skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this system is somewhat ubiquitous, using the database(s) colloquially known as MLS databases. The original idea was helpful in the pre-internet age because it encouraged fee sharing between realtors ("You help me sell my houses, and I will help you sell yours"). But in today's information age, it has unfortunately become a bit of a protectionist racket as the need for realtors to help you find houses diminishes, because to get access to the data and set it up for consumers you have to (in Texas at least) be a licensed real estate agent. You cannot simply pay a fee to access the listings.

National Association of Realtors (NAR) who handles the MLS listings under a system known as Internet Data Exchange (IDX) was actually involved in a lawsuit from the DOJ several years ago about their protectionist policies. They were preventing online-only brokers such as Redfin from sharing MLS listings in favor of traditional brick and mortar brokerages.

It will be quite interesting to see how the field of real estate evolves. I'd like to see it shift more toward the Redfin model, where the consumer has the power to look at whatever houses they want and the realtor is simply there to act as a fiduciary and facilitate the transaction between buyer and seller. It certainly seems to help avoid conflicts of interest in that case.
Of course it's relevant. There is no lock-in preventing you from visiting other Websites which are just a url or hyperlink away. When was Google Search ruled a website monopoly? What were the parameters? Who's defined the boundaries of what a search service can do and what relevant content they can provide? At what point should Google have known they've had to cede control of their own website and invest resources in giving their competitors more prominence?

What other websites need to be wary of the same ruling and at what point do they need to focus their efforts on giving their competitors virtual real-estate on their website at the expense of growing their company?
Yeah I have the most benign products, that carry the Commiefornia warning. I am sure water and oxygen are on their list to label. It's really out of hand.
Unlike Google in Europe, Walmart doesn't control 90% of the market.
A few years ago, all the hip kids were making JVM languages that were "Better" and "More Productive". Ceylon was just a few Redhat employees attempt at chasing market trends.
Relevant Radiolab episode and followup:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/

http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-eye-sky/
There are reports of other large companies that currently are being infected.

It almost looks like the virus has been slumbering in systems and today woke up.
> They could also just write it down, they had that.

Of course. That's why I stipulated a pre-literate society.
I laughed way too hard at this.

'Petya sees you when you're sleeping

Petya knows when you're awake

Don't click the link in that email or IR gets no break'

https://twitter.com/FourOctets/status/879700290395439105
Neither of us knows this, so we may as well stop arguing about it. What we do know, is that running the servers and hiring all those engineers costs money, and their revenue is almost entirely ads.

I don't think it's a stretch to assert that users that engage with and click on ads are much more valuable to Google than users that don't.

Whether the users that do neither contribute positively or negatively to the bottom line is an interesting question. I suspect they're a net negative, but obviously you disagree.

Google themselves probably know the answer, but I doubt they're telling...

Aside: a supporting data-point for my gut feeling here is that AdSense has always contributed much, much less to Google's revenue than AdWords does. The difference between the two gives a clear indication of how capturing user intent (searching for products) completely dominates how valuable (=effective) the ads are, and is much more important than all the other tracking combined. Google could probably turn off all the tracking and still make tons of money. Some numbers are here: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/busine...
Even when I've been outside of California I've noticed the "known to the State of California to cause..." warnings. I wonder why
You're right, there probably are other factors in play here. But there is almost certainly not one reason to explain everything. Oil looks quite likely to be a major reason, but we should find out what the other reasons are.
But it is helpful for voter targeting, especially when you pass that information onto republicans who offer to buy it. Also helpful is targeting swing state databases and deleting the voter registrations of people who you think would vote against your candidate.
the iPhone is a BMW

I don't know about the US, but here in Sweden you can get a brand new iPhone SE for $30-35/month on a contract. That, while not completely trivial money to many people, is very far from BMW territory.
You keep using that word. But I don't it means what you think it means.

Netscape could compete with IE. Netscape couldn't compete with the entire MS empire being dedicated to destroying them.

MS played hardball and were willing to do anything to gain nearly complete dominance in the market. A lot of their strategy was clearly anti-competitive and anti-consumer. It's not even a debate. See U.S. v Microsoft. Netscape couldn't compete with that sort of scorched earth strategy. And it took Google and Mozilla years to make a dent in that and MS had to help by letting their market dominance stagnate for over half a decade and causing endless irritation for a generation of developers who are always going to treat an MS browser as a second class citizen.

So yeah, great for MS, they beat Netscape. But they couldn't beat Google or Mozilla and that's the most recent battle, so the one that actually matters.
> 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.

The fine is focused on Google Shopping. I'd say the biggest competitors are Amazon and eBay.

