skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't DDG a meta-search engine based mainly on search results from Yahoo/Bing and Yandex (from Russia). It is. And that's why it has this rather annoying latency or load time until the search results show up. And the results are only good for English and Russian. To cover up the deficits the return to quick guesses as first results like cached results or snips from Wikipedia, Yelp, etc and some other community curated so called "cook receipts". It's great that DDG exists, and it works great within its constraints, so don't get me wrong.

Ideally, the world needs more internet search engines - as of now only Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu come to my mind. And various initiatives like Cuil, Wikia Search, etc failed or good ones like Exalead (EU sponsored Google competitor, bought by Dasault), Blecko (bought by IBM for Watson) got bought and vanished for general public but are still active for internal company purposes.

And why do we need more web search engines? Because of the filter bubble, censorship and privacy concerns, etc. - it's never good to have to deal with a mono- or duo-poly (which is already reality, as in most countries on 1-2 of them return really good search results, and the others are barely useable for local native language search phrases).
Potentially relevant (although less so with no more fire phone)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...
> In my city, the homicide rate is still 5X higher than it was in 1950s. That's hundreds of people dead each year, unnecessarily. And that's after dramatic improvements in medical technology! I have a lot higher standards than a 50% decline since the 1990 peak. Let's get it back down to the 1950s level.

Yet you repeatedly, blatantly cherry pick data that is just more lies of omission like this one where you try to defend yourself. Now you move the goal posts and show complete ignorance of the way population densities have changed since the 1950s and the relationship between such density and crime rates.

> I am not arguing about the crime changes over the past 20 years. The original article was about crime changes in the past few years, based on changes to policy in the last few years. I think the changes to crime policy implemented twenty years ago were good, and good impacts on crime. But the changes in the past few years are bad, and will result in an increase in crime.

Nothing substantial has changed unless you are truly and genuinely ignorant of history. You think BLM is new?

The LA riots and numerous similar events have been caused by killing unarmed civilians by police, regardless of justification. Stop being a sheep and actually read the history of the past 50 years. BLM and other protests are pretty fucking peaceful compared to the LA riots and other events in the past with similar causes. Get back to me when these "riots" and "policy changes" involved 10+ deaths on a regular basis.

The only people claiming it is getting worse are salesman peddling fear and ignorance. Stop being so easily persuaded and actually educate yourself.
They're kind of in a tough spot there, having licensed so many lightning port accessories and headphones, that many of their customers have since spent so much money on.

And to their credit, they created the lightning port before USB type-C even existed.
for someone just getting started on Spark - what do you mean "somewhat adequate" ? Because I see MLLib (https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.0.2/mllib-guide.html) and a quick glance shows me a lot of overlap with tensorflow.

At google, their graph processing system (Expander) and deep learning framework (tensorflow) are separate systems. Spark looks to be built from the graph side (RDD) first and is now getting ML components.

how do you see spark evolving ?
Whoops. I probably should have proofread my comment before submitting. Your response seems almost nonsensical now that I've butchered my original post D: Sorry about that.
Introducing HyperDev (now Gomix)
According to this other post this Anil guy has attempted to bully and blackball a founder from our industry.

http://www.lorenfeldman.com/anil-dash-is-a-coward-liar-and-b...

If this is true, and it seems true, no founder in Silicon Valley should do business or in any way support Anil Dash in anything.

I would chastise Joel Spolsky and that other guy too, but it seems unnecessary given the destruction they're inflicting on their own business by letting him run it. Hah.
Burn tests, as yyhhsj0521 points out, are done. If the object is made of keratin, it will smell like burning hair. I've never burned ivory, but I imagine it would also give off a unique smell (e.g., think drilling in a dentist office). Of course, as biotech advances, DNA tests and the like will be cheap and prevelant, and those will be used to establish authenticity.

There have been some substitutes developed for ivory, but they're readily identifiable. These substitutes include the tagua nut [1] and nitrocellulose plastic [2].

