skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are in India, and you exactly know what OP meant. He meant tons of people working in TCS/Infosys/Wipro where majority of them are bad engineers.

There are a lot of extremely talented devs working in India; at Google, Microsoft and all the start ups in Banglore and Hyderabad, but unfortunately there are more people working in those IT industries and thus skews the perception.
FCC lied about denial of service attack
> The last time the EU fined Google a huge amount of money for anti-trust reasons the general sentiment here was that it was just socialist Europeans taxing American companies trying to make an honest living.

That was a common sentiment amongst Americans.

As a European, you don't really think "yeah, screw those American monopolies... but I like the European ones"
They also didn't give away the source code... Anyone can ship a phone without the Google Play store, but almost no one wants to buy one. Check out the Amazon Fire Phone as an example, backed by one of the biggest companies in the world and you can fit the number of Fire Phone users in a small room and still have lots of room left over.
I think both deserve to be investigated over anti-trust.

What I'd like Google to be investigated for in this Android case, and I don't think it was, is how the company bans virtually all forms of ad-blocking from the Play Store.

Adblockers are not illegal (quite the contrary), but they are a business conflict for Google. Given that Android is found to be a monopoly, Google should be much more restricted in how it decides to cut apps off from the Play Store, especially if those apps are a "problem" for its main business (just like VOIP apps once were for carriers, etc).
If people have limited vision and all they got out of that keynote was “emoticons” and “selfies,” then there is a big problem with the direction of people.

You do realize that a large number of computing advances were created to support the playing of games right? Still other advances were the result of trying to make kids movies.

For years, gamers drove the video card industry. Now look at what GPUs are doing for machine learning and other important areas.

People like you are frustrating because they seem to lack any vision or imagination. They’d see the original iMac as a colored gimmick; failing to recognize at the time the implications to society (suddenly everyone wants a computer in their kitchen or living room because it’s so “cute.”) Or the touchscreen; I am sure you were one of those who failed to see the advantages over a hardware keyboard.

And the pattern repeats: “emoji and selfies.” And, with that, you reveal a complete failure to understand how the future happens.
Which original open source license? They mostly used the Linux kernel, which is GPL but doesn't extend its obligations to the userspace, and Apache Harmony, which uses Apache license, which isn't copyleft. Oh, and Bionic is derived from the BSD C stdlib, which again isn't copyleft.
Also alarming - the Siemens machines already dilute samples, and the amount of dilution is set (in part) by making sure every sample test will have a usable concentration. So Theranos didn't just dilute where others didn't, they took a system that already used up all of the 'safe' margin for dilution and knowingly added more!
Everytime I hear this I fail to see how it makes any sense. Either
(1) All the firms hiring them are idiots and are unable to judge competency and continue falling for the "scam" every year, year after year on every project, with every company.
(2) Your propositions are incorrect. They do have good engineers and they do end up doing good work.
Could you fork Windows at the time? No. You can fork Android anytime now. That's the difference.
66% is not even close to a monopoly, and even if it was, "consumer spend" is not a metric that defines a monopoly.
To be successful, you need to breathe. I will now remove all oxygen from the room. It's your choice, not an obligation, to then negotiate with me to provide oxygen. Unfortunately for you, there are no other oxygen providers to negotiate with. But you could, after all, grab some water and generate your own oxygen...

I think it's noteworthy that the only counterexample you can find is a tech behemoth with an even larger market cap than Google. If this was a person with an analogous scenario to be "successful", aka put food on the table, this would clearly be negotiating under duress.
I am not sure how you can generalize. I would not consider it as a red flag unless the candidate in question has history of hopping too quickly. I have direct/indirect experience of being both the sides. I once left a company in couple of months because company's culture was totally different than what I expected. I have also seen a friend of mine getting fired in couple of months after joining a company because company felt he was a misfit
Manufacturers want the Google Play Store for the same reason Willie Sutton is said to have robbed banks: because that’s where the money (and the apps) are.
This kind of thing was a reason why I wanted to switch away from GitHub long before Microsoft came on the scene. If anything, Microsoft's ownership might put an end to this nonsense.

I never did switch away, however, strictly due to laziness.
I think the problem is this part here:

>The EU competition enforcer will also tell Google to stop its anti-competitive practices such as licensing deals which prevent smartphone makers from promoting alternatives to apps such as Google Search and Maps

Apple is not force anything on smartphone makers because they're the maker, so that's fine I guess.

This case seems similar to the one that almost split Microsoft when they forced PC makers to not bundle Netscape.
It is common to see Chinese names in some top tier science publications coming from America. At the same time, the bulk of science coming from mainland China is junk. So there well can be some magic at work. That, or selection.
>>It sucks when you hire someone, plan things three months in advance, and.... they don't show up to the job without ever telling you they took a job somewhere else.

