skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 30% for each country seems really high to me.

The article misstates what the proposal actually says. It's a quota of 30% on "European works". The term is defined in Article 1 (1) (n) of Directive 2010/13/EU [1], which the proposal seeks to amend; it includes works originating in the member states, works originating in countries that are parties to the European Convention on Transfrontier Television, and works coproduced based on agreements between the EU and third countries. (There is an additional provision ensuring that the movies are actually produced mainly in these countries and not just through letterbox companies having a legal presence there.)

So, Netflix can definitely offer French movies to Belgian viewers in order to fulfill their quota or British movies (even after Brexit, the UK will remain a party to the European Convention on Transfrontier Television) to Irish viewers.

An overview on the state of the legislation can, as with most EU legislation, be found on the European Parliament's legislative train website [2].

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:...

[2] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-connec...
A person tries to anonymously reassure the public while putting their career at risk if they are found out, and the response to their good intentions is to try to out them and destroy their career as a result? I feel that's a little messed up, especially when NYTimes states they are aware of the identity of the person so it's not like the validity of the article is suspect.

Regardless of how you might feel about everyone in the administration, it'd certainly be a clear warning to people about the risk of making such statements in the interest of transparency, and you can be sure we'd never see one ever again, from any politicians on any side of the political spectrum.

For the sake of discussion, what ethical arguments do you think there are for finding out who wrote this? Let's assume you aren't in the Trump camp, since it'd be reasonable to say that if you support Trump then you might be more motivated to find out who it is, and there's nothing wrong with that I suppose.
An issue I had with AWS was that even after they launched VPC ES clusters, they still hid the node IPs in the API output(I guess they patched ES?!). Our use case as a data lake meant that we had severely degraded performance with the hadoop/spark drivers than one would expect form it.
I switched from speakers to this soundbar (http://a.co/d/3vQr3Dc) which is high quality audio, good for movies/TV/games/music, but also minimal when it comes to cable, space occupation, setup, packing, etc (it's large but conveniently shaped). Best hardware optimization of my desktop.
Because SWE projects and companies are global.

The internet, mobile and desktop OSs are all global.

The top engineering companies have offices all over the world that work together.
Its more about smaller industries, but in the scenario I described, probably not: there’s no reason that more psuedo-companies wouldn’t spring up, to service the other streaming services.

If you somehow blocked this garbage film industry as well as implemented a minimum requirement rule, such that only “good” films counted to the percentage, and given that “good” is relatively difficult to meet, so supply is severely constrained, then lockout is not unimaginable. But it’d probably still be difficult without additional regulation: prices would simply increase until the strangehold was broken (as a studio, what do I care about netflix’s monopoly if amazon is willing to pony up?). It would still be locked down to a handful of major services, but that’s a scenario that comes about with or without this law

Also an addendum example: chinese actors/directors/producers in film, whose primary value is allowing potential access to china distribution.

When you substitute merit for nationality (or most other things), its trivial to game, and it will be gamed.
Well, if what the author of the op-ed is saying is true, they are one of the few people holding back the worst of Trump's behavior from destroying this country.

Unmasking that person will surely make them unable to continue doing so.

That assumes that the op-ed is completely true and that the strategy being described (resisting the worst impulses of a dangerously inept leader from inside the administration) is the correct one, but it's not a hard argument to make under those assumptions at least.
Points to a senior speech-writer. Someone who has written speeches for both Pence and POTUS - but probably more speeches for Pence... might be an op-ed directed by Mattis but my money is on the speech-writer going rogue.
Sure but do you put your laptop bag on the ground, pick it up, then later eat a sandwich?
So its the person that writes Mike Pence's tweets? Not sure a term frequency analysis is enough to conclude much.
Profilers with a flame graph gets you the same information without having to do a manual search through your execution.
I already have an HTML spec; it's called HTML.

I already have a javascript spec; it's called ECMAscript. (still wish I could back in time and stop whatever fool decided to shove "java" into the name)

> Putting aside the Google bits, is there a case against building within the AMP HTML and JS spec? Or is the case against all down to Google's ownership of the project?

It's all down to how Google treats AMP pages in their SERPs. They only feature the ones in the Google cache.

Imagine if Google put sites hosted at GCE on the first page of results, and moved any site hosted by AWS or Azure to the 2nd page of results. Think anyone would get mad about that?

