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> Italian court handed down a nine-month prison sentence to a person who wrote fake hotel reviews

I heard it was reduced on appeal. Now he has to serve a week in prison, and the remaining four months are public service: he will temporarily join the cabinet, advising Italy's prime minister. He will receive no salary, just room and board: for anything else, he will have to leverage his position to hustle kickbacks.
Setting up a business also involves compliance with every law related to your business, hiring employees, purchasing services for the business, etc etc. All of these things are more onerous, expensive and difficult here.

I've been involved with many startups on both sides of the ocean. In America (for better or worse) you get up and go. In Europe, simple things like creating a contract and paying someone are way more difficult and the barriers are much higher. Everything from the address you register your business at to protecting yourself legally is an issue.
You're 100% incorrect; the ad blocker is on by default. And Brave doesn't show any ads by default. I would like to invite you to actually download the application before making such egregious claims.

Also, consider reading my response to "replacing ads" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972072
I still deeply miss Mailbox (the cross platform app bought and abandoned by Dropbox). It was SO fast and sleek. Emails appeared damn near instantly, the app never lagged, and actions taken locally were reflected remotely near instantaneously.

Email clients are a lot better now than then. In fact the best features of Mailbox (swipe to /action/ and snoozing) has been copied by basically every email client now. However, I have yet to find an email app for either macOS or iOS that's as consistently fast.
GitHub banned us without notice – Is Microsoft the risk we didn’t consider?
> legitimate business connections which I can use to further myself professionally

Legitimately curious, how do you use these connections to further your career? Other than coworkers and people interested in hiring me and/or recruiters, and some bigger names, I didn't really see any other use to LinkedIn yet...
"Immersive"
I proudly proclaim to my younger cohorts that I was once in a Space Quest webring. I wear it like a badge of honor!
SE is awesome for travel where you want the phone to fill certain critical needs then stop distracting you.

There will be a thriving SE market on eBay.
I'm surprised the clock generator scaled. Is the clock circuit the same as on the 6502?
Helicopter parenting basically augments the kids decision making. The parent guides them through everything. When the consequences are real, even permanent sometimes, and the it’s up to the kids to do the right thing, and they know it, and they’ve been educated properly on it, then you get a person who is healthy. They develop risk assessment and management and use it in their adult life where, surprise, you have to make essentially life or death decisions every day. You can rack up 30k on your credit card in a single swipe and, for a lot of people, that would be a kind of death. Almost every decision we make has irreversible consequences. The earlier kids learn to deal with that, the better. As long as they are educated and prepared in some way.
> (Thank God for Linux From Scratch!)

Don't thank God, thank the people that actually made it possible. RMS, for example. You don't have to use LFS to be free. You can use any other free software distribution.
It's democratic on paper, sure. But in reality, does anyone know who their MEP is? Five year terms? Total lack of responsiveness (according to comments on here today), lack of real democratic accountability. Sure, it looks democratic, but in reality it's not. Particularly when the EU Parliament doesn't even initiate legislation, the un-elected European Commission does.
They implied (and I think it’s safe to assume) it’s faster and more accurate.

What I’d like is a wider field of view. I can unlock an iPhonenwith Touch ID while it’s on a table without pointing it at my phone. Face ID couldn’t do that.

Minor issue, but it was annoying from time to time. Hopefully it’s better.

I wonder if they added official multi-person support, not just the ‘alternate appearance’ stuff previously announced.
Maybe it’s because OLED phones do black backgrounds well: next to them LCD phones look their best with colorful backgrounds.
Vertical integration is terribly anti-competitive, it's one of the reasons it's often targeted in monopoly breakups. The main cause for this is that it makes it harder to overcome barriers to entry. If you read this article, studied up on PBMs and decided you could do a better job at PBM'ing then CVS you'd need to negotiate with pharmacies and payers to offer your services, even if those services are better if you're negotiating with CVS & CVS to try and squeeze CVS out of the market... you probably won't have a lot of effect. (IIRC in addition to the CVS pharmacy chain, CVS also runs a PBM (as mentioned) and runs a self-funded insurance plan, I forget if they sell policies to non-employees though)

Standard Oil is a great example of a company that used vertical integration to prevent any actual market competition.
> Squats, bench presses and deadlifts are extremely complex, high-risk lifts that serve no purpose for the average, non-competitive weightlifter.

