skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The app I built actually says right in the description what it does: it is parental control software. I don't feel bad about developing it at all. Parents use it to track what their children do with their devices and have to explicitly opt-in to the tracking before it starts.
>Is this not how business works?

Yes, and the society/lawmakers deciding to take your business down or make it illegal is how society/law works.
I do it entirely, exclusively, only, purely because it requires less punctuation typing. It returns a list anyway. The performance hit is virtually unnoticeable in almost every use case (unless this is a function taking in input strings formatted this way many times per second, but in that case you've got way worse to worry about first...).
You'll see it like this:

{ "name": "Bender"
, "hind": "Bitable"
, "shiny": true }
Microsoft pays taxes AFAIK, unlike Google.
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1. Yes.

2. Don't know - we're good at surprising people!
There are still arms races in Europe. They are just a lot quieter and are mostly battleship envy.
I am puzzled regarding the various rants (by politicians and others) of the type "we must break up Google"... Let me mention a couple of points which I never see addressed by people pushing this idea:

1. There exists a well established protocol/convention (robots.txt) that can be used to indicate to search engines that "these pages should not be indexed", thus preventing copying content from those pages. As far as I know, Google respect robots.txt. Companies (most often, news related organizations) that complain about Google copying their material can make use of robots.txt to prevent Google from indexing their content. Are they saying that Google does not respect this? ... or that complaining companies are clueless about this?

2. How do they think a pure Google Search company, without ad revenues, could generate revenues to sustain its operation? Search (for microsoft, yahoo and google) [and free email services] are most likely something akin to loss leaders / promotional tools.

Legislating against anti-competitive behaviour (e.g. restrictions on advertisers to move their online ad campaigns to rival companies) is something that should be done if indeed it is occuring. However, everything else appears to be without logical foundation to me.

But perhaps I am missing something...
There will be a 1.0-beta period where the language will have largely calmed down and is mostly just hammering out the bugs for a full 1.0 release. This will be coming within the next few months. If you'd like to learn Rust without suffering the massive breakage of our last-minute scramble, then I'd suggest you wait until then. :)
Booleans are integers in Python too:

>>> True + 0

1
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Here's a question, since the man page mentions splint. Has anyone here ever managed to reach a splint warning-free project?
I know, I know...startup = explosive growth. But... It's hard for me to consider something a "startup" when you have more than 1M in the bank and spending 60K monthly. That's a company!
igalia sounds amazing. congrats on your company. can you tell me how many people are worker-owners? are there also freelancers working yor you?
I cant see how their a monolopy. I almost switched to bing, except its results were not accurate enough for me. I tried different email hosts but i was getting too much spam. I dont touch google+ so that wasnt an option.

There is competition but (in my opinion) dont do enough or arnt what i want. There isnt any way i see google stiffling competition that i can see as i have tried quite a few (and do use them on occasion), to me it seems as if its more because their not a european produce (as techdirt originaly noted and seemed to ring true to me).
I would say that the technological barrier exists for google just like with IE and MSFT: Google is the default browser in Firefox + Chrome.

The IE solution was to offer an explicit browser choice in EU versions of windows. A similar one could be imagined here. The "solution" would be to disallow Google from making an exclusivity agreement with FF and to have a choice screen in Chrome. Unfortunately this would cause immense harm to Mozilla...
Keep in mind that that we expect that the "six types of possible closures" can be almost completely inferred at the use site, so people making use of APIs that accept closures should be able to be blissfully unaware of this distinction. Library authors will need to keep in mind the distinction between the three different closure traits when writing function signatures, but this is no different from how every other borrowed and owned thing in Rust works.
Yes, although the US does exactly the same thing in different fields. Most countries have some sort of national protected agriculture.
As someone living in Europe, I think they don't realize that, in a way, Google is bigger than the European Parliament. The citizens of Europe barely take the European Parliament seriously, and there's not much reason for Google to.

I happen to be a fan of Duck Duck Go. But I think Google can do without Europe more easily than Europe can do without Google.

There's no need to go to extremes, either. Just like Microsoft, Google can simply buy enough of the European Parliament to get them to quietly change their minds.
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Here is a billion dollar question: If we mix aluminum with mercury will we be able to use it as a real battery with high enough efficiency?

Or to get real freaky: thermite -> Fe + Al2O3 + electricity, Then we break down corundum to al + o?
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I still own Windows Internals, the most authoritative book on the subject. Fascinating stuff.
1. robots.txt is not a replacement for copyright law, it is a "protocol" used by most crawlers.

