skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with parent, it's not just a metaphor but a wildly inaccurate guess that makes the reader think duckduckgo is more irrelevant than it really is.

> That was one of the most HN comments I've ever read.

What does this mean?
That's not true. Actually there is no power separation on Spain. Judicial system and TC is an extra arm for the govern.
Sorry, with Hacker News Enhancement Suite[1] it looked great.

[1] https://github.com/etcet/HNES
To all of those wondering, attempting to break the “the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation” is a crime according to the Spanish Constitution of 1978.

Of course, you have to consider that after almost 40 years of a fascist dictatorship, anything that resembled a democratic constitution was good news, so 90% of Catalans voted in favor of these Constitution.

This is the main reason why, according to the current Constitution, the current referendum is illegal.
Because if they win the debt gets paid, and if the market crashes the taxpayer pays. Win:win.
Most of my rental cars now use touch screen interface. Elsewhere in this page, a developer complained that we "just don't take the time to learn what we need to."

No.

Just ... no.

A critical control system should be simple, able to be used without taking one's eyes off the wheel/road.

Any control system (atmosphere, lights, defroster, wipers, ...) that requires you to remove your attention from the road in order to operate a touch screen interface with a generally terrible UI/UX is BROKEN. And dangerous to boot.

This is what I find now in many (not all, but the majority) of my rentals.

Want to turn on defroster (which is usually a snap decision as the rear window is getting foggy/frosty)? You have to navigate a screen. Not push a single button.

Want to turn down the radio? Now you have to navigate MULTIPLE screens to find the O(&^*&^$^$&^& control pane for the radio, and shut it off.

And so on.

This is not progress.

This is risk.

Pardon my pun, but someone is asleep at the wheel here. These control and interface systems are inherently broken, by not being as simple as possible.
Well, this is still online: http://www.fnff.es (Francisco Franco Foundation). And is fucking legal. Maybe Franco never really left the country...
The press haven't been completely honest in their description of his bike. He had a fixie. Which is illegal, and is dangerous, but you can slow / stop the bike by simply not pedaling. People are acting as if he was cycling a runaway train.

They're quite common in the US and not illegal there.
Did you not see The Jungle Book (2016) ?
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>Vim gives the ability to refactor large amounts of code rapidly.

It gives the ability to edit large amounts of code rapidly.

Refactoring implies design, coming with the right structure, applying some design pattern, etc -- which is the slow part, and not affected by your choice of editor.

If we're talking about "automated refactorings" (of the trivial variety, e.g. extract method, etc) then an IDE is an even better candidate than Vim.

>With vim you have a new choice open to you: you can define a macro that to find and modify all of the constructors in your declaration file in 20 seconds.

Or you know, I can do the same in any other editor with macros. Or use a regex, with almost all editors support and do it in 5 seconds.
Considering Toys-R-Us has gone bankrupt, perhaps not the most prosperous analogy either!
Lots of people are saying how they love this app. I'd be interested in reading examples of how people are using it.

I wish the author provided the source code, even if they continued charging money. Based on the functionality I'm guessing it'll require enabling accessibility, which means it can essentially hijack your computer. I've been slowly whittling down my usage of closed-source third-party apps in order to reduce my effective "circle of trust" and reduce the chances of being subject to attacks. Why are commercial open source apps so uncommon? Textual is an example of one such app, but I can't think of many others.
Ligths are one thing. Realistic camcorder effect is not that appealing. It looks "real" because the cameraman's hand is shaking, the sound is crap the wind is possibly blowing and the exposure is constantly adjusting because again the average user don't know what they are doing. We could simulate that, but why?

I've seen this last night and I was really impressed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXouFfqSfxg

Add all this I said before an I'm sure many people could be fooled that it's real.

Also don't forget that immersive VR is coming. Your expectation of the "camcorder effect" will be achieved by the user's head movement if rendering is responsive enough. And it will be. 3.2ms as shown in the OP's video is really fast and leaves lots of room for additional computation while still being under 60FPS.
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Yes, it is true. The separation of powers is similar in other Western democracies.
I cannot find English sources: https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/politica/forcadell-pasa-...

The session was televised. The oposition was constantly interrupted and not allowed to talk. They are not even respecting the laws from the catalonian parlament. But I guess they have legitimacy because they have the support of... half the catalonians?

An example of democracy.
The author is pro-nuclear:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/nuclea...

