skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve recently decided to only buy products made in the USA, if at all possible. If that’s not available ideally Germany, France, or maybe Japan.

I’ve noticed that products tend to originate in these countries because the manufacturer has decided to prioritize quality. As a bonus I’m much less concerned about contributing to horrible labor conditions.

I personally put my heart and soul into ensuring that the things I make are exceptional. I’m not going to accept less from the products I rely on for long periods of my life. If I’m not going to need it for a long time I probably don’t need it.
>but with cheaper processing fees

What? The product's page says it charges 1% + whatever Stripe charges ("generally" 2.9% + $0.3). A quick search says that Square charges 2.6% + $0.10 per in-person transaction. Seems like that this product is more expensive than Square.
If you want names, transformer read-only storage was originally invented by T. L. Dimond in 1951 and used by Bell Labs. At IBM Hursley Laboratory, Antony Proudman was responsible for memory development including TROS.
>It is not a flaw of Google that it won't suggest "is hillary clinton still controlled by the jews" when you type "is hillary clinton". If it was just a big trie of what everyone typed, it would be completely dominated by 4chan troll bots.

Would it be a "flaw of Google" in your opinion if Google blacklisted such an autocomplete if that is actually what a lot of (real non-troll) people were actually typing in and interested in finding results for?
The pro-union group within the roughly 110 person company doesn't have enough employee support required to establish collective bargaining. The pro-union group does not want unionization to go to vote because of this, so instead they've chosen the tactic of creating bad PR for the company management and the demand that company management accept unionization without employee vote. Employees who are both pro and against unionization have concerns about how the union organizers have acted and that it may be detrimental to the long term health of the company.

About 20% of the company publicly, openly supports unionization but 2 people got fired. From the rest, almost 100% of them have received a raise or a promotion during the same period.
Trump releases rule requiring hospitals and insurers to disclose rates
Frauds where Amazon loses money, or frauds where Amazons customers do not get the product of its purported reputation, or maybe not even the product they thought they ordered.
In cloudformation, you could customize your resource types with aws lambda. It is like creating the providers in terraform.

Plus, cloudformation is free and managed service. You do not need to maintain and it is wrong, you could yell at AWS. Unless you bought terraform enterprise, it is still a pain to maintain another possible failure point in your system.
> the second is just an excuse to let your values implicitly bias the local Overton window without acknowledging that

I can't speak for the original commenter, but I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge that. Banning politics is a difficult and inevitably biased rule. But the alternative seems to be that politics invades every minute of everyone's life, and that's completely intolerable unless you're fortunate enough to precisely align with your local mainstream.
Yes, I meant more along the lines of "not be engulfed by the closest star" as another commenter mentioned. :)
Awesome! Glad that I wasn't the only one who needed this. Let me know if you have any feedback while using it.
Thank you, looks great and it's open source too!
This is another favorite of mine: https://grunfy.com/scaler.html
Ah, good find! The article claims

> The app collects a 1% service fee on every single charge.

Per your comment, this is indeed a more expensive Square. Square already does Card Not Present transactions.

The question then is why do people choose to use this?
We've tested numerous synthetic data companies and so far have not found any which can produce data that is useful for real world applications. There are some that are close enough where academic groups might be able to publish around it.

There is a single startup we're working with that has come much closer, but still isn't quite there. I think that if they manage to get funding they'll be somewhere usable in the near future.
The Innocent Pleasure of Trespassing
The current holding that APIs are copyrightable, and reimplementing them for interoperability is not fair use.

This is in direct contrast to decades of consensus that APIs are not copyrightable, and furthermore, there is a particular procedure to go through [clean room technique, which Google did] to ensure that the API is reimplemented without infringing any copyright.

Letting this ruling stand would mean that nearly every piece of software you use infringed someone's copyright.
Until the day this thing is done 100% by robots, thanks, I think I will stick to glasses and lenses.
All the parts that do not fit in their worldview, naturally.
> (It turns out that it's not possible to selectively repress emotions: "I've got to watch what I say about politics" subconsciously spills over into "I've got to watch what I say" which spills over into "I've got to watch what I say about anything new and controversial", and you lose the latter well before the former.)

I don't believe this. I can tune out whatever random BS my coworkers a few desks over are talking about and still be engaged in technical discussions about what we're building.

