skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point. I'm generally bullish on Wikipedia, for a lot of topics I don't even worry about cross-referencing. But the safest stuff is a mix of popular and objective (e.g. "who was in that movie again?").

For political, technical, or obscure topics that becomes a much tougher question. The political issue is obvious, but I'm surprised at how often I go into the weeds on something mathematical or simply unpopular and find that Wikipedia is off the mark. I wouldn't trust it for those topics without further Googling.
Yes Vault isn't that difficult to setup. It's mainly harder because Torus hosts the backend.
>I might be in a minority here

Nope. It's crazy. You don't go to the most popular restaurant in town and have them tell you to go get desert across the street because the superior food and experience hurt their sales.

Even looking at the commissions fact sheet (Search Engine market share) [0]. 3 of the 4 other companies are billion dollar enterprises. Microsoft decided to make it difficult to switch to Chrome/Google in Windows 10 (no more 1 click). With this consumers are still switching back.

Out of all the bad shit google does, this shouldn't even be on the radar.

For the other end of the story this is an interesting read [1].

[0] - http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-17-1785_en.htm
[1] - http://www.foundem.co.uk/Foundem_Google_Timeline.pdf
I take deliberately leaving out crucial facts - such as that Google's "beneficial for both sides" product ads are paid by one side - as a pretty creative way of "interpreting".
A shipping company being attacked by malware worm designed to steal money is literally the plot of the movie Hackers.
You're talking as if there are only a few categories and we only care about "middle class." There are spectrums. I guess you don't see it, but I see many people; those who drive taxis, work in variety stores, are low income retired, etc who would definitely consider an iPhone a luxury item. There is a very low chance that anyone from those groups who needs basic smartphone features is going to buy an iPhone unless someone offers them a used one. Especially when you consider how much Apple wants to be an ecosystem, a device for every category that is expensive for every category.

If you really want to compare phones to cars, the iPhone is a BMW, it's still affordable to the middle class but that's about it. But the market is quite different than cars, by proportion and features the others you mentioned aren't luxury, they are exotic.

Along with the inappropriate image-conscious choice of materials, there is also the glowing Apple logo. It's a beacon to club members.

Apple just doesn't cater to the cost conscious consumer. Ikea does. They have $19 tables. There's absolutely no comparison in the Apple world, they don't even want to try to address that kind of market.
No political will? What about the EC's order for Apple to pay 13B € in unpaid taxes?
Building your own things is absolutely valuable. But for the people who are stuck thinking "I don't know what to build" or are overwhelmed by having to design the app and the features and the UX and simultaneously learn a new framework (React/Angular/anything really), it can be helpful to isolate just the "React" part of that learning experience by copying something that already exists. It reduces cognitive load, and focuses the expended energy on one specific learnable thing.

It's the difference between "build a social network app" and "build Twitter." The former could be anything. There are a ton of decisions rolled up in "a social network app."

I guess an analogy might be, learning woodworking by building a tried-and-true beginner project vs. learning woodworking by building a custom-designed archway. Sure, you'll learn a ton with that archway, but maybe start with the easier thing, to learn the tools and learn how to measure and cut. Then go build the archway.
> So when Amazon decided to sell hardware, would that be anti-competitive?

Which monopoly does Amazon have that they're abusing to sell hardware?

> Pretty much, you could use the argument you just made against any business that delved into another space.

Nope; only businesses which are a monopoly.

Amazon has no monopoly, therefore the argument cannot be used against them. Plus nobody is stopping Google from opening a new website (e.g. GoogleShopCompare.com) and doing anything they want, using their huge brand and financial power, what they're saying is wrong is embedding it into their existing monopolistic property to give it an unfair advantage (Google.com).

It is exactly comparable to the Microsoft/Windows issues in the 1990s. Microsoft could sell/give away IE, they just couldn't bundle it with their monopoly (Windows) to give it an unfair advantage. Google previously got into trouble for exactly this due to Google Maps being bundled with Google.com.
But can you build the kernel by yourself? Aircraft carriers are designed for several decades, so you need to make sure that you could fix a bug in 2035. Wouldn't rely on a contract there. Especially if it's a company in another country (even for allies).
It's fantastic. When it fails miserably I am usually in hysterics at the sheer carnage my creation unleashed. So much to learn.

I'm slightly tempted to do a 4th attempt now inspired by the original poster :)
Unlike the PRC, most of us live in governments where there is significantly more decentralization of power, and where those power centers are significantly more responsive to public pressure.

