skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Google has become less intuitive to use, but given the right queries it will return the best answers on the first page which the others will not. Almost always the first result under the ads is what I was looking for and that has improved. My searches are programming and travel and both are spot on, but only when formulating things in english-logic speak and using the right nomenclature. If not, you still get related topics and usually still better than the competition, but meaningless in the intent of the search. If I had to use ddg or bing or such for work, I would lose a great amount of time going through pages; I cannot remember when I went to page 2 on Google. For programming questions, you can be sure if it is not on page 1, it was not answered. Page 2 and further will contain scraped SO results for instance (I would like Google to be more firm on that but he).
Started the year taking CS232n deep learning course. Then I started looking into spaces and markets to build something in, and get loads of practice doing customer dev. I looked at CSV tools, amazon seller tools, data cleaning services, VR game spectating, sushi collection mobile game, but none of them seemed right for one reason or another.

After that, I just wanted to build something I wanted to use, so I built Helmspoint—it helps you deploy Keras image recognition machine learning models to the web. Just upload the trained keras model, and it generates the web app and API. I’ve always found it maddening to configure servers, set up TLS, domain names, environment variables, etc, just to get something to show or share models with other people, so that’s why I built it.

https://www.helmspoint.com
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I found the tone rather dismissive. It seemed to me that the OP felt the work was not so useful if it didn't have applications.
They have a series of formal proofs written by a mathematician to verify the staking algorithm, though that is only a small part of what is needed to secure a modern consensus system.
Definitely not assuming that the average users care about the algorithm, and you missed the point being made there: If that information is a successfully-guarded secret, nobody else is going to create an incremental improvement over that specific type of feature. That point was intended to lead into the greater premise of the post, which is that the conventional wisdom of competing with Google by going toe to toe, is not viable. I apologize that my writing is not as intuitive as Google's user interface.

Especially given the amount of vitriol I see on Hacker News regarding decentralization technologies (not surprising given the heavy ties to Silicon Valley's centralization culture), your condescending comment wasn't helpful to the discussion. But I appreciate you giving it a full read nonetheless.
Hotmail and WhatsApp are very different because the first is devoid of network effects, whilst the second isn’t. What I mean by this is that a Hotmail account can send and/or receive email from any other email account, and hence the relevant number for calculating utility is how many other people have email accounts. This means that an email user can migrate from their previous email provider (Hotmail?) to (say) Gmail and not experience any change in utility because they continue to be a part of the same network.

WhatsApp on the other hand only communicates with other users that have WhatsApp, so choosing to use another messaging service means you cease to be a member of your existing network and cannot automatically communicate with all your existing contacts unless they also switch networks (or add an app to their phone — I currently have no less than eight messaging apps to stay in contact with various people).

This means that transitions cannot be gradual and unilateral. This in turn means that incumbent Hotmail was more fragile vis-a-vis newcomers such as Gmail than WhatsApp is.
In the past I've tried and failed to be a vegan. Thinking about the ethics around how much suffering living, feeling beings are subjected to just so that I can experience a few moments of mouth pleasure throughout the day puts me into a very dark place emotionally.

It's the most abominable the we do as humans and yet our society is constructed in such a way that it's very, very difficult to stop without economic, social or dietary consequences. I don't want to beat myself up for failing to resist the pressures of both biology and society, but I don't want to give up either. I know I can do 10% better. I can avoid the foods that cause the most suffering, and reduce or pay more for others and do so without any real cost to my social life, health or happiness.
This is why I don't believe almost all companies that profess a commitment to diversity in hiring. They're committed to diversity right up until the point where not being committed would open them up to a lawsuit. THAT'S when they chicken out.
Huh got me there.

I have started to trust Apple maps - not as good as Google though.

Hope this gets commodotized though.
Why people believe others' social lives are richer than their own
Maybe they're planning for growth?
Many startups are quite optimistic about their future prospects. Reality is often quite different.
I've been thinking for a while that a conversational search engine is the next iteration of search. If you query a human expert, you don't expect the correct answer immediately - it comes by filtering out possible answers with subsequent clarifying queries. The next gen search engine should be this way.
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Ah, you wrote the quora post.

1. How else would you like the results to be delivered? It is delivered in browser's search bars. It is delivered by visiting Google.com. It is delivered by voice. It is delivered by mobile devices. It is delivered inside my Nintendo Wii, XBOX, PS3/4, and my Nintendo Switch. It's delivered on my crappy Vizio TV via smart apps. It's even delivered in my car. Google search results are everywhere.

2. I think that is kind of the point. However, you assuming Google is being evil by keeping it a secret. That's not fully the case. A lot of SEO companies would love to see how things are ranked so they can beat it on behalf of their clients.

