skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? To completely remove anything from your life that happens to have Google as a part of it would be so inconvenient. Gmail is objectively an amazing email app on both desktop browser and mobile. No search engine can come close to Google. Lots of great apps like Google Docs, Calendar, and Translate exist to make your life easier for free. Google Maps is kinda annoying with Uber ads but its navigation and UI is so nice to use. It seems obtuse to just refuse to use a web service just because it happens to be made by Google.
If you want to have a signup process that takes less than 9 hours, you have a max of 20 new subdomains a week.

20 users signing up a week - likely with a retention of a few percent - is not a "large hosting provider".

You might have a few hundred users max, and already will be far over the rate limits.
Seconded. There is some soldering involved.
I used altavista first, so I was used to navigating directly to what I wanted by using word combinations that would be present in my target document but explicitly NOT present elsewhere. It was great!
Nationalized healthcare has always been on the left in America.

And I'd argue that Trump has much more in common with progressive-era Democrats (like Wilson) than he does with "the right" in modern America.

If this isn't the election where we throw away (or at least officially redefine) the concept of "left" and "right", I'm not sure there will be one.
Provided they can deploy the 3rd party solution onsite (aka "on premise"), this wouldn't be seen as a "huge risk".
> This makes it sound as if the US only acted to end competition against another Empire.

Well, that might well have been the case. While World War Ⅱ did put a stop to some horrible things, I don't know if that was because they were horrible or merely because their perpetrators were a threat. I suspect the latter.
Silly Putty and Graphene = Pressure Sensor
In the long run, Democratic Republics favor loosely associated blocs of power, mainly in the form of corporations. The wealthy in Europe probably didn't like it very much when fascists and communists came to power.

Any type of centrally planned economy is an anethema to those who have saved massive sums of capital.
BTW Unity, with all its excellence, has really horrible data format for content and patch distribution, and had and still has huge problems with this. Perhaps the legacy of early overengineering and struggle to protect the games from easy reverse-engineering.

And compare, say, to simple incremental zips of Quake with alphabetic file loading order.. Total no-brainer to implement and use. (I have even seen zips with custom LZMA compression!)

So, if any, someone will have to solve a problem of artificially created obstacles, not a problem per se.
Your suggestion amounts to "work around it". That's one perspective, but also consider the very real problems of irregular ends of the loaf (where cutting thinner would result in a piece too small along the other two dimensions to be useful), loaves with air pockets that need to be cut thicker to maintain structural integrity (and utility) of the resulting toast, and people who simply prefer thicker slices.
The politics ban is lifted, and as usual, a complete degradation into the usual rhetoric.

People write a comment and think somebody's mind will be changed. Nope, not gonna happen. Just look at comments and replies.

It's just delusional thinking to think that HN is somehow above the fray when it comes to this stuff.
I used an example. An app, that she's familiar with, is Gmail. I said our product is not a desktop application, like Outlook, but for the web. What we're going to do is mostly display static content, refresh the screen on navigation circa 2002, etc. So there are some parts where we need dynamicity, like our menu builder, but for the most part we don't need anything complex. As a result JQuery is fine.
> Our software development work is meaningless in the grand scheme of life.

This is a tool for presenting things meaningless. One can also say any sort of philanthropy and medicine as a whole are meaningless as we'll all die eventually.
Not my industry, but a friend of mine in law was discussing how incredible her in-house software is for managing billable hours relative to all her past companies. I poked around, and most law firms, even very deep pocketed ones, use somewhere between a bad tech system and no tech system to manage and track their work.

A small team could easily collaborate with some law firm (maybe take an investment from a few law firms), and create some very valuable software.
Nope, it'll live on and the code will be available for all to see and study which means it'll end up being a case study or research material in a textbook or Masters or Phd thesis.

One day someone may try to make an emulator for IE5 and ES4 just to run jQuery (like we've seen done with the 6502 and C64).
My guess is that, any serious skeletons in his closet would have been at least partially exposed when he ran for governor.
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That argument depends on the initial values being the same, you can easily make sure they are not.
I'm not sure that you have to be a moral relativist to be an individualist. You could just hold that the highest moral good is people having the agency to pursue what will make them content (which I think is an appropriate definition of individualism). I believe a whole bunch of moral principles follow from that, like that they can't do whatever they want to other people because then those other people won't have agency.

