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> You use Google for very specific niche queries where you already know enough about the topic to judge the veracity and usefulness of the results. <...> The article is talking about people using Google for news and contested political topics.

Yes indeed. Could it be that search engines are in principle ill suited for searching for news and contested political topics, especially if one has no way of judging whether a particular result is correct or not? Or, more generally, that searching without knowing how then to verify the quality of the results is a pretty silly undertaking?

In other words, shouldn't all responsibility be on the user of a search engine, and not on the search engine itself?
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And different jobs have different needs.

For me an open office is often ok, but for best results when I'm doing deep architectural and or complex development work, then peace quiet and many hours without interruption let me enter and maintain my zone of peak focus and concentration and achieve 200%+ results at that kind of work.
I was thinking about the same, but then realized I'm doing the same. I have watched some comedy clips on YouTube over and over (think Fast Show, Monty Python) and still enjoy them even though I know exactly what to expect.
So would I, but that actually makes me realize that I should be doing more of what netflix is doing too and ensure I can randomly restart servers without affecting service.
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> Can I install Debian on it and have stuff working?

Depends on the kind of Mac you buy. I can only comment on their mobile offerings:

- Best supported are the current MacBook Airs. Everything except the Webcam should work out-of-the-box. The webcam needs the out-of-tree bcwc_pcie driver (https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie)).

- The Retina MacBooks need some manual work before being usable (e.g. need to compile out-of-tree keyboard & touchpad driver (https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver)), but should work fine as well.

- The MacBook Pros before October 2016 are also quite good supported, the support for newer ones is still quite incomplete (check out https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux for details), although it's possible to use them as daily driver if you're aware of the limitations.
Where "begin" is optional and you can replace both with brackets {}.
I see no mention of push notifications as a sort of alternative. Technologically, the polling of RSS feeds to check for new content is a bit wasteful. What I'd like to see is a setup that uses push notifications to gather new content or maybe even a combination, where the push notification tells the RSS reader to grab the new content.

Another interesting fact about RSS is, that it's the main distribution solution for podcasts.
> Not for me, not at all.

At the risk of being presumptious, I would classify searches into broadly two categories:

1) Finding good providers/discussion places regarding something you need, say news, goods, experiences etc

2) Finding more info about a specific piece of content/goods . Eg: Product reviews, solutions to some technical doubts etc

For most people I know, 1) is pretty much sorted. They have a list of places they check for clothes, groceries, jobs etc. News is read from specific websites/apps. Reddit/HN/Fb/Twitter provide most the social interaction and discovery aspects.

2) is where I see Google providing much more value. But the way things are proceeding, most of the top links relevant to a google search are generally from aggregators themselves. Amazon for most ecommerce, Tripadvisor for travel, Stackoverflow for tech, Practo (in India) for doctors etc.

Let's assume Stackoverflow introduces points for using (and help 'improving') their own search. Most people will open stackoverflow first before searching on google. Amazon has already achieved this level for most things related to e-comm (specially less expensive products).

There will still be a market for Google ofcourse, but it will be a much smaller chunk than currently being predicted.

I actually stumbled across this line of reasoning when somebody asked me if its a good idea for individual service providers (docs/merchants etc) to open their own websites. For 99% of them it isn't.

Ofcourse, any counter comments are welcome!
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If you are considering hotdesking you don’t care about developer productivity.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/07/a-field-guide-to-d...
I don't mind the stubs, since they usually give me enough to know whether or not I want to read the whole article. For most sites that serve stubs, I only want to read a handful of what they publish.
Sure, if many of your competitors aren’t already doing that.
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I've noticed this as well - I find I have to quote words more often to force the search in the right direction.
This discussion would be improved with pricing data. Newsblur is free, although I'm one of the 6034 premium paid users.

Newsblur never fails me, kinda impressive how well it works.
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> One of the strengths that's getting overlooked here is that crowd-sourced news seems to be more reliable than news from any one source.

That was true before people learned how to game the system.
It's likely an internal microphone and speaker; the sound card may not support input through that interface. What you're saying can be true for many other modern computers, though.
I can’t recall the pod ever talking about gambling lines, or fantasy value.

Not to say listeners don’t use the info for those purposes, but it’s not a value proposition they even hint at IMO.
I should report my null result, however it's completely boring, uninteresting. I always find what I look for pretty fast.
Say that your opinion is correct, and every web developer agrees with it. What could web developers do about it? The gaps you are talking about in vanilla JS does exist, so until they're plugged, web devs would still prefer to use these frameworks until the standard bodies and browser vendors make a better alternative.