2. A pure Google Search company could show ads, by being a client/distributor of ads from a (pure) Google Ads company. Just like how ads on your blog get you money.
The bureaucracy is indirect; all the regulatory requirements are implemented nationally and handled by national staff. Or impose requirements on businesses that don't correspond to enforcement staff at all, like CE marking.
Yes, this often put forward as a case for why the EU is a good thing but the reality is we probably stopped killing each other because we finally had a war that was large enough to put many people off war for life.

Those who repeat the line that the EU prevented wars in Europe seem to forget what happened in the Balkans
Firefox has just switched its default search engine to Yahoo:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2850152/yahoo-dethrones-googl...

So maybe not so much harm to Mozilla.
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Cool story bro.

But if I may, I believe treating inanimate objects as women puts them off more than LISP.
And of course we should change the taxation just to make them stop evading?

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
Yeah, the idea of actually breaking up Google is in my opinion foolish, but the idea of introducing limited regulations to try to lessen the impact on other markets from its monopoly position in search, seems perfectly reasonable.

For instance, if there was a rule which legislated minimum standards for transferring services elsewhere, as per your last point, that seems to be something it would be difficult to complain about.

Also, I want to see the text of the adopted statement, because the comments in the press release, and in previous stories, have only said, to paraphrase "regulation may be necessary to unbundle search from commercial services". That doesn't scream "wants to break up the company" to me. Is that really being proposed?
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Power is abused here, though. Google is using it's monopoly/dominant market position in search to build up it's market share in maps/local/social/whatever.
The POSIX and OS/2 subsystems were removed as of Windows XP and 2003.
It seems as if NBC (www.nbc.com) is in the same boat.
what are they protecting? Its not as if there are small european based search engines that are failing to compete with Google who would benefit fromt his action.
I don't think they're suggesting Google search results should not display ads. They're saying Google shouldn't control the network that decides which ads get displayed.
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I definitely don't believe in doing illegal things. If they're doing illegal things they should be prosecuted. If what SHOULD be illegal is NOT illegal, then IMO that's on the law makers.
Am I the only one who is worried about the fact that this is exponential in size?

<input name="field[1000000]">

Will generate a request that is ~5MB.
The allegation

> How Google copies content from other websites - such as restaurant reviews - to include within its own services

Has nothing to do with robots.txt - I don't know what Google does, but if it e.g. copies reviews from Yelp and includes them in Google Maps, that's not completely OK (it might benefit the users, but it also boosts Google's market share).
Problem is Microsoft is no longer dominating the market of operating systems, especially if you're counting mobile devices and absolutely every OS now comes with a bundled browser that you cannot uninstall. So apparently, if the US would have decided to break Microsoft, it would have been a huge mistake, potentially killing a big software company that was disrupted by newer technology anyway.

So you know, abusive companies should be punished. But lets be honest here, politicians are targeting the likes of Microsoft, Google or Apple not for our own good, but because they see a huge pie that isn't theirs and want a piece of it, with people forgetting that these companies have defined the huge markets they are dominating in.

And I'm saying this as a European citizen that had plenty of diatribes against all 3 companies mentioned here - but I do not believe in government interventions when it comes to software and yes, I don't believe in net neutrality either.
well i kind of deciphered your comment, but I dont see how this has anything to do with Google not being european. There is no european counterpart who would benefit from this outcome, the biggest benefit would be to Microsoft (Bing) andother American company and probably a whole host of other US tech companies.
Because UNIX was embraced by the enterprise and brought C along.

Algol 68, Modula-2, Mesa, Cedar were all options back when UNIX was being brought to life.
The author is pretty amazing.
Of course my perspective is affected by my experience and background. As I mentioned I am in from an area with really long runways which tends to make you more concerned about investor fashions and herd behaviour.

My main point is you should always have a plan for how to become profitable in a relatively short period of time if needed. Hopefully you won't need to put it into action, but the time you will save not having to try to figure this out at the last moment might be the difference between life and death of your start up.
How enlightening.
You know collectively Europe is the largest economy in the world? It's not something any company can just shrug away.

I believe the goal of this and recent similar decisions is to fracture the internet, allowing for easier law making and rent seeking.
So... what's the Cortex used for?
2/3rds of the page before you start writing code. -_-
And people wonder why it's going extinct...
The project's actual homepage is better and includes live examples: http://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/
Some e-commerce sites in Brazil have also been affected, like www.pontofrio.com.br. It seems they hacked a portion of a CDN and injected a script.

