skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the second "alt search engine" submission I've seen today. Normally I'm in favor of healthy competition in the "open/non-evil" products space. But search engines probably more than any other web-based application, benefit from economies of scale.

So why bother starting another one when DuckDuckGo is already gaining mind and market share? It just seems wasteful to re-index the Web and develop algorithms for searching it when someone else is already doing it.
I could be wrong on exact details, but:

Playground

Idealab
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You're overstating the case on #4.
Why is resolving uncertainty a human trait? Human, as in non-humans don't do it?

Why would resolving uncertainty lead to a false sense of confidence?

Without some explanations it's impossible to understand what you want to say.
What's there to figure out? Serve ads. That's the business.
I use it daily. Plain text information, logs, etc. are the easiest to work with and search. No keywords or tags necessary.
looks intruiging. seems like it would be good for softlaunching apps. pre-0.1?
If you stop putting multiple expressions per line it disambiguates too:

if foo
*bar
baz()

if foo*bar
baz()
Ah yes, of course, another of those irregular verbs from 'Yes, Minister' - I have an independent mind, You are eccentric, He is round the twist...
If yoga can help with the pain the person didn't need opioids in the first place.
Education policy is driven by politics. Saying that it's apolitical is just ignoring that aspect of reality.
The review that was done awhile ago showed that nonresidents reduced the amount of residents in the program, any attempt to merely walk-over the issue is a sign that you are lying and speaking in poor faith. As if there never was any negative set of circumstances that could be predicated fundamentally on the idea that <outsiders> did in <Californian Residents/Insiders> people from here, all that talk, and all that pretense when you rap to just your favorite music video......
Could be totally unrelated, but my brother and I fall on the spectrum and I personally was taking adderall (prescription) at the maximum dose for about a year.

I decided I wanted to stop due to side effects, and quit cold turkey one day with minimal withdrawals (just sleepy). Doctor was very surprised I didn't have dependence although it was an amphetamine.

I have a theory on why it could be the case, and based on what I've researched I think it could be due to issues with neurotransmitters.
It's not a technical challenge, but a political/business one. C/C++ won out.

> you don't trade away stability for performance on a safety-critical chip!

In a sane world, no. But we don't live in a sane world. We live in one where (on one system I worked on) it turned out a plane having an overheat (not fire) on one engine would cause the overheat on the other to fail to report to the pilots (corrected or I'd name and shame). And that wasn't just an issue of language, but of sound (or unsound in this case) logic. No one sits down and develops these things correctly. 10k lines of code (at most) on that project and most of it was just cobbled together in an ad hoc fashion.
I became a heroin addict at 16. I got clean, for free, with my governments help (Queensland, Australia) and opiate replacement therapy, after being an addict for six years. Ive been sober for 5 years this August. If it wasn't for that program, I'd be dead twice over by now, I'm sure of it. I'm sorry about your sister, it's horrible :(
Its the easiest way for politicians to stay elected while not upsetting their benefactors.
I saw this and thought I was going crazy. I could have sworn I just read it. And I was right!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13672675

You made the same comment on the Mulesoft IPO announcement. :)
I fail to see how that's different from the US. Stock option exercises of vested shares are taxable here, too.
Dir. of Engineering at ConvertKit here. We're hiring![1]

Nathan is super smart, genuine, honest and generous. Our culture is a reflection of his personality, which makes ConvertKit a fantastic company to work for.

[1]: https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/4266-senior-rails-engineer
I hope I am not down-voted. I want to grab the opportunity to sum up my impressions on snap, so I can come back a year later and read up, how stupid they have been.

Snap is neither twitter nor fb, which of course is a source of uncertainty. It's not twitter, because snap's data consists of a lot of internet dark matter - so to speak - pixels, that is. Let hell break loose and buy up machine learning engineers and researchers in bulk and let them poke around in it. There sure will be some way to optimize ads, and then just sell it off: the perfect blended ad to the right audience at the right time and space.

