skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still a means to an end. You don't pay with your data, you "pay" by interacting with ads.

Consider that Google actually became super profitable well before all the detailed tracking started. You grossly underestimate the synergy of "people searching for products" and "displaying ads". Everything else is an optimization.

You're describing Facebook... which is no where near as profitable as Google, in spite of much more invasive tracking.

If you never click an ad and use an adblocker so you never even see them, your traffic and your data just cost Google money. They may be able to extract some small amount of value by observing your behaviour and using those insights to improve their products, but they don't make any money until someone pays for an ad.

I agree the café analogy isn't perfect. I was just pointing out that outsiders who don't understand what's going on may fundamentally misunderstand the transaction. You can still provide value to the café by sitting in their chairs if you liven up the place and give them feedback on how to make the place nicer.

But if customers never buy anything, the café goes broke. And people stop interacting with ads on Google, Google does too.
> But this kind of thing may only be mentioned in one sentence in an intro computer systems course, and most young people wouldn't care about how many operations a CPU can do.

TBH, I'm slightly disturbed by these "young people" who have completely no idea how machines actually work.

But the question is silly because there are better ways to ask people if they know in case you require that they know and you probably shouldn't be asking anything at all if you don't care if they know.
Super bloated webview-as-a-desktop-app that makes electron apps look like they run hand-optimized assembler code.

I go for DBeaver, works marvellously.
The kinds of pressure are different - unless if at your organization you do your time-critical coding in front of a panel with varying mixes of what looks like disappointment, boredom, impatience and eagerness to "give you a hint" on how they would solve it while thoroughly confusing you. If not, you are measuring the wrong metric to gauge potential candidate success.
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You're still missing what 'skrebbel wrote:

> it's about using a monopoly position in one field to gain entry to another.

It's not about Google dominating the search market. It's about Google leveraging their dominant position on the search market to promote their comparison shopping service, which is a different product for different market.

Think of the competition laws as nerfing your ability to leverage domination of one market into immediate domination of other markets. Companies don't have natural rights, there are only the arbitrary rules of the market game, that are intended to promote general prosperity in the society.
If that's the case then they way Microsoft promoted IE before Chrome was the work of Satan himself.
This sounds like something Gogolian bureaucrats would say. "The purpose of filling out form A38 is to have form A38 filled out." Modern bureaucracy usually doesn't introduce requirements for the heck of it. Checking citizenship worked fine before the introduction of ESTA so "checking citizenship" was not the reason the system was introduced or is still in place. It does that as well but that is not the point of ESTA. This is all I wanted to tell you.
this is not eye-for-an-eye, it is fair and equal treatment. if that somebody is behaving like an asshole, most people including me will not just keep pardoning that somebody forever with big smile on our faces.

this is how law works, this is how companies, states and societies work.
Most importantly, it walls off a lion share of few remaining competing ad publishing platforms
You usually don't buy stuff from maps view.
He made that comment in reference to not knowing the speed of sound off hand, and it is not remotely foolish. It is a very bad student that wastes his time memorizing endless reams of facts, rather than trying to understand the deeper meaning of what they are reading.

>Education Is Not the Learning of Facts, But the Training of the Mind To Think

-Also Einstein

Information is only useful insofar as it furthers understanding. It has no value outside that beyond parlor tricks or game shows, especially in the modern internet age.
Language is a tool for communication, and the great strength of English is that it is defined by consensus. Words shift in meaning.
The problem is if traffic becomes more tolerable there will be more of it since more people will be willing to endure it.

Reminds me of the old saying "there can never be too much traffic. If there was people would stop driving"
At my daughter's 2nd birthday, my mom had to put out a fire that spontaneously occurred in a bowl of chips outside. Not sure if it was this bowl or a doppelganger.
Don't worry... they have an air gap ;)
That's ingenious.
Here's a similar service which uses a combination of AI and actual licensed doctors: https://abi.ai
Do you have a source for the claim that AMP is part of the Android case, or indeed any case?
This makes zero sense. Even if you choose very specific items that can be grown in a constrained environment it's going to cost too much to run.

Grocery stores make next to no margin on their sales - by adopting this they will have to charge more than their competitors. Which means they won't get sales.