Why should it be remotely OK for them to use AMP to do the same thing?
Can't companies host and control their own version of AMP?
the fire marshal would frown upon that, unfortunately... even though they might think it's a fun idea.
Take a look here for proof at least from the physical side.

https://www.ftsafe.com/products/FIDO/Multi

The case design shape and LED positions are identical.
You'll need to check the USB VID and Bluetooth MAC vendor ID's to be sure the hardware inside is the same.
Switching from labels to folders has been painful as part of the FastMail transition, but I'm largely glad I made the change. Now my mail is standards-compliant and I don't have to deal with all sorts of crud when I have third party mail clients that don't support Gmail's custom stuff.

I know FastMail is working on JMAP, which ideally will be a new standard that supports labels, but if it takes off, it'll be a number of years before labels is something you can assume a given mail client will support. I use platforms that rarely have official app support (aka, not iOS or Android), so wide standards compliance is a big key.
Perhaps it will decide not to make something which could replace itself.
maybe political candidates should have gofundme campaigns..
Fluency when discussing ethics is extremely useful when ethics are being discussed. Ethics of future AI systems will need to be discussed among all participants in order to improve the chances do the right thing. So i think it's very important that the tech people know the terminology, whether or not it makes them return their library books.
Hopefully you made it to Penang then.
Alternatively, one could argue that these other unfounded liabilities, such as social security, are also poorly run because of them being unfunded.
> Rhinovirus, the virus that causes the common cold, was detected the most. The researchers also found traces of the influenza A virus. Swabs of toilet surfaces did not reveal any respiratory viruses.

Is the null expectation that respiratory viruses, which are expelled through the mouth and nose, should be found on a toilet seat, where you sit?
Google criticized for skipping hearing on foreign meddling
Assuming these fruits were not native to SoCal, how did they get the plants/seedlings there? Under the table? I think it would be very difficult to bring Vietnamese flora into the USA through legitimate channels.
I'm perplexed at the cost of these. I get that they're aimed at the corporate market, and this is probably spare change from their perspective, but does that mean that the education, small-business and personal markets don't deserve the same level of security?

The device must cost a couple of dollars (at most) to manufacture, and I highly doubt the development and service costs add up anything close to the amount they're being sold for, so is the price simply what they can get away with?

Security-wise, how does this compare against a (free) phone-based 2FA app (be it TOTP or network based)?

I'm not against paying the real cost for a product/service, but this seems to be one where it doesn't add up.
The actual title of this article seems more appropriate: "Google AMP Can Go To Hell"
At least now i can think of a benefit from the hot CPU heat transfer burning my thighs.
NASA’s Voyager Mission Prior to Launch 41 Years Ago Today
"...not so terrible" isn't a ringing endorsement.
Ask HN: Would you consider a team of white European people diverse?
Ask HN: What can we learn from TempleOS?
The late Terry Davis's TempleOS has been widely praised in spite of its idiosyncratic features. Could other operating systems stand to benefit from some of Terry's ideas?
The worst was probably payphone handsets, back when they mattered.
Pomodoro technique helps here: 25 min. focused work/flow. Then, 5 min. break. After 4 Pomodoros, take a longer break
I noticed I also stress less and standing up during break energize me
Around 4500 regular army, and another 2500 reserves; mechanised infantry, light armour, artillery and AT. Also a few small warships and patrol boats and a ~16 combat oriented helicopters. The main weakness would be the lack of any combat aircraft. An invading force with even a small aircraft carrier, or using long range bombers, could be a significant threat.
WHY though?
In 2009? Social security is a defined-benefit program, not defined-contribution. It matters when you're talking about securing the elderly from severe deprivation, especially when they're the most vulnerable.

And what about the guy who blows his savings on bad tech stocks? Are you and the rest of the electorate prepared to kick him to the curb?

You may spend extravagantly expecting to live to 85, but what if you live to 105? Social Security acts more like a life annuity. Yes, the rate of return sucks, but relative to what the free market offers in life annuities its not too bad.

Social Security taxes are capped at $128,000 for 2018 (it's indexed and increases each year). If you say you could have retired at 40 without cherry-picking retrospective market highs, I assume you've been making significantly more than the SS cap all this time. So, I ask you, did you actually investment 27% of your income over that cap in retirement funds? (Whether tax deferred or not shouldn't matter.)

Social Security is a back stop. It's hardly ideal but it doesn't exist in isolation. It exists in a context where financial markets and retirement funds are very lightly regulated. Where enforcement regimes are often intentionally left toothless and ineffective. Privatization of Social Security would be more likely to end up like in Chile[1], where banks skim double-digit management fees and enforcement of mandatory contributions is absent, than in Australia or Singapore where private, individual savings plans work within a constellation of supplementing policies.

