skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you may want to start listing it and take advantage of the ageism in your favor while you can. :) I had a 28 year old friend who was getting botox a few years ago. I could not believe it; they looked so young to me. They told me I didn't understand how bad it had gotten in NYC. I thought they were nuts. Now I see why they were freaking out. This climate is so unhealthy. If we thought we had real problems with body image and eating disorders--- I fear the level and scope of mental illness this kind of youth-loss anxiety tech bro culture will deliver unto us as time passes and we do nothing. This plus body image plus some of the social issues that come these plus drugs plus work only social circles seems like a recipe for a kind of health crisis epidemic that---- we totally see this coming and are doing nothing about it. In fact, we are still convincing many of our own on this very forum that its even a problem even as Chinese workers are facing overworking themselves to death as a health crisis.
> I'll probably get down voted

Damn, I hate this trend of making you comments appear more controversial.

> What's next?

You really should not argue this point. We need to stop "big" companies doing "anti-consumer" practices. The reason why those terms are in quotation marks is because when you are discussing antitrust and monopoly laws those terms are not well defined. You should only look at these rulings per-case basis.

If on the other hand you believe in the benefits of the "free for all market", you just have to be aware that this is not an opinion shared by EU citizens.
When a company went down, i downloaded every one of their clients with httrack and wget. Just to be sure their clients wouldn't lose their site. ( and some other things)

I wonder what this site uses
Can you deign to explain why you think so, or is it so obvious that I should just be ashamed for not seeing it?
Years ago, a badly adjusted pitching machine put a batting-cage ball off my left thumb. It was probably set for 60 mph, for I doubt I could have hit anything faster. But batting-cage balls are made for durability, to hold up under constant hitting by aluminum bats. In other words, they are damn hard. I did not enjoy it.
consumers were happy when standard oil had 90% market share a century ago, too.
The map is not the territory (2015)
> I think RPi is a overkill for this project.

Not when you consider the goals of their particular project and the experience of the author(s), as he does explain.
Seriously, can anyone longer-than-5 list AR use cases that make sense?

For consumers, using an iPhone/iPad, not really. For industrial use in civil engineering, GIS/surveying, petrochemical industries etc. I can think of dozens of ideas.
It's reasonable to assume that they have access to Windows XP source code and also the extended non-public support for Windows XP by Microsoft itself; MS is known to provide such services to defence contractors.
If all physical stores required chip and PIN and all online stores required 3D Secures then my credit card number, expiry date, and CVV would no longer be sensitive information meaning someone would need to either steal my physical credit card and my PIN or the secret key stored in my phone plus the PIN for the app. This means I would not need to worry about websites stealing my card info.
also worth mentioning here llvmlite & numba, peachpy:

http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest

http://numba.pydata.org

https://github.com/Maratyszcza/PeachPy
NATO-Russia relations: the facts
What's the best email to send inquiries to? Enterprise@? Possibly relevant to my interests on the supply side.

Or reach out to ethbro . coAtGma il.
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>GreenPiThumb: a gardening bot that automatically waters houseplants, but also sometimes kills them.

Quite an advanced bot: as close to a human as you can get!
> This kind of rhetoric is coming often from tech giants, travestying words and claiming the exact opposite of what they do in practice.

You have provided exactly zero (0) examples of this happening - just accusations. You accuse "tech giants" (whatever that means) of being abusive and deliberately confusing the common person, then you bring up Google's AI infrastructure as an "institution" dressed up in good causes.

When you have examples or really anything besides a huge bias and wild accusations, please contribute to the conversation. Your comment adds exactly nothing except for letting all of us know you don't like large tech companies.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14642750 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643467

You basically linked to a tweet on the hackernews link.
Facebook and MS both have data centers in Des Moines. No Amazon.
PlanGrid (YC W12) Is Hiring ML, DevOps, Windows Engineers
This is all well and good, but standbys usually fill any seats that are left.
Put some pebbles on top of the tray to raise the pot off of it, so it's not sitting in the standing water.
Another, more polished, option is http://vegetronix.com. I've used their probes for years and can't believe they're not more popular.

They use capacitive sensing and they're enclosed and waterproof.

I highly recommend them.
Another poster linked to a FAQ about the Intel decision, which indicated the money in that case went to the EU central fund.

Limousine tires, gold leaf on a few rooftops, some agricultural subsidies...
> no conceivable justification for using the kind of programming language that leads to this kind of vulnerability

The legacy tail is longer than you think.