3. They already have an API and if you really want to customize the query, you can add all kind of query modifiers in the UI.

4. As a developer myself in the crypto space, blockchains make a poor curated database for the very reasons why Google keeps things a secret. Anyone with money can pump the reputation of an entry on the blockchain to get better rankings thus lowering the quality of results.

Second, most blockchains can't handle the query load.

Three, dapps cost money to run. I can see a market for users submitting entries. If there are users using it, it might catch on in the submission department. However, this brings me to my next point.

Four, the chain would not have all the websites on the net. Kind of expensive to get it all on there and not scalable.

Lastly, someone has to pay to run the query side too. Would users pay to run a search query and get gamed incomplete results? No.
>Search advertising is a win-win for businesses and consumers. If you see it as something parasitic that needs to be fixed

Its absolutely parasitic and not a win for consumers. If it were a win for consumers then Google would not be so fantastically profitable.

Search results on Google are great provided you don't use a search query that indicates an intent to buy something. If you do that then the results turn terrible. Or profitable. Depends upon whom you ask.
To get people to switch the new solution needs to be 10x better. It’s not clear how you could do this without Google’s day network effects. Someone like SoftBank would have to go out and bets $10b on a search startup, but even then, Google is not going to be outsmarted by a new algorithm or interface. We’d need to move to a whole new mode of computing. Mobile has been the biggest threat yet.
I wonder how little that has to do with WinNT (which is actually a fabulous kernel), and how much has to do with Accenture. When I saw Accenture as the developer, alarm bells went off.
I just add another word to the original query and hit return.
Good question, when the ETH contract drivel appeared at the end, I hope he is somehow meaning to pay users Ether to see ads. ProofOfView whatever.

People would fix Google if it had an API but it would mean censorship; I would add a ‘credible sources only’ button which is not good for the web but it is what I want. I do not care for traveldiscounters’ SEO or SO or Wikipedia scrapers; I care about the originals. That would greatly improve the experience, but in general it is bad for the internet because someone decides who is credible. Now there I see a place for Blockchain.
> It’s intersting the way you shut down any discussion of Israeli wrongs

I made absolutely no mention of Israel at all.

> ie story isn’t valid as it’s from AJ

Correct. You need another source. By supporting a murderer AJ has removed themself from civilized discourse.

> be hoping to vilify me for being Palestinian. Why?

Hoping to? Dude, you refused to condemn someone who killed a 4 year old by bashing her head in!!

What is wrong with you?

(If you refuse to condemn that, I guess it makes sense you would support AJ.)

Before I say another word to you I want to hear an unequivocal condemnation of that terrorist, and an unequivocal condemnation of AJ for throwing him a birthday party.

If you refuse to do that you have removed yourself from the realm of civilized people and I want nothing to do with you.
The current crisis started in 2008 when CITES allowed ivory sales. It was ok before that, when the sales were completely banned.
speaking as a former programmer for a large airline, Pilots for small regional jets usually rely solely on experience, while your average cross-country 737 pilot has a co-pilots experience and a small cross-reference manual in the event of failures or warning lamps. you're still "flying" the aircraft with the exception of landing assist and the TCAWS

Jumbo jets are an entirely different beast. You're starting and stopping procedures are similar to any other commercial jet, however large swaths of the plane are entirely computer controlled. this includes jet engine ignition and reignition in case of flameouts. Elevation rate and descent rate are also computer controlled. Pilots in turn are saddled with phonebook sized procedure and countermeasure manuals that determine what to do in the event of anything even remotely out of the ordinary from cracked windshields to broken elevators.

The fact that these pilots could recover from a massive engine shutdown of this nature is remarkable, as most pilots are trained to "never stop flying the plane" in the event of a failure. all engines offline means they either had to engage the APU mid flight to help power auxiliary systems, or they were struggling to manually move hydraulics without any assist. Pilots are trained that engines go through ingestion testing to handle anything and everything, so its not surprising they thought nothing of the ash...A Rolls Royce Trent engine might not seem that large but each one delivers nearly 100,000 pounds of thrust. This, combined with a 10 stage compressor, is enough to overcome even the most furious rainstorms.
>problem with Keynes is it relies on natural rate of inflation

Keynes wrote a lot of stuff but if you consider what I think is his main idea, as mentioned in the article, "the idea that aggregate demand shortages exist and can be corrected by the government stimulus" then inflation is kind of irrelevant to that.

Also it's not the answer to the problems you mention. The policy as Keynes intended it was just to boost government borrowing and spending during recessions and then stop when the recession is over.