Is there anything more substantial beside fun? Yes, a nice social pressure signal, millions of tiny celebrity effects playing out every day, together with all the drama, gossip and emotion - which should have a positive effect on ads. The score-rich - I mean the poor teen talent - gets a discount on a product, that has been seen on other influencers (but not too many). The poor pool of losers and in-betweens might buy a burger to get over the pain.

This social game is so much fun, it's even fun to just write about it. All this drama, all this pain, captured on tape and stored on a shelve. Ready for a smart machine to look at it and ask: I saw your face before, and the look of yours on someone else, you look sad, you're mostly inside, I have the perfect product to cheer you up, may I? And, oh, I make it fun for you to acquire it, too.

You think this is scary? You think it's borderline exploitation, because the data generators can be kept sad, if their score is too low?

Which brings me to my conclusion for the record. Snap will thrive part because people just do not care about these things anymore and part because the majority has not much choice. Stronger and more resistant individuals will just reject the instant gratification and focus softening. People, who kind of see through the hype and the value propositions, that maybe matter too you and maybe matter, because somebody would like to make it matter for more people, so I have to adjust. Maybe 80% of a population, according to some estimates, does things, because everybody does them - no or few questions asked. And hey, if all it takes to be accepted is a push of a button, what's the problem?

And so the story continues. Snap will thrive. One thing that would kill both facebook and twitter (and snap) would be Moore's law, in the sense, that a social network of friends can be held completely on the interactors devices, because, well in few years, 128GB per phone is ok, text and messages are cheap and can be routed without being stored and scanned and images can be stored and cached locally.

But there is no money in letting people alone. No money, if I cannot distract them. No money if I cannot read what they read and see what they see. No money, if I cannot control them and their experience.
Is the Programming Language Taught at a Coding Bootcamp Important?
Which issues are you specifically referring to?

macOS has demonstrably more discoverability than Windows; Not only are shortcuts consistent across all apps, but the visuals of common UI elements are the same as well, so a new user will immediately know what does what, in different apps. Whereas on Windows, you have a multitude of menu, button, scrollbar etc. styles right out of the box, in Microsoft's own apps!

macOS also has a list of all mouse/trackpad gestures — complete with videos — in System Preferences. Likewise, all global keyboard shortcuts are visible in one place as well (Keyboard preferences, where you can modify and even create your own shortcuts for ANY app.)

Best of all however, you can click on the Help menu and just type the name of a command or action that you expect an app to have (for example a filter in an image editor) but don't know its shortcut or which menu it's under, and the unified menu bar subsystem will automatically highlight all matching menu items and their shortcuts for you:

http://i.imgur.com/HNUNqpN.png

Here in that screenshot I wondered about the ability to copy a folder or file's pathname, and the Help Search pointed it out to me! And it works in EVERY macOS app! Does Windows have anything which comes close to aiding in discoverability like that?

I will concede your point on iOS, however.
I tried to login and I am getting this error :

Callback URL mismatch.

The url "http://glider5.com/unanswered" is not in the list of allowed callback URLs: http://glider5.com/, https://glider5.com/, http://localhost:3000/, http://localhost:3000/*, http://glider5.com/*.
Please go to the Application Settings page and make sure you are sending a valid callback url from your application.
"at which point it will become worthless? Like Facebook?"

Every company goes through the hype phase. What is 'left over' is usually the raw utility of the product.

'Parents' got onto Facebook and continue to use it = some degree of utility. Teens 'stay on' because of the ubiquity of it.

Snap is not Facebook. It's very possible that 'parents' never go onto snap, because it offers them little outside of messaging. 'Sharing moments' is just not what people > 30 care to do that much. Maybe some, but not likely a critical mass.

Furthermore - even these features are somewhat faddish among the young.

There is a very real possibility that Snap is a huge fad, with very little underlying utility.

