skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow.

> I made absolutely no mention of Israel at all.

I refer to the thread as a whole, not just comments to me.

You’re obsessed with a bad guy who did bad things that is irrelevant to the thread, so of course I don’t join your soirée into the irrelevant (my race? Really?).

You keep arguing about the messenger, not the message. Dispute the message with a contrary link, not an attack on the messenger. There is a term for this style of argument.
The end result is not the same. You know about the bug as well, whereas if the bug + exploit was sold to black hats, they can use it without your awareness.

This would be a less serious problem if vendors pushed out fixes faster.
OMG! Python 3 support was brought up 10 years ago (it is 2018 now depending on your timezone) in 2008 and comments were closed in 2012 for unknown reasons...

Tack this on as one of the reasons people don't trust google cloud...
The main non-gimmicky differentiators of the iPhone from Android are longer term support for software updates and more efficient software that achieves a longer battery life.

The reality is that both software and battery show their age and need to be updated in order to keep the device in a good shape, within the specs people paid for when they bought the device.

Apple does a great job with the software part but it could also do something about the battery,without much impact on their bottom line, as someone else said,the battery costs them just about $5.

This practice has to be pioneered by someone and considering their pricing and margins, I think Apple is in the best position to start doing it.
I wonder if there's research on synthetic Ivory
Thank you for sharing this amazing story!
The government decides naturally and typically the spending is on things like infrastructure or unemployment benefits. I'm not quite sure how you would game it in a practical way.
I can't respond to all of your points right now but I am interested in your comments about the blockchain. As a developer in the crypto space, I'm surprised that you're apparently not aware that reputation doesn't need to be tied to stake in order to exist. But even more surprising is that you're making an argument that people with money can abuse the reputation system, when the very reason that it is tied to stake is to make it prohibitively expensive to abuse that sort of thing. Decentralized tribunal systems are in the works (I designed one myself in 2011), to further make the network more resistant to such things.

Regarding your comment about blockchains and query load, you also seem to be unaware as a developer that blockchains are a source of truth, not a front-end. A user request does not cause a query to the blockchain. A network of server nodes can exist, with cached results. The servers themselves can have their own reputation system, or the entire front-end experience can be managed by a single centralized entity without compromising the use-case of decentralization. Specifically, if the owners of the front-end were to act in bad faith, it would be much, much less expensive for someone else to spin up another identical front-end (most likely open-source as there would be a lot of early criticism if it wasn't).

Regarding expenses and costs, solving that problem is part of the hard work. If I were building the system, I would probably not start out with the entire Internet being the scope. Perhaps as a proof of concept I'd start with Wikipedia only. I know for sure that paying for each search query is a non-starter, as that has a psychological effect of being punished for using the service, when you want it to feel rewarding instead.
OneWeb and SpaceX are both planning pizza-box sized antennae.
>Within a few days, I had applied to five companies online. I took a bit of time to craft a cover letter for each of them. Then I was waiting for all the inquiries to fill up my inbox."

>Nothing. Happened.

How long did you waited for them to get back to you and did you follow up until they answered "we are not interested in you"?

Silence does NOT mean "No". I see software engineers doing this mistake (in a job hunt) over and over and over again.
There's a pretty big difference between "average student loan debt" and "the cost of an education". The former doesn't include costs that were paid without going into debt, nor does it include debt that has been partially paid off after graduation.

Don't forget to factor in the opportunity cost of not working a full-time job for four years.
1. Get back under 200 lbs (~225 right now so should be doable with some diet and routine changes)...

2. Create a money generating side project.
Ask HN: Is it possible to change the employer before joining in Berlin?
I had a job offer from a company in Berlin which I accepted. I applied for the Category D visa and have got the entry permit (valid for 6 months). I am still here in Dubai and am supposed to join this company on 15th of January. Now I have got another offer from a company in Berlin which I want to accept.

My question is that if I accept this second offer and reject the previous one, can I use this residence permit to enter and join the second company?

Here is how the stamped visa looks like https://imgur.com/a/oTMvN
It doesn't work in practice. Governments just grow and grow endlessly borrowing and renegotiating debt w/o any intention to pay back.

The cronysm problem can be fixed to some extent by limiting terms for every public office, ending career politicians. But don't expect Congress or any parliament to vote for such a measure.
If you want to go with lamps or light as the source of entropy and still have a nice wall to show people, plasma globes are probably a better way of doing it.
Did two remote internships for software developers in Africa - each with about 1000 participants.
Indeed - do a search for anything Google determines to be non-commercial (like "retrovirus", "contract for difference" or "banana") and they simply hand you off to Wikipedia. It's Wikipedia, and not Google, who really own the show when it comes to collating the world's knowledge.
The 25th IOCCC is open
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There has been at last one attempt at some of that:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

I think it folded after a year.
>>Instead of just voting, get involved in political parties (I already do this I must admit), get out campainging and creating new support.