"Nuclear power, whatever its detractors might claim, is a low-carbon energy source, roughly comparable to renewables in terms of total emissions. To shut down viable nuclear capacity in the midst of a climate change emergency (now, in other words), as Germany and Japan have done, is a refined form of madness, especially when at least some of that capacity is likely to be replaced by gas or coal, whose carbon emissions are much higher. Replacing fossil fuels with renewables, on the timescale in which we need to act, is hard enough, without setting yourself the additional, unnecessary challenge of also replacing nuclear power."
If you use < or & in your text, it is not HTML5. Neither XHTML. However, it is probably HTML4, isn't it?
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You know it's a good paper when you reach the end and ask "is that it?" and yet no one else has thought of it before.

Side note: local-global approximation seems to do well in graphics and visual tasks. For example in the field of alpha matting the state of the art for a while was KNN Matting which sampled locally and globally. Most methods since then have taken a similar approach.
Note that the preparations are useful for evening / night sleep too, and it's advised for children too to have a routine / ritual. Still helps for adults.
That's not clear that there is a 50 % of people that don't want the independence, and anyway the referendum is the only way to check if the independence is the way for the majority.
You're missing the case of trying to break the country by force against its illegitimate authorities, otherwise how would you classify East Timor?
HTC issues trading halt 'pending major announcement'
> "Think of it like The Toys-R-Us of DRAM"

except you're completely wrong. DRAM business is booming and is/was the most profitable BU of Toshiba; Their reason to selling it is because of the debt and losses incurred as a result of their westinghouse acquisition.
thanks for doing the calculations. it was obviously an off comment
Well, AND and OR "lose information" more than XOR

x.0 is 0 and x+1 is 1 (to use combinational logic notation)

Now XOR(x,y) depend on x and y and there are no values that cause the other value to be ignored

I also think the point they make about speed is kinda picking at straws, it's valid for an FPGA, but not so much for a CPU
Deciding whether to buy T-Bills or invest in a hedge fund is an investment decision that a relative few make. Deciding whether to have a roof over your head or not is much more than an investment decision. I reason that asset inflation in house prices is a form of wage deflation. Asset and wage inflation may be distinct theoretical categories, but they affect each other in practice.
Please, don't try to rewrite History.

The Spanish Constitution is based in a very broad agreement, from Communists to the Far-Right Wing.

Then that agreement (the Constitution) was voted by all the Spanish People and received an immense support.

See the table here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_constitutional_referen...
> What people miss is that during the summer the sun is up all the time. (In the winter, not so much.)

It sounds like these two effects should cancel each other out. Are you saying that people take winter into account but not summer?
Insofar as DDG is a mashup of many search engines, doesn't it technically have a massive team? If you add up the teams building the products that feed DDG, then you probably end up with a much larger team than the one building Google Search.

I might describe that as gaining on Google, but still losing quite badly.

I'm still impressed by DDG of course and welcome some alternative to Google, which is a dangerous monopoly with a search that I've come to despise in recent years due to its ignoring what I've actually typed.
Those that value what the Chromebook offers over what a regular laptop with Linux does.

For many also $1099 is spare change -- at least when considering what computer they can buy.
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Never mind the secondary effects, the idea of a rubber playground strikes me as inherently dangerous, as you can't skid to a halt like you can on concrete or grass.
Interesting, what makes their speed dial brilliant?
I think they mean “Google Pixelbook is Google’s new Chromebook Pixel”. If Google has discontinued the cheap Chromebooks it would be really bad for all the school systems that rely on them as cheap laptops for students.
Who are the companies that are going to be doing these big acquisitions? Chances are they're already using React.
That would be Valerie Giscard-d'Estaing who twisted arms to get Greece into the EEC and Mitterrand who forced through the Euro.

If you are trying to insinuate that this was a German plot, you couldn't be farther from the truth. The Deutsche Mark was a sacred cow and getting rid of it in favour of a common currency with "irresponsible countries" with weak currencies was deeply unpopular even with internationalists like Kohl. Only France threatening to block German reunification unless they drop the Mark, in 1990, got German politicians to agree to giving up their currency.
it's also wrong.a whale is not "2 people"
My current project is in D. D in my opinion, if that matters is the natural progression from c/c++ and is "the better c". I've always worked with c or c++ on backend webdevelopment as that it is lightning fast. D add's the conforts of modern programing paradigms without sacrificing this speed, and without having to learn a new syntax like you would with rust, go, etc... Any C/C++, Java, C# developer could be sat down, shown the reference material for D and be writing useful code by the end of one day.

there is vibe.d (https://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-d) has a web framework that creates and handles http for you. However if you want to have better control and do things traditionally there is cgi_d (https://code.dlang.org/packages/cgi_d). if you want fast cgi I think there is a library for that too.

I personally prefer cgi as that it is just reading and writing to std-in and std-out and letting Apache or Nginx handle the http layer. I'm not really a fan of vibe.d because it's more than a library for web development, it's a framework. So if you Go with vibe you have to commit to the vibe way of doing web development.

