skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the point of anonymous opinion casters? They're anonymous, quote no sources and believe think their opinions are important enough to made public. Readers too can check out the last Tsar of Russia and come to their own private views.

If you don't like the estimate of 85 and 100 million people killed under communism (other Russian leaders) according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_deaths_in_the_Soviet...
then please offer a counter offer more in line with your assertion. Whatever please stop offering off-the-cuff unsubstantiated views. They have zero value for others.
My thinkpad shuts down with a CPU temperature of about 100-105. It's currently idling (98% idle according to top) at 80C, with the CPU clocked down to 1199MHz. The chip is an i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz

The fan is broken, so it can reach shutdown temperature even when I have the "powersave" governer set (which I normally do)
Are you saying that simply because a multi-billion dollar company with top engineering talent is able to compile a version of Android that this disprove the comment you're replying to?
If the EU don't want Google or other mobile phone OS providers to do competition-fixing and other shenanigans, they could create their own European mobile phone operating system.

They should probably do this anyway, since control of computing platforms and user data within them is fast becoming a major factor both in geopolitics and in business.
You should post such a generated link here as an example, so people can immediately try it by clicking on it.
Because Apple isn't 80% market share.
"crazy high fee"?

Fining Google 4 billions after they forced all sort of lock-in strategies on the users for a decade is less than a slap on the wrists.
Show HN: Bo, the Swiss army knife of data examination and manipulation
Fall in love with the problem, not the solution.
Why You Can't Trust More Cryptocurrency White Papers
Can we remove a trillion tons of carbon from the atmosphere?
Everyone remembers the October revolution, but few remember the February Revolution [1], the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.
It was the February revolution that lead to the abdication of Czar Nicholas II. For various reasons no decisive new leadership emerged, until the Bolsheviks took over in October.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution
Markets are not limited to buyers, which means their would be sellers benefiting from and promoting damaging behavior.

Now, if the government is manufacturing and selling without advertising that might be closer to the platonic ideal you're describing.
I get the EU is upset that google is usually android to push google search, but that’s the entire reason android exists in the first place, the same with chrome. So why suddenly now? And what is google supposed to do about it?

I don’t see how this isn’t a fair business practice, google has invested heavily into the android system for this exact reason.
Apple does not provide native support for OpenVPN protocol, only IPsec. It'll take third party app to support OpenVPN, risky.
First: this is a civil law fine. In the E.U., companies are not subject to criminal law, only individuals are. It’s not much different in the US, where antitrust actions are also civil.

Second: Google can appeal in court. It’s exactly the same as it is in the US.
https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/fast-com-now-measu...
I'm not sure I understand. You had a psychologist retract schizophrenia and BPD diagnoses? Or do you just mean after taking LSD again you no longer feel like you suffer from those conditions?
Google Assistant gets more helpful
>ALICE fails to adequately peer with CAROL’s autonomous network and calls it a feature.

It also works the other way around: CAROL does not want to pay ALICE to have premium access.

Also, laughable that you call me a shill. Seems like the most used argument when you don't agree with someone. I'm not even American. So your "BOB can't switch ISPs" does not even apply here.
I don't think anyone is arguing that Wordstar is coming back to compete with modern editors. It was written in 1978. This is nostalgia. But for those of us who used Wordstar to write high school and college papers, it is well-received nostalgia, and well done.
> They went from a load time of more than 45 seconds to 3 seconds, from 124 (!) JavaScript files to 0, and from a total of more than 500 requests to 34.

This strengthens my feeling that JS in web pages (as opposed to web apps) is used mainly against the user, not for them, and it's best to just turn it off unless you really need some specific functinality.
I've noticed that on iOS, Google can be quite pushy with regards to their apps. No matter how many times I click "don't ask me again", Hangouts always asks if I want to install Chrome whenever I try to open a web link (in Safari). And I get constant nags on Gmail web to install Gmail on my iPhone to "get the full experience" (as opposed to using the bundled iOS Mail app).
"an industry where cheap labor is an essential component in providing inexpensive food"

Guess people have better things to do than to feed late stage capitalism.
According to USPTO trademark search, WordStar trademark is dead (cancelled on August 14, 1995). This is US-only, of course.
> The point of Windows is it does everything using graphical interfaces.