Does not seem serious, security-wise.
Epistemio allows rating publications as well as publishing post-publication peer reviews. Even though ratings and reviews may be anonymous, reviewers are authenticated, in order to prevent the kind of issues mentioned in the target article.

http://www.epistemio.com/
> "We've been incredibly good at killing each other."

No, what you mean is that Germans and Austrians (and only Germans and Austrians) have recently been rather fond of invading neighbouring countries and also genociding their own populations.

The other European countries, Balkans excepted, have actually got along rather well for the past 150 years.

So why should Holland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark and the others be erased as nation states? This is the way things are going.
German Net Neutrality [video with subtitles]
True, also relevant is that interpreter threads are officially discouraged now. http://perldoc.perl.org/threads.html#WARNING
It is misleading to claim that this does nothing for the lows, because everything that's happening here is symmetric.

Let's say that aluminium production currently draws a permanent base load of 1GW. Let's say that the minimum acceptable overall level of electricity production given the status quo is 20GW. If aluminium producers manage to adapt their production so that they can temporarily operate on only 0.5GW, then the minimum acceptable overall level of electricity production is now 19.5GW.

Unlike what the article misleadingly says, this is not magic that can somehow generate electricity when all other sources fail. But it does shift the line of when low levels of production become critical.
I believe the fourth point was something that has already been changed in the AdWords API Ts & Cs almost two years ago, as a result of the FTC settlement. http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/updates-to-...
C programming language is very high-level...

This made me chuckle. The author has a very different perspective from most software developers I know.

...and it might seem that in many cases it should not matter how the control flow is described and the same optimization might be applied as long as a resulting program is functionally the same. This raises a question of whether compiler will do the same optimizations if programmer is using if-then-else. In theory, it might be the same, or might be different. But instead of guessing, let’s find out.

I love the author's attitude towards experimentation. It reminds me of John Carmack: "If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1445/
Happy Birthday, Can You Do Some Laundry?
When we say "virtual dispatch" in Rust we mean the same thing as it means in C++, which is that there exists a vtable in which the function pointer is looked up at runtime from a known offset. It grants more flexibility and less binary bloat than static dispatch, but requires an additional pointer indirection and can present barriers to inlining (though LLVM is impressively smart with its devirtualization abilities at times).
Putting on my tinfoil hat for a moment here, something I picked up on a similar fusion story here on HN a while ago: there have recently been a lot of news stories that may be interpreted as being aimed at bringing down the oil price. Not sure if I buy it, but if it is the case, it seems to be working.
Nobody is complaining that Google is a monopoly/has a huge market share in search. The problem is that they're (ab)using their monopoly in search to boost the market share of their other services. Is Google Maps really that better than OpenStreetMap or Apple Maps or Bing Maps, or do people just use it because it's a default result in Google?
Only in the US. In the EU it sounds like the default is still Google.
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iOS security hole allows attackers to poison already installed iPhone apps
Cyber-Thanksgiving: What Infosec Professionals Are Thankful For
You're correct. Fusion is routinely achieved already, but without approaching a positive energy balance.

When people talk about "doing" fusion, it's usually implied to mean "in a commercially viable way."
I'm running Arch Linux on the same machine (quad-core, 32 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD + 500 GB SATA) and it flies. It does have the Optimus graphics stuff but I haven't bothered with it.

(I'd been using MBPs exclusively for several years when I bought the W530 (in May 2013), hadn't touched my MBP in over a year and finally got rid of it a few months ago.)
The op did say burn not burn rate. I think quite a few of the disagreements here are the result of us not being clear about what we mean by different terms. Burn rate is negative cash flow so cash income - cash expenses.
What we know about 'Regin,' the powerful malware that could be the work of NSA
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/11/26/tech-firm-fireeye-f...
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It is broadly true that people have a choice with search, and clearly Google's position is down to the quality of service rather than the sort of trap-in you see with physical monopolies like ISPs. But I don't think the point or aim of all of this is to do anything about search, it's to prevent Google from using that position to favour its other commercial services. The monopoly issue is by proxy, it's not search itself.
Amazon is literally thousands of shops with a libertarian CEO. The fastest way to end a career there is to try to force a company-wide standard language although many have tried and failed.
Why is canvas considered "wrong technology for illustration"?
Ramen? pfft, these days is all about stealing from Whole Foods.
If you would received $1 for every line of code written how rich would you be?
Including comments and documentation.

