skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the cadence and size of these fines for the given offenses, they seem like backdoor taxes, not fines. They're hitting Google's global revenue over comparatively minor offenses, seemingly just enough to keep Google around as a golden goose to extract more wealth out of but not drive them away completely like China.
There are lots of different approaches to defining the arguments and options.

* You can build up a structure programmatically to define the arguments, as in commander, and then the usage and shape of the parsed result are implied.

* You can provide the usage, as in docopt, and then the structure to define the args and shape of the parsed result are implied.

* Or you can take the approach I did in fncli, which is to provide the shape of parsed result, as a function signature, and let the structure to define the args and usage be implied.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/fncli

This is possible because Javascript spec includes the function arguments as a string that can be parsed at run time.

Because you're using ES6 syntax, you don't have to learn a new syntax (unlike docli or docopt). And although there are limitations, I've found this approach to handle modest CLI needs with an absolute minimum of fuss.
Anyone who bought an iPhone without a headphone jack got a pair of Lightning compatible wired headphones in the box.

If they bought Airpods they decided against using those headphones, getting a Lightning-headphone adapter to use with their favorite wired headphones, or buying any other type of bluetooth headphones.
My company doesn't allow Linux machines, and I prefer a Unix-like environment for the work we do, so it's Mac for me. I could do most of what I need on Windows, but I feel like doing my work on Windows takes ten more steps than it does on the Mac.

I prefer using Windows at home, and I can write software on it just fine.
> Where is the data to support this?

Have you checked the Oxfam reports? When you take a look at the last years, there is very clear trend. If it continues like this probably in few decades the richest one percent will own as much as the rest 99%.
You can probably blow it in just fine. The problem is really getting bulk materials out of hoppers. A whole world of research and engineering unto itself.

Start with a simple question like: what kind of model do you use with bulk materials. Obviously it's not a liquid, but as a solid it has tons of weird properties- No tensile strength at all. Strength depends on history of compaction. The list goes on...
You don’t need the packaging to return Apple products
Oh sorry, I was going off this metric from Apple: "15 min.
of charging provides up to 3 hours of listening time". A full charge will get you 5 hours.
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you can use them with an Android? I have a pixel 3 and it's pretty seamless when I borrow my wife's to go for a run.
>a wide variety of hardware options to choose from, including ones with great keyboards.

Yeah, keyboards on laptops these days are horrendously bad, especially on Macs. The latest Thinkpad ones aren't as great as the ones of yore, but they're among the best of new laptops. Personally, I have a Dell Latitude E6440, which I'm pretty sure is the last year of that line of laptops before they switched over to that awful island-style keyboard. I honestly don't know what to upgrade to after this because everything went to island keys after this point.
Yes, I'm sure "I'll delete it now if you want" will completely negate any feelings they have about the fact that you've already broadcast those things to hundreds or thousands of people (and a massive advertising corporation that thrives on the exploitation of personal information) for the last 14 years.

"The horses escaped. Quick, close the barn door!"
Well that's part of the problem inherent with the subscription model, isn't it?

Google can make >$100 a click for ads on mortgages or insurance keywords, but subscription models are locked in to revenue that doesn't scale with the category of use - unless they become some sort of affiliate service.
Oh, the space is not going anywhere. It might not be useful, but it'll be there.
I assume to open the firewall. If you're going to run IPv6 at home, you probably want the firewall equivalent of NAT: Connections are allowed outbound, but not inbound unless on a specifically whitelisted IP/port.
Decreasing our reliance on precious metals
Thank you.

I'm always confused by the relationship between emscripten, binaryen, llvm.

isn't emscripten based on llvm? and what's binaryen?

does emscripten provide some runtime library for you to talk to javascript? does the pure llvm provide the same?
It's bad for US tech because apparently US tech companies do not understand what privacy is and why people deserve to have it.
AR: Has Apple Already Won, or Has Anyone?
> You need to develop on a platform that matches what’s running in production.

I disagree. As long as you can test on a platform that matches production, then you should be using whatever development platform makes you most productive. All major OS's are a means to the same end, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses, but all perfectly capable.
The Tech Takeover of Los Angeles
Are the logs you're referencing a public resource? Would be interesting to look at.

>This implies it took almost three minutes for the previous crew to figure out the STAB TRIM needed to be CUT OUT after finding the trim is so wrong that they can’t hold the stick back.

