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Well, there's one example of higher wages in the article:

> Tamra Kennedy, who owns nine Taco John’s franchises in the Midwest, started offering $100 as a bonus to new employees who reached 100 hours. She has started offering merit increases twice a year, and she pays all employees more than the minimum wage.
Thanks a lot, I was wondering how to format it!
Thank you for the feedback.

1) No idea why that happened. I'm really not doing anything special on the web site.

2) You're right, sorry. The Windows binary is an online installer. I'll update the web site to mention that once the load is off the server.

5) Hm... Sorry about that. Would be extremely interesting to know if this happens on your computer every time. It's probably too much to ask since you already uninstalled, but if you have a few mins, can you try again?

> if you want people to use this, you should probably think about fixing some of the steps to be less cumbersome

That's literally what I spend my days working on. Desktop apps are a lot of work...

> FWIW the program looks cool.

Thanks!
TL;DR you want avoid paying the PyQT developers for a commercial license.
Sundar Pichai is missing the point: a monopolist is not allowed to abuse its position to enforce products and severly reduce choice.
Sundar appears not to remember that Microsoft was fined many years ago since it forced Internet Explorer with its Operating System.
Also Google must obey the law. So stop crying, pay the fine and think carefully before abusing your power again.
Apparently there's a whole subreddit dedicated to these reviews:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmojiReview/
I remember a campaign few years ago telling startupers to use a cloud provider because hosting is a commodity and they won't earn money with it.

People like Elon Musk don't do that. When he needs a factory, he hires architects and builds the factory himself.
Why every year? That seems excessive.
I have an Audi and they actually include gps data in the ACC so it slows down before curves. It is a setting that can be turned off.
Those arguments on the part of Google sound like they're trying to use their fuzzy branding terms to blurry what's actually happening.
BMW merges ride-hailing and car sharing into one app
Adresses exactly none of the three points they were fined other?

> The decision ignores the fact that Android phones compete with iOS phones,

Except as explicitly stated in the decision.

> This is possible thanks to simple rules that ensure technical compatibility, no matter what the size or shape of the device. No phone maker is even obliged to sign up to these rules

Except for the very definition of anti-trust and monopoly and surely just by conincidence totally ignoring the three points.

> Android’s compatibility rules avoid this,

And nobody claimed that was a problem, but whatabout... .

> If you prefer other apps—or browsers, or search engines—to the preloaded ones, you can easily disable or delete them, and choose other apps instead,

Except manufacturers are contractually forbidden from doing that and defaults are so unimportant that google explicitly puts them as contractual obligations...

> Phone makers don’t have to include our services; and they’re also free to pre-install competing apps alongside ours

Don't have to include..exceot if they need access to google play, which is what this whole decision was about...

Can they please hire better PR people? That is embarassing to read.
It's the same thing Apple did with the app store. They touted the number of apps they hosted, even though tons of them were things like a trip guide per every city on the planet. Not a useful metric, but then every other app store used the metric and then it became a competition about who had the most apps.

This is what happens when people enter a new market: They look for metrics, any metrics, and then optimize on those (because that is how business usually makes money in well understood fields) even if they are not really representative.
Neat! Makes me want to try out Filemaker :)
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> What is Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 and how does it work?

Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 uses a driver coupled with information stored in the CPU. It identifies and directs workloads to the fastest core on the die first. The driver also allows for custom configuration via a whitelist that enables end users to set priority to preferred applications. The driver MUST be present on the system and configured correctly, as current operating systems can't effectively route workloads to ordered cores.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
My son asked me the other night how long we were going to live which took me down the Oldest_people[0] rabbit-hole on wikipedia. On the page for Jeanne_Calment[1] I found this interesting line:

"She considered the most important historical event in her lifetime to have been the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the execution of the Russian imperial family, a view shared by many fellow centenarians."

Goes to show just how impactful this act must have been.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
It kind of defeats the point that you need the extension to view the generated links.

You may want to add an option to select only from the anchors/ids from the page to generate links which work in any browser.

Though there may already be an extension for this.
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I don't know. How many tens of billions a year is Google making from the EU?
This is very much unexplored territory, but ESO thinks so.
The ELT (https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/elt/) will use more lasers but the exact configuration is still work in progress, as far as I know.
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust policy.
Amazon Is Turning Tales from the Loop Series into a TV Show
The gif shows them removing the shortcut.
The nil value in Ruby
Check out (my) https://build-system.fman.io. It's literally meant to solve this problem. Unfortunately, Fedora isn't yet supported. But Windows, Mac and Ubuntu(-based) are.
> Holy shit! That's a hell of a caveat!

No! That's a "game changer!"
The FSF certainly has well considered opinions, but their opinions are in many respects outside the mainstream.