Really? There's people who'd say

> The point of Linux is it does everything using the command line

Which would also be inaccurate.
There's also a significant body of literature that does not fail to find such associations.
How can Data Science be as fulfilling at a Hedge Fund as it is at a Tech firm?
so IIUC thermal paste is only 'better' than air gaps :)

anyone ever friction soldered a heatsink to an IHS ?
>The EU is not structured like that

Neither is the US. Numerous state and federal agencies have the right to directly levy civil penalties. You have the right to challenge those penalties in court, as you do in the EU.
JavaScript Implementation of Interpolation Search Algorithm
I don't think I've met too many untalented perfectionist, I'm sure they exist though (feels like an unfortunate combo). I just feel talent is orthogonal to perfectionism.
I don't think that's true in general, because you can be a perfectionist about things that don't require any special talent to get right (just lots of time and effort). To take a trivial example, someone might be a perfectionist about ensuring that their shirts are perfectly ironed, but that has nothing (necessarily) to do with a lack of talent for ironing.
(-: Thank you!

Also tangentially, do you do your smiley backwards (like I do) so that Outlook doesn't rewrite them on you?
My dad, Seymour Rubinstein, created WordStar. It’s amazing to witness this homage to its enduring legacy.
Tesla Autopilot has driven over 1.2B estimated miles
Is it better to take notes with a pen than by typing? Much better.‎
For me it's a complex philosophical question without a clear answer.

Where I live (downtown of big city) there are a lot of people visibly addicted to drugs, on the streets, generally living lives that appear tragic to themselves and others. We can say "punishment is due" for each offense they take (theft, violence, public nudity, etc.), but it's probably better to describe those as symptoms of a drug addiction. "Punishment" rarely helps people get out of a downward spiral.

Humans are complex. We do things that we know we don't want to do. Sometimes we need help from ourselves. And the general society does have an interest in keeping people out of a life of addiction that leads to crime and self-injury.

I'm not at all an expert on these matters and I don't advocate a particular set of regulations or deregulations to try and "solve" these sets of problems. But I'm not sold by your simple narrative, because there is a strong link between (some types of) drug use and harm to others (and self). So it just doesn't seem clear-cut.
Well there's little else you can do when your app is a Java applet and your runtime has just vanished from the web. These things still exist, and people like me are rebuilding them.

I don't appreciate the snark in your comment.
This is what the web should be like.
I wonder if we're going to see a similar downfall of Chrome as we saw IE's?
Wow, hindsight is 20/20 eh?

Another good quote from the incredibly optimistic article:

“Obviously, Google believes in it if they’re rebranding on .xyz,”

No, they just thought that having abc.xyz would be a cute thing to do for their parent company called 'Alphabet'. It's just a play on words as it were. Suggesting it would cause a new .xyz bubble is actually kind of insane.
GOG is run by a subsidiary of the developer of the Witcher games (CD Projekt), so that may not be the best example to make this point.
We would need free healthcare to be able to forfeit it.

Since we don't and insurance companies seem pretty decent at modeling risk, this would be included in the model.

Look at how people who smoke are financially penalized by health insurance.

The same is not true for alcohol consumers.
Replacing the thermal paste on my old Lenovo was a night and day improvement. It wouldn't surprise me if that was the issue here.
This one is much worse because although Microsoft tried to get complete control of the PC platform many years ago, they never managed to prevent people from installing other operating systems on their PCs. Had Microsoft the same power Google has now on mobile platforms, I would be writing this post using Windows 10 instead of Debian because Linux as well as *BSD and others would either not exist or could never properly work due to lack of OSS drivers which is by far the #1 plague in the mobile world.

