skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For that matter, Google is not much different.

A few months back, I had to log into my Windows partition, something I avoid as much as possible. I wanted to install firefox. So I get on IE, search for "firefox" on google.com. Above all the results, the top prominent ad slot is for Google Chrome.

Google stoops just as low as Microsoft.
>If someone is doing something of value without profiting personally, the next question about that activity is "what info am I missing about how they profit?".

That is a sociopathic statement that ignores all of human morality, denies any human feeling of empathy or acts of kindness, and pretends culture does not exist. It is certainly the logic of modern capitalism though.

If you saw a child about to fall into a well, and nobody else was around, would you help her? Of course you would. When you are eating thanksgiving with your family, does the strongest member of the family steal the turkey and then charge everyone for pieces of it? What you are saying is patently ridiculous.
These days I assume by default the intentions of companies are not good (especially the big ones) but when I was younger, I used to think these companies play nice with others (generally speaking). I hate that I feel this way, but pretty much everything they do is towards one goal only - money and market share, everything and everyone else be damned :(
I think what has changed is that Microsoft is no longer the massively dominant force it was pre-Internet. In those days, it really was the 1,000lb gorilla. It is still a big company, but Google at least can certainly compete with it as an equal.
You're making the paper producer liable for what someone writes on it.
I once had to pay a pharmacy a higher copay for a drug than their list price for it.

Once they found I had insurance, they said I couldn't just buy it without using my insurance (probably a lie). Is it the pharmacy ripping me off and getting double paid, or is insurance getting a kickback on the copay? I think the first explanation is more likely.

Apparently, this is a common thing, but I found it to be puzzling.

Just another anecdote of how screwed up our medical system is here in the US. Imagine going to a store and paying higher than retail for an item...
Thank you. Anybody who has any influence in the discussion, please help to make this clear. It is important for the researchers, I think. In this particular case arXiv is by no means "small" (has 1.4 million articles) but is non-commercial, What about Figshare which may classify as commercial? Other platforms?
I personally believe (without any evidence) that they are ambivalent, maybe slightly opposed. However, they needed to oppose in public, otherwise, this would have been a PR disaster:

Publishers: "You steal our content and are unwilling to pay, so we need a law!"

Google: "You're right, please do the law, because it would harm our competitors!"
Something that's not brought up often with this argument - the sales scope for modern games. Super Mario World was doing well if it broke 10,000 or 100,000 sales. In contrast a major game these days will break 100,000,000 sales.

$60 is also a bit of a red herring, since $60 is the base price for a game - when you start throwing in all of the special features, the price of a game climbs to over twice that amount. And that doesn't even cover the microtransactions not included in the gambling category - 4-5 expansion packs each the price of an indie game, skins, poses, voice lines, etc.

Let's not forget that EA have openly stated to their shareholders that not having loot boxes in their games doesn't affect their revenue. Either they're lying to their shareholders, or to us. I wonder which one it is.

These companies are raking in tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. That's not the sign of a fragile market.
Please don't use code formatting for quotes. It make sure the content you want people to read unreadable on mobile.
Ideally, the "requirements" (laws) that the state creates are kept reasonable by the "producers" (population) through democratic mechanisms. Or, put it more simply, if the government passes stupid laws, the elected officials can be voted out and replaced. This is a check that only exists in a democratic system - in the case of Soviet economic planning, there existed no democratic mechanism to change the system.

I was amazed by the concept of free markets when first learning about it, and it seemed like letting market forces play out should result in an optimal situation for consumers, though now I am more cynical and mostly expect bad consequences like monopolists putting effort into not allowing competition.

So due to the different nature of efficiencies and inefficencies of state and private actors, I currently prefer a system where the government is very involved in key areas of human rights, social welfare and basic needs (so education, healthcare, welfare payments, management of physical/mental disabilities, the justice system), and the private sector is mostly handling technical innovation, consumer goods, manufacturing, most services, etc.

Hopefully we've not yet reached the global optimum of these systems and can see both government and markets evolve positively.
iOS doesn’t even allow alternate browsers that aren’t just wrappers for their engine.
Completely agree with you! At the same time, my personal experience is that Stanford Hosptal billing is outright fraudulent.

And they appear to know it, so don’t treat the bill as some final price, it’s actually just the first round offer to take advantage of people who don’t have the time or inclination to fight it.
Your standard Windows 10 options are Pro: Free but with ads, or Enterprise: Pay yearly to be able to remove ads
Huh. This does sound bad and honestly quite scary. Is there any theorizing made on how these plants get affected by radar? What exactly is the biological mechanism at play here?
Firstcheck.vc
I very much prefer DRM over having everything I do on the internet to be monitored.
The good old WYSIWYG days. That was the hot thing in the late 90s like NoSQL was a few years ago.
He's not young, and Axel Springer has been cited as a potential "sponsor" of this (I assume companies behind GEMA as well, which I could only describe with adjectives not allowed here)
Businesses don't use the Home version. The "higher" editions have more control, and in a business setting you can manage those settings centrally.
The crucial issue that I miss both in this directive and the current practice is that companies are encouraged to use automatic filters while actual copyright holder have almost no way of appealing against false copyright claims.