You've clearly never had to lift a couch or push a car out of a ditch, even just squatted down to pick up something larger than a breadbox.

Your body isn't made of glass - it won't explode, and scaring people off these wonderful exercises is doing a disservice to humanity.

> Should they squat high bar or low bar?
Really whatever is more comfortable. High bar won't get you as much weight due to leverages but some people lack the mobility, or the desire, to low bar.

> Wide or narrow stance?
Totally based upon the individual anthropometry. If you have long femurs you can squat wider to get ride of some of that potential moment arm but that's going to load your hips to a greater extent. It'll also depending on how your femur hits your hip bone - I have to squat wider just to get my femurs into the right spot to hit parallel.

> Parallel or below parallel?
If you're competing, aim for just below -you're playing the game and you want 3 white lights with the most weight. If not, then do what your mobility / goals set. Far below is going to cause you to move less wait, but you don't want to be above to keep the knee strain low (note: your knees ain't going to explode, it's just not as nice on em)

> Flat shoes or heel lifts?
That's an ankle mobility question. If you can do it without, go for it, but many people won't be able to.

Stop living in fear of excellent exercises that get you stronger and build character. Progressive overload and months/years of experience will sort most people out before they explode into a pile of gooey chunks putting a bar on their back.

edit: put question marks at the end each quote to help delineate between question / response.
The law in the UK literally disagrees with you about how this works. In fact our Unfair Contract Terms Act (see that name? Turns out even the people who named this act of parliament disagree with your idea that if it's legal that makes it fair, they figured if it's unfair let's make it illegal) says that if you "freely" agree to these unfair terms they still can't work.

You can see this principle at work in Britain's short lease (as distinct from a long leases of say 99 years) residential property laws too. A bunch of potential terms for such leases are defined to be unfair. Some landlords - after this change - went to court and said "well, but my tenants signed to say they knew the terms were unfair and agreed anyway - see, it's right here on page sixty of the contact" and judges told them where they could stick their unfair contracts. So sure enough those terms went away.

As to how you tell, courts already know this. If party A wrote the contract and party B's options were to agree or GTFO then party A has an advantage. Its normal contract law - oh, McDonalds signed this lease, but Tiny Co wrote it, so Tiny Co were the ones at advantage and anything unclear must not be construed to their benefit.
>“Writing fake reviews has always been fraud, but this is the first time we’ve seen someone sent to jail as a result,” said Brad Young, vice president, associate general counsel at TripAdvisor, in a statement.

I don't get this. Writing a fake review doesn't seem like fraud to me. What seems like fraud is a company passing off a fake review as it is legit. Which would mean that the company that paid for the fake review should be the one in legal trouble not the person writing the fake review.

Edit: I should clarify while leaving my original comment up. I phrased this poorly. What I should say is why is only the company who wrote the reviews being punished instead of the both the company who wrote the review AND the company that paid for the fraudulent review in the first place?
Eh. My vision is something more like Twitter.

At the very core it comes down to whether or not people will have always-connected device that can do simple tasks for them. Imagine a layered webs-of-trust from Layer 2 up. Person P1 can trust router R1 (the one they use at home) to accept messages for them. They follow P2, P3, P4 on this future Twitter. P2 may entrust their friend's router. To deliver messages from internet piece to internet piece you use the WoT to make sure that the packets you are sending are from trusted computers. Some institutions, like banks, say, may be more forgiving than others because they have a profit incentive, so if your home computer gets hacked they may disallow your packets for a while, but once you get a fixed computer you're off to the races again.