Now - Snap is different. They refer to themselves as a 'camera company' so maybe they can keep innovating, but I'm doubtful.

But if they position themselves as an 'aspirational youth brand' - then they might stay relevant.

Think: Nike, Lululemon - they make pretty good gear used by 'real atheletes/yoga types' - which gives the brand enough validation for you and I and other chumps to pay $$$ for their gear while we sweat it out.

They are LA based, which is good for that. Also - those 'snap glasses' - even though they were not very 'useful' - actually were a brilliant bit of marketing, and hit the zeitgeist of relevance perfectly.

So either/or:

1) They make an app that appeals to 'everyone' - which I doubt.

2) They continue to innovate in 'camera/sharing/experience' perpetually, which I doubt.

3) They can stay cool. Which I also doubt, but wouldn't put it pas them.

Again the issue is also real valuation: $25 Billion is a lot of valuation for a company that's not making any money. I don't care what their 'growth' is. What matters is 'how big they can grow, how well they keep customers, and how well they convert on them'.

I'm doubtful that Snap - as we see it today is going to grow into commodity usage.

Twitter has I think a broader appeal - and look where they are.

Facebook did not change that much from after their IPO - the product offer is largely the same. The same thing millenials used, their parents and grandparents used. I don't think Snap can say the same.

They could be succesful, but there's a lot more risk in it than say, FB - and that risk should be reflected in the valuation.
Granted, the search market is not what it was in 1999, but that's what some friends said when I first told them about Google.
Giving people in pain opioids is irresponsible but spouting misinformation isn't?
If you are 40 and speaking at a Tech conference how much experience do you have?
Maybe start looking at moving away from the "Coal face" of development? I moved to Architect level 7 years ago and am progressively doing less and less coding whilst not feeling like I am losing out (I love to code).
You are right in that there are a lot of younger devs coming up, but those younger devs need experience in order to thrive as in my experience a lot of them prefer the fanciest route of newest technologies without the foresight to see where things can go wrong (I am a great believer in "The most boring solution" - but the best tool for the job).
Someone mentioned below about companies that don't confuse hours worked with output, this is key in my opinion, just because someone worked 14 hours doesn't mean they necessarily output more work than someone who worked 6!
I would also say look at contracting / consulting if you have the experience, this allows you to work on your own terms, it changes your mindset of providing value to a client, you become much more results focused!
Good luck with whatever you do - 40 is by no means a barrier to anything in my opinion!
Absolutely, and I've struggled with finding a good balance of use myself. There's a fine line between what it does for neurotypical people and what it does for people on the spectrum.
I have always found it fascinating the role analysts play to impact the price of a stock. Today was the perfect storm of shitty news/advice that drove the price down. Before this morning the stock was up in after-hours trading.
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/dont-worry-...
Do you see kids looking at stuff parents used and say "SO COOL"?
It's getting better, but hardware companies tend to view software as second-class. They think it's "easy", though they're finally accepting that it's not. It's taken decades of fatalities, cost overruns, and missed deadlines for them to realize this, but they're realizing it.
Most comments focus on $SNAP itself, but as JumpCrisscross noted: It's also a bad sign for SV IPOs in general.

With the upcoming FED hikes and the recent stock market rally, one could say that it will be a lot harder for late stage companies to aquire further financial resources in VC/the private equity market.

After the $SNAP hype and crash the public market will probably not be willing to invest in other tech companies in the next months anymore, at least not at the current valuation level.
>The scarred landscape inside the exclusion zone close to the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Spain

Huh?
It's an $18.5 million piece of the ~$30 billion UC budget; it's not even 0.1%. It's hardly as critical as you are trying to paint it.
Yep, can't agree with this more!
How did this get by all of the union regulations in Vegas?
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Hah, caught me copying from myself a bit ;-). Still my comment applies.
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The material differences between FB and Snap are not their offering prices or share structures.