[1] Using a system largely designed by conservative American economists.
Roundabouts are way better and safer than 4 way stops.
> template the function and generate it for any type they might need it for

How? This is C++ generics. I thought Go didn't have generics?
AMP exists, primarily, because content publishers cannot afford to have the points of presence that Google has (e.g. Google Global Cache, Google Data Centers). The residential ISP oligopoly makes it so that only big players (e.g. Netflix, Google) who can peer directly with the ISPs get sufficient bandwidth to compete at a reasonable price. Everyone else gets to pay the premium to the middlemen (e.g. Akamai, Level 3) or bend the knee to Google for their market access via AMP. Publishers also must be competitive on the biggest search engine in town and the enhanced page ranking of AMP articles probably forces the issue for most.
We have used the ESP32 platform in a few projects recently. Personally I love the balance of functionality vs BOM cost.

The most recent use case has been with an internally developed boostrapped device that will focus on employee tracking and workflow management. We expect to launch this in Q1 of 2019 for our first real world implementations combined with a SaaS offering.

Another was for a B2C device that was developed for a private company to provide service and interactivity to their customers with a mobile App (controlling and monitoring the device) in a very niche space.

Happy to talk about specifics - feel free to reach out via email (in profile).
My ethics class was actually one of my favorite classes.
It's always been "curious" that Swift never credited Scala, I thought.
Given than a numpy array could contain lots of different kinds of data, how do you tell whether you're passing something image-like? Seems like even a thin wrapper could prevent some stupid mistakes.
Even if a person doesn't support Trump, actively interfering with and sabotaging an elected official who holds the highest executive office in the country seems like a bad thing to do.

If a person doesn't like the president, the proper recourse is public criticism working to ensure he doesn't get re-elected and if possible impeachment . . . the proper recourse is never actively sabotaging the president of the United States. There may be exceptional circumstances where the president is violating the constitution, however, we still have a functional supreme court so that exception isn't raised in this circumstance.
The high score of VP and POTUS is surely reflective of their speech writers... isn't this backed up by the fact that
VP has .8 and mike_pence has -.05?

Regardless, if throw out POTUS and VP, we are left with Pompeo and Ross as the two highest.
As an old white american guy, when I read the headline my first thought was Indian = Native American and was thinking it was somehow related to casino resort hotels on reservations but it still wasn't making sense.

On your latter point, absolutely. And the people who make make the biggest effort to categorize people into hyphenated-Americans are the very ones who turn around and accuse people of being some-kinda-phobic or some-sorta-ist if they don't see the world that way.
The article notes that it's usually women that drop out of the workforce to stay home with the kids, but it doesn't mention that it's usually women who are the ones being paranoid about unsupervised children. 30 years ago, I think it was the total opposite. My mother (and many others) were fine with the kids coming home by themselves and being latchkey kids.

what changed? "Adam" in 1983. I noticed a significant shift in parental behavior after that movie came out. My mother declared that I was no longer allowed to walk home alone after school. Talking with other friends later on in life, they too noted that things changed in the early 80's. One cited the rise of AIDS as a reason his mother wouldn't let him walk home. Another cited the McMartin preschool trial. The fear of random people snatching up and molesting/murdering kids became endemic. Fear had taken over.
If you think someone should not take an action, the burden of proof is on you to prove the action is unethical, not the other way round. This is not the same as a whistle blower unearthing provable crimes. This is someone in the president's cabinet admitting to acting against a duly-elected president's will.
It's got quite a bit of university debt, so it's just working on the whole intelligence explosion thing on weekends and evenings (when it's not driving for Uber)
I found the article to be mostly self-aggrandizing. With full respect for you, I think it is naive to believe that the author wrote this out of altruism.
Spotify + Sonos system
Depends. When you look at people, do you just see their race? As a part of a "group?" Or is there more to people?
I’m not a morning person so I have a hard time envisioning myself getting to work before 7am to procrastinate for a total of 1.5hrs. Does this guy leave work earlier in the day? I would probably become less productive at work if I was there 7am-5pm and leisurely took my time. I like to have time at home to relax and think (procrastinate) too.
Google has changed and people should not use their services.
Sounds like a small fry (relatively) case made easy by what seems like really overtly stupid things (like charging the visa applicants - short term money vs long term fraud).

No one seems to be going after infosys, etc despite their business model consisting of essentially the same behavior (sans payments from applicants). We can objectively back up that claim now by simply noting the drop in their h1b applications now that there’s actual enforcement of wage requirements using actual market wages for applications.
Building self-healing, observable systems with AWS Step Functions
Show HN: Trellinator – Automate Trello with Google Apps Script
Once more than half of all Americans use FB every day of their lives, not a ton of room to grow! They are increasing US rev though and international growth.
Serverless costs explained: 2.6c per day to handle 141M monthly requests
Any split would be self-enforced. The ban on acquisitions would be the impetus to stay under the market cap.