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EDIT On top of this, there is not the physical space to do this at the scale you need. Do you know how often shelves are restocked, especially in the UK where stores are tiny? How are you going to fit your equipment in such a constrained environment.
As a heavy PostgreSQL user, who by now may be blind to some issues, I have to ask what makes PostgreSQL replication hard to configure. As far as I recall setting up replication in MySQL and PostgreSQL is very similar.
SQL is used mostly in large corporate envs which can afford to spend money for stability, and here most people are building startups. I've never seen much talk about SQL server. Heck most don't even know what it is lol.
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Science don't lie.
As a person starting to learn Haskell I only understood the steps to Machine code and that you want to cut down the intermediate steps (to C-- step) and go directly to LLVM. If it makes Haskell better you have my best wishes. Haskell is one of those languages that gets less attention that it deserves.
Yes, you're building a poor alternative. But you learn far more than you ever would just by using the existing libraries, by virtue of learning what not to do.

Using other's tools is trading off knowledge for development time. It's often a good trade to make, but to pretend that learning the API surface of library #34341 is going to improve your skills more is wrong.
> Like hell they do(have a monopoly)! there are plenty of other searchengines out there, and ther is nothing that forces you towards google...

90% market share.

Besides, I keep hearing that argument but it never made sense to me. The monopoly is not (mainly) about the users of the search engine - they could in theory switch to something else (even though for some mysterious reason, most of them don't. See above.)
The actual monopoly is for the sites that depend on Google to be found. The simple choice for then is to submit to Google's standards or lose the majority of their traffic. So talk of force is justified here.
They are both really low.
From Google's piece:

> When you shop online, you want to find the products you’re looking for quickly and easily. And advertisers want to promote those same products. That's why Google shows shopping ads, connecting our users with thousands of advertisers, large and small, in ways that are useful for both.

The problem is that when you are shopping for something, you don't want advertisers to be influencing what you see in search results. You generally want the best match to your search, not the product with the biggest advertisement budget behind it.

By upranking others, Google is benefiting themselves, and doing the consumer a disservice. This is what they should be fined for.

But they have a point about Amazon and others doing basically similar things.
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I hate the arrogance of announcing that thousands of developers' work is an antipattern. This post contains valid discussion of some of the shortcomings of FP-in-JS, and presents alternatives. That's fine. But everyone has their own priorities and tradeoffs. The downsides of adopting Clojurescript in my current situation would outweigh the benefits.

> Clojure compiles to Javascript... So any Javascript job could be a Clojurescript job

That's not how it works.
It is not just the revenue they make from EU. Closing the shop in Europe would leave the market for somebody else. With such a large market left for others, some competitor could gain significant momentum and threaten Google's position in US and other places as well.
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Expert Systems of the past had user interfaces, though crude ones such as Java applets and basic HTML forms. UI evolves too fast and new means of HCI emerged like VR/AR, IoT, etc. Most likely the human interaction will have to be made by humans, but the more fundamental advancements can and will be automated. Being a "front-end engineer" on whatever platform, be it web, mobile, embedded, seems to be a pretty stable career in the future, at least for now.
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For instance: I know that Texas is a red state but was quite surprised to find out that the largest urban centres are actually blue. And it seems that this trend follows all along the country, large urbanised areas are blue (even in red states) while the countryside votes more for the GOP, meaning a more conservative worldview (and that clashes with the statement "courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas".

I understand that people from the countryside can be seen as kinder towards people they like but my impression is that hatred and prejudice is much more prevalent there... So care to elaborate if my impression is wrong?
AMP is not a technological advancement: sites are perfectly able to serve lean web pages from their own server. AMP is a rather important brick in a wall of monopoly.
Because it was written by people who knew what they were doing.

Note : not sarcasm.
"This discovery of yours [writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing"

- "The dialogue of Phaedrus, Plato
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Writing made it possible to check if somebody recited something accurately.

Reciting a story accurately pre writing had a different meaning (not word for word)
God, that headline ("The Hackers Russia-Proofing Germany’s Elections"). Has it been ever conclusively proven that Russia hacked any election? Or is it just repeating unwarranted accusations in a form as if they were already facts?
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It has the ring of a know it all type of pedantic comment. I can safely assume that butterflys are deformed when they are pinned, I dont have to have a big expose revealing it as some hidden secret. Hackernews has the habbit of making disability level OCD seem like some grand hidden nugget that will make everyone think you are nerding better than everyone else.
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European commissioners should read a couple of Paul Graham's essays. No wonder the EU doesn't have the equivalent of a Silicon Valley.

