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> I'm trying DuckDuckGo, but it's just not as good.

It took me a while of using DDG before I realized how much I had equated "good" with "looks like Google".

What finally hit me, hard, was that I switched the DDG theme to a color scheme designed to look like Google search results, and all of a sudden the results "felt better". Markedly better.

So, I started regularly comparing results, every time I found something that I felt I didn't get the results I expected for. I would search, and then search again with !g. And almost every time I ran into something that I didn't like the DDG results for, the Google results weren't actually any better. (The rare times they were, I reported that, and often it got fixed.)
We believe you wink.
This isn't censorship, this is HN readers saying they're not so interested in the memo that they need to have another post about it every hour.
I agree wholeheartedly with you and my next vehicle will be a plug in hybrid. That said, that isn't what the author is saying. He's saying that all private cars will go away because it will be so much cheaper to just call a self driving electric and I don't see it happening because people will never call a self driving car to the trailhead of a 14'er. It is just so much more convenient to have your own (PHEV).
Reading through your comment again, I realize I completely missed the mark on your question.

If you use Citus, you don't have to make any changes in your application. You just need to remodel your data and define your tables' sharding column(s). Citus will take care of the rest. [1]

In other words, your app thinks it's talking to Postgres. Behind the covers, Citus shards the tables, routes and parallelizes queries. Citus also provides transactions, joins, and foreign keys in a distributed environment.

[1] Almost. Over the past two years, we've been adding features to make app integration seamless. With our upcoming release, we'll get there: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/595
The US rural population is 15% of total population and declining ( "About 46.2 million people, or 15 percent of the U.S. population, reside in rural counties, which spread across 72 percent of the nation's land area" https://www.yahoo.com/news/census-rural-us-loses-population-... )

Next rural population has plenty of vehicles that use gas that could be electric. For example, 4wheel ATVs. A farmer that has an electric ATV could power the ATV with a solar array. Or an electric tractor, water pumps, etc

Lots of opportunity to take ICEs out of the mix. Not just the pickup truck.
>Based on the fact that there is now transportation available, you get mile after mile of hastily-constructed bland, dystopian nowhere suburbs that breed ennui, conformism and fascism.

The level of condescension here is overwhelming. I would love to live in a "bland, dystopian" suburb where I can afford a yard, more space for my family, access to necessities and a reasonable commute. If you'd prefer to live in a crowded city, do it, but don't think it makes you superior to anyone else.
It is more complicated than that.

There's the relative value among different currencies (exchange rates).
Why self driving cars should only be electric vehicules? And if the price of oil is going down due to electric vehicules it will make people even more happier to use their already amortized vehicules. And don't forget that a large part of electricity comes from oil in the US.
That the whole "no one will own a car because self driving ones will be so much more cheaper" is hogwash.
> Extremely bland, stock-photo website. I felt uncomfortable giving them my email address, let alone my payment info.

That's not valuable information.

> A heavily marketed product lacking inspiration which I ultimately couldn't get to work properly.

At this point you've given up even trying. It's not a useful comparison any longer.
Nope. They absolutely cannot be delayed auditory feedback. That disrupts speech. The device must reproduce the chorus effect. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw_rVGUXgos
Yes, CRA is a Huuuuuge step forward.
https://www.peterbe.com/plog/10-reasons-i-love-create-react-...
Yup, it's easiest if you understand what the solver is doing and help point it towards solutions/find them trivially.

Unfortunately, i had to write my own constraint system and practice with it a lot to use AutoLayout with high performance where i was confident i was not introducing significant re-layout performance problems.
Session Manager, which I've used since Firefox 2. To add insult to injury I downgraded to an earlier nightly and it no longer worked either, had to blow away the UI customization config and reinstall the addon for it to re-appear and work again.
That's quite disturbing. Share more details? Model of phone and OS installed? Nature of the compromise, if you know?
Maybe it is one of those things where I should take Bill Murray's advice and I can't tell anyone because nobody is going to believe me. It is possible at 1 in 165 million odds. http://imgur.com/a/Kb9Oa
Do you have any extensions installed?

