skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just requires a group of people to start a new bunch of niche indexing projects.

My idea, which may be a bit off the wall, is really to go down a path whereby you only index a subject. So node.js guys just give a search engine that indexes node.js material, Python people index Python articles, short-haired cat people index only short-haired cats... They key is to make the subject you are indexing manageable in scope. So you keep it small.

The key things that Google have IMO is how good they are at locating documents, and ensuring that they have mapped out their search to what is relevant. But I think that for those who know what they are looking for, specific indexing of a particular domain of knowledge would make searching more relevant.

Now the next steps are to find a way to discover this content. But in this case, submitting to the smaller indexers would be helpful. Take HN for instance - in the grand scheme of things it's a big index of stuff that interests hackers, now if you indexed HN that would be a search engine based on user submitted links.

Then you could figure out a way for indexes to collaborate with each other.

What it would in essence do would be to democratize search. And it would penalise information that wasn't in the open, though someone could make it work by paying for links to good content and charging a monthly fee to use their index. The index would be a broker, but the more reputable it is the more content it can index. And the market would stabilise on a price - if you can't afford it, you use a competitor, of you could make your own.

It would need a framework for decentralised collaboration, and perhaps a good mechanism for the indexing and displaying search results.

Just an idea. Might not be practical!
Have to second diaspora,Diaspora is a vestige of intellectual content and quality discussion.
story blocked "Access Denied: You don't have permission to access "serve-403-cf.www.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2016/5/thune-seeks-answers-from-facebook-on-political-manipulation-allegations" on this server."

Any alternatives to FB out there worth using? There are 6 mentioned in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701871 and I've also heard of unseen.is as a messaging platform from Iceland.
I half-expected 'very late' comments before I read the comments. I wasn't disappointed.

For those who commented that way, please reconsider this winner takes all approach to your outlook of the world. The world is better because of choice and it's in everybody's best interest to have more distributed version systems.
I hate Websites selling themselves as "Desktop apps". I'd much rather have a native interface, me and my battery would say thank you for that.
I was blown away with how easy it was and with the code quality.
She's someone you're trying to manage out of the company. Maybe you were harsher on her performance metrics than you needed to be, because in the back of your head, getting rid of someone who complained about sexual harassment was easier than dealing with the problem. Presto: colorable sexual harassment and/or retaliation claim.
I don't think timestamps are going to be as dispositive as you'd hope they'd be in this situation.
Thank you :-) sorry about that, I posted because my friend John Dickson was mentioned, and then realised I hadn't read carefully enough and the better link is the Gizmodo article, which wasn't linked to...
It would be more libertarian if it was a model for setting you up with a driver with whom you directly negotiate terms of your transportation arrangement.. :)
I just wanted to say that I appreciate the nuanced tone of your reply, as well as the nuance present in your responses to those that disagree with you and also those that seem just slightly too eager to agree. Every individual has a personal anecdote that validates their "side" of the debate, and these anecdotes tend to drive the cadence of our reasoning into a direction that offers little consideration for outcomes that push us forward as a society in favor of those that capitulate to a sense of indignation that demands unequivocal satisfaction.

Thanks.
This matches my experience with C++. My code has improved hugely in simplicity and robustness as I've learned which C++ features are productive and which are just minefields.
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You wouldn't have noticed the change if you recently joined.
DRM, bleh.

It's sad that open source browsers and open web standards folks are doing the bidding of corporate interests. At this rate, we won't be able to own a permanent, portable "license" to a work, only rent a license locked to a particular device on a certain platform.
Both lying and obfuscation are completely legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre#Whistleblower_lawsui...

This article helped me to better understand some of what's going on:

"Agnotology ... is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
> come over and eat us if we said hello

It's so expensive in energy to do this that it's unlikely.

Even the moon, if it was made of gold bars stacked at the ready to be picked up and brought back to Earth, it wouldn't be worth it.

Even if you had technology to transport a significant force across the span of light years, why endanger that with the risk of resistance? Just go to one of the billions of habitable planets that don't have complex, radio transmitting intelligences on it.
That's exactly what I was thinking - the footprint editor is horrible in that aspect.

You don't have to hold "M" to move, it picks up the component when pressing.

