skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Alan Kay and a couple of friends built an entire system in 2.8MB in 1998[1].

It is 2016 and "large companies" are still overrated.

People who think we cannot do better are ignorant and probably overrated.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUud1gcbS9k
OT: It looks like this is posted for the 4th time now: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lukasa.co.uk
I've used DDG for awhile and been using it as my default for at least a year. However, my pattern, still, is almost always "ddg.gg foo", skim, "ddg.gg foo !g"

I'll high-five other techies who I see using it, but I just can't recommend it for the average person without first warning them you'll give up accuracy and time for privacy.

Maybe I haven't relearned how to search?
...or if they do target something retro, maybe Netscape Navigator or similar icon. IE6 is maybe infamous, not very nostalgic in any way.
They also appear to be deleted now. I am guessing the lawyers have been activated :-)
The question you should be asking is whether letting me see Pintrest or Quora content (for example) without an account is really that big of a deal?

FWIW, I won't sign up for those two sites specifically because of the sleazy way they get their content show up in search results, but don't let people see the content without an account once they get there.
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I feel research in this area would be very relevant to foreign language learning. At some point you go from hearing gibberish to individual words, and then to being fast enough to assemble the words into meaning.
Just curious, how do you actually block desktop apps from doing such things, aside from unplugging the device in question that is?
I don't think RMS was being deliberately obtuse, I think he was just trying to be too clever by half, and making stupid puns. Think about it. The same guy that thought, "If we have 'free speech', why not 'free software'?" is the same guy that thought "Not 'copyright', 'copyleft'!", which doesn't even make any sense.
It's unlikely to happen as the vast majority of the public simply does not care. There is a deep technological disconnect.

The only way to de-google-ify is to bring about mesh network that runs on our mobile devices or volunteer run nodes. Maybe you need to take the Skytrain to a remote part of the city to access specific information because there are no nodes there yet.

The centralized infrastructure created between telecom companies which inevitably under the control of you know who makes it very difficult to be truly decentralized and free ourselves from corporations that provide a better user experience. It's tougher to do on a decentralized platform but I fear that it will do little to sway herd behavior-vast majority of the population are clueless about the underlying technology and can't be bothered. That might change in the future but for now, it's the people who are unwilling to make a change, especially outside of HN and tech circles that is the big challenge.

A bigger campaign that really sells the value of de-google-ify is going to take lot of resources and earn the ire of Google who is unlikely to support their own demise.
I think you are talking about fractional-reserve banking, which has been around for hundreds of years. This can exist with or without a gold standard.
Takes courage to stand up to them publicly like this. Good on you and best of luck in resolving this shitty situation.
That is a very interesting approach. Nice idea, thanks.
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Interesting, to me I would never carry an additional independent hearing aid for this problem. I generally have my keys, wallet, smartphone, and possibly music headphones. If this could be paired in with existing headphones - awesome, otherwise I can't see many people adding an additional headphone to the aforementioned list without a larger problem. I do like the expansion of the Bose objective though with this.
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Well, Alan Kay and a couple of friends built an entire system in 2.8MB[1]

"Large companies" are overrated.

People who think we cannot do better are ignorant and probably overrated.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUud1gcbS9k
Why do cells I own randomly empty?
Everything in The Information's article seems sourced to me. Some of the sources are "former employees" or similarly vague, but the reporter had an actual demonstration of Magic Leap's latest and greatest.
Your average user does not love Google. They love accuracy. Yes, the result is the same (GOOG lockdown), but that does not mean there isn't concern about the homogenization of the Internet. Most non-coder people I know have become forcibly aware of the fact that a Google search sees a correlated ad barrage for the subsequent week. Thus if somebody can compete technically (hard, I know), then there is a very real opportunity here.

Going even further, arguably this is becoming a political issue. If that is the case, then there is a case to take some of Google's knowledge and socialize it. After all, the information from the network effects, may well belong to society, not to a private corporation.
No actually it's not. It's when an orderly court-mandated bankruptcy proceeding begins, because if they owe employees you can be sure they owe others as well.
Do you have any examples of queries which google doesn't return any results with the search terms used? I can't even remember the last time this has happened to me so I'm curious.
2 of our 3 rental properties have an HOA and its quite annoying getting postal mail about things then having to relay messages to tenants. Or you get some action to vote on but have no clue if its a good thing or not because you're not involved in the politics part of it.
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Yeah, I totally agree with you about how hiring is about filtering. The concern I have is that there's only so much filtering power you have, so anything you apply on things irrelevant to job performance will end up detracting on things you care about. There's a fairly narrow band of able-to-pass-your-hiring-filter that you're targeting. Anyone below it gets rejected, anyone far enough above it works for Google or founds a company or something. If you turn up one parameter in your filter, you're going to end up turning down the others.