Have you tried using a fresh profile, just to narrow the possible variables?

If you've checked both of those things, and you can characterize the slowness in the context of specific operations (e.g. what "laggy" means, precisely), then I'd recommend filing a bug and working with the developers to track down the problem. Because that is not normal.
There is nothing to debate against, unfortunately. If I'm being repetitive, it's because the justifications for the firing are so utterly baseless.

Also, if the upvote/downvote ratio is any indication, many people appreciate my contributions, even if they're not agreeable.

One final point I'd add is that this is an explicitly ideological issue. A Google engineer was fired for violating Google's corporate ideology (on diversity and gender). There is no way to address the issue in a meaningful way without addressing said ideology.
Cars have been shipping with sensors and computers since the 80s. When was the last time you heard of somebody's ECU failing? What's that, you've never heard of an ECU before? :-)
There is a difference between flagging and not upvoting.

If it is upvoted enough to reach first page then it means there are HN readers who are interested.
That stock photo of kids on bikes on their homepage feels so out of place hah
I think this response is the kind of thing that goes with the "7 million+ software licenses sold, almost 2,000 customers worldwide" text noted in the article.

This response does not hide the concrete facts of the situation, which I do think remains an unresolved problem.

First of all, https://www.virustotal.com/en/documentation/private-api/ does not mention any prices. It says to get in touch. Boring.

So I decided to try googling "virustotal private api cost", and bingo: I found a quote in the Hacking Team emails :D - https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/16069

As of 2013 - 5 years ago - the prices were:

- 300 searches and downloads per month ... 500 EUR per month

- 1,000 searches and downloads per month ... 1,000 EUR per month

- 5,000 searches and downloads per month ... 2,000 EUR per month

- 15,000 searches and downloads per month ... 3,000 EUR per month

- 30.000 searches and 30.000 downloads per month .... 4,700 euros per month.

- Unlimited searches and downloads per month... 8,250 euros per month

For a somewhat more recent comparison, https://developers.virustotal.com/v2.0/reference#public-vs-p... notes that the private API allows just 4 requests per minute. Sounds like that could be the default tier and that things have gotten a lot more expensive over the past 5 years. ($10k per month in 2013... maybe it's double that now? Nice spare change for Google, eh - VirusTotal is a Google company.)

But, once you sign up, you get access to a feed (https://developers.virustotal.com/v2.0/reference#file-feed) API call that will give you a JSON array of the last 24 hours' worth of uploaded files. Each item in the array includes a file download link, which you can fetch.

There's also https://developers.virustotal.com/v2.0/reference#url-feed, the feed of all URLs scanned. This is less straightforward in terms of "we got 5000 passwords and keys today, woohoo" because the chances are (hopefully...) that the URLs being scanned are setup to let VirusTotal through but not anyone else. That said, this would likely give you valuable intel into internal network structures and so forth. (And, who am I kidding, a disconcerting number of organizations are going to have the areas surrounding the upload infrastructure horribly misconfigured.)

I can totally see the standpoint of this report. This IS a pay-to-play data exfiltration system.

You get everything. Regardless of who you are.
Let's please not scoot straight up to tedious generic flamewars that we've all heard before.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14973457 and marked it off-topic.
> Languages are easy.

Not always true, my favorite example being Idris. (but then again, it's all relative to what you know already)
!sp will give you the google results without the google tracking as it's a proxy of google results.
> Diesel motors can be significantly less expensive to maintain and operate, even more so as the reliability of emissions-reducing technology is improved.

Source? As someone who owns two diesels(1.1L 2cyl and 3.0L 6cyl) and an EV the oil changes alone make your argument invalid.

You know what my highest per-mile operating cost is(including electricity)? Tires.

