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Sundar Pichai in 2009 [1]:

>Second, Google believes that the browser market is still largely uncompetitive, which holds back innovation for users. This is because Internet Explorer is tied to Microsoft's dominant computer operating system, giving it an unfair advantage over other browsers. Compare this to the mobile market, where Microsoft cannot tie Internet Explorer to a dominant operating system, and its browser therefore has a much lower usage.

By the way, I think it's absurd for Google to threaten that they may now charge a license for Android [2]. They're effectively saying that now that they've eliminated all competition over the past 10 years and achieved a dominant share of the market, they're going to raise prices. That's a slam dunk case even in the US's broken antitrust system.

[1] https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2009/02/browsers-powered...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17585396/google-android-e...
"I don't have to give my information so I don't feel like I am being tracked."

Uhhh, you for sure will.

First - BB is very aggressive on getting this stuff from you cleanly, i.e. name, addy, phone number - so they can 'track you'.

Second - VISA/MC transactions will absolutely be used for that and they'll try to match up their in-store with online experiences. FYI - Visa/MC/Amex will literally sell your transaction data to almost anyone. I went in to do a deal with Amex, their only concern was selling us all sorts of your buying data.

But it's nice to get stuff 'same day' :)
Thanks, said it better than I could.
I feel like you’re arguing against yourself here. Guy A’s shallow model would easily be considered more interpretable than Guy B’s sophisticated astronomical physics model, though Guy B’s model is clearly able to articulate more detailed predictions about what might happen. Guy B’s model is less interpretable, but because it “just works” in a vastly greater number of ways (can be applied to the moon, constellations, other planets), people use it or care about it.

If all that astronomy offered was a more verbose description of why the sun rises, yielding literally zero different predictions from Guy A’s super simple model, no one would care, and might call Guy B a witch!

I’d argue that what matters for science is pure predictive efficacy. That’s it. If you can explain something, it means you can accurately predict something about an unknown state of affairs that would falsify your model if your prediction is wrong. That’s it. Any other kind of explainability is just a matter of linguistic convenience.

Of course there is overfitting, etc., but that’s just part of refining the model to yield greater predictive accuracy on unseen data (less generalization error). It’s still all about putting your predictions where your mouth is.

If the differing theories of Guy A and Guy B cannot be separated by actually testing the predictions they make, then there is no “interpretability” — just linguistic hand waving.

Incidentally I think a lot of modern focus on interpretability is actually about how to be a political gatekeeper or taste-maker through linguistic hand waving, and is not about developing models who better survive the rigors of being required to make real predictions about states of affairs.
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This is HN, we don't need seat belt analogies. Very strict type systems forbid this class of errors during compilation, others do a best effort and fail at runtime.
I actually think it's Amazon that has the poor business model, and I'm puzzled how it's working for them. They are usually not competitive on price compared to other sites, and sometimes it's the same price off the shelf at Best Buy. Big ticket items from Amazon usually have free shipping, but it's a 3-4 day wait unless you pay for "free" shipping by joining Prime. But I quit Prime a few years ago after 10 out of my last 10 orders arrived late. I can understand the convenience of using a single website, but when you can find the same items elsewhere for $30-$40 cheaper, I don't see why more people aren't shopping around.
I am a fan of dynamic functional languages, I use them more than I use Python anyway. But I think Python should stick to being Pythonic. There should be less ways of doing the same thing not more.

I don't even like the new assignment PEP because it just adds more complexity and more ways of doing the same thing. And knowing that it was the straw that broke the camel's back and pushed Guido away, makes me like it even less.
Ask HN: How much passive income do you generate, and from what?
When is it appropriate to use the current processor number as optimization hint?
Could be. Isn't automated flying even harder than automated driving? After all, it's not going to be military drone flying with no obstacles, we're talking about flying and landing in an urban environment.
Why is Best Buy's shipping from DC to store less worrysome than Amazon's from DC to your house?
Here you go:
http://fortune.com/2018/05/22/amazon-customer-ban-returns/

It is reporting based on:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/banned-from-amazon-the-shoppers...

But that is behind a paywall.
Apple loses last Siri cofounder and search chief
I'd think "flying cars" would clearly fall under existing aviation rules. Those aren't as strict for smaller aircraft/private use as they are for commercial airlines, but there's still a regulatory framework already.
Scientists treated a mouse’s genetic disorder in the womb – here’s what’s next
Their prices on the big items have never been too bad, its the accessories where they get you. $25 for a store brand 6' USB 2.0 cable is absurd.
In Germany we have Saturn and Mediamarkt, and these shops seem to work the same way they worked 15-20 years ago. In some regards the products available even went down, at least in the areas I care about. So really, every time I go into one I regret it. Not even USB cables are something I want to buy there because of the small amount of choice, because they are hard to find, and because they price cheat (i.e. put up a good price in front of product which actually costs too much; then claiming the way too small string on the price label says it's for another product), like many physical stores do these days here.