And yet nobody ever agrees to lower the 3 month notice period rule.
Keeping an open channel on Teamspeak could be compared to having a person sitting at the next desk.
Alice withdraws bill number 17 from the ATM.

Bank knows: Alice-17.

Alice buys cell phone charger from cashier/seller Bob with bill 17.

Seller Bob deposits his cash (including bill 17) to the bank, and only the bank needs to scan the unique number, and associate with who brought it in:

Bank predicts: bill 17: Bank->Alice->Bob->Bank

For a lot of people even this simple automatable case is controversial, or supposedly too expensive to be true...

average joes and janes do not need to track and note down serial numbers for this to work...

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Most convenience stores have a unified interface for printing the unlock codes for each type of product, and print the unlock code at time of buying. If you carry a cell phone, then the space-time event of cell phone position at the same location as the convenience store at the same time as printing the code identifies you. If other actors have their cell phones with them, the path of their bills is very much revealed. One is then trying to hide in among a very small set of unexplained connections...

Really we should have some kind of open source simulator of a market, and the surveillance state perspective of it, so we can prove in practice what is possible to deduce...
Your not the only one. I drink coffee and never had sleep problems even when I drink before going to bed. I don't know why.
Here are some examples:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/27/google-confirms-blo...

https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/04/google-announces-ma...

Also, you know, the article here and any evidence the EU produces against Google...
It requires a paid tool (Staruml) to extract a fsm from a state chart?

Regardless, this looks very cool I will dive in later.
Low productivity is what creates that growth. Inefficiency is the whole point, as for every $50,000 of inefficiency for a small business, that's another job created.
Do you think the founders of GitHub, who after the sell to Microsoft will be the 2nd largest owner's of Microsoft stock, started GitHub because they "cared about developers"?[1]

It's always about the money. No one "cares" about developers not even your own employer. They only care about making money and we are all just a cog in the machine.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-b...
What adult is paying 2k in rent in SV, with 4 roommates that may be possible... If you want to live like that fine but most of America can afford to buy a substantial house for 2k a month.
But from my understanding the problem isn't that there's cost to shipping Google stuff, it's that it's all-or-nothing. Changing the accounting rules doesn't make much of a difference if the surrounding contracts still prohibit the OEM from using competing products if they use any of the Google extras. And if they'd be willing to deviate from that under the alternative model, it IMHO wouldn't be much different from agreeing now change it.
If you mean isolation tank, it's not comparable because you retain control. With LSD/mushrooms/mescaline/ayahuasca there is no control on your end. It's like jumping into a stormy sea and letting it take you wherever it wants, the force is just too much for you to resist or attempt to control it.

At best, you may be able to -- a (diminished) degree -- guide how the experience unfolds, but that depends on dosage and how experienced you are with psychedelic states.

Finally, it's also a matter of what it does to you. LSD/mushrooms can go way beyond mere hallucinations and at high doses let you witness the fabric of perceived reality before blowing it and 'you' into pieces. There is no coming back from such annihilatory experiences, the transformation will last for the rest of your life. For some people, this is the whole point of the psychedelic experience.
Volkswagen tests Quantum computing in battery research
Pre-Seed Financing Tips – Go with the Flow
It's interesting to contrast this with further details released recently from Xcel Energy's competitive bidding in Colorado, which had some unbelievably low prices for wind, solar, and solar combined with storage:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/06/07/worlds-largest-lithiu...

They're planning a GWh of grid storage attached to 700MW of solar, at a cost of 3.0-3.2 cents/kWh, which completely beats the cost of coal. And that's without taking in to account coal's massive costs that it doesn't pay, in terms of our health (COPD, mercury consumption in fish, etc...).

We have some absolutely awful leadership in this area that is trying to kneecap the future of our country. Colorado's process makes me hopeful that by 2022, this will mostly be in our past. But losing several years of a technology shift is nothing good for the US.
In the EU, more than 30% makes you a dominant player
Very nice.

I would replace CoinHive with a more trustworthy captcha package, which is also hosted on the same machine. For example, with this: https://github.com/dchest/captcha
It was pretty much the stock equivalent of check kiting. If you've got enough money coming in, you can often fill accounts before the checks clear and steal nothing; the reason it's illegal is that you're hiding risks by claiming to have the money in hand.
Rainbow Grocery has some great Kimchi in addition to lots of other bulk fermented food like pickles and sauerkraut.
This breaks any existing js that sets window.onload if the qeys script is loaded after it. Usually it's better to do window.addEventListener('load', ...) so you don't overwrite anything.
This does ring true. Years ago when I was running a remote-primary shop we hired this one guy that just struggled. I spent the next year trying to get him on track and one of the big issues was his writing was terrible; both internally and with our customers.