Google monopoly has very little to do with Chrome bundling and a lot with hardware being kept tight closed to kill any competition: the day we have OSS drivers is the day we can have other OSes (which have been already written) fully working; that will allow also software to be fully usable, creating more competition Google will have to respond to, hopefully with more openness and quality.

Before someone replies that drivers have nothing to do with browser bundling, think about how could Google force you to install anything or use any of their services if your underlying OS and surrounding environment didn't depend on anything from them because it wasn't even Android. Example: https://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/
Some time ago ArsTechnica did a (very upsetting) article with an overview of all these antitrust practices. Glad to hear something was done about it.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on...
How to Develop a Music Streaming App That Users Love?
IMHO, antitrust fines/penalties should change from amount of money to some other type of penalty, like temporary market exclusion/block or something, otherwise companies like Google and others can simply use its cash (that's was also made due to the unfair advantage), pay the fine and move on to the next market dominance.

They will always have cash to pay, even if the fines are higher and higher. They kind of expect for this in their long term strategic planning.
Of interest: Since ~two years or so you can actually pip install PyQt on major systems, since they made wheels available. Note how PySide2 is wheel-only on pypi as well.
How an offer to sell our business inspired us to take on $17M in debt
It’s amazing to me how you pass off your opinions as fact. X Is Y. No hint of “I believe” or “my opinion is...”

Let me tell you first hand. You have no clue what you are talking about and should spend an hour or so reading up on the topic.

The most talented writers the world has ever seen have been crippled by perfectionism. Often going months without a Single word written.

As you state the resolution is scientifically proven. Become more talented. I would love to see you say this to Harper lee or Truman capotes face.
Message to EA: don’t try to be clever. Make simple query based bans, after the fact. Sift through the event tables and make trivial questions like if A killed B with a weapon that is not possible to use on the map - then he cheated. Check for ridiculous (not just suspicious) activity.

The cheaters that ruin games aren’t the ones that make players better such as discrete wallhacks. It’s the trolls that are immortal and flying. They blatantly cheat just for the response to their trolling, and they empty a server in a matter of minutes. But just because they are so very blatantly cheating, they should be quite simple to detect in logs too. If someone has 200 kills with an ammo box in a 5 minute round that’s enough to say it’s definitely a cheat. Yet these people do it over and over with NO obvious response to reports. Focus on THIS type of cheating (which is trolling, not gaining an advantage). Only after that look at more subtle cheating.
>They have the job (which I don't envy) to design an international language that is able to express a lot of concepts and emotions on the one hand, but on the other not to offend if possible.

Why is their job to avoid offending anyone? Why a pistol emoji showing a real life pistol is offensive on itself? It's not like I can't offend anyone using only the ASCII character set.
Employing a large number of people in small locations all around the country to manually do something seems like the exact opposite of late stage capitalism to me. It's traditional capitalism isn't it?
> For me this is a simple philosophical question.

It really shouldn't be. It's a pragmatic question, based on what the likely outcomes and benefits or harms would be for deregulation.

> second of all it is a maturing experience.

Psychedelics put you at far higher risk of experiencing psychosis and other mental health issues. Don't rose-tint it as "maturing experience". You might not have an adverse response. Plenty have.
Mix React and Cycle.js Apps
There were some issues with the signup process over the past year. You should email them directly:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5535
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
Alcohol can safely be enjoyed in moderation, as countless humans have successfully managed for thousands of years.

A single LSD trip can ruin you, as many people have proven in these past tens of years.
What are the best alternatives to Google Adsense which pay more?
I believe you are wrong. In Russia Yandex has grown a lot after the option was given at setup.
Even if it were somehow possible to implement such a mechanism, correctly (no false positives!) and efficiently, this sounds like a terrific lack of compassion. Have you never made a mistake? Can you not imagine a life in which you might have made such a mistake?
In the US that's a matter of law, the insurance companies aren't allowed to adjust prices based on alcohol consumption.

