skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the business of scientific publishing bad for science?
A "session" ought to have a beginning and end rather than be stuck as CPU-managed neverending story. I'm only asking for the option to control things, not one or the other.

Open a few browser tabs for example, you're shopping for new shoes. Find shoes. Close browser. Makes no sense that tomorrow you open the browser and your 15 shoe tabs from yesterday's session are still there when all you want is your home page.

Ever tried closing 15 tabs in iOS Safari? That's 15 taps.

Likewise, the "don't need to save" idea is flawed too, with plenty of examples why a good old save button actually makes more sense that having the OS save every single change you make, even the mistakes.

I'm also with the OP on icon confusion. The one that always gets me is the bookmarks icon in iOS Safari. I always press the little book icon when I want to save a bookmark. No... that's not right. Must press the '+' button to add a bookmark. The actual bookmark icon is for retrieving bookmarks, not saving them. I'm only human though, so I reach for the book when I want to perform a bookmark action. I guess I'm wrong every single time.
No, it isn't nonsense. Actually your calling it that is a great example of what it's like to interact with engineers.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637364
Is that still the case since the GM buyout? I've not really been into cars for like the last decade so don't really know.
To my knowledge it hasn't. But that's irrelevant.
There is no need to remember, you write it down.
You can easily go to another website if you want results from a different vendor. If you're searching on Google you'd expect results curated from Google, if you can get better, more relevant results else where, everyone can easily do so. I also wouldn't expect any of my Desktop Apps to be laced with content or functionality from competitive products.
If you actually look at the details, that seems to be related to the blog being hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages does not support TLS for custom domains.

See also: https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/e07d42f5961c68fc1fc8 ("Please petition Github to support HTTPS on github pages") and comments
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Sure, barriers are a gray area. In society we draw a sort of arbitrary line for when they're high enough to represent a natural monopoly. We've decided that electric and water companies for example represent high enough fixed costs to warrant being a utility. So the question then becomes how much do you think it would cost to build a search engine as good as Google? I'd say that number is probably ginormous, hence why it should be treated as a utility.
I always wondered if you could change birth times simply by changing tee times... ;-)
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I'm always amazed by that thinking as well.

I think at some point in the discussion, some people have tried to redefine "monopoly" as "state-sanctioned monopoly" and declare everything else fair game as long as the evil government is not involved... Apparently you can get surprisingly far before the logic breaks down.
Cool! May I ask how do you hook it up with opening / closing lid, sticking usb drive etc?
It is unwarranted. To use "inflammation" as a synonym for "disease" is to willfully imply that inflammation is the root of every disease. This is inaccurate and it misguides people. If you have type 2 diabetes, you probably have some inflammation. But that's unlikely the root cause or the thing to worry about. Obesity and sedentary lifestyle are better causes to attack.
> If you would link them correctly, there wouldn't need to search again, but would be on the search results of that other site with their (usually better) results.

If I wanted to search Amazon, I would have searched Amazon, not Google. The last thing I want is to search for some product on Google and get a list of search results pages from other companies as a response instead of a listing of the products I'm actually searching for. It'd be like if I searched for some random bit of information on Google and the top result was a link to the same search results page on Yahoo.

> usually the top results at product search are crap

According to the line from Google you quoted above, most of their users disagree with you on that. I'm one such user. I don't typically use Google's shopping results as the _only_ source of product information for me, but I do occasionally use them as one source.

You also seem to be misunderstanding what the links they show actually link to. Buyer feedback and product information for individual products are available on the landing page (from a third party site, I might add) you get to when you click on a link to a product. The main difference is that you get to the product page directly rather than having to go through _another_ search results page from a third party to find what you're looking for.
Doesn't always happen immediately.

In fact in the developing world (but also in the first world, not so long ago) a child could be registered months or even years after being born, and even the date of birth could be misremembered in the certificate.
Anything special about the way this one is spreading or just the usual suspects?
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I agree, but here the topic is simple question being considered unfair, because someone might be too stressed. I would argue that asking questions is not unfair level of stressing people.
The best GUI for PostgreSQL I've ever seen is the one that is bundled in IntelliJ IDEA as a plugin (Database Tools and SQL). Autocompletion is amazing, lots of features.
Dupe, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14645229
Yeah, to be clear, I'm not suggesting that anyone copy other apps and pass them off as their own, or even include them in their portfolio.

This isn't copywork in the sense of "I don't know how to design so I'll copy Twitter's design"... it's more like, "I don't know what kind of apps to build to get better, so I'll copy an existing one for practice."
Neither an historian nor an economist.

