skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google started out with "objective" results, but now shows "subjective" results and I think the argument here is how much that is highlighted to the user.

People parse, trust and communicate with supposedly objective sources differently from supposedly subjective ones (e.g. the BBC v Breitbart) and dislike when the latter is presented like the former.

(You can change location on the bottom of the desktop page, and you may be able to unset some other targetting settings, but these are buried somewhere and not clear to the average user. Changes in T&C's also seems like a constantly moving target)
Replacing 32-bit loop counter with 64-bit introduces performance deviations
Proof that you may have Einstein's brain but that doesn't make you quite as smart.
"Educating" users is not as profitable as serving users.

Also, a system that adapts to its users is generally more successful than a system that requires users to adapt to it.

Moreover, proper education across the whole population requires, well, a country with proper education across the whole population. So you might have luck in some Scandinavian countries, but not at global scale.
The barrier of entry to pharmaceutical sales is a bit higher than electronics.
And instead follow rules set by investors or corporate vested interests.
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In terms of an open source projects, they do have more than a fair share of big companies that seem to take an interest:

SQLite is developed and maintained by the SQLite Consortium, who's members include Mozilla, Adobe, Oracle and Adobe. The embedded SQL database is used in a number of well-known applications, such as Adobe's Lightroom, Apple's Mac OS X operating system and Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/SQLite-3-7-0-adds-Wri...

And since the link above is fairly old, I suspect since then the list of big companies supporting the project has probably grown.
You are just thinking too much!
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Twitter to double tweet limit to 280 characters for all users
And maybe write test code for "all" possible combinations of settings.
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Discourse is a Rails forum with a JS frontend. It's bloated. I don't disagree with your PHP experiences, you're extrapolating from:

1) your personal experience

2) mature software vs immature software

3) bad software vs good software

You can't say you're "not interested" in understanding the other side, throw out your own anecdotal benchmarks, draw conclusions from that, and then demand that others provide "non-synthetic" benchmarks in order to prove you wrong. Well, you can, but it doesn't seem especially objective.
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Hello,

after having a quick look it's easy to understand what your page is about. The design is pleasant, clean and supports readability.

I'd have a few questions or comments, if I may:
1) What's the reason for starting the flow by "request an invite"? Is this a closed community? Are there only some people or businesses allowed to use your service? Or did you mean something like "start cooperation" instead?

2) It's in your FAQ, but to make the service more trustworthy, shed more light on your writers. Even if this is just a start-up and you are the only-one writing blogs, I'd say that including your profile. There are several services like this and writers are the key selling point which makes the difference.

3) Also, my suggestion would be to limit the scope of blogs (perhaps you want to do some testing on this suggestion). Your blogging business looks small. And I don't believe you can blog well about science, IT, cooking and gardening at the same time. Try to be best in limited domain and then scale it from there.

If you want feedback from more people, you can try https://usability.testing.exchange (disclaimer: I am associated with it).
Firefox just broke the bulk of their extensions, and I'm sitting and praying the APIs needed for non-broken gestures get implemented...

I'm not being treated as a pawn, but it's still pretty rough.
It only makes sense if an email is "unstyled". Thunderbird manages to fuck up my email layout all the time if I need to add a few lines of preformated text, occasional bullet list or some highlighting. If I try to write plaintext-only emails it fucks up RE: and FWD: emails for most normal people. If I use "rich" text emails with standard settings email client will do everything to fuck them up and while it will look ok on my screen it will end up with some smart-ass who uses plaintext-only client whining about me writing shitty formated emails.

So, I don't know if using this plugin will feel helpful (I doubt it, since second most used formatting option for me is text-highlighting with color — indispensable when marking up some airline fare construction quote or something else cryptic enough, — which markdown doesn't really support), but the problem it tries to solve definitely exists.
It is so obvious that it's just a misleading title.

They are not asking to send them your (new) nude photos.
They are trying to say that if a person has some old nude photos AND they think they are leaked online, they could send copies to aid in searching who is sharing them.
Right. I never used any other features than the original twitter features (read a firehose of chronological tweets and reply/post from time to time). I did notice that when they introduced the "Poll" feature, it's not in the API though. Third party clients just show the question but not the alternatives (Makes you look kind of dumb replying in text to the question too which is annoying).
To those who downvoted FRex's comment:

Do you care to elaborate? I don't see anything wrong with it.

(And it's definitely more insightful than the slightly older sibling comment, which apparently has not been downvoted.)
Sure. But we still have to deal with the shitty results.
I'd prefer to learn the language to read it in the original form, but it's vice versa, people learn the language from translations of Homer.

