skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is the archetypal example. They didn’t litigate their way to dominance. Amazon is just better than all the mom-and-pop alternatives, and that is fueled by technology and scale. Wal-Mart is another example, except optimizing for price. Apple is another.
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Copy of what I sent him:

"5 years ago I wanted to be a pro wrestler and had taught myself a couple advanced level gymnastic skills. I went to shovel snow one day after a blizzard and after 12 hours of work developed a case of mono that lasted for three months. i was never able to do my workout routine more than once every week or two after that. In 2016 I got a job that required me to walk 13 miles a day and lift 100 pounds. I got mono and switched to a job that just required 5 mins of work and 8 hours of staying awake. my case of mono lasted for a year until i quit my job. it was devastating, i became frequently confused and unable to understand language and lost over half of my physical strength. most foods would induce pain that lasted days. I got better after I quit my job with a treatment i found a doctor recommend online. since then ive sleep 16 hours a day and get sore throats if i spend too long on my feet. im frequently sore and tired and unable to exercise. i could still beat your ass tho pussy."
It's worth noting that the United States considers a right to keep and bear arms as important as a right to free speech.

Internationally, reasonable disagreement on rights seen by some as fundamental is to be expected.
I think the only reason your comment gets down voted is because it's biased only to one side. I see about what Jon Oliver states as if I remember correct 1/2 as many conspiracy posts from about Trump (Edit: I meant to write conservatives write 2x as many conspiracy posts as democrats. This was not represented in my previous sentence.). It's annoying.

I guess to accurately represent things on Facebook you'd have to say something like conspiracy posts about AOC, Bernie, and Dan Chrenshaw. 2x1 Ratio.

You could have also said, "political conspiracy theories". I get annoyed by conspiracies on either side personally, but I can see how some people would see more of one than the other based on their friends.

Edit: Re-read some of what I wrote and I want to clarify, this isn't me saying i down-voted you. Just an observation.
How did thepointsguy break this story?
That would be ToastedSushi.
I like the spirit of GDPR. I think it is important.

It also doesn't matter if people aren't educated and don't care.... or simply don't care if they are educated.

It's not clear to me that any progress has been made by GDPR in those areas.
Interestingly I experienced something similar in academia. I combined several sources of open data to gather all of an author's publications and link to their respective Open Access versions, and have had objections from people who generally identify as Open Data advocates and had consciously freely licensed that data.
Billionaires are not by any means a random sample of humanity, particularly for the self-made billionaires. They are among the most insanely ambitious or the most insanely risk-loving.

This makes them go to much greater lengths to protect their empires than most of us would, if plunked into such a position.

I think the power and fame has also changed Musk quite a lot, and perhaps something about his lifestyle and substance consumption has changed, because he is acting different than he had even three or four years ago... which was still well into the era of him being a billionaire.
It's time GDPR is actually enforced. I tried to get my country's law enforcement on the tail of some violators but they're toothless.

I don't understand the downvotes though, are you disagreeing that certain countries do not have the manpower to enforce GDPR to the extent they could? Please.
I find it scary that Trump had to issue an Executive Order to get this to happen. It tells me that the FAA no longer cares about safety, but is more interested in corporate interests over the lives of 180+ people at any given time.
I mean, for the average person, it's pretty rational not to care. The only result they see from tracking is seeing more relevant ads. 99.99% of people for the foreseeable future will not have a bad experience from commercial tracking (that they wouldn't have from non-tracked ads anyway).
While I'm certainly not going to argue in favor of the GDPR, the "cooking warning" actually specifically excludes cookies used for things like authentication. It covers cookies used for other purposes, such as trackers.
All my funny cat videos and memes are loading fine. Did you try rebooting your router 62 times?

All joking aside, is this news? :/
Short duration: network, bad software deploy
Long duration: db. If you break data, it takes a while to unbreak.

Source: Me. My career has been spent managing db's for internet scale sites.
> Can you even have unicode/non-ascii in email addresses?

Yes, per RFC 6531:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_email
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_email
As I'm sure you'll be told by the time I finish writing this comment: authentication cookies do not need a compliance banner.
That was true when I was there as well. Organically Google needs to figure out how to create 100M businesses within itself that pay for the organizations that enable them, and staff them for long term success. Doing so would incrementally add a small bit of margin for each one. I expect though they are caught up in scarcity thinking, which leads to bad choices overall.
Have a look https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
I fail to see how google ads will get you feedback on what users want. It’s a one way medium. And at its sky high prices it’s going to be an expensive experiment at that.
The purpose of every job is to change the world in the way that employer wants it changed. Employers employ people for no other reason. But I don't think Fuller is saying all of these jobs are useless to their employers. It's more "these jobs are useless to me, to the goals that I support and understand." I think that just means that Fuller's goals aren't aligned with these employers. He wants to accomplish different things, and people trying to accomplish other things look useless to him.