Web Components might be the solution, but it's not exactly ready yet: https://caniuse.com/#search=components
Even putting politics & world events aside, Google Search doesn't seem to get better.

For me the biggest disappointment is when they turned off the ability to search for "an exact match within quotes", as well as the ability to use +plus and -minus to refine results. (EDIT: could be wrong about that, I thought it was disabled at some point)

But the most dumbfounding is the fact that you still get several year old results whenever you search for a bug, hardware/driver issue, or even simple programming questions related to a not too old framework or API. Every time I have to go into the advanced options to restrict the results to one year, or one month.. you'd think they would make recent activity the default and then let the user know they can "search older results".
I never understood why Apple made a podcast app, there were several really good ones in the store already matching a number of different tastes. Creating their own took away from the overall environment rather than adding to it.
That would undermine their revenue model. Youtube isn't intended to be a walled garden for children, it's intended to be a viral social platform that targets consumers with advertising (or offers to upgrade to the paid tier) through the lure of content discovery.

I find it difficult to believe Google never knew these videos existed, since they appear to be an entire industry based on copyright infringement and gaming their algorithms, one would expect Google to want to kill them with fire. That they are allowed to proliferate can only mean they serve Google's interest for the site - they drive clicks and views.

Whatever other motives there may be for them (personally, I think they're nothing more sinister than monetizing clickbait) I think it's important to remember that Youtube is a business driven by clickbait, and the design of the site reinforces this everywhere it can.
> that the issue is relatively minor. It says that the fraction of videos on YouTube Kids that were missed by its algorithmic filters and then flagged by users during the last 30 days amounted to just 0.005 percent of videos on the service

Any parent will tell you that you can read your child 199 good stories and 1 bad/scary one, and it's that 1 bad one that gives them recurrent nightmares.
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I was kinda worried about RSS "dying" due to google. Before google reader died I had about 140 feeds in my newsblur, right now in my newsblur tab I have 134. I'm not thinking google reader dying impacted the RSS ecosystem very much although there was a very small measurable effect.
> That is a really weak argument. It’s a strawman. Your ability to see stairs from a distance has no bearing on their usability or functionality.

Really. If I don't even realize they're there, they don't seem to be successful as something that is supposed to take me upstairs.

> Your beef seems to be Apple’s apparent arrogance at removing ~4% of battery (realistically closer to 2% when covering and fixings are accounted for)

Really, 2%. My MacBook Air lasted at least 3 hours more than my MacBook Pro. _At least_.

> and moving forward with newer connectivity options like headphone jacks (which when looking at how compact the internals of the iPhone X are, make more sense) and older USB ports.

Who cares about the internals of the iPhone X? I have headphones and I want to use them. The internal of the iPhone X should serve me, not some other goal (thinness, I guess? I have no idea).

> I remember when they dropped ADB and parallel/SCSI in favour of USB. I remember buying an iMac without a floppy drive. Apple have always done this. And even when at their lowest, the pack have generally followed. Ask yourself why when you’re next saving a file in Dropbox...

I bought the MacBook Air when people complained about no CD drive. It happened 0 times that I needed to use a CD and didn't know where to put it. With USB-C _only_ (if you noticed, I didn't say they shouldn've put 1 or 2 USB-C ports, just that it's completely retarded to have USB-C only) it's a _daily_ annoyance to not be able to connect my stuff without a dongle--which I often don't have at hand. No gain, and just hassle. That's the difference between the "old" Apple and the "new" Apple. They just have no idea what the hell they're doing anymore, and have a history of being right which makes them arrogant that they're right today.

All your arguments seem silly to me, but I care very little if people keep spending 2-3 times as much as they should for phones and computers, as long as it's not me. I ditched the iPhone for a Moto G5 that I bought for $285 and it works great in both hardware and software (the software is better than iOS actually IMHO), and a Surface Book which has both good design and it's functional.
RSS has that already, exactly that. It is enabled by Pubsubhubbub (PuSH), an (older?) alternative (used by Wordpress) is rsscloud.
After the end of google reader I transitioned to digg reader and I'm very happy with it. It's clean and minimalist.
I compared this to "!g Django", and you get the entire first page is nothing but Django software. This is using a private browsing session.
You have to read this as a lawyer would. Let me show you: We store the photo hash - not the photo. This says nothing about whether other parties we pass the data onto or through store the photo. Remember when prism was leaked and some tech companies said 'we do not give our data to the nsa'. give. (Of course we provided them with a backdoor login.)
Really? Naively, I was still continuing to put my "queries in quotes" and using + and - to refine my search.