Microsoft have started moving things towards C#, but generally in order to do things on Windows the only sensible option is C++. Even if you write your app in something else you'll end up having to deal with pre-existing DLLs that have the usual issues.

Really the Morris Worm should have been more of a wakeup, but in a world where there's no external liability for insecurity the commercial and market pressure is towards whatever gets the app built and saleable, with security trailing behind.
Bosch is (and always was) a company heavily focused on (1) making things electronic (2) making things programmable (3) R&D, they're very modern. While one of the biggest automotive suppliers they never supplied engines or most of the heavy mechanics (gearbox etc.), but rather: [engine] control, which was iirc invented by Bosch, sensors, electronics, firmware, ...
modified this into a browser extension

I was just thinking about this last night while I was explaining my use of the Firefox tab groups extension to a friend. I use bookmarks and tabs to keep track of information. Neither is fully convenient and the whole system fails whenever a page changes or a link rots.

I would love a system that archives a page I bookmark so that the bookmark will always work to give me that information. Give me an 'ephemeral' checkbox if I want my bookmark to change when the site changes. Hmmm.
As an American who wishes his government protected him as well as the EU is protecting their citizens, I kinda resent being grouped in here.

Google fans would like to make this about US vs. the EU, because it misdirects away from Google's illegal actions. But multiple US companies asked for and supported this investigation against Google. And I wish our government laid down the same charges against them here.
I disagree - different people could have dufferent triggers for a fight or flight response. For one of my best friends, anxiety is her trigger.

It is super important to try to ease a candidate into being comfortable to get the important information you need as an interviewer, as interviews are inherently stressful for candidates, and you almost never want to be testing a candidate's stress coping abilities.
The anti-competitive practices you're talking about is not being able to decide what content gets displayed on your own website, what relevant information you're allowed to show Users in response to their search results and being forced to give your competitors more prominence. AFAIK this has never been written into law or ruled illegal before.
Choice beyond using something other than Google?

If I buy all my tech at the Apple Store, am I still entitled to a choice among various manufacturers?
I'm not economist but I suspect that such concentration of tech companies in US is due to the fact that it was their home market from where they started. I think that the question was more along the lines: Is there any example of a company that started in EU and moved they main operations to US?

Most companies that are on those lists have also strong EU presence.
> reconsider

They will not reconsider unless it hurts them more than when they don't act this ruthless. Therefore: needs a heavier fine still :D Crime and exploiting monopolies must not pay.
In the Smashing Magazine article the author links to, Erik Kennedy actually recommends against including in your portfolio [0]

[0] https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/02/improving-ui-design...
Redhat abstained instead of saying No. Few weeks back they dumped their home grown Ceylon language on to Eclipse foundation. Seems like they are going to stick with Java even if unwillingly.
No, of course not, but we've never seen anything like what we're witnessing today. There's reality, and then there's Trump's version of reality, and the 40% that believe everything he says, despite facts to the contrary.
I'd say it depends on whether you're fundamentally serving documents or an application. The new breed of js frameworks probably isn't the right choice for Wikipedia, and jQuery probably isn't the right choice for Spotify player. A generalization, for sure, but that is how I tend to think about it.
Mmm pretty sure every government is doing this. It's just more public in China due to lack of data protection laws.
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Those websites are primarily american, so I am assuming you live in America. In Europe, I would say Google Shopping is more bothersome than it is useful. Whatever point you were trying to make by highlighting the usefulness of the service in your region, you forgot to take into account the rest of the world.

Besides, if you like to use Google Shopping, no one is stopping you.
One solution to the problem might be to increase the number of representatives. The house was supposed to scale with the population. This was stopped in early 1900. It's a scaling problem. More people to vote for means less effective gerrymandering.
Here's a concept I had a question about that I don't think gets discussed that often...

If a company were to offer a base salary at a mere third of the Google base salary for the same job, why should an applicant have to copy Google's depth of computer science abstraction in the coding interview?

Is the onus on the developer for even entertaining such a demanding question at a low pay, or does the current economy favor employers in such a way that developers have no other choice?
Or rather, is the knowledge of available jobs asymmetric enough to where employers can pay pennies, piss, and peanuts for A-level employees?
>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.

Except this has created quite the slippery slope. What's stopping the EU from deciding it's unfair for a search engine to have it's own maps served prominently when searching an address? What's stopping the EU from deciding it's unfair for Google to provide reverse image search through it's webtool (you used to have to go to tineye if you wanted that)?