I'd be fine with automatic content tagging if at the same time false copyright claims by someone who does not actually hold the copyright would lead to a hefty fine and/or be considered a crime.

Right now, large corporations seem to spam the systems with automated take-down messages without any control and any incentive not to do so, to the effect that actual content producers have almost no way to defend themselves against false claims. Every youtube channel owner can sing you a song about that.

That's a problem for both the US and EU copyright system, but it's also not clear to me if and how the forthcoming EU directive would fix that problem. For all it's worth, it seems to make things worse.
GNU Tools Cauldron 2018 presentations
I agree with you there. For the general population, be it family, grandma, or individuals that tend to operate outside the mindset of the general audience here, the learning curve is going to be a bit steeper if you were to put Ubuntu in front of them. However, every one of their newer releases has made strides in terms of ease of use and stability. Personally I think https://snapcraft.io/ lifts a HUGE burden off making popular software available to a non power user who might be new to linux.
Just look at the games listed in this article: FIFA. The output from these loot boxes directly impacts your ability to play the game. It's not just cosmetic.
yet another stupid decision by the EU lawmakers who are obsessed with regulating anything they see as a grey area.
https://www.arvato.com/en/about/press/2018/facebook-and-arva...

Directly from the devil himself.

Arvato belongs to Bertelsmann. Here's a German article about how close they are to the government.

https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Lobbyismus-Koenig-Bertelsma...
I did not mean to imply that, I just wanted to make the point that eating less is not always good advice, in particular in the age bracket that suffers from age related muscle loss.
Lack of realistic alternatives mostly (surely someone will champion Linux here, that person is deluded). Someday, if MS keeps pushing this direction, the pain of dealing with another OS's shortcomings and differences will be outweighed, but we're not there yet.

And we're not fine with it, we just can't do anything about it because Microsoft does not listen to complaints.
The alternate browsers allowed on iOS are really just wrappers for their engine. You can’t really have an alternate browser in Apple ‘s iOS
For putting web apps in CMS?

Why risk your app on dependency of some CMS?

If you are looking for market in extending some popular CMS, then you probably should go for some more popular CMS, which currently is WordPress. Unless you are in an industry which has some nice CMS usage like Drupal or Joomla.
European Parliament endorses upload filters and “link tax”
True. Personally I didn't fall for their show and I have continued not to use many of their technologies. .Net Core? No thanks, I have Go, Java, Racket, even Haskell.
Parent is right, but you're right it was created because of it.

But it applies to processing of personal data, this is independent of if it happens over the internet or not.
None of those has been an issue for at least a decade on any major distro.
Microsoft Word is a more complex piece of software that delivers more value to more businesses and individuals than (virtually?) anything that anyone on this site has ever made.

It amazes me how little people value other people's work on this site.
I read it more softly than that. Of course we get 'paid back' for making the Thanksgiving turkey - by goodwill. I'm paid for moral acts by a reinforced self-image and satisfaction. There are lots of forms of payment.
Yes!!! You would be surprised what things you can negotiate in stores and restaurants. You need only ask. In restaurants you can even substitute unhealthy items for healthier items in your meal in many cases. Many local restaurants I go to even have items you can order that are not listed on the menu.
The article is needlessly verbose. Here's the one paragraph that contains all of the information you need:

> If you’re currently sedentary or have a serious chronic illness, check first with your doctor. But as soon as you get the go-ahead, start a strength-training program using free weights, resistance bands or machines, preferably after taking a few lessons from a physical therapist or certified trainer.
With a slot machine, you have the chance to win money back. With loot boxes, you don't (any "rewards" are forever locked up in the game).
To paraphrase Stein - what can't go on forever, won't.
Node.js 8.12 released
Yeah, but wouldn't cutting 500 million of the wealthiest customers from your solution have a pretty significant business impact?
There are nearly twice as many Americans working below the minimum wage than at the minimum wage [0]. The BLS data is from self reported numbers. It doesn't include information about Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or by individual state or local minimum wage laws. But if even a portion of those individuals working below the federal minimum wage in the gray market or under the table, it kind of makes minimum wage rates less important. If there is that much flexibility of employees to shift from (presumably) legal minimum wage jobs to under the table jobs paying below minimum wage, then increasing the minimum wage could serve to move some of those minimum wage workers to the informal sector. In the informal sector, they don't benefit from legal protections and would harm them in the long run (IMO).