[1] http://animals.oreilly.com/the-other-ivory/

[2] http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-earliest-plastic-billiard-balls-h...
So its a process I need to adapt several of my dev teams to adopt?

We just got in a new agile rhythmn.
I disagree it is always trivial to work around. Typically trampolines are used, but these have a large efficiency hit, up to 1000 times slower. Not a problem in many scenarios, but clearly not good for e.g. a concurrency monad.
For your pipeline example, you gave a trivial statically determined one. Try an example where each function decides the transistion (tail calls the next one). This is of course also what my Monad and CPS examples in essence do.

Regarding your comments on replacing function composition with data structures. In essence, this is what trampolining does. But it does have a performance cost and is not appropriate in all cases. IIRC correctly the performance of "Extensible Effects" is still an outstanding issue.
Incidently, the primary author of that work, Oleg K, has published a lot of work in which he seeks to avoid intermediate data with "finally tagless".
What is H1B visa issue?
same here. still on a 5s waiting on a reiteration of se.

all you said applies to me as well plus the new generic form factor which is uninspirning bust most importantly too large for comfortably pocketing

the real thing that keeps me locked to apple for now is the app commitment, but if a se2 fails to materialize I'll definitely jump to android at the end of life of my 5s
Well. It's fine as far as you're both on the same page all the time.

Being 24/7 with the same person can get really tough.
USB-C didn’t exist when the Lightning connector was introduced.
Thanks for the mention! We're mainly focused on horn at present, but I do mention ivory here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13288580
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I never mocked this deal. I always thought this was a small price to pay for insurance that Instagram wouldn't subsume Facebook. It was only 1% of Facebook.

But I still think $19 billion was about $17 billion too much for WhatsApp. It's a messaging product that doesn't directly threaten Facebook the way Instagram does. They could have created 10x $1 billion teams to compete and easily done better than what they have with WhatsApp. It seems like a cowardly use of $19 billion. Oculus cost them $2 billion and there are many other breakthroughs that are equally underpriced.
Please don't ever design something meant for public use :)
> Google absolutely SUCKS at UI.

My favorite Google UXs (by FAR) are Chromecast and Google Home. Especially together, they're magical. Is it a coincidence that there's no GUI there (OK, there kind of is for Chromecast, but only just)?

Google Home can pause/resume anything playing on any Chromecast or group of Chromecasts, even if Home didn't start the playback. It (play/pause) even works with apps like Plex which Google Home knows nothing about. It's gotten to the point where I'll find myself getting up to go to the bathroom at the movies and almost saying "OK Google, pause theater" (I'm not being hyperbolic, the thing which stopped me was not knowing what word went at the end of the command). Great UX, but no GUI.

Update: I use and love Android, but I wouldn't call it magical. It fits my usage patterns, but it definitely has some rough edges.
I assume you are not Chinese.

Shark fin is populated almost everywhere as some kind of unbelievable delicacy, only the most previleged individuals can afford them.

Such illusion is portraited in books, films, casual chats, etc. This type of mysterious image of a thing, which actually is neither delicious nor highly nutritious, makes any banning of such thing impossible. Bescause everyone is convinced that it is that good, including those who are in charge of making the decision.

It was only after many years of gradual shift in public perception that makes the eventual tide turn happens. Now most people would agree that shark fin is expensive, because they are from sharks, not because they are incredibly delicious.

When I said "not tasty at all", that definitely is subjective. But at the same time it is reprentative. Because shark fin tastes just like "fen si", with fishy scent. "Fen si" is something that every Chinese eat daily. That is quite different from what one would expect from the images of popular sources. If something just tastes like another thing that one eats daily, does that make it a delicacy at all?!
Cool. One more keyboard trick to navigate windows efficiently.

Now I'll have to figure out if it can compete with a mastery of ctrl+tab and alt+tab (and windows+tab and their cousins ctrl+shift+tab).
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I started running every day.
I try to do mindfulness meditation but frequently get stressed and forget.