It's incumbent upon all of us to apply that pressure and work to maintain that decentralization. It's especially incumbent upon technologists to a) refuse to develop or implement these types of systems and b) develop counter-measures.
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The FCC isn't the right equivalent here, the FTC or the DoJ are, and they have to successfully sue in federal court for their fines to stick.
Dude.

I just finished working for a YC company that not only demanded a two week trial period, but after doing that trial period instead kept me on a contract billed for eight hour days but then insisted I must be in the office from 9 - 6:30 (their "engineering hours"). They wanted me to work close to 50 hours a week for no health insurance while underpaying hours and forcing me to attend all company events including weekend "hackathons" (haha so fun). It was a nightmare and I'm glad to be out of it.

The irony is that it was a company that prides itself on giving people stable jobs and healthcare.
Does it benefit the consumer though? 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.

[Google's response][1] to this ruling suggests they have data which confirms this:

> While some comparison shopping sites naturally want Google to show them more prominently, our data shows that people usually prefer links that take them directly to the products they want, not to websites where they have to repeat their searches.

[1]: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-europe/european-commis...
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Maybe you're not seeing it because you're looking for literal exact words. Instead, look for meaning ... such as the one embedded in this sentence:

>I prefer getting integrated results from Google's other search services when I do a Google search.

One example of "other search services" is Google Shopping. It's the retail advertisers that sponsor their ecommerce buying links to Google Shopping. Hence, the "advertisers connection to users".

Btw, there are also other posters making similar comments about the convenience of Google "connecting users to advertisers". Like the previous example, you won't see it if you're looking for that exact phrasing.

E.g. another comment by cyxxon: "Currently Google's services just so damned conveniently integrated": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14644100
I know we can treat a lot of the technology we use as a black box, but not knowing even the basics of that technology indicates a lack of curiosity. I'd be shocked to find a competent programmer who couldn't answer the question.

A similar question: approximately how many IPv4 addresses are there?

See also: "Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know"
IKEA disrupting the bowl industry.

The global, quite conservative, retailer of everyday products has been disrupting the bowl industry for several decades.

For years since disrupt was far from being the buzzword de jure, and was more associated with Klingon Battlecruisers.
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I do consider this materially different.

From the Wikipedia summary of United States v. Microsoft Corporation[0], "Underlying these disputes were questions over whether Microsoft altered or manipulated its application programming interfaces (APIs) to favor Internet Explorer over third party web browsers, Microsoft's conduct in forming restrictive licensing agreements with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and Microsoft's intent in its course of conduct."

I feel like this detail is being lost in a lot of the comparisons I've seen made between Google now and Microsoft then. Google promotes their own services on their own website, sure. At the same time, they haven't changed Chrome to not load competing services. They have done nothing to prevent users from using competing search engines in Chrome. They don't prevent competing web browsers from loading Google sites. They don't force web sites that use Google ads to block competing browsers.

So the parallel doesn't work for me. The EU decided these were different markets, I disagree. I'm a user, I use Google to find things on the internet. I use other sites. I search Amazon directly from inside Chrome, I visit other sites without issue... I'm just not seeing the anticompetitive actions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
I agree, and believe that there is a strong case that the primary defining characteristic is cultural and skill-based. Which suggests that addressing the self-defeating culture and skills in the US underclass would be more effective in helping them than more direct methods of trying to prop them up.

Unfortunately as a society we are running in the other direction. :-(
For a realistic example, drop the interpunction, capitalization, and throw a dozen typos in there. Most regular people today seem to be unable to write a straight sentence without making more errors than they wrote words.
Countries where VISA applications have a high failure rate aren't part of the ESTA program to begin with. Having a low rejection rate is a condition for being in the program.
Well, if the USA isn't going to enforce its own antitrust laws...
This could be accounted for - for example, if the weight of everything drops by 100 grams, then at least 100 grams of water has been used or evaporated. Eventually any increase in weight from the plant could probably be calculated, but for many plants, (like bush beans), it's a relatively small amount, probably less than a pound.

OTOH indeterminate tomato plant, for example, weighs a lot, and the weight would also be affected by picking the fruit.
The infoboxes are, in fact, one of the cases where Google regularly stole work from websites without permission and then denied them ad revenue by ensuring people didn't ever visit those sites to get it: https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynet...

Also, note that Bing doesn't lock you into their ecosystem in those boxes the way Google does. Take a look at "Uptown Funk":

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=uptown+funk
- Links to YouTube and Play Music

https://www.bing.com/search?q=uptown+funk
- Places YouTube up top, then links to Groove AND Amazon MP3 (If you search "The Cure Lady Gaga" it also offers iTunes. Apparently it doesn't know that iTunes has Uptown Funk as well. Oops.)

