skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regular Americans certainly lead the world for the amount of money of ordinary people poured into the stock market
How would you keep the index up to date? How quickly would news stories appear in it and stale links disappear? Are you going to read the entire internet every day to keep it current?
I'm curious what you propose to improve their experiences.

I think you need walled gardens for mainstream users. The reason is that the weakest link in any security system is people. Especially normal, pleasant, trusting, non-confrontational people. People like my grandparents, who just install whatever a guy who claims to be tech support tells them to install.

Should people like my grandparents have a good experience on the internet? Absolutely. Can they have it without taking away all their freedom to make mistakes? I don't see how. Any freedom we give them will be exploited by the sharks. Education is a good thing which can make them more shark-resistant, but not everyone will take it upon themselves to be educated.
Futurists rarely imagine a tomorrow without capitalism
I find that any discussion of consciousness that doesn't build upon the work of so many other great thinkers (like Daniel Dennett, et al.) is usually a waste of time.
"Consciousness is the ability of an organism to predict the future"

The problem of looking at human consciousness is similar to someone that knows little about computer processors pulling apart an I7 and trying to figure meaningful things about what is going on inside. Without knowing the history of processor design, there will be huge information gaps on why some parts work the way they do.

That said, I believe consciousness is just world modeling, which explains the recursion problem you run into, a good model can simulate itself (nested Turing machines). As creatures evolved the ones that didn't just react, but could predict properly had better survival outcomes. Predictive models competed with each other and the 'best' ones survived, until after millions of years one branch of these models became complex enough to self reference itself.
Because it violates the Spanish constitution as ruled by Spanish courts (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/02/catalonia-sece...).

The follow up argument is the government has the power to amend the constitution but it currently has no interest in doing so. If Catalans want to secede they must first convince their (national) politicians to amend the consitution to make secession legal and then hold a referendum on secession itself.
Definitely the plugins in your Emacs. Might want to take a look through them and clean things up.
In my experience, 'just install Linux on it' is only enjoyable till the first piece of hardware that fails to work as you expected it to (usually Bluetooth or the touchpad). Crouton on Chrome OS quite literally 'just works' and is at least as easy to install as Linux on a PC.

Also, why would I want worse specs? I'd rather get the best hardware I can, and if it looks good, even better.
Yeah, even if Catalonia somehow got their independence, they'd be probably left out of the EU, and possibly Schengen too. It's a hard pill to swallow.
I believe the battery can warm itself up which changes the math a bit.
Autokey (which is a poor copy of AutoHotKey on windows).
Or simpler: you can make your own python script using the `keyboard` module (that's basically what Autokey is). Really simple to use and powerful
Yes. https://pythonclock.org/
The world also won't end if you calm your nerves with a drink.
That solely depends on your definition of "good".
These comments have plenty of examples where DDG is "better" in terms of usability compared to Google, which is also an important factor besides search accuracy.

Imho using the search history as context can also lead to undesirable results, so can funneling people to overly popular results which still can be wrong, had both happen more than enough with Google.

It's a trade-off between spending time arguing with Google if I really meant to search for that word, regardless of " usage, and having to look at more results in DDG until I find the one that I was looking for.
While in the process:

Audiencia Nacional does not approve of confronting Spanish president with of the main conspirators detained for illegal funding of their party. [0]

An Hacienda (taxes) expert finding clues about this illegal funding. [1]

Ex president of Castilla la Mancha's regional goverment dies before testifying in a corruption case [2]. There have been lots of deaths of people about to testify in diferent corruption cases.[3]

75% of the money the goverment put to rescue the banks is now considered as lost.[4]

"They report that there are 38% of severely dependent and large dependents without attending"[5]

And some other things that are debatable (and some that are not. I'm not negating that the governing party in Catalonia has been corrupt too, if it were for me lots of current and past politicians should be in jail.

