skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's likely not google get bored, but users didn't adapt product on large enough scale.

What exactly is a "large enough scale"?

The mentality that a project is a failure unless it achieves exponential growth and massive world-eating scale needs to die in a fire.

Even small things have value, and one of the few good things about massive corporations is they have the resources to do a lot small things well. When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated.
Gotta say, I wonder what the Brexit reaction to this will be?
> Also, you can't have a single digital market without a single copyright regime. The economic union implies the single market which implies a single copyright directive.

Why?
I would not be surprised if CDU pushes it through while the SPD mostly looks on, maybe complaining quietly and ineffectively. (There's individuals I expect to speak up, but not really the leadership)
> Well that's bad faith if I've ever seen it. Not every industry out there has to be "useful", some are there for convenience.

That's not bad faith, that's arguing over semantics. You two clearly have different definitions of "useful".
> and in a manner that even eliminates any traffic from the content creator's site

Not true at all. They actually increase traffic. https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-google-news-effect-spain-r...

And you seem to have developed your own silly idea that quoting one or two sentences of a news piece is the same as xeroxing it.
That seems like an overly rigid and adversarial perspective. I don't think online advertising is always done well or ethically, but in general, I support the notion that having access to good content requires a way to compensate content creators.
> However, in what.. 10 mins? you've been able to discover exactly what causes the "spying" and an idea on how to disable it.

True, but that's only because I've been using the OS for a while. A lot of this is accumulated knowledge. There were a lot of gotchyas over the past 4.5 years (approx time I've been using Ubuntu .. coincides with my current employment time) that have been... eye opening.

Yes, it's still better than Windows as far as inspectability for the reasons you just identified. And it's still better than OS X as far as usability (my opinion). But it's still be very disappointing on many levels. I'm sure there are other things which could cause additional disappointments in Canonical that I have yet to discover.

Honestly I use Fedora at home. Even that isn't ideal -- I very much dislike the default GNOME environment and have repeatedly encountered trouble upgrading to different releases. I've been seriously thinking of just building my own personal distro.
I'd like to see the new Gmail interface abandoned. It soaks my CPU doing all these b.s. animations that don't actually advance the UI or the UX. And times millions of users, what's the carbon footprint of all those extra CPU cycles?
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> And of course to set up censorship in general. To start to fight hate speech, fake news, terror propaganda ... and whatever else might be inconvinient.

This is what it’s really about. They’re trying to ram through legislation that requires content providers to remove “extremist content” (as defined by our benevolent overlords) within an hour:
http://www.13abc.com/content/news/EU-to-give-internet-firms-...
Append-Only Feeds: A Better Way To Order Feeds
iPhone 5s was the perfect size for me (I guess that's the SE now). But I've been using the iPhone 6s for the past few years and like it. I don't see myself replacing it anytime soon since it works just fine the way it is.

The new phones are pretty damned expensive though. nearly a thousand bucks where I live for the 256gig version of the XR, and the iPhone Excess is a good 1600USD after taxes in my area.

Just too damn expensive.
News articles are written with the understanding that the reader could stop reading at any time so information is put as early as possible. This applies especially to the title which is used as the very first filter for user interest. Requiring rewriting titles is a bad idea as you are never in an automated fashion going to make a better title.

As an example note that this very website heavily prefers the original title for the link text, only changing it when substantial updates are made or the original title is heavily biased.
as i said, if it makes sense, i'd totally allow using external libraries! maybe i should make that clearer since quite a few people get hung up on that
> They do, and free speech and fair use are important issues to them.

The German law that is related to what US citizens call "copyright law" (Urheberrechtsgesetz) (note that I use this careful formulation, since Urheberrecht and copyright are based on different ideas) has no concept of "fair use".

Also, traditionally, in Germany, there is culturally a different understanding of what US citizens call "free speech" (freie Meinungsäußerung).
"Freie Meinungsäußerung", for example, does not include defamation criticism or libel.
So free speech in the US sense is no important issue for these politicians, because this concept is simply not ingrained in German culture.

To all the US free speech advocates: why is posting a copyrighted file in the internet not considered free speech and thus copyright law is to be abolished?
Bought a 32GB one myself to get out of that situation, along with the larger battery were the assurances that (second hand) it was probably a year newer than the 16gb (16 and 64 models were year one, 32 and 128 were year two).
> this is important because in a conversation, each member must project and rationalise each other communicator's response to a message

Do they, though? Maybe I participate in conversations differently, but trying to unravel how A interpreted B's comment is not something I would do.
The point is not to compare oneself to famous people or groups to score cheap authority points.
I doubt it's "just" a hyperlink. See my other comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971394

I'd have to download the 18.04 ISO to check, which is currently unfeasible at this moment.
And it's fixed now!
Hololens, Magic Leap, Google Glass, all of these will not become "must have" consumer devices.

