skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please enlighten me: What kind of monopoly would that be?
Much as I detest an awful lot of Google, I have never once been - and know of noone else who has ever been - forced to use their search against my will. In fact, I get along fine without it, as well as without their analytics and their browser and their cloud stuff, excepting of course that I am often forced to correspond with gmail addresses.
No one should be held responsible for a fact that causes damage without direct involvement. The legal system uses `iuris personae` and limited liability precisely for this. Distinguishing a natural person from a legal person in this case is contrary to the purpose of the laws in force.

Each tool can be used for good and for evil: risk management is primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss, and is embedded by the law for companies, and people too.
Citizenship is the primary determinant of ESTA, because ESTA is the feeder of the Visa Waiver Program which in turn is based entirely on citizenship. Everything else in ESTA is largely just duplicating requirements that would be imposed without ESTA (such as remaining validity of passport, whether you have a return ticket, purpose of visit, etc.).
I believe Elmish is the current best Elm architecture for fable: https://fable-elmish.github.io
Somewhat related: I'm finding that the prevailing wisdom about conglomerates being a failed experiment is being put to the test and found wanting by Amazon, which has (over the course of the new century) transformed itself into an aggregate of concerns with no obvious interrelation.
Why only to android? I thought it was an device agnostic technology?
Yeah, no. The fine is not paid to any commission, it goes to the EU budget and is taken off from the amount member states (hence, citizens) have to pay for that year.
That's another case that's being worked on.

The preferred solution of the EU would be that there would be a standardized API between search engines and map providers, shopping providers, etc, and you could simply choose which map provider you'd want, and that'd be shown in every search engine.

This is still being discussed, of course, as no solution has been found yet, but in general the idea is based on Android's Intent system, where this concept works quite well.
My guess is that this is similar to StackOverflow switching to HTTPS [1]. Once you get to a certain size, something seemingly simple like turning on HTTPS or detecting desktops and redirecting comes with non-trivial problems. I can only imagine all the nuances that have to be addressed when you're serving the fifth largest site in the world [2].

[1] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overfl...

[2] http://www.alexa.com/topsites
Why does this have to be tied to Vue? Wouldn't it be more useful to create a tooltip library that can be used independent of it?
If you're the central promoter that both you and your competitors use to promote products, that's a conflict of interest.

You can self-promote whatever you want, as long as it's independent of others' promotions.
The point is that if his name was on some blacklist or no-fly-list, then this should have had its effect during the (automated) ESTA application process.
Perfect time to recommend a book: The Shallows. Digital information overload not only makes us less attentive, it also makes us shallow. We are exposed to so much information, that we have little time to think deeply about something.
Check out Google FooBar.
1) Trump didn't even win a majority in the crowded GOP primaries. He was also buoyed for various reasons by a media that would benefit if he won.

2) Trump's platform is Trump. Everybody knows that. He doesn't have an ideology. He contradicted himself all through the campaign so any platform is moot.

3) Clinton was unpopular for many reasons beyond the email stuff. In many ways she was a bad candidate. She was an ultimate political insider, for instance. Personal concerns aside, many people who voted against her were also alarmed that Scalia would be replaced with another Souter or Kagan. Even given Trump's capriciousness, they thought a gamble on a "good" justice was better than a guarantee of a bad one.
Causation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_industry
It concentrates the sun from what I could understand from the article. Should work the same for any spherical bowl (parabolic would work even better) that is shiny enough.
Yeah I'm not sure the parallel drawn here between art and webdev really holds up.

It's basically "learn by building things" which isn't particularly insightful or novel. I'd argue that building something close to what you are invested in / care about is the key element of any learning process.
3 Mhz in 1981, very nice.

The games (Alpine, ...) I've looked up on YT look like C64 basic games though. Why was that?
Would you rather have price controls or a subsidy? People that support themselves on jobs that pay less than minimum wage generally need support from the state to live. So a minimum wage is basically a refusal by the state to subsidize business.
Absolutely. Next up, the Adsense and Android antitrust cases. How do I know? I googled it:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust-idUSKB...
The Visa Waiver Program was in place before ESTA was introduced. Before that, the airline took a look at your passport and then a list of allowed nationalities. Having the traveller fill out an online form does not change this requirement.
The fines aren't made up arbitrary numbers, and the article is clear on that too.

"In accordance with the Commission's 2006 Guidelines on fines (see press release and MEMO), the fine has been calculated on the basis of the value of Google's revenue from its comparison shopping service in the 13 EEA countries concerned."
I came to say exactly that. That's a very well written statement that clarifies the situation more than any news outlet I happened to read on the case.

