skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, to be fair the website looks like it does the most it can possibly do to avoid good SEO and search engine visibility.

It uses `<meta keywords` and other techniques that apparently search engines like Google do not take into account.

On the other hand the HTML of the page (view-source:https://antipolygraph.org/ ) does not contain any guidance as to what's the page's focus. No header tags are present, everything is `<table>` based and contains deprecated markup and almost all of the links it contains are internal. The markup is HTML4 which might be an indication to Google the page has not been updated in a while.

The website can easily be found in Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aantipolygraph.org&oq=...) - it just appears to not be ranked very high as it aged.

Don't forget Google tends to favour newer and updated content to older content. The website also doesn't have a sitemap as far as I know which doesn't help with the problematic markup.
From the article: "If successful, the programs “will change the economics of the industry,” enabling companies to design in relatively low-volume chips that would be prohibitive today. "
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In a similar vein,

A free and open access book (libre) on reverse engineering by Dennis Yurichev. https://beginners.re/

Link to the english PDF : https://beginners.re/RE4B-EN.pdf (This is a 1000+ page mammoth!)
Maybe Google is not trying to censor them, but just changed their algorithms to not show antipolygraph when searching for polygraph as said by someone in the google forum.
Their site #1 result when searching "antipolygraph".
You might try StartPage (https://www.startpage.com/). I use them happily for about a year now. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with StartPage in any way.
I saw the site on page 3 after googling for "polygraph"

Although searching for "the lie behind the lie detector" gives the first result as the correct one from anitpolygraph.

Is it possible google didn't really do anything shady?
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Gide was communist for about 5 years, and when he discovered what life in the USSR really was, he wrote a pamphlet that caused him many troubles with his former friends. Anyway, I recommend "Les faux-monnayeurs" if you can forget Gide's personal flaws.

One last word on Gary: he did try to add depth to some of its novels. In "Clair de femmes", he portrays people living after the death of their loved ones. A few times, I felt empathy for the characters, but more than often the writer added some kind of witty "special effects" that completely broke the mood.

Now for the advice for deep French novels:

- Marguerite Yourcenar, "Les mémoires d'Hadrien", "L'œuvre au noir"
- Vercors, "Les animaux dénaturés"
- Julien Gracq, "Le rivage des Syrtes" (only if you enjoy reading sophisticated French)
- Drieu La rochelle, "Gilles" (if you can disregard the author's political views)
- Robe-Grillet, "La jalousie"
- Joseph Kessel, "Les cavaliers"
- Tournier, "Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique"
- Roger Martin du Gard, "Jean Barois" (a little known novel showing the intellectual life in France at the beginning of the 20th century), "Les Thibault" (if you like long saga and can stand a character that became engrossed with the ideal of socialism) (I know I'm cheating with the request, this was written before WWII).

This is of course a very personal choice, and I did not list famous authors I haven't enjoyed, like M. Duras or G. Perec.
I guess they could. But since they have to do everything themselves anyway, why bother? I'm not sure about the legal aspect, but even so, I'm pretty sure Apple can use OSM's data in one way or another would they need to (in fact, article states that they did use it in the earlier versions of the map). And since they are making the map on their own, nothing forces them to open-source the DB right now: should they decide that it will be beneficial they can do it any time in the future. And should they decide it isn't: they just don't.
"I don't know what more you want."

I think rabboRubble was just offering good practical advice: the "prostration" OP offers has at least a hint of insincerity about it, and isn't serving anyone. OP should follow the advice and concentrate on his positive contributions he can make.

Excessive prostration can become a way of saying this is why I failed, and look, you people in the cruel world didn't support me. It's manipulative.

I think taking full responsibility means accepting that you may never work again, and that society may withdraw it's support from you completely. You may even die due to lack of resources (banishment). If you can hold that space without any anger, then you can be readmitted, because the kernel of resentment that started the whole thing has been fully burned up.

Without this step, the life pattern that creates wells of resentment is still active in you, and will recur, possibly disguised but still "hinky" (I like that word :p).
IIRC StartPage has the same results as Google, but just proxies, right? Don’t see how it would help the parent commenter.

It’s good in combination with DuckDuckGo though, instead of the `!g` bang, you can do `!sp`
Yet when I search for 'anti polygraph' [in uk] guess which site ranks top? Like I would expect.

The site title is 'Learn How to Pass a Polygraph Test' yet the term doesn't appear anywhere on the homepage?