It just requires some discipline and an expectation of that discipline.
That's a relief. I stopped into the Sacramento location over the weekend and was wondering what the heck was going on. Place looked damn near picked clean.
Strangely enough, there are three tape designs that have the conductors offset slightly. The stack of Mylar tapes cycles through the three designs. The purpose is to prevent wires in neighboring layers from being parallel, which would cause stray capacitance.
Somewhat off topic but, when I simply typed the site bill.com on Firefox's private browsing, scrolled down a bit, they show me a popup to chat and they have my first and last name there.
The same thing happened when I went on my cell using Firefox Focus, which doesn't keep any cookies.
1. Anyone else seeing this?
2. I hate it
3. Where do they get this info from?
Seriously people - read the comment before down-voting it. A flood of down-votes coming in in less time than it takes to read what I wrote implies that you aren't even considering the argument I'm presenting.

I hate to say it, but I'm with Oracle on this - but not for any reason that I've seen mentioned (so I guess I want neither party to win).

(Notwithstanding Sun's internal excitement at Google's use of Java prior to the Oracle acquisition.)

There is a justification on the grounds of obviousness for certain method headers to be uncopyrightable.

But for inobvious and complicated method headers I do not believe that the restriction should prevent the API from being subject to copyright, but rather to limit the applicability of the copyright for fair use purposes.

Specifically I believe the copyrights on such interfaces should not be applicable where interoperability is the justification for the reuse of the interface.

Google broke compatibility with Java. I do not believe that Google is using the API under fair use constraints.

I'm not sure how the law operates here - but I believe that the precedent set by a Google victory would be more damaging to my position.
I'd like to see Google lose, and for someone later - operating with cross-compatibility in mind - to present and win a fair use case for reuse of an API.
You could also try to get your company to file an amicus brief as well.
The notion of a potential & sink seems to be key, and the idea that if you identify a collectively chained circuit, it cannot be both source and sink to itself. Which is what link farms (self-referral) or "mutual admiration societies" are. The question is whether or not you can determine the interconnectedness. Since DNS obscures true ownership relations, that's a challenge.

Cluster analysis generally shows such relations though.

(I'm pretty sure these questions have generated multiple PhDs at Google.)
Don't know enough to say.
Technically you're talking about sublimation rather than evaporation. And no, it won't be very likely for the Voyagers to disappear. Most likely they will be damaged by impact or get absorbed by massive object, but sublimation at 10K will take a very very long time.

I don't have the data, but if you want to calculate the rate of sublimation, you need to look at the vapor pressure of various metals at interstellar temperatures.
How can such an app compete against Stripe’s very own Terminal? Don’t this guy’s customers know that an official option exists?

https://stripe.com/terminal
> the Supreme Court is not particularly fond of the 9th

I thought the 9th wasn't involved here, and that the appellate ruling originated from the federal circuit?
Can’t really blame them for that given the reaction. You can blame them for taking those contracts in the first place.
It's toxic because people wanting power insist their position is necessary, others adhere to it (mostly in the name of censoring dissent) and those granted the power, like with politics, are often the last people you want having it.

Based purely on anecdotal evidence, I would say that Reddit would be far better off if it relegated "moderators" to "janitors" to remove illegal content, and auditing who is removing what regularly, and leaving the "quality" and discoverability of the legal content to be derived from the upvote/downvote system they first relied on.
The hope is that people who are in good faith will look for the evidence and through their failure to find it come to change their views.
OpenVSP 3.19.0 Released by NASA Langley Research Center
I don't care if you work for the stodgiest workplace in America, nobody is going to react well to you blasting out an e-mail missive saying diversity (as traditionally understood, since he tries to redefine it to mean something else) is a crock. Google is not an outlier here.
Nothing for me.

This is a Drift chat widget so they have your information stored somewhere, probably from some interaction you had with it on a different site. They also appear to do IP lookup as well.
It is property law and the ability to protect one's rights to property that has granted the creators of property a return on their investment of resources into property.

If creators of property cannot protect their property, there will be less return on that property and thus, less incentive to create it.

Oracle bought Sun, and with that purchase, the ownership of intellectual property in the form of the Java API. Google then proceeded to copy that property into their own property without abiding by the usage restrictions Oracle, the property owner, specified. That was theft of Oracle's property.

If the Supreme Court does not uphold protections of property, I believe, we will see less investment in such property.

I am not sure if that is good or bad for the future of the world, but I do believe had Sun not had property rights to Java, they wouldn't have created it.
Good to hear. It's still nice to shop through their aisles and see actual computer parts including motherboards and cases in-person. I even prefer purchasing these parts in the store as I had experiences with online retailers such as NewEgg where the parts get damaging during shipping. Frys has a great return policy and has never given me issues when receiving credit.