I also use painlessjson so that that I can create Restful services that return json objects. As well I use mustache.d so that I can create static HTML templates to return dynamic serverside generated html.

Like most applications on the web though my current project not purly in D (while it could be), I am also using Jquery to call my Restful API to retrieve data. So it's a mixture of architecture; D on the backend, and html, javascript, css, etc... on the front end.
People always underestimate the power of utilities specified in POSIX. When you want to do text processing without dependencies (which seem to be the goal here), just use awk.
I saw this feature request submitted the other day via the subreddit. Here's hoping! https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/70rent/enhancem...
With this yearly release cycle and amount of investment Apple is making, I think Swift 6 or 7 could become general purpose language for client/server code on non-apple platforms too.
Would it run an actual Linux OS?
What an statement, but that not means it's true.
But over what time period?
I don’t use Google Chrome - mostly for that very reason.
Yes, England retained the nationalities of the kingdoms it absorbed and became a multinational state, whereas Spain followed more absolutist traditions and wanted not just fealty but complete assimilation. Scotland remained a nation after regal unification, whereas the nationhood of Catalonia is past tense, and therefore secession has significantly different legal ramifications in their respective empires.
While security by obscurity might be a valid security layer in some systems [1], it rarely is considered a good one when designing cryptosystems; Kerckhoff's principle [2] is usually adhered to thoroughly.

[1] https://danielmiessler.com/study/security-by-obscurity/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle
The Pi Fractal
Can you provide some examples and/or point us at related info elsewhere? Thanks!
I'm not sure there's much overlap between your first group and your second group.
> The elephant in the room is that the main parties in the Spanish goverment are using this independence process as a smokescreen to hide all their wrongdoings.

True, but at the same time, it was the Catalan Government who started the secession process, and they have plenty of corruption to hide too. And if they manage to become an independent country with their own judicial system, then they might get away with all the past corruption. Maybe that's the actual motivation.
I think you misunderstood. There is no "spec" for handling all of the invalid HTML out there. That's part of what makes writing a browser so hard. It's far from being menial work.
No, it's definitely our electoral system. FPTP fundamentally shifts a system toward two major parties, and no amount of tinkering with debates or other reforms at the margins will make third parties competitive.

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
Try startpage.com. I moved away from google a year ago and never looked back. I've never once needed to fall back to google. That's probably because startpage.com is basically anonymized google.

I know we're supposed to root for the entrepreneurs here on HN, but DDG honestly seems like more hype / marketing than a decent product. You never hear anything about startpage.com (maybe because it has a boring name?) but it just works.
This isn't driven by Communist ideology; if it were, we'd see a return back to Mao's vaguely Marxist policy, not a continuation of Deng; the Chinese are fine with capitalists.
China sounds great, you should apply for citizenship?
the popularity of Martin Schulz

That's a good one!
The original poster seems to be able to forecast how these companies are going to do. It's arguably harder to do that when a deal is just announced so I'd imagine it's easier with this list of businesses that they've already closed on.
The bankruptcy scenario was always highly unlikely, the banks would have been bailed out with tax money. Just like they were bailed out with tax money in actual history, just with another name (loans to the Greek government, who gave the money back to the unwisely lending EU banks).
depends on how elitist you are
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4yru3h/scared_and...

tl;dr: Neither Ethereum nor Bitcoin have address checksums on the protocol level (remember this HN thread here is about trust) but by now all Bitcoin clients decided to implement it. In this case, the exchange used an Ethereum client which didn't.
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Mine too! I thought it made a nice statement about permanence or something like that. I was young. :-)
Might have changed by now, but what they used to do was usually:

* Download a large file (e.g. XP SP3) from Microsofts servers to test bandwidth
* Download IP scanners and trying to run them (in order to find new hosts to attack)
* Download botnet code that connects to some C2 server

Tools they download were often downloaded as source, which they then tried to compile in order to run it.

Searching for e.g. 'youtube kippo' will get you videos of honeypot sessions.
Probably. In any case, cross that bridge when you get to a release that has one of those symbols in the changelog.
Our in-laws car has a screen that flips down to let you put a minidisc(!) in or replace the navigation DVD. That flip-down tray makes for a perfect phone stand.
And now they're likely working hard to figure out how to continue on next year. Marketing doesn't usually like numbering things beyond 10, and XS is extra small.
Just found this, not even recent but looks pretty good to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LtFrMAvQ4

Hook up the camera movement to a phone's gyroscope in real time, add a few post processing filter, 3D ambient audio and it'll be pretty close to what you describe.
If I set search to "Germany" in DDG the results are almost always what I want (to be fair, that's usually only shopping related).
It's explicitly forbidden in the (illegal) new law the Parliament of Catalonia is trying to impose.
You can use Chromium.
Just a disclaimer, this is one of the most far-right newspaper I've seen in a while.
I find it funny that engineers ( on HN ? ) put on their I'm-a-rigid-logic-thinking-only-engineer cap when it suits them, and their I'm-an-imaginative-open-eyed-creative-rebel cap when it suits them as well. Traits of the first cap include: can't think outside the exact parameters given them, can't 'fill in the blanks' or inference laterally, take words and numbers to be exact limiting things. Traits of the second cap are basically the opposite of these, we can fill in the blanks, and so on.