This is a live example of how Google violates antitrust law, but it's competitors do not.
The problem is 1 out of 1000 patients will actually do research. The other 999 will google their symptoms, read whatever pops up in positions 1-5 and think it is research.
Yep was going to say exactly this. Anything involving collapsing magnetic fields, eg solenoids, relays, motors, absolutely simply has to have a flyback diode.
This sort of absolutely false equivalence only serves to strengthen the complacency of those of us who live in societies that retain greater degrees of freedom.
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Most waves of immigrants do well in generations 3 and beyond. Wave 1 does poorly. And wave 2 is mixed.
That looks cool. Does having your electronics enclosed in a greenhouse bring them close to any temperature limits?
Here's the current California Prop 65 list. It's... extensive.

https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65//p65sing...

I don't think this means as much as the headline makes it sound like. In the State of California, alcoholic beverages are also carcinogens requiring warnings.

California cognitive dissonance: the science suggesting carcinogenicity of acrylamide, which is present --- in significant amounts --- in most cooked food and especially roasted meat and potatoes, is far firmer than the science suggesting that glyphosate is a human carcinogen. It'll be awhile before California Prop 65's a bag of potatoes, though, won't it? but see below, where it turns out I'm wrong about this
In the case of IPv6 I disagree. Every system administrator should have someone constantly pestering them about it 24/7. It's very important to the future of the Internet that it gets rolled out, otherwise we end up with a fundamentally asymmetrical Internet where endpoint devices are incapable of forming direct links with other endpoint devices. (Yes you can NAT hole punch but that is never going to be reliable without enough address space to fully connect the graph.)

Google is one of the worst offenders when it comes to dragging their butt on IPv6. Their cloud offerings have zero support, and some of their default Linux cloud images ship with IPv6 disabled in the kernel so that even if you run network virtualization software you don't get it. Much of their front-facing stuff supports it, but users can't actually use it for anything.

Microsoft comes next. Azure has no IPv6 to speak of.

Amazon is finally rolling it out. "Second tier" VPSes like Digital Ocean, Linode, and Vultr have had it for aeons.
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Agreed, I grew up in the midwest and I now live in NYC, and New Yorkers are far, far nicer than midwesterners. The intolerance in the red parts of the US is suffocating.
Crawling the web is easy now. Your point makes sense if the behavioral data they acquire from users makes a huge difference. Maybe it does, but I feel like someone can build a better mousetrap and be better than Google, even without behavioral data. Google, right now, is thought to have the best mousetrap, not simply one well-tuned to a large mouse behavior dataset.

Maybe I'm wrong about that--I'm sure ML has become increasingly important in how Google ranks results, but I'm unconvinced that it's a severely anti-competitive factor.

(That said, I do still use Google over DDG largely because of the personalization and the integration with their other services.)
Ask HN: Can I use zapier with hacker news?
I publish a weekly newsletter* that has 8 articles, I want to have zapier post each article to HN so I can add a "discuss" link in my newsletter. this way others can discuss the article and not just read it.

Can I do that and how?

* http://frontendweekly.co/

PS: Currently I use zapier to post each article to twitter, facebook and linkedin but it would be cool to include some way for my readers to discuss the article.
Sure, here's an approximate breakdown:

Morning:
1-2 hours: Study a chapter of CLRS Algos book
1-2 hours: HackerRank
1-2 hours: Studying trivia of technology X

Afternoon was all about sales - updating social networks, filling out applications, talking to recruiters on the phone, scheduling interviews, etc. I probably applied to about 250-300 companies.

I made tweaks as I went - I found that recruiters preferred to talk in the morning, so I eventually inverted the whole thing. I started to sniff out which companies were serious about hiring and which perpetually advertise for talent

This is just a rough framework. Sometimes I'd spend the whole morning on CLRS, or a tricky Hacker Rank problem, other times I'd spend the whole day interviewing.

Before I spoke with anyone at a company, I always did research on them, the company, the company's market, and the technologies they were interviewing for.
Anti-trust applies when a company has extreme dominance, like over 90% (which Google does have in Europe). Same applied to Microsoft.
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So if a register overflows (and is truncated) "twice" by the same element before the base register (B) is increased, then after B is increased, the overflowing register is not increased and so appears not to have overflowed. On the other hand, if that element shows up in the stream once before and once after B is increased, the overflowing register may overflow again.