While I'm unsure if the EU can effectively do something about Google as a search engine monopoly, I'm pretty sure Google can be beaten in the e-commerce sector.

Step by step, down the giants. Claiming the resolution of the matter in a single step is unrealistic.
When I first got out of college in '08, it didn't take this kind of effort to get hired. At my previous job, it was also fairly easy - but hiring has changed quite a bit in the last 3-5 years.

I had a company demand I do two phone interviews, plus an onsite, 2 time zones away, for a $50/hr, temporary contract with no health insurance. Obviously, I politely declined to continue, but companies wouldn't be doing that if it wasn't working on some candidates.
As a consumer, I have (much) more trust that my interests are advanced by the EU than google.

This is an opinion which I don't feel the need to convert anyone to but I really don't understand the opposite view. Can someone explain why they believe google and other "emerging" power centers saveguard their interests better than the EU?
>boatloads of testing

In this case, quite literally so.
what would be a "socially acceptable" counter-measure to getting your face scanned randomly out in public?
Did not know that. Honestly MIT's IT department should of given stakeholders more notice about this. I've honestly never had the chance to work on a public facing network (My alma mater, GMU, has a mostly natted network).
A written report that isn't a 30-second video sound-bite.
I just bought a bag of chips (from Costco in Maryland) that has a known-in-the-state-of-California warning about acrylamide.
Yep. Just a clarification: supermarkets, restaurants, bars, and coffee houses already have a single sign warning about cancer-causing agents per Prop 65. The "bag of potatoes" in your example would not have to be individually labeled. The Prop 65 warnings are basically invisible to Californians because they are literally posted everywhere food is sold.
After this disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ralini_affair I'm very skeptical about claims of glyphosate being "cancer-causing" (whatever that means when no measure of effect size is mentioned), even in animals.
There are options for investing in Reg D companies - and I would like you to give some actual examples of where you would have done this for Reg D companies if you could - and how you tried to invest in Reg D companies and how you were turned down.

The main reason why your line of thinking is flawed is - most cases if you know the people to a point where you trust them to invest in them - you will be covered under Reg D affilated investor - and in other cases you probbably would not invest anyway.

Further, so far I have yet to see a practical example where crypto actually acts as shares - with the same protections (but via smart contracts or whatever). So while maybe one day, so far it has not delivered on this promise.

Your basically happy that at the moment crypto allows you to do exceptionally stupid things with your "money".
There is a huge difference between a published report being filed, and a couple of statements here and there from media representatives.
Teaching a machine to pick up objects it knows nothing about
Recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523136
Hasnt the shipping market tanked in recent years so prob no money to update systems
How is their progress on EVs? That's what I'm more interested in. Before I'd be interested in their self-driving solutions I'd also want to know they're not cutting corners and cheating their way out of strong security architectures for their cars.
We totally would interview someone that responded as you did. Thing is, I'd say roughly 50% of the people that applied for the position would respond with something like "I dunno" or "A" and be unable to have any sort of rational discussion about it.
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When I enter a repository that has been renamed (e.g. docker/docker or tomaka/glium), I get: "Woops, that developer can't code...". Why so?
Being exposed to EC insanity makes Ireland, Netherland makes less appealing now. However there are many more to choose from eg Singapore.

> abandoning all EU revenue

How ? A corp does not have to exist in EU to recieve payments from EU.

> They'd have to submit to the US tax system instead.

For such tax structring to work, Google just need one non-US IP holding jurisdiction.

So they can cut off physical/legal tie from EU, and they should.
About a year ago:

One morning a colleague notices that a particular Windows share used by every EE in the multi-national company now contains encrypted files and generic request for ransom.

Highlight of the e-mail thread that followed:
"<Name of another coworker whose account was used to encrypt files>, virus again?"
If you want to build complex cryptography, you must either obtain formal training, or learn how to break complex cryptography.