Reality is already augmented. Need more information than what your bare eyes can see? Pull out your phone. You don't need it overlaid unto your vision. That's a gimmick.
This comment makes no sense.

Steve Jobs was only alive during the early days of the iPhone where Apple was focused on implementing basic features like 3G. We are in the era where what you call gimmicky features are all that is left.

And customers are asking for bigger phones and more phones at different price points. This myth that Steve Jobs never listened to customers is just that a myth.
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And then there was the incident from the early days of the Kindle, when peoples copies of 1984 got disappeared when someone made a copyright claim on it.
Alas, occitan is a dead language. Of course, a few old people still use their local dialect, but how many parents mainly speak in occitan to their children? How many people learn it out of school? Who grows speaking occitan with friends and enriching it with new expressions, like any living language? Occitan may have 3 millions of speakers in France, the Latin language still has more.

The occitan language that is learned in school is mostly a toy language. When Littré wrote his famous dictionary, from 1850 to 1875, he mentioned multiple dialects of the "langue d'Oc" which were still active in the South of France. Gascon, limousin, languedocien, catalan and provençal were distinct dialects. But there are no teachers fluent in any of these dialect, so during the 20th century they forged the "occitan" language which is a mix of these, but mostly built from provençal.

Overall, this article is very superficial. It wrote about troubadours, but forgot to mention a reference well-known in the UK: Richard Lionheart spoke in French and Provençal, and was probably not fluent in English. Living in France, in Aquitaine, he composed poetry in "langue d'Oc".

It's well known in France that the French Republic though that the local cultures were an obstacle to the unity of the nation. So they forbid every local language. There were panels in some schools with the text: "It is forbidden to spit and to speak Breton".
> For all it's worth, it seems to make things worse.

Actually, adopted amendment 160 reads:

> Members States shall ensure that
online content sharing service providers
referred to in paragraph 1 put in place
effective and expeditious complaints and
redress mechanisms that are available to
users in case the cooperation referred to
in paragraph 2a leads to unjustified
removals of their content. Any complaint
filed under such mechanisms shall be
processed without undue delay and be
subject to human review. Right holders
shall reasonably justify their decisions to
avoid arbitrary dismissal of complaints.
Moreover, in accordance with Directive
95/46/EC, Directive 200/58/EC and the
General Data Protection Regulation, the
cooperation shall not lead to any
identification of individual users nor the
processing of their personal data. Member
States shall also ensure that users have
access to an independent body for the
resolution of disputes as well as to a court
or another relevant judicial authority to
assert the use of an exception or
limitation to copyright rules.

List of amendments (adopted and non-adopted): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/report-details.html...

Vote result of each amendment: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2f...

Edit: PDF of all amendments adopted today (includes the full amended text of articles 11 and 13): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
Yes, you could hire Japanese citizens and not Chinese and comply with that.
And it's now fixed!
You don’t need to get married to have kids. When you get down to it, the number of things you need to have kids is pretty small—healthy gametes is sufficent.

But what you should have is commitment to your relationship. Being willing to demonstrate that commitment is helpful, but it’s not required.
They also work great if you are actually sick. I had some British family visiting and they left me some and it was a great relief to my ailing guts.
How We Found a Missing Scala Class
Wow nice, only yesterday I was thinking I wanted exactly that.
Theoretically, could the (server-side) records of which ads the local machine learning decided to serve be reverse engineered to extract most of tracking info?

Local AI keeps sending this guy ads for shoes and cottage cheese == this guys keeps searching for shoes and cottage cheese?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386413.
> I'm really curious what the german government will do. As far as I know they (CDU and SPD) have a paragraph about being against upload filters in their coalition agreement.

It will happen what always happens: they tell you that they are against it, but were obligated by the EU to pass such a national law.
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I think you (and everyone else) does this implicitly. It makes sense for a survival perspective to be able to assess how people react to certain comments & actions in conversation. If other people support a comment it's a signal that you can reiterate the comment or build upon it.
It's not privately owned.

It has mandatory non-voting non-transferable shares. That is, when you fund a bank, you have to buy in at the regional Fed. Why? Who knows, it's a law on the books, and it's basically mindless administration. It does not make it "owned" in any sense.

The Fed is established by an Act of Congress, directly reports to Congress, and every aspect of the Fed's rights and duties is directly spelled out in laws.