As for the decision, it may seem unfair for Google, but the European commission has to look at the bigger picture: its search dominance is so big that it gives Google an unfair advantage when competing in other business sectors, driving others out of competition even if they have a much better product. That's not good for society in the long run
so EU can keep knocking on their door because google has no choice but to pay up?
Exactly. Every people in their own time considers their time as the most important, crucial and urgent. they consider past times as less important.

If you observe this then you can see that in the future people will look back at now and think the same. history tells us the same thing. it's human nature to think that doom and gloom now is much worse than before, simply because we are in this moment and without perspective.
Uh, access to new information? Geeks are especially vulnerable. Or not, because just think about how many people just constantly scroll Facebook, instagram, twitter and whatever.

Humans like to feel connected, like to know interesting things, and like to feel engaged, and so on. And this little magic box pumps a lot of reward for just a few tiny taps. Just a swipe, and new shiny spectacle things happen, woo! One more swipe!

And you see other humans on Facebook. For some people that's addictive. For others learning about new gadgets, for some simply learning (duolingo, coursera, audiobooks), or checking the news, or reading a book, just one more page while I wait for someone to go back for something in the shop/car, etc.
Please don't say "Americans" don't want foreigners on our soil. A minority of Americans allowed a hostile foreign government to manipulate our election process to raise a corrupt, compromised bigot to power. Most Americans want our country to be open and free. Painting every American this way does nothing to recognize the misery of this situation.
Google as assets in the EU, and Google has liabilities with EU banks.

The EU could simply seize Google's servers and intellectual property, and sell it to fund this.

Additionally, if you'd create a jurisdiction just to avoid the law, you can expect that no country will protect your copyright. You'd have the EU courts support every person stealing your IP.

You really don't want to pick a fight with a legal system that your entire business depends on.
Did you mean to reply to someone? The word monopoly doesn't appear in the press release.
From what I read, AMP is a subset of HTML to make pages load faster and deliver ads more efficiently (which might appeal to content creators).

I assume that Google is attempting to make devs start using a proprietary technology instead of the well-established HTML standard, or:

- somehow lock everyone in with the format

- force people to switch to Chrome since it would run those pages better

- force other browsers to implement the technology (until they sneak in a patented technology once AMP is popular?)

Where can I read a good article about why AMP is bad?
I find the manic defense of corporate interests over the interests of the public more sickening.
The first bullet point, anyway, is also typical of any house that's been around a while.
Monopolies are sickening. I hope for bigger fines in the future
It's explained here, [1]. Monopoly is not the right term. See market dominance instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law
We didn't elect Donald Trump. He was installed by the Russian government.
Google holding a dominant position or a monopoly on search is not by itself illegal. However, using that position to gain entry in a different market (shopping, in this case) is considered anti-competitive and hence illegal.
Spoken like someone who has never seen EU immigration laws.
I'd say the problem isn't so much that Google's fine is too high, but that Intel's fine was too low.
I'm definitely going to buy one of these bowls just for this highly useful feature...
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I propose the Bahamas as the new location to do meetups, it's close to the US, has casinos, good conference rooms, it's a tax haven, AND the Hearthstone's World Championship will be done there. Blizzard must have chosen that location for a reason.. Other than that, sad for Daniel. This is madness =(
> in the field of mobility services

Cars will turn to more of an "as a Service" thing in the sooner-than-you'll-expect-it future, so it makes sense that the manufacturers are doing this. And with data analysis it can probably predict that you're going out tonight, just like 10 other people in your area, so it will make sure to dispatch enough cars to wait in your area, so your Vwuber shows up in 5 minutes instead of needing 30 minutes to get from the giant parking structure outside of town.
Google giving an advantage to its shopping service is peanuts. The way Chrome was promoted (not only through search, but other Google services as well) is the real abuse.
Doesn't mean the security or the quality is up to spec however. Most of the defence sector people I've worked with pretty much run on procedural knowledge developed independently rather than using their nut or consulting the rest of the industry.

This whole thing has gone wrong before: https://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/
While that may be true, half of Americans weren't bothered enough to vote to stop it.
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But as far as I understand, AMP is just an open technology, i.e. open for any (search) company to implement. Google is just the company proposing the standard (and coincidentally benefiting most from it).
This is not about Google having a monopoly but about Google abusing a dominant position.

