skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a filtering strategy that scammers use to filter out all but the easiest to dupe (hence why Nigerian Prince scams are so obvious).

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are-...

By making the opportunity purposefully vague, only those who are extremely open to the opportunity (or desperate) would send a PM. Not sure if it ever works, but the internet is a big place.
The validator pool sounds very interesting. Any experience of validator nodes for existing live PoS systems, in particular the costs of running (bandwidth costs, likely datacentre hosting costs, etc) vs rewards?
Like these audiences would appreciate uncertainty in their food ordering. That must be a very small overlap in the Venn diagram
No need to doubt science — science has always been clear on the fact that depending on glycemic index, it takes different times for the sugar to be metabolized and end up in your blood stream. As result, your blood sugar will either stay consistent for hours, as with longer, slower metabolized starches in full grain, compared to refined, shorter sugars in white sugar, which immediately peaks your blood sugar.

This has direct effects on saturation and insulin production, which obviously effects the way your brain reacts to this kick.
(1) My impression from using Google is that it's really great for technical / scientific first page search results, but pretty horrible otherwise.

(3) No, I'm pretty sure users want more knobs or at least filter options. Hell, even a simple domain blacklist feature would be amazing so that I could get the woowoo psuedo science cruft -- which has been SEO'd to the front page -- out of my results, so I didn't have to put any mental effort into visually filtering out multiples from the same site. Hell, they could even collate results from the same domain into a single grid folder to optimize the time I spend searching through the search results.

Don't conflate Google's lack of innovation for an optimized experience simply because it's Google. I love Google, but there is a massive amount of improvement that can go into their search user interface. Same for every other search engine, but Google is the leader in this space, so they get the brunt of the criticism, and should they change, then others can follow suit.
Can you link to the vid that got you fired?
Yep. I've never worked for a company where we told people why they didn't make the cut. Heck, the person who delivered the bad news didn't even know - we selected the candidate we wanted (or none) and told HR to make the rest happen.

In most cases there's no answer beyond someone else seemed like a better fit for the position. How would it help to know you would have got the job if only this other person didn't apply?
Over the years I've built several apps and websites but none of them have generated much revenue. The most money I've made was by selling shareware apps for Palm pilots between 2000 and 2002 but that died with the platform.

My problem is I can't seem to find a problem to solve that people would pay for.
Thanks, but I'm in the UK
We have bought every game with a different e-card an no problems so far. This means at least 500 different cards. E-cards was a service where you could create a credit card with a fixed amount of money on for each buy, limiting the risk involved in giving out your card details on the net. Sadly they shut it down recently.
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Have to pay to read :(
by definition, people with more active social lives are more visible than people without very active social lives
But why would they do that after they had already won the copyright infringement case? It seems like it would be pointlessly risky to perpetrate the fraud at that point.

If Disney faked it and it was found out, wouldn't that strengthen the plaintiff's case on appeal?
Yahoo tried to compete with Google. Yahoo was first with "vertical search", about fifty special purpose question-answerers for weather, sports, celebrities, etc. Then Google copied that. Yahoo switched to reselling Bing, and gradually became irrelevant.

Cuil tried to compete with Google. Their idea was that their system was an order of magnitude cheaper to run than Google's. But they never developed a revenue model. Cuil went bust.

I tried a system which trimmed most of the ads out of Google result pages. That got very little use.

Google does have search customization. It learns from your queries what you ask about. At least if you're logged in, and possibly if you keep the same IP address.

Google is already moving past search to question-answering. They're not very good at that yet, but they're getting better.
Could you please stop rewriting/editorializing the titles of articles you submit? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
An interesting read, but this guy is picking the wrong battles. Nowadays, I'm primarily concerned with protecting my privacy online from corporations like Facebook and the information they collect about me -- not from individuals who might recognize me by the way I look in a photo.

Not to mention, he's already been tagged in Facebook posts -- and you can't just delete a picture off the internet. Especially not from big F's servers.
A Brief Totally Accurate History of Programming Languages
You can do cardio on the not exercise days.
I think the strategy is to make Flutter an attractive tool to build mobile apps across Android, iOS and Fuchsia (it already runs on all three today). Even in an alpha stage, it is a really productive framework for mobile development.

So if Flutter hits 1.0 or beta sometime next year, you would have a way to develop mobile apps for today's platform which will require a smaller investment to run on an eventual Fuchsia platform.
I understand why people are upset, but not why they are quite so upset. Apple always felt like the company that you went to when you wanted good UX. Unlike Android, they twist all the knobs for you, making tradeoffs like this so you don't have to care.