I'd agree with the general sentiment that Google search is getting worse but this isn't a great example.
I would like to know where you get that

1) It clearly does not work (as opposed to "it has a low accuracy" which just means they will have to filter manually) and

2) They are pursuing a goal of policing with fewer police officers and

3) Having a working solution would mean they could police with fewer police officers (cameras can't detain suspects or intervene when problems arise, AND police officers don't carry a mental database of all suspects like a computer could have, so having cameras does not replace having police officers).
Every time I read about one of those anthropology/archaeology experiments Im immediately reminded of this The Comic Strip Presents... episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyRtTx3sU7o&t=37m0s
> it's been more than a decade since I've gotten a virus/malware just from clicking a link

I'm worried that I probably would not even know when/if I have any malware unless the malware detection actually manages to detect it. I think lots of malware tries to remain inconspicuous and not draw attention to itself, only using your machine as a gateway or data source. Even though I know TCP/IP inside out and could inspect my network traffic, there is soooo much stuff going on in today's PCs that I have no intention of even trying.

I would not even know where to start if I had to inspect my operating system. I remember many years ago when a friend's laptop was always buys and created lots of network activity, it was obvious and easily confirmed that it had become a source of spam emails. I think a lot of malicious code is quite a bit more sophisticated and careful now, plus, the much increased bandwidth and raw PC power most people have available lets the same activity go unnoticed that 10 years ago might have had noticeable effects.

That means I think that not noticing any malware nowadays is not proof of absence of malware when the base rate is included, i.e. if we assume a low number of infections assuming no malware gets it mostly right only because of the that, not because we have a reliable way to detect it. If the base rate changes and our assumptions about infections don't change that would be a sign that our own ability to detect infection does not play a role in how we get to our assumption. It would be an interesting study to compare measured infection rates with how safe users felt (if it is the same user population for both). AV vendors and Microsoft might be able to do that.
If you view the business model of Elsevier as a scam perpetrated on the taxpayers who funded the research, there is no logical contradiction between the term "scam site" and the fact that under current legislation in most countries, they are recognized as the copyright owners of the content in question.
Take note: 10% PRODUCED, not 10% CONSUMED.

This is counting all output by wind and solar regardless if it is needed and usable when the power is being produced. This is quite important because wind and solar are not on-demand sources of power.
You know you can use quotes to get verbatim per phrase, right..?
The cleanest explanation I read of information / state linearity properties of quantum operators. Thanks! (Working through Brian Hall's Quantum Theory for Mathematicians and Frederic Schuller's course at the moment, both highly recommended).
Every student I know already uses Sci-Hub anyway, either directly or through Citationsy Archives (https://citationsy.com/blog/new-feature-citationsy-archives/). All this does is push everyone further into piracy.
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Once upon a time I could find blog posts of people reviewing things, travel, software, equipment etc. Now I just find pages and pages of review aggregators. The advantage of finding a blog was didn't take more than a few clicks to figure out if the blogger and me shared thinking, lifestyles, financial means etc. Now all that is gone. We just have ridiculous aggregation.
Every time I read about the module-level __getattr__ I’m reminded of the infamous Wat talk and how the speaker says Ruby is awesome. Python is equally awesome, finally :p

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
What happens if an app is calling something like google sign in? Plugin found here: https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/google_sign_in

Haven't tried it out on iOS but on Android it will prompt a dialog with the google accounts that are registered in Android.

Anyhow, this is really interesting, I'll keep an eye on this.
So, usual ignorance of anything not related to software and talking out of his behind by RMS. Not surprising. Irritating, but not surprising.
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If it helps, you can click Tools on the right under the search bar on the results page and click Verbatim. I've found that I tend to get better results when I'm looking for something specific.
Google doesn’t always respect quotes
(ack! accidentally submitted early; major edits included with this header)

The hypothesis about how the "anti-" prefix is being parsed is interesting; deploying some type of updated (probably machine learning) ranking algorithm with wild and unpredictable consequences to random subjects of that algorithm is consistent with other environments like YouTube (random & unexplained demonetization, etc).

However, this doesn't change much; the results are the same regardless. Google is responsible for the decision to de-rank antipolygraph either deliberately or indirectly with their design of the ranking algorithm.

If it was due to an algorithm, this is another example of the need for algorithmic transparency. You don't get to abdicate responsibility for decisions simply because an algorithm was used; the choice of algorithm (and the data used as input) is itself a decision.
Which is odd, because I first noted in my comment that it might have changed, then I noticed the article slug HN had matched the page title at the time I was commenting, so I edited it to note that instead. I figured if the article slug used that wording, it was likely the title at posting time, and it was unlikely to have changed and changed back, but I guess either that happened, or HN updates links when it finds permanent redirects (assuming an old URL exists and redirects).