What you can't do is read a book or two about cryptography, the way you would a new programming language, and then bootstrap your own expertise from that. Cryptography is a lot trickier than most other topics in computer science.
That's it exactly. The software was already written to run on XP and the crew trained to use those versions of the software. As long as the ship's hardwired-only network is secured from the outside and physical access is limited (disable USB ports, lock down BIOS, locked cabinets, sealed ethernet conduits, etc), you won't have any problems with typical malware and people will have less opportunity to infect systems. Additionally, you can run whitelists to limit what files can even exist on the system or be run. As long as the firewall is strong, network access is restricted to need based, and any servers are fully patched, the various clients on the ship don't need any additional protection from attacks.
The control group were smart phone users and high smart phone dependence was in fact positively correlated with performance on the cognitive tests, on the condition that the smart phone was not on the desk in front of them. However, I wouldn't put too much faith in either results.
If money is not a big issue, why not consider cross platform solutions such as Wikitude?
Mearsk is kind of critical infrastructure - they carry a lot of freight. It's conceivable that if you took out a few major carriers like this for a week, you'd get widespread food shortages.
Linux was created while Linus was at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland.
I have a pretty similar project. But the problem with the mainstream moisture sensors is that they break after some time (or I did not find a good one). For myself I found the expensive solution a flower power from parrot http://global.parrot.com/au/products/flower-power/ a handy solution. It workes with bluetooth and they have some documentation. I did some working for python: https://github.com/Dlotan/flower-master-fab/blob/master/app/... and get good results over a long perioud without too many outliers
Not really. Starbucks in CA have Prop 65 warnings listing coffee as as a carcinogen.
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And it's extremely misleading to use media buzzwords that convey an entirely different meaning. It's essentially lying to the public.
Best to explain to your boss exactly why you are quitting and give the official two weeks notice or if you are critical for a delivery even longer - this way you'll part on happy terms and wont burn any bridges, at the end your boss should feel happy for you... If for some reason your boss would not understand, then there is no point of worrying about this relationship anyway...
Ukraine hit by massive cyber attack
>They are not a utility.

It actually seems to match the definition of public utility perfectly. The infrastructural cost of building another Google is incredibly high and people rely heavily upon it.

You can "just build another google" the same way you can "just build an electricity network" for a large town.
This. CSS isn't usually what slows your page down, unless your framework is absolutely gigantic to a ridiculous degree.

In fact, I'd go further and say in a lot of cases it's not even something you're hosting.

It's what third party resources you're relying on. Got ads? That will be the biggest bottleneck here, since ad networks load hundreds of KBs worth of scripts and images that most people block or ignore anyway.

Same with third party social networks and media sites. That YouTube video or embedded tweet is probably using a lot more of your user's bandwidth than anything else.

Not sure what the solution would be there, especially if you're reliant on the ad money or need to use videos or third party media to illustrate your article.
Wow. I stand corrected.
The nuance you're trying to invent is meaningless if you miss your flight and the conference.
The article is very interesting but seemed to stop short of finishing off the journalism that was started. Interestingly no link between Saudi money and the DUP was actually established at all. Not that there probably isn't hidden connections.
How is it spreading from machine to machine?
what if the tray was the way to detect moisture level? or, you could drip it back into the supply water?
I would trust a scantron style ballot over any manual or digital alternative.

Quick, simple, proven and it leaves a verifiable paper trail.
Paper ballots are just as easy to manipulate. Computers+blockchain should be the future of voting. Verifiable votes are something that paper ballots will always lack, and the computers could bring that to the table. However, this would make vote buying so much easier, so it probably wouldn't work for most developing countries.
I have moved from port 22 long time ago.
They already do. They are just not as open about it. Here in the us when you get your drivers license, or state ID they ensure the photo is optimal for facial recognition. I also wouldn't be surprised if they where starting to do the same thing for student IDs in middle & high schools.
So you would be completely comfortable interviewing someone that claimed to have done 10 years of systems programming, including optimization, and yet when asked that question, just shrugged their shoulders and said, "I dunno"? Even if you asked them how fast a modern processor was and they still said, "I dunno"?
They tested power-off vs power-on. No results on face-up vs face-down, but they probably didn't record it.
> I fail to see how showing links to search results pages from other companies in response to a product query is better for consumers than just showing them a listing of the products they actually searched for.

But that is not what google does. I just did a search for "samsung galaxy s8". Instead of the first result being a link to a Samsung page I got 3 results that where ads (one of them being for the new oneplus). How does that match the "show what people searched for"? The results where sorted by "how much money did google receive" instead of "what the user intended".
I really enjoy the sound from in ear headphones, but I had an issue where wearing them too often was causing ear wax build up near my ear drum. I actually temporarily lost hearing in my left ear because because of this. Basically, the ear buds did not allow the ear wax to naturally flow out of the ear. This caused wax buildup near my ear drum and reduced the ability for my ear drum to vibrate. I had to rinse my ear with warm water every day to eventually clear it up. Just a cautionary tale.
There are regular tourism/business visitor visa's I'm sure.

But those are more of a hassle compare to ESTA. Nobody from an ESTA country will do those if they're not immediately denied.
Ask HN: How do you hack your backlog of potential tasks and projects to work on?
1. I've noticed that, pretty regularly, things pop up in conversations that start with "we should think about doing it" and "we should do it at some point". Those usually don't relate to any specific project, and can potentially become their own projects. They're usually not urgent, but may be important and actually deliver value once worked on.