People, even lawyers, often use reductio ad absurdum to argue that some behavior isn't infringing. In a famous draft opinion in the Sony v. Betamax Justice Stevens wrote,

It would plainly be unconstitutional to prohibit a person
from singing a copyrighted song in the shower or jotting
down a copyrighted poem he hears on the radio.

All the other justices disagreed with Stevens on the second point--it's elementary law that to jot down a poem you hear on the radio is infringement of the reproduction copyright.[1] This sounds absurd (and, well, it is!) but copyrights and patents are a little absurd to begin with.

Usually the absurdity of the scope of copyright law is tolerable because of the impossibility of a plaintiff discovering or proving infringement in personal, private use. Other times courts may use Fair Use or other technicalities to avoid absurd outcomes. But many times the absurdity lies and people are penalized. In any event, courts aren't disposed to finding non-infringement. Modern courts have narrowed considerably traditional theories like merger and the idea/expression dichotomy that circumscribed the scope of copyright outright. And it's non partisan. If Ginsburg had her way copyright would see a considerable expansion in scope. (Her daughter is the author of an influential treatise on copyright, which propounds a radically expansive view of copyrights.)

[1] I forgot where I read the historical account about all the other justices disagreeing on that specific point. I think it was in one of my treatises.
What can be asserted without evidence can be denied without evidence. In other words, I'm sorry but I don't have any study to provide you. Probably such a study cannot exist, since it would be unethical to perform the sort of double blind study (needed to separate correlation from causation ) involving humans, transportation and employment.

Observationally, people are moving to bigger cities, I think this is common enough knowledge to not require a citation.
if I was RSI with that much money, I'd say : "let's never finish the game, we got plenty of money to live on for years, making cool tech demo's"...
Has been thoroughly debunked, e.g. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608813/does-your-genome-p...
Doesnt make sense, if google didn’t geoblock EU IP addresses how would the EU react? Issue another fine which Google won’t pay?

A similar analogy would be like the US blocking their citizens from traveling to North Korea. But then having direct flights from LA to Pyongyang and expecting North Korea to enforce the ban of US citizens at their customs. It’s not their responsibility..
I was thinking specifically of how they originally shipped when the game first came out. I don't really play it much but my understanding is that the initial version didn't contain heists, corporations, warehouses, half the mission types, half the vehicles, and so on. It may not have evolved much recently and the initial scope may have been over 50% of the current feature set, but they're the best example I can think of for an MMO MVP. For singleplayer games, minecraft would be an obvious choice but it was also the progenitor of early access so that's more of a hit-and-miss.
FWIW the definition of a patent is a "time-limited monopoly on working an invention", so all new products that are patented are monopolies by definition.

As the sibling comment rightly says, monopolies are acceptable. But, as the EU clearly point out, a greater onus is put on monopolies to avoid abusing their monopoly power.
pdf: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/recounting.pdf
No, that's not it. As I said, PyQt is excellent and I'm happy to be paying for such quality work.
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The European law that was used to fine Google is old and Google was warned since many years ago Microsoft was fined because it used its powers to force Internet Explorer to be the only pre-installed browser on Windows.
It seems that Google knowingly broke the law.
It isnt freature creep. Being crowd-funded is their business model. New features, new hype, means new money. They cannot ever finish because then it all stops. The game will only be released once the cowdfumding well runs dry. Therefore, the best way to get the eventual game is to stop supporting it with money.

They lost me when they hired gillian anderson. I want to believe, but that was jumping a shark too far.
>Honestly I think the mental health care industry is getting nervous over how complex, diverse and non-trivial it is to understand minds

Swap 'rich' in for 'nervous'.
>Sometimes when I'm in a cynical mood, I feel like my android phone isn't really mine, it's owned by google and exists purely to serve them.

But this is objectively true, else why would Google spend so much money developing an OS to release for free?
Why Segment Returned to a Monolith from Microservices
No, you pledge money on the condition that a critical mass of people also pledges.
…so that extension cards and entire clones could be made.

IBM had no intention of allowing clones. They relied on their proprietary BIOS to give them control of the product even though they were licensing an OS from another party. This failed when the clean room reimplementations of IBM’s BIOS withstood IBM’s legal challenges and clones were born. IBM attempted to regain control of the platform by creating their own OS, OS/2, but ultimately failed and was driven from the market.
If you're distributing your app which relies on native libraries you've got two options really. Either make sure you support all the dependencies on supported systems, or distribute with dependencies vendored. If you're going with the second option, maybe Flatpak could help you?

I don't believe pipenv really solves these issues.
Ah, yes, correct. 1000 deadweight engines.