The article specifically notes that the Bell split was a bad model, as it just created multiple local monopolies.

As a shareholder, I don't particularly lose as now I own stock in Google Search + Google Maps + Android (or whatever combo).

Or corporations decide they want to stay big... but can no longer defensively acquire prospective competitors.

Which seems to cleanly solve the problem of "No one aspires to be the next Apple / Google / Facebook, they simply want to be bought by them."

It would depress valuations (as there wouldn't be a reliable acqu-exit), but that might not be such a bad thing either.
> Intercepting communications overseas has clear advantages for the NSA, with looser restrictions and less oversight. NSA documents about the effort refer directly to “full take,” “bulk access” and “high volume” operations on Yahoo and Google networks. Such large-scale collection of Internet content would be illegal in the United States, but the operations take place overseas, where the NSA is allowed to presume that anyone using a foreign data link is a foreigner.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
I've been playing around with: http://asciimath.org/
And to finance things sensibly based upon real revenue flows, not speculative debt drawing on wishful thoughts about future growth.
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Sounds like the no true Scotsman approach to urban planning.
They still haven’t built the Analytical Engine, which was the general-purpose computer and significantly more complex.

Also, building something with the benefit of 150 years of technological progress gives you quite a leg up on the past even if you use techniques that would have technically been available back then.
Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (first draft)
This book provides the investment philosophy behind the Patel success and how it can apply in other realms.

The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai

The author is an investment manager with a focused value strategy.
Previous discussion from 7 days ago (~140 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875658
This AI Tracked Unusual Market Behavior Before Today’s Big Crypto Drop
> It took just a couple of months of evenings and weekend work to complete the project.

That's kinda a lot of work. I'm not sure if you are saying that everyone should do the same - that doesn't sound realistic.

The site does load fast and look great, though!
> but I thought the everyday meaning of "sorting" was ordering, not categorizing

Go ask your wife how she sorts the laundry.
This article is made up entirely out of innuendo. With the same facts you can write an article about how much Google trusts the design of U2F and this particular hardware to put its name and reputation behind it, ship it to its own Advanced Protection Program customers and hand it out to its own employees.
> but banners and placards on the roads are below the line

I would include that as above the line. My understanding is ATL is for mass viewing. While BTL directly or reasonably targeted to the individual. I say 'reasonably' as often EDM/DM (emails and mailers) have broad targeting cohorts & elements but are considered BTL.
Just searched for "Trump". Every single carousel entry was an AMP page. So then I tried "Isis", "confirmation hearing", and "Angela Merkle". Same thing, 100% AMP in the carousel.

This is on an Android phone, using Chrome, with a US ip.
> Well at any rate, the difference is that nearly anyone can learn to read, whereas there is no evidence to suggest that more than a few percent of people can become a computer programmer.

LOL, programmers aren't that special. I would stake my life that 90% of people have whatever genetic potential necessary to become at least an average programmer.
Famous computer scientists worked at Burroughs. Among them Knuth and Dijkstra.

Wirth also worked _with_ the 5500, but I don't think he ever worked for Burroughs.
Branding or brand strategy would have been better language/jargon... not that this helps with verbing!
Except it's not HA nor doesn't scale out of the box, big difference.
That could be partially due to the fiber in all that dried fruit acting as a laxative.
There's two keys here and some adapters. It costs the same, or a bit less than buying your own keys individually. These counter phishing better than TOTP.
I'm not seeing any CSRF tokens (but I don't generally work with node, so correct me if I'm wrong).

If your POST endpoints accept application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data, you will definitely want to add this. If you don't, it becomes trivial to rig up a website that will use your browser to trigger a POST to your internal endpoints.
It’s not that simple at all.

Sovereign entities like state governments have the option of simply not paying creditors. Bonds get renegotiated, pensioners get scrip instead of cash.

Ultimately, these impossible obligations that US government subdivisions have will be paid for via inflation. The US has the unique ability to tax wealth globally via the dollar.

Cities go bankrupt, states and territories do not. Pension obligations are generally state obligations.
That is pretty neat. Improvements on the analytic side (if you are interested in the opinion of a random person on the internet) would be to scale your coordinate system (e.g. scale the distance and time to make average velocity and radius equal 1) and look into using a symplectic integrator. Better for these types of systems.
This thread is in response to a section of the article where this claim was made
Responsible states have managed to figure out this problem.