If you do a FOIA request for ownership structure, you'll get nothing, because there's no such thing. The Fed is not owned by anyone, it's an independent-from-the-WhiteHouse US agency. It has a budget (and is self funded, from the interests of the securities/assets it holds), it has expenses for staff and for the cost of providing services, it then gets reimbursed from the Treasury for certain services, etc. ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/files/2018ReserveBankBud... ) And it pays out 6% to the member banks, who are mandated by law to have equal to 3% of their capital in Fed Regional Bank "shares".

There's one instance where the regional fed banks can be thought of as "private": from the perspective of the FTCA [the Federal Tort Claims Act].

See also Scott v. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, in which the distinction is made between Federal Reserve Banks, which are federally created instrumentalities, and the Fed Board of Governors, which is a federal agency.
Your razor does try to stop you from using a blade from a different manufacturer, and your printer tries to stop you from using ink cartridges from a different manufacturer, and your car will often strongly discourage you from getting it serviced by anyone other than an authorized dealer.
My Steam account says otherwise.
> Under modern corporate law, shareholders are the owners of the entity and its assets

No, under modern corporate law a corporation doesn't have owners as such; it is a creature of law in which shareholders have a claim on assets in the event of dissolution as well as rights to participate in government of the entity as specified in the governing law and chartering documents. They don't own the entity, and they absolutely don't own it's assets (the entity itself is a legal person which owns its assets.)

It's true that in recent years chartering governments in the US have been less active in ensuring that the public receives benefit (or at least, isn't actively and maliciously exploited) in exchange for the benefits granted by the public in the corporate form, and Warren's proposal—in addition to shifting chartering of certain corps to the feds—could be an inspiring example for a retreat from complacency by chartering governments more generally.
My favorite part of Lua tables is the syntax feature that makes it possible to use a single table argument when calling a function like this:

some_func{
key = value;
another_key = another_func{
foo = "bar";
}
}

Note the use of { and } instead of ( and ). This almost makes it possible to build a DSL. Oh. And the __mode option in metatables to create weak tables by key/value.
Wow, I had no recollection of that. My mistake.
It would be very unfortunate for me to lose my default phone number...
I'm most frustrated by a particular song I purchased in iTunes maybe 15 years ago, which is not just gone from my iTunes library but disappeared from almost all existence. Real art is being lost here.
I'm a layperson for matters related to design. But, for me, that looks like a lot of thinking and writing... just to land on a mundane font with the company name in white on black.

Perhaps it makes sense though, again, not my wheelhouse.
I for example have all promo emails "queue" up whenever they come in and show up at 9am every day.

I have all "low priority" emails show up at 5pm when I'm winding down my workday to deal with them.

That's the kind of thing I'm going to miss the most.
The point is that Ballmer didn't drop the ball on that one, unlike Apple, who killed their server business.
> And to preempt the pointless but inevitable thread to follow: it also wouldn't need the dialog if it were based in the EU.

Exactly. The only thing that every EU-based website should have is a data protection statement. The one on my blog is short and stout:

> No system under my control records any personal data of users of this website.

I also have an imprint because German law requires it. The regulation is clearly aimed at businesses, for private websites it just makes doxxing easy since I'm required to put my post address on there. (I considered getting a PO box, but going to the post office to empty it is pretty tedious.)
Seconding this opinion. I could write pages on how these questions are bad.

But I'll just note that implementing power "without multiplication", but using exp and log is a not even a question. Exp is the power function.
I have some aliases sl (stash list) and pop/drop for git stash pop/drop.

Also make a habit of saving your stashes with a meaningful label.

But yeah, like others suggest -- use branches.
That has got to be one of the most poorly designed websites I've ever seen. I'm on a wired desktop and it's barely loading. Why are there like 5-10 physical inch gaps between sections? Why is there a full page picture at the top with no text or anything?
They're not. First few pages I see some dupes, but none flagged.

El Reg doesn't seem to do well on HN thanks to the robust humour and headline style.
More revisionist nonsense. You left out a few models which makes the product lineup almost identical to today:

MacBook Air was released in 2008.

Mac Mini was released in 2010.
As someone who has used both languages extensively over the last 6 years (Julia for grad school research and Python for my work as a data scientist), I'm always surprised at how quickly people rush to defend Python. "Yes, you can do that in Python too using such-and-such library or with this hack..." Don't get me wrong — the numerous Python libraries are impressive, but at the end of the day, for me personally the experience of using Julia is just far more pleasant than using Python. It seems as though I'm always fighting against Python to accomplish something, whereas with Julia it feels like the language just gets out of the way and lets me do what I want.
Why does a company like Uber, which tweaked it's brand only recently, have go through a rebrand all over again? I can imagine it is an extremely expensive endeavor.

I have for long appreciated the business value of design, but often struggle to understand why big companies tweak their brand in small iterations?
Is it just me, or is this page incredible bloated and slow to load?
I'm getting heroku errors. And it's copyright 2017?
Is the $400 price when they are sold for meat or hair? Or perhaps as just raw material for a camel training pipeline.