Of course, making battery degradation more clear would have been nice, along with some UI element explaining the impact as it gets worse.
I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine. It is good enough. But their algorithm is different. It took me some time to adjust for that so my searches works like they did with Google.

Which point out that at this point not only Google has a good search algorithm, but users are trained to help it do better. A search startup has to overcome that as well.
I'm a total non-engineer/developer, but I'm increasingly interested in what guys like you think about software QA as it relates to security.

Today's Apple does a lot of security posturing in hardware/platform architecture, like full disk encryption, the iOS device secure enclave thingie, the secure enclave's subsequent inclusion on touchbar Macbook Pros to control the webcam, iOS defaulting to non-networked sandboxing for third party keyboards, etc.

Do you think macOS/iOS development perhaps should slow down from a yearly release cycle to delay releases with continuous big reworking starting with XNU?

With a very rudimentary outsider perspective on QA, it just seems insane to keep pushing big OS changes yearly.
This is what I've thought about too. Could the article's observations attributed to the friendship paradox?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype
I'm going to restate because I suspect miscommunication here... my point was that an apparent 'centralisation culture' is a result of building centralised tech being typically simpler/cheaper than building decentralised.
Now that's a bit conspiratorial. Probably a majority of people searching for "retrovirus" clicked the Wikipedia article link. Google figured this out, and started listing it first. Nothing beyond Wikipedia fulfilling its role.
Did you actually look at the course listings? The final year includes courses in NLP, AI, Neural Networks, Data Compression, Computer Security. Sounds pretty "computer science" to me...
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Start planning my time in blocks.

Don't spread myself too thin

Start commenting on HN

Sleep before 12am
You have just described paid advertising.
I do enjoy some early-2000s games today more than recent AAA titles (PlayStation 1,2 Gamecube, and I'd throw the Sega Dreamcast in there too).

On the other hand, I grew up with a SNES emulator with more than 300 games, I played a lot of them, and despite the unusual gem like TloZ, most SNES games were totally unmemorable, to say the least.

My point is, that I don't see a fundamental difference between SNES-era games and the early 2000's, both were markets saturated with crap, and a few gems that have stood the test of time.
I am not doubting science. I am doubting popularly reported science. Go look up the ads where doctors recommended certain brands of cigarettes. I saw an ad from the 50s showing a spoon full of lead additive and claiming it was safe enough to eat. The list goes on...

It's not the facts presented, it the ignored facts, or the twisted presentation that I object to.

My brother worked for Red Bull, where he knew in detail which ingredients affected the body in which way. And it was pretty much all bad, unless you just didn't think so, or you believed your boss.

Also, I am not disagreeing with you. I am pointing out that the bar for your argument is much lower than you think.
I don't know why but google results became mediocre/bad recently. There were a time when I could pick [good] google results in a blind test (for programming topics) between several search engines (Bing, Yandex). Now, DuckDuckGo can return noticeably better results for some queries than Google.
As someone that's been building GAE apps on Java since the runtime first launched... well, it's a mixed bag, mostly good. It works fine for basic web apps. If you have any significant traffic it's a good idea to upgrade to F2 or F4 instances; you get more throughput per-instance so it's break-even costwise.

The instance warmup time tends not to be an issue at scale, but it does mean you end up paying for more idle instances than "optimum". It's still cheaper than hiring a devops team. The cool thing about GAE is that you can build a multi-million-dollar business with a couple engineers and they can both go camping for a weekend at the same time.

Go is nice on GAE because you have near-zero instance start time. But then you must work in Go, which is a poor language for general business processing (despite its other merits). The Go runtime also lags behind the Java and Python runtimes on GAE Standard. The GAE community does not think "Go is most preferred"; actually the GAE/Go community tends to whine a bit about support. It's not perfect, but then again nothing is.
When tasers were introduced, isn’t this the exact problem they were here to solve? You use them instead of shooting to disable the suspect to de-escalate the same situations?
Which is what the article says in the abstract: "We argue that this pessimistic bias stems from the fact that trendsetters and socialites come most easily to mind as a standard of comparison and show that reducing the availability of extremely social people eliminates this bias."