The running has been amazing.
I feel that all of them, apple, google, facebook, amazon, they all disregard our privacy.

You feel that?
This, introspection is apowerful tool.
The problem with a cashless society is that if all payments are tracked or controlled by a third party, it's impossible to make black market transactions or grey market transactions.

The line between legal and illegal keeps changing, as attitudes in society changes, but not allowing people to vote with their wallets which way society should go is an incredibly bad idea.

How could you run a gay club in a cashless country where it is illegal to be gay? How could you buy marijuana in a cashless state where the legality of it is undefined? How can you donate to wikileaks when no US-based payment provider wants to facilitate payments to it?

The argument against cash is exactly the same as people not caring about their web browsing history being accessible to others, and saying 'they have nothing to hide'.

Well, one day you might have something to hide. For good reasons or bad reasons or whatever, and that's when privacy is a good thing. That's when anonymous cash is a good thing.
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Opera got bought by an Asian ads company.

Vivaldi browser seems to be the spiritual successor of Opera by its previous developers.
In your usability rants I have every one of those problems too (particularly autocorrect and swiping). I wonder how widespread this is? I'd like to add four more:

1. iTunes is slowly degrading into a usability nightmare - recommendations are often albums I own and bought from Apple!

2. the OS itself seemingly picks apps at random for the "play" button on the "swipe-up" menu. Like I might play a podcast on, say, Monday morning and then switch to music - but for the remainder of the monday and some of tuesday when I pause, lock and then later use the "swipe-up" menu it tries to resume playing the podcast not the music. not to mention this menu has two tabs, and switching between them involves a swipe - which usually triggers some of the sliders (Brightness, volume, position) on the screen. This clearly didn't go through any UX testing.

3. no way to disable "voice control" home key shortcut - my iPhone 6S has an AWFUL habit of interpreting background noise as "Dial my ex girlfriend". I somehow can't kill the call before it starts ringing, but usually I don't see it because something has pressed the home button in my pocket. It's truly embarrassing.

4. "Do you trust this computer?" for the millionth time, yes!

This is my last iPhone, I think.
Even if somebody will agree with this opinion, 2 questions are not solved: 1) non-tech person shouldn't present product for programmers; 2) his "I'm CEO" is still too annoyingly repetitive.
Waking up before 7 AM every day - I seem to have a lot more energy throughout the day and I sleep better at night.
I started dancing Zouk. Besides the fact that dancing is fun and good for your soul it greatly improved my posture.
Well, if you came home and I was wearing your partner's dressing-gown and smoking your pipe, I'm sure I could offer a few non-evil research reasons too.

What's the user benefit you have in mind?
Why do you find 3d tough less discoverable than e.g. long-press to rearrange apps?
Gym 6 days a week. Really starting to feel proud of the gains. More confident overall, and a clearer head.
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I agree when I switched from Windows to osx, I had a lot of trouble with finder. But now I am slowly getting used to it.
If I buy an $800 device, I make sure it does what I want it to do with the least amount of friction (add/replace my other hardware).

What if I buy a router today and there is a company that sells routers with a nice gui, but all the rj45 jacks are removed and it requires a dongle on the power jack to be able to connect a rj45. (For some reason it comes with a dongle but that requires the router to run on batteries)

Anywho, I am not the guy that is going to buy apple hardware anyway. So I don't really have any impact on apple if I don't buy anything.
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Is a software company founded in 2000 really "venerable"?

I would have thought that would be more appropriate for software companies founded 40+ years ago — around longer than most careers
Discoverability is not the be-all end-all of UI design. In most ways iOS is a huge step forward in UI design as evidenced by the legions of toddlers who can figure out how to use an iPad.
You could work for a foreign company within Japan.
The worst part is: it doesn't even look good/modern now. They should have gone with this:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

(excuse the profanity)
The browser takes up most of takes up most of my resources. Apart from that it would be Adobe products and sometimes MATLAB (all less resources than safari). My terminal would be negligible.