Does voting count as consumption? You aren't really consuming anything, but rather exercising a right. (OK, I guess you consume the physical ballots, but I have a feeling that wasn't your point.)

That said, getting more involved in political parties is definitely a commendable goal.
> Explain what ["123", "456", "789a", ...].map(parseInt) returns

I understand the frustrations with questions unrelated to the job you'll be performing, such as asking about balancing b-trees when you're applying to make frontend CRUD apps.

But trick questions bother me so much more. This one in particular is something you'll probably encounter if you do frontend development in a functional style for long enough, but it's still a trick question at heart.
Right. Sure, you could cache it. I will give you that. But you have to index the entire internet for it to be interesting to anyone. The first Google did that. It indexed most of the pages out there.

Why? Because the instant I search once, twice, three times and find nothing. I am abandoning the system.

Blockchain aside, it doesn't matter. Whatever system you build has to be 10x better than the current system. Nothing you have said, blockchain usage included, comes close to getting there.
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According to the Namcook Analysis all the IT world should switch to Excel since it is placed 13 places ahead of Smalltalk. And according to my personal experience Lisp is not that unproductive. And other business languages like OCaml are not even mentioned.

Rank 1/Asm 6/C 26/Lisp 65/Smalltalk 78/Excel
>Anti-Keynesians are still carrying his corpse around.

The thing I've seen more is Keyenes ideas got adopted by left wingers and used as a justification to expand government and then the anti-keynesians react against that. The actual Keyenes was quite capitalistic and his ideas are not incompatible with small govenment.
The story appeals to anyone who has played top trumps as a kid, or adult!
I don't think Google search will be beaten. I think the whole current concept of search by going to specific URL/app, seeing a list of search result will become obsolete. We are already seeing that with voice based UI where you want an answer not a list of pages. The second part will be that lot of stuff that you care about will be known by google/Alexa and will be readily available so no need of searching. This also is already happening with google launcher on android where things like news and score about my favourite teams, travel times to airport or workplaces being shown nearing the time of travel along with routes so I don't have to search for any of these. This can be further integrated with a cab being available just when you need to leave. All of these earlier would have involved some kind of searches.

iMho this will be the natural progression. So if you are creating a better google search please stop you will be out of business before you start. This is no longer about standalone search but a larger ecosystem around the information needs.
There's another story about Feynman, somewhat related to this issue. He had worked out the V-A structure of the weak force which had been an outstanding puzzle for some time. At some later point he was visiting CERN and they during the tour the guide said something along the lines of "Oh! Professor Feynman! This [huge experiment and expensive detector] is to test your theory of [such and such blah blah blah]."

Feynman smiled and said, "What, you don't trust me?"
>>> There are probably many that I haven't thought of. It may be possible that it is next to impossible to create both a better experience for the users, and create more revenue for the company at the same time.

Yes. Google cannot be beaten.

I don't think that any domain has more money to offer than advertising/marketing and certainly not easier. Then the real time auction and pricing systems that run Google are truly incredible.

Business wise, google is milking the perfect cow perfectly. There isn't a better cow or a better milking strategy.
I remember thinking "SearchMe" was a rather odd name at the time. But why, exactly? Search me.
Forget about Ethereum for a minute. In the case of Wikipedia, no single company can produce the amount of content that they have on Wikipedia, especially with that reasonable standard of quality. Why is that? Wikipedia has a decentralized culture where principles are the main driver of decisions that are made. Wikipedia's collective Administrators, Bureaucrats, and Stewards do not compose a top-down management structure. It was not easy to do, requiring strong community outreach, culture building, and hard work. It is unlikely to be repeatable in the same fashion given that most Internet users feel they can find what they need online (the innovator in me disagrees with that sentiment, and I am very much aware that my opinion is a minority).

Ethereum, in my mind, is merely a way to help automate, standardize, and enforce similar systems. If it can be achieved without any sort of blockchain, like in the case of Wikipedia, then great. But perhaps the barrier to doing so is just out of reach without the help of the technology. Yes, having a central authority decide who is credible is exactly bad for the Internet, and Ethereum is a possible means to facilitate alternatives. What other alternatives would there be?
Then how come big bang created so much energy from nothing?
Try to keep my add in check even more. Less smartphone use(that is a though one, I get crabby and irritated if I don't look at it every few minutes...). Try to draw every day for at least 30 minutes.
I switched to bing long time back and haven't felt any difference. They even copied google look and feel to great extend. I did it after google started showing more details in my search timeline than i wanted to see, with it's integration with gmail with which google started scanning my emails for ticket purchases, product orders etc and whenever i searched that product - it says you have purchased this product with order tracking number blah blah.

