skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That feature is in almost every browser, and has been for a while. And it's great if you only use one computer all the time.

But I have my phone, my iPad, my personal desktop, my personal laptop, my work desktop, etc. Using the browser's custom search feature means I have to add custom search engines to every browser on every machine I use, OR I have to setup syncing between them all, which I really don't want to do, and isn't even really possible between e.g. Safari on iPhone and Opera on Linux. And even if that were easy, I really don't want to sync browsers on my personal machines with my work machines. It's a lot easier to just set the search engine to DDG, or go to the website and use !whatever from there.

I've been using DDG for a few years now, and I've been very happy with the search results. The biggest weak spot, IMO, is that they don't index as many old mailing lists and forums as Google. The only times I ever need Google are when I'm looking for very specific or obscure error messages which aren't always covered in regular documentation, but tend to be asked about on mailing lists.

That said, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the quality of results depends a lot on how the search is phrased and the topic being searched for, etc., so I could just be getting lucky.
Not everyone has a twitter account, and not everyone wants one.
Amusing how people freak out about app that lets you comment on other people with ability to not allow unfavourable comments, but no one bats an eye when presumtion of inosence is ignored by media and accusations are spread like butter (hell, some people (quite specific group) want to remove presumption of innosence from specific crimes I will not mention to not get shadowbanned today - and no one cares)
Yes comment on some app is easier than accusation of crime in front of police or just sucessfull accusation on other media like twitter, but still - everyone will know that app is full of crap and grief so it is non damaging, its accusations elswere that shoulb be fought. Ah, hell with staying unshadowed - let the Stones Roll.
I think one of the main reasons for keeping affirmative action deals specifically with the systematic oppression and marginalization of Black people in America (that as Ferguson and other black related police deaths show, is STILL happening now).

I think this article is showing that Asians are tired of unfairly paying the cost of that affirmative action, with college being a zero sum game.
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I don't think there's a real way to fight this in the age of networks and cameras in every pocket.

Sure there is.

For one thing, a similar level of technology to the capture and processing applications could also be used to automatically detect and obscure faces where storing them isn't necessary, probably with imperfect but highly reliable success. Consider how Google's Street View wound up hiding car licence plates for a lot of places after the privacy complaints, for example.

For another thing, the problem with a lot of modern privacy invasions is asymmetry: large, powerful organisations like big businesses or governments can do a lot more to you with lots of information than you can do to them in return.

This could be solved for businesses by imposing rules and meaningful penalties for violating them. Facebook isn't going to be processing anyone's face for dubious reasons if it's subject to compulsory scrutiny on account of processing a high volume of personal data and the penalties for repeated breaking of the rules escalate as significant percentages of annual revenue. For deliberate violations, you could remove the corporate shield from the responsible executives as well, as with other criminal conduct.

Governments is harder, because right now the governments of the West seem to be more hostile to their own people than to foreign surveillance. Ideally, our governments would actually be on our side, and the vast resources they seem to be devoting to invading their own people's privacy would instead be devoted to protecting it. Imagine how much safer we would all be from things like fraud, identity theft, commercial espionage, and worse, if instead of trying to exploit vulnerabilities and limit secure communications, organisations like the NSA and GCHQ helped to close vulnerabilities and promote safe and secure use of technology by everyone. Like everyone else, I don't know exactly what the real threat from terrorism is, but I'm pretty sure the potential savings to our economies alone from safer technology would run to many billions.
No problem. It's intentionally hard to figure out. Parimutuel wagering is inherently extremely confusing on purpose.
But the whole point of insurance is to collectively spread the risk, so that when things do go bad, you are not on your own. By definition, people in aggregate pay more for insurance than what the insurance pays them back (otherwise the company would go bankrupt!).

Insurance is paying for peace of mind. Most people are paying more premiums than insurance is paying them back.
There is also superresolution methods that in practice make the "enhance"-feature possible. The information from the same objects in successive frames, eg. from a security camera feed, are composited into a single frame of higher resolution than the originals. This can even be done for a single image (see. Glasner et al. "Super-resolution from a single image." Computer Vision, 2009 ICCV 2009. IEEE.).

If machine learning is brought into play it gets even more interesting. See eg. waifu2x, the anime video upscaler based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Basically it is a neural net, that has been shown A LOT of anime, and it can therefore creatively(?) fill in the created pixels when upscaling.