So I really want to support local, European companies, but there is no competition to Amazon here. I'd even consider Taobao before I purposefully would go to a store here.
I'm 44 too and hate people that maximize their window, as they are so many things running at the same time, don't you tile your applications, ah interesting there is more than one way to do it I guess.
>Walked back in the store the next day to return

But they could have been difficult about this right?

In the EU at least, buying online means you can always return no questions asked within 14 days. Buying in store means you are bound to the shop's returns policy.
Interesting. How do you think it would be different? I ask because the go-to is usually genetics erasure. Do you think more could or would have been different?

For what it's worth, Brian Goetz doesn't see type-erasure as a such a failure and defends the design choice[0].

[0]:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TkpcuL1t1lY
Try Styled Components.
Why are you putting ‘same day’ in quotes? Are you not getting products from Best Buy on the same day?
I just used my own license to install a fresh copy of Windows, so I didn't care. My laptop was a great deal so I am assuming I saved money over that route and I didn't really find it inconvenient.
It's true that _government debt_ is not meaningless, but the 55% ratio is meaningless.

Suppose you have a really nice condition Jackson Model C, and, because you're a crazy person you've been driving that damn thing every day since you bought it last century. Unsurprisingly the Jackson is not very reliable, and so you sometimes drive it to the garage where it can be repaired. Now alas the dry batteries in your Jackson are its weak spot, and you find they must be replaced every 100 miles or so. The garage is two miles away.

After you've driven 2000 miles in your Jackson Model C, much of that time with antique car enthusiasts yelling at you that it belongs in a museum, you have replaced the battery about 20 times, each trip to do taking four miles (there and back) and so 80 miles.

I observe that you've used 80% of the life of a battery just on driving to and from the garage to replace the batteries.

Like this 55% of national debt statistic, my observation is at once true and completely meaningless.
Speaking of GPUs. I bought a ATI card for $600 during a mining craze. I had issues with blue screens, and they took it back 6 months after purchase and refunded me full price, even though it was selling for $370 at the time.

Pretty good customer service if you ask me. I mainly want to support local store because Amazon used to have much better pricing than all the physical stores, but now it is not the case. However, it is much convenient to find the item online instead of going to store and finding out the item is not there.
Think "red-headed stepchild". The weird ones.
I have weirdly conflicted feelings when I see ambulances go by these days. Because part of me feels this sense of overwhelming pride watching that system work to save someone, people getting out of the way etc.

But then I remember it's only happening because someone's in severe trouble in the first place so it's like "humanity is awesome...oh something not good is happening"
This is a huge positive.

This puts a real price tag on the OS. I hope more policies do the same to email and other things. The hidden advertising cost is shitty because it is highly hidden.
Protip: ignore the docs on the website, use the docs on the github package / in the examples instead. They're much better!
true but it's the only approximation of one that was available and it was at least objective, and it also to an extent measured cost (the more years it matures the more the costs increase)

Now you just have the ever more fancy boxes and words of marketing department to assess whether a given bottle is worth the price tag...

The concern here is that this opens the door to companies who are good at marketing and not so great at creating good whisky..
“Raw cry it” out isn’t recommended by anyone with any expertise that I’m aware of. Most “cry it out” is closer to your pick up/put down description: Put the kid down, soothe them if they’re still crying after 5 minutes. Repeat after 10 minutes. Repeat after 20 minutes. If it’s night time, continue 20 minute intervals until sleep. If it’s nap time, give up if it hasn’t happened within an hour and try again next time.

Leaving a kid to scream for a solid hour with no soothing is not a good strategy. The goal is for them to learn to self-soothe and to put themselves to sleep, not for them to learn what abandonment feels like.
That comment about academia is not universally true at all. Grad students frequently get first author status on papers they do the bulk of the work on. The typical abuse that is more commonplace is the inclusion of advisors as last authors on papers that they didn’t contribute to at all (other than writing the proposal that won the funding that supported it). That’s why journals began adopting a requirement that the contribution of each author be made clear in the paper (usually a section near the end).
Ignoring the pronouncements of "retail is dead", and what BB's competitors might do, I've always felt that it was obvious the CEO of BB had never put on a pair of jeans and gone shopping at his own stores on a Saturday morning.