"How to Be Silicon Valley": http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

"Why Startups Condense In America": http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
I still wonder if it was more a case of wanting to see how many times they could get away with it.
Buried lead: study is hugely problematic.

http://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2017/Reich-letter-to-Robert-F...
What I would like to understand is why are these startups defensible.

The tech value proposition is in running these algorithms, often tensorflow at scale cheaply in production.
Companies like Google/Facebook/Palantir often have access to very similar supposedly hard to get to datasets, plus a lot more engineering expertise to running these systems at scale.

Why can't they start playing whack-a-mole pumping out vertical products presenting a serious threat to these smaller startups. Maybe it's not worth it for them but there is a fair bit of cash there ?

For example Deepmind with healthcare, and the google jobs API ?
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> Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.

True. But you can not organise conferences in the USA. You can tell your employers that holding meetings in the USA is bad. etc.
"while each additional choice beyond two decreases the maximum load by only a constant factor"

Mathemagical!
They're allowed to offer integrated third party results, they're just not allowed to deny this integration to competitors.
I agree about not participating in eye-for-an-eye. However I disagree that the US Citzens will percieve their smooth entry experiences with reported obstructive from others. Mainly because most people don't hear about such things, that such events are relatively rare, and that they happen to The Other (literally foreigners).

In other words, we shouldn't only expect to rely on the guilt of having a pain free experience to make different others have less pain.

I'm not sure how one can improve things, but if it gets worse, they should notice things when conference delegates are barred from attending.
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My purpose was not to criticise your comment, but to offer a starting point for reflection. It is not a secret that (in recent years) the number of people subject to more stringent authorisation procedures are constantly increasing, and this without counting the no-fly.

Having been a great admirer of the US, I can say that what I admire are some principles, principles that seem forgotten. They are probably forgotten because when you teach a CBP employee to look for only the worst of people, this will eventually find something suspicious in anyone.

The recent run into exploiting software vulnerabilities could explain why there’s a focus on developers/hackers. But just putting a critique is not constructive, remembering where we come from, what are our principles, why we have them, and their purpose, is much better to motivate why it's wrong to "discriminate" someone.

It's not just slow and annoying, it's wrong because he’s not responsible.
And this awkwardness is why windows apps have installers instead of being distributed in zip files. Double click -> click install,
way easier than dragging anything anywhere
Driverless trucks that run on sustainable energy is not that far away. Closer than this idea being cost effective.
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Now this is really .... I am speechless. If only they said about how to replicate it. Might me useful to know how to do it. Then if everybody knows, Github will be forced to fix because of wide prevalence of the issue.
I beg everyone answer my question. The anti-trust laws are originated from USA. The anti-monopolies rules are much harsher in US than those of Europe. Why did not federal government pick this up? Since a lot of the companies that are disadvantaged by this Google practice are Us companies. Also I have to agree that this ruling is tough but fair. And the writing is very concise by easy to understand. it is good writing no matter you like the ruling or not.
Did you consider that maybe EU really doesn't want to have a "Silicon Valley" if the cost is infringement of consumer rights and exploitation of the free market?
I was denied entry once, and I am a frequent flyer.

It was at Calgary's airport. I was called out for a search. Then, border security guys spent an hour having coffee and my plane flew away. I came to them and made them have a very unpleasant conversation with me for the next hour.

They summoned their higher up, who came with an official entry refusal with no reason stated, citing that he has no obligation to give one.

The bastard had a badge with name R. Torres on it.

Nevertheless, I flew the next day on the same airline.
Are you honestly implying that google, a multi billion dollar corporation hasn't 'won'?
Backtesting is a poor substitute for experimentation. We can't run back history and check what happens if the Bush tax cuts never happened. We certainly can't create a thousand parallel economies, implement the tax cuts in half the sample and not in the other.

Economists use historical data to calibrate models. Of course data from the Reagan years was used to are for the Bush tax cuts. But simple backtesting can never tell you with certainty wherever your theories worked out or not.
A maybe bigger damage is that I don't trust Google's search results for product recommendations anymore. It used to be (when product search was still new), that you could search for something, "barbecue grill", "best graphics card", and the first few results gave you a good overview of the market. Now, it is almost worthless, as the results are determined by commercial interests, not the popularity of the products. And this is not even considering the point of this fine, the highlighted "product search" results, I'm just talking about the "organic" results.