When did it stopped being supported?
Newsblur (a web-based RSS reader) added a newsletter feature a while back that's pretty useful if you want to mix RSS & newsletters in the same place. Set up an email rule to automatically forward your newsletters to a custom address and Newsblur will show them as if they're another site you've subscribed to via RSS.

I'm not a big fan of newsletters myself, but it's nice to be able to include those few sites that only offer newsletters in my regular news reading workflow.
And covering games after they happen really doesn't help at all for fantasy. I just think the top comment is making assumptions without understanding the landscape.
The PBS kids website/app is also a good option. The kids can only watch a limited range of PBS shoes that are child friendly (everything from Sesame Street to SciGirls).
>none of the "encryption" done at scale at any Fortune 500 company in the US is more than a speed bump for attackers.

So why Fortune 500 companies only? I am just trying to understand what this has to do with the scale of a company.
I love Google Reader as well, but switched quite seamlessly to Feedly. What's your problem with Feedly? I assume it's something about the aesthetic design of it, because it's very much the same as Google Reader.
> Switching to a Surface because you want long term quality is kind of hilarious tbh.

Perhaps, but I never said that. Where did you get that from?
I use XMPP for this purpose: https://github.com/majewsky/xmpp-bridge

Service units then look like this: https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/master... (the "with-xmpp-bridge" helper script is near the top of the same file)

The advantage of XMPP is that it can interactively ask me for confirmation, e.g. when installing upgrades, and that an XMPP server like Prosody is vastly simpler to set up than a mail server.
Pretty reasonable, especially if he ate organ meats too. After all, human body is meat.

Of course he would have to forgo cooking or heart treatment for some parts to prevent nutrient loss.
The girl in the spandex on the landing page is mesmerizing.
I was going to comment that what's going on here doesn't have much to do with the Gaussian distribution. In high dimensions, almost all of the volume of the unit ball is concentrated near the unit sphere. In the first comment, Frank Morgan makes the same remark, pointing out that you get the same effect with the uniform distribution on the unit cube in high dimensions.

High dimensions are weird.
Implicit function types in the next version of Scala look very interesting.

The main example in the presentation compares Kleisli functors to impure imperative code, and then gradually transforms the imperative code to Kleisli equivalent using implicit function types without changing the body of the imperative code -- that was pretty cool.

I don't know if Scala 3 will be a game changer wrt to language adoption, but it's certainly going to deliver a lot of compelling new features/enhancements [1]

Based on the 6 week rolling release schedule a stable release should land presumably no later than this summer? That seems wildly optimistic but they released 0.4 last month...

[1] http://dotty.epfl.ch/#so-features
Yeah, exactly. Saudi Arabia is one of the worst offenders on human rights [1] and a leading state sponsor of terrorism [2]. Yet, somehow this ploy for the prince to assert power and attack his enemies is not questioned, and the propaganda that is given is taken at face value. This is outrageous that they are considered an ally. We must really question ourselves, if they are an ally. Here's an interesting article regarding Saudi Arabia trying to destabilize Lebanon with the forced resignation of Hariri [3].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Saud...

3: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lebanon-prime-minister-s...
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I think the polynomial is supposed to have only integer coefficients, which means that it will only take integer values at integer coordinates. Since real-valued coefficients need some rational approximation anyway, and rational coefficients can be rescaled, that assumption is easy to justify. (Alternatively, the coefficients might be in some finite field, but then the range is discrete as well.)
It's still possible to monitor that traffic, especially at the corporate firewall level, or use a Raspberry Pi, or use an old, pre-ME computer.

Until there is evidence, this is technically just a government conspiracy theory.
Not true. In the US, power was given, and then slowly taken as we grew more Federalized. Then a big jump with Lincoln’s grabs during the Civil War, and a long period of incremental creep since then.
$19 a year? Must be a joke.
It is interesting, because does not match to my experience. Can you give an example of your search query that does not work well enough on DDG?
Well, dying is natural too. Saying that something is natural doesn't make it desirable.
It still can lift the bar out of reach of what is worth risking. Someone not rich could try to bootstrap something and work more than 40h/week etc., but at a much higher cost in quality of life on top of the lower probability of success.
There could be something better if someone wrote a completely new format with very strict requirements. Try implementing a RSS reader that can reliably keep track of which items/articles are new, which are old but changed, which are unchanged, etc.

There is enough wiggle room in both RSS and Atom specifications to make you go crazy with all the crappy half-baked feed generators out there, which unfortunately still do not run afoul of the specs, despite pulling all kinds of inconsistent crap.