The shortcuts in general are not as nicely placed as Altium, e.g. Zoom-to-fit (Home) is very awkward. Sure you can change that, but stuff like this requires a lot of time and the setup will be incompatible with other people (and one might have to adapt it on the next update, etc.).
"This will be the sixth time we have reinvented basic programming, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
Consider using Git LFS for binary data, our GitLab.com supports it up to 10GB per project, self hosted installations are limited only by the disk volume.
This guy truly is, the world's biggest hypocrite

"Like anyone can even know that."
Presumably if you then delete that first line in the third version, you get something like

^AI 1
this is the first line in the first version.
^AE 1
^AD 3
^AI 2
this is the line that was added in the second version
^AE 2

?
Where I am judges decide and lawyers defend. I didn't say lawyers are unnecessary, just they can't make the ultimate decision. For the rest of your comment my answer is my parent comment, I don't think I can elaborate further.
So the whole "pay peanuts, get monkeys" thing now has the additional problem that the monkeys will sue you for a fair wage, and possibly more tyres on ropes in their enclosures?
See also: http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/careers/careersnews/9117323/fa...

Facebook deleted my friend John Dickson's post, so this happens. I don't agree with John's post, but I don't expect civil (if I feel misguided) discourse to be deleted. I want to be able to speak to the person and state my position, and have them clarify there's, and so on - you know, free discourse and dissemination of ideas!
As a side note:

I'm not a botanist or anything. This is just what I've read. But I remember growing up there being clover everywhere. It was vibrant, green, felt great under foot and flourished even in South Texas.

You don't see that often anymore. The claim I've seen is that herbicides commonly used to treat weeds on lawns kill it.

So I bought a couple 1lb bags off Amazon (I think about $10). We had a few weeds since we don't use herbicides (not out of principle or anything, I'm just not that into gardening). Anyways, the clover chokes out the weeds completely, looks great, seems to help the grass grow better, and is just nothing but a positive thing.

Really happy with it. Some of my super-gardener neighbors might not appreciate it. It's never come up. But I like that even during droughts my lawn stays vibrant and green with minimal water.
I've been using BK/BAM for my photos, it's got 56GB of data in there and works great. I cheat because I added a way to check things out that uses hardlinks instead copies and I can check out the whole tree in 6 seconds. Doing the copy takes a lot longer: 9+ minutes. Hardlinks rock.

On the commercial site there is a link to some BAM paper, take a look at that and maybe ask in the forum or irc if this gets lost.
In Australia. You might want to search for "The Children Overboard Affair".
While normally I'd agree with your point, the OP gave a pretty clear description of what the employee did.

>He asked to take the conversation off Slack (moved to Whatsapp) and asked if they could hang out (she said, "sure as friends in work context"), referred to her as a milf (ugh...), and asked if he could tell her a secret (she refused)

>I've seen the evidence of the texts in question.

It doesn't get any less ambiguous than that.
Actually they're removing it on Android even :(
Lawyer + document + fire him.

This is a no brainer.
We open sourced everything. So yes, it's there. The commercial site is out of date.

We have not done the centralized lock manager, we didn't get commercial demand for that (yeah, surprised me too). We could do it though, it's not that hard.
rising c02 may ( fill in the blank here)

there is epidemic of bad science resulting from overfunding for anything related to c02 research.

it's nonsense. it's not 'wrong' because 'wrong' is falsifiable in one direction or another it's BAD science because it is inconclusive wasted effort with crap data and nothing verifiable.

fine, believe in the immanent global catastrophic VERSION of climate warming caused and potentially preventable by mankind resulting from c02 emissions. GO AHEAD AND PULL YOUR HAIR OUT.
BUT CAN WE PLEASE STOP FUNDING CRAP ASS SCIENCE RESEARCH THAT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO YIELD CONCLUSIVE FALSIFIABLE RESULTS OTHER THAN X MAY CAUSE Y , OR IT MAY NOT.............

THE CULT OF BAD SCIENCE ..........AND PSUEDOSCIENCE..........continues...........
But windows 7 is still support by microsoft. Extended support goes until 2020.
You could just open hangouts.google.com in a browser window, why do you need a native app?

Also, Hangouts would not need phone tethering
Except in an emergency a plane can re-route.
Working on getting a crappy one out there, we have simple and pretty crappy and complex / fragile but less crappy.
Are Your Team Practices Accidentally Making Things Harder for Introverts
I feel the same way. Just build an independent app already. Telegram did it well. What's stopping WhatsApp ?
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Yeah, wouldn't be surprised if somebody tries shooting at the tube.
Stop using/requiring phone system in internet based instant messengers.
Having used Eagle, KiCAD, and several others, my current favorite is Fritzing. It's quite easy to use and has a large library of built-in parts. Creating new parts is pretty easy compared to other software I've used. Performance leaves a bit to be desired, but this doesn't become a problem except for pretty large circuits.
Understandable; that was unfortunately my experience with volunteer community moderating.

You should add a script that gives you a random highly-voted comment with positive language to your toolbox. In the interest of balance and sanity.