Like, I remember hearing a story about a college that ran some statistics on the SAT scores of incoming students. They found that math SAT scores for their students was inversely correlated with their verbal SAT score - yet, among the general population, this correlation doesn't hold. What was happening was students with low verbal + math were getting rejected, and students with high verbal + math were going to MIT and the like, so given that they went to that particular school, they had to have lower math scores if their verbal is high and their overall suitability is in a narrow range.

I'm basically trying to make a similar argument here - given that the person you're interviewing accepts an offer there, they've got a certain level of ability-to-get-employed-as-an-engineer. If more of it comes from "having a college degree", then less of it comes from all the other things.
If you find yourself making less than minimum wage, then get a job making minimum wage. They aren't that hard to find.

While that still leaves the problem of not being paid nearly enough at least you get breaks, predictable pay, and the ability to slack off a bit without directly losing money.

I find it hard to feel sorry for people who latch on to a losing strategy and never look at other options.
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That's no way to go through life.
I've never been able to sign-up for a google account without entering a valid phone number. Even typing 555-5555 it will state it needs a valid phone number.
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I wholeheartedly agree. I just read Exhalation, and I actually found the end rather uplifting. When presented with the same realities we face, the focus on the positive and the still unknown exemplifies the best of the human spirit (even if presented through the lense of an alien).
I think most toasters pop up using a coiled spring. Replacing it with a linear actuator seems like the way to do this. Perhaps some high end toasters already use an actuator with a laser to detect if the toast is 'up' enough. Fancy stuff
It's very different to grpc, lacking streaming semantics but offering capabilities, which are certaintly nice.
Living with Qubes OS for a week
My wife does this. It drives me crazy; I'm thinking "That's not how you search! You should just type 'changing oil'." But she gets the results she's looking for anyway so she doesn't listen.
FDR's Japanese Concentration Camps? FDR's?

That's a blatant attempt to simplify a historical event and manipulate the modern reader.

Please spare me another rehash of how mean we became during the GOD-DAMN SECOND WORLD WAR, when our country and culture were under REAL threat. Please spend that energy examining our modern forms of prejudice and crazy fearfulness.

Also -- Why does no one ever want to rehash the post-war US-Japan relationship? In just a few years we transitioned from vicious, no-holds-barred warfare to a cordial relationship that became delightfully friendly. It's an amazingly positive story that belies the sort of institutionalized racism that some people feel the need to believe in.
Browsers recently added `forEach` methods to NodeLists. Make sure you are using the latest version of your browser. Array.from(...) may make it work with somewhat older browsers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeList
Hmm, I tried it a few months ago. Maybe the system has evolved. Did you try it on the Vive?

May I ask, what sort of 3D modeling packages are you used to? Did you try the "paint a picture in the air" approach or did you attempt to paint 3D meshes? I went first with the "painting in the air" approach but when I realized the system was effectively a hard surface modeler as well I changed the brush width to really wide and then could just paint forms. I enjoyed the fact that I could use same speed as sketching, but could actually think and create in 3D. I could paint the anatomy of a humanoid body in air. With traditional 2D medium I have to project the 3D shape to a 2D canvas, while with most 3d modeling packages the laying out of shapes is more like meticulous mechanical engineering more than intuitive creation of forms. The tilt brush system combined the fluidity of 2d medium sketching with the pleasurable sensation of actually working in 3d form.

Packages such as zbrush and Blender's sculpt mode enable fluid sculpting - but having the capability to create continuous 3D free flowing curves with the full muscular control of my entire body was such a kick. Maybe it's just me - I don't know.
Yeah, Peltors. Just don't forget to replace the batteries.
which completely defies the points they're making against google. all the cloud business runs on trust, and giving all data to newcomers doesn't sound a good plan.

I can reliably find my emails from ten years ago in Google and there is no end in sight. this other service runs on donations and expects me to believe they'll have comparable lifetime?
There are good open source options for each step here - is the solution you are looking for just a UI and easy install process? Or would your ideal solution make all of the decisions for you - data structure and format, which data is/isn't valid, what output options are possible, managing server resources, etc.?
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Did your brother actually get involved with gangs, or was he and his friends just curious?
kinda weird the hells angels club in dogpatch isn't mentioned...
I don't appreciate the generalization in that statement.
Glad I could help.
American asylums are a perfect example of the sin and corruption at the root of American society: dehumanizing and illegal detainment of human beings to preserve power and profits.