The material difference is the product - who it will appeal to, and how long it will remain appealing.

When FB went public, they had a product that was appealing to parents, grandparents, and everyone else.

Snap has currently a niche offer, that may not get traction into other demographics.

In order to justify their valuation they have to have a ubiquitous penetration, and I don't see them getting it - at least not with the offer they have today.
Clicked hoping he was going to do data science on his failed interview data
UC is a public institution. It's arm-twisting, but a far cry from the crime of demanding compensation in exchange for not revealing damaging information. And arguably, it's an exchange; implementing the policy may cost the University system some tuition dollars, and some amount of funding for this loss seems justified.

A lot of political funding works this way. The drinking age in the US was set to 21 by the Federal government mandating that no state with an age lower than that would get their slice of highway funding.
They already put in the time. That's the whole point of vesting.
I've been taking opioids for nearly a year and they still work fine. Not sure how long-term you mean.
And the investors are who pays for the employees, no?
For anyone interested in checking the state of Linux and Free/OS software for music making I strongly recommend checking out: http://libremusicproduction.com/

There have been great improvements on the latest years in regard to plugin availability and support for professional workflows/devices that might be overlooked.
Here we go again, people used to NTSC telling us pixel perfect is wrong, and distorted garbage puked out of NTSC encoder is the only proper way to play old systems. +the suggestion CRT is unable to display more than 256 distinct horizontal pixels is just gold (Broadcast NTSC cant encode more due to being shit, nothing to do with TV itself).

This is old tired 'vinyl and tubes master race' argument, because thats how I listened to music when I was young in the seventies ergo that is the perfect sound damn it!!1.
Actually the real history is far more complex than that, and involved more experiments - with confusing results. Wish I had a handy reference, but I don't.
.uk does belong to the uk though.
Ask HN: What stats/analytics you wouldn't mind websites collecting about you?
The problem is businesses will start including ASICs that don't really need to be there because they can effectively make the device unrepairable to anyone on the outside.

Though I'm not sure making unrepairable equipment is a good business strategy: Once you get the reputation of gouging your customers on repairs your top line will start to sag.
I may be wrong but Adderall ajd Ritalin dependence in most cases is because ADHd people just need the drug to function normally.

Kind of like diabetics being dependent on insulin.
It reminds me of CafeX, which makes coffee. In the case of CafeX, it's mostly ostentatious. There is very little functional purpose for the arm, and that arm is not cheap. When I went to try it in SF there was just one person in front of me, but there was a paid employee who apologized for the machine queueing drinks incorrectly which made it even slower than it already was. Basically instead of using one of the 2 coffee makers, it waited for the previous order to finish before making my drink. So from a functional perspective, at least in that instance, they made the coffee vending machine worse and roughly 10x as expensive, and then another 10x as expensive if you consider real estate. To be fair, the coffee was good, not great.

In this case though, it looks like the arms actually serve an important function - shaking. I have no idea how well it works as I've never tried it.

With regards to the unit economics of these things I don't know the details, but people often underestimate how expensive these are by as much as an order of magnitude.
"the number of terrorists who might be stopped by a travel ban like this is probably 0 and maybe as high as 2"

Thing is, we'll probably never know. Will that information ever be shared with the public? How many people were prevented from entering the US over the past 8 years for "ties to terrorist organizations?" I have no idea.

It happened in early 2016 to Indian students.

http://fusion.net/story/272029/indian-students-denied-entry-...

Happened in mid 2016 to Syrian refugees.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/09/substantial...

A reported 2015 rise in Muslims being denied entry

http://www.dlgvisablog.com/blog/2015/12/29/us-increasingly-d...