I've seen a number of references to difficulty that pilots encounter managing forces of the flight controls in airliners. It seems strange to me that modern aircraft of that size would be designed in a way that aerodynamic forces on control surfaces would be allowed to translate back to control inputs in a manner that could overpower a pilot. I would think there would be some kind of scaled assist mechanism (ala power steering) in scenarios where there is a mechanical/hydraulic link. I'm guessing fly by wire scenarios wouldn't have this problem?
The same approach would be useful for dealing with the ubiquitous electric scooters. The real danger of them lies not within the technology (or their use) itself, but in infrastructure that was designed to support cars instead.
First, we should keep in mind that I can only speak anecdotally and by extension of that only for people with a higher education.

But with that said, yes, we do. I even know someone who had it, and they quit using weed after that. It's kind of treated like the complicated thing that it is: genetics and existing mental and physical health are all risk factors, and as a teenager there is the still-developing brain to consider (just like with alcohol). You basically have to decide for yourself if all of that seems worth it.
Awful title.
Brooks's Law
I find the best solution is to just use one at a time. The other charges while talking. They charge must faster than they get consumed, so you can use steady-state schema all day with zero interruption.
Wow nice work, I haven't seen anything quite as well laid out for typical songwriter use. There are some good web apps for handling notation and composition but I haven't found anything as nice as what you just created for songwriters.
Source for ASN data and interet registries?
Yup, this is true. Flow, yarn, parcel, and glow are examples of projects which took ownership of existing package names.
Lyft IPO Is Said to Be Oversubscribed Ahead of Listing Next Week
I have bose wireless earbuds that are connected to each other by a short cable. It never gets tangled. And when I want to take them out I just pop them out and they hang round my neck. As a bonus, since they aren't in a pocket I don't run them through the wash. I don't know how much time airpods uses spend fumbling around in their pockets (for the airpods....), but I spend 0 time doing that and 0 time untangling cables.
What's the medical science equivalent to co-inventing the index calculus algorithm? Because from what I understand, the "medical scientists" behind the antivax movement were disgraced later as charlatans, and the index calculus algorithm is one of the more important discoveries in the underlying science of computer security.
Agree with you but this goes the other way too - Ops not allowing security patching or upgrading of systems because "they work".
Hopefully you also discussed the ramifications of her sharing with her too.
Ask HN: What’s your favorite MacBook case?
Edit: removed snarky comment. Congratulations, you got under my skin.
>I don't know if this is an American thing or the industry I'm in, but I've never seen a single developer use a Macbook or have stickers on their laptops.

I work on the East coast and in one of my recent jobs, a couple of the younger (under-30) engineers had stickers on their laptops. This was definitely not Silicon Valley or any industry like that, and these were Dell Windows machines, not Macs.
Why would deploying on a Monday result in working over the weekend?
So are the 9/11 videos, yet those seem to be everywhere without anyone having a problem with them.
Its generally used as a data transfer compression system. So the web server needs to compress the data before its sent to the browser. If you did it at the web app level (client/browser side), the data would already be transferred so there are no size savings.
Do you talk about math lectures? Because during my university time I seldom met people, who understood a math lecture during that math lecture. Especially in advanced topics like category theory, algebraic theory, fractal geometry etc. Usually people understood topics and concepts for the first time long after the lectures, often not until after a second exposure in the next course. Also, in many courses you had to take notes, because the lecturer would use custom symbols and definitions. So I agree, taking notes can be distracting, but in most cases it should help your understanding, especially if you lack preliminaries.
Would you personally board the plane whose crew didn't have this training option?
Yes emscripten also uses llvm, at least as one of the options. It also has nice functionality like libc and libc++.

My linked repo has a tiny malloc and I imported a printf from elsewhere.

I added libc++. It was working, but made the binary 300kb so I removed it.
"Europe-wide protests are planned to take place on 23rd of March"
See you there! ;)
Opera adds unlimited VPN service to its Android browser for free
> As who want you to believe?

The winners (who always write history).

They say it was "the war to free the slaves" but before the southern states seceded the federal government had no intention of starting a civil war and in fact had no legal basis to conduct military operations on US soil even if they wanted to forcefully end slavery.

> Because if you read the declarations of succession...

It's painfully obvious the southern states wanted the institution of slavery to continue but they knew that having been outlawed in the territories that its days were numbered, they would easily be outvoted as new states were formed and slavery would be (peacefully) ended.