But yes, they certainly did.

Appart from Standard Oil AT&T and - in theory - Microsoft come to mind.

Now US antitrust efforts seem to be pretty much non-existent, even though they may be needed more than ever. I don't see that happening anytime soon in the current climate.

So, the EU hiting companies, which behave badly regardless where such companies are located is a very good thing in my book.
DBSchenker and many logistic companies are still running Windows XP on some legacy PC. I have encountered one PC had ransomware too.
Are you against coding tests in general (especially when you have open source work to point to) or just as a prerequisite to speaking with someone?
It's odd. We have so many government resources dedicated to offensive software weapons. Other comments mentioned Microsoft being more willing to support their OS long term than Redhat..

Why not build the capability within the military itself to build and maintain specialized *nix-based OS's for precisely this situation? Then you have indefinite support and on-site capabilities.
This is great and helps me a ton, thanks for mentioning it here.
They consider the low level information about how their GPU works a trade secret. Source code won't be as helpful as documentation, but it's more work than reverse engineering the driver binaries.
> Either you have faith in the law-enforcement machine

Law enforcement has said Russia interfered [1]. The ODNI conducted an investigation and published its report [2]. Whether it flipped the outcome is difficult to determine, and in my view a wholly-separate issue.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_...

[2] https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

EDIT: added link to report [2] from first paragraph of the Wikipedia article [1]
According to official logs, Google lobbyists were at the Obama White House more than once a week on average. Donations to Democrats over Republicans was something like a 95-5 ratio from Google staff. Multiple former and future Google employees were top election campaign staff. That kind of near-perfect integration between the world's most powerful information corporation and the world's most powerful government was never going to be undermined by something as nebulous as "monopolistic business practices."
Well, you could also look at it as a minimum wage being the government (trying to) force one group of people to subsidize poor people, namely, business owners. I'd much rather the government helps poor people directly, both so that it's on everyone and not only business owners, but also because it doesn't tamper with the market price, which causes all sorts of problems.
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Unfortunately, the headline with "Russia" in it distracts everyone. I almost didn't click through to the article, and was pleasantly surprised that it is not at all about Russia or election hacking, but about the Chaos Computer Club and its standing in society and the institutions.
Windows Defender has been around since Vista (XP, if you include systems it didn't ship with).

More important than that nitpick - do you really see no conceivable justification for using C++? Really? None? The entire language is unsuitable for new development? And somehow, you captured this insight which managed to be overlooked by all the engineers working at Microsoft?

What do you suggest we do? Gather the whole world, hold hands as one and unite in abandoning the language? Cast it aside for...what, exactly?
> To me it seems disingenuous to call that "election hacking".

Really, you've never heard of social engineering/hacking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hacking
Non-Chinese shouldn't kid ourselves. Our governments want to do this too, and probably will. Drones with gigapixel cameras hovering over metro regions. Security cameras and police cars that continuously scan the faces of pedestrians and other drivers. It will happen.
The article seems really pretty clear about that line: market dominance. As another commenter said, it's an extremely well-written and clear article.

Did your price comparison site at any time seem likely to be able to dominate the entire EU market? (you can find the exact criteria on the EU site)

If no, you got no problem to worry about.

If yes, that's a kind of nice problem to have I think.

> What's next? Having to give equal ranking to Yahoo! search results in their search page?

Why would anything be next? We have this rule, it works well, has worked in the past, what's the incentive to make it worse?

Your Yahoo!Search example doesn't make sense to me. Not in context of this ruling, any way. How would Google abuse their market dominance in order to ... what exactly, because you didn't specify any wrongdoing, just a crazy sanction pulled out of thin air.

It's not the market dominance itself that is illegal. It's just that if you do it, dominate a market to such an extent, you are held to special responsibilities not to abuse that dominance. Which totally makes sense.

From the article:

"""Market dominance is, as such, not illegal under EU antitrust rules. However, dominant companies have a special responsibility not to abuse their powerful market position by restricting competition, either in the market where they are dominant or in separate markets."""

It's just like that famous Spiderman quote.

Also the ruling is not about a particular party (like Yahoo in yours) that got wronged by an illegal abuse of Google's market dominance, it's about all of them, about the responsibility not to actively stifle competition. You can still be better than the competition, Google is obviously allowed to "hurt" Yahoo by providing better search results, that's what it means when they say dominance is as such not illegal under antitrust. It's just that, in some (but not all) cases of market dominance, it comes with additional power by virtue of dominance (not product), that allows a company to stifle competition (not because they're better but because the competition is not dominant), and antitrust law states that companies in such a position have a responsibility not to do this. Yet Google did. I'm not really seeing how Google could do something similar that involves Yahoo in your example.

