skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrapping every purchase in a binding arbitration agreement is absurd. It completely defangs consumer protection laws.
We use this at the company I work for, Slingshot, and it has definitely been helpful for keeping an eye on things like huge dev environments that get spun up and not shut back down (I should note: I'm as often the guilty party as anyone else) as well as regular spending. We started using it because the pricing was a lot more small/medium business friendly than some of the other options out there. The team at CloudForecast has been really receptive to requests for new features and they seem to be committed to continuing to improve the product. For instance, the new cost savings report has a lot of potential, so looking forward to seeing where that goes. Saying that reminds me that I still need to respond to their request for feedback on that...
Not if we want to look in the infrared.
> Since 2010, fast-food jobs have grown nearly twice as fast as employment over all (sic), contributing to the economic recovery.

That seems like a dubious claim, we're talking about low-paying part-time jobs with no benefits in a volatile industry.
(Self-reply) It worked in the next page I tried:

https://www.metafilter.com/175389/None-Dare-Call-It-Treason#...
> Google must now bring the conduct effectively to an end within 90 days or face penalty payments of up to 5% of the average daily worldwide turnover of Alphabet, Google's parent company.

The 2nd paragraph in the press release.
A single drunken escapade can ruin your life. What’s your point?
The neptune image is breathtaking. It instantly summons a yearning to explore this unknown icy neighbour.
you forgot that auto pilot likely is only used or only works under certain conditions. So that 1.2B miles is selective. You can't extrapolate that to the 10-20 deaths, which I assume you calculated from ALL miles driven
> So let’s say (presume) Russia has goods on Trump, and we all know they had at least some goods on Hillary

Why do we have to "presume" they do about Trump and "know" they had some goods on Hillary?
I know most people here would find this drastic, but I agree with you. We already have things like OSHA to regulate workplace safety procedures. We legislate things about break times, overtime, etc.

I think creating a specification that office workers must be given a certain measurable protection against general workplace noise and a certain minimum of private floorspace in which to work, would be quite reasonable.

I wonder if a change.org petition or something would be worthwhile.
I find this fine bizarre. Sure, Android is dominating the European markets, but I find it to be a good thing. I am surprised that the EU commission never investigated Apple. I don't know when they stopped doing it, but Apple used to remove apps from their store that were duplicating Apple provided services.

I also think that manufacturers have themselves to thank. AOSP used to be quite complete in the old days, but every time Google updates it, it takes ages for the device makers to update their devices (if they do it at all); that's why so much of what makes Android great right now relies on Play Services. It was a move that was welcomed by the consumers/tech journalists.
Every general labor problem like this can be solved by offering more money until an equilibrium is reached.

If that costs too much to be profitable, the business has an unworkable model.
It's unlikely that Qt will be added to an existing project, so just license the new project under GPL. What's the problem?
You'll find that this system is still in use even today. GNU roff, for example, in non-UTF-8 locales with a terminal as the output device renders the bullets in bulleted lists as a "+" overstruck by an "o" to give a crossed circle.

And the manual systems on the BSDs and on Linux operating systems still use TeleType Model 37 overstriking semantics for boldface and underlining, even though (for starters) GNU grotty has been capable of the more modern (from 1976!) system of specifying character attributes on terminals for decades.

* https://sources.debian.org/src/groff/1.22.3-10/tmac/tty.tmac...

* http://jdebp.info./Proposals/ul-manual-page.html

* http://jdebp.info./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html
As others have said, emoji are just unicode. What's interesting is that the some aren't just a single unicode character. For example, where skin tone is available for some emoji (e.g. Santa) it is represented as the generic emoji, plus a separate character representing skin colour. The client has to interpret this to show the intended glyph. Instagram engineering covered this quite nicely [1].

[1] https://instagram-engineering.com/emojineering-part-ii-imple...
Or, read "How To Have a Number One" by The KLF [0], which is very fun read and echoes your points.