I don't notice people wearing both hats at the same time much.

Of course, the OP could be satire. When you can't tell the difference between satire and your platform, then ...

Incidentally, if we look sideways a bit the metaphor fits like: Google isn't just linearly bigger, it has nonlinear increases in advantages because of its size, clout, network effects, and so on. So the order of magnitude discrepancy is perhaps justified by attempting to account for these affects. Conversely, it could be suggesting that smaller disruptive and startups ought to spread their influence virally, parasitically, or through insect-like nimbleness and hatching-of-the-1000-eggs reproduction, instead of relying on slower, more "mammalian" reproduction to propagate their influence. Who knows? Hard to say which interpretation is correct, when words are ambiguous and one leaves it to the imagination. You can't even rely on Occam's razor to decide, since the shortest path between two thoughts differs depending on the mind. But maybe that's not a bad thing. Speech & language is nothing more than successful miscommunication. You can't police what you don't understand.
HN has a reputation among some[who?][weasel words] as a place where many commenters are some combination of pedantic, overly literal and out of touch with mainstream culture. Taking this metaphor to pieces would seem to check the first 2 boxes pretty neatly.
I think they mean the tendency to take a statement and apply maths or logic to show that it is incorrect (or less frequently, correct).

I regularly do this (to the frustration of those around me) and I think there is a strong correlation between enjoying hacker news and having this personality trait.
A traditional GNU/Linux distro can also be installed bare metal on it. It's a much better option for your privacy. This eliminate Google's data mining of the whole desktop experience and give you better customization options at the same time.
What's the point of contributing feedback to the manufacturer if I will never see the result of that feedback because updates cost an arm and a leg?
Relevant: The European Commission says that they respect the decisions of the Spanish constitutional court. Source: https://twitter.com/PrensaCE/status/908707446297948160 ( English with Spanish subtitles )
I guess they have legitimacy because they have the support of... half the catalonians?

That's more than any party in the national parliament :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253127
> What does this mean?

It means comments around here have a tendency to be overly pedantic and critical.
I've never found the bang functionality very useful. Perhaps because Chrome offers that out of the box in the URL bar.
The topics you mention are mostly arguments against physicalism, rather than being for something. There seems to be a lot more effort expended (on both sides of the physicalism-dualism divide) in trying to disprove the other side, rather than on explaining consciousness, though perhaps that's just what the general-interest coverage focuses on.
By Spanish law secession is a crime. We can argue if it should be a crime. I think it shouldn't.
Ah yes you're quite right! Apologies to all. I'd misread that, although I think my point still stands: I'd like to read about the story and not hear about politics in a foreign (to me) country.
That's not true. Catalonia had been a nation since before Spain. Catalan government is just trying to do a referendum to check if independence makes sense. Spanish gov is affraid of checking it because they know what can happen. On Spanish history there is a rule.. saying that Barcelona had to be attacked with bombs from time to time to have them quiet.
For some reason most people like bad user interfaces by default. They randomly decide on a layout and are immediately too proud to consider anything else.
Daily Caller is worse than a rag. I don't want to insult useful pieces of fabric.
Indeed, it’s quite concerning how little this is discussed or talked about in a lens that’s interesting to the average person.
The primary function of insurance companies is to make a profit and serve their investors. These are publicly traded companies and only care about making that dollar; in this case, they make money by denying people healthcare and business is booming. Aetna for example has seen a 400% jump in their stock prices in the last 5 years.[1]

You really do sound like you work for the insurance industry, claiming their functions are necessary (even though every other country manages without them). Also, government run healthcare is bad because they are going to shoot people (or threaten to) and put them in jail for not paying their medical bills? Come on.. are you serious?

>>Personally, I feel that the government's tactic of taking someone's freedom for refusal to participate is much worse than refusing coverage, which is what the private companies do.

Oh fuck right the fuck off. The government does not throw people in jail for not having health insurance or if they can not afford it. Refusing/denying coverage KILLS PEOPLE. You sound like someone who's got it made (so screw everyone else right?), and doesn't give 2 shits about anyone but themselves.

[1]http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=AET