But without news reports or blog articles, how are we to ever know that X number of travelers were denied entry? We can say it's probably between 0-2, but there's no evidence to back that up and I don't know how we even begin to search for the evidence other than heavily redacted FOIA requests.
Oats + plain yogurt + fresh fruit of your choice
Oats + plain yogurt + varying fresh fruit (apples, bananas, berrys...) + seeds/nuts if i feel like it
That doesn't sound right. It should be when you exercise the options or when you sell the stocks:

> Basic taxation of stock options depends on whether they are qualified stocks or unqualified stocks. The qualified stock option is not subject to Japanese income tax until it is sold, on the other hand the unqualified stock option is subject to Japanese income tax when it is exercised and sold.

http://tk-tax-accounting.com/en/english-taxation-of-stock-op...
I would throw something together with a RAD framework like CakePHP.

Basically you design an ERD to Cake's specifications, install Cake, install the very excellent CRUD plugin[0] and CRUD View [1] if you want scaffolded views and it's done!

Depending on the amount of functionality you needed on top of basic CRUD there is no reason why you couldn't have something up and running in a couple of hours

[0] https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/crud

[1] https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/crud-view
hopefully in a future not so far away, most safety-critical code will be formally verified, like http://sel4.systems/ for example
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Would it be possible for Facebook to execute a hostile takeover of Snap, now that Snap is public?
Disclaimer: I work at Google but I do not work on the product, so this is my personal experience.

I recently tried out Cloud Container Builder before it went public. I host a lot of small personal Docker projects on my private GitHub repositories and build Docker images for them using CircleCI and push them to GCR (Google Container Registry). Once you figure out how to do this with $your_favorite_CI_tool, it is easy. However it took me about an hour to build this Circle CI and I had to do some tasks like set up Service Accounts, copy keys around etc.

Google Container Builder eliminates this completely, you just connect your GitHub account, pick what you want to build (every commit, branch or tag) and specify the image name you want to build and forget about it forever.

It runs faster compared to free CI services I've used in the past (probably because image pulls are fast b/c Google Networking, but I'm not sure how much CPU is allocated for builds). Also if you're pushing to GCR, then it'll be faster to push images as well. So overall pull/build/push cycle is just fast. To compare, build for a very simple image I have (base image docker.io/library/python) takes 3m30s on CircleCI vs 1m10s in Google Cloud Container Builder. That's 3x faster.
Similar for ADHD.

Around 2-5 times higher chance of being some kind of an addict if you have untreated ADHD, lowered down if you get proper treatment (i.e. take ritalin/aderral/modafinil instead of nicotine/sugar/alcohol)
The strategy was to get 3+ Billion dollars. It succeeded beautifully, and since shares have no voting rights they don't have to worry about pressure from Wall Street.

They will have to worry about talent acquisition/retention if the stock price tanks though. But maybe that is offset in the short term by the appeal of working for a company with public shares.
Huh? The F-22A, F-35, P-8, and P-3 are all flying C++ code. Those are just the programs I have personally touched (not necessarily the code, though). Where did you get the idea that it "is not considered safe for any [real-time] system"?
Idealab! That's the one I was thinking of. Thanks. :)
The additional 19m in funding doesn't get near the 56m (above cost of tuition) in funding the 3 universities above the 20% cut off recieve from out of state students. [0]

So we're talking a 40m/yr deficit from just 3 schools. If they were serious about funding these schools they would have done these numbers and given them a commensurate funding, but they didn't.

[0] http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/UC-regents-expect-to...
"For all the good it'll do me may as well shove it up my arse" Renton - Trainspotting
Don't blame the tools, blame the carpenters (and the customers, and the customer's bosses).
These stories are so frightening to me that I contemplate just enduring the suffering if I am ever unfortunate enough to be prescribed oxy or dilaudid.
No, in this thought experiment, when they have MagSafe, they charge only via MagSafe.

The thought experiment is intended to be the same as reality, just in the opposite direction.
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Analyzing postgres_fdw overhead
But the deep networks and such that power a self-driving car aren't written in C anyway. Or are they?
Rust confronts this by making curlies mandatory