You can pretty much apply this ruling to every Google product that is not their basic, text, search engine. It seems like Google is on the edge of simply being classified a utility in the EU.
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If you are terminating TLS on an edge network then you are likely caching the content there as well so as not to incur the latency in fetching it from origin. This is called a CDN not a load balancer.
Also, a political environment that regularly denies people doesn't help!
Thanks! From political reasons we're not able to add Analytics to our apps :(
Great work! This is inspiring.
Massive cyber attack on Ukraine with global collateral damage
I like this approach. Having 1-2 hour long call every day is bit much but having 1 call with whole team once a week and rest of the days just updating each other on Slack seems more efficient.
Where is the line between clickbait and attention grabbing headline. In the case of "You won't believe THIS simple trick to..." I'd definitely call it clickbait - but in this instance, the title reflects exactly what the article is about, and while the modified title on HN does a far better representation of the contents, I personally don't see the harm in how Atlas Obscura worded the title.

Or maybe I am just really susceptible to clickbait titles...
But it isn't low!
Thank you for sharing this. This is an absolutely brilliant reflexion on group dynamics.
It's true that these integrations are convenient for users, but it's also true that they harm market competition.

Google's press release seems to avoid addressing the latter point. The closest they come is pointing out that Amazon also has a monopoly advantage, which doesn't seem like a strong argument.
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Hopefully you realize that a lot of people (in the US and elsewhere) actually felt that way, and that simply posting this does not constitute a very thoughtful rebuttal.

The application of antitrust law (in the US and elsewhere) tends to be rather controversial. Which is why it's interesting...
YC/Sam Altman seems to be keen on funding vertical AI startups if "general AI" fails. This is what he said in a talk he gave in Paris recently.
> God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it?

Yes, the human heart for example
I'm not much of a gardener but the idea of measuring the moisture level seems ill-conceived... Namely because you are measuring at only a single point in your 3D region of soil, and you don't know what range of moisture should be maintained without experimentation.

Using our guy's own sawtooth model of watering/drainage, it would make more sense to just water at fixed intervals and experiment with the frequency to see if the plant grows.

Still a fun project!
They tried and failed three times (episodes 16, 46, and 157).

Here's an interesting write-up about the team of MIT students that worked with them on the second try: http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_Mythbus...
This is great if you need fire and you don't have matches...
That's a good point, and I don't really understand what we were doing wrong.

I guess the candidates could 'talk the talk' when we were asking them questions on their CV, or general high-level questions on, say, threading or design patterns; but when it came to the crunch they couldn't write code.

Maybe the candidates were just good at generating CRUD applications and binding data to forms, and have rarely needed to process data. Not denigrating that aspect of software developement at all - it's just not what we need in our department.
"Our data show that people usually prefer a built-in browser on their start menu by default, not browsers they need to download/install/configure manually"

-Microsoft 20 years ago
If you're not a monopoly, you can do whatever you want.

Things change when you are a monopoly - ie. you have more than 50% of market share (maybe it's more than 50%, I don't know EU threshold) - then special rules apply - in general you can't use your monopoly position to control other markets.

Prompting to download Chrome may be against EU law. They could give a list of modern browsers if detected an old one for example. I actually don't understand why are they not forced to change it just like Microsoft was few years back?

This law is in power to avoid single company gaining total control.
Map (higher-order function)
I really like the addition of the web camera - it's a nice bonus on top of the more traditional temperature/humidity/light/moisture readings that most people incorporate into these DIY systems. Much better than what I made the first time I built one of these things.[0]

The one thing that made my scratch my head was your approach to measuring moisture. There are several very reliable methods for measuring soil moisture directly (changes in resistance, capacitance, time domain reflectometry, etc) that will give you exactly what you are looking for here.

"Therefore, we felt it was fair to assume that watering based on moisture level is impossible and that GreenPiThumb is doing the best it possibly can, given certain inexorable limits of the physical world."

This just isn't true. The sensor you picked up from Sparkfun should give you decent measurements for a while before degrading gradually depending on your soil chemistry.

[0] I ran a consumer soil moisture IOT company for a few years that was sold to Scotts Miracle Gro in 2016.
Perhaps obvious was not a good choice. Anyways:

I would say Google is as close to a natural monopoly as the Bell System was in 1956. If you came to me and said “Hey, I want to start a company to compete with Google in search,” I would say you’re out of your mind and don’t waste your energy or your time or your money, there’s just no way. Classic economics would say that if there’s a business in which there are 35 percent net margins, that would attract a huge amount of new capital to capture some of that, and none of that has happened. That tells you there’s something wrong.