[0]http://freshonthenet.co.uk/the-manual-by-the-klf/
Amen to that! Finally reality is hitting in!
Demolition Man didn't get it wrong. Just wait until Amazon gets into fast food.
How could they patent SSO?
How large a company? This is a communication issue and thus should be very rare in a small company where no department is larger than a single 7-10 person team. It's undoubtedly extremely common in companies with departments of thousands.
Health Insurers Are Using Online Shopping Cart and Zip Code to Determine Rates
> A lot of people think they can DIY medicine. It will be a disaster

So, a person having an obvious anaphylactic shock and being denied an epipen (and dying) is not problematic to you because that would be "DIY medicine"

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/12/23/girl-dies-after-pha...
A one time bonus of $1 per hour isn't really all that much money.

Especially decades after you were a teen, old man (I'm inferring that you must be a crotchety geezer here).
(Meta: please don’t use code formatting for lists; just use a paragraph for each list item, that way it’s readable. You can even use U+2022 BULLET • as the marker instead of - if the fancy takes you!)
Errr...none of those are psychadelics?
Only for those who don't want to contribute to open source. If we're just talking about open source it doesn't matter.
Yes Google (if that's what you mean by Android) does "block" having Bing as the pre-installed search engine.
Not really a problem with Python. There's no linking.
What does "type of car" mean here? Is it brand+price or something else?
Oh, you'll love it when you finishing reading the article and read the bit about what happens if Google don't actually stop doing this in the next 90 days.
Ahh fair enough.

Interesting to note that a quick look on the Firefox OS Wikipedia article has highlighted a bunch of other mobile platforms I'd forgotten.
Penti Chorded Keyboard
The apps are typically installed to a read-only System partition.

With 'root' access, it's possible to remove them via a superuser app or adb - or it used to be the case.
open-source != GPL-licensed
Site is under maintanance, Google Cache link (hahaha): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:europa....
//edit: oh, took only a minute or two :) nice work

I really like this point:

> [Google] has prevented manufacturers wishing to pre-install Google apps from selling even a single smart mobile device running on alternative versions of Android that were not approved by Google (so-called "Android forks").

Woaah, if this is dropped, it might entice someone to produce Google-free Android Phones (e.g. with MicroG) WITHOUT sacrificing the "Google pre-installed" Android market.
I would buy the Google-Facebook-Other_BS-free variant of your otherwise commercial high-to-mid-end, google-and-other-stuff-infested mobile phone!
If $100 for 100 hours is supposed to be motivating, maybe the business owner should start out by raising the hourly rate by $1.
It instantly made me think of Bendy from Bendy and the Ink Machine [1] for me. Given that it's a horror game, I guess we got similar associations from it.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bendy+and+the+ink+machine&iax=imag...
>until Lister

Actually, the "pioneer", a bit earlier than Joseph Lister:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister
was Ignaz Semmelweis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
I don't see this reasoning at all. The fine is because Google is illegally cementing it's position as a dominant search engine through licensing of the android platform.

Where is the problem with making Android free?
PS4 "Pro".
Thank you! I'm very happy to hear you like it.
> I hope Qt for Python will become stable enough so I can make the switch.

Why do you want to switch?
s/were/are/

JOE 4.6 was released just this year.
Meanwhile, No Mans Sky, the underdog-turn-most-hated-turn-underdog-again game is releasing full multiplayer free upgrade next week. They engineered a PR disaster for themselves but have been adding great features at a slow steady pace, which is exactly how it should be done.
In this narrow-field mode of MUSE, the CCD detector can resolve 0.025 arcseconds per pixel (arcsecond is a weird unit for angles used in astronomy). At the current distance to Neptune (according to wolframalpha: about 30 au = 4.5 bn km), this corresponds to about 500 km/px.
Due to observing conditions, I think the real resolution was more like 0.07...0.08 arcseconds, so maybe it was 1000 to 2000 km/px.