But the difference between kg and Ton doesn't matter much, in both cases the aircraft won't fly very far.
What Google was doing was extremely similar to what got Microsoft in trouble for bundling Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player back in the day, and there have been rumblings that the EU was looking at them for it for years. I don't know how you could argue this is a surprise.
Are you guilty of expecting a perfect popular science newspaper article that's merely pointing out what appears to be a recent general trend? :-)
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I'd guess it indicates capacity if you try to watch something that isn't cached?
In addition, just noticed that Bonobos withdrew from the EEC due to GDPR

"Due to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we're currently unable to offer products and services to customers in the European Economic Community. We apologize for the inconvenience."
Audi ACC is great, but the lane keep assist is quite "bouncy" and will ping-pong between left and right lane barriers and will self-disable after a few of these.
That... or the CEO violated the code of conduct and was fired for it.
here's a natural color image of neptune:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Neptune-...
Ira Glass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE

This guy is perfect.
Modern Game Theory and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems
I recently built a new gaming PC, and it was so bad that I couldn't even run stock speeds without thermal throttling, let alone any overclocks. A swift delid and some new TIM and I had shaved 25c off the stock temps while no longer throttling. Woe betide any average user who isn't willing to void their warranty on a £500 part to get the it to run as it should, enjoy that RMA process.

Half the issue is the shit TIM they use, the other half is the way they attach the IHS to the CPU. It's attached with a huge amount of sealant around the edges of the IHS and simply removing it will gain you a good 10c improvement because you're moving the IHS a few mm closer to the dye, combine it with good TIM and you're golden, replace it with some liquid metal TIM and you're off to the OC races.

I could maybe forgive them if this was an isolated incident on one generation of chips but this has been the case for about 4 years now.
Although I’m quite happy my territories have been strong enough to impose $2bn fines in Microsoft and $4bn on Google, especially to defend interoperability and parcel markets, I’m not sure I want the consequences.

- Trump could react. He has already denied the WTO, he may disclaim other US-EU treaties farther because of the fines we impose on US companies.

- If Android is a monopoly, what about Apple. Do we want more competition in Apple hardware and shipped software?

- Google wanted to have a uniform Android experience across all devices, for better readability across customers. Now will I recommend Android to my mother if the EU said it should be able to be shipped with all Google apps are replaced with an inferior Samsung app (e.g. the Samsung app store) ? Of course Google could publish a “Google experience” and an “OEM Android” version so we know that the OEM version gives us a crap device, but OEM is the kind of things that killed the Windows experience for most users.
These are the top companies that offer industry leading compensation: Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft
Name an industry that doesn't use their position in one market to gain influence in another.
It's bleedin' blindingly obvious that this is all a matter of corporate strategy. Yeah they should be fined for sure, but as many are keen to point out they keep to the letter of the law. That's not to say the EC couldn't enact some kind of retroactive legislation but that wouldn't be likely as they have their own "special interests" to look after too ...
Funding should not be used as a scale to measure success or failure of a startup
A years-long investigation into a mega-corp is "trigger-happy" and cause for worry?
In the show, look for the one bush that isn't burning in the lava, or otherwise shouldn't be there. They hid a ramp behind it every time.
Marketshare is marketshare and the numbers are clear. Yes, Apple is more influential than its marketshare indicates, but that is hard to quantify (especially legally) and in any case probably not as large an effect as you think.
PACER only has federal court documents.

Small claims court decisions probably don't end up anywhere. I doubt there is an "opinion" even written, just a judgement.
>"well it's only a quarter's earnings across all of Google"

actually, 2017 google made $110B so its not 1/4 but 1/22 of their profits last year.. enormous? meh.
It seems the argument could be that since he didn't object to the new ToS when they were changed, and kept using parts of their service, the clause forbidding arbitration towards RSI is/was still binding.

One oddity, except the usual insanity that click-through agreements should be valid for anything above, lets say $100, is that it appears the newer ToS explicitly states it doesn't apply retroactively. However, since the arbitration would always occur in the future from the later ToS, it might be a moot point.

If all of this is true, and the law correctly applied. Doesn't it create a situation where any ToS for a service - at least those you actually depend upon - are essentially worthless?

Seems like if a change the ToS to include an arbitration clause is applied this way, your only option would be immediately stop using the service, or the provider would be able to do whatever they wanted hereonafter, even completely ignore the rest of the contract/ToS?
This is a funny comment. You can get a samsung infested phone anytime, or Amazon, or any something from China? AOSP is created and being developed by google, calling Google's applications infestation is weird. You can also get an Apple infested (to the very core) phone as well.
Creating a Chatbot for Business
Open it in a private/incognito window.
c5.4xlarge

* 16 vCPU at 3.0 GHz/3.5 GHz Turbo

* 32 GB RAM

* $0.68/hr on demand, $0.43/hr reserved, ~$0.24/hr spot

You could argue that's too expensive, but the cost is coming from the compute, not the 32 GB of memory.
Performance of parallel index scans in PostgreSQL
https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5397

"Dr Brown Bear displays signs of 'burnout.' His disregard for confidentiality, parental consent, record keeping, and his self prescribing indicate that the burden of demand from his patient population is affecting his health. He is no longer able to offer the level of service his patients have come to expect."