Right before we finally gave up, I went back and looked at all his interview communications. As part of the interview we would exchange several e-mails to see how their communication was, because we lived and died by e-mail with clients. All those communications were totally on point.

So I asked him: Why were your e-mails before we hired you so good? "Oh, my wife wrote those for me." So I'm sitting there thinking "We should have hired your wife."
Not entirely convinced that others' poor ethics are a justification for your own.
No, not anyone can ship a phone without the Google Play Store: if you ship one device with it, all your devices must ship with it.

That isn't that far away from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Intel Corp. over Intel's exclusivity contracts.
Pretty much every car company does this when testing unreleased cars in public. They are called development mules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_mule
Side point, I was under the impression that Chrome was going to stop videos from auto playing but videos on Reuters still play by default. Any ideas why? Thanks.
It's almost certainly a duopoly, though.
What is the ideal low level string implementation in your opinion?
Chrome comes with a whitelist; it's possible that Reuters is in it.
I envy the kind of confidence that would lead someone to decide that a new programming language is their ticket to riches.
The sad part about India is most people who come from low income households accept any salary. Because a job and the opportunity that comes with it is more important than anything else.

Negotiations are for freshers whose father's have been paying college fees and bills. The remainder can't afford to turn down a job for these reasons.
Getting Started with Java EE 8, Payara 5 and Eclipse Oxygen
Are all the offshore banking deposits counted in the Swiss wealth?

If so that’s a huge difference maker.
>Someone could just as easily say "if you want to be unionized, go work somewhere else."

Well actually there's plenty of times when you literally couldn't go work for a union shop, there's not many left.

>why you want to steal money from your coworkers.

Actually in a shop with union members and free-riding non-union members it's the non-union members who are stealing. They are utilizing a public good (the power of collective bargaining) without contributing. In this sense making a workplace union compulsory is the best way to prevent workers from stealing from one another.

Also introducing compulsory unions moves us from a situation where (1) employers have massively more bargaining power than a worker and workers are structurally compelled to compete against each other to one where (2) bargaining power becomes much more equalized and workers can collectively choose in which situations it is appropriate for them to compete with each other. Changing that compulsory union back into members only just moves us back to (1). It does this because it grants structural control back to the corporation and it's in the corporation's interest to make union bargaining power a non-excludable public good which introduces free-rider problems and destroys the union.
An H1B is a Visa with intent to immigrate. A TN1 is a non-immigration temporary worker visa. You need to do things to follow through on that intent, but it's still an option.
"When I failed, and I did, it simply meant it was time to get a job and work myself up to be able to take shot #x"

Years ago I did some real estate deals together with a few guys from rich families. The first deal went bad leaving me with debt that lasted more than 10 years to pay off. The other guys got more money from family, did a few more deals that went well and are now successful businessmen. When you don't have money you often can't afford to fail in the same way wealthy people can. The consequences are much more severe.
Great one, thanks for that!
What decided Normandy's fate was germany's lack of a navy and their air force and soldiers being locked down on the eastern front.

Germany had like 5K soldiers on the beach with no air and no naval support against the combined might of the US and UK.

D-Day was 200K US/UK soldiers + US/UK navy + US/UK air force vs 5K germany soldiers.

It was such a rout and easy victory that most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning rather than germany bullets.

D-Day is so overplayed in our media. The real fighting was in the east.
> They're planning a GWh of grid storage attached to 700MW of solar, at a cost of 3.0-3.2 cents/kWh, which completely beats the cost of solar.

I'm assuming you meant "it beats the cost of coal"?
Yes, exactly. I'd love to see some examples of a CRUD based API built on top of h2o. At least this appears to be possible with one of the higher performers (cppcms).
>>> I also think that explicitly not keeping logs to protect users from law enforcement is shady to say the least.

I guess that depends on which law enforcement you are talking about. An FBI agent going after someone distributing child pornography is a rather sympathetic police action. What about a Chinese officer going after someone for "treason"? What about a Russian cop looking for someone who tweeted pics taken at a protest rally? Or what about a Canadian cop asking questions about a teenager in Sweden, someone well outside Canadian jurisdiction? Or what about the FBI agent asking for some celeb's home address? Rather than pick sides, the best answer is to just not collect the data in the first place.