I'm not sure if the focal length plays any role here. The resolution is usually limited by the telescope size (true for all telescopes, scales with 1/diameter) and atmospheric conditions (only relevant for ground based ones). At the distance of the moon (300,000 km), the physical resolution is 36 m/px and for the ISS (400 km) it is 5 cm/px.

If you want to play around with it, here's the formula:
length_still_resolved = angular_resolution * distance

The angular resolution is 1.2 * 10^-7 (= 0.025 arcseconds converted to radian), distance and length_still_resolved have the same units.
You know a company is in its last legs when it turns to patent-trolling.
I dunno...does anyone really believe that the job they had in high school was going to be the start of a lifelong career? For most of us, having a job at that age was more about learning to cope with real life. Learning to work with others, maybe dealing with customers, and allocating whatever wages you earned are all important life lessons that are best learned while you have the support structure of living at home rather than later when it can mean the difference between rent and homelessness.
My first instinct was great, another pithy article from a nerd rapture-ist (riffing on Neal Stephenson here). But this piece is actually a very informative and interesting. A bit chatty, but very good overview of the history of AI up to now.

I can never get past the structural similarities between the singularity prediction and the apocalypse of St. John the Divine. This is not the place to parse it out, but the key thing they have in common is the idea of a rapture, in which some chosen humans will be taken up and made one with the infinite while others will be left behind.
What's an "estimated mile"?
Circle Medical seeking Care Coordinators to transform primary care
Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson is required reading before fundraising.

https://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitali...
So they talked about Lower Manhattan and Northern California. This is at least partially a housing problem. Nobody who works in fast food can afford to live anywhere near those places.

If you're a teenager and you're living near those areas, your parents are probably rich enough that they would prefer you to spend more time studying or doing extracurriculars to pad your college applications rather than getting a part time job.
Credit card companies don’t have product level insight. They would just see payments to “Apple Inc.,” hardly a rare occurrence for any customer.
But are the parts that are easy for machines also what is easy for humans? Human attention decreases when things get more simpler and more monotonous while an autopilot can deliver constant attention.
Scientists uncover mechanism that stabilizes fusion plasmas
The trademark maybe dead but the product is not abandoned, nor has it been released into the public domain. The current owners are Houghton Mifflin Harcourt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt

I'm sure if they felt like it they could assert their IP rights over any clones or similarly named products.
"Sure, Android is dominating the European markets, but I find it to be a good thing. I am surprised that the EU commission never investigated Apple."

You are answering your own question. The problem is that Apple is not under investigation because it has 15% a 20% marketshare and so it's impact is regarded as rather small and not seen as a monopoly.

When you have a big share of the pie there are other rules that apply and personally I'm fine with that. When you have 80% of the market it can't be all fun and play.
Same. Shoot, I've been pulled into the boss's office before and told not to use terms like "big O" on the job because they confuse the junior devs. And I've never needed to balance a tree or reverse a linked list or any of those things since college. It hasn't stopped me from getting projects done.
>Can Google just continue their practices after this?

Seeing as nobody else has read the article.

>If Google fails to ensure compliance with the Commission decision, itwould be liable for non-compliance payments of up to 5% of the average daily worldwide turnover of Alphabet, Google's parent company. The Commission would have to determine such non-compliance in a separate decision, with any payment backdated to when the non-compliance started.
Yet another squatter of PyPI packages
This is the idea...
It's cheaper for contractors to slap together a bunch of COTS stuff and get good functionality for a "low price" versus building the perfect system from all-in-one designs. The manufacturers aren't going to make military spec all-in-one components because the military isn't buying that much compared to the commercial market so the manufacturers aren't going to invest the time and money into something that isn't going to sell volume. Even if they would make these parts, they are going to cost a lot more than what it would cost to design a slightly more complex, less integrated system. Everyone is better off with more general parts. More components in a system also allow the designer to swap portions out for newer designs as time goes on where as an all-in-one design is going to require a lot of NRE to update.
What is the PDF format good for? Nothing (2006)
But what you can do as a user is not really relevant.