I don't care if it's json, xml or something completely different, as long as the specs are tight and strict.
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This is a dupe to the already full fledged discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670423
Same here. I follow HN FROM Feedly so I can minimize the risk of missing any post.
I regularly find stuff on Netflix that is only subtitled in a language not spoken in the movie. It's very frustrating. Combined with Netflix's increasingly shitty catalog and I'm sure I should cancel.
You can change the `std::result_of_t<...>` for `typename std::result_of<...>::type` to make it work in C++11 :)
Whoopsie, the error messages are still a bit rough but it looks like the recaptcha wasn't clicked? I've improved the errors on the frontend so should give you a nicer error message if it isn't now! Lmk if that doesn't fix the problem.
Past 8-9 months I have been feeling the same thing. Don't know if they changed processes or hired more noobs. But that's how it feels. I don't know how much time I have wasted thinking there was something wrong with my code to finally find one breaking change after another in Firefox.
From March-April onwards I have stopped using Firefox as my default unit/perf test and regression setup. Which is tragic because it was solid and dependable upto that point.
I actually favor a classical Western core curriculum in the US. But I don't really see simplified cursive handwriting as a particularly important part of that relative to the amount of time and effort it takes.
Arms are a part of our Constitutional rights, encryption is not. If guns were not in our Constitution things would be worse.
It really makes you think when we're slowly shifting towards a future where NN and CP producers aren't adults anymore, but the children themselves. I think they need earlier and better sexual education to fully understand the consequences of their actions. Not only that, but also in regards to social media before they receive free access to computers that are connected with the Internet.
I agree. No one has ever observed ME sending unexpected traffic. (Feel free, anyone, to point to a counter example.)
How long will it be before "nudes" are so normalized that people post them to their own profile? 10 years? 20 years? 100 years?

If you doubt this will ever happen, look up some images of "1920s beachwear" and ask yourself where the trend is going.
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Whatever works, as much and as fast as you can afford.
The kdb disk game is more about serial transfer rates and quantity.
Oh, that's cool. Thanks for sharing.

Full disclosure: I've been working on some similar ideas for a while. I'll be presenting a high-level pitch for the general concept at the USENIX Enigma conference in January [1]. Also hoping to have a full paper to share on https://eprint.iacr.org/ sometime later this month.

> But we're never going to get to discuss those kinds of scoping and cost-benefit tradeoffs if we don't engage in the process of shaping legislation in an open and honest way.

Agreed. And I'll actually take it one step farther. I think it might make sense for tech companies to adopt a very conservative version of this approach even without a government mandate.

Then the next time the DOJ rolls around to demand somebody turn over their private key (a la Lavabit), or to demand that somebody create a custom OS for them (Apple), we can say "No, we already gave you a way in, just pay the million dollars. Now bugger off and leave me alone."

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2018/
By that logic, kids have been taught that adults are out to kidnap, kill, and otherwise cause mayhem and the only way to stop them is fearless children, preferably one that talks to animals.
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I did some work for McLaren a few years ago, it struck me at the time that the building was really a reflection of their own culture. I think it would have been impossible for them not to apply the attention to detail in that building that they did.
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Hi, thanks for the feedback. The first pipe is filtering for crypto currency articles on HN, right now there seems to be none with those exact keywords, I'll add some more. The second is user-provided and probably dies because of the sub-pipe, I removed my upvote - now the second one is https://www.pipes.digital/pipe/kGqKVPOx, which works fine.

In general I tried to keep backwards compatiblity as much as possible, I'm only aware of one single breaking change (filter via regexpression, which was not possible for long before the syntax changed and should not have affected many pipes).
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This site calculates the top 250 games on Steam (http://steam250.com), as rated by the players. It pulls all its data live from Steam and updates daily.

The site is interesting because it's completely open source (https://github.com/250) and costs nothing to run. You can copy it and run your own top list site with nothing but a free GitHub (http://github.com) and Travis (https://travis-ci.org) account! GitHub stores the code and hosts the site and Travis builds the database and generates the page every day.

A typical Travis build (https://travis-ci.org/250/Steam-importer/builds/300494312) takes about 2 hours, representing about 9 hours of total compute time. The overall time is reduced using parallelization and Travis's new "build stages" job pipeline. The data import is chunked up into 15 separate pieces during the parallel stage and then stitched back together into a single database at the end so it can be queried normally during the static site generation stage.
I think the parent wanted to say baijiu is an acquired taste.
My bad. I could swear it was removed at some point but I can't find articles.

A quick test reveals maybe the change is that you can't do an exact "ascii" search, ie. google searches for an exact sequence of words, but the casing may be different , there-may-be-dashes and so on.