In any case, thanks for the submission. :)
I have seen a lot of people digging up the fibre believing it's copper wires they can steal.
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Rounded to the nearest 5c, not rounded up to the nearest 5c. Also, that is only for cash payments, electronic payments are not rounded.
Not to mention the "commoditized complement" approach, e.g. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

That's probably what's lacking here, anyone with anything to gain by opening up all the bemoaned goodies. Is that Darpa's role?
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WTF is Product/Market Fit?
Agreed. This is exactly how a guide should not be like. Contentwise I think it's good so far.
do you have a recommended list of good piracy sites?
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That's what hypertext is for. Follow the links.
Thanks a lot for the heads up. This seems to be exactly the thing I was dreaming of.

If anyone is interested https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki link contains more information.

I'm surprised I didn't hear of this project before.
Wow, that was nice and succinct.
I tried Snips for a bit the other day on my Raspi 3, and it worked as advertised, detection was great, making skills was simple, and it's much better than Alexa in that you don't have to say "tell <app> to <command>", the entire namespace is immediately available. It's all that I've wanted from such a device.

I do agree, however, that the ICO makes the whole thing feel scammy. It's a terrible idea, I guess they got lured in by the promise of free money and shoehorned a token into their app.
Technically, if you want total power defined by physics that equates to aka power as defined by physics, then the US is 99% solar just like every other country. Look at the solar numbers for all that farm land which is converted to chemical enegery at low efficiency. Then add in passive solar heating etc.

Interestingly 80% of farmland is used to feed animals which give us 20% of our calories. So the total solar energy required for the average diet ends is significantly boosted. More so if you include fish that are high on the food chain.

PS: Might seem pedantic, but it's more often relevant that you might think.
Everything, or virtually anything, is closely priced to energy cost. Virtually everything we use, uses energy to be transformed and then transported to us. If we take care of AC (correlates with hot and sunny days), cooking, charging our cars (why nor charge them when the sun is out?) and other household stuff (we can program to do the laundry at 1pm when the sun is at max) a lot of energy is freed for other stuff. Price drops...
I've had DDG set as default for maybe a year now, across desktop and mobile. As time passes, I find myself using !g less and less, probably less than 10% of the time now. Most of my queries are technical or for common-ish topics, and it's been great.
Scooter crime is exploding in London and police numbers have been falling for a decade.

Personally I've had 3 scooter thefts on the past year, including a bike jacking at a red light - more a robbery than theft.

All these criminals wear balaclavas even if they're not wearing helmets, and they're used to using countermeasures against CCTV, so facial recognition isn't likely to make a big difference to them.
Store the address in each object on set.
Agreed. But a README does not have to be an entire manual; you could start with describing the program and your intentions with it, a long with basic operations. :-)
I, and I assume most people, don't think of Russia as a "developing country" in the common usage at all, at least in the common usage of the term. I see China as a more complex case, but I wouldn't feel comfortable using it as a general example of one because of this same complexity.

As such, your using them as examples or counter examples of developing countries is confusing (at least to me), and I think is misinterpreting the meaning of the original statement.
Problem is, "Find and follow your passion" social expectation from very early in life. In reality, 1) "finding passion" early is hard; Before one turns 12, brain is not fully develop to logically understand the true likes then from 13-19 it goes thru a huge amount of hormonal, emotional and physical changes... what's left is an average 19 year old teen with I'm "not sure my major" in college, let alone the passion.... 2) "follow passion", again the twisted notion where one's work should absolutely be their passion too... otherwise it's just a "hobby" and hobbies are supposedly not helpful....

If one finds their likes early, become really good at it and if that skill pay really well... your are top 0.1% in your field.... for the rest... build a skill that lands you a job then experiment with different hobbies... when you find a hobby you really like hopefully by age 30-35... turn that hobby in to passion, you still have 30-40+ year of average lifetime remaining....
Welcome to software engineering, there always a lot of technical debt, there’s always undocumented parts, and there’s often annoying processes (usually for a reason)

Here’s some advice / observations from someone with a few miles on the clock:

The fact that you can see lots of areas for improvement is promising! It means you’re a good engineer! But remember that coding at a large organisation is a social activity, so seek mentors, suggest changes (and listen to feedback) and always leave the code in a state better than you found it.

If everybody does that the heath of the codebase will improve.

It may feel overwhelming the sheer amount of fixes that seem to be required, but remember that it’s not your responsibility to fix everything, and “how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time”

If you’re suffering depression that’s not purely job dissatisfaction go get some help.