Reshaping the world to be closer to a given ideal may well be foolish and frequently is. But the proper judge of the usefulness of a job is the person paying for it, not a remote intellectual.
That may be most of the effect on the group taking the placebo. But it is not the placebo effect.

Were there no placebo effect, then we could test the effectiveness of drugs by simply observing one group and giving the other our proposed treatment.
Maybe the F.A.A is a bit too cosy with Boeing?
Since this was Trump who issued the grounding order, can we finally dismiss all the previous HN comments of people saying the FAA and Trump are in cahoots to keep 737 Max 8's flying in the US to prop up Boeing.

-- Edit --
Apparently not. Now all the comments are blaming the FAA and saying it is fishy it took an executive order.
Why Does the Image with the Higher Click Through Have a Higher Cost per Click?
> I'm not certain, I'm not familiar with that situation.

See RFC 6531.
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immediately issuing a notice in support of the airworthiness of the plane

But the FAA has no idea right now what caused the crash. So this notice is nothing more than reminding everyone that it was previously determined to be OK. Nobody thought the 737-8s were flying around without an airworthiness certificate, so no new information is on the table.

If you run up to me and say 'Bad Thing just happened, what do' and I respond by saying 'I have previously determined that Bad Things are very unlikely' would you say I am being responsive to the problem?
It's difficult for the average person to understand the long term implications of this sort of data collection. They don't realize how powerful all these little details can be when put together.
That's a deceptive argument. We know the reason why Malaysia 17 was lost. So we positively know that there is no reason to ground them.
I've been referred to "How to See Color and Paint It" by a self-taught painter: https://www.amazon.com/How-Color-Paint-Arthur-Stern/dp/16265...

I haven't made the time to get into it myself yet, though.
PWAs can be themed by the app.
Google then Facebook and Instagram?

My hunch is that it's the end of Q1 and people are trying to release code changes so they can pad their Q1 performance reviews "designed and delivered feature X on time in Q1".
This does seem to actively circumvent a number of the things that are always held up as why Haskell is a great language: it uses strict types in a number of places, has explicit inline and no-inline annotations everywhere.

It also seemed to require a lot of work to construct the code to make tail call optimization happen, but that’s par for the course in Haskell.
They're pessimistic because the problem hasn't changed - either the rising temps or the lack of political/popular will to take action.
My understanding is that something being 'required for product to function' refers to technical requirements, not revenue requirements. So, yes I agree that it's a problem for small sites (or really anyone who tries to make money on ads).
> Nvidia isn't the cheapest option by far,

That's not the point here. Usually people have problems with Linux and Nvidia because they already have Nvidia in their computer. So changing hardware for Linux to make it work properly involves spending more money. Same goes for peoples printers. And no it's not just about inkjet. This is about drivers and unforeseeable issues you face if you switch and I know what I'm talking about since I made my parents laptop switch over to Mint and been confronted with issues on their laser printer...

> Yes, and lots of other people don't as well. If games are the only thing keeping you on Windows then stop complaining about all the problems and spying in Windows

I'm not sure if you misread the thread here. The original argument was about someone complaining that people have "love for Microsoft". Nobody was complaining about anything you bring up there.

> you're making a choice to enjoy a luxury, and put up with things you find abhorrent, just because of your addiction to games.

So what you did here was to blow out a straw man to infinity. Who's talking about addictions? Not everybody who wants to play a game after work or from time to time is addicted. What is this generalizing overdramatization?

> I have no idea what you're referring to here, perhaps you could try being more descriptive.

I didn't know what you meant by obsolete. That's why I wrote that. If you don't know what's obsolete, it wouldn't be much of a surprise to me considering the way you crippled the other points above but it's still kinda weird.

> In my experience, all my work is in Linux, except for MS Office and Outlook

So I guess you just don't have much experience then.
It's not just office and outlook. It's a endless amount of small programs in different regions of different businesses and hardware. There is a huge world out there beyond your narrow world view of addicted kids, inkjet printers and outlook. The fact that you still think you can impose this narrow worldview on strangers enforces the point I've made at the end of my previous comment. You know, the one you ignored. You might want to sit down and think about this point alone. It may give you a hint why people like you are not helpful to the whole migration away from Microsoft. You are rather another reason why it's happening slower for some or not at all for others.