Who knows if it's a good moral code, but I don't believe it's moral relativism.
The major advantage DDG has is that it doesn't matter what it is behind the scenes. They can change whenever it suits them and the site will continue to act as an anonymizing front-end, complete with some useful extras.
I've tried this in the past. It gives me about 5 seconds of quiet time. Just enough to realize how loud my tinnitus really is :(
Yeah, let's just boot up netscape navigator, aol, and lotus notes
What about DOOM (1992)? That had a title screen of sorts.
I overlooked the fact that PrototypeJS was first (in fact, I was one of the unfortunates who backed that horse), but I still disagree. I don't think the jQuery lowered any kind of quality bar, it made absurd and redundant work irrelevant.

If you're referring to those legions of people who "don't know javascript, but know jQuery," without jQuery they simply would have been lousy javascript developers instead of lousy javascript developers, that doesn't change anything.
Australia also interned Japanese as well as Germans and Italians during the wars.

http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/snapshots/internment-camps/...

The museum at Berrima is a good visit for people interested in war history.

http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/enemyatho...
I like the idea of this project, but I have several nits/concerns:

- De-Google-ify is a poor way of marketing these ideas. Your average web user loves Google because they are trendy and make everything so convenient.

- The site enumerates the pitfalls of cloud-hosted solutions and then proceeds to link to their own cloud-hosted solutions with no explanation of why they're any safer, better, etc.

And not limited to this page, but I really wish in general there was a better way to convey the point of free software than the word "free." If every single person immediately misunderstands what you mean, you've already lost.
I have a an encrypted USB drive [0] on my keychain with a portable installation of my password manager and a weekly-updated backup of my database. Anywhere I have access to my laptop - I have access to my login. I don't login to anything via my phone for security reasons (I still don't trust my phone to be considered secure.)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Integral%C2%AE-8GB-Crypto-Drive-Encry...
Amazon Go means more than just job losses, it will restructure the economy
Knuth is very pleasant in person too!
As I recall some DEC utilities supported 'split octal' which was base 8 on 8 bit boundaries. With a 16 bit value of 0xffff was represented as 377377 rather than 177777. But their (DEC's) love of octal was why you got 18 bit and 36 bit machines.

It is a good example of how language effects design, than the use of hexadecimal vs octal and its impact on computer architecture.
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And what about the risk of 3rd party dev error which will throw several funds at once out of the business?
Their alternative services appear to mostly be existing FOSS projects, re-branded...

Normally that would trouble me, but in this context... maybe a great idea! The uninitiated might have less trouble adopting "the frama suite" vs a dozen separate apps...

Granted, the GNU ecosystem should already provide that, but of course there are lots of good FOSS apps that don't and won't fly the GNU banner...
I didn't feel that I had to adapt "how to search" at all; I just had to get used to how the results looked. It took me a while to realize how much I'd associated "good search results" with the visual style of Google search results. I ended up temporarily switching to a DDG theme that mimicked the Google search result style, and I realized that doing that alone made the search results seem better.
I was pretty excited for the Hear One's but now they've been delayed until March. :(

If they can actually land a product with a truly wireless experience, that would be awesome!
If they could just remember someone's name for me the first time they say it that would be great ;-)
In my experience, the English is better in the north of the EU than in the south and better in bigger cities than in smaller villages.

But the big cities in the south are still better than the small villages in the north.
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I think the unique part of this, which may have an effect, is that it's selectively blocking ambient noise, and it's meant to be worn during conversation.

I can't think of anyone today who wears noise-cancelling headphones while trying to hear noise from outside the headphones. Everyone I know takes their headphones off to communicate or listen to specific sounds outside the headset.

Who knows, but my point is that there are two slightly different tests here. We already know that wearing noise-cancelling headphones to block _all_ sound doesn't affect our hearing when they're off. It remains to be seen whether using them to filter some sound effects our ability to filter some sound without them.
I misread that as "waterboarding tech interviews", and I thought it was commentary on how whiteboard interviews feel like torture.
How does this compare to murmurhash3?
That's not ironic at all considering you're browsing the page with Google's own custom browser.
There's plenty of 20th century organ music, a lot of it is religious (my father was an organist). It's hard to record pipe organs, particularly the low bass, and without excellent playback equipment the presence is lost. You might be interested in Messiaen's organ works or in the music of his predecessors Franck and Dupré.
I'm so sorry for you. I have no solution for that. To me you'd probably look like a worthy mind, a good student and colleague. Are there other new hires in the company ? or is it mentioned from older employees ?

Also, with a bit of mental training (say meditative thinking) you can tame some of this effects. I know I now can recognize when my brain take an unnecessary turn and can slow down. It's far from perfect but it helps. Don't think it's unavoidable, get fun time, stop listening to the fears too much.
This is great! Some of the frameworks/libraries are great, but not always. I've been systematically pulling unnecessary libraries out of plugins for use in my own projects. Here's one I just did, where I pulled jQuery out of the plugin:

https://a12k.io/reallysimpleweather
What if someone discovers your master password? Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/09/07...
The more I see stories like this, though, the more I'm convinced that people should strive to have a different full-time job than driving for a rideshare company and should only do it for supplementary income. In other words, perhaps the Uber-Lyft model just isn't a great model for full-time employment.