Look, I love the simplicity of the diesel as much as anyone else but EVs have a very strong position on operation costs.
Can you try https://cypherpunk.com/ and add it to the list?
Yes, Adria Richards can probably tell you about how this suppression of speech works. She was fired when the internet got angry that she publicly complained about a joke that she felt was offensive, and literally DDOSed her employer until they let her go.
Good news, everyone! people are dying earlier, and you're one of them!

Yep, definitely a Farnsworth quote.
I suspect that, for less savvy potential customers (read: the vast majority of them), "That One Privacy Site" can do more harm than good.

I wrote a bit about choosing VPNs, and about my concerns with TOPS, here: https://davepeck.org/2017/04/16/why-its-hard-to-choose-a-vpn...

PS: Since this is HN, I just want to say that if you can, you should run your own VPN. Use Algo, full stop -- it's put together by some of the best in the business. If you do decide to go with a third party provider, hopefully the six criterion I suggest in my post are helpful.
Seems like those people are just assholes trying to justify their behavior, anyone actually trying to emulate Linus would see thousands of helpful messages for every outburst.
+1 for no Rails bandwagon bashing!
You skipped the part about massive government subsidies.
Considering I got an $8,000 tax credit for first time home buyers (thanks Obama!) you’re more right than you know.
I have a friend who lives really in the middle of nowhere. It's 70 miles to the nearest town with a big box store. 100 miles to Reno. He said if he had an electric car with 150 miles range it would totally serve his purposes. The local gas station has an issue. They have to charge higher prices. So most residents buy their gas on their weekly shopping trip to Fernley/Reno. There is the potential if that station closes, then electric cars become vastly more attractive.
HTML 5.2 – W3C Candidate Recommendation
I don't think that Core Data is that bad for local storage; it's basically just an ORM.
> Correlation is not causation. Just because Linus managed to become BDFL of a hugely successful project doesn't mean Linus's communication style in any way caused this.

Just as it does not prove the opposite.

> And it doesn't mean that he should get a free pass on treating people badly.

From you? Or from those people?

If you're not the one that he was talking to why do you feel so strongly about it?

> A lot of people subscribe to the idea that if you don't have a thick skin you shouldn't be in tech.

I didn't say that. And I don't subscribe to that. But if you want to be in a project with a BDFL that tends to be a bit coarse then it certainly won't hurt.

> That's a terrible attitude to take, there's absolutely no reason why that should be true, and it discriminates against a lot of people (including women). This attitude just contributes to the current toxic tech culture.

Yes it would. But that is something that you mixed in all by yourself and you're making Linus the scapegoat for this particular shortcoming of the tech community, whereas Linus is just one person in an arguably un-enviable position who gets a lot of shit thrown at him for a few minor gaffes which the participants took a lot better than the bystanders. And personally I'm more inclined to see these as in the heat of the moment and soon forgotten afterwards, the fact that they are archived forever doesn't take away the dynamics of the original situation. Heck, if I got the kind of hate that Linus gets for his occasional flare-up I'd stick to solo projects. It's bordering on the ridiculous how this is pulled out of proportion.
Screenshot of original tweet: https://twitter.com/framerate/status/891862938268573696
They seem to block all of Linode, so I wouldn't be surprised if they block other popular VPS providers as well.
Replace "no one" with "most people". Do you still say hogwash?

He laid out a really solid article. You said "hogwash".

If you want to change minds you gotta expand a bit more :)
I'd definitely use it more if I could port over the last few Delphi apps I have in production. My Delphi 7 is getting a bit old...

Aside from single-file executables, the biggest advantage to Lazarus (and also Delphi) [to me] is that all the libraries are also built in the language. No needing to bounce down to opaque DLLs just to display some GUI element.
^^ Spot the Salesforce corporate communications team kicking in...
As soon as you need 3rd-party libraries "statically compiled" is no longer the case. Or at least it's not easy, depend on platform and still bring a lot of mess.

