skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback and the link! To answer your questions:
1) "I wonder what does it mean by "customizable""
You can add different plugins (that produce answers) and control when to activate them. You can also create mini-search engines that search specific domains. There are also a few settings about security that you can tweak.
2) "how is this different from DuckDuckGo with its duck.co"
This search engine also includes a feed reader and get results from your feeds when you search. Also, the plugin system allows you to add data and plugins (written in 100% Javascript) instantly without anyone's approval.
3) "Why I should register for an account?"
Since this includes a feed reader, you need to create an account to save your chosen feeds. Also by creating an account you can create your own mini-search engines and add plugins other than the default.

Since you've asked these questions, it's clear to me that I haven't done a good job explaining these things on my site. I'll be working on improving this. Thanks a lot for the feedback!
No. Despite what other replies to your post have said, several companies (and many individuals) have contributed large pieces to ZFS, and they still hold copyright.
> Why doesn't language power make a difference in practice?

Depends on your definition of "make a difference in practice". If you mean "make the language become one of the dominant ones", yeah, that doesn't seem to have happened. Either Lisp is less effective in the large than one would expect from its power, or it's less powerful in practice than people think, or power has almost no relation to language dominance.

But if you mean "make a difference to the user", well, it lets the user more easily write the program that the user wants to write. In practice, that makes a difference - to that user.
> You could have a patched together backend that "just
> works" and has a great UI that customers love, but how is
> that "quality" software? The software end of it is clunky
> and patched.
>
> On the other hand, you can have completely documented,
> easy to read, well thought-out code that has a terrible
> UI that no one will bother using. I guess you can say the
> software is "quality," but it doesn't matter.

We've been discussing what quality for our team at work, and one of the key outcomes has been recognising 'Perceived Quality' & 'Actual Quality' as distinct concepts. The main difference is, to a user, they are the same and can't be distinguished--until something goes wrong.
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I'd say that process is bigger than PayPal. you would need Ach, and Credit Card ability. I do have contacts with the seventh largest Credit Merchant, the Avg savings in processor fee is about half that of PayPal. I have been coding on some of their payment gates for 4 years.

Now all Merchant services will have bad records mainly because people don't read contracts. All merchant services that are cheaper per card require monthly charges mines about $30 month (if you keep up the PCI Scanner) that puts my rates to 1.2 to 1.6 on normal cards with 30c transmission fee. Since your recurring it is different the charges reduce because of less repeat transmission fees.

Hit up at my Store site for More info It really comes down to what is needed and most merchant provider fail to ask the right questions. https://www.eyes2design.com

I'm working on my personal blog right now on a different domain name.
I get Wikipedia as the top result. Maybe Google is making a guess about your preference based on your history? Try the search in incognito/private mode and see.
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I just went there and the first "result" is a giant stock chart widget showing the 1-day chart with the options of viewing 5-day, month, etc. This chart takes up a full 1/3 of the vertical screen size. At the bottom of the chart there's 3 quick-links to: Google Finance, Yahoo finance, and MSN Money. The next result-ish thing is Google's "In the News" section that has an article about the broken Gigafactory promises. The first real result is yahoo finance, just as it is for you. I suspect it isn't so much that Google is promoting Yahoo over its own product, since that first chart is clearly a Google product, but that it doesn't bias the real search results in their favor. It's a legitimate organic search result. Most people probably just want the stock price from the first/simplest way possible, which is provided or they want the yahoo finance page.
I'm 100% for this. I used to use Firefox for everything. But then Chrome was released which had a much better developer experience (and still does, in my eyes). I'd rather go back to Firefox but each time I do, I find a feature or performance issue that keeps me going back to Chrome. I _really_ wish this wasn't the case.
Exactly what I was thinking.
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I see it too. There's another one a few images previous with a similar issue. (titled "Woman holding Nokia Lumina")
> Hint: if the first notation is so superior, why don't math papers use it.

Math papers usually use neither the first nor the second.

they use:

(a + b)(c + d)

in the example you propose, and, reversing the operators so that the first style would have:

(+ (* a b) (* b c))

and the second:

(a * b) + (c * d)

math papers would usually have:

ab + cd

So, I'm not sure "math papers do it differently" is the argument you want to use to advance your second syntax over the first.

Of course, since in lisp + and * are variadic rather than binary operators, they are a lot more like the pi and sigma operators applied to sets in mathematics than binary operators. Which are prefix, not infix. So, there's that.
> Except a non-commercial identity provider would be wonderful.