The drivers I know that show up just for surge pricing (generally here around bar closing time as an example) have told me they're very happy driving. The longshoreman that do it for extra income I've met in Oakland have been very happy with it. The mom I met who drove until her kids were out of school were very happy with it. The reports by people I see online doing it full time? Never happy and never making enough.
They get their results from 400+ sources [1] [2]. Bing does happen to be one of them, though.

[1] https://duck.co/help/results/sources

[2] https://duck.co/ia
"Unsurprisingly I now use React for most of my coding instead." - John Resig, creator of jQuery

https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/726058698989277185
I hope, it will force them to clean up more of Angular bugs
They are comparable, though, and that's exactly my point. They're not the _same_ by any stretch of the imagination, but it's just a weaker reading of history to refuse to consider themes that were common to the time period.

The Nazi camps were started for the same reason as the American camps: to contain and control a population believed to be subversive. They were indeed later used as part of an organized genocide, which is very important and makes them far more horrifying on a moral/human level, but it's willful blindness to ignore the deep similarities between a policy of containing and suppressing a racial group, and a policy of containing, suppressing, and exterminating a racial group.
It happens to everyone, and the best you can do is to try to be aware of it.

It happened to me often when interacting with Chinese CS professors during college. I'd constantly have to remind myself that they were much more knowledgeable than I was despite having subpar communication skills.
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I'm forty-two. I've never so much as lost a wallet, much less had it stolen.

Plus I use it once a month or so when my password manager app on my phone gets logged out and I don't feel like pecking it into the virtual keyboard.
heartbreaking when you see elementary schools in blue on the map.
Wow, this address a major problem I have.

I have decent hearing, but when I'm in a noisy environment like a bar, I can hear but can't understand what other people are saying. It's why I don't like going to bars/pubs with live performances or ambient music.

People think I'm bored or brooding because I'm not talking to anyone, but I just can't understand anything anyone says, so I can't participate in a conversation.
Longtime sufferer of tinnitus. This has been my understanding as well. From what I understand, once the hair dies, the brain seems to compensate by filling it with eternal noise. If there is a cure (my hopes are low), my guess is that we need to have a better understanding of the brain.
> Would it be possible to generate anti phase wave out of these things to cancel out tinnitus?

No. Tinnitus is not caused by a real sound. It occurs somewhere after the phase-erasing Fourier transform performed by the physical structure of the ear. If it were caused by a real sound, or the brain added sounds in the time space (rather than the frequency space), it would work. But neurons are not fast enough to handle time-domain sound processing, so they offload Fourier transformation to the ear and then work with the (presumably phaseless) frequency-domain representation.
Yes, it does. But I had completely forgotten about it until now.
I find it plausible that self driving cars with the same software can perfectly understand each other via predefined behaviour patterns.

If you follow that premise, it becomes less safe to drive manually.

So, under this premise, the modus operandi is to be automatic pilot instead of manual where perhaps manual driving is even illegal because it is less predictable.

The question wouldn't be, if this change happens; its when. Where's the turning point? One could argue its up to our politicians to decide. I'd be interested in data from other trends such as smoking. When was the turning point there, and what was the "market penetration" of smokers vs non-smokers or proponents and opposers?
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Why are you concerned about longevity of your creations? Surely impact matters more than the time they exist? Your software might only last a few years, but it it's used thousands of times, that changes the world more than another record heard a few times per year but lasts decades.
Please, I have a family. Don't do this.
This is basically the same idea as electronic ear protection of the kind typically used for shooting sports, with the addition of a directional microphone to the existing global microphone.

It works extremely well in that form factor, basically like having Superman ears. Conversations are audible, you can turn up the sensitivity to where you can hear footsteps clearly in a house, and gunshots are reduced to the level of, eg, a heavy book falling off a shelf.

https://smile.amazon.com/Howard-Leight-Amplification-Electro...
Plausible deniability/difficulty of conviction means that LEOs rarely pursue cases where that would apply. I agree once they open an investigation, they'll verify the claim; I'm saying that crimes that have high acquittal rates and/or low prosecutorial uptake will get less attention from the police because it's frustrating/difficult/wasteful to spend a lot of time on things that don't usually pan out.