Though in the right hands Lazarus is a great tool since relatively complex project could be completed just by one developer. E.g here is our game engine map editor:

https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi_editor

Another thing to note is that FPC provide good performance and even used for game development and memory footprint is small. There is RTS on Steam called Cossacks 3 and it's fully in Pascal (though no idea if they using FPC outside of Linux):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/333420/Cossacks_3/

PS: Another example would be open source Hedgewars of course.
Tableau acquires NLP startup ClearGraph to enable natural language data analysis
The headline's accurate, IMO. The FCC is seeking comment on whether slower mobile connections should be considered sufficient when measuring overall broadband internet access deployment.

25Mbps/3Mbps wired is already an unambitious requirement, and Pai dissents from it having been raised from a previous 4/1 requirement, and suggests that a 10/1 mobile connection would be enough.

The whole proposal sounds like they just want to lower the bar to what's available now and toss up the "Mission Accomplished" banner.
This is pretty normal for a UI programming framework. The creepy thing for me is when that stuff is reported back to the origin over a websocket.
Java? why?
Mm, thanks for calling out the false-negative thing! I think I misparsed that the first time around and got confused between decreasing false negatives and increasing false positives. That's embarrassing, sorry ^_^`

In any case, I think I made a mistake suggesting specific improvements to the memo; lemme pop off the stack a bit:

It's not okay to publish a document to your coworkers that will predictably make them feel unsafe. Full stop.

When you want to express an idea at work, you need to engage in empathy, and try to express yourself in such a way that your coworkers will still feel safe with you. If you can't figure out how to express an idea without hurting your coworkers, then, yeah, you don't get to express it unless you figure something out :/ That's an appropriate workplace policy, and I'm comfortable with the general idea that freedom of expression is subject to some conditions. I know not everybody agrees with that prioritization, though!

More importantly, I'm just tired of articles like this one dismissing the social consequences lens outright. There's more than one valid issue being raised in our community right now, and the importance of one doesn't invalidate the others. Let's have both conversations: how to enable expression of less common ideas, and how to ensure that we express them empathetically. If we approach the problem thoughtfully, I think we can optimize for both :)

(BTW I edited this comment a lot during the first 30 minutes, and pretty significantly changed its contents. Sorry if that ends up being an issue!)
Your Go link is from before 1.0. AFAIK, since 1.0 breakage has been very rare.
>A lot of people here seem to be underestimating the difficulty of this problem. There are several incorrect comments saying that in SC1 AIs have already been able to beat professionals - right now they are nowhere near that level.

Mostly because no one cared enough about solving this to spend 1/100th of the resources Google will undoubtedly throw at it.
Oh, the irony! Months before he was fired, in his talk [1] at QCon London 2017 (March 5-7), Josh Schwartz jokingly said: "I am going to tell some stories and hopefully I won't get fired for sharing this stuff but we'll see how it goes".

[1] How to Backdoor Invulnerable Code: https://youtu.be/EGshffkzZsY?t=680
Please don't troll on Hacker News. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14968843 and marked it off-topic.
> I don't see it happening because people will never call a self driving car to the trailhead of a 14'er. It is just so much more convenient to have your own (PHEV).

Self-driving cars can co-exist with short-term rentals. I live in Seattle and recently sold my car because ReachNow is good enough: it does short-term rentals by the mile, but when I go hiking I can do half/full-day rentals, and it still ends up being a lot cheaper than owning a car. And this is before self-driving and the cost savings of EV enter the equation.
Wait, what's the reason for that rule? Sounds interesting.
I absolutely, obviously, would trust a thin doctor telling me to lose weight over a fat one telling me almost anything.
Exactly what is being marketed ?
Is google going to go thru what uber did?

These kinds of articles do make alot of clicks.
I don't see how having more information can be harmful. There's even a simplified red/yellow/green table if you don't want the details.

TOPS is one of the extraordinarily few impartial guides to VPN providers. We would be far worse off without it.