...

In the 1970s, a researcher sent fake (healthy) patients to asylums. They were loaded with powerful antipsychotics and not allowed to leave until they faked the cures the psychologists expected to see.

When the fake patients were all out the story blew the lid on the American psychological profession, so the psychologists said "bring more fakes, we can sort them out."

The original researcher said "sure."

The psychologists proudly stated a few weeks later that they had weeded out several dozens of "fakes."

There was no second fake cohort.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
I'm sorry, but this is rude, discouraging, and flat out wrong. This sort of stuff happens all the time. I personally work for a company whose founders implanted them in an incredibly calcified industry despite no industry experience, and I can rattle off dozens of successful examples of this.

In fact, this very attitude is the exact reason why there have been industries that are primed for "disruption." If only those within the industry, burdened with preconceived notions and patterns of thought, try to improve an industry, you are very rarely going to see revolutionary change.

You don't need to "disrupt" anything to be a very good business, but I really resent this "leave it to the pros" attitude.
As more and more ISP implement data caps and prioritize only some traffic mesh nets and other p2p software will soon become infeasible for most users. Already with Comcast putting a 1 TB cap on my data (up+down) I'm feeling the pressure to shut down my Bitcoin full node and I've stopped contributing bandwidth to I2P.
Most law firms, even small ones, use 'Time Matters'; it's actually quite sophisticated and is now a De Facto standard for the industry.
The point I was trying to make was why the culture of free-as-beer doesn't lead to successful commercial desktop software on GNU/Linux.
Why are they dead projects?
Original press release with footage / interview: https://news.uci.edu/research/all-powered-up/

Paper: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00029
I have this as well, and respond with talking louder since I think it is the same for everyone. Turns out it is not.
Hence why most business rather get themselves busy with Mac, Windows and app stores in what concerns desktop and mobile software.
This article is unfortunately not very well organized, but I agree with its sentiments.
:shell is completely different. That's vim stepping out of the way while you run a subprocess. Moreover, vim having it is not an argument for Neovim to have it. If vim really had a terminal emulator Neovim should have removed it.
I would expect their educational material to cover ethics and how to behave toward other humans. I'd expect their entertainment to include a good dose of movies and TV shows and written fiction that involves multiple humans interacting so they can pick up a lot from that.

I'd also expect that children raised exclusively by robots would be raised in the company of other similarly raised children that they would play and socialize with, giving them some experience and chance to practice what they learn formally in school and informally from movies/tv/books.
Integration platform as a service (iPaas) that can work with streaming, batch, and Big Data using a drag-n-drop UI e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfEuG7Dg_O8

Check out my company, SnapLogic: https://www.snaplogic.com/
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I've been using DuckDuckGo for about the same time frame and have had a similar experience. At first it was painful, but at this point it's extremely rare that I can't find what I'm looking for in one search with DDG.
Ever heard of Interlisp-D, Lisp Machines?
I suspect much engineering software is ripe for innovation. My wife is a Water Resources Engineer- a specialized form of Civil that focuses on "when it rains, where the hell is all this water going to go?".

The software for that kind of modeling is apparently pretty basic, pretty expensive, buggy, etc.
Wow, that's disgraceful, I hope they sort it out.
The wording is a bit misleading in the article. The battery cannot power a laptop for 400 years; but instead it could be used for (drained/recharged) for that long considering a regular laptop battery.
... Looking at that early 50 ohm coax ethernet tap, it's amazing... Now we have $200 Intel 10GbE NICs with 1310nm LX SFP+ (the SFP costs $22) in some linux desktops and real world 9000+ Mbps speed tests bidirectional to an internal test server.

Or look at it another way, 1U rackmount 48-port line rate 10GbE SFP+ Arista switches from a few years ago are now available for $1000 from datacenter operators that have upgraded to QSFP/100GbE spine switches.
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A lot of them are so legacy that they "require" IE via a byzantine browser check that prevents modern browsers from using them.
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We agree on the part that they stay there, but they are hardly the best students. In fact, the vast majority of people that actually do go abroad is directly connected to the fact that they could not make it in the very difficult Chinese high school test. And since a privileged kid will have more resources, they just go abroad and skip the line so to speak. But the level of social mobility that you see in China is incredible, because that test truly favors the best to go to the best universities.

But we disagree that in a conference like the one mentioned, most of the Chinese people you would encounter are going to be US educated.
1) I'd like to see a breakdown of that number.