I wonder how much comparative analysis has gained or will from AI. Given a suitable model to start with, a huge probability tree of ontologies could be handled to reconstruct common ancestors in proto-languages. There were people here reporting interest in machine translation of some 30000 Sumerian clay-tablets, the other day.

The pairing with semantic inference would be interesting, too, or the inverse, alike to deep dream generating adversarial reinforcement in pictures, extracting the principal components of a language to infer stages of it's development, like a sequenced Word Net. There might be some surprises in the ambiguity of metaphors.Especially in long living or quickly developing languages folk etymologies must be common, especially given religion, so a naive machine approach might even help next to manual translation (human in the loop ai).
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> rip humanity

Why? People like looking at naked people. Lots of people like other people looking at naked them. I'm pretty sure this is how it's been for several thousands of years...
While interesting, is this really necessary? Call me skeptical, but value add = negligible, justification for an entire department to spend several months+ working = likely.

I can see why companies like Apple and Microsoft would want to be involved in making fonts, they make their bread and butter by creating warm-fuzzies and having a consistent design language; IBM though, less so?

Genuinely interested to hear others thoughts.
> "Educating" users is not as profitable as serving users.

Manipulating "uneducated" users is much more profitable.
Is depersonalized social media, such as this site, any different? I think media aggregation is of course a hugely valuable resource. But what ratio of our time do we spend discussing things versus learning new things. And how much of the discussion is at all productive?

I wonder about the time and physiological consequences. In particular the behavior of rapidly clicking back to these sites checking to see if anything interesting has popped up or if you have any discussions ongoing - I can't really see that as something that's particularly great for our longterm healthfulness. It's likely not just a correlation that the average human attention span has fallen by 33% just since 2000. We now have a lower attention span than goldfish. [1]

My justification is I've certainly changed my views on numerous things thanks to these interactions, and I've also even managed to convince a few people to change their views on various things. And that, on a high enough level, is how society evolves. But on the other hand the literally exact same justification can be used to argue that water cooler gossip is a socially productive behavior.

[1] - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/humans-have-sh...
A paper about eye damage in astronauts got pulled for “security concerns.” Huh?
Dyson working on electric cars, and Tesla knew two yrs early
Maybe someone fat-fingered it?
I still remember adding a kind of splash/waiting screen to one email application because The Most Important Feature was executing too fast and users wouldn't feel that it really works. Sometimes latency is caused only by management.
This area has a lot more to uncover. I visited Pylos two years ago and there are excavations in numerous sites around it. Can't wait to see what is next.
Only if you own the car. If you are using uber you cannot choose the route...
India successfully tests its first nuclear-capable cruise missile
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Effective Learning: Set of techniques which will dominate AI in near future
Then please, show me a performant NodeJS webapp that works with noscript and slow dialup.

There is not much personal experience about that since it's a simple on/off comparison. Either it works without scripts on dialup or it doesn't.
That's not how I read it:

> asked any Australian who fears that intimate images of themselves may be online to send a nude photo of themselves via Messenger.

So yes, they are asking you to send your nude pictures. Whether new or not it is not the question.
I've found top-posting the type of email fixes this, no failures yet:

Please see my responses inline

> can we make the page do this

yes np

> Does the flux capacitor have enough jiggawatts to make this work?

It does if we don't add anything new

> etc
I love that sales projection that demonstrates some people are unaware that there are potential uptake numbers lower than 1% :D.

> "Even if only 1% of people buy them we'll still profit!"
It took a couple of seconds for the letters to stop jumping around and changing weights for me.
Sure, but money talks louder.
Good question. I graduated college and desperately wanted to work on renewable energy research. After scads of rejections I quit ignoring the expressions of interest in my programming abilities.

I still wish I were doing something that actually bettered the world, but I have bills to pay.

Then again, maybe ensuring people graduate in debt is a great way to ensure we as a society do what folks with cash want us to instead of what we feel we ought to be doing.
On the smaller side, Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/

On the larger side, Facebook. You might not think of Facebook as an alternative, but they're in direct competition.
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Haha, yeah it doesn't sound great. It's hard though with these things. Ideally you need to see a snippet of the sort of it to judge yourself.
I believe links don’t directly count towards the character limit anymore, along with any mentions.

I might be wrong but I believe for a time (maybe still?) only the automatically shortened URL length (t.co URLs) counts
I think it’s more like the design equivalent of open source software. It’s meant for internal use but then “open sourced”, there may be a trend, I’m not sure.

https://atlassian.design
So parent's logic, as I was expecting, doesn't necessarily apply. We just started wanting more from our cars, we didn't necessarily make them cheaper. There are very cheap cars but most would consider them death-traps...