Also personal hobbies to keep some variation - coding or non-coding, you need a break

Good luck on your journey!
It really is too crippled. I wanted to have my various home devices send me notifications (e.g. "3D print finished successfully"), but Alexa just cannot do it. I didn't even want it to spontaneously start saying things, flashing the light until I said "what's up, Alexa?" or something would be great, but nope, nothing.

I really hope Snips catches on, as it's much, much more hackable.
And, maybe even more important; why you created it.
The standard joke is PDF2GDS.

PDF is the document where you write the specs.

GDS (actually GDSII) is the geometry description of chip layers you send to the foundry for fabrication.
As I said downstream, I tried Snips and it's great, so I hope it catches on. Everything works as advertised, it sends all recognized commands to MQTT so integration with anything else is pretty much instant, and detection works well.

I thought of buying the hardware to make the Snips device (to support the company financially as well), but I realized that I use my Echo mostly for Spotify (as it's a bit too crippled to use for much else), which Snips wouldn't be able to support.

I still might get/build one for all the home automation I can't use the Echo for, but a big use case is immediately removed if it can't play Spotify.
When I do a search for Polygraph I get the results from Wikipedia, Vox, APA (http://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph.aspx), NYTimes on the first page. They are mostly critical articles about lie detectors and they all look more like something I'd want to read than AntiPolygraph.org that looks more like a conspiracy blog than well-researched information. I'd say the problem lies somewhere else, not by google censoring your content intentionally.
Most important formula in data science was first used to prove existence of God
Time to get rid of a decimal point! Do we really care about pennies, nickels, and dimes?
Unless moped crime performed by guys with balaclavas is 100% of all the crime that occurs in London, your comment is pointless.

There's a way to attack this crime while reducing the number of policemen, and it's to attack the demographics of it, but of course that will get you called names :-)
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But do they have to be deserts? Couldn't some kind of cover crop be useful both in terms of bee-feeding and in terms of reducing leeching of soil nutrients?
This. Though there is already a $0
.25 coin... Called a quarter.
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Interesting.. since most of my searches are code or tech related, how exactly does DDG compare positively to Google? What difference do you notice that makes you prefer it?

Right now I end up on SO or a handful of other forums depending on the subject.

Might be worth a shot if you say you get better results faster!
Try !s instead of !g. About same results as Google, with way more privacy.
Sure, nobody forces you to publish in Elsevier journals, you will only have less chance of obtaining a grant or tenure in an already outrageously competitive market if you don't.
> much of the software is obscure by today’s standards (including a slightly dubious Star Trek game)

Anybody knows why is the "obscure" "Star Trek" game for BBC Micro described as "dubious"? Especially if it's this one:

http://www.dunnington.info/public/startrek/strek

Background:

http://www.dunnington.info/public/startrek/
100% for years I would try ddg about once a year and end up going back to Google because it just didn't work for me. About six months ago I tried ddg again and have not gone back. Ddg has gotten better and Google has gotten worse.
> 2) They are pursuing a goal of policing with fewer police officers and

There is a difference between policing and surveillance. Confusing the two is a dangerous - and false - assumption.
Weird things that DDG does:

- No geo prioritization. If I'm searching for things in (city I'm current in) I don't care for sites from companies located in (city in the US/Canada with the same name).

- You write "X in Y" (generic example) and autocomplete tries to "fix it with "Z in Y" thanks but I really mean "X in Y". Or sometimes it tries to fix it with even more unrelated things (though sometimes it makes sense).
What's even more infuriating in such a case: even many businesses are missing until you zoom way in.
On desktop, I've resorted to use gmaps with 50-60% browser zoom to get it to show a bigger part of the map at full zoom while still having full symbol density. It's crazy.

(The most ironic part is the pop-up "You should increase browser zoom level to get a better Google Maps experience!". No, Google, not really.)
As a resident of the UK, I perceive a strong political incentive to persue more laws and stronger enforcement of and punishment for violating those laws.

The UK has until recently been trying to follow a policy of reduced public spending and reduced government borrowing. It is natural to assume that any new technology is only being used on this basis.

That doesn’t mean this perception is correct, and the current state of the UK looks to me like they’re trying to promise all things to all people, failing to do almost anything, and increasing annoying everyone as a result — so there isn’t any reason to assume logical coherence either.
False dichotomy. Tobacco smoking was on a downwards trend before vaping anyhow (it just plain stopped being “cool”) so clearly you don’t need vaping as alternative to reduce tobacco usage.
How is attacking the demographics of crime working for America, and the other countries that do that? As far as I understand, the efficacy of profiling is extremely poor