We've had that all along. It's called email. It's decentralized. There are already numerous free providers. There are already numerous commercial providers. You can even be your own provider, if you want. You can have multiple identities, and they can be as loosely or as tightly tied to your actual identity as you want. Many services or web site will already let you use an email address, along with a password, to authenticate. What you're asking for already exists!
You got unlucky. G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time) is really popular slang at the moment for describing athletes, fashion, actors, etc. and people are undoubtedly searching for that term more than they are looking for the wikipedia page for the animal.
Quality software is pretty easy to define and you described it.

Quality software is software that works for everyone who uses it. That is usually a very long list

- users
- developers
- new developers
- testers/qa
- designers
- admins
- managers
- sales people
- third party integration
- apis
- etc.

You are right that most of this comes down to the iceberg problem (you only see the issues you focus on but there are many more hidden to you)

The author is very foolishly thinking that communication is possible in their "solution" I can have speeches for hours with managers and sales people and have them still completely ignore quality.
Whenever I hear of Cryptome complaining, semi-regularly, about the cache of Snowden documents being trickled into public existence, all I can think of is how they published a ripped copy of Citizenfour because of the stupid lawsuit a former naval officer brought against Snowden which put the DVD in evidence, of which they thought that it was now "public" material.

I'm fine with Cryptome wanting the full cache, but I'm not fine with anyone wanting to blindly publish the entire archive without vetting any of it. Cryptome doesn't seem to have the history of wanting to vet and possibly redact information, which will do nothing except provide fodder for those who argue against the idea of the leaked documents without providing critique against the contents of the documents.
Exactly. They're arguing the combined work clause, which would automatically rule out all binary-only modules, such as nvidia.ko.

Most previous arguments about zfs.ko were about the derived work clause, which is much more grey. I belive that nvidia.ko would be more likely to be ruled a derived work than ZFS.ko, but that's hard to tell.

It does seem silly to argue about ZFS in this context. ZFS is open source and much less offensive to kernel developers than nvidia.ko.[1]

If nvidia.ko is fine, then so is zfs.ko. If nvidia.ko isn't fine, zfs.ko may or may not be fine. Ubuntu has been shipping nvidia.ko for years.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
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I read a study of 'lift outs' - teams poached from one firm to another, to perform similar roles [1]. In investment banking, these liftouts are focused on one or two key analysts who bring juniors with them to the new firm.

Sometimes these worked because the acquiring firm had no expertise in a particular area. The biggest impact moving in teams has is that you are familiar with a lot of the business customs already - you have a support team in place. Your shared network can grow a lot more quickly. However, with a liftout, you have enormous pressure to succeed; there's less 'onboard' time since you should know how to work in your team already.

[1] http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9128.html, Chapter 7
DustyBooks – Sell and Buy textbooks with other students on Campus
URL: http://www.dustybooksapp.xyz/?ref=yc

DustyBooks is an app that helps college students make money on campus. The idea is to build a platform for students to sell/buy/trade textbooks on campus.The system is campus based, students will only see listings posted by students located in the same school. The app will offer the possibility to create listings, communicate directly in the app and many other features.

DustyBooks is available for Android as a public beta in the US and Canada only and I am planning to build the iOS version and possibly a web app

Android Version: www.dustybooksapp.xyz/android

IOS and web version coming soon

What do you guys think ?
Paypal is a fine option. Most people are able to use it without trouble once they understand its weird nuances and are careful not to trip its many automatic lockdowns. You only hear about the people who have problems.

BUT

Paypal should not be your only option. No option should. Start researching a backup now.
I think you got it backwards, the massive inconvenience for everyone is that Linux is using the GPL and people don't want to have to deal with all the re-licensing compatibility bullshit just to be able to distribute a binary of some other FOSS. seriously, CDDL is FSF/OSI approved.

Sure, Oracle could resolve it by switching to a GPL compatible license, but the problem is not oracle's clearly free software. The problem is GPL forcibly does not allow perfectly fine open source licensed software to be distributed in binary form due to it's copyleft.
> Scientists believe they must occur thousands of times a day, but until this most recent study, only 16 had ever been detected. They seem randomly distributed throughout the sky, and no one is sure what causes them.