And, no, I'm not some kind of pro-slavery crazy person it's just one of my many pet peeves that it's taken as dogma that was the justification for the US government to invade the southern states when slavery was ended everywhere else on earth without a massive civil war.
They wouldn't have to by the nature of how a Merkel tree works.
> Installing F-Droid is easy

but nevertheless harder than installing Netflix

> installing and managing apps through it is also easy

but updates are not automatic (unless you root)

I don't dispute that F-Droid is not terribly difficult to use, but the original statement that "It's easier to use than the Play Store" is obviously false as soon as you take into account the mechanics of getting it installed.
You assume they have a scaling problem. If they're calling me three times a day and leaving automated voicemails, and everyone else is complaining about the same thing, I don't think they're worried about resources.

https://www.att.com/features/security-apps.html
The more I look at AirBnb, it reality it seems like a conspiracy to enable illegal activity (illegal listings, not collecting taxes). I wonder if in the future, a US Attorney or State Attorney General will attempt to bring criminal charges against the principals of the company. The threat of real jail time would do wonders to get their attention.
I get mortified about some of the stuff I see parents posting about their kids on social media. It's like they don't even realize they are living beings with feelings of their own and not some lifeless prop. Especially when its complaining about the kid... do you really want to publish that comment? Are you ok with them seeing it one day?

I don't mind occasional non-embarrassing non-inappropriate pictures and stories, but FFS, please don't live stream their entire life, it just seems so disrespectful to the kid.

It's also uninteresting to everyone else but you and perhaps the grandparents to boot.
I'll find sources for my numbers after work, but I recall:

- 8 million due to lack of clean water

- 7.5 million due to hunger

- 3 million from preventable disease

- the millions killed by 'friendly dictators' and their
regimes, like Pinochet.

- the unrecorded deaths as a result of national or global depressions, bankruptcies and debt (don't know where to get the numbers for this though)

Capitalism is a global system at this point, apart from the odd hold-out like North Korea etc. A lot of the deaths from lack of clean water and disease are attributable to things like the privatisation of water supply in Bolivia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization_in_Bolivia

Then we have Chiquita, Coca-Cola etc. hiring miltias to crack down on labour movements in Central and South America resulting in countless murders. How did they get away with it?

Most of the deaths caused by capitalism are due something called 'structural violence':

It refers to a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs.

So, clean water, healthcare and access to medicine. Something that capitalism has failed spectacularly at.

If you're going to say the crony capitalism we have now isn't capitalism then that's as much a No True Scotsman fallacy as people who say true communism has never been tried.

What we have now is capitalism by the very definition of the word. The cronyism inherent in it isn't some transforming influence, it's part of the core.

I was going to write up a massive post but this guys seems to sum it up pretty well if you fancy a read:

https://www.quora.com/What-has-killed-more-people-communism-...
It's worth noting that not all cruise ships use bunker fuel. Disney's cruise lines use diesel.
> The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed.

-- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding
Residential real estate is an odd one. Countless times I’ve seen it warp the ego of agents and their perception of value being provided. A friend was looking to buy a $15m house, so I vouched for a childhood friend that was newer to real estate. Agent friend was able to make it happen by tracking down the owner who lived an hour away and convinced her to sell. After close the agent friend then complained to me that he got hosed on the deal because of the “100 hours” he put in and only receiving 1% - $150,000 ($1,500/hr). A year prior he was delivering pizzas (!!).
> Recently she asked me if I knew if hackers could break into baby monitor because she was worried some hacker may spy on her sleeping baby... I had a good laugh first, then I felt sad for her.

and what did you tell her?

"Baby" gadgets and toys are the most vulnerable. I liked the story where a teddy bear that allowed parents to leave messages was hosting recordings and replies on a public fileserver. You have to get more imaginative to think about who would take advantage of that and why, but its a valid enough answer, especially for a simply "spying" concern.
You can route call announcements to the headphones but you'll need to interact with the phone in order to decline the call.
I'm just sort of amazed that people felt it was worth that much apparent expense and infrastructure to have synchronized public clocks. One central clock tower with a bell would tell people what time it is.
Yeah, I'm wearing ear buds so much I just don't care that I'm paying a stupid amount for them. I'm going to buy the Apple ones because at this point my ears have probably changed their shape to conform to them. And I even keep an extra pairs on hand because heaven forbid I ever go without for even a minute because one broke, was lost, or ran out of battery.
Yep, I own AirPods and they are terrible when walking around town. Every person I talk to has commented on it. Which never happened with the regular wired ones.

I still enjoy them for music. But the battery life alone for calls is weak — I only get about 1 hour of talk time.
State of Vue.js 2019 [pdf]
Edit, it was shut down because my local area has a rule against bed and breakfasts that aren't located on a main road.

Our Airbnb got shut down after a year by the local government. It wasn't a safety thing, it was a competition thing. Our Red Roof Inn charges 60 a night, but we charged 80 a night.

Our reviews could make me tear up. People saying they had the best stay of their life.

Asking them what they wanted for breakfast, hot tub temp, Nerf guns, and chatting. People loved it.