I cannot change the defaults in an Android phone and sell it to you. That's the problem.
Public Preview of Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall
Has someone done some sums on how much is made by users using Google. Might it not be trillions of dollars?
What am I paying for when I pay Comcast?

Edit: I hear arguments like this and I really don't understand them. I would like to hear the reasoning behind it because it just doesn't make sense to me.
This is solid advice, also for playtesting video games as well.

I definitely think the point about not being the one to teach the game to players, but rather letting the rulebook do so, is important. You won't be there at every play session of your game, for every group that ever buys it.

Additionally, having sessions where you can observe (either because they were recorded or you were there) are great, especially when you aren't interacting with the game, as this will prevent your biases or experience from steering the game onto already discovered paths.
> I do not agree it is reasonable to declare that regular expressions are a bad DSL simply because it is possible (however common) for people to write difficult to read, or difficult to understand regular expressions.

I would not call RE a bad language - they are simply too useful for that. I would argue, though, that it's a reasonable design criticism to say - not that it's possible to write difficult to read code - but that it difficult to write easy to read code.
I mean, I sometimes use a question mark to end statements when I text, and I'm not a Tumblr user?
that's impossible because fast is served via https
Agile Scrum Roles and Responsibilities
The psychodelics will not cause the illness in any way or form - rather the "experience" might trigger an existing one (that potentially can be caused by anything). Although thats still fits with the point about having a disposition to something and acting accordingly. AKA using common sense :D
As far as I can tell the Mozilla addons page doesn't like addons running on it. I'll add a more explanatory error message though. I hadn't thought to test it on HN, so that's intriguing. I'll look into it, but I'd presume it's due to some sort of quirky DOM structure.
Could you? Sure! Could you legally destroy it? As they say, "possession is nine-tenths of the law."
And why would they, if any fraud is insured? It’s priced into their business model.

There are some interesting ethical debates to be had around stealing credit cards. At the end of the day, who is the thief really hurting? The consumer is inconvenienced at worst. The card companies are insured. The insurance companies already priced the risk into their actuarial models.
When your source is a Elon Musk Tweet, the credibility of the report goes down the drain.
That's hefty. But this does affect all major iPhone markets, not the EU alone. So they probably (maybe. I guess.) only put a fraction of that on the bill.
> With this new capability, the 8-metre UT4 reaches the theoretical limit of image sharpness and is no longer limited by atmospheric blur.

Theoretical limit as in diffraction limited? How will this technology "scale" to other frequencies and resolutions? Related to this diffraction limit: is there any overlap in the advances in microscopy and astronomy? For example, do advances in super-resolution microscopy[0] affect advances in optics in astronomy? Could advances in adaptive optics in astronomy somehow translate to microscopy?

(I'm also curious if this technology will make putting telescopes in satellites not worth the cost, but that question was already asked and answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17557482)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution_microscopy
Very cool. Reading Brooks is always worth my time, and a four part review by him on the current state of AI and how we got here... What fun.
Why? They have other games too, by definition drm free: what's awesome if you use wine.
Magnetic flux pumping in 3D nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic simulations

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06672
> and there's no real point in early diagnosis without there being drugs that work.

A lot of health issues can be managed through lifestyle modifications if they're detected early enough.
Android has created more choice, not less
The more the better, I find. For all the hate that Autopilot gets, it really is a game changer, and I can see consumers demanding this and similar technology in all cars from now on. A majority of the driving that I do, both per mile and per minute, are spent on Autopilot, and the sheer convenience is night and day. Being able to open a bottle of water, to tweak the navigation or change the song, or to be able to just have a second set of eyes in case you're not paying attention really has a huge benefit.

