment for companies, where they won't get in trouble for e.g. promoting their own services or offering services for free [1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/03/google-fi...
> If you were calmly asked the same questions by a sweet guy or girl on a chaise longue while being offered champagne and strawberries, people would have almost no problem even though it's really the same thing without the elevated stress level.

Cute girl offers glass of champagne and complimentary strawberry 'so.. I'm gonna need you to unlock your phone, give me the password to your work-related e-mail, your personal e-mail and all your social media accounts.'
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It's pretty much spot on.
> At the same time, AV in many cases prevents infections that would otherwise prove costly, particularly for less experienced users who aren't likely to be individually targeted by state-sponsored hackers.

Is there evidence for this claim that is placed precariously at the end of an article full of detailed evidence for the exact opposite claim?
Nice. Thanks for this easy to understand example of your (?) library.

Personally I never used react. What do these placeholders do:

<div className="row" style={{"margin": "0"}}>

My guess is the stuff in {{}} is a placeholder that gets replaced by react. But would have expected some identifier like {{ROWSTYLE}} or something. What does {{"margin": "0"}} do?
AMP and Android are in a separste case that's also being worked on right now, fines over 4 bln are expected there.
This reply was not at all about the wording but about the fact that the system does more than just checking whether "you appear to be a citizen of a country which, in general, has visa-free entry to the US". If that were all, it would be useless.

Unfortunately as a non-US citizen I have to rely on the system. The alternative would be getting a B1/B2-visa but this doesn't change the fact that I could still be denied entry. (Of course this is the same, I could be denied entry to any non-EU country if they wish so.)
Considering how big the EU market is I'm sure the profit Google derives from it is many times this judgement.
That's not really an argument. "Google could always not operate in the EU if so they wished"
You can't blame this on Trump alone.

8 years of Obama gave increased spying, kept the insane TSA, blocked people born in Iran from entering the country (independent of what nationality they currently have). Gave the ESTA Visa Waiver program, where you have to pay for getting exactly no rights what-so-ever. And as final insult, you are allowed to list the social media you use.
Not only that but airlines are frequently fined for transporting a persona non grata even if it wasn't the airline's fault; so 99.9% of the time if an airline is informed beforehand that a person will not be accepted into the country they will refuse to let them board, they don't want to be liable for a fine.
The game has rules that keeps it broadly beneficial.

You win by being the natural favorite of users' free choice of exchange, not by eradicating the ability of others to compete. We need more penalties like this for those usurping the concept of the market.
I don't think it has anything to do with what software he works on.

I'd be willing to bet significant money that it was either a clerical error, or something mundane from his ESTA form that got double-checked and came up "no". I am willing to bet this because I have been in that situation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643861
> Android phones are now the kings of the smartphone world.

Citation needed. There's a lot of good phones on the market but the iPhone is still as good as anything - best OS, best CPU, tier 1 battery life/GPU/camera screen. The first phone to consistently beat it in ratings over nearly a decade was the Note 7 and we all saw how that turned out and the mere fact that Samsung drops all their plans and engineers around Apple's leaks should be enough to tell you who the king is.

> The DXOMark rankings say it all

They haven't even reviewed the 7+ so no they don't say what you want them to.
Feature. Not a bug.
> The internet isn't a finite natural resource

... but human attention is.
This is what happens when you scratch big dogs.

As an architect, I take my hat to whistleblowing construction businesses that profit mostly on layman's ignorance.