I am sure bing/msft also does everything they can to 'understand' me, but at least they don't see my browsing history or emails.

Now back to beating Google - I do believe it's possible, but Google will soon catchup with any potential competition. They will catchup because it's their bread and butter and they have perhaps the worlds biggest concentration of technical personnel. The best way to beat any product/company is to be considerably better than it in at least few areas, given the scale of web indexing, that is a very very tough job only few companies can pull through.

Microsoft has/had a good chance to beat Google, but Microsoft is considered a bigger evil/corporate than Google, so they have a slim chance to emotionally overcome Google, not to mention technical capability. But they can perhaps open source bing in an effort to beat Google, provided they have the will and moolah to do so. When I mention open source, it's not the code, but the underlying search index, exposed as an API, free of use for anyone/any product. That will dramatically shift the emotion as well as the usage towards bing. I even mentioned this during an internal bing meetup event (I am part of a bing beta testers group), but of course no one listens.

A startup can also try to beat Google in their wildest dreams if they can associate themselves with the younger crowd like snapchat did and the younger crowd somehow finds it hip/cool to not use Google and use that service instead, and provided they get a decent web search data/index from established competition like bing or they manage to index themselves. These are few of the possibilities.
- Complete my IT Diploma with Cum Laude. 5 Subjects left out of 30
- Lose 10kg
- Grow my side project which is currently making $1,000, to make at least $10,000.
No "New Year's Resolutions" exactly, but I have a couple of lists to try and whittle down. There's the generic "stuff to learn" list, a "stuff to build" (personal projects, experiments, random stuff I'm interested in, etc.) list, and then product specific TODO lists.

But the closest thing to a traditional "New Year's Resolution" would just be that I'm dedicating this phrase as my mantra for 2018:

"Ship It"

That's it.. just fucking SHIP stuff. 2017 was a good year in terms of getting a lot of stuff almost done, now 2018 is the year to actually ship stuff.
Likely not, with the incentives involved in pay-per-click advertising. Your pre-purchase online activity put you in a particular cohort, so Facebook sells "impressions by people in this cohort" to advertisers, who then talk about the cohorts they targeted in impressive-looking reports that convince mid-level executives that their advertising is effective and they should continue to pay the marketing department salaries.

The actual ground reality of "bought a one-off product and doesn't care about future purchasing of said products" doesn't matter. I saw ads pretty constantly for the coding bootcamp I had just graduated from. All that matters in these transactions is checking off the targeting boxes, which everyone involved is pretty eager to do because it makes their numbers look better.
Zoho is also good. For business users (custom domain), they have a 20 user free tier, which is really good for a startup/small company.
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... which I consider a fatal flaw.
Maybe as a plasma cloak for aircraft?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/plasma-air-control/
Show HN: MovingCollage – create video collages online
Yeah on context switch the SSE registers are stored in memory, so this doesn’t help for security.
My email is also in my profile. Here if you want to talk. Please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Also John McCarthy the inventor of Lisp should be mentioned. Since 50 years Lisp provides features which are still copied by modern languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
What happened to Blekko? If you don't mind about sharing the "different issue"!
Ask HN: How can I learn to cook for myself without making decisions?
I'm roughly halfway through university and try not to think too much about food to make more time for hacking. However, perhaps I should learn to consume food that isn't prepared for me and isn't Soylent at some point. I have absolutely no direction: no idea which ingredients I should buy, no idea which recipes I should make, no idea how I should make these decisions, and overall pretty much zero cooking experience.

I'm fully prepared cook algorithmically and fully deterministically if it can grant me the eating autonomy I'd like while keeping decision-making and time expenditure to a minimum.
Socialise more. Get a girlfriend. Commercialize a side project. Run the New York Marathon!
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to work for a company where people's responsiveness is measured in weeks. It means they are either unorganized, overworked, disrespectful or a combination.
I am pretty sure that showing repulsive models would drive sales down. So, stuck with showing okay looking models, at worst.
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American citizens are expensive, comparatively.
Why isn't Signal bigger? (currently living in a country that monitors everything and looking for some relief)
This has never worked. The government was never able to control economic cycles, although they advertise as such.
You need to understand the problems your product is supposed to solve. That holds true whether you are an engineer or a product manager.
Can a company the size of Apple not afford 24x7 security resources? For their installed user-base, I don't think this is unreasonable. Security doesn't have a holiday.
Well, it's always hard to say why something didn't work, but we certainly tried a very different user interface with our Izik UI, in which ambiguous queries got up to 200 answers organized into categories.
That’s right. In fact to this day I remember how they prominently advised “search, don’t sort”, a true paradigm shift. Searching in my local drive could take minutes, while Gmail would take a few seconds.
Spend time to work on personal projects, a few listed in particular.