Forums could be done in a multitude of ways, but what you are primarily asking for is for open forums. But it isn't possible to secure an open forum. We see this over and over again as spammers push their garbage down everyones throats or gloss it up by astroturfing. We can have relative anonymity, for example, Person P1 signs trust to Alias A5. We could even use something more complicated like what Monero does, but I worry at some point it will just turn into another form of money and that is antithetical to the whole model which should harshly punish people and devices that supply trust for cash.

Anyway, I know its a bit abstract, but you could have a forum. And it could be more or less realtime (since I'm getting updates pushed to my own device) but you're right, it is way more complicated and wouldn't truly be the same thing.
The XS is the smallest of the lineup, and pretty much the replacement for the old baseline, it's 5mm taller and 4 wider than the old baseline IIRC>
What supplements do you take? Topical DMSO + magnesium ascorbyl magnesium phosphate is said to sometimes reverse balding. There are nutrients/vitamins/minerals associated with reversed greying.

Vitamin D3, vitamin K2 MK-4, iodine/iodide, chelated/TRAACS magnesium, topical pregnenolone + DHEA (5 mg : 5 mg), nicotinamide riboside + pterostilbene, selegiline, MSM + silicon (monomethylsilanetriol) + vitamin C, astaxanthin..

MSM lotion (face and body)..
I believe you that Amazon is putting lives in danger, I'm just wondering if you know if there has been any documented injuries from shoddy equipment sold on Amazon yet.
https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation

Formal list of products covered under deprecation policy
Currently the adtech companies trying to rely on the legal basis of Consent - they get the user to explicitly agree to the processing required for targeted advertising with a popup advert.

There is a great NGO of lawyers called NOYB (None of Your Business) in Austria who has filed complaints with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Android about the consent dialogs not being valid under GDPR.

The complaint PDFs are worth glancing through to see how disingenuous the adtech companies are in their attempts to appear to comply with consent, when I think anyone reasonable would agree they are not.

https://noyb.eu/

I'm curious as to the detail of Brave's complaint, which seems to add even more to this.
> Outside of some of the bundling features

Bundling (in the inbox) is THE reason for using Inbox. It's the only unique feature. It's the thing that changed how I use email.

If I use folders it's the kiss of death for any email that a rule sends to that folder. I want a single list but with some items collapsed.

Email went from unthreaded to threaded (reducing the complexity massively.

Bundles takes that one step further.

In both cases the critical thing is one ordered list but with a massively reduced number of individual items.
I use ditto for years and it never failed me. It is fantastic.

One great feature is the ability to pasy an unformatted version of the clip
Just because they've finished with the features Inbox was a testbed for (which I am deeply disappointed by because Inbox is so much better than Gmail as a daily driver) doesn't mean they are abandoning that kind of testing approach and have no further use for it.
Millions of water bottles for Hurricane Maria relief left on tarmac for months
> Higher order functions, coroutines, the ability to return multiple values from a function

These features are in almost any language nowadays, including most of languages that AOT-compile to native code. Well, maybe without multiple returned values, with tuples instead, but this is the same thing, especially if there's some primitive destructuring support.

Type coercion for comparison is quite rare too, even js has `===`.

But no standard library at all, so everyone brings his own incompatible hacks (by copy-pasting snippets) and processes lists (hashes emulating lists because there are no real lists) with `for` loop. Even with `for` loop it's not that obvious how to loop over list.

I tried writing in Lua and can't stand it at all, even JS feels much nicer. Lua is minimalism for sake of minimalism, and it heavily hampers practicality. Easily embeddable? Who cares if embedded runtime is 100 Kb or 2000 Kb?

Well, it might be a good language if comparing it to Basic from 80s home computers, so it's used in PICO-8.
Mozilla employee here.

> There have been people within Mozilla who just want to abandon their own code and simply release a re-branded Chromium.

Citation needed.