> "Also there is a complete blockage to alter the constitution"

> No, there isn't. There is a perfect legal form to do it.

Yes, a way that is completely impossible right now. Specially because it depends on who has majority in the goverment, and those in power use FUD to keep being in power.

>Now the rest of Spain is supporting Catalonia using the FLA ("Fondo de Liquidez Autonómica" or "Autonomous Liquidity Fund").

I had to search what FLA is. That is a credit line that can be used by regional goverments [6]. That means it has to be payed back.

Catalonia is the region that most money brings to the table with 18.9%, more than even Madrid with 18.8% (2016)[7] But it's not he one with more investment (12.78% if you run the numbers)[8].

>More sick are the majority of Catalans who don't want the secession.

I didn't want independence, but I now want it, thanks to the words and actions of centralist people and politics. If you are saying that the majority doesn't want it because in 11 september's parade there was only 1 milion people and there are 6.5 milion more that weren't there... that doesn't compute (I wasn't there either).

[0]http://www.eldiario.es/politica/Audiencia-Nacional-Barcenas-...

[1]http://www.publico.es/politica/gurtel-perito-hacienda-confir...

[2]http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2017/09/07/59b0fab8ca47418b038b...

[3]http://www.abc.es/espana/abci-muertes-y-suicidios-larga-list...

[4]http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2017/09/07/59b1092e22601dad19...

[5]http://dependencia.es/denuncian-que-hay-un-38-de-dependiente...

[6]https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fons_de_Liquiditat_Auton%C3%B2...

[7]http://www.elnacional.cat/ca/economia/catalunya-economia-esp...

[8]http://www.elmundo.es/economia/macroeconomia/2017/04/04/58e3...

EDIT:

Sorry, I didn't (and don't) have time to search for links in English. They are all in Spanish but one, that it's in Catalan (but has Spanish and German translation).

If there was any innacuracy in this post I'd rather have conversation than untold negativity.
Where does this ridiculous sounding term "quantum supremacy" comes from ?
I only miss google as a DDG user when DDG doesn't have a tool google has to give you an automatic result, i.e. when trying to look up some unit conversion ratio like lb to kg. But when you know that is what you want there is always !g.
The steering wheel controls in my Volvo (from 2006!) are excellent. I have an aftermarket Bluetooth device from Grom Audio which allows me to control playback on my phone from the controls on my steering wheel. It really is the best of both worlds.
No tree style tabs :(

They have tabs down the side, but I want them to also be nested. That for me is a killer feature on Firefox (with a plugin).
As a non-car road user, I'm with you. mark212, please don't do this. You're making the world a more dangerous place for everyone, with (extremely limited) benefits only to yourself.
"That's the most, hacker-newsyist comment I've ever read.""
How do you know? Where is your proof?

If matter is all there is, that means either you deny the existence of consciousness (which is an untenable position), or you believe that it arises out of nothing (which requires a "magical" mechanism).
The implementation of the functions can be refactored to call the methods of Arrray.prototype and Javascript's prototypical inheritance means that the abstractions in the library will remain robust even if the refactoring were done during runtime.

The value of the library is improving the names of the abstractions over arrays in a way that may better express a particular programmer's thought process. Better expressing a particular programmer's thought process via abstraction is why we don't all write in machine code.
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Most users apparently aren’t tech-savvy enough to use an RSS reader that requires manually adding feeds. It has been noted how the demise of Google Reader played a major role in the demise of blogs overall, since so many of those following blogs could only use that one single portal.