[0] https://stats.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2016/home.ht...
Weight training into old age does much more than prevent muscle loss! It also prevents osteoporosis and increases bone density, decreases likelihood of falls, and might even prevent cognitive decline. Basically it prevents you from slowly withering away as you die. Instead you are pretty normal, then one day you die. It doesn't make you live longer, but it can give you a lot more quality years.
The End of More – The Death of Moore’s Law
You also forgot the most important factor. Time. When your in school it's paid for. When your in college it's paid for. When you have children and you need to "put food on the table" the equation tips the other direction.
If PHP, then ProcessWire [1].

ProcessWire is a Content Management System, not a CMS which includes a design or layout system like Wordpress.

So as a developer you are free to develop the front-end the way you like. Which is easy with the provided API.

I use it for API's, small and huge websites. Love it.

[1] https://processwire.com/
> We might turn to theorem proving

Question: what typically happens when you attempt to prove a program that is not correct, especially a large program?

1. You come to a point where to proceed with the proof you have to show some particular thing, and it is apparent that you cannot show that. The nature of this snag does tell you what to change in the program in order to clear this block. I.e., the proof attempt finds actionable bugs in the program.

2. You come to such a point, but the nature of the snag doesn't tell you anything about why it happened or how to fix it. All you learn is that your techniques are insufficient to resolve the status of this program.

3. You reach a point where you have deduced all that you can deduce and made all the inferences that you can make, but that was not enough to prove the program correct. You haven't hit any particular concrete blocker though. You have simply run out of ideas. Maybe someone else can do better.

Question 2: when you have proven some program correct, how hard is it to adapt or update the proof when new features are added to the program?

If it takes a lot of work up update proofs, they may only be feasible for programs where the proved version can stay in service for a long time.

For programs where a given version can stay in service for a long time, I think we probably should be making more effort to prove them if they are used in areas of importance.

SQLite probably does fall into that category for most of its users and use cases.
I believe the word you were looking for is: "Corruption".
Surely you can just move house to get a different ISP and so in line with your other reasoning it can't be a monopoly?
>I may be naive in saying this, but I believe the law is made with good intentions in mind.

I disagree. This law was made with the intention of being selectively enforced. This is never a good intention.
If I want to quit playing M:TG, I can sell my cards (I've done this twice, and it's been profitable both times). If I stop playing FIFA, there's no way to recoup any of the money I've put into it. My rewards from FIFA loot boxes are tied solely to FIFA.
CMD ["bin/run-dev.sh"]

comes from official Dokku docs, https://github.com/dokku/dokku/blob/master/docs/deployment/m...

I don't think it has anything to do with running in dev environment only.
I'm from Quebec as well. Do you work directly for a client, or through a consultancy?
Adventures in TDD
TripAdvisor hopes that jail time will scare off the dishonest folks creating fake reviews. We hope so, too.

That's the take of the Skift travel blog? No description in the article about the law that was broken and whether or not it can be applied to violators outside of Italy.

And, honestly, if peddlers of fake reviews are criminally liable and can be sentenced to jail then there's a problem with the law. TripAdvisor, Amazon, Apple, and Google definitely need to boost the disincentives for posting fake reviews, but referring suspected offenders for criminal prosecution is over the top unless fraud or other serious crimes are involved.
No. We don't.
>Rightholders are liable for unjustified takedowns

That's potentially interesting, what does it mean in practice though? How would they be liable? If there was a monetary penalty attached, the record companies would be bankrupt in a day based on the false positives of the youtube content ID algorithm.
Like everything else, hype wins regardless of the truth. This article won't get enough attention, unfortunately.
1 - Synology has mail software that can backup any IMAP mailbox

2 - Searched, emailed, asked questions. I ended up with three or four quotes and picked one

3 - It's only a few hundred miles away geographically. Latency is under 30ms. This is 10x my home lan (2-3 ms), but in practice I have no issues with SSH or Remote Desktop. Both feel as fast as having the machine on my LAN.
Both copyrights and patents are stupid in a digital age. If you don't want people to make copies of bits and bytes (large numbers) you found to be interesting or even arranged to be interesting don't upload them to the internet.

Once those bits and bytes find their way into the digital world you might as well kiss them goodbye. When you try to control them it is like going to a public street and yelling "I am going to go get a burger from Bob's Burger" and then getting upset when a bunch of people also go to the same place and make it all crowded for you.

Simply put, nobody should own any arrangement of numbers, sorry if that fucks your lucrative monopoly up.
A zebra doesn't change its stripes. This kind of behavior (in a general sense) is a good example of why people were so worried about Microsoft acquiring GitHub.