Update: I am referring to their Fountain Valley store:
https://www.frys.com/ac/storeinfo/fountain_valley-location-f...
TROS had a cycle time of 625 nanoseconds with an access time of 240 nanoseconds including address decoding and delays through the sense amplifier.
I think that two grains of sand on beaches of the opposite ends of the Earth are probably more likely to interact than a random rock and a tiny satellite that has left the Solar System into interstellar space.

In fact, in about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will pass within about 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445. It's also likely that it's as close to a star as Voyager 1 will be again, ever.

Space is pretty empty compared to Earth or even our own Solar System.
Insiders think otherwise:
"Bryan Boone, who left Fry’s a couple of years ago after nearly 20 years with the company, says he bets “they’re going to go out of business.” But the former facilities manager and construction supervisor thinks the owners of the secretive and privately owned company — the Fry’s family — are trying to keep the stores open as long as possible to avoid paying the costs associated with winding down the business." [1]

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/06/frys-electronics-hang...
Let's assume everything you said except the conclusion is right (I disagree with almost all of it, but for the purposes of this discussion I'll put that aside since it's better argued in the fine legal briefs).

Why does fair use for interoperability require perfect interoperability? That seems like a totally unreasonable bar. It would mean that making some fraction of an API ridiculously complex to implement a way from stopping anyone from implementing the rest of it.
It's true that is' really hard to find things on there now. You have to be very specific about what you want, even then it's not easy to find a legitimate seller who ships on time (unless it's something very popular and standard). I often find things at super cheap prices which makes me skeptical about the authenticity to be honest.

I find there are an abundant number of online specialty stores for things I'm looking for now and usually shop there instead (Rogue.com for fitness stuff for example), these stores usually offer a good user experience, great customer service and fast shipping.

Specialty stores are fun to browse because they're run by people who know what they're doing and often recommend other good products they use personally and that I might be interested in. The only way Amazon could do this is by hiring more specialists in particular fields?

There is something slightly flawed about relying on user ratings to suggest products; Users aren't always the best judge of quality, usefulness and detail. I do like the ratings and use them a lot on Amazon; but it's not how good new products get introduced.

I also just like going to real bricks and mortar stores because it's fun to actually go shopping sometimes, and you know the quality is high because they have a lot more to lose by selling a fake. It just takes so much guess work out of shopping for things. Yes sometimes I do pay a little more; but it's convenient, I get what I want and warranty is (for me easier) as I hate posting things myself.
There will soon be a plethora of Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers selling NUC-sized things based on Ryzen instead of core i5/i7 CPUs. I've already seen some. Take a look on Newegg.
> Specifically I believe the copyrights on such interfaces should not be applicable where interoperability is the justification for the reuse of the interface. Google broke compatibility with Java.

You cannot make good law on this basis. Requiring compliance to a compatibility standard written by Oracle would give Oracle all the power, and render that kind of fair use exception effectively impossible to exercise. There's no good way to define what kind and degree of interoperability should qualify. The only regulatory option that doesn't trivially collapse into a complete win for Oracle is for API copyrights to not exist in the first place.
I actually meant to have one say false and one say true. I just made a mistake in writing it out.
1Password Raises $200M
I swear - our 'single sign on' that requires a new login on every single system just trains people to put in their username/password without thought....
This is what I want out of my employees

/s
that's the difference though, theyrr free to make one or use any of the existing ones with the conditions of the authors. they're not forbidden to make their own or use a competitor's like the oracle ruling could otherwise mean.
You're right, this is CAFC, where all patent matters end up (the case originally involved a patent dispute, but that was dropped very early).

SCOTUS has not looked kindly on CAFC when it comes to patents, almost always overturning CAFC's decisions as being utter lunacy. I hope that same skepticism will transfer to copyright.
> API signature is the UI equivalent for a library/programming interface software.

It isn't. "A main window with toolbars and an edit area." is the equivalent of the API signature. The layout, icons, ordering, etc. is artistic work of the "how" and copyrightable.

(FWIW by your logic, LibreOffice would be violating Microsoft's copyright already and we could only ever have one office suite in the world.)
Pretty much what jcranmer said: The status quo, for decades, has been that you can do that. So this would be a drastic change to the rules by which we play the game.

More: Recall that copyright lasts close to forever. (95 years for corporations, if I recall correctly.) This ruling, then, would have allowed IBM to sue every BIOS clone maker, and keep a stranglehold on the PC market, and still have that stranglehold to this day, and be able to keep it until 2076. Then, on August 2, 2076, then we could get IBM-compatible PCs.