I guess casual drinkers (and more than casual drinkers) are a pretty big lobby group though.
Just to check: Did you type this on a system whose entire hardware and software stack was built within some non-capitalist society, which you are claiming is superior to capitalism?

If “capitalism has failed”, as you claim, don’t you think it’s rather ironic that ALL the world’s most advanced technology comes from capitalist societies then? Shouldn’t there be at least ONE modern computer system that was built entirely without capitalism?

Open source counts as capitalist technology as well, since the vast majority of its contributors live within mostly capitalistic societies as a whole (and I’m not really aware of Soviet open source software).

Chinese technology, perhaps the greatest upcoming contender to the USA’s technological dominance, is also deeply capitalist throughout its inception (though elements of state control are deeply interwoven, the Chinese government wisely realized the benefits of capitalism and managed to use it to great success).

Capitalism is certainly deeply flawed, but regulated capitalism still seems to be the best system we have so far. Constantly saying “Capitalism has failed!” is utterly useless if you cannot propose a new system in its place that does better. (Hint: Most systems that people popularly propose have been tried time and time again.)
I've only ever had issues with 5yo+ laptops, and that's due to thermal paste degredation. I wouldn't pay for a laptop if it thermal throttles. I'll forgive the passive cooling on my phone for not keeping up with the CPU, but if the fans on a laptop are running full power and the chip thermal throttles why should I even consider buying it?

Keep in mind, there's a difference between thermal throttling and low boost clocks on multi-core workloads.
> Firstly Android doesn't have a monopoly.

The EU commission doesn't think so. Their press release* says that 80% of smart mobile devices in Europe, run on Android.

* http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4581_en.htm
I reckon companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, $bigCorp, probably calculate the ROI of the venture before executing it. So for example in this case, I wouldn't be surprised if Google calculated a high chance of pocketing $5b and expected (lobbied) to be fined much, much less, leaving them with a big profit anywhere. And if they don't get caught or fined: win.
> Better late than never, I guess?

Not for all the companies and FLOSS projects that have been wiped - or not even started - due to the Google / apple duopoly.
Well duh obviously everyone that orders a still is going to use it in their living room as an art installation.
Less young people getting exploited as cheap labor? Seems like a win to me!
Mozilla's effort was Firefox OS (or Boot To Gecko), now forked as KaiOS.
Maybe, it was a tongue in cheek kind of comment.

What I wanted to say, is, teenagers just got better options today than to sweat away in such an establishment
The OP was talking about built-in Android support for changing defaults using intents. It's a pop-up menu, and is pretty easy to understand even for non-HN users.
> If the EU wants to preserve any credibility ..

It's the other way around. EU is building credibility that seems to be lacking elsewhere by penalizing anti-competitive behavior.
"It requires your permission to: Access your data for all web sites"

I wish Firefox had a permission along the lines of 'Access all data from pages on which I activate the extension', which is presumably all this would need.
I recall two things about it: firstly, it did a good job of showing the control-format chars inline, for markup you knew had formatting.

Secondly, it consumed an outrageous amount of the screen to show the list of available commands, which was a design 'thing' at the time: p-code UCSD OS did this too, and if you had enough brain cells left from the life of beer at university it felt like this was tractable screen space being eaten in ways you'd rather have back.

So as an EMACS/Vi person, it didn't make sense: watching other people be phenomenally productive in it, was a bit of an "oh, ok.. that makes total sense now" moment.

The CP/M DOS crossover years, when this predominated were quite interesting. It was also a time of variable speed floppy drives, so they "sang" at you as they chuntered around the disk surface (constant linear velocity sectors == variable radial speed)
Your censorship will backfire on you.
There was also teams using ground-penetrating radar to see if they could find alternative routes or a location suitable for drilling (Chilean-miner style). That approach didn't pay off either, but I haven't heard of anyone complaining.