Today, plenty of blogs still offer RSS feeds, but without Google Reader around to easily allow people to subscribe to them, they just aren’t being used as much. Also, because nowadays blog owners feel such pressure to monetize, RSS feeds tend to be hidden and discouraged because they could allow users to read content without viewing advertisements. I know one cranky and avaricious blog owner who will automatically ban you from his site if you point out that the site has an RSS feed.
You realize lots of people these days have unlimited data and don't about overage charges because they don't get them.
I've had exactly the same experience (though I only paid $1300 for mine). People keep asking me why I just didn't get a 'real laptop' for that price, and don't realize that they're asking me why I don't choose a worse experience. It's both amusing and annoying.
Don’t cite the Prism v. Upstream collection numbers anymore
I keep telling this to anyone who'll listen. I have cousins living in a small affluent US city, and every member of that family has their own car. To me as a European, that's mind boggling. At the same time, I've tried to make it in that town without a car before and while you can mostly get by with a decent bicycle, trying to walk anywhere is pointless. Everything is designed with cars front and center. Parking everywhere, "small" roads are four lanes, sidewalks just randomly stop in the middle of nowhere, leaving you with the option of backtracking, venturing out in the road, or – if you're lucky – cross lawns to get to where you're going. More often than not, the side of the road is your only option if you want to keep going.

Crossing streets is easy if you're fit and a reasonably fast walker, but the lights are timed to be quite fast, leaving those less able bodied or slower to simply be stranded in the middle (usually there's a stop) meaning a single crossing turns into two. Fortunately, drivers in this area seem to be fairly friendly to pedestrians, and will yield to people crossing the street.

One of my cousins came to stay with me for a few months this summer, and this is when she truly got what I've been saying for years I think. She got by mostly with her own two feet, wherever she was going. When she needed to travel further, I got her a travellers card. I'm not sure she even knows where to find a bus stop in her home town. (Neither would I.)
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I don't see a contradiction with GP post. As part of this broad agreement, the right and center-right forces request of indivisibility of Spain was included in the Constitution.
Because, 7 8 9 - according to Microsoft. http://www.itproportal.com/2015/05/07/microsoft-reveals-the-...
I'm not sure what that means. Are you pointing out a severe deficiency that makes their whole operational record somehow moot?
Chromebooks were never sold in china officially anyways. It wouldn't even make sense given how most google services are blocked.
From - they've done their job, now they're ready to escape.
I think you had studied only the Spanish history O_O. You need to look for alandulus, la marca hispana and països catalans at Google... :)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Invalid_block

> Clients will ignore invalid blocks when determining which chain is difficultywise-longest. Mining clients will not build on top of invalid blocks. Clients will not propagate invalid blocks (or invalid transactions).

Proof of work does not mean full nodes trust miners blindly. It only means they prefer the longest chain that follows the rules.

Like I said, yes, with 50% mining power you can double-spend all you want. But other nodes know what you are doing, expel you from the network, and discard your work, just as if you had 25% of hash power or 0.1%. The Bitcoin blockchain is not a democratic system where the majority always wins.
I have worked with half a dozen Catalans both in and outside Catalonia. All highly educated. All in favor of independence.

As far as I have been able to see, they are not in any way xenophobic, or greedy, or anything else you're accusing them of here. What they do seem to be is very distinctly Catalan with their own culture, history and language, and significant grievances towards the Spanish state.

I don't have an opinion on their independence, but I do find it very hard to justify denying them a right to vote on it. I do suspect the optimal way would be to negotiate a new relationship with Catalonia inside Spain, but that's just my mostly uninformed two cents on the issue.

(This is just to give the other side of the argument here.)
Consider the possibility that you are underestimating the wonder of dirt.
> The U.S. can't keep kicking its defective cans down the road.

Of course we can. Especially if they happen to primarily benefit the people already in power and in charge; especially if nobody runs on an election reform platform; especially if most of the electorate doesn't understand or can't/doesn't want to make the mental effort to understand what's wrong with FPTP; and especially if people keep getting distracted by other (admittedly very important) issues during campaigns.
Not so; on many issues, the country as a whole (its citizens) knows what it wants but the parties and duopoly can't deliver it because of how they're structured.

For example there are improvements to healthcare, taxation and financial regulation which a supermajority of citizens would agree with, but the current system cannot/will not deliver. These improvements do not particularly align with either party's agenda.