Compare that to actual history, and you can see why I think the current ruling is horrible.
Once Again, Mars Draws the Attention of Earth
Thanks, it looks like it is IP lookup, I used another phone (not mine) and they also showed my name there.
It seems likely that this is not a conflict between politics and non-politics, or even between left and right, but between labor and management. The people that built Google are shocked that management is not making the decisions they would make (especially about things a bit less functional than most corporate decisions, e.g. whom to do business with). I'm pretty sure that if all the programmers at Google decided Google should not do something as a company, they actually have the power to stop it. I am not sure they want to exercise this power in some coordinated fashion.
The appellate ruling originated from the Federal Circuit, but only because Oracle's suit included a patent claim that didn't last long—the Federal Circuit is the appellate court for all patent-related stuff. For the non-patent stuff (ie. the copyright stuff), the Federal Circuit was supposed to follow precedent from the local circuit: the 9th. They didn't.
Should the giving away of the presidential salary be considered a virtue?
Google sheets had the gay pride flag Easter egg for almost a decade. Company has been political for awhile.
Speak for Itself – No Google
Would this make them a “centi-corn”?
It might also be by way of my newsletter, which featured it yesterday, and which I know lots of HNers read: https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2019/10 (Which is only fair because, after all, I found it via someone else on /r/wikipedia .)
And that's fine. It's a choice. One I personally disagree with, but at least it's a deliberate choice. But if you make such a deliberate choice you need to be frank about it: you're making a tradeoff between, let's say, tranquility and openness, and favoring tranquility at a cost to people whose views are less mainstream. Or (under an alternate definition of political), you're making the choice to accept without argument the whims of the current government, in other words making company values dictated by the environment instead of by the company itself. This is, again, not inherently wrong, but you should own this and understand that it isn't a morally superior or better position, it's just an arbitrary stance that might make sense for you, but it comes at a cost to others.

> but it's miles better than the scenario where politics is allowed to invade every minute of everyone's life.

I just want to note that, as someone who works at Google, its very easy to turn politics "off", so to speak. There are mailing lists and group chats I just don't access. I'm privileged enough to be able to do that because there are very few political issues that directly affect me. That isn't true for some of my coworkers. Those who are, to take one example, immigrants are directly affected by "politics" on the daily. And so avoiding discussion or interaction with politcal issues isn't possible for them. The same is true for coworkers who are Muslim, or who have undocumented family members. The political realities are inescapable for them. Asking them not to discuss those issues at work is like asking me not to discuss, say, a parent being hospitalized. They're real issues that affect and weigh on people. Forcing people to keep those things bottled up, especially when the company may be taking action that negatively impacts those people, isn't nice.
Would you please not post ideological battle-style comments that take HN threads further into flamewar? Those lead to scorched earth, and we're trying for something different than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your account has also posted thoughtful comments that have contributed to good conversation. That is good.
I'm not talking perfect interoperability - I believe that substitutability should be the bar.
Google produced something that is not substitutable in either direction, so what I perceive as the reasonable fair use argument cannot be used here.
You could try old systems. The GameBoy Advance is reasonably well-documented[0] (enough for me to write a simple game for it over the summer as my first real C program), and a hacked 3DS[1] can run the game on real GameBoy hardware through Virtual Console injection.

[0] http://coranac.com/tonc/text/
[1] reddit.com/r/3dshacks
Would this open the door for some schmucko to copyright push, pop, enqueue, dequeue, etc?
Global Warming Creates Unique Opportunity for Scandinavian Wine
On further research, it looks like the recommended way to report this is actually by clicking "Report incorrect product information" on the product detail page.

However it's always reasonable to contact customer service for issues that one isn't sure how to handle otherwise: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us - they can refer to the right reporting method or pass on the report.

If you get stuck or don't get traction, feel free to send the information to me and I'll pass it on; I'd suggest giving the normal channels several business days first however. In this case, I've submitted an incorrect product info report via the website for each of the problematic pages I've come across today. I plan to follow up on the pages and escalate if necessary.
New Usability Ratings on Kaggle Datasets
What do you mean it's not substantial? People use the same java libraries on android and servers all the time, thanks to being able to use a shared standard library API (the supposedly copyrighted material in question in this case).
>And on the other side of the boundary, the interstellar medium is at least 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than expected. However, this plasma is so thin and diffuse, the average temperature around the Voyager probes remains extremely cold.

I don't understand this. If the medium is 54,000 degrees wouldn't it have incinerated the probes? How can an extremely diffuse plasma be 54,000 degrees and yet also be extremely cold?
I'd just put "Item defective" or "Wrong item was sent." Both will net you a free exchange.
That's their basic message: It's no less ethical than regular marketing.
That's no more political than it is to celebrate Cinco de Mayo or Saint Patrick's Day with a custom logo or easter egg.