Multiple approaches isn't a bad thing. They didn't put all their eggs in one basket. Musk just tried to provide another.

If he was a little better at knowing when to run his mouth and when to keep it closed, the whole thing would be a non-issue.

(for your facts: no the 'sub' wasn't used. And local police have said they've never had a single complaint about the caver. While it's impossible to prove a negative, we can safely say there's nothing publicly known about him to back up the slander.)
I have installed it and it doesn't work.

In the Mozilla addons page it just says "Pinpointer error".

In this HN page, it prompts me to select and click a green button, but fails to do anything.

It's an interesting concept, keep going!

edit: Firefox 62.0b9 (32-bit) in up-to-date Ubuntu 16.04, with uMatrix and other extensions running.
Netflix rarely consumes Internet traffic as your statement assumes. Netflix has content caching at, pretty much, most legitimately sized ISP and peering points today. That means you're probably watching your content without leaving your ISPs network. The ISP pays pretty much nothing for transport (because Netflix provides them with a way to alleviate that) however the customer gets better service and quality of Netflix because the content is local. While this isn't always true neither is the thought that all traffic is heading back to Netflix HQ and saturating all of the Internet links in between.
How is this not a problem anymore? The Unicode standard spells out 'PISTOL'. Not 'WATER GUN'. They are just collectively not compliant to the standard. Why don't they just introduce 'WATER GUN' as a brand new code point and remove 'PISTOL' from their chat apps' emoji selection?
In a monopoly situation there a not many competitors. It is a monopoly. mono = one
Why does DoD want generality?
PyQt refusing to license under LGPL is basically the reason for PySide to exist.
there is a lot of criticism of the EC by the HN community, but I am extremely happy to have some push-back against the oligopoly of Apple, Google, etc.

let's do apple, facebook, and amazon next.

now if we could only convince comcast to provide services to the EU....

having a small set of companies controlling everything harms all consumers.
"ways to re-start a cold war, number #102: antagonise the working class troops to make them want to throw molotov cocktails again..."
Technically it was Friedmann who first theorised that the universe could be expanding, but Lemaître came to the same conclusion independently later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedmann#Professors...
What do you mean? This symbol was change in its meaning, I find that sad.
This ^
Drug manufacturing isn't easy, most of the stuff is controlled and purchases of quantities of many required compounds will often immediately involve one or more government agencies, generally the DEA.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEA_list_of_chemicals

I see this a lot at work, I clear international freight through Customs (and any other applicable government agencies) for a living, and a lot of tariff numbers will flag as potential precursors by DEA.
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The web hosting domain registrar
This confused me too. The site is US only. The region is for the manufacturer of the car. i.e. Wanting to look for European cars vs US-made, etc.
> It also works the other way around: CAROL does not want to pay ALICE to have premium access.

How does this logically follow? CAROL advertises fixed downlink/uplink connection to any autonomous network. How is it “premium access” to deliver on what you are actually advertising?

It’s like selling SSD drives and then saying oh yeah but if you store video files in this particular video codec they will play at only 15 fps unless the codec vendor pays us extra for a firmware update.

> So your "BOB can't switch ISPs" does not even apply here.

It applies to the particular Netflix/neutrality debate.
Yes, if the fine is 40% of my yearly income.
Nowhere did I suggest any compulsion or moral duty. In fact, I wrote the opposite, namely that employees may walk away at any time.

The point of looking at it from the owner’s perspective is to elevate thinking above “It’s so unfair! Harumph!” that is so often the case. As you wrote in your reply, it’s a business decision. Imagining oneself as the owner makes this plain.
> On that note we maybe should change the name of the game of Bridge.

I don't get it—what's the relationship?
This makes even more sense with context from Google's deal with Apple to make Google Search the default on iPhones for which it pays $3B.

Considering that, $5B doesn't seem to be much of a fine to be literally on the head of most smartphones in the world.