I imagine a self-driving car packs a ton of servers, I'm not sure it can be cheaper than your average mid-range car...
The extension API change has been widely available information for ages now, with a significant migration period. If an extension developer chooses to not update their extensions, that's their choice.
In Europe, it would be very rare for someone to drive for that long. They would take a train or plane.

Anyway, indeed self-driving cars can be disruptive for long-distance travel, also in Europe.

Suppose you are traveling between two small towns that are hundreds or thousands of km apart. I think the most reasonable model would be self-driving car from town A to nearest high-speed rail station, high-speed rail to station close to town B, and then self-driving car to town B.

Rail companies could sell the ticket for the whole thing, and owning a car for long-distance travel would make no sense.
Could have sworn i have seen a version of Noscript that worked with Firefox on Android.
They discovered a cave nearby that was used more than 5000 years ago. The cave entrance collapsed 5000 ago and was discovered just recently. An undisturbed view of prehistoric life from some much time ago.
How to lie with graphs. It looks like a majority of the tweets hit the limit, yet the text clearly states only 9% of English tweets hit the limit. If you'd zoom out, it simply wouldn't look like a problem (which I don't think it is).
Is there any way to get my upvotes as RSS feed or as API call?
I would love to stash my upvotes on https://pinboard.in via https://ifttt.com

This is the url I'm talking about (change the id to your username): https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fmoronzirfas
cpus are faster but they also have the nsa inside of them.

there was a point where mhz stop making a computer faster, it was multitasking I recon. at 100mhz as DOS application/game was blazingly fast. but also nothing was bound to the network, it would just spin a cdrom to get the information, and at 150kb that was faster than most internet connections.
No need to rush it. Companies developing the tech might say it’s important to have it now but mostly because they need money now to survive. And they dont have any product to make the business real. So, they sell the hype, I would not pay attention to that. Maybe do a reality check every 5 years instead of jumping up at every ‘breakthrough’ news from the ceos.
I certainly would be pissed finding out that my city officials effectively donated billion to a private company.
How can we trust you not to sell apps that hurt people? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Note that you're using the word 'addiction'. Many would argue that is hurting in and of itself - regardless of what one would be addicted to.

And that last paragraph is absolutely haunting. We need companies controlling our minds because our brainstem isn't evolved enough??

I hope you get sued into the ground. It's time to start holding people accountable for their effect on our peoples brains.
Reading that Rosenberg piece it is incredible how much power Google has amassed, to see that they believe that it is crucial to get in their reviews 'early' in order to capture the audience from Google through increased pagerank.

That's a pretty sad testimony to what the web has become, a race to be the first with 'original' content (never mind that 30 other outlets will have the same content within a 24 hour period) in order to sustain a very important plank in the fabric of society: the free press.
No, it had more than one downvote when I upvoted it, i.e. stayed grey after upvote. Moreover, I just saw it being black, then grey, then black. So it still receives a mix of downvotes and upvotes. Very strange.
> Instagram

> I paid them for the app. Then they sold the app to Facebook. Now I see targeted ads and promoted posts.

Was Instagram really a paid app at some point? Couldn't find any references to this.
I must admit, it is a nice font!
Too much focus is on the tech in this thread, I personally read it as outlining an approach similar to Bret Victor's[0]. React or whatever is a mere implementation detail.

[0]: http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
Wow such a wonderful article. Very few people are aware of these recent trends in the AI community (apart from researchers ofc). Must read if you want to catch up on latest trends with some insight into upcoming trends of where the community moves towards
And apparently "if you can't explain the artifact, it was there for ritual reasons" :)
This is a true statement, but how is this relevant?

What do localized search results have to do with manipulating uneducated users?
IBM's last corporate typeface was a slightly modified version of Helvetica, which wasn't particularly distinctive and didn't see much adoption internally.

Plex was introduced a few weeks ago internally with considerable uptake. Intranet articles and corporate comms look much nicer now :P

IBM also produced the Carbon Design System which influences most of their product offerings (most notably on IBM Cloud/Bluemix) http://carbondesignsystem.com/
Bugs me to see this glossary posted as an article. Especially with the broken formatting and links. The article also won't get the updates as the github updates. Seems like a bad deal all around. I say this as one of the main contributors
I tried to upvote and it's still grey. There's obviously something wrong in the information, but those who know better aren't taking the time to impart that to us.
I kept reading thinking it must be more than a font, but nope. Just a font. A nice font.
The OP was talking about max capacity not real world capacity.