There's also the well-known effect of social media where you see everybody's highlights and best moments, but unless you're close you won't hear about the boring or unhappy parts of their lives. I don't think the article tackles that though.
CVE 2018-0002: Flaw in CVE numbering procedure incentivizes dropping zero days on New Year’s Eve.
I haven't found a greater thrill in life than meeting a girl in day-to-day life (like at the supermarket). Always a mixture of deep fear and excitement, despite any attempts to rationalize the heart-pounding away.
I once gave this as a counter-example to the old Alcoholics Anonymous saying "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

In this case, the sanest thing to do was to try and try again to restart the engines.
> It's a shame they didn't separate high fat from high sugar diets. Fats aren't addictive, nor are they anywhere near as damaging as sugars and carbs in high doses

There are lots of confounding variables in this article. It's a shame they didn't tell us what the "high-fat" diet consisted of. Some fats are basically safe. Some oils go rancid during the production process and need to be "refined".
What's the trick here?
I'm not much of a believer in real life. While I don't know about most people, I never joined hobbies to find a date until I realized I had to get serious about finding someone. Until that point, I just did whatever was most fun. If I was in a badminton league, it was purely because I wanted to play badminton.

So, when I started picking hobbies and going to events based on gender ratio first and fun second, it felt kinda awkward. I figured most people were like what I used to be. If they were in a badminton league, it was probably because they wanted to play badminton, not to get hit on by some guy.

On a dating website, everyone is at least in the same ballpark of expectations. It's straightforward. And, ultimately, it worked. I got engaged after 4 years with a great girl I met on OKC.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We eventually ban accounts that do that. Instead, if you'd read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and maybe even http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html and take the spirit of the site to heart, we'd appreciate it.
> staying away from coffee

Huh? Why?
That seems orthogonal to what I asked. ALttP has player-made mods (randomizers) too.

Let's put it this way. At this moment on Twitch, there are:

- 4 people playing Warcraft 3 (any mod)

- 0 people playing Half-Life 1 (any mod)

- 1 person playing GTA 3 (any mod)

- 21 people playing A Link to the Past (any mod)

- 13 people playing Super Mario 64 (any mod)

So I am totally on board with Al-Khwarizmi's claim. The role of even the best early-'00s games was to show us what better games could be made. Once those better games were made, the '00s games were abandoned, in a way that '90s games weren't.
5. Plain old capital-intensive advantage: local server farms, enabling low-latency search (and "suggest") results, which been found to be very important for users.

One can interpret this (and android) as google desparately spending money whereever money can give some competitive advantage, no matter how small, because google is acutely aware of how easily users can switch search engines. It's not a super clever strategy, but just: what else can you do with all this cash?
> We show that this bias holds across multiple populations (college students, MTurk respondents, shoppers at a local mall, and participants from a large, income-stratified online panel)

MTurk workers are incentivized to answer quickly, not truthfully.

Internet polls are bullshit.
I learned the term 'St Elmos fire' about 15 minutes ago on a different HN story, and here it is again. I know this is a common phenomenon but I've never had it happen so fast
>In a proof of stake system, people who formerly had stake in the system can simulate fraudulent alternative histories forked at the point before they cashed out

No because atleast for Ethereum there will be a "point of no return", a number of blocks after which the blockchain history can no longer be altered except by the user manually switching chains.

Additionally, the system will encourage users to swap and share which chain they are on so that fraudulent chains can be detected easily.
People with impostor syndrome might find a lot of help in understanding the logic behind it, since it applies not just to friendship, but to any activity where visibility is positively correlated to ability.

Most popular GitHub projects are by top coders. Most musicians are in a tiny fraction of the skill distribution. The people that one might respect and measures oneself by almost certainly are better than the average, so if one feels inferior to them, that is a statistical quirk and not a strong signal that one is below average.
A lot of companies set quarterly goals, that's probably not a bad idea. Also, goals need to be etched into habits to work, and values determine goals, so it's worth introspecting all three at a time.
What are does he mean by using mnemonic as key?
There is a 40% chance Apple will acquire Netflix, according to Citi
The series Air Crash Investigation has an awesome episode on the Gimli Glider. A screencam is available on Youtube.
Perhaps it's canvas fingerprinting. [1]

I saw an article from 2014 saying ghostery works to defeat it, but haven't looked further and I don't use ghostery, so not sure if that's true still.

You can test it here: https://browserleaks.com/canvas

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/now-s...
Can you give some tips about how you adjusted your search queries? Whenever I tried to use DDG I wouldn't be able to get results from it that were as good as Google's.
Money = More richer intellectual life => More richer HN-Life
Hmn, Helix means I'm probably going to stop work on the project I started this week. :) I shall need some tool to ensure that I replace it with something equally virtuous. Oh, look, Helix!
The Language Council of Sweden was adding the word “ogooglebar” to the Swedish dictionary during 2012/2013 with Google with great force and success stopped that from happening.