Another example, closer to people here on HN; merit-based immigration. Support among citizens is broad and I am guessing it would be a supermajority; however more politically active and powerful people in the US on the left and right oppose it.
One would be naive to think that a government like PBOC would just let it be. But this is long-term positive news for Bitcoin.

It is good that China is taking steps to regulate the cryptocurrency world (starting with an outright ban, I guess) Especially the ICO's, which are mostly scams, and even those that aren't should probably be treated as securities.

Bitcoin (and other crypto-currency) exchanges also could use some regulatory oversight - if you watch the order books even on US-based ones like GDAX there's non-stop spoofing and other trading illegalities that would normally get you banned from any exchange and perhaps land you in jail in a jiffy.

It will be interesting to see what happens if we lose the China hashing capacity. If that happens (and it looks like it already is), we will have slow blocks until the next difficulty adjustment.

In general the more of this sort of thing happens, the better it validates the Bitcoin model. What doesn't kill it makes it stronger.
A very small part of Google employees actually work on search. If google were to sell everything but the search division, they'd be a small company. The ad business and infrastructure are used by search but not the product.
I've been using the Samsung Chromebook Plus (ARM chip) laptop/tablet hybrid the past 4 months and it's one of the best devices I've ever owned. Very cheap and has high build quality (great screen and aluminium body). The 4 years prior I used the first ARM Samsung Series 3 Chromebook (much lower build quality, but it was great before it died).

I currently use tablet mode for 2-3 hour session for portrait reading (Wikipedia Android app, long-form articles) and from time-to-time light note-taking (Squid Android app) and PDFs. Haven't used crouton or done dev work on this Chromebook yet.

Here's a quick review of modern touch-screen Chromebooks used as tablets. While the hardware is exceptional, the software is terrible in tablet-mode. Here are the painful issues that I can currently remember:

1. Easy to accidentally close the entire browser by brushing the X button (I was thinking the browser was crashing the first 4-5 times it happened, very frustrating as can't CTRL-SHIFT-T in tablet mode)

2. Easy to accidentally close a single tab for the same reason. On an Android devices there's a little undo popup to reopen tabs, but that kind of obvious touchscreen user-interface polish isn't there on ChromeOS yet

3. Two finger touchpad scroll doesn't work on Android apps for scrolling -- painful as heck when Wikipedia links open in the Android app in laptop mode

Side note: I wish there was a good app to non-destructively markup PDF files with the stylus. I think it was at WWDC this year, Apple showed great work in this area, but sad not to have found software that appears as good for Chromebooks/Android yet.

I know Google engineers will come across this post, so hopefully these pain points can be fixed eventually. Chromebook hardware is so good (and cheap), but there's a few painful areas still.
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I bought one and used it briefly before deciding it wouldn't serve my needs. I thought I could keep it in my car so I didn't have to haul a laptop everywhere I went. Bonus was the security of keeping my MacBook at home and only having a cheap-o Chromebook in the car.

ChromeOS wasn't a problem. I was able to get a development workflow going just fine, I planned on using Mosh to shell into a development machine and I was on my way to figuring out a fluid way to edit files through perhaps SSHFS.

The problem was the hardware itself, which, after years of getting spoiled by MacBooks, left a lot to be desired. The keyboard sucked, the screen sucked, but the real deal breaker was that the battery life was utter crap, and it drained while it was sitting in my car. This made it unusable and I eventually gave it away.

I could spend the money and get better hardware, but at that point it's competing with my MacBook.
We have Tree Tabs [1] for Firefox 57+

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/?sr...
Modern DevTools: Running a render performance profile on the YouTube search box
Or an employee who covertly swipes your card with a reader that fits in his pocket before putting it through the pump
I understand the trust model but it still does not qualify as "open source" if the source is not available.
Love how everybody concerned about their privacy are most likely querying DNS via 8.8.8.8.