This makes even the MLE procedure partially incorrect in the first case, since it is the maximum likelihood estimation of a set of hashes in which the register discussed above did not overflow.

Is that about right?
Wow wow what you mean it's our own fault... fighting words. Obviously the answer is always Commies did it.
Usually there's a person there who talks to you though. "Look into the camera". In China, not even a countdown on the automated camera
Anything involving collapsing magnetic fields, eg solenoids, relays, motors, absolutely simply has to have a flyback diode.

So your suggestion is actually introducing a second magnetic field, so now you've doubled the chances of blowing up your Pi and or the MOSFET.

Whether you're using a transistor/MOSFET directly with a motor or instead with relay + motor you need the flyback diode.
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> But I don't buy that they can't do what they want in their own store.

Then you're unfamiliar with anti-trust law.
Clock rate != operations. It's like you didn't bother to read what I wrote.
I did check the sources. The line you quote is the wrong line. The topic of "how apportionment is performed" is a different line. Further, "how districting is performed" is pretty vague in the original Constitution which I believe means it is left to the states to decide. The 14th Amendment implies that the states must use districts -- before then they could have used a statewide system.
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When you said 'own internet archive' I thought you meant some sort of program you could download that'd save your browsing history (or whatever full website you wanted) to your hard drive. I think that would have been significantly more useful here.

As is it, while it's a nice service, it's still got all the issues of other archive ones:

1. It's online only, so one failed domain renewal or hosting payment takes everything offline.

2. It being online also means I can't access any saved pages if my connection goes down or has issues.

3. The whole thing is wide open to having content taken down by websites wanting to cover their tracks. I mean, what do you do if someone tells you to remove a page? What about with a DMCA notice?

It's a nice alternative to archive.is, but still doesn't really do what the title suggests if you ask me.
Pretty sure that's what Google Product Search used to do. They ended up having to change it because the resulting quality of those listings was terrible.

See https://commerce.googleblog.com/2012/05/building-better-shop...

Maybe if they tried again they could do better this time; I'm a little skeptical though.
The fines are applied by the Commission, but the companies can appeal to the EU's general court and then to the CJEU.
Ask HN: What app/website has the best ux for threaded discussions?
What apps/website with threaded discussions are you using? What do you like / dislike in threaded discussion interfaces?
Microsoft got hit with a huge fine because of IE. The reason Safari got off the hook eludes me, maybe because Apple doesn't have a monopoly on computer OS.
I think that's obvious, but I caught a hint of an implication that "commercial interests" are bad.

Both companies contribute to the OSS community in a refreshing way: they grow the Java economy by healthy competition, rather than using it to shut out competitors.
Yeah, like Mythbusters is definitive science. I'll half ass this with my high school level of education and TV budget and deadline and fail and declare it definitively busted!
I'd actually suggest that the typical software engineer and typical equity analyst are equally bad at forecasting the market. I wouldn't expect either of them to be more than one standard deviation from the broader population (and probably not even that much).
At this point even Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump concede Russia attacked America, they're only trying to muddy attribution as to who ordered it and why.

The only people who don't believe it at this point usually have some motivation beyond honest inquiry.
I have all those things, two cars in fact!

At the time I was living in north east Ohio, where cost of living is fairly low. It would certainly be harder in high cost of living areas.
Ordering an US corporation to do something is entirely different from making a member state change their laws.
"The US just oddly decides not to enforce it"

They enforced it for Microsoft in 2001. Since then tech behemoth political donations have shot up.
Read up on flyback diodes. There are additionally numerous motor driver IC's specifically for this purpose.

A flyback is critical in anything involving a magnetic field, especially a collapsing magnetic field from a motor that stops spinning. The field collapse induces a relatively huge current which will be many many many times greater than anything a normal component is designed for.

Not having one is like driving your car down the highway without any breaks. The only way to stop is to crash.
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What did you do for the year off? I've always believed that tech is one of the most generous industries for this sort of "resume gap" of a year+ but if the question comes up I don't think most people would think highly of answers like "sleep" or "video games", even though more socially acceptable answers like "travel" aren't all that different... I wonder how much it varies from tech company to company. Last time I did interviewing I had an older guy ask about my GPA, and a few wondered what I was up to in 2013 when I had a year off my resume (finishing off school but that doesn't answer what the summer was spent doing, which wasn't much of note).
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People are so insane about their kids, we have learned to value extreme suspicion towards adults anywhere children are concerned.

Personally I try to physically stay away from kids when I'm out, because I'm paranoid about what they will do to themselves that will get blamed on whoever's nearby.