Oddly, I've found Amazon's rankings for many product categories (not for all) to be very good.
Curious question: Why did you choose Typescript over Flow? Flow's type system is better designed. Also, Flow's annotations are really optional, as in: Generating JS from Flow means throwing away the annotations. Nothing else, no code generation at all.
I assume Google only needs to show pages complying with this order for requests originating from the EU, so the rest of us shouldn't see any difference from the European Protectorates' order.
"Survival of the fittest" does not scale to society level. The EU tries to regulate the market to allow more participants to profit from it.

This strive for a less divided population is probably a reason why right-wing populist (or "undemocratic authoritarian") parties don't appeal to a majority in EU countries.
You misunderstood my (granted) flippant point which was meant to mean 'lookup "programming language" on wikipedia', not 'go to the CSS page and look for it to explicitly call it a programming language'.

The whole point is, nothing about CSS being a stylesheet or presentational language makes it fall outside of the definition of programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language
That is not how Google's business works.

Advertisers quite literally pay for clicks. That was part of how Google disrupted the market back in the day; most other advertising networks were selling "impressions", but Google was so confident in the relevance of their ads that you got impressions for free and only paid when a customer actually clicked on it.

The click is worth paying for, because it is a signal that the user has seen the ad, thought about the ad, and is interested in the ad. Advertising gold.

Obviously Google have many products (they bought Doubleclick an "impressions" company), and there are analytics value-ads and all sorts of things. But the core of their business is still pay-per-click advertising.

Your idea that advertisers are buying raw data is a misunderstanding.
Seems like youve just abstracted things like static typing into a extension of the language thats checked at a less optimal time. At this point arent you better off just using a language that incorporates this functionality and compiles it? Sounds like youve just implemented static typing but in a really akward and unecessary way
Considering the various "terrorist watch lists" are basically vaguely defined names and anyone can get added trivially, without review, and without a way to challenge[1], is anyone really surprised? When it's bad enough that a sitting US Senator was stopped and interrogated because "T Kennedy" was on the list[2], we passed that absurdity threshold a long time ago.

1 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/terrorist-watch-lis...

2 - http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/no-fly-mistakes-cat-s...
That's just as much "my own" as The Internet Archive: a website Out There somewhere. Worse, it's much more likely to rot and disappear than archive.org. Now, if I could run this locally...

(Yes, yes, `wget --convert-links`, I know. Not quite as convenient, though.)
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Their links are shit outside of the US as far as I can tell. At least they are in the Netherlands. It constantly links to US/UK stores (amazon) which are useless for me, since I'm not paying thrice the product price for shipping.

It also doesn't know about most of the sites that actual Dutch price comparison sites (tweakers.net/pricewatch) know about, which always give me a better deal.
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was quite surprised to find out that the largest urban centres are actually blue.

Looking at maps like these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2016_Nationwide_US_presid...

http://www.270towin.com/2016-house-election/

is always useful to remind yourself that there are still plenty of 'red' pockets in deeply 'blue' states and vice versa. In 2016 presidential election I believe there where only two states where all counties went Republican and two states where all went Democratic.
Engineering. First job ive never gotten an offer for. I feel like they werent serious about hiring and maybe they were required to interview a number of non internal candidates and were just checking boxes. Huge waste of my time.

Granted I acknowledge Im not perfect and desirable in every way, but the interview felt really silly
"And senior officers said they will have cyber specialists on board to defend the carrier from such attacks."

Well then everything is fine I guess...
Sounds a bit tone deaf. On the other hand, I'm not sure if there's anything else they can do at this point. They've lost the case and the appeal won't change that, but investors would be even unhappier if they didn't even try to appeal.
There are flights via Toronto, for example
I went to a computer camp as a child and my first project was a number guessing game where the computer would pick a random number and then tell you hotter and colder as you guessed numbers.

I passed it to a friend to show off my work, and the first number he entered was "a", crashing the program immediately. Defending against rogue inputs was literally the first thing I ever learned about writing safe code.
Can the EU legitimately complain that tech companies prefer to operate outside then?
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> (2) Coding directly in Abstract Syntax Trees is not pretty, there is a reason why most programming languages don't look like lisp.

I think it is, but I'm biased :). Still, I don't think this is the reason. I believe it's simply because, due to accidents of history, C won the popularity contest, and most languages followed with (incrementally altered) C syntax to stay close to what's popular.