Here's my quote: we're committed to Gecko.
That is how I'm using Vue as well, new parts of the system are done Vue SFC style but old legacy parts are refactored to in page components mounted against the dom, eventually the amount of legacy jquery soup will approach a point where I can just transfer those components over a full 'Vue' style approach.

VueJS makes that all very clean and simple compared to everything else I looked at which wants you do to do it "our way or the highway".
Is that more likely than it being a clever ploy to appeal to people with multiple cell numbers?
Wow, as that Wikipedia article explains, the 8008 was effectively developed through a prototyping process involving 100 TTL chips. Also, it sounds like CTC (Computer Terminal Corporation) invented the circuit and later gave Intel full rights to turn it into a chip and improve upon it. Intel was simply a contractor who knew when to do some work for free in exchange for IP rights. Did Intel have any idea how successful their strategy would turn out? Amazing!
I remember that was from IRC trolling, would you please /sign my guestbook?, as the /sign command would sign you off of the server.
I think this particular question (a so-called Fermi problem) is a perfectly legitimate interview question. Being able to do "back-of-the-envelope calculations" is a necessary or helpful skill for many technical and analytical jobs.

It's not about getting the right answer, it's about the candidate's process to arrive at the answer.
The first seconds I was so hoping the XR would be the new SE with fullscreen lcd at 4.2'' and a bit cheaper, not such a giant beast. I even endured the tiresome 'incredible bla …' … just to be disapointed.
How is a dynamic secret that has a TTL of 30 days avoiding static credentials sprawled across the estate? It's static (for 30 days) and the only difference I see between rotating the password of an ID every 30 days and a dynamic secret with a TTL of 30 days is that when I cycle the dynamic secret I have to reassign entitlements to the new user ID and correlate this new user ID with my monitoring systems and Vault audit data. I disagree that the compute cost to doing all of that is a negligible amount of overhead.

Like I said, I think there is a use case here for dynamic secrets, but I have questions about what it looks like when it comes to trying to do them at scale. If you have solutions to the worries I outlined, I'd love to hear them.
That the shining example of this system failed at the exact thing it was supposed to be better at.
What is your point? That it's too difficult and we should just give up and be thankful for what we have?

> You can’t just build taller buildings and dump 50% more people in a city.

Tell that to NY.
> Even professional lifters injure themselves while squatting with low weight.

People hurt themselves on the lat pulldown machine every day too. I've seen people roll ankles on bosu ball bicep curls. Injuries happen - it's all about calculating the risk.
In 2010 I worked on building a "dynamic" web app that would run on a very tiny embedded device -- no MMU, about 130 bogoMIPS. Think of an old wireless router you have at your parents' place.

There aren't that many options for building a "modern" web backend on something like this -- the most popular being C compiled into executable(s) served via thttpd and CGI.

Things like templating, or JSON parsing for that matter, would be much easier in something higher level than C, but python, PHP, node, etc are simply too huge and slow.

I discovered Lua, and it fit the niche exceptionally well. The syntax and the data structures takes a while to get used to, but once you do, they feel rather powerful, especially for such a lean interpreter. It compiles into something like a 120k statically linked executable and is (relatively) phenomenally fast -- not only for the tiny computer on which I had to run it, but also for me, who had to write a complicated web app using it. I almost felt like a demoscene developer -- I was able to run something that would otherwise require a full featured machine on a tiny embedded board. Even to this day, LuaJIT, OpenResty, Lapis remain up there on the benchmark tables when it comes to web apps.
Google EU routes all revenue through an Irish shell corporation, right?
My impression is that the dual-camera models will capture real frames for depth of field and iPhone XR will achieve it in software. I could be wrong about that though.
> People didn't really judge each other or bragged about how this tech is better than that

I judged people - IIS was terrible and you were better off with Apache, mod_perl and CGI.pm. I still can't believe how far ahead of its time CPAN was!
WTF