From: https://promarket.org/google-close-natural-monopoly-bell-sys...

Water companies are a utility because there's a high cost to laying the pipes and the more pipes you lay, the more people you service, the more pipes you can afford to lay. It's near impossible for an upstart water company to come in and displace the incumbent.

Search companies should be a utility because there's a high cost to gathering the data needed to drive good results and the more data you gather, the better results you give, the more data you gather. It's near impossible for an upstart search company to come in and displace the incumbent.
sorry, what are these decisions and tradeoffs? why not just use ocaml(for anyone who doesn't mind not C-like syntax)?
That could be against WTO (or some other trade organization) rules and could lead to sanctions. WTO has been one of the main tools to project US interest across the world. Basically saying, "You want access to the world market? You will have to open your markets to us and accept IP rules that are beyond the control of your local government."
Shibboleth is SAML.
Watch out: don’t lose your passwords when you sign up online
I think a more accurate model is that people pick their tribe emotionally, and then "their guy" can do no wrong while "the other guy" is the devil incarnate.

Rhetoric such as the use of logical fallacies like tu quoque is most effective on people who haven't picked a tribe yet. Dyed-in-the-wool supporters have the job of repeating the fallacies aimed at the other guy. It doesn't matter if they believe them or not.
>Besides, if you like to use Google Shopping, no one is stopping you.

I have no irrational loyalty to Google Shopping. I was genuinely asking for better price comparison alternatives. Not sure what prompted your petty sniping.

What's the superior European price comparison website you're using that should be ahead of Google Shopping results?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643712
The really devious approach would be to embed malware in the billions of USB keys manufactured in China every year. Not too hard if you make USB flash controllers.

In fact I'd be surprised if $large_nation_states aren't doing this already.
I don't see a connection between pay and the interview process. Should the company also make their chairs one-third the height? Have one third the whiteboard marker colors? Feed you one-third of a lunch?
> They took that content for free.

Because it was freely available. As I understand it, Google feed its database with robots surfing the web. Those robots don't steel anything. Moreover, if I'm not mistaken you can explicitly forbid access to those robots with a robots.txt file or something. If you don't, it arguably means you give away your data to everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
They're not doing it for charity, that's for sure. Not forgetting also one of the biggest affiliate networks in Europe has connections with a media company that has been very active on the lobbying front.

I'm not a fan of the shopping ads but I don't think anyone is mistaking these for anything other than what they - which is paid ads. Comparison sites, oth, in general don't do a good job of disclosure or even comparing prices.
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The specifics are unimportant. What matters is that Google was using its dominance in one market to gain an advantage in a different market. That has been illegal for a long time.
Do you think an organization like EU can effectively fine or regulate their way to a more uniform market though?

Google could partner with other companies to do integration in their search engine for those smart results but then they'd just be giving another company an unfair advantage.

I don't see how you could stop this without crippling the type of answers Google provides. Besides maybe offering open tools they could automously integrate with.

Google pushed for adding metadata so any web developer can add things like star ratings and pricing directly to SERPs. But the adoption has been limited and limited compared to a full custom integration with a web service they control.

But regardless Google is a monopoly that we can't really do much about. Plenty of people have tried to compete and failed so there will be some consequences of that.

Considering how important the tool is to the world I'm quite the opposite. I'd rather let Google have a few specialized subsites which they can dominate a few markets with ease, in exchange for not severely limiting the potential of their technology - a technology we are all stuck using for the foreseeable future.
Could be the different use cases, too. Also been a few years since I was up to date, but Windows certainly used to dominate the control systems market a bit more than the server market.
ABS and ESP are Bosch product names.
I think it would actually be quite difficult to start a fire with this. Speaking as a former boy scout who had to build a fire with a magnifying glass for wilderness survival merit badge - it's really easy get smoke, it's quite difficult to get a flame.

The article claims that he "set a piece of newspaper on fire" using the bowl, but after watching the video I just saw some smoldering paper - no flames. I'm betting the grape stem just smoldered a bit as well.

You have to have very good airflow with dry, fine tinder in order to start a fire with a magnifying glass or parabolic mirror... unless of course you build a lens or mirror of monstrous proportions.