Bye.
Does that include all the data from all the Android devices? I don't think Google could get data on eg. when every shop in the world is busy without Android devices sending them that data. So I'm guessing they have a whole bunch of data they can only get from Android devices that's valuable for their advertising business too.
Even crazier, Apple in some cases forces apps that use webviews to block out links to the Kindle Store that would normally appear. My iOS app [1] has speed reading and accessibility features that we overlay on websites, including the Kindle Cloud Reader.

Apple wouldn't approve our app until we blocked the Kindle Store button from loading on the Kindle Cloud Reader website. It never occurred to me that Apple would try to exercise control over how third-party websites are rendered inside webviews, but it turns out they do.

1: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beeline-reader/id938026867?m...
We all got rounded by going uphill both ways in the snow.

There was no Golden Age. People have always been the way they are now.
wow, this is totally different than my experience. i'm a privacy advocate who defaults to DDG, but I find myself forced to use Google for many technical queries because DDG rarely handles anything except obviously answered searches. side by side comparisons with Google have been devastating, so i switch back and forth depending on technical workload and privacy-interestedness
A fundamental problem with regulation of an industry is one needs to have experts in the industry create and enforce the regulations. But how does one become such an expert? By working in the industry.

The alternative is having incompetents doing the regulation and enforcement.
My understanding is that joining under an assumed name is an option, not a requirement.
I mean, he has a phone-line, and his Secretary of Transportation is in charge of the FAA. So its just odd that he'd personally involve himself in this issue. There's a myriad of ways for Trump to get this done with better optics.

Even if Trump were to give a phone call along the lines of 'Ground the Plane or else I'll write an executive order' , the optics of the situation would be so much better if Chao (Secretary of Transportation) or Dan Elwell (FAA Acting Administrator) were to give the announcement instead.
They had no choice. When no other major regulator would stand with their position, and the public didn't wish to fly on the Max 8, the position became untenable.

After the flight data recorders are recovered from the Ethiopian Airlines accident they could reevaluate if it turned out to be something else. But this seems like a rational safety first position given what we know today.

Hopefully Boeing's April patch and mandatory additional training mitigates the issue well enough to resume normal flight operations.
No. I don't believe that theory, but there are plenty of "in cahoots" situations that become untenable over time as more info comes out.
Seriously: Where do you get the idea that DuckDuckGo is just Bing? I can't find a single source for that claim. What I can find is a post from Gabriel Weinberg that says that DuckDuckGo is not Bing.

It comes up VERY times DuckDuckGo is mentioned, yet there's not a single source that suggests that DuckDuckGo is just a frontend for Bing.
At least you are free of Quora now!
I don't know about the others, but Spotify is BSing about being blocked on the Apple Watch.

Until WatchOS 5 the APIs to do something like Spotify didn't really exist. There were workarounds, like by abusing the workout API, but unsurprisingly these has significant drawbacks, were unstable and Apple cracked down when they found API abuses.

Apple "blocked" Spotify only in that it hadn't (yet) released APIs that supported their use cases.

It makes me wonder how disingenuous their other claims are.

I do think services should have more options than Apple allows for accepting payment.
You mean, personal odds of being on a plane that crashes, vs having to deal with having flights cancelled, rescheduled, and the fallout of that (missed connections, meetings, ships, etc)? Even those who were not originally scheduled on 737MAX would be affected by that.
> They have a monopoly

If you redefine "monopoly" to mean "minority market share," then yes, I suppose they do.
> A protein gets phosphorylated by a receptor, then its on its merry way till it hits something it interacts with and maybe because it's phosphorylated it activates that thing to do something else, or maybe, luck of the draw it doesn't.

There are proteins that spread via diffusion, but there is also transport along microtubules in transport vesicles. Not entirely sure how the routing/navigation question is solved though, aka how does some vesicle know it needs to go to the nucleus vs golgi apparatus.
Thanks for the link, this Kantu XClick and XMove image-driven "real user simulation" project opens up some interesting possibilities.

It also points out a significant limitation of Cloud Browser's imagemap-based architecture. Screenshotting the page locks away the text behind an image, inaccessible to screen readers, copy and paste, or other interactions. This doesn't seem easy to solve, since the most the img tag offers for accessibility is an "alt" tag, which does not allow specifying which areas of the image contain what text. Sending the actual text (like html.brow.sh) would solve this problem, but then layout is up to the end-user browser again.

Client-side OCR'ing of the image may be a possible alternative, will look into it thanks!
Last I heard they are looking for a European country to analyse it, because they don't trust America to fully and honestly investigate.