I have no idea how advanced this kind of ML boosted "enhance" technology can get in the future, and it might even get a little scary: imagine an observer with the experience of million lives spent looking blurry images in poor lighting. It might get surprisingly good at that...
No, but the parent comment is not that far off. Their prices are public but with the weight and velocity of betting coming in, it informs them what the lines probably should be instead.
Fishing and ultraviolence: Known for brutality, IS hooks people in subtler ways
TheLastPsychiatrist explains expertly why the whole form of this argument is wrong in a post questioning Randi Zuckerberg.
It's well worth reading, especially if you are considering the benefits of opting out of Facebook (and I strongly recommend you jump in, the water's find :)
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/01/randi_zuckerberg.html
> Storing such personal information in “digital embassies”—computers in Estonian diplomatic missions abroad—helps as they are Estonian sovereign territory.

Sadly The Economist is perpetuating that myth. It seems like it just cannot be eradicated.
That valuation (perversely) likely affects hiring as well.
I'm of the opinion that web designers should work on $500 Dell laptops with those lovely 1366x768 TN panels.

Especially when deciding what background color will distinguish ads from normal content.
Catch up? Catch up to whom? You will never really catch up to the people with a ton of experience today. If course at some point you might know something more in depth than them. And you will be ahead of people who start after you. Don't worry about catching up, worry about learning what your you are doing. That is all you can really do.
The 2003 Iraq operation was called "Shock and Awe". That struck me as pretty damn ironic at the time, considering how much the US emphasised that 9/11 was an act of terrorism.
There's no immensely cruel and systematic oppression of Asians/Indians over centuries. While things are fair for Asians yet, I'm talking specifically about SLAVERY. Then after that Jim Crowe law and other terrible forms of oppression. And then even now, there's incidents like Ferguson, being made readily apparent by our new age of record-anything technology.

So yea, while I started up growing up in the poorest neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, my situation was not the same as my neighbors. My parents had a college education. They had no debt or drug problems, and did not end up incarcerated. I didn't grow up with people thinking I'm dangerous or about to steal something.

Interesting thing is that as our situation improved slowly to upper middle class by the time I graduated high school, my surroundings got less and less black, and more and more white. It's too simplistic for us to judge the poor, when we do not truly understand their situation.
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I see, I guess I don't use my mobile devices enough to understand the pain points.
This isn't a good example because the technology already exists to deliver this service to lenders - read up on Canadian Tire's JP Martin. He did the first experiments with rewards-credit-cards and data mining, and found he could pretty-well correlate certain behaviors with missed credit-card payments. Apparently there's a dive bar in Montreal that indicates you're a screw-up if you drink there.
FWIW, despite the "chief architect" title, IIRC Yonatan Zunger didn't actually join the G+ project until well after the initial launch. That is to say, the real name policy predated his involvement. I suspect he was always opposed to it.
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Lol, I believe that cops DEFINITELY over-arrest blacks. After Ferguson and a huge WAVE of black people dying unfairly at the hands of police officers, you can read a lot of articles online where highly educated black men (ivy league) write about how they get pulled over by a cop once every 1-2 weeks for NOTHING (except for being black).

Think about that, once every 1-2 weeks. I've been pulled over 3 times in my life. Twice for speeding, once for a broken tail light.
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I find it really weird that the article says:

> It’s curious that we have low cache hit rates, a lot of time stalled on cache/memory, and low bandwidth utilization.

That's typical for most workloads! Software is almost never compute or bandwidth bound in my experience, but instead spends most of its time waiting on memory in pointer chasing code. This is especially true for code written in managed languages like Java (since everything typically is boxed and allocated all over the heap).
Well while strictly not on topic, there was this talk recently on micro-optimisations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXaxk27zwlk
If you want examples of irrational sentences they are sadly not hard to find: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/107830/
What are you looking for that is not currently part of the profile guided optimization capabilities of current compilers? It has been the case for years that you can compile a program with profiling/tracing hooks, run it through a representative workload, and feed the profiler output back to the compiler to get a faster executable. That's why no Firefox you compile yourself will outperform the one you download from Mozilla, if you only compile it a single time.
Their engineering is in Edinburgh, and the sales & marketing is in New York (and much larger).
Not anti-corporate, but anti-corporate power grab. ISDS gives companies too much power, so I'm against it. Corporations should act in the best interest of the people, not the other way around.
Do any of the guys at the top see flack from this? All I can wonder at this point.

At this point I want to edit and add that I love using Uber. It's a rare 100% happiness factor to get but with me I got lucky and they nailed it. I just have to know: can the bosses actually make these decisions and not earn lawsuits in each state or are they handling this in a way that makes them personally immune? It's truly fascinating to see this brazen...ness? Definitely ballsy.
Let's call it temporary lapse of judgement... I guess I've confused the issue with my hate for bigotry. I just woke up and find the thing completely obvious - thanks to, in big part, your comment, and thanks to regaining the ability to generate examples in my head that I must have lost yesterday :(.