VPN companies operate at an international level. The cops from some countries cannot be trusted. Cops in all countries make mistakes. A few of them our there are corrupt. And often times the person claiming to be a cop is either well outside their authority, or just lying about being a cop. I tell my client's to not even respond to communications from any sort of law enforcement or intelligence agency. Pass it to your lawyers. Let them first verify who and what authority is making the request. Do not leave such determinations to engineers and support staff.
> by requiring mobile manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and Google Chrome browser

It's like 1998 all over again.
Well Linus is a great writer, so I agree with your conclusion.
That's a little mean. The author writes:

> 100% of donations I receive go towards paying rent, buying food, and generally attempting to live a modest, but healthy life.

He doesn't expect to get rich from this.
Yes, thank you, corrected!
JEP 336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API
> which completely beats the cost of solar. And that's without taking in to account coal's massive costs that it doesn't pay

Sorry, I'm confused. Did you mean the other in one of those two sentences, or am I misreading? If you did, which one?

EDIT: Ah, I see the sibling comment, thanks.
You can fork AOSP, which I'm sure can't run any of the top 10 apps of the Play Store unless you install Google Services, which are closed source and require a licence from Google (which in turn requires you to bundle Chrome, make Google Search the default, etc).

AOSP by itself is pretty useless because it can't run any of the apps the public is interested in.
Yes, Income Inequality Has Stopped Growing
It has kind of been a thorn in the side of immigration enforcement though that determining who has potentially overstayed their visa because of the lack of exit tracking. Because of that trying to enforce visa overstays was really hard because you just have a huge list of people who have come with not much info about who actually left so trying to check up on visa overstays would waste a lot of time on people who had just come and gone as required. This trims down that list to be muuuch smaller so they can more easily check without wasting a lot of time.
> Honest question: Is there any reason to believe that PIA is a US intel operation vs, say a Russian one?

I would also like to know the motivation for a US intel agency to want to run a VPN. It seems to me like it wouldn't be worth the bother: VPNs aren't illegal in the US, so it would be too hard to convince everyone to use theirs. Spies, etc. could just use private ones they control. They'd just see a bunch of crap from unsophisticated people.

Seems to me like it would be more likely for US law enforcement to want to do something like that, but I'm skeptical they have the resources.
I feel that the basic art excersized your imagination more.
You can't freely fork the Android that's dominating the market: Android with Google services in it, key components of it are proprietary. You can't even sell some devices with it and others with an AOSP fork.
I've been repeatedly asked about a security robot - it'd be a killer app here in Latin America.

The Misty seems like it could patrol the interiors, not good enough yet but we're getting there.

Knightscope should start selling here: https://www.knightscope.com/
Yes, the Fire Phone was a stunning success, and clearly evidence you can compete with Google's proprietary Android offering with your own fork. /s

I would argue Kindles are largely successful because they don't compete with proprietary Android in any appreciable metric: Google-flavored Android barely even attempts to compete in the tablet market, and Kindles are e-readers first, and tablets second.
What’s unethical about not keeping logs? I explicitly don’t have external security cameras at my apartment: is it unethical because I can’t provide law enforcement with video in case something happens on my block?
What interactions are left then? Neutrinos don't interact with the electromagnetic or strong forces, and I don't think we can observe gravitational effects in an accelerator, so how are we detecting these sterile neutrinos?
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I only read the headline but does this use local purchasing power in $ equivalents? If not, I don't see what use that number could be.
When Apple Watch was announced I remember reading somewhere that there would be an upgrade program for these “premium” models to either trade them in for store credit towards a new one or directly replace its hardware with updated stuff.

Anyone knows if this ever happened?
Honestly there were so many things wrong with the fire phone I dont think adding Google Play would have made any real difference.

They’ve been pretty successful in the tablet market.

But go into anywhere that sells phones. Carrier store, Best Buy, Walmart, whatever. Find a single Android phone that DOESN’T have google services on it. I’d be surprised if you can.

People want Android. And by Android they largely mean the Google Play Store and related services.

“It’s an Android phone, but none of the apps you see advertised are available for it!” No normal user is going to be happy with AOSP.
Here’s a really early one based on persisting datascript

https://github.com/replikativ/datahike
Gender Stereotypes Are Mostly Accurate
They introduced that in one update and then removed it in the next, shelving it until October I believe.
Most of western philosophy is just a bunch of tautologies. That is what makes it interesting.
Navigation design: almost everything you need to know
The only reason he was able to do what he did was because Gawker broke the law.
I very much enjoyed the "Apple has a monopoly on iOS devices" argument I heard in a different thread.

Apple has a monopoly on its business model, and on the willingness to eliminate legacy hardware mechanisms. Good luck finding a legal case for an abuse of either of those.