Incredible article.
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I suspect this is highly inaccurate, but may lead to false arrests in the way that bad "hair sample" science did.
Playing states against each other is par for the course in the US. Each state can offer wildly different tax structures and incentives, and they all do, because each wants to be the state government that oversaw "6000 new jobs". They've seen similar issues with the collection of sales tax, when one company can "operate" over many state lines.

But saying "hey, that's obviously corruption" isn't enough. We need a good way to restructure tax collection so that the right people get it.

Multinationals paying Luxembourg (Paypal, eBay) or Ireland (Apple, Amazon) for all revenue and operations from the entire EU is wrong, no? How do you fix that?
The Xbox 360 is the only thing I’ve ever bought the 3rd-party warranty for at an electronics store. I don’t really know why I did it that day, but I sure was happy to have paid the $20 or whatever when I wound up exchanging FIVE of them before I got one that lasted more than a few months. What a mess.
Hi HackerNews!

I made this app to fight all the technological pressure that huge distractional services (like Facebook or YouTube) put on us to distract us from our work.

The app aims to develop useful productivity habits and is designed for a personal use. Time tracking, productivity tracking and task/project management combined with a good-looking UI.

Here's a short video that describes the app and the idea best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dV-XdXFrDg
I won't bother to edit again. The SSO patent is here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

Filed in 2005 (on April Fool's day no less!) and published in 2006. It looks like the strongest of the 4 patents. The other ones look pretty weak to me. The first 2 (from 1989!!!) seem to be discussing displaying cached data on a monitor... I couldn't actually get much sense from it. The third one seems to be describing a cookie... But it's pretty darn general.

Not an expert in patents by any stretch of the imagination, though...
Parent post's point was that Google should block European users in response to European sanctions. Why would the EU prevent her denizens from using Google's services for free?

To twist your analogy this is basically like the US deciding not to give Pynongyang aid any more, in which case yeah they might just decide to block US immigration.
I said necessities instead of specifying food or clothes because for some people, items which are hard to impossible to find in small towns can be considered necessities for a contented existence. Similarly, necessities might be friends with a shared (rare) interest that you might have to drive for hours to meet with outside of concentrated urban environments. I struggled over how to word it and I guess I failed. I was trying to get at the point that living in a city can easily broaden what you consider to be essential.

If I was only considering American style urban vs. rural environments, the notion of being able to walk to a grocery store in an urban environment wouldn't be true either (for suburbs).
Fining anti-competitive practices only makes sense when it's successful.

The EU laws around this are also worded as such. You can do anti-competitive behavior all you want if you're not a major player because you'll just be shooting yourself in the foot.
I don't understand why people keep making this argument. It's not about having integrated services. It's about abusing your dominance in one service to force another onto OEMs and consumers.

Apple has no market dominance in the EU, so nothing in this ruling is relevant to them.
What private school was this? Did you also watch Peter and Fevronia?
Relevant statement and partial answer to your question by DuckDuckGo: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1019562507294461953
On the other hand, plenty of startups and their investors insist on being in the Bay area, so I can't really fault employees there that they compare them to the local market. As someone with no desire (and no easy route) to live there, I find this centralization annoying, but startups fueling it IMHO aren't in much of a place to complain.
Yeah, that should have been an "Early Access" game from the start. What they are releasing next week is more so what they ORIGINALLY advertised, which always rubbed me the wrong way. Took them almost 2 years to get it right, after that PR nightmare of theirs. Sadly, this only hurts the player base most, because most players already wrote this game off when they got burned by it 2 years ago. It's really sad to see a game with a lot of potential get ruined by their own hubris from the get go.
> https://speedof.me remains my favourite

It asks me to disable adblock.
apparently not close enough.
You can even tell from the image in the article. The reconstruction is not radically different from the real face, but enough details are wrong that you couldn’t say that they were the same person.
Grammar point. You "flout" a law. You don't "flaunt" it (unless you think it's really good)
Is it me, or 5% isn't that much?
Yeah - having the state stand up for and protect your right to privacy is such a pain in the ass.
Well, Winnie the Pooh is an "attack" on the Party, insofar as people were comparing Xi Jinping's appearance to him. :-)