Now, granted, it's been a number of years since I've stepped foot in a BB. But laptops all came with the $49 "antivirus and optimization package". You could get one without after you tracked down an employee and gave the secret handshake. They wouldn't honor their online prices in-store. They would try and beat you down with extended warranties and over-priced Monster cables that "it won't work without".

In summary, from the moment I walked in the door it constantly felt like they were trying to pull one over one me. Add to that poor selection, and horrifically bad service, and I would have rather done without than go to a BB.

Sounds like they might have improved recently, though.
I bought my last Macbook Pro from Best Buy. I had just moved and still had a coupon. No crapware to be found.
Note that "During snowy winter weeks" it's also the darkest part of the year, which also has a known correlation to (un)happiness.

So it may be "just" the light or it could be both your lifestyle change and the lack of light siphoning happiness.
I don't know how Ruby does it, but however Ruby does it, do it that way. Consistently good language / ecosystems from the Ruby team.
"We moved to GraphQL because things were bad, and now things are good. GraphQL is amazing".

I don't want this to come off as a personal attack (and I apologize if it does), but your comment contains absolutely no information whatsoever regarding a specific situation/use-case, nothing from which the rest of us can formulate our own opinions on the REST/GraphQL discussion.
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Granted America’s love for ACA is sound. Poor people shouldn’t have to forgo medical procedures because they are poor and die.

But the execution is a giant shit show. Trump abandoned it but I highly doubt anything will replace it.

If Trump doesn’t cause another financial disaster, there are chances the next President can make some headway to get US a sane healthcare system.

It’s so ripe for disruption. Amazon’s insane valuation I bet is also based on the fact that they are going after Healthcare. If they can bring Amazon level service and convinience we may turn the tables.

Personal preference but even though I don’t support making Bezos accumulate so much wealth, Amazon prime service is unbeatable. It’s just so darn convenient. I don’t see any close alternative.
I had hoped that GraphQL would come along with a solution for 'live queries' - alas that seems to still be on the drawing board. Really looking forward to when 'send me a list, and any changes to that list, and merge them together' is a problem I don't have to put any thought into solving.
Just for a point of clarification can you site a case where forced redistribution made the problem worse?
I like going in to touch things. I often buy things that I wouldn't online because I can physically hold them and try them out.
More to the point, the EU didn't say "Google can't monetize Android". It just said that this tying arrangement between Google Search and Android is too anti-competitive.

Android could find other, more transparent and competitive, revenue models.
Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to say that Python's not functional without a "map" function. More trying to guess where that perception comes from. Python's comprehensions are (I believe) inspired by Haskell, but, if you're not a Haskeller, you're probably more used to other ways of doing things.
I live in a country with socialized medicine and have paid for private treatment on a number of occasions because I wanted to have an elective issue taken care of on my timetable.

The difference is if I couldn't afford to pay, I would've been seen based on the urgency of the condition at no charge anyway.
Only tech can save humanity from itself
Entities that one doesn't normally think of as a resource, such as an algorithm.
On 1) I agree, but it's a hard ask in the face of antibiotics being markedly superior as treatments. Because it's not really "a secondary method if the primary fails" (that would be a 2nd class of antibiotics) it's an entirely different paradigm, and one that works less well on the ground.

2) "There will simply be a need to develop a quick but reliable method to test..." is a really big ask. We don't have quick but reliable tests for some common human pathogens. You can't simply posit that a great test will work. You're right about antibiotic stewardship, which is something I work on, but that's orthogonal to how good phage are as a clinical treatment.

3) While yes, in some particularly strict senses they're not alive, the actual point of that is there's currently no phage preparation technique that is not extremely lab intensive at the site of treatment.

4) Agreed - and the Russians and Georgians have some really cool work, but even there, it's for what are, clinically, extremely difficult edge cases, rather than the kinds of things antibiotics are routinely used for.
For big ticket items, I'm usually shopping around for the best price. For little items I try to price shop but the convenience of having it delivered, saving time by not having to go to the store, simple returns (UPS will often pick up package for free), saving 5% on many items with the Amazon card, and their amazing customer service makes me forgive some higher prices.
Good point. The difference being that "last mile", where I feel the transport has many more variables than a massive Best Buy truck moving merchandise from warehouse to store. It's also in Best Buy's interest to not damage the shit they're going to sell, whereas once the package is bought, and handed off to UPS/USPS/FedEx responsibility gets murky and easier to shirk.

The other major difference is my "return anxiety". If I get home and my TV doesn't work, I hop back in the car and swap it for a new one (round trip maybe 2 hours).
One reason Best Buy is still alive is that they effectively price discriminate between online buyers and in-store buyers.