Presumably a camel that anyone wants to ride has been raised and trained properly. That camel is ever going to be ridden, then putting down $400 for a warm body is only the beginning of the investment.
Funny how when an exec leaves and the stock drops, the media goes crazy over the stock price. But when an exec leaves and the stock rises, the headline isn't screaming "TSLA up nearly 4% as exec leaves company".
Nice work - Just yesterday I tried typing out 5 lines of Ruby code in a Facebook comment in a group I belong to, and the if...end block had all the leading spaces trimmed out, which made it look weird and negated the point I was trying to make.

Something like Carbon would have made the illustration a lot better, and only added a few seconds to the process.
> Our product is terrible and yet we can signing all of these giant contracts. It is a bit disheartening to realize as long our stuff "almost works" and we keep pushing out features then we will keep growing.

If you have an enterprise support model for your product, client turnover would be a leading indication of how successful the software really is. High renewals and good margin is a successful software product. Whether or not the companies that buy it are completely wasting their money doesn't seem to matter much as long as they all don't go belly up at the same time.

It's also important to realize, if your company is so bad, yet getting so many contracts, how bad could those other companies actually be? The answer is: really, really bad. Fortunately, the IT industry as a whole has convinced the entire world it needs to 'go digital' or their competitors are going to beat them to the market with their 'data analytics.' While it's probably true for many businesses, I think the vast majority is companies wanting to appear cool and hip.
Nope. Made my fan come on and everything. I closed the page before finishing reading.
Head. Meet nail.
A few of us perceive it as unrealistic, because it's too restrictive. C/C++ are general programming languages and I feel I am flat out eliminated before even starting. So if you didn't target the general programming languages, who did you want to target with the challenge?

Also, heck, it's a challenge, we all want in, please make it so :)
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Yup, just creating / swapping html5 media elements. No plans to re-render the video with notes included right now.
2 years ago got a 7 over a 7+ for single handed use felt the SE was too small. Now, I'm just so at ease on the rare occasion that I get to use it. Said owner doesn't like it claiming its 'slow'. I on the other hand just may switch over to a refurb SE.
Scenic: Elixir Native UI Framework
I don't know about all of that. We got lucky to have such rich natural resources within our borders. All of the innovation and entrepreneurship in the world wouldn't have helped much if a bunch of plants and dinosaurs didn't happen to die and get buried in a geologically fortuitous way.
What new direction ?

Apple is following the same path they have done since the original iPhone. They have always had models at different price points.
Classic Microsoft
Beyond3D: The History of Fast Inverse Square Root (2007)
Jeopractice – a Jeopardy flashcard game using  200,000 past clues
This article is intentionally misleading, in that it does not even refer to the fact that this user could have avoided losing these files in several different ways, including simply by making a backup.

This is about losing the ability to re-download and nothing else.
It sounds good until you want to rent a gas vehicle on the same holiday weekend as everyone else and there are none available.
Seduction of mobile? Well... Seduction of JAILS, being on prisoner side?

Mobile world is a closed world in witch costumers pay a data-munging device that they do not really own nor control. Of course I use myself an Android device, mostly to have a good satnav, quick email reading on the go, cam etc. But I live in my own desktop, not using someone else computer's to store my data, of course my mail provider have my messages, but they are mirrored locally on my PC by mbsync, of course Google have my contact list, but it's mirrored on my PC etc.

We have more and more LESS choice but any tech-savvy or free person certainly it's NOT seduced by mobile crap.
Ok fair enough - maybe this is just my bad english, let me know if you have a better way to phrase it.

I do think, that it is quite showing, that google + tensorflow don't believe in the mix of python + c/c++.
I've been working quite closely on the challenges that faces machine learning libraries at the moment, and I can totally see where they're coming from when they're unhappy with the current solution and want to rewrite it in swift. How should I express this in a better way?
Google Docs? Calendar? Groups? YouTube? Plus Android and Chrome, of course.
Can't even see the inputs... https://element.eleme.io/#/en-US/component/form
Not Huawei; just Apple. Huawei won't have any product for quite some time. Their announcement on this is fraudulent vapor.
> Why are they so uncompetitive?

They don't actually make money and their largest competitors have literal billions in cash on hand to buy off their entire labor force if they so chose?
Not quite. The so-called Muslim ban involved countries may have little ability to discern who's who in their own country.
Most Muslim nations did not fit this criterion.

But others actively try to place spies in other countries. It's not wise to treat them as we treat allies, especially given the way they treat their own minorities and political dissidents and neighbors and debtors.
"Sink or swim" advice is laden with survivorship bias.