I agree with your comment. Generally, OSX often means I am using more resources to do the same task than when I use my archlinux. But in the era of 16g+ ram and terabyte Harddisks, I find it simpler to just let OSX use extra resources so I can spend less time thinking about low level processes.
You're going to need to bias in one direction or another. If you can safely inline assumptions regarding the int into the hot path that exists, with a consciously slower bail-out path if it's not an integer. Now consider a situation where `x` is probably an integer--but can be a string or null. We're rapidly getting to a situation where this is going to be puffy code that is hard to constrain to an effective hot path without running the code, yeah?

Profile-guided optimization seeks to do this for compiled languages like C++, but you also have a boatload more data to do it with. And, y'know. You're profiling the application. You're running it.
When I need a new phone I am going with a company that supports sold phones for a longer time.

Samsung abandons phones so fast, android updates are rare.
(I know in my case the carrier is also between it)
Oh, you are right. I never heard of this guy before, but this quote from his "about" page is choice: "His Twitter account is the only one that’s been retweeted by the White House, Bill Gates and Prince, a succinct summarization of Dash’s interests."

http://anildash.com/about.html
It might achieve some popularity but the difficulty of determining correctness or bias or other things without bringing your own bias to the problem will of course mean that the stated goal is not what will actually be the end result.
A few things:

I started eating 2 hard boiled eggs (aka arse fruit) each morning. I now don't have a hunger craving at 10am like I used to have and can easily work through to lunch time and have a moderate lunch.

I joined a choir and it helps take my mind off the 9 hours of coding I do every day. It also gives me an outlet for my limited artistic side.

You say besides exercise, but I have to add that I started boxing. We have clubs that specialise in white-collar boxing, which has a lower barrier to entry than normal amateur boxing. I'm not good, but the club is inviting of all levels of talent and it's the best exercise I've ever done. Had my first public fight in March 2016, which was a big psychological hurdle. Nailed it.
Will Gomix be open source?
Paying for roads, teachers, police, freeways...

... $7 billion bridges...
WhatsApp already replaced FB chat in various regions. And FB is already kind of a ghost town, beside elder 50+ new-comers who got their first smartphone just recently - in various regions. If you live in a filter bubble, where FB is still very on-vouch, great, but it depends on your friends and geographic. Many have the FB or messanger app still installed but rarely open it (because you can't even remove it from eg Samsung phones, only a few know that it's possible to deactivate it). That said, WhatsApp (the app) feels very cumbersome to use, compared to competitors from other countries.

So Instagram and WhatsApp are what keeps Facebook ahead. FB itself (the social network site) is probably past its peak (in various regions).
>iTunes is slowly degrading

That is incredibly generous considering the past decade of itunes, especially for Windows users. So much bad code, legacy cruft, and inconsistent UI decisions
>The phone comes with a 3.5mm to Lightning adapter, so you can continue to use your existing headphones.

What if I want to use my headphones while charging my phone?
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

I'm really interested in Lead poisoning cases from the past decade graphed against this correlative coincidence that likely has some external variables, affecting both.
I appreciate that, but most people don't know how they want to experience it. E.g. people will say they want to see everything in their feed, but if they do get everything, they complain about how much crap there is
Weird. My experience is opposite of yours. When I try to adjust the brightness or volume, the damn thing swipes to the next card instead!

Also weird: My opposite experience is just as maddening :)
> An "offline" compiler can't use things like the type information gathered at runtime.

This isn't true. At run-time you only need to pay the cost of dispatching once per (type of) input variable.

C++-style templates are popular enough that this concept should be readily understood by now: You pay with heavy compile times (IIRC Crystal takes almost a GB of ram to compile its compiler).

> Benchmarks should be provided before making performance claims!