Remember, the scorpion ends up stinging the frog in the end, because that's it's nature.
Because the GDPR people, just like the musicians supporting this copryright law, are incapable of seeing unintended consequences. As long as they get their “thing,” they are happy. But GDPR and the copyright law are coming from the same “place.” They are obviously different, but they are variations on the anti-American tech superiority theme that seems to be playing out across Europe.
maybe - but the philosophy behind it is similar. The EU lawmakers just cannot stand to the existence of unregulated area. Everything gotta be under their control. Unfortunately, once you support pro-strict regulations, then there is no going back. One day, I believe, the internet as we know today won't exist in the EU.
I keep seeing this on HackerNews - everyone seems to convinced that keto, intermittent fasting, and fasting are the new holy grail, I am unconvinced. I am convinced in the good old "enough sleep and cardio" theory though, since both have known working mechanisms (incread blood flow and debris clean up during sleep).
The BBC might do this, good for them. But other similar organisations might not.

This happened in Germany over a Creative Commons NC licence. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140326/11405526695/germa...
Every sufficiently large publishing company on earth will demand a link tax, where "sufficiently large" means they can afford one or two lawyers.

Why shouldn't they? It's money lost otherwise.
I was too, basically the article is saying to lift. Which I do agree
with but if you're suggesting TRT (testosterone replacement therapy), something that has definitely become popular and is being advertised heavily - I'd caution that it's not for everyone and there have been plenty of lawsuits filed already and problems allegedly associated with it. I guess like everything, check with your doctor which the article does suggest. At least 9 products have been named in the litigation. Fortestam, AndroGel, Axiron, Androderm, etc.

One of the many lawyers working on these cases: https://outline.com/YEpTGg

The MDL source: http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/mdl-details.aspx?UGlDS1bLxpRHyf...

You do have to wonder about guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is 71 (ridiculous) and is in better shape than most. I can't imagine how much work he has to put into to keeping that up. Supplements can only do so much.
My only Apple computer is my iPad and I have the opposite complaint. I've never installed a browser and don't really want to as Safari works well enough for me. However, when an app goes to open a web page, it opens a dialog asking if the page should be opened in Safari or Chrome. I'll pick Safari and check the box that remembers this setting. Then, a few weeks later, it will ask me again.

Why does it keep suggesting Chrome?
> It's impossible to write bug free code

I've heard it quipped as every program has at least one bug, and every program can be optimized to be smaller, and so by induction every program can be reduced to a single, wrong, instruction.
This law is to prevent any non-mainstream news outlet to share content. From the UKIP site:

"The great danger is that it will destroy the capacity for free speech on the internet and social media, which has exploded in recent years and is an invaluable alternative to the so-called mainstream media."

https://www.ukip.org/national-ukip-news-item.php?id=18

The law is about the so-called "fake news", now that we're close to the 2019 European parliament elections.
Chans allow anonymous users to upload images and historically this leads into a lot of illegal content, especially stuff like child porn, to be uploaded unless you have strict moderation.
even the nexus5x is a magnitude beyond what actually poor low income households typically have access to.
think feature phones not smartphones
You're getting downvoted because you have a different political view than more liberal-minded HN posters. It's just the way hive-minds work.
rightfully so, don't you think?
someone has to invest in you besides just you. could be parents, government, mentor, investor, teacher.
I look at this crap and I think, good grief, this is just such a waste of developer time, user time, computer resources, etc. Think about this. Someone had to add code to the OS to specifically check for this and pop up this message. Wow. Our industry is taking a dump. It's truly sad.

Oh and not to mention that any code could potentially be buggy and lead to yet more malware infections. Not something Windows needs help with!
I read the articles as well, and this commenter is right that, on their face, they don't seem like they would apply to a site like Google News. That said, everyone, including Google, seems to think they do. And as far as I am aware, nobody at the EC has said anything to the contrary, even though it would be easy to do so. So it seems most likely to me that the naive reading of the text is incorrect, and that both this reddit commenter and myself are missing something.
> While we all wish a competitor (just a click away! /s) would arise to compete, we all know from our experience with Google that lock-in is real.

In the case of Google search, it is. Duck duck go is good enough to be my daily driver.
The problem is that it just pushes out the "unknown" factor to the next box. The content of the current box never changes for an individual, but the content of the next box might have that rare or legendary object that I really want.

Practically speaking, it's a brilliant move because it works around laws without removing the addictive gambling feeling.
Was there some kind of html mode for Word? I have a faint memory of actually using word instead of frontpage
I had a Google interview where the interviewer started by saying we will start with a warm up question and then we would go into a real question.

The warm up question was difficult and I was completely embarrassed that I didn't some it right away. As I walked out I knew for certain that was not a warm up question and was pissed that he had consciously shaken my confidence right off the bat.