PS: Thank you for all you do for this community. You encourage our aspirations to be more civil humans.
Graymail - just yesterday I finally unsubscribed from a product email that I subscribed to before the product was out. I glanced at, then ignored many emails, sales, holiday specials, etc. What made me do it? An email asking me how I liked the product. I don't have one, they should know I never bought one.

If more companies would take the time to send meaningful emails or even unsubscribe me when they feel I'm not interested, I may sign up for more things. If they valued a quality list over the quantity my inbox would be a different place.
talk about changing goal posts and pivoting, anything to save face about rushing success.

quantum everything is obviously the future of technology, but it is a long long path.

i get more excited about fundmanetal quantum research and research on new methods of testing quantum states.

people claiming to have full working computers of any value, if they even do work-------------are just blowing smoke and mirrors like elizabeth holmes from theranos. nearly criminal behavior , alleging things are simply what they aren't in order to get money.

there is an epidemic of hack science and engineering occuring to secure and suck in scarce funds. and where-ever there is military related big money the likelihood of fraud is even bigger.

read the book about the hafnium bomb and you will understand why the military investors are frequently so easy to scam---a two pronged version of greed and desire to have the unstoppable weapons.

paradoxically enough , if more pre-investigation was done, they'd have more money to spend on real R&D. i guess economists would just call this a massive case of malinvestment.
Finding a Horseshoe on the Beaches of Rio – On Chaos Theory (1998) [pdf]
Great one: http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfun...

Just go to his articles section and you'll see a bunch more.
silv3r does have a point tho, increasingly pages change according to information they know about you. I'm from Brazil but I usually use browsers in english, which leads to weird experiences in some websites including google.
No, but neither do yellow cab drivers in NYC that are working as independent contractors.
Ash HN: Who works with a tech agent?
Does anyone have experience working with a tech agent? Either as developer or hiring company. I just heard of this trend and I'm curious to see if the experience is really different from working with a recruiter.
People probably flagged it as a duplicate of yesterday's submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11664322
If I'm a big video content producer what incentive do I have to remove myself from the user base of youtube?
The EFF has done a couple of articles like this (Save Netflex, Save Comcast, etc...)
The next step would be doing these interactions - service registration, search, negotiation, usage, payments, certification etc. without a trusted, centralized intermediary. Have a look at the https://ethereum.org project to see how this could work out. If these kind of distributed systems for messaging, data distribution and storage as well as consensus scale, intelligent agents will be able to interact with services and each other faster, efficiently and more secure than before.
> I lost about $1500 in revenues which was never returned.

apparently (according to a podcast I listen to) they are actually dealing with this. I guess before if you filed a copyright claim you could just monetize and make off with the money on a video?
But Scala is far from a simple language and Akka makes it even less so.
Yeah, it's a possibility. Just hoping for something better. :)
If they bring in proper tabs (not single click working tab either) then I'll go back in heart beat. I've been jumping around between atom, vs code, and sublime a lot over the last few months because of how all the editors are changing the way tabs work.

I'll have to check again, but I remember not being able to adjust the big sidebar either. On a vertical monitor it's a huge waste of space to have such a wide bar with only 4 buttons in it. It'd be nice to have some customization for that.
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The `is` operator is the same amount of strict in all examples here and in the article: it compares the identities (in CPython, this is essentially the memory address) of two objects.

The reason, in your example, that `is` returns different results is that small integers are "interned"; i.e., the literal 100 always references the exact same integer object, whereas 1000 will cause an integer to be allocated. (So a and b, while both represented 1000, are stored twice in memory.)
While it's true that not all bugs are created equal, we do know that some bugs are exacerbated by architectural problems (single process versus multi-process is a good example of this), and new approaches like what Servo is doing in Rust make it possible to write parallel code in a way that is less likely to crash, and less likely to lead to security vulnerabilities.

In general, existing bugs (that I am aware of) are either not actionable because of existing architectural issues, or just because the nature of the bug is difficult and requires an expert whose time is constrained.
> Now, on reverse stack, my memory is cloudy. Common stacks have incoming data flow toward the stack pointer in a way that can clobber it, even leading to hacks.

That's not a restriction of C, but a way to get more out of your memory on a restricted system; If your heap grows up and your stack grows down (or vice versa), then you can keep using growing both until the two meet, at which point you've used all the available memory. However, if they both grow in the same direction, you need to statically decide how much to give each one, which will lead to waste if you're not using much stack or heap:

[heap-->| |<--stack]

vs:

[heap-->| |stack-->| ]

But, again, not something that C cares about; you have a number of architectures like Alpha (IIRC) where the program break and the top of stack move in the same direction.
If you know how to do the topic detection you don't need separate indexes
Close. By the way there is a bk _scat command (sccs cat, not poop) that dumps the ascii file format so you can try this and see.