That's pretty unheard of. But I can't blame them.
Uh... as an American/Canadian dualie I can state that this simply isn't the case. The reports of timeliness are mostly tied to super rich folks that would get treatment faster in the states because they'd cut in line in front of people who need that treatment more. Up here healthcare is prioritized based on need.

The clause about barring excessive health costs isn't unreasonable, Canada, as a country, is basically an insurer and is being dickish about letting people with pre-existing conditions onto their insurance who haven't paid into it, this is a defense against the US's broken system that would encourage all sick citizens to flee to Canada. That said when I immigrated I had several long term health issues that posed no barrier to entry and the cases where this is enforced are rather rare.

Canadian healthcare is perfectly fine, but it isn't your rebound date when the US healthcare fails you. People shouldn't immigrate just to take advantage of the system.

All that said, I am hopeful you guys will get Medicare for all down there and actually cut your costs-per-patient and enable people to be more free to pursue their individual liberties.
> rb808's comment is that the totality of healthcare spending ought to be added to the tax percent when comparing tax rates amongst OECD countries.

rb808 does not say it ought to be. He says that the comparison is complicated, and that it would be different if it was added in, not that it should be added in. One could with more justification interpret him as describing a problem and noting the effect of one plausible method of attempting to resolve the problem, rather than claiming that that particular method is necessarily correct.

> Your original comment doesn't appear to be apt to me

That's because you are trying to view it as an argument in defense of the position you've read into rb808's post rather than a tangent responding only to the specific claim in your post that was quoted, from someone who doesn't even agree that the position you've read into rb808's post was likely even rb808's position and who, in any case, wasn't arguing in defense of any position, actual or inferred, posited in rb808's post.
FTA he's quoting:

> And the Dutch DPA’s guidance makes it clear internet visitors must be asked for permission in advance for any tracking software to be placed — such as third-party tracking cookies; tracking pixels; and browser fingerprinting tech — and that that permission must be freely obtained. Ergo, a free choice must be offered.

Neither cookies, nor tracking pixels, nor browser fingerprinting are software. Your web browser is software. The server side runs software. These are data.

It seems pedantic, but I think it shows that the lawmakers have an underlying misunderstanding of how tech (and the world) works.

To make an analogy, cookies and tracking pixels are akin to license plates. I think the authors of this law thought they were more like cellular GPS beacons.

It's one thing to say, "no installing a device which actively communicates home on your visitors". It's quite another to say, "No remembering your visitor's face unless they tell you it's ok."
Recently a company I trust was sold to a company I utterly dislike and have zero trust in.

Before the sale was executed, as a EU citizen I was informed that my consent was required for the transfer of my personal data to the new owners.

I did not consent. My data is not in the hands of the new owners. And under GDPR, I was able to request all the data they had on myself in order to make an archive of it before the execution of the sale.

None of this was possible a year ago. Know your rights, use them, you'll get to appreciate them.
Single-issue accounts are not allowed here, and for weeks you've posted about nothing but this. If you would please stop, we'd be grateful. HN is for intellectual curiosity, not fixed agendas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One of the largest internet companies in the world having a massive, global outage?

Yes, that seems like appropriate news for "hacker news", a website where people discuss technology news.
Advertisement doesn't require profiling and surveillance. That is what GDPR and other efforts like some ad blockers are trying to protect against. The emerging consensus is surveillance capitalism is unethical and increasingly illegal.
I've played both. RimWorld became... repetitive really quick compared to DF, however, certain limitations in DF have significantly hindered how much I want to play it, namely I find it super hard to have a good overview of what goes on in my DF fortress after a while while in Rimworld I didn't get that feeling.
This is true, but Google is also adding more search surfaces (e.g., google home, assistant etc.). So, it's possible that they might attract proportionately more users using these surfaces.
I have little faith that he "had" to issue anything. It falls in line with his pattern of dick swinging. "Look, I saved you guys! Your favorite president saved you!"

In due time we'll hear how he told FAA he'd handle the optics.
This stopped being a functional democracy a while ago.
You beg the question by saying it's "their own data" in the first place.

The idea that, because it's about you it's therefore yours, is wrong.
From my understanding if the cookie is for an account on a website (which usually is only required to store private information such as name, email, address, etc) you would need to display the cookie warning.
What makes you think they're capitalizing scrap as R&D expenses? Just because they have a lot of it?
Professional drone racing will be streaming for free on Twitter this year
Probably, but I’m guessing the problem lies elsewhere in this case.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/13/18263719/b...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/03/13/...
> So its just odd that he'd personally involve himself in this issue.

Personally involving himself unnecessarily is Trump's MO. "Only I can fix it." was one of the themes of his 2016 RNC speech.