And even if it were about monopoly, whether or not you are forced to use a product or a service is not what determines if it constitutes a monopoly.
This will be a special version of windows XP with all the rubbish taken out and only the required services running etc. We used a similar version of XP as a base OS for a security camera control device.

It will have been security validated to the extreme and to assume it is anything like the commerical version is wrong
could be this adapted receive better wifi signal ?
Can someone give me an ELI5 on why PostgreSQL is better than MySQL?

I've had to update some software than used it for some reason (there were just a handful of records, it was a super-small app) and compared to MySQL I only found that I couldn't easily find a good GUI tool to look at the database (I use Sequel Pro for MySQL, which is absolutely great). I found Postico and I was never able to export the whole DB.

(I'm not saying PostgreSQL isn't better, I just have no idea why).
> How do I know?

Umm, it says so in the article, the googling was unnecessary.
Original source: https://www.thelocal.se/20170620/video-ikea-bowl-sets-swedes...
We really should considering using this in Libreoffice mockups :-)
I'll agree with all that. I think the average American knows all that stuff is dumb as well, and that is part of what I'm saying.

The American voter, individually and in aggregate, has lost much say in American bureaucracy. I don't blame Trump alone in this. Bush thought Homeland Security was a good idea. But Trump thinks the problem with American government is that he hasn't been running it. We'll see that that is a foolish take on things soon. Obama made the same mistake and had the same revelation eventually, hence all the executive orders and phone calls in his later presidency instead of laws and reforms and such.
Hmm. The rules are a tad arbitrary. This would be entirely allowed if less people used Google search relative to its competitors.

Note, it's not illegal per se. It's not illegal because of a de jure monopoly. It's not even illegal because of the number of users they have. It's illegal because Bing, Yahoo et al are not as relatively successful.

It was the same with browsers. Microsoft were hit for bundling. Apple haven't been though they've done identically the same thing. Why? Because enough people bought Android phones in the EU.

I do find it dubious that, effectively, the primary criteria for illegality is not what the defendant did but what some other actors didn't do. Seems wrong to me.
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If you're willing to use transpilers, why stick to JS at all, when you have a wealth of languages available?

Scala, Purescript, Haskell, Elm, ...
Yet... the EU still wonders why they don't have a Silicon Valley.
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.
ESTA is the system which determines eligibility for the Visa Waiver Program. That is the sole and entire purpose of ESTA. That is why ESTA was created. Your comment that VWP existed earlier is not a disproof of this and has zero relevance. As such, your mention of that gives an extremely strong indication that you do not in fact understand what it is you are arguing about.

ESTA's purpose is to determine eligibility for VWP. VWP is based on citizenship of a participating country.

All other things asked for and evaluated by ESTA are things which any traveler, entering via any legal means, can and usually will also be evaluated on. For example, ESTA will usually verify that you have a passport which is valid for at least six months beyond your scheduled date of departure from the United States. This is not a unique requirement that ESTA, only ESTA, and nothing else anywhere other than ESTA imposes. A minimum amount of remaining passport validity is an incredibly common requirements, not just of the United States but of practically every country in the world.
Why shouldn't the EU keep knocking on Google's door if it keeps violating the law? Especially a law that protects the livelihoods of EU citizens.
I should make a low level utility and in the license prohibit governments from denying me entry.
it's crazy that a kids mode wouldn't affect ads. in some countries it's illegal to advertise to children, and in many others there's at least strict rules on what you can and cannot advertise to children.
No, I realise that. My question is how are they supposed to hold a monoply or dominance, when there is nothing but preference or lazyness stopping anyone from switching to a competing service?
Name-recognition: I'm sure there are a bunch of quality web-hosts, but if I've never heard of you, or you're new, I'm not going to use you. Hosting companies, especially small ones, routinely go out of business.

For hosting reliability and availability are the main requirements. If you're a company I've heard of I'll have an idea of how good you are. Most of the time people focus on price, via sites like "low-end-box" and the companies listed there are often just circling the drain before they go out of business.

In short: be sustainable, and demonstrate availability & reliability.

After all your competitors are things like Amazon's S3 (cheap, reliable), GitHub pages (free), and similar.
Renewables keep dropping in price. By the time it comes it may not cost that much.

I was in Beijing in 1983 and the air was clean and everyone rode bicycles with almost zero cars. They could do that although it wouldn't fix the steel plants...
Do you see any reason Golang would be less suited for those tasks?
they can change the description to self lighting bbq and give it legs.

It's also on my list of things to bring on a desert island.
> "US Citizens should see, how easy it can be to travel to a country, without jumping through hoops like ESTA."