Running your own VPN is fine if your goal is to protect yourself from a malicious LAN, but useless if you're trying to hide your identity. The IP of whatever provider you choose can reveal your identity just as easily as your home IP.
It's not entirely unreasonable. We use software because it's useful. If you make it so secure that it is no longer useful, what have you got left?

In the case of Firefox extensions, I'm aware of the risks of the old model, but the fact is that the only observable difference it has made to me so far is that when I accidentally hit back on a page with an unsubmitted form the other day I lost about 20 minutes' worth of work, because the extension I used to use that would have saved everything automatically no longer works. This is not progress.
The screenshot alleges that it's in a sidebar, no? How is that different from TreeStyle Tabs, which is also in a sidebar?
I was recently fortunate enough to upgrade to 1Gb symmetrical fiber. I can say that it is absolutely fantastic. You really can do things you never did before:

1. I can host time-machine backups for my entire family on my home server, allow them to have off-site backups.

2. I can provide openVPN service for my entire family when they're outside of the home. I can also browse full-time on my own openVPN client at full-speed.

3. I can seed legitimate torrents for far, far longer than I normally would. For example, new Ubuntu releases.

4. I "donate" some of my bandwidth to other people and projects, allowing them to host files from my home.

5. I can test and host my own websites/services from my house. If it gets a little traction it won't destroy my entire internet.

These are all things that simply were not possible when I was with Comcast, with only 10 Mb/s upload and bandwidth caps. If we completely deregulate internet I'm afraid they will be impossible for most everyone.
Hard to fathom not hiring your future self. Especially if they are qualified and experienced.

At 32 yo, terrified I'll be in this situation soon.
> people will never call a self driving car to the trailhead of a 14'er.

As a long distance backpacker I'd love to be able to get a ride to and from the trail at a reasonable price.

Of course, we'd also need better cell coverage.
What browser are you using? Because when I scroll on that page and the URL changes, it doesn't affect my Back stack (this is in Safari).
A Tesla model 3 has a listed range of 220 miles and it declines in winter and with hills. Therefore I doubt one could actually go from downtown Denver to Vail (~95 miles) for a day of skiing and back in a day without charging at the resort. It certainly couldn't make it from Denver to Salida, CO (~140 miles) for a day of white water rafting without charging during the day. Sure businesses could install chargers in their parking lots but we have a LONG way to go for that and that doesn't help someone going to climb the tallest mountain in Colorado (115 miles) who will park at the trailhead. There are some answers here but personal vehicle ownership isn't going away for large portions of America any time soon.
80% of the kernel development is done by companies who want their code in the kernel (whether that's because they develop hardware or because that's less work than maintaining their own patchset).
- I did the math on the battery issue that based on some figures I had for energy cost of battery production including mining of resources. I went with a figure of around 110mj of energy per 1kwh of battery. The result was an estimated ~24k km break even point when comparing a model S to a similar sized Volvo. The battery energy costs go down by about half if they are produced only using renewables.

- Actually all the emission reducing technologies adds complexity and lowers the efficiency. This increases cost.

- gas stations will be less convenient when there is no gas. otherwise a great argument for fossil powered cars.

- that is why we have batteries.
You have the security of the datacenter provider instead when you use something like Algo. That datacenter provider is going to have logging, probably wouldn't take pseudoanonymous payment methods like BTC directly, does not have legal insurance, will shut you down if you get enough file sharing complaints and probably wouldn't do things like having RAM only VPN servers w/ read only boot media.

Nothing prevents the datacenter provider from doing the bad crap that commercial VPN providers can do. There are ones out there that let you use standard clients as well, so the bad client software part is kind of moot. The only advantage you get is control and responsibility over the vpn server.
The thing you have to remember in energy and transportation is that capital costs are high, and margins are thin.

What do you think happens when a new innovation comes in and takes 20% of your market share? This is what happened in oil with fracking. Venezuela collapsed and everyone else is on the brink.

Replacing 20% of IC cars would be just as catastrophic for oil incumbents as fracking.