Yes, absolutely. And reproducible.
One more tool for managers and non-tech product owners, to sell them idea "any cool app can be made just by few clicks of mouse, your dreams will come true, developers are lying about complexity". And in reality all of these "just copy-paste from github" will require tons of work to integrate, because in reality 3 party plugins are not so carefully prepared for Gomix as in their video presentation.
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I'd add: draw it first, don't expect visual art to work well from a text editor. There are many drawing programs for good reason.
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I've actually had this too, but the other use-case is more common for me (I adjust volume using the buttons, and rarely change brightness). I think it's the flat-UI thing where it's hard to see the boundaries of the slider element - so I would maybe not swipe near it if there was a little boundary, and you wouldn't swipe outside it.
> Can you throw machine learning at these changes to identify future abusive ones?

There are already filters mostly based regular expression that can forbid page saving and there is an ML tool that flags edits as "probably bad" (but it's after page saving): https://ores.wikimedia.org
Longtime WCS dancer here, recently tried Zouk for the first time. It's fun, I really like the flow of the dance!
I love Unsplash!!! Thanks for discovery
You only need to generate code if it's being used, which means you can trade RAM (for a larger compilation unit) to reduce the number of (different types of) inputs.
>they only have to dissipate about 20W of heat more at peak

That's a hell of a lot of extra heat in a thin laptop. Especially if a big chunk of the market values silence. An office full of laptops all sounding like airplanes isn't ideal.
I am guessing is that when he started working on this stuff docker was in it's infancy (still is IMHO), and had no reason/time to port it.
WA basic sales tax is 6.5%.

CA basic rate is 7.5%, with many local add-ons (making San Jose 9% and San Leandro 10%, for two Bay Area examples)
Ah so I typed "iTunes" instinctively, but I meant the iOS app - guess it's called just "Music".

The desktop iTunes is a horror show in and of itself :D
I'm currently reading the book "Team geek". It's a small book and I would highly recommend you read it!
Why? What's it about? How does it pertain to the discussion?
This is a time when I'm glad HN highlights new accounts. A train of green accounts making personal attacks is pretty self-explanatory.
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I'll stay back here while you're jerking it off.
Why are people so desperate to defend this clearly user hostile move? A dongle is a poor user experience and continues to degrade user experience over time. The fact that there was a market demand for a "cool" keychain shows how unnecessary the removal of the jack was. Believe it or not, people enjoy using things without unnecessary accessories that you have to keep track of and swap around
> I never really got the whole public/private thing.

It's about encapsulation and class invariants. Public methods must preserve them, private methods can break them temporarily. You get a prepackaged component and you're prevented from introducing bugs into the component from the outside of the component.

Take std::vector, for example. By keeping implementation details (pointer to element storage and element count) private, you prevent users of the class to accidentally shoot themselves in the foot by, say, changing the element count directly.

You could use interfaces, but for that you have to use virtual functions: Objects have to be created dynamically and you have to handle pointers or references instead of values.
He hired a woman to smack him? I would've done it for free.
This is what I did with the P50 my work bought me. Basically I bought a dual-4k-monitor setup with tons of RAM and disk for what a comparable MBP would have cost.
Bad comparison, memory cards are a clear need (gotta have more storage space) and are not responses to poor design decisions (gotta counteract a port I use every day being taken away).
I can't speak to Go or Crystal. V8 performs well on microbenchmarks, but very poorly with a sustained high volume of input due to GC pressure. I've used node.js in such an application and "version 2" was written in another language because of the GC pauses.
This is just the same as the stories that periodically comes out saying kids don't use email. Sure, but every one of them will if they go to uni or get a white collar job. Right now they're just socialising, and who uses email for that? The emails I get are almost all transactional or work related, and I'm 37. I doubt I'm unusual in that.
I agree with all the arrogant part but calling it a joke is probably too early. Self-driving is a very hard problem and expecting miracles is just too much to ask.