I saw a deal for a 48” Vizio TV on bestbuy.com for $206 (in 2016, this was a screaming deal). I ordered for in-store pickup. When I went to the store, I saw the TV was listed for sale at $400 or so, with no indication of a better price online.

So Best Buy makes tons of money off folks who wander in, while doing good volume on online sales with lower margins.
Again, I find myself obliged to link to this excellent article:

The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-devel...

#5 You Develop a Taste for Shitty Food
A while back we had a refrigerator die, and I was like "no problem, I'll run to home depot and get one".

they could NOT handle it. Everyone seemed annoyed that I wanted to do this. They have refrigerators on the floor but only a few are for sale, and they can do delivery in theory but they didn't seem to know if their delivery guys were available or not.

I went over to Lowes next door and it was the same deal. I was astonished. Couldn't give them my money.

So yeah I got it online, which was a very smooth experience but was without a refrigerator for a few days which is not good.
The axis is constructive-destructive
But, I wonder, once the “artist” dies, can the brand continue to produce with the same or better renown?
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It's really sobering to think about how often this happens per day, to less charismatic/attractive people without social media presences or worse/no insurance. Very happy for Simone (and felt the same way as you following the story) but also trying to take the opportune to empathize with a wider group of people.
This is true even on Amazon. Very often the Prime price is exactly the same as their third-party price + shipping. This will be my last year of Prime.
The version Python has is awkward to work with, to the point that many Haskell programmers don't even realise it exists. The "do notation" style is much clearer than the "comprehension" style; unfortunately Python has no equivalent.
Move fast and break (biological) stuff
Elevated roadways would be far easier to build than tunnels.
Buying stuff from Amazon frequently kinda sucks. And that’s before you get into all the counterfeit crap they sell on there.
>CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations

This is still a very controversial statement, and far from definitively proven. Yes, even with a nature paper.

I also take issues with the phrase "lots". So far this effect has been observed only locally.

I believe the result, and I think it needs broader investigation but a summary like "gene-editing causes lots of mutations" is not accurate.
I see this argument a lot on here, and while I agree with it logically and factually, it totally dismisses the human element.

Rice, beans, and vegetables are very nutritious and cheap but they're generally boring in comparison to a bag of Cheetos or a doughnut.

When you're dirt poor, you don't have many avenues to get a quick pick-me-up feeling -- so often that comes from junk food. A $1 burger is not as good for you as $1 of veg and rice, but it gives you more momentary pleasure and activates the reward centres in your brain.

Even as you eat it, you know you could be eating something more nutritious which would be better for you in the long-run, but you still eat it. Once you do it the first time, the subsequent times become easier, especially if it's loaded with sugar and you get yourself in a high/low blood sugar cycle.

I'm not defending it, and I'm not saying people have no control over themselves, but I just wish people would have a little more compassion and understanding when they go for the "beans and veg are cheap" argument.
Wait really? What's to stop me from setting up a side business selling mbp hard drives then?
100% with you on the "we can't just pretend like people weren't living here just because they weren't white" BUT, from your article:

"Prior to European contact, California Indians had 500 distinct sub-tribes or groups, each consisting of 50 to 500 individual members."

Assuming that all 500 tribes were 500 people, that's only 250,000 people. Relative to the geographic size of the state, that's a pretty low population density. And many of the the areas of large growth wouldn't have been useful to a pre-industrial civilization, since they required so much labor and technology to exist (like say, pumping in water from 4 neighboring states in order to meet the needs of the population).

Let's settle on "It had a relatively low population of Indigenous people to area" instead of "it was empty", and call it a day?
Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression
There's really nothing wrong to read your slides. The trick is coming up with more explanations.
The question comes up regularly but rarely gets traction. And unless it's specific to apps/websites/side-projects half the usual answers are stock market, interest, real-estate.

See 3 months ago (90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16815842
It's your world. You're the person advocating infinitely escalating violence, which has landed us with "Bin Laden did a bad thing" and the US responding by basically becoming a million times worse. If you're thinking "well this is just what they're asking for", you'd be partially right. And if that doesn't terrify you, we have no business talking.
There's a lot of talk about how the Federal Gov't isn't like a household or business. It is different, but not to extent that people who preach that like to pretend.

That aside, I wonder what opportunities and paradigm shifts we are missing out on by being ok with all this debt, good or not.

The American gov't is so far in the hole that it doesn't have ANY wealth! What if we built up a Sovereign Wealth Fund such that we could completely eliminate taxes and fund all government activities from the interest? What would that world look like?