They are said to happen more frequently than a few times a year. I'm guessing it's just that we are not detecting the bulk of them because they're randomly distributed.
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You are not correct. Apache Foundation, electron/chromium & elastic are the open source components of google. meme-explorer is the paradigm but was funded by drape/jpl_nasa so work was suspended on it.

heirarchical crawl index and DNS rebuild(or similar model) will lead to search platform and fix discovery, monopoly and monetization.

note that Google has solved a HUGE problem, but their task is now impossible. You can't simply use a textbook and some booleans and quotations(which I am not sure they even respect) to deliver results for a billion people.

Individuals and the market will calibrate their own results.
I think the hard part would be to find someone with standing to sue. Finding a court would be easy.

Who really has standing in this case? Maybe Oracle could sue Canonical? Or perhaps a kernel developer could sue Canonical? (although that seems unlikely to me)
It could also just be that they [incorrectly] assume their users are dumb, their algorithms are smart, and have forgotten what made them big in the first place. IIRC, besides PageRank, one of their original usability improvements was AND-ing query terms by default instead of OR-ing by default like their competition.
Atlas is not directed at fin-tech companies. SVB is more startup-friendly than WF.
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I think this comes about when there is no good definition of quality. If you say quality is "conformance to requirements," you have a starting place. Then measurement can be seen as the price of nonconformance. Check it: http://lansingbusinessnews.com/management-matters/468-the-fo...
I've been pretty happy with keepass2android's keyboard integration. It avoids the clipboard entirely and helps autoselect the right password and username if you let it. It also supports using a HOTP NFC token in conjunction with the master password.

I know it doesn't add that much security since a determined attacker could still brute force the OTP with the way it works but it keeps out the casual attacker that's not that savvy.
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I've long given up on Google outside of the anglosphere. I travel a lot. Location services are enabled on my phone and laptop yet Google still wants to serve up results from the US. I've had to be very careful with how I use Maps since the name of a dutch city or street just might share the same name as some bar in middle America.

I think someone is buying or gaming search results. When I'm in Paris some results take me back to a tour company in central Paris even if they have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.

This has forced me to go back to search aggregators like DDG. I miss the old Google. DDG can be a little too broad with the results and then I have to load it with filters where old Google would kind of get it right away.
The objective definition is very difficult to pin down. My personal takeaway is that quality in practical day to day life is a trait which lets us judge things comparatively, not objectively.

Thats an important distinction though. While it is difficult pin down whether something individual is quality or has quality, it is easy enough to compare it to something else and say whether it has more or less.

When most people say "this is a quality _______", the comparison is implicit.
That's an excellent idea, and certainly a tact I wouldn't initially have considered.

Reminds me of this xkcd: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/legal_hacks.png
Try Google Search without a Google account or any Google cookies. It may be more neutral without "search personalization".
GPLv2 contains the line

>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

So couldn't the FSF fix this by releasing a later version of the GPL that allows for this combination?

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html seems to imply that that wouldn't work, but I don't understand why. Can someone with more experience with the GPLs enlighten me?
http://www.cnet.com/news/sun-criticizes-popular-open-source-...

This is an article on the GPL with SUN

QUOTE: "Schwartz singled out the GPL provision that says source code may be mixed with other code only if the other code also is governed by the GPL. That provision is intended to create a body of software that must remain liberated from proprietary constraints. But Schwartz said that some people he's spoken to dislike it because it precludes them from using open-source software as a foundation for proprietary projects."
All going to depend on interpretation of a derived work at the end of the day.
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Linus removed that line from the kernel license because he disagreed with the tivoization clause in GPLv3, so the Linux kernel will forever remain GPLv2.
We're still for the masses, but this specific service is not. If you look at our plans you'll see that there are different levels of service depending on how much you pay us, this particular service is for the very high end.
I'm using btrfs on ubuntu 15.10 right now and I can tell you from experience - it's unstable junk still. I have to manually rebalance my filesystem because it decides I'm out of free space and then that sometimes fails and things get even more complicated. This has really turned me off it.

See here for some details of the ridiculousness:

http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/post_2014-05-04_Fixing-B...
Linux is explicitly licensed under the GPLv2 only, unfortunately.
I sorta do this, I think. Via setting DuckDuckGo as my default provider, and doing google searches via `!g my search sentence`. You can even go straight to images with `!im`, maps with `!maps`, and whatnot.
> I don't see this case as a particular problem. "People wanting to learn about goats" might actually be in the minority.