2) By the same simplistic reasoning, Americans killed 20-30 million [1] just by themselves. I'm not sure what the totals would look like after adding in the British, French, Dutch, etc. empires.

3) I'm almost certain that that 100 million figure includes revolutions caused as a direct result of imperial powers meddling in the affairs of local populations. E.g. Cambodia [2]. That's the part that's "overly zealous".

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-mill...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_s...
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It belongs in a museum!
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http://www.livingcomputers.org/
Well, does it matter if you actually have free will, or does just feeling like you do suffice? If it does matter, what if the state machine is so complex that the future can't be known? If you can't determine the difference between free will and the alternative, and nobody and nothing else can, what's the difference?

To me, lack of free will isn't a problem as long as there aren't entities that can (or will) take advantage of that. It feels like worrying about the heat-death of the universe (appropriately enough).
You're being facetious but maybe you should actually consider the history behind that sort of thing.

Yesterday my friend in LA invited a few of us in Toronto to come to his BBQ this weekend. The group chat became us discussing the logistics and price of how we might do that. 150 years ago, that would have been an insane concept.
As @hluska said, this is brave to express your feelings, this is a good start.
After 2-3 years down the line you'd be looking at this post, then the problems you have shared will not quite seem actually problems or something to feel depressed about. Hear me out why.

At some point of time we all feel uncertain about things, feel like we have little control over things, we can't decide what is better for us Option A or Option B, too many decisions to make, nothing is going as planned. When you understand that this is what happens to all and a lot frequently than you might have thought, the real fun starts.

You wanted to do a job, you applied, you rejected some offers because you did not consider them good enough. That is just perfectly fine and past. Someone told you that you were good in school, that is also past. You are not your past or your CV. You are now in your present. Focus on what you have now, you have knowledge, you have a family and there can be many more things.

I or anyone should rather not help you in picking up your choices like should you choose the next offer or go look for some other companies. Choose whatever you want, it just fucking doesn't matter. What matters is to choose only one option and do your best to make it happen. Go to a company which does not appreciate you, work hard and earn that appreciation or the second option to figure out a way to find a company where your special skills may get appreciated or any other option you can think of.

Just brush off the shoulder, look what you have, what do you want to achieve in categories mainly health, career, family and relationships. Make a plan for the month with small goals in each category, and do your best to achieve that. Don't have answers to some questions ask, just like you did now. Revise the plan each month, your goal is to do better than the last month.

Outcome may not be in your control but your actions are in your control. And if you are taking actions to achieve your goals, you have all the rights to feel good about it.

Remember life is not a sprint, it's a marathon.
That's possibly just inexperience on the child's part
Have you seen https://simplyrets.com/? I haven't used it but it looks like a great start.

This problem is hard to solve at the root because each MLS is independently owned and heavily influenced by the National Association of Realtors and local governments. As an active RE investor myself, I'd love to work on a problem in this space.
Inconel please continue to comment whenever you think you have something to contribute to the conversation. I also appreciated hearing your perspective. Your writing is fine! No need to feel self conscious.
The way I see it it's properly insuring that the site can be used in ways that the programmer might not predict even after it's grown to billions of lines of code and/or has been abandoned. (See http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm)

Imagine if eBay, IMDB, and millions of other cruddy old site's were designed in a manner that didn't depend on screensize, pointer or input method.

Maybe they wouldn't need to make seperate ghetto mobile versions of their site that are still missing features. The site would just adjust itself according to its context.
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It studies the impact on the exact group of people that Obamacare expanded medicaid to.

I agree with you that making people healthier was not the real goal of Obamacare. If it was we'd have passed the "Affordable Gym Memberships and Vegetables Act" (aka "Michelle Obamacare") instead.
By "other versions" I mean the codebase used for a given non-Linux platform, which would (hypothetically) include most of the Linux driver's code plus a translation layer from Linux APIs to that platform's.
In Canada, they standardized and built a single website. realtor.ca is, shockingly, a really great user experience when finding a new home.
You "can" sign up for gmail without a phone number (iirc it's fairly difficult, and you need to do something like use a fresh install of an android device or something to trigger the right sequence of dialogues). However if you try to use that account outside of the device, they will soon (within a couple of logins) ask you for a phone number for "security purposes," - the dialogue says something like "there is something suspicious about this login" at which point your account is linked to whatever other accounts have your phone number (unless you have an unlimited supply of burner phones). - Note that I am remembering this from when I tried specifically to create an unlinked gmail account around nov 2015-jan 2016 (I used a formatted nexus 7 to do it), so things may have changed, maybe details are slightly off from memory.
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