At the moment, there remains some bugs to work out, as last night Autopilot decided to slam on the brakes at 150 km/h on the autobahn for no reason, but given how close it is to perfection on freeways, and how many improvements I see in the updates, I'll go so far as to say we should be requiring this technology in all cars like we now require emergency braking and backup cameras.
How does it compare to Elite Dangerous?
I think they came to a point when they thought "This could be huge and mind blowing, and can't be done for a long time if we don't do it" and kept going.

I myself went from a critic to someone shouting "Go ahead!"
EU hits Google with record €4.34bn fine for 'very serious illegal behaviour'
My bad, "exigence" is a French word whose meaning isn't exactly identical in English. To be exigent means to have a high standard. The verb "exiger" means "to require". English adds an urgency dimension that doesn't exist in French.

Many French words built on that template (direct latin root + -ent/-ence suffix) can be used as is in English, but it is not always the case.
This is a dangerous ruling that pushes the world further into the potential for trade wars by proxy.

Contrary to numerous posts-

-no, the law isn't "clear". This is an incredibly nuanced situation, and the notion that Google was just overtly flouting (ed: thx sjcsjc) the law is outright nonsense. Google has a huge litany of bad practices (I personally recently switched my daily driver to an iPhone for that reason), but simply saying "Surprise....enormous fine" is ridiculous.

-the fine is enormous. Various "well it's only a quarter's earnings across all of Google" are outrageous. Over 6 years Google spent a grand total of $1.1B in all expenses for Waymo, for instance. $5B is an enormous, enormous amount of money for any company.

I highly doubt this will be a "pay it and forget it" fine, but is going to ring across all multinationals as a warning.
It's also worth noting that it's $3B per year that Google pays Apple though.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billio...
My thoughts exactly.

The problem with creating new TLDs is that .com/.org/.net/.country is so engraved into people's minds as to what is a domain, that whenever someone sees URLs like escape.ninja or even the ridiculous abc.xyz (which is just self-indulgence), they don't even register as something you could enter in your address bar. Unless maybe you add http(s) in front.
That's a good reason why fines (like what Google is getting) should be huge.

It's deliberate to kill competition while not being in a dominant position, and then when in a dominant position, continue the trajectory by defining defaults.

The Apple apps are dominant partially because of the abusive rules the app store had earlier. It's quite clear from the fact that in any area where Apple did not have a default app, they are unable to match what the free market offers.
Then how is fast.com effective at all? It was created to show that ISPs were throttling Netflix, but if Netflix has boxes at peering points, this seems moot.
I've read somewhere that you should not lend to those more powerful than you. :)
Your booklet says:

We will not cover the following:

2. Any treatment or surgery which we think you do not need immediately and can wait until you return home. Our decision is final.

That's what travel insurance is. It's there to pay for care until you can fly home. Accepting their flight home isn't voiding your insurance. It's getting the coverage you paid for.
>Instead it's going into EU coffers

Lol, you know where the EU spends their money right?

https://europa.eu/european-union/topics/budget_en

6% is spent on admin.

41% is spent on agricultural subsidies and research (e.g. making sure we don't all starve in the future).

46% is spent on development, about 2/3 on helping underdeveloped areas of europe, and 1/3 on helping business growth.

On research alone, $10bn is spent on Horizon 2020, which is one of the pure research funding projects.
It is not compatible, but communist doctrine is not applied in life beyond parroting it in exams or at CCP functions.
Or the parents assist in finding nicer jobs.
As the say in the composer world, we rather have good plagiarism then bad composing. ( freely translated from dutch, beter goed gepikt dan slecht gecomponeerd)
But that's fine: today's young adults can't afford their own homes anyway, so their first job after HS/University still have that support structure.
FYI "what wrong with X?" is not the same conversation as "Are you familiar with X? It has these great features ...". Great that you want to promotoe you're favorite tech, but there are more effective ways to do it.