I guess part of my confusion stemmed from the fact that multiple identities on Facebook are hard and risky, so they become a pretty bad idea. Facebook seriously sucks for multiple identities, real-name-policy or not. You really need different accounts. Otherwise you need to get obsessive-compulsive about every privacy setting out there - who do you share with, who can view it, who can tag/mention you, etc. And then you lose anyway because one of your friends copy-pasted your post to a wider circle, or uploaded a photo with you and someone from the "wrong" side of your social graph recognizes it, etc. It's pretty much OPSEC 101 - the different lives you're having shouldn't mix at all because someone, somewhen, will screw up.

Also, you'd be surprised how broken the post range limits still are, if you know what to do (Facebook has significantly improved that over the last year or two, but there are still bugs).

> It is nice to believe that we are past these problems. I'm often thankful that I have the privilege to live in California, which has been very accepting of diversity. Unfortunately, we haven't solved all of these problems, and they are not going to be solved in the near future.

Yeah, this is what bit me.

> Sometimes an optimist or apparatchick insists that forcing everybody into the public so nothing is hidden and privacy no longer exists will somehow eradicate bigotry and discrimination. Well, bigots are often proud of their beliefs, and most people don't consider the consequences anyway; these problems are not solved by magical thinking.

I sometimes consider if what apparatchicks propose isn't in fact our best option. I usually refer to it as "privacy or progress, pick one", when pointing out the social and scientific benefits of the data we forgo when insisting on fighting every form of mass monitoring. Note, I'm only entertaining this thought - I'm not convinced yet either way, but the way the privacy discussion is today, the issue is terribly one-sided.

You mentioned bigots being proud of being bigots. This seriously worries me. I think the society could handle going (back?) to zero-privacy mode, but the more I think of it and see people being proud of their ignorance, the more I fear it would end in civil wars over really stupid things.
I guess, the trivial inconvenience of the user having to return, recreate the lineup from scratch and remember the 10 digit number/salt (or pull from local memory/localStorage if its the same device) . They would have to do this after the start of the first game but before the end of all the events in the event group. I.E before winners are calculated. If you didn't force the players to do this early on, you wouldn't be able to see live rankings which would take some fun out of it I guess. There would be other problems I guess to with edit lineup functionality.

It is a good idea though and would certainly curb this kind of thing happening.
They are directly comparable as they both measure preventable deaths. If some types of death weigh more heavily on society than others, if there is some sort of X factor to be considered then how do we determine what it is?

Should we say deaths from murders are 1.5x important as smoking deaths? 2.5x?

This line of reasoning, while a tad ghoulish, is important because decisions have to be made, governance has to be picked, and taxes have to be spent. If it turns out we have no rational systematic way of determining a multiplier I believe it's reasonable to go with the information we have which are the basic facts about what's killing us.
The hypothesis seems dubious. Their manufacturing is less competitive because wages have risen like ten fold. It's like saying the Chinese will return to poverty because they have become too wealthy.
Hm, seems like a very good optimization (especially for an audience very likely to use it) to shorten !stackoverflow to something like !so
My lifelong career goal is to become CEO and get fired with a golden parachute.
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"…taking the 10-hour redeye on Sunday nights and returning on Thursdays. This way, he says, he doesn’t have to uproot his family of 10 kids."

No wonder he spends most of the week away!
> And if your boss objects to your weekend parties, then you should consider changing jobs. Caring about such issues is as sign of serious problems in the company.

It doesn't work like that. On PT I listened to an HR employee laughing to a friend about how great Facebook is for them. A story she told was of a recent job applicant, they looked up his facebook profile and found he'd posted some weekend party photos. She laughed about how you could "tell from the eyes" he was on drugs... "needless to say, he didn't get the job".

People in the real world are penalized when they don't keep work/play identities separate — especially beady-eyed people!

(Conversely, if my facebook profile ever fills up with cats and doctored photos of me climbing K2, or helping out at the local orphanage, you'll know I'm applying for a job somewhere with an HR department)
You don't need to mod your phone to get that functionality -- there are apps for that, such as Twilight.
There's also something weird going on with disabling - it's probably just an obnoxious bug but I've had hangouts disabled for at least a year on my Nexus 5 and I get "unfortunately hangouts has crashed" at least daily.
End user programming
Why can't we get rid of taxi medallions? (2012)
Yes, that could be an option too, though in this case it would be surprising given that this was a new subcontractor of our actual client, in a place neither of us have ever been before. But I recognize the phenomena you mention; I sometimes see random people on Facebook with surprising amount of overlap with my social graph, even crossing the groups I consider mostly unrelated (say, a person is a friend with few of my buddies from university AND some other unrelated group of locals AND also knows that random person I met somewhere that lives on the other side of the country).
Or more simply, you could just make the relevant information publicly available in real-time.
Google's Algorithm for Happiness
You probably violate TOS of Adsense by using ads on content you dont own!
Why would be good idea essentially imposing a tax to the citizens of your country(tariffs) for the benefit of a single subgroup? You should keep your workforce directed to the industries market proves you competitive.