Keynes name does sometimes get invoked by politicians to push policies that Keynes himself wouldn't have been into.
Leave the house at least five days a week. Previous years I was going to the gym every workday but that gym is now closed and I plan to continue exercising with my trainer in the modest exercise room of our condo and I am really scared of becoming a total recluse.
Consumers are often in a "buy mindset" when searching for something. The phrasing of their search query can indicate it. For example, someone search for "cheap office chair" most likely already has their CC in hand. It's a search query that belongs as much on Amazon or Craigslist as it does on Google. So when it's searched on Google, the idea is that the market will provide more relevant results than an algorithm designed for ranking articles based around keywords and semantic equivalence of the content.
A whole thread on automated pizza with no Snow Crash jokes? I'm disappointed.
Have you looked at protonmail and Vimeo? Both have somewhat of a free offering, although the main product is a few bucks. You know what they say about that though, you being the product and all.

For maps, check out openstreetmaps. Not quite as good as google, buy pretty solid. And you can run your own instance.

Heck, you could also run your own email without much hassle.
Do you work from home? If you do just find a different gym on the way to/from work; if not can you find a gym near a good workspace (like a library or good coffeeshop)?
In the case of elephants killed for ivory no one is "keeping them around". The only source is wild elephants that were killed legally until 2008 and since then illegally hunted. Without the ivory ban elephants would be poached until they're extinct.

No one is keeping domestic elephants for the ivory.
Protonmail does have a free offering as well if their mail service
Let's say you're reading this research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.05407.pdf

I want to know:
"In Rob Fergus' paper intrinsic motivation and self-play, how is it that the reward for agent A can be based on the time taken for agent B's task, when agent A and B are run sequentially, and agent B runs after agent A?"

Can Google answer this? No. Is NLP smart enough to answer this? Probably not. But the question itself is hard to write in one sentence. Complex queries are best structured as conversations, with clarifying back and forth, Socratic method style, like if you're asking a professor a question about hard science.
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.

It doesn't need to have a huge amount of users, it doesn't need to get the majority of the market share, and it doesn't need to earn more revenue, or even any revenue at all, in order to deliver a better user experience. Such things are not mutually exclusive.

I believe this is most likely to happen with the help of peer to peer technologies, combined with a healthy synergistic ecosystem of content curators, content providers, and content consumers. Steemit is a crude proof of concept for such a system. In Steemit, comments and posts are scored with a reputation algorithm, and assigned a tag. There's absolutely no reason why web links can't be associated with an arbitrary number of contextually-weighted tags, and a contextual reputation algorithm.

Everything that Google does could be done in a peer to peer manner, with each user bearing a small piece of the responsibility. Wikipedia is a great example of this, with many users contributing to the system. No single company could ever produce the amount of content that the Wikipedia userbase has created. Even though Wikipedia uses a centralized foundation and centralized server, the editing culture itself is decentralized, with a set of principles being the main driver of decision-making.

I bring up blockchain technologies, much to the disgust of many users on HN, but only because I see those technologies as lowering the barrier to creating systems such as Wikipedia, through automating, standardization, and enforcement of some of the mechanisms. It also creates a guarantee that a central authority doesn't exist and therefore cannot be manipulated in subtle ways by those in positions of greater power - That is a big appeal factor for a significant number of users, even if it is not the majority.
There already is, it's just not widely known, and they don't spend much money on advertising, probably to keep the fees down:
University of London International program (distance learning)
BS in Computing and Information Systems
Total Cost of 3 year degree: $8000
https://london.ac.uk/courses/computing-and-information-syste...
You put the produce on the barcode scanner/scale, you type in the first three letters on the on-screen keyboard, and you tap the matching picture. Or else you read the 4-digit code on the sticker and type it in. Or else you pick from the pictures of the 16 most popular produce items displayed on the screen. 10 seconds, max.

And you don't have to be faster than the cashier to be faster, you just have to be faster than 1/4 as fast as a cashier before one bank of self-checkouts is faster than the cashier.
A decade is less than 1/4th of an employees career at the current retirement age of 66/67 and there are people that get this compensation in a decade (a rare few even less, granted it is not trivial).
Can you write a C program without main function?
Love to give you some feedback/pointers, shot you an email. We plan to open source our curriculum and make adjustments as we go :)
GOG has their Galaxy client that you can use similarly to Steam. Buy, install and play from the client. Play is possible offline. Ofcourse you can still download manually too as an installer.

Much Assembly Required is very cute, looking forward to see what is possible when it is more finished!
-Learn how to finish things.

-Be on time more often.