This is the problem. Search isn't a democracy. I lookup the results I need, so not giving me filtering ability makes no sense. An engine that does what google does is an amazing achievement, but no longer makes sense as a model for the exact reason you gave as a defense.

edit: If disagreement could be verbalized it would be super helpful to me. I have been thinking about this issue a lot, and often I see people say the same thing as me:

* single website controls almost 100% of english language results

* limiting of images/video from results

* incorrect/wrong results

* limited respect for boolean and quotation operators

* high ranking sites are not authoritative, e.g. w3schools, wordpress automated blogs.

* no way to filter at all

But then down vote my conclusion:

> searches could be filtered and parameters set by user.

Really would be useful to understand my logic error, or if I have missed something.
>which in my opinion is a non-issue when thinking about PCs with 800W+ power supplies

My electricity bill isn't a non-issue ;-) Also power efficiency is good from an ecological standpoint.
DDG uses other search engines' indexes but I would not describe them as a "search aggregator".
Brainstorming is a social activity, with heavy use of communication abilities of ever participant.

Would not you agree?
Yeah. If there's an unintended license-compatibility problem, the people who'd need to fix it are Oracle's lawyers. They might have a different attitude towards Open Source than Sun, to put it mildly.
Try working on an automated car, space shuttle, encryption algorithm, robot, medical equipment, security systems, ...
I'm happy the engineers working on those ones don't have the same perspective as our dear Sam.

I think this point of view has to be limited to a really Silicon Valley / consumer products experience: "we will add a button in an app that will be ground-breaking!"
The opposition of the two models of discussion shouldn't exist, as quality is indeed a business decision ("do you need a software with less defects? Or you are okay paying for more support and the risk of loosing users and image and ...").
Wait, are you saying you trust apple yet not Microsoft or more than?
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Congrats Eric, Rob and Ed!
GPLv3 was not released until 2007. AFAIK, Linux has been GPLv2-only since it started using GPLv2 in the 90s.
> But what if you're building software that generates code for long running projects/code bases (e.g. aircrafts, defence, power-plants, telecom equipment, medical devices, mobile radio base stations). Selecting some closed source tool to generate foo can cost you dearly.

Yes, that would be insane. So don't do it? If you willfully chooses badly suited tools, then you get what you deserve.

> You have to version these tools (e.g. the binaries if you don't have the source) to the generaters in your VCS to provide reproducability.

You can vendor source code generators. If you want to be extra-certain that generator output remains the same across upgrades, you can also check-in the generated code and manually inspect any changes that happen. (I'm assuming relatively sane source code generators that don't intentionally obfuscate things.)

So, yes, if you choose a terrible code generator then you'll be in trouble.

What alternative approaches would you suggest, incidentally, where you're not also just as much at the mercy of the whims of the tools you're using?
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Los Gatos has a large downtown area, and Campbell's has been growing in the past few years. (Those are the two I'm familiar with.)
Probably about 25%, the question is, how many people's salaries have gone up 25% in that space of time?
I can agree with this. Namecheap is fairly secure as far as a general, affordable registrar is concerned. I had trouble accessing my account because I didn't have very specific information that was difficult for me to track down in my emails. They also supported DNSSEC and Algorithm 13 before it was an option on CloudFlare, meaning I was able to take advantage of that day one.
Although not me, but I have played the role of the engineer in the research going on currently in our lab for developing a more advanced brain computer interface, to help people in need that can't move their bodies, we're doing pretty well, I will share the realization soon.
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The GPL is not to blame here, it's doing its job.
Nobody has done more research on this than the US Military, specifically the special operations community.

The key takeaways that you find in very effective SOF teams are:

1. Clear and accepted authority chain (Top guy earned their place at the top)

2. Candid and constant communication/feedback between all members

3. A clearly defined, proven effective and specialized role for every member with each member knowing how each others role plays together

4. Common sense of purpose (Objective etc...)

5. Common experience (BUD/s, Q, FTC etc...)

If you have all of those then pretty much everything else falls into place. Note also that this has no requirement for everyone to being an "A" personality or whatever and has basically no bearing on what they do outside of work. Those aspects can help, but they can equally hurt depending on the egos involved.
>Sometimes teams are more efficient and innovative when truth wins over harmony

If you have to pick, your team sucks.
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I can't stress how important this is for people like my daughter who at age 13 reads at a Grade 3 level thanks to a genetic disorder that affects her learning. She's a great verbal communicator, but the reading/writing is an immense challenge. Things like this will change her life and open up opportunities that we're previously not open to her.