Everyone as a person does the same, we use our major source of income(dayjob = profession we have the best skills relative to everyone else) to trade it with the labor of others, we dont try to make everything by ourselves even if we have the technical capacity. (Comparative advantage)
I really want kitkat 4.4 back

Lean mean, fast and stable.

Just fix stagefright and stagefright 2.0 and it's a wrap.
Is this the next "I work 27 hour days and never leave the office" thing people will brag about? I understand keeping a family together is good parenting but is choosing to spend 3-4 days a week elsewhere good parenting? I would question that versus relocating them if needed.
Ask HN: Is it even theoretically possible to achieve gender equality?
Recently, I was pondering over this idea of gender equality. Isn't achieving complete gender equality in society contradicts the fact that there are "types" in gender. If there are different types to some entity, there has to be distinction (by definition), which suggests that complete equality cannot exist in the way they're treated?
> (approximate birth date, school(s) attended, former employer(s), a few other associates/contacts, profession) are very often enough to uniquely identify an individual

Yes, but you can set all of those to private and thus effectively delist yourself from Facebook Search. The only thing that really has to be public nowadays is your name.
What about all those mobile Reddit apps? They run ads too!
Chin up, I don't think it's genetic. This stereotype of being shy, socially awkward losers is beaten into Americans (asian or not) from a very early age. Just look at all of our media. Asians are either totally absent, or complete bottom feeders on the social ladder. I bet that a lot of your personality comes from the environment and expectations you grow up in.

It sucks, but the good thing is that it's never too late to change. There are tons of boss Asians. I was rather popular in high school (and I'm from the deep south, only Asian guy in my class) and college, and often find myself the center of attention in social situations. One of the upper level managers at my company is Asian and he's very social, and he even has an accent! I have plenty of other friends who are very extroverted and confident, and they're asian too.

It's a skill, like any other, and focused hard work will yield improvements.
Great example of innovation from Vice. If only those starchy ol' newspapers could have thought of something like a 'letters to the editor' section... What? Oh.

In all seriousness, it's probably a good move for Motherboard to do this. By and large, comments sections are kinda terrible, but this appears magnified on Vice Network sites in my experience.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336961.
>"Well but you did! You quoted it yourself: "to manage the economy with""

Consider the context, I was replying to a comment about how to know how much to produce. The implication is that money is essential for this purpose. If all you're interested in is how much is being produced and consumed, then monitoring stock levels is enough to manage an economy. It's also useful to know when innovation may be welcome in the market, however you can get that information more directly by just getting feedback from people, no money has to change hands. You also need to manage your resources, but again you just do that directly by monitoring resources, no money has to change hands. It's important to note that resource management includes consumption of goods, you want to monitor what someone is consuming, in part to guard against over-consumption.

In short, money can be removed without losing any information needed to run a successful economy.

>"Does the central planner decide all this? Even if it were possible, it would reduce people to cattle."

I've already mentioned collaboration once, why do you believe I'm describing a system with a central planner?

In a resource-based economy the only part you need centralised information on is in monitoring available resources, decision making can be handled a variety of different ways, including democratically by the citizens.
First off, the default landing page should not include NSFW, and when I changed to the SFW tab, because having "cumsluts" in red lettering on my screen isn't considered part of my job, I got NSFW subs in the SFW list, for example /r/WTF.

And everything everyone else said. I hope this is a joke as the name suggests. Reddit actually has good UX, especially with RES added, as it provided content first and is easy to read.

ONe of the biggest mistakes imo is to show the number of subs to a subreddit, this should be hidden within a filter, as most subbed subreddits are not worth much, whereas smaller subs, like linux4noobs, are worth a lot. This design maintains the flotsam and jetsam at the top while keeping hidden the coral reef below, which is the one problem reddit actually needs to fix.

Still, it was a 9gag gag anyway.
> Now, of course if I care enough, then I have a choice: I can either stop using HN, or I can try to get the government to regulate it. Heh.

Hah, nice one. Though I thought as western civilization we've agreed long ago not to do that because everyone trying to regulate people they disagree with makes everything worse for everybody. Liberal ideals, or something. ;).