But I understand, I try to think of the internet as a non-privacy place.
As far as I can tell this is mostly the same capability as the Enlighten middleware used by e.g. Unity and Frostbite (i.e. recent Battlefield titles) with some small improvements on top (e.g. the opaque occluder approximation at the end). A demo for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARorKHRTI80

Is there some improvement in the technique beyond that - e.g. some clever speedup across the board?
Have you or your employer ever had a customer say "oh thank goodness, I really needed BRAND's tech in here instead of just a convenient way to access the same software I already use for hours every day?" In any sort of user study or feed back? Or really ANY indication that NIH for infotainment systems is a good investment?

I don't think those... um, infotainment systems are a differentiator other than the ones that are so bad as to rule out the car entirely. I've never heard anyone, anyone say they liked their car infotainment system. Ever.

To be honest, I really hope they don't actually think of those systems as an important extension of their brand. Or if they do, they realize that Android or iOS are much better user facing tech companies and brands than any car manufacturer...
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I agree with you.
Im southern Spanish who lived and studied in Barcelona. Have lots of very good friends in Catalunya who somehow I'm loosing because of this situation.

I'm quite sad :(
Yeah, good luck getting developers to work days on end to create a MVP for a founder at 200 or 450 bucks. My going development rate is 265 an hour. Also a MVP in 2 days is not likely or feasable, a demo with smoke and mirrors to show to vc or angels. MVP "Minimal Viable Product" means a working version ready for sale with the minimal set of features to make the product a reality.

My 2 cents is connect founders and Developers to make a match for long term projects, Match a CEO, CFO, and CTO. Work on building founder Teams, not trying to to match a wantrapanuer who doesn't value a Software engineers time and abilities is not willing to pay for that.
It's polished, it's sufficiently customisable for my likes, it features folders, it's completely integrated in to the bookmarks system, accessible from sync'd devices, and allows for simple drag-and-drop rearrangements. All without needing an extension of any kind.

Firefox's "top sites with pinning" does only some of this, and is clunky. Every Fx Speed Dial extension I have tried is similarly lacking in some way or another.
>" That was one of the most HN comments I've ever read."

You know, that's just a gratuitous swipe. So was this in the blog post: "First, DuckDuckGo didn’t start as a nerd attempt to find the ultimate algorithm."

It really looks like you want to put down nerds to make yourself feel more sophisticated or popular. This isn't high school, though, and you're pissing in the same pool you're posting in. Turning "HN" into an adjective with a pejorative tone isn't going to win you any friends on HN, especially as a new poster. It's just mean spirited.
Well, I think nobody will force anyone to use those vending machines instead of going to their corner store.

If people do it, maybe it's because they don't feel this family thing ? So does it matter after all ?

Not supporting the vending machines here, just interrogating you :-)
The problem is that Google often provides the best service for the buck. But even if money is taken out of the equation some Google services are just the best. Like Google maps or even G suite (this might vary by person).

Hard to avoid them in that case.
That is incorrect.

The language includes memory unsafe constructs without marking them in any way, since it must be compatible with C.
Email is a tough one, but I've been using FastMail.

No advertising, strong privacy policy, based in Australia (a country with a decent privacy track record that we know of).

It's $3/month which is a decent price for liberating a lot of data from advertisers.

The spam filter is playing catch-up to Google so that's a bit of a shock at first, but you can train it up well or use second layer measures like Sanebox.

Disclaimer: DDG staff - but personal opinion.
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Except for the fact that they can still get confirmation from the other 50 - epsilon percent.

Having 51% of hash power doesn't mean you mine 100% of blocks. That's not how Bitcoin works. With 51% you will probably mine around 51%.
I switched to duck duck go recently and for me it is good enough, when I feel I get bad results or not what I need I search with !g and for my surprise google returns same results most of the time. It would be good to have more duck duck go like sites/projects in case ddg fails or goes evil.