About your One Box (that's the Google instant result thing yes?) example, if Google were in the theatre business, I'm pretty sure the Commission would investigate that case for antitrust as well. How that ruling would go, will depend on the specifics of that hypothetical situation, and whether it qualifies along the guidelines as stated partially in the article, and fully in EU regulations on antitrust (which you can click to for yourself).
Interesting. But, prisoners dilemma assumes that there's an authority that is imposing rules and punishments. In democracy, we are the authority and we can change the rules.
It could be just me, but could you point out where the comment says he likes to be connected to advertisers?

The thing is, personally I prefer getting integrated results from Google's
other search services when I do a Google search. I like getting Google Maps
results when I search for a location, I like getting Google Flights results
etc. When I do a Google search I am not just using it as a simple website
search. I want it to use it to search the whole Google suite of services.
If they are forced to stop doing this it will make my search experience
worse for me.

Random, maybe silly idea. Maybe they could start providing two search
streams. One would just be a simpler website search while the other would
be a more involved google services search as well as a general website
search. This way search users could explicitly say that they want to see
direct integrated results from the whole Google ecosystem.
Cable & Mobile Business Plan

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- Use taxpayer money to build network

- demand to be a monopoly

- make gov. also install infrastructure on all public projects

- underinvest in infrastructure and simply degrade service as needed

- create extremely complex billing and cost structure

- (if cable company) also sell advertising and charge networks

- aggregate customer data. Ignore above point, if not cable company inject tracking directly. Make huge profit, pay slightly >1 million as a joke after caught.

- destroy net neutrality and charge on both sides of equation

- spy on your customers and leverage the data for profit directly and sell it on open market

- if user is privacy centric, do same as above but charge more

So in summary, charge 4 different entities for the same single service and include extra fees to everyone for the service you already sold them. It would be like if you were a fruit salesman.

- government subsidizes farm

- charge farmer to sell fruit

- eliminate all competing fruit stands

- sell fruit for profit

- charge extra for providing 4 bananas to someone who bought 4 bananas

- charge extra for unspoiled fruit without insects
Why would elections have to involve machines, nevermind computers?

I have studied, worked with and spent free time with computers a lot, for many decades, and I think I know quite a lot more about them than the average parliament member or other representatives. I have also worked as a volunteer at a voting place so I know at least partially how voting works, and which safeguard processes it includes.

I do not find computers useful for the voting process. I find them very detrimental to trust, and practically impossible to safeguard for voting. I strongly oppose using computers in anything in the critical path related to voting.
It's been happening for a while, and the frogs in the pot will get used to this too.

"It's for the greater good"
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"Why not build the capability within the military itself to build and maintain specialized *nix-based OS's "

It's all outsourced to contractors making such an effort much more difficult.
Brazil has a mirror policy with the US when it comes to Visas.
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I can set a piece of cardboard on fire with visible flames in a few seconds. I carry a small fresnel lens, https://www.amazon.com/3-Pack-Credit-Card-Pocket-Fresnel/dp/...
Who pays on the first date?
> They are not a utility.

In many ways, they are. They didn't sign up for it, yet here we are..
This is despicable. Google is a private company who cannot force anyone to use its services. It is successful because consumers and advertisers have chosen to use its services because it makes their lives better. Google's investors risked and are risking their own money to build the company in hopes of earning a return by providing better services than other companies. Now come government bureaucrats, moral pygmies who live off of taxes coerced from the citizenry, who have none of their own money at risk, who have no expertise, presuming to tell Google that they are harming the consumers who are choosing to use its services. These are despicable little parasites who are doing their best to extract money from companies who are driving civilization forward. See also https://mises.org/library/abolish-antitrust-laws for a more detailed explanation of why antitrust is bad.
Because JavaScript often unnecessarily loads MBs of data, without contributing much to the experience - oftentimes being detrimental to the user's experience, like loading annoying ads.
It mostly comes down to speed and a lot less annoyances on some sites.
Yes, and I've set up a demo of an interactive TV system in a cupboard at a large London hotel (standing room only!)...