-Walk more.
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (Maybe some more biographies)

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Hard thing about hard things

Thinking Fast and Slow

Origin by Dan Brown
givelively.org is amazing. Signed up and would love to be put in touch. song garagescript org
No, but I just extracted the deskview patterns and added them to the site! Thanks for the info. http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/patterns/OEM/DVX/

hmm, I'll ask around about the Psion MC400
Which city? And 1k includes rent?
Slightly offtopic, but I was a beta steam tester and used my hotmail for it at the time in ~2002, and to this day my steam account name is still my hotmail address, though they send email to the right place. So everytime I launch steam I get a reminder of the hotmail days. I don't even own the address anymore, I hope they never try to send email there.
That is not CS.
I'm spending more time working on things that I can touch. That means more woodworking, electronics projects without any software attached, and customizing real-world tools like my desk, coffeemaker, and bass amp for what I want them to do.

I'd also like to get my bench press up from 170 to 225 and cut carbs down, but not eliminate them.
Discussion of September "leaving" announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15162957
If the call goes on for 20 minutes in great details on an ongoing hostage situation with already multiple casualties, I certainly expect the European SWAT to show up as soon as possible.

I'd personally be shocked if it were any difficult to get a hold of the GIGN, the RAID, the DGSE, the GCHQ or the UK SWAT when necessary.
I believe not; there is no need unless their ads become too intrusive. When we have issues with a technical issue in China, I start the VPN and search with Google. What takes my Chinese colleagues a lot of time, is immediately found in Google, even for vague components. Specsheets they did not receive are easily found on Google but not on the engines they have. It is not that we cannot think up a better Google, but I believe that means better NLP, not a better backend. Google would destroy anything that comes close, simply because it will be something they can bolt on in no time and then they have the data, money and infra.
If you have "safe money" from your teaching job, and you're confident that you have the chops, block off some time and make a product.

Most places are just crabs in a bucket. I don't know if that is limited to tech, or just a side-effect of office work. I do know that you don't win with crabs in a bucket.

Customers are different. If you solve their problem at a fair price, they will love you.
I am not sure if they are solvent or not, but I genuinely believe that they bit off more than they could chew with Bitcoin Cash. The volume of transactions surprised them, I think, and they've been struggling to keep up ever since.

Additionally, of course, by adding BCH all of a sudden they may have triggered a bank run on themselves since so many people potentially wanted to move their BCH out or cash out. Not to mention that by nature of the fork, value was created out of the existing BTC holdings so there would not necessarily be fiat funds to back up those amounts, only the BTC amounts.

I think the combination of these factors have led to delays and payout limbo.

Note: Not blaming BCH for their problems here - perhaps more Coinbase themselves in the way they handled the new asset.
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I don't equate cynicism with maturity, I equate a more nuanced view of the world with maturity. I know people who are both immature and cynical, in some cases a bit of maturity would mitigate their cynicism.
I'd say Keynesianism can be summed up by his famous statement, "In the long run we are all dead." It's the acknowledgement that simplistic macroeconomic models may describe asymptotic behavior, but while the dynamic system is slowly trending to those ends, many people can suffer.

Thus, in the meantime, it'd be good to have some market intervention. Intervention in moderation, for moderation.
US documentaries are so hard to watch. After every ad break you get a recap of the show. Problem is, there are so many ad breaks ...
1) Got engaged :)
2) I built my own invoicing web app(breakdeck.com). 3) Developed an Electron app aimed at developer's productivity that I actually use 4) I published my first native Electron/Node.js module https://github.com/bithavoc/node-desktop-idle
5) Read 4/7 books I intended to read throughout the year.
6) Visited a new country
Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection
Yeah, but if it becomes known that that is a search signal, it effectively lets people purchase their way up the search rankings by paying other people to tip them. You'd have a much smaller pool of legit tips to overcome, because so few people pay for content, before you could become the most tipped article for any given topic.
As long as you do some experimentation that's fine. You might be legitimately be criticised for not doing the right experiment or not enough. Take it on the chin, learn, move on.
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hmm, it sucks when there is no proper follow up. I guess it's the competition nowadays.. companies get flooded with resumes.
I'm guessing you've never tried daily gym sessions. Once you find what challenges your body in the way you want, I'm sure that you'll find that you make better progress and feel more satisfied taking rest days in between. On those days I try to get 50-100 pushups during downtime to not feel so sluggish - I really think you'll be happier not pushing your body so much so quickly.

Can I ask why you've picked raw veggies for breakfast to start with? Also, have you ever tried L-Theanine?
What you're doing sounds great. I'm on the board of HackerDojo, our mission sounds pretty aligned to yours and you are not too far away - so get in touch, I'm sure we can figure out a way to support what you're doing! (will send pm also)

https://hackerdojo.com/
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I'm a long time fan of BT but the one time I saw him live, it was 3AM in a prime DJ slot and he just wanted to show off his turntablism. Which was technically great, but it was 3AM and we just wanted some banging tunes.