They have been seeing it all this time, yet this is what you get.
Decisions, decisions. Is this Vestagers works again?

I'm more interested in seeing how much of her work will actually hold up in court. Better to focus on 10 good cases, than spread yourself thin on 30 and lose 80% of them. I guess she'll be long gone by then. The joys of politics.
At this point they are also apparently abusing their capcha. You use it from Firefox, solve like 3 different captcha, my most recent experience with Cloudflare. Use it from Chrome, instant check after failing a login. And it's from the same IP that has done it over and over again. If you were the least bit intelligent you would not do this... unless you were trying to make the user experience of other browsers worse than yours by abusing a commonly offered service that you offer for free. Going forward this is worrying for other Google services as well and their cloud offering. Are they going to add a delay in responding to certain browsers, I dunno. Maybe there is a reasonable explanation, I dunno
JS is an antipattern for itself.
I actually feel it's misleading and wrong at a very fundamental level; this was the only thing I disagreed with in the whole press release!

Consumers "pay" for Google's services by giving ads attention so the ads have value and Google can sell them.

All the data harvesting is a means to a end: to make the ads more appealing so you'll click. Google don't profit from the data directly; in fact all the data harvesting and processing is a significant cost factor. There are certainly other businesses that resell data and profit directly from data harvesting, but AFAIK, Google is not really one of them.

It's a bit like saying that you pay a café by letting them observe you while you sit in their chairs. A basic misunderstanding of what's actually going on.
With React, Redux, Babel, Webpack, I would say there are a lot of innovations coming in through there, and the plugin system is being moved from angular, jquery, gulp to these, if you're writing old javascript to target ES5 compliant browsers more power to you, targeting the next version ES6 increased in volume a lot just recently the version is literally called ES2015
You are saying: "But the webpage said this!"

I am saying: "I agree with you that the webpage said this. The webpage should not say that, because that is not accurate or useful."

In your pursuit of antagonizing someone who agreed with you, you have now devolved into trying to nitpick details of a program you clearly don't actually understand, so I'd suggest you just accept that when I said I agreed with you that the wording was bad I did in fact mean it, and stop now.
Does using AMP automatically license Google to redistribute your content, or are they basically pirating?
Well, they could consider not engaging in uncompetitive practices.

The thing is, if they want to do business in the EU they have to abide by the rules of the EU. It's not that complex!
These problems are not unique to McMansions.

I live in a normal size house and opening the dishwasher blocks access to the sink, the two cupboards under the sink and two cupboards above.

The lounge is long and due to the door placement there is no sensible layout for the sofa that wouldn't have people sitting a long way from each other (in the end we used the furniture to effectively split the room into two smaller areas which were more sensibly shaped)

My previous house had a cupboard too close to a central breakfast bar that meant you couldn't access the cupboard if someone was sitting at the breakfast bar.

Bad room layout is everywhere.
For a society where you don't go bankrupt for being ill and less than a percent of the population is in jail I am willing to trade not having Silicon Valley.
And plenty of us have looked at Silicon Valley and decided we don't want Silicon Valley.
They sometimes check. My last two ESTA renewals took 1 day because of some manual checks. Went through in the end. Know others who had the same experience so I guess they are performing some background checks.
Misleading y axes strike again...
Or they could comply with EU laws to stop the knocking.
Until that actually causes the US to stop increasing the proportion of renewable energy, I'm skeptical it's an issue.
And for other services? I need 2FA for couple dozen different logins. And not all of them support such hardware devices. Mobile phone is needed.
Do you mean Kennedy? Or do you have any sources on the Roberts rumor? That's not something I have heard.
Yeah! Fuck anti-trust laws, fuck people! Go Google!
Well things were not much better under Obama. In the last ten years, I've had European friends denied entry, or even detained for hours on end, for the most innocuous of reasons. And regardless of what "most Americans" want, they clearly don't want it enough to make it a mainstream political issue.
the cool years of node are just beginning with AWS Lambda and other cloud services that help node.js scale easier
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I see. Well, the way I understood it he got rid of mobile phone altogether. So no smartphone, no dumb phone (like old Nokia). That's why I wondered how do you deal with 2FA.
An ESTA can be denied and there are checks in place. The approval process can sometimes take a day or more. So it's not just checking if you are eligible, they also determine if they assume that you would be granted entry to the country. Since it's valid for 2 years there can obviously be changes after you've been granted the ESTA.
Lightning sparking more boreal forest fires
Why so low? (Not sarcasm)