Back to reality, how rich are you? [Select here: left or right?](http://i.imgur.com/5K1qQVD.jpg)
thank you for sharing marcus! i use spotify everday and know i like it even more. also: great videos. you've got a talented graphic facilitator there
In my humble opinion, if a given remote worker can get twice as much done as a on-site worker, they're either:

- more senior, so they'd get paid relatively more anyways;

- exceptional, so they'd get paid relatively more anyways;

- working too many hours, which is never a good idea for knowledge workers, and doesn't last long.
why does a user need to move points in a chart?

"Actually last quarter's sales were..." <DRAGS POINT>
> But there is competition. Bing, DuckDuckGo, even Yahoo's still hanging in there.

Only if you are English speaker and are looking for English sites (which is the case only for minority of Europeans). Apart form Google other search engines are localized either poorly or not at all.
I'm curious -- what program was/is this? :)
There seems to be a flurry of "fusion/energy breakthrough" press items recently. On the one hand it's extremely exciting, but on the other, I wonder if there's a more sinister motive behind all the press. Cui Bono?
Congratulations, your software exists.

Since some people probably bought it anyway, rejoice about that: concentrate on your customers. Don't inconvenience them. See if you can make it more convenient to buy, for potential conversion.

That's about it, really. Don't try to do something impossible or stupid like trying to take things down off the internet, or trying to make your software uncrackable: neither of those are going to happen and you'll look like a fool (and inconvenience your customers and make enemies) trying.

If this submission's more of a comment on Stack Overflow's well-known propensity to lock every question in the known universe as offtopic or answered, I don't really know what to say to that. ;)
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I was lucky to watch this video while first learning the language. Every beginner (coming from another language) should watch this to understand the idioms of Python.
The content is questionable, things such as:

"Bitcoin transactions are secured by the military grade cryptography."

"We support anonymity and understand how much important it is for our customers"

"easily pay via the Bitcoin subscription of Privatoria"

I get that english is not everyones first language but if you are going to target an english speaking demographic then you need to ensure that your content does not disuade people from using your service. I dont know whether they can live up to all of their claims of privacy and security but if they didnt get their content checked over before launch then they may have cut costs elsewhere.
Those who repeat the line that the EU prevented wars in Europe seem to forget what happened in the Balkans

They were not part of the EU. The reasoning is that if you form a union where there is a large amount of economical interdependence, you think twice about starting a conflict with other members of your union. The collapse of their economy means the collapse of your economy.
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probably every let's say "method" are cleaner, and you can actually say what is happening.

C is more dispersive...

Thought I code way more clojure than C
£30k per employee for all expenses is very low even for the UK.
You are only looking at recent history. And even that's not true. Italians invading Albania and Greece? Italians invading France? Soviets invading Finland, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania? Hungarians invading Romania and Czechoslovakia? Romanians invading the USSR? Soviets invading Hungary and Czechoslovakia?

And out of the list your have there, many of those "nation states" were too busy "genociding" their colonies in the last 150 years, to care about "genociding" their neighbors. And all of those were "genociding" their neighbors as well, before they got colonies.

Plus all those nation-states are too small on today's geopolitical arena. Only the "state" bit will be going away, the nations will be there, sitting nice and pretty as they do right now :)
I'm a bit skeptical about the claim "it doesn't produce dangerous, long-term toxic waste." I'm no expert but I've read that fusion reactors will be producing massive amounts of neutron radiation (like the neutron bomb, AKA the "real estate bomb," heh!) which ends up absorbed by the cladding of the reactor chamber and converts it to partly radioactive isotopes.

A consequence is that the reaction chamber walls lose their physical integrity, i.e. become brittle, so leaving them in place is not an option. Thus, when operating a fusion reactor, you're constantly forced to replace crunchy, fusion-baked, radioactive reactor wall debris with newly built wall plates.

I admit to having no idea about which isotopes would be produced and what their half-life would be. If anyone can shed some light or correct me, I'd be indebted.
cool :) did you get seven day weekend or maverick?
A word of warning: the links on the demo page http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/demo/ lead to pages with images that can make your browser use up all your memory and your system will be unresponsive until the OOM killer kicks in. I admit that it's my fault for not reading the warning on the very page I'm linking, but I imagine there are others like me, so here.

WARNING: some of the demo pages will crash your browser.
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