I use inbox for everything. GMail is basically unusable for me at this point. This is a complete disaster.
I do and it can be tough to balance without time management. But I've long since become a morning workout person and during the week I just get my workout in before everyone is awake. My gym is not too far away either and at 5:30 in the morning there isn't much in the way of traffic so I am there in no time. I also have a bike trainer for when it's nasty out.
Is this peddler part of how "TripAdvisor changed travel"[0]?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870480
Yeah but then you've got to use an xperia phone.
I’d be surprised if that was true, but that’s an interesting thing to consider.
More people need to know because the US still doesn't have a sane healthcare system. If you wrote for a ground breaking piece for a danish newspaper about the terrible US healthcare system then maybe it'd be irrelevant (as all the danes would say "Oh, that's terrible, thank god we don't have that here" and go about their merry day), but in the US there is a large contingent of voters (and a much larger oversized contingent of legislators) that oppose sane changes to health care offerings.
You seem like you might know the answer to this question that I've had about Lua:

I can find games, window managers, embedded devices, and a bunch of other stuff that can be scripted with Lua, but there doesn't seem to be anything like a Visual Basic equivalent that lets you layout a GUI graphically and tie the controls and events together with Lua, at least not for native applications. Why is that? It seems like it'd be a good fit.
In addition, maybe. "I only did it for money" isn't really an excuse for the person actually making the reviews though. They submitted the reviews pretending they're legit.
I'm wondering if you can elaborate. I haven't heard this argument before.
This was with the limitations in place (how much entries to keep, for how long)?

I never actually checked how big the db was, I assumed that it is pruned with the limit in place
Remove Google, add iOS and I consider it. (privacy…)
I agree, I don't like the term "lifestyle business", it is just a business, but in the tech industry I have seen that term used in a derogatory way when frankly I love that type of business.

Raising money can be done outside of the traditional tech VC world as well. High net worth individuals who themselves own businesses many times are willing to invest on pretty decent terms. But your point is super accurate, raising money takes time focused on raising money and not building the business or product, which is why incubators/VCs favor multi-founder startups. The incubators all know essentially one founder will spend the majority of their time raising capital, meeting new investors and finding warm intros to investors etc. It is a full time job.
> Uh, most useful features of Inbox have made it into GMail at this point.

Inbox’s basic organization hasn't, and that's it's key useful feature and the one most of the rest build on.
Side-note on Google's communication systems, I watch an email thread at work where it went:

1) Here are my questions
2) I've added responses below in BLUE
3) Additional feedback in GREEN
4) More responses in BROWN

and it really made me miss Google Wave. Inline replies within long emails are not well handled.
They also didn’t talk about iPads which we have leaks for. Speculation is we’ll see an October event to cover that stuff.
Buy sounds like the most attractive verb it seems unlikely that they will stop using it unless its legally not permissible.

I think that a company ought to have to pay for storage of keys required to unlock encumbered media and upon failure to provide said media consumers ought to be able to get the key required to unlock said media emailed to them.
Yesterday evening, my daughter noticed an iPad had been removed from its case and held up the empty one asking what gives? My immediate response, "What you're looking at is the THINNEST, LIGHTEST, iPad we've ever produced. It's 127% faster than the case alone. And now for something we know you're going to love. In the past you've enjoyed lunch, and you've told us about how much you liked late lunch. Tonight we have something really special for you, and I can't wait to tell you about it. Introducing dinner."
Tomorrow: Prolog-like logic programming DSL in Julia.
I am not for or against this practice, but this is how it works in places like EA (minus the racist parts) where security is a concern. Different classes of employees have different colored door badges which is visually obvious.

Unfortunately given the trends, being ethnically Chinese will now be another vector for potential job discrimination.
Yes. Use a local branch. They are cheap to create. You can name the branch and, of course, write a descriptive commit message.

Stashes are for quick save and restore. Branches are way more powerful.
Just acknowledging the incredible diagrams in this article.. really great work by whoever made those
Hrm, they seem to have stopped marketing the iPhone SE.