Clean up digital storage and finally start backing stuff up.

Chose services that protect privacy.
That can also have a downside. For e.g. younger crowd were migrating from WhatsApp because they already have their parents or older relatives there, making a privacy issue and also making it less exclusive.

And if you have full contact access, they you really don't loose much network, except the groups. Ya but it does need a strong motivation for a switch to happen immediately (With hotmail it was ofcourse the lack of usernames for new users + the 1GB tier in gmail). With WhatsApp there is no strong motivation but perhaps a slower shift due to fatigue/privacy mentioned above.
Yes, the change was made in 2017.
Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism
I have been following Chrome development, and one of the things being done there is "servicification" of the blink engine - i.e. breaking it up into services accessed using Mojo. Fuchsia is also built with Mojo as the IPC mechanism. So reading the tea leaves, it seems to me that a "servicified" Chrome will be fully integrated into Fuchsia.

Besides this of course, Fuchsia shared many other components with chrome (the use of Skia for example). If we look at the direction for Flutter, Fuchsia and Chrome, it is clear that this is not some casual side-show but a very well thought out strategy.
Recently, we released RsRelayJS, a small RxJS lib that provides 'Relay' types. These are analogous to Subject types, but without the ability to call complete() or error(). Therefore, they are stateless in the sense that they cannot enter a terminal state. I've found myself using these more than Subjects in our code, to bridge non-Rx code to Rx.

Check it out here - https://github.com/Microsoft/RxRelayJS
Food algorithms are called "recipes". You follow the steps, and the food gets made.

Look at /r/cheapmeals or /r/slowcooking for ideas of simple dishes.

... If you happen to be asking "what do I like to eat, or what can I cook that I know I'll like once I've prepared it rather than buying pre-made" .... Well I'm sorry there's no substitute for experience and knowing ones own tastes -- this is learned through experimentation and decision-making and time expenditure; aka trail and error.

Jump in the pool, and start swimming.
> We already have done tests for in-house testing but nobody wants to stick his neck out and tell IT to go away.

So true, but in my experience, once you spread the words, other business owners will jump in like an infectious disease and ask for a ticket to use your system. Now your USB won't work anymore. So people "higher-up" want to bet on "fail big" than "fail short", very counter-intuitive, but that's exactly how some enterprise IT spend their budget.
Assume X is usually cheaper/simpler than Y to solve the same problem. Most projects use X, right? That's your 'centralisation culture'.
A country I live in has a constitution with free speech, freedom of assembly and the press. When someone attempts to use those freedoms, they and their lawyers disappear. It's not worth the paper it's written on.
Seriously, why all the sourpuss comments? The guy shows a fun little way to potentially use these registers in an innovative fashion and you jump all over him!

You do understand that toys like this are meant to simulate the mind towards different ways of thinking, right? Great things are born from kennels of innovative thought.

HN has really gone downhill...
Is that the average current student debt balance? Or the average cost of tuition?
I remember reading here about a project to replace elephant horns with synthetic Ivory.
Ha, I interpreted the 'less consuming' as 'buying less things you don't need/not replacing smartphone every single year/not spilling food by not buying more than you can eat/not wasting electricuty/...' and 'creating' as 'try to fix broken things instead of throwing them away/creating art instead of buying it/growing vegetables instead of buying/...'.

Which shows it is a nice principle since anybody can fill it in the way they like.
I would suggest the book Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman. This isn't a straight up recipe book by instead tries to tell you ingredients go together to make different things. This should give you the basic algorithms for cooking from a more engineering mindset.
I'll come out and say it: Google's search quality is terrible. It's better than the competition, but that's a low bar. Most people do pretty good with Google simply because 1. their searches are "solved" by simply reducing the search space to pages that contain the combination of rare words in the query (e.g. "correct battery horse staple" is referring to the xkcd comic with high probability), along with the social signal of backlink ranking, 2. Google has trained us to use it effectively and so our expectations for search match that which Google can effectively deliver, and 3. All the meta-signalling that Google uses to turn obtuse queries like "that movie with the guy who does the thing" into the correct answer. But in general, if you can't figure out the exact words that are on the page you're interested in, the illusion fails and it reveals itself to be barely more than grep on steroids. Search is still waiting to be blown wide open and it very well could be by a competitor.