The delete needs to be an envelope around the insert so you get

^AD 3
^AI 1
this is the first line in the first version.
^AE 1
^AE 3
^AI 2
this is the line that was added in the second version
^AE 2

That whole weave thing is really cool. The only person outside of BK land that got it was Braam Cohen in Codeville, I think he had a weave.
yes the problem is politics , or what you might call institutionalized group psychology of those with access to spending tax dollars, and the legislators they need to 'persuade' to get the money spent.

science is not an art , it is generally an institutionally funded social behavior. the art of science is such that a lot of shitty ass sciece research with poorly constructed hypothesis and protocol gets funded............

can we do a better job? maybe. but the answer lies in better policy analysts and politicians, not in better 'scientists'.

on heuristic for helping pinpoint bad and poorly constructed research is to look for where the most 'growth' in research has occured the quickest; and by that-----i mean look for the research 'bubbles'.

why? as with art in general, and clothign and every sphere of human behavior-----that which gets popular very quickly is usually by nature fleeting and without the most substance, like fast growing weeds. that which grows slowly and withstands the test of time usually resembles an oak in quality.

that does not mean that fast growth is always undesireable. you want fast growth in areas where there is great potential and low hanging fruit.

it is good that bubbles occur SOMETIMES. BUT NOT ALWAYS. some bubbles are poorly advised. you must crack a few eggs to make an ommelet but sometimes you are just breaking eggs inside the carton without ever making breakfast.

but regardless of whether or not a bubble is good or bad, all bubbles still must pop at some point to let the overgrowth and wasteful growth be cleared. all forests must eventually have a forest fire.

the longer fire and destruction is suppressed beyond a certain point........the greater the amount of destruction is going to be when it finally comes.

and in general, this is why our current economic bubble is so worrisome
Thanks for the clarification and totally agree. I have seen project managers turn their gantt-chart sideways, have 1 hour standup meetings and call themselves Scrum Masters! So I know exactly what you mean.

Nowadays I never say the A word in a companies for the exact reasons you mention. Now I say "let's start producing higher quality, faster" and go from there.
> >I had a young (pre-teen) boy who filed copyright claims on several of my tutorials, and they where taken down instantly and took months to resolve via email.
I have a feeling no (big) video hosting site will be immune to this. This is a legal problem not a technology problem.

It's a basic support problem in the case of youtube. They only just started a program to actually give support to content creators.
For anybody interested in this, search for initial trust problem.
Everyone who doesn't smoke subsidizes the high health care costs for those who do smoke. Thus, to not tax tobacco users to pay for their healthcare costs means an implicit tax on those of us who don't smoke.

Increasing the cost of tobacco is the best way to help smokers to quit and to stop teens from starting.
I imagine the lawyer you asked about it would roll their eyes.

There are restrictions on herbicides that can be used in most residential areas, I doubt you are going to get a court to override those rules and give bees priority.
> Facebook hasn't destroyed the web - it's still there and functioning fine. Hyperlinks still work.

Completely agree.

And let's choose something else similar, for the sake of argument.

Google dominates web search at 64% of searches: https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-R...

Post anyone could write: "That's so unfair, because Google owns more than half of all searches. They get to decide what you find on the web!"

In fact, the argument of the bias bubble is the one that Duck Duck Go uses, and I don't disagree with it. Google's results are biased.

However, does the fact that Google can and does hide some (or even many) relevant pages on the web from you make them responsible for "closing the web"?

Of course not! Without Google, instead of random but relevant websites and blogs providing answers when you search, you'd probably go to a centralized sites for information or data, which could be biased and ignorant.

Without Google, think of all of the internet companies that never would have grown because they would never have been found.

Back to Facebook. Sure, many on Facebook just share photos, comments, have discussions, etc. But, there are a lot of links shared and pages you can like to get more links in your feed. As a Facebook user, I see much more new content and read information I would have been unaware of if I'd only been reading HN or a news website. I also share the best stories from HN, exposing a number of my friends to articles they would not have otherwise read.

In my opinion, Facebook hasn't closed the web. In fact, it seems that the web would have been more closed if Facebook and Google had never existed.
We've got a very primitive hosting service up at bkbits.net. One of the ways we hope to survive is to evolve that into something closer to Github.
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My main strengths are my versatility and quick learning; because I have always worked at undermanned small companies, I have always worked on all parts of the stack, from the database up to wiring designs up with Javascript. And I am notorious at being able to internalize a concept quickly once exposed to it.

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Was super interested, until I realised no LINE nor KakaoChat :(