Also found that the probability of someone finding the porn in the demo by randomly pressing remote buttons pretty much approaches 1 as number of button presses approaches infinity...
Possible maybe, but highly unrealistic.
You'll probably want to germinate in small containers, which work fine when bottom fed. I use styrofoam cups that are placed on top of a capillary mat, which draws water from a container underneath. Works great, keepz the soil moist but not wet. I have these in my indoor seed starter; it has temperature controls and fans to keep young plants moving. Works great for mint, tomatoes and peppers. Peppers actually like to be 'abused' a bit - periods of drought, hard winds, large variation in temperature. Makes them very bushy with thick stems. With a computerized system this is easy to implement, but the problem is how to measure the response variable in such a system (or even define it) to set up a fully self-regulating system. The hard- and software in these systems are easy, it's the botany, biochemistry and horticulture that is hard.
Yes. It's a nice conversation with you.
> what you gonna do

Call Ghost Busters
I summarized the bulk of the issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14644723

The FTC's staff have previously recommended filing charges against Google, and then the people up the ladder buried it.
> But a McMansion will almost always cost you more than a more 'modest' house offering the same amount of space.

Lots of variables there. Construction is usually estimated in terms of price per square feet, and property values can represent a substantial fraction of the total price of the house. A 'modest', 'old' house in a good location can be vastly more expensive than a 'McMansion' built out in the suburbs or something. Also McMansions are usually built where land is cheaper, so more space.

For families with children, there is also the cost of education to consider. There are scenarios where avoiding the need to use a private school to educate your children can completely pay the cost of a home in the suburbs. (Even considering property taxes). The house can effectively burn to the ground when you're done educating your kids and you'd wind up net money ahead compared to where you might have been with a more modest house and private schooling.
I'm in the intermodal industry. CEO likes to say that transportation is about 10 years behind technology, and intermodal is 5 years behind that.

We have the security posture of a wet sock.
> But in case of languages you don't have to use that feature. And it's there for a reason, and that is that it makes certain class of things much easier to solve/implement/model/approach.

You can choose for your code, sure, but you can't choose for everyone else's code. This is brought up whenever C++ complexity threads start. Sure you can choose to not use template metaprogramming or whatever, but some library will use it, and then pow you're using it too.
Well your theory kind of flies in the face of most economist's views, which should be a red flag.

I don't think forcing companies to go out of business because they can't "provide wages" for employees makes sense. For one thing, that's not remotely the goal of the business. For another, nothing guarantees that these companies will go under, rather than (as most are doing) simply cutting back on some hours and some jobs.

You seem to suggest that the natural state of the world is a bunch of businesses paying a high wage, and that if we just get rid of all these businesses that are paying lower than that, we'd find jobs for everyone in higher-paying places. The truth is that some people simply can't provide more than $15 an hour in value to any business, for whatever reason, and no business will ever pay them more. These people will simply remain unemployed.
Man, building UIs that way was so painful in so many little ways. You can still do it if you like... as long as your code is testable and changeable (sorry but comfort/familiarity isn't everything)
$40 is quite steep compared to the rest of components usually used in such a project.
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It's not confirmed yet but there are rumours on Twitter this one is EternalBlue-based too:

https://twitter.com/martijn_grooten/status/87970508635999846...

It's also unclear whether Maersk is hit by Petya variant everybody talks about.
I have been thinking about making a homebrew Phototron using an arduino, grow lights, temp+moisture sensors and a water reservoir.

The addition of the camera makes me think that a Pi might be a better solution.
Essence of Maersk attack in one tweet https://twitter.com/craiu/status/879690795946827776

New Petrwrap/Petya ransomware has a fake Microsoft digital signature appended. Copied from Sysinternals Utils.

I was sitting next to someone who wanted didn't close his laptop immediately when notified, 1 minute later it was too late.
Most of my colleagues went home, even if their laptop was not infected (also over de VPN) they are no allowed to start the machine. Some departments ask people to stay home tomorrow too. Those with MacBooks continue working. And externals.

In Rotterdam APM Terminals has shutdown.
But probably not openly, at least not for a while. Can't imagine that the US or a European country could display the faces of jaywalkers on the street without large scale protest (especially since this is not really considered a crime).
Here's a tip: most live programming interview questions should be answerable within a few minutes. Any approach that you think will take a half hour is the wrong approach.
I see your point and actually agree to an extent. But controlling what goes on on the company's own website doesn't sit well to me. Take this example:

Walmart has a hair salon in many of their stores. Walmart's primary business model is not hair but product sales. But obviously Walmart wants you to get their hair cut at their salon. This is similar to the government stepping in and saying that the store must allow other Salon's equal placement in their building. They own the building.

It would be anti-competitive to do something to prevent other salons from opening down the street or lowering the prices in their salon to bellow cost to push out competition. But I don't buy that they can't do what they want in their own store.
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