How are you dealing with those things? For me, they usually end up stuck in this backlog and I never to get to think about them or work on them.
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The drain back into the reservoir is so you don't have to worry adding too much water in one go as it'll just drain back out right away. The soil will only hold a certain amount. By not having the soil soak water back up from the pan you don't need to worry about controlling the amount of water you just need to time the period between waterings. The drier the soil the more water it'll absorb every watering period so it's reasonably self correcting.

A rough ballpark on watering cycles is usually good enough. I'd watch the leaves to give you an idea. I'd stop watering and wait until the leaves show signs of under-watering and then use slightly less time as my watering period. I'd guesstimate based on your setup that the period will be measured in days.

IMHO if you're going to have that much set-up you might as well go hydro.

And, as I'm assuming the real aim is to build cool things perhaps you could use Deep Learning to do leaf classification (Over Watering | Under Watering | OK). That way you could use a webcam to control the watering instead of the sensors. Knowing your watering times and regular classification samples you could use a fourier transform to help identify the optimum watering period. Perhaps someone could do this as an API service. I do Deep Learning on images as my job so if you want I could tell you how to create the training data and once you have that I could train a classifier for you.
What about the red states bordering Colorado suing to try to get federal courts to nullify its legalization?
Did you miss the Cambridge Analytics hype campaign?
Behind a paywall... why is this on HN?
Once, ispired by this (skip to 32:30), I quickly made a small solar parabolic mirror:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh4n6QzX9S0

and it worked nicely (to set to fire some wood).

Admittedly the sunshine in Southern Italy where I tested that (or Andalusia, Southern Spain, as in the TV program above) is probably much different from the one in Sweden, but on a good day it is most probably strong enough even in North Europe.
Can a Tech Start-Up Successfully Educate Children in the Developing World?
That's a very positive outlook to have, the bit about unleashed carnage made me laugh :)
TIL. even faster than the google
This is a very minor example, but compare the title to just "Ikea Bowl Has Been Setting Things on Fire". The word "this" naturally prompts the response "which one?", just like something saying "look at this" in real life. Again it's very minor, but the extra word adds nothing except a slight suggestion that this particular example is especially interesting and you should click to see it.

Compare "Florida Man Escapes Prison" to "This Florida Man Escaped Prison". You'd scroll past the first, but you might not scroll past the second, because it seems like there must be something particularly interesting about this florida man, so you might as well take a second to click and see the picture.
Yes! Recently had the same experience at that airport.

It's not so much the fact of taking the picture that disturbed me - I fully expected to be catalogued, and filmed, in 1) an international airport and 2) in China. OK, if I had my way with society, we wouldn't be doing that, but that's the status quo right now and I can deal with it.

It's that I felt I was being tricked into it. Having your biometric picture taken and saved is somewhat intimate, I want to at least mentally prepare myself and pose for the camera. It's mainly an emotional problem. It is just a bit short shoving somebody into a foto booth.

My personal opinion is that China is often quite tone-deaf when it comes to being dystopian and creepy. The actual security practices are not too different from what we have in the west, but the way they present them make them seem like from a bad movie.
> It would take one person who had memorized the story, over however much repetition

From whom did this person hear it repeated over and over, perfectly, without variation? And who did THAT person find, capable of reciting a quarter million words in a specific order, multiple times without mistake? And so on.

At some point in the chain, you either have a person with an unverifiable claim of single-hearing perfect superhuman memory, OR you have a story repeated imperfectly which no one is capable of validating.

In your Star Wars analogy, remember that there's no DVD copy, and no way for me to have "seen the movie multiple times" without just pushing the whole "perfect memory" claim back one generation.
Massive ransomware attack is causing chaos in airports, banks and more worldwide
I wonder if you could use the camera to detect when the plant needs water? I have a plant on my desk that I dump water into whenever it starts looking sad and it's been alive for years now.
Over the internet.
Public utilities are public because of the vast expense of building and maintaining the infrastructure required to run them and because of how much people rely upon it.

This applies 100% to Google. Even it's closest "startup competitor" hangs off bing's index.
Absolutely, I for one would prefer a non technical boss to someone who will second guess half my decisions based on his outdated knowledge from years ago... All in all it is a matter of trust, the best is to be in a position where your boss is trusting you 100% and always ask to consult with you on major decisions...
it tanked because maersk dropped rates and made the triple-E (worlds largest container ship) and no one has resources to compete or even get close to the prices