But we stopped. Government....
Google could conquer gaming by having nothing to lose
I really appreciate you and your site. I am in my 30s now and have enjoyed the weirdness of milk.com since I was a teenager. It is really nice to see a pre-web-2.0 / internet classic site still up and running. It's also great to see it on a domain name like 'milk.com' not being owned by a massive company.
Why quit? Why not just tell your parents to make their accounts private, or remove the images that you're not comfortable with? I feel like there are solutions here that don't involve delaying the parent's participation in social media until the child is old enough to choose to accept it.

As much as this concerns the child's social media life, it's also a matter of the parent's experience. Parents post this stuff to share, and commiserate, and participate with other parents in the experience of parenthood. I find it difficult to accept that this girl will grow up and privately horde all of her children's images and information until they give consent to release it. Teenager tend to struggle with the fact that the people around them have lives as well.

All that said, I operate my social media very differently than this girls parent's seem to. I prune and keep friends lists very inner circle, I never post anything publicly, and I often show my children the pictures that I'm posting and get them involved in the process. they won't be surprised about social media when they become teenagers.

I think the next generation of people are just going to need to develop a thicker digital skin.
Can you be sure of that?
It's attention-seeking. Or if you prefer, validation-seeking. They're addicted to seeing the "likes" counter go up...
I agree with you. I still love my Airpods, but the syncing isn’t consistently any better than normal Bluetooth headphones (except for the initial NFC pairing). I don’t even switch them between iOS/MacOS devices very much. I just open them up when I’m on my iPhone X and they rarely switch the audio over automatically. I generally have to swipe down control center and click the little “broadcast” icon in the top right of the Music section and select my Airpods. Sometimes I have to close and reopen that list several times before the Airpods will show up.
Just look at the havoc being reigned on some neighborhoods in Miami Beach during spring break. Specifically the low-scale, residential flamingo park neighborhood of south beach.
That sounds like a good hypothesis.

I am absolutely with you that in the academic scene refutations happen more quickly now; from what I have been told all academic discourse happens faster, so why would this be an exception. However, I'm not so sure whether these refutations spread among pop-culture more quickly as well.

Freakonomics has been picked apart, yes, but has it faded out of the public consciousness yet?
Their main purpose is to reduce costs to local governments by replacing trained staff with volunteers. HOAs are the Wikipedia of local administration. You ask how towns and counties managed before HOAs were foisted on the people during the Reagan years, and you find out that they managed just fine.
Sure, although my original comment was flagged so no one else will see this (pretty ironic considering the “free speech” arguments of other commenters in this thread).

When I mention "modern art" one might be quick to associate it with the type of people I was criticizing in my original post; rich, well-adjusted individuals who go to Ivy League schools and end up spending more money on paintings than you or I will ever see in our lives. But it didn't start this way. If you trace modern art back to its roots, you'll find a trend among most of the foundational artists and painters of this period: personal turmoil and careers which were almost universally dismissed by the art schools and museums of the time.

Vincent van Gogh's last words before shooting himself in the chest with a revolver is reported to have been, "The sadness will last forever." Indeed, van Gogh lived a troubled life of alcoholism, poor academic performance and psychotic episodes. He is also widely credited as being one of the most important 19th century painters and an artist whose works serve as an underpinning of expressionism, one of the foundational stylistic movements of modern art. We see similar lives of turmoil among other important post-impressionists during this period. Paul Gauguin, who witnessed domestic abuse and death in the family at an early age, ended up broke and living in a hut in Panama when he produced some of his most important works.

Of course there were other key post-impressionists who lived less tragic lives, such as Henri Matisse who was lucky enough to be non-Jewish during the Nazi occupation of Paris. He and other artists of this movement were harshly criticized and rejected by the art establishment of the time, however, which considered their rejection of tradition an affront to art. Nonetheless, it's this artistic movement that led to an entire era of artistic experimentation; expressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstract art, pop art and other genres would follow.
Well, after Lime had to recall their scooters from the Swiss market due to their nasty habit of spontaneously engaging their front brakes while in full swing I, for one, wouldn't be so sure.

Edit: spello
Coral Talk commenting system is a good alternative:
https://coralproject.net/talk/
I think the press release [1] did a good job of detailing the specific activity that was over the line:

> Starting in 2006, Google included exclusivity clauses in its contracts. This meant that publishers were prohibited from placing any search adverts from competitors on their search results pages. The decision concerns publishers whose agreements with Google required such exclusivity for all their websites.

Even if the search result and some ads were provided by Google, requiring exclusivity for search adverts was too much.

[1] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-1770_en.htm
Ignoring the glaring hyperbole of your comment, if their main demographic is white people, then they would be doing themselves a disservice by not spending the majority of their ad revenue targeting white customers, and there's nothing wrong with that.