Some JR lines run at 4 minute headways during peak times and subways run reliably at 2 minute headways.

No freeway today has has 4 passenger cars running at 1 second headways so you end up with a more realistic 1000 to 2000 pax per hour. Which is about the number of pax you can fit in a single train.

A 3 lane freeway takes up about the same amount of space e as 4 sets of train tracks. And the areas that have heavy congestion are also typically the areas that have little space to spare for more lanes.

The road toll from Osaka to Kyoto is $20. A local train costs about $5, a slightly faster JR train is $12. The toll from Nagoya to Fukuoka is $160 and the drive takes 9 hours. I paid about $165 for a Shinkansen bullet train that took about 3.5 hours. And the toll prices ignore the cost of the car
> Of course Google serves different results to different users (…)

And still, you can peek at the "not personalized" and "not local" results with `Tools > Verbatim` (as opposed to default `All results`) option:

https://www.google.com/search?q=takeaway+pizza&source=lnt&tb...
I am not concerned with the replacement costs -- it's just where I live, getting the battery replacement will likely mean that I have to ship it to another city(Athens), or, maybe, find some place in a different city in the island (Crete) who may be able to do it. Its a hassle and an inconvenience for me.

What is odd is that is seems to be related to rendering; sometimes when I scroll on either direction on Tweetbot or on Safari, the iPhone will stall for maybe 500ms and the battery will drop by 20% or so instantly. Other times, I will app-switch to Slack and it will do the same. Reading content in black background/white text on the other hand, doesn't seem to be draining the battery. So I think its safe to assume this is an upgrade related problem. Also, I have disabled spotlight indexing and pretty much everything else I could, and it's also been quite some time since the upgrade for any upgrade tasks to be running to completion still.
You can't trust people to make that decision themselves. If you keep an app close because of the skinner-esque variable reward ratio I'd argue that's not a conscious choice.
Does this storage engine onpar with influxdb ?
Heh, yes - they are basically the heir to Outlook, which ironically does play well with plaintext email nowadays...
Pretty sure OP gets the idea of personalization. Google's personalization is like piling up chairs in order to reach the moon. It's nowhere near its promise of reading the user's mind and helping him. Instead its present implementation simply stops your world view from expanding in any direction, by serving you the same stuff that you knew over and over again.

This is not personalization. This is a child's imitation of it. An unpersonalized search engine is much better than this thing that simply hides any interesting content from you in favor of showing you something related to your previous search or to whatever nonsense your neighbors look up. Once upon a time, the internet allowed you to escape your geography. No longer.

I'd much rather type "takeaway pizza chicago" than have google mind-read where I want the pizza delivered. Search is not always about looking up something already connected to you. It used to be about unfettered exploration.
It was highly targeted to a small group of people: swing voters. I didn't use the word demographic.

That those swing voters themselves are a mixed bunch is not relevant, all that expense went to influence just a very small fraction of the state population.
If Google's spam filters block an IP or subnet that happens to be where you host your self-hosted mail server, it will be almost impossible for your mail server reputation to ever recover. Your emails to gmail users (a vast percentage of all email users in many places) will never be delivered and maintaining your own mail server will become a nightmare.

Google has very good spam filtering, but their lack of human controls or support make it impossible for the little guy to get resolution in many cases where a spam score may be undeserved.
As long as the users on the platform are not trivial to each other this should not alter the comparability of those platforms to Twitter. UX wise.
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My favorite thing in this release is that shift+tab works in the terminal now.
I know this may sound quite weird, but I'm actually wondering what the benefits could be from consuming neovim api from emacs.

Maybe this could lead to something like having a better modal editor than what evil is already providing (and doing a great job at it), with emacs' benefits like orgmod and magit?

What are my fellow hners thinking on that?
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Airports comission their own fonts and so do cities, car manufacturers and banks. Typically they are proprietary and might even have an exclusive license because they are considered to be part of the corporate identity.
> How do they know if someone was going to tweet a longer sentence

Analytics
I once debugged an issue in another process on Windows that would only appear when Chrome was not running.

Not sure if Chrome still always does it, but back then it was because Chrome changed timer tick frequency to presumably 1 ms by calling timeBeginPeriod (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd7...).

On Windows, this affects whole system timer resolution and caused problematic timing code in the other process to function correctly.

Funny enough, earlier workaround was to only run this piece of software with a Chrome window open.
What's the license? Is this purely an internal IBM font?