I don't know how the system works in Belarus so I understand it may not really matter there. The point is that it's going to be difficult to prove that the accused made an intentional connection to Tor as long as the accused and/or his/her lawyer has some technical literacy and knows what to say.
No, the paranoid developers wanted to use that exploit to check if it was on an analyst's machine. That's an imposed restriction, not an inherent constraint.
This article is not specifically about google, only the title is...
Ah well, then there's the mathematical asterisk operator O∗ (U+2217) which is separate from the ascii asterisk O* and you could also use the "combining asterisk above" O ⃰ (O, whitespace, combining char) although that's probably abuse of the characters.

The rules say

> Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized, if the character after the first asterisk isn't whitespace.

But apparently noen of the zero-width spaces are not counted as whitespace.
Hmm, Google Drive does a reasonable job of that. It indexes everything (including OCR for images + PDFs), has decent search, and has per-folder permissioning and sharing.

It's actually a pretty good solution for ad-hoc "working together" with someone (a lawyer / architect / whatever) on a project, where you have lots of files you need to share and refer to during the project.
Why call it systemf? That name is already taken:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_F
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It defies my experience to claim that DDG can have equivalent search quality to Google. For one thing Google search results include my own emails and docs, which DDG doesn't produce. I find that Google's personalization is key to quality, not counter to it. As an example search for "good espresso open now". The DDG results are entirely useless.
> To completely remove anything from your life that happens to have Google as a part of it would be so inconvenient.

How so? I don't use any Google services (even search) and don't feel the least bit inconvenienced. Microsoft's suite has those same things (Excel, Word, and OneNote are all available through a web page if that's your thing), translations are widely available (Bing and Dictionary.com), alternative maps (I like Here Maps, it even lets me download entire countries or regions for offline use), and so on. I must be the only person on the planet who doesn't like Gmail, so I'll just leave that one alone.
Good point. It seems that lots of us are people who don't enjoy being in the dark. I too need to master tons of stuff to feel able to speak.

Happy that you're cured of the curse.
And thus the boolean algebra entered digital circuit design. Shannon was such a boss.
Yeah, what you want is an earplug that will basically cut out the noise, and then a sophisticated device like this, to allow you to hear directionally, or to reduce background noise, to emphasize speech, and so on.
LilyPond is a pain to write in by hand. When looking at the text, it's difficult to see the cleffs side-by-side. I think most people who use LilyPond use one of the GUI editors.

LilyPond text format is best seen as an open file-format in ascii, primarily for machine consumption, not human.
Loved The Social Network movie. But the movie's soundtrack (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) has had the greatest effect on my coding. Still listen to it while working almost every day. Maybe matched only by Sigur Ros's Takk as my favorite Getting Shit Done soundtrack.
Tech industry: I want to be able to go to Mars for the weekend... leaving on Friday and coming back early Monday morning.

This is still a big problem in tech industry.
True but they were overwhelmingly Japanese. It appears about 11K Germans and 2K Italians were interned compared to over 110K Japanese, despite there being significantly more Germans and Italians living in the US.

Sources:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_American...
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Can be from physical damage to the stereocilia in the inner ear.
The technology behind them isn't groundbreaking, but I can think of some good uses for devices like this.

Basically it appears to be a combination of noise cancelling and directional microphones so that you hear more of what you're pointed towards. If you want to get a better feel for how these devices could work, I'd recommend taking a look into directional microphones.
This is what happens when kids can’t turn video games off
For many years, I've been using a simple scheme: a prefix/suffix that's the same for all passwords, and identifiers for the service and username.

For example, something like this

[$#__1077__#$]---!SERVICE!USERNAME!

So, for Hackernews, I would use h for hackernews and t for theduke --> [$#__1077__#$]---!h!t!

Now all I have to remember is the template and my username.

For accounts that need regular password changes I'll add an additional part that identifies the year and the quarter.

Of course, if someone where to get a hold the cleartext password for one site, they might be able to figure out the scheme and get into all my accounts.

But that's a risk I'm willing to take (except for very important accounts/passwords, which get randomly created).
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I'm not in a high risk group for wallet compromise. I'm over forty and have never lost my wallet or keys even once my whole life. I have many flaws, but misplacing small valuables isn't one of them.
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Ask HN: Knowledge Based AI Frameworks?
I've completed a course on KBAI. I think that it was mostly an overview. I have idea how to apply case-based reasoning to things like recipes. I think my issue boils down to not having a tangible example of a case-based reasoning framework with which to play. I get production rules coming from a Drools background.

So far my Google-foo has hit air. Does anyone know of a KBAI framework?
Unreal engine is quit good.

But I'm a huge fan of irrlicht 3d.no idea why no one uses it?

You could then devote so much more time on ideas...
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Didn't know I lived in a gang neighborhood..

What's the source for these?
So what you're saying is that instead of Bing they could be using Yandex, Baidu or Google?