When searching for answers which Google has no answer for the answer should be “this is ogooglebar”. So you don’t have to spend hours trying to refactoring your query for hours. This would be a great improvement and a great user experience.

This is Google’s akilles heel - never able to admit that they don’t know.
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But is there still a blockchain? How is it secured?
May I remind you about when it was hip and cool to use Google? Google's tried to keep that image going as long as possible, but as a giant corporate behemoth, it's hard to realistically expect that to hold up forever.
Would you happen to have any links to machine docs for the 3DO? I have scoured the net and haven't found official docs about e.g. their graphics processors like I have with consoles like the Saturn.
I believe you are right and I am very careful to say things about curtailing search results. The problem ofcourse being that I am a weird person who’s mindset is set mostly in binary; when I search for something, I will find the answer or not. Life does not work like and possibly a more nuanced approached will be better. However I am also deterred by that same life; people want simple and want it now. Like I read that we walk on the back of our feet instead of the front because we are lazy, we levitate to anything that is easier. Even if it is worse, even for the individual.

But in general I agree with your rant; please experiment! I just do not believe it will take hold easily. And they article seems to suggest so.
This comment breaks the site guidelines, as have a bunch of your other comments unfortunately. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules?
NASA's 2018 to Do List [video]
Can you provide more info - my hunch is that any filter will look like a brick in a couple of seconds in that situation with the sheer volume of air passing trough it
Nooooo!
It could be pineapple!!! :)
do I get a discount? Or do they expect me to work for free?
If a social life is not present, this is true.
It was a terrible thing to do, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here, or rage rants. Making HN worse doesn't help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Watch the Mayday Air Crash Investigation on the topic: Ash is a curse, it even polishes off the windscreen and makes it opaque.
I am in a ds9/voy binge watching and I agree the federeation isn't the utopia as it's often mentionned but the arguments in the video are pretty weak (and uninformed).
Indeed, thanks! That was the other piece that I was thinking of and couldn't find right away.
I set monthly reminders to keep me on track this year and they helped a bit, I might try weekly too this year. Course correcting once a year is definitely not enough.
I experimented with several liquid meals including Soylent for awhile and couldn't find one that did it for me. Now I've been eating MealSquares for a month and it's great. Extremely easy, zero thought, and I feel fantastic. My mind is sharper (drastic difference, actually) and I have steady energy all day. Only thing I know for sure that it's missing is Omega-3s, which you can get easily from canned salmon.

I realize that doesn't directly answer your question, but I think the fact of the matter is, in order to maintain a high-quality diet the old fashioned way, it simply requires a good deal of effort and planning.
David McWilliams knows a lot more about the economy than I do, and maybe I'm missing something, but he doesn't mention that there's quite a disproportionate tax on alcohol in Ireland which probably makes the pint index a little less accurate as an indicator of currency value than something less taxed, like, ironically, a big mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc is a hilarious parody of this
Loop unrolling can definitely still be a win if it's in the form of vectorising or otherwise processing multiple elements at a time.
Feature request: randomize the delivery timing as well!
I'd like a random pizza to show up at some point in 2018, ideally once I've forgotten this service exists.

Random address may or may not be going too far.

How about I enter how much money I'm willing to spend, and the website comes up with an order that fits the constraint? Completely random grubhub orders would be fun, too.
In a capitalist system, wealthy nodes will always use their wealth to earn interest.
They test you if you can do the work, you test them if they can pay. A company should be more financially stable than you, so they should pay for the recruiting process.

If they pay, it's their work. But if they give you real work to do for free, you probably don't want to work for them, as it's a good chance they'll take advantage of you again at some point.

Get really good at what you do and you'll find good work on your area or remotely.
The Amargosa River defies the desert
Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying
DC’s war on rats goes digital
I am a member of three (admittedly weird) niche communities. These have been orders of magnitude more impactful in my life than Facebook. The friends I met there have become real-life friends. We've flown around the world to visit each other, we've laughed and cried, we send each other quirky gifts, and cheer on each other's kids. These are the only close new friends I've made in the last 10 years. Two of those communities are based around subreddits, the other a 90s era web forum.

The thing that makes them work where Facebook groups simply don't, I think, is pseudonymity. One of those groups has been particularly powerful, and it is a group that inherently involves being mutually vulnerable, so I certainly would never have joined under my real name, and I enjoy being part of the community even though only a handful of people know my IRL identity.

Reddit has some big problems, but is the best platform I have found so far for these niche communities. And my experience totally chimes with this article: big social media is as shallow as a puddle. Small niches are where real communities form.
Let's all try this HN!