skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google jumped into the market when it was still possible to compete. And they came to the table with a product that was faster, better, cheaper, and more easy to monetize. Google-style data centers reduced costs, sharding and map-reduce plus streamlined design improved speed, pagerank improved quality, low cost fast searches meant that low cost advertisements could still bring in a lot of RoI. From that kernel they grew to dominance, becoming synonymous with the very term "search". Now we live in a different era, one where search is integrated in everything on every platform and where replacing the default search engine is a huge uphill battle.

Let's say that someone creates a better search engine, how would people actually use it? I'll tell you how most people who bothered to use it would integrate into their routines. Firstly they would still use google for everything day to day. They would still use google maps for directions. They would still use gmail for mail. They would still use google search as the semantic front-end for their browsing. Only after they performed a search using google that produced unsatisfactory results would they then pull out the better search engine and make use of it for that one isolated search. And that's the problem, because that scenario is very hard for the better search engine maker to monetize while google would continue reaping the major monitization haul for the vast majority of search uses for that user. And going from zero to completely integrating into a user's experience in the same way that google does now is not a realistic prospect for most startups.
There's a canal in Oxford I walked along regularly, over the course of a year I pulled five bikes out of it, one of them looked brand new.
That sounds horrible. I'd have no intention to make the place nice, to truly make it my home - what's the point if I'm probably elsewhere in a year?
Programming is not easy. Its at-least as difficult as things you try to do with it. A bit like Math. You can't get simpler because you have to work with the reality it models.

The thing with languages like Python. They will lower the bar for entry, but they will keep you at the beginner stage all along the stay.

That's OK. Programming isn't a monolith, we already have several layers of programmers based on the complexity of the task they solve. So Lisp will have its own place, so will languages like Haskell and F#. Its also upto the programmer to decide at which layers they like to work.
At about that time I remember collecting all kind of internet points from websites. In France, Maximiles points were much more frequent than Beenz and since many company wanted to get in, they were giving away quite a lot of points, which could be exchanged for DVDs, videogames, books, etc. It didn't last long but it was great to get a lot of free stuff.

I'm surprised to see Maximiles apparently survived the dotcom bubble [0] - it's still possible to collect and exchange points, though I imagine at a much smaller scale than before.

[0] https://www.maximiles.com/
Not so fast

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17438042
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Show HN: Angular client for boardgame.io
Doesn't need all the Electron baggage so it's much more lightweight on the system while still having all the features (I need).
California just banned soda tax – it should set off alarm bells everywhere
I think most conferences will do well without attendees who consider them 'manchilds and circus freaks'.

Calling a organizer that would get you banned too and I think that's perfectly fine. There is no reason to get personal.
Something doesn’t seem to add up. First of all the story fails to mention that those devices do not only track the target, they track and record all phones in its range, which is a massive breach of privacy and the real issue with those devices.

Furthermore, they allegedly already had his ip, so why bother with a stingray? They could simply tell his cell carrier to provide them with all his location data (as well as further dates).

It seems to me that they went fishing with their stingrays because they didn’t in fact know his real IP address and only knew from a source or other mistakes his approximate whereabouts.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they only had his VPN’s IP and were just looking for everybody connecting to the VPN in the stingray range and this is how they found him.
100% agreed. This is why allowing websites like HN, Facebook, and Twitter to become replacements for the public town hall is a very, very bad idea.
I really doubt it. They never tell what happens in the background. Probably because it would spoil their "magic".
What percentage of traffic comes from Bing though?
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Watching what happened in the UK it appeared we were making a lot of poor decisions on the hoof. In particular pushing Lloyds into buying HBOS didn't work out so well.

I often wonder what would have happened if we hadn't bailed out the banks.
I do wonder who is paying that $7. Is is companies trying to get you to buy their product (that you need) rather than a competitor. Is it companies selling you tat you don't need. Is it companies trying to scam you. Is it companies trying to get your vote?
as I've understood it you've trained a tensorflow model to recognize images of snakes and spiders, and then made a chrome extension that blocks any image the model recognizes from being displayed?

If you allowed people to create models to block by feeding in a google image search, or perhaps other open image feed then they could write in a text that when searched on Google images that returns stuff they want to block, new blocker trains on this model and they turn on that blocker.

Step 3 - allow them to run specific blockers on specific sites.
You keep them out of the loop to some degree and would check against that list during registration. It apparently catches some at least, I am told.

I also know of 2 larger conferences in Europe where accounts were monitored and if activity indicates the person is present, they were removed from the venue by security.
I don't agree. All macros except for things like loop follow the same syntax as a regular function call. The mental overhead of those macros are the same as function calls, with the small difference that you have to know they are syntax so that you don't end up passing it as a function argument.

I would say that the operator voodoo of Haskell is worse, and that is coming from someone that uses Haskell on a daily basis.
Amazed to see such good colors on even cardboard items (like that pokemon pog). Isn't the water supposed to fade paint layers?
Yeah it's basically that simple. All you need is a rope and a good neodymium magnet. If you search for magnet fishing on amazon you can get set up for pretty cheap.

There's tons of videos on youtube about it and there's also a subreddit that looks pretty helpful: /r/magnetfishing/
Ask HN: Google took down Chrome Extension without reason. What should I do now?
Hi all,

I run a bookmarking website (getkozmos.com) and it has a browser extension which is available on Github (https://github.com/kozmos/browser-extensions).

Google took down this extension without even a notice. I just got a message from a user and realized it was taken down, I can not see the reason. The only message I get from the store is "This item has been removed from the store because it did not comply with our policies or terms of service.".

I have a paid developer account and sent bunch of e-mails, also mentioned Google Chrome on Twitter.

No response so far. Noone opened the e-mails I sent (I can see if someone opens an I e-mail I sent, thanks to Superhuman).

I ran out of ideas. I can not imagine how a simple bookmarking extension doesn't comply their policy. All it does is creating a heart button in the browser, and providing a new tab interface to explore the bookmarks.

Ideas & recommendations welcome.

Azer
Did you read my comment? I already addressed that point, twice, two different aspects.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17440121

> it's not like they could be sued (first, Europe, second, just a Twitter block), so the usual (at least understandable) justifications e.g. when not giving reasons when not hiring someone don't apply.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17440185 (all of it, especially the 2nd half)

I would appreciate if you took what the commenter wrote into consideration when you respond. You don't need to change the topic and come up with something completely different - here, job rejections (which I even already mention).
Wow... Is there a way to live and work in tech without having to put up with all this shit ever again ? Why are those politics taking over everything.
This whole thing is a bit amusing.

So Brendan Eich invented JS, and then led Mozilla.

And being in the Brendan Eich Fan Club in 2011 probably was a positive thing and a cool thing for JS people.

Then much later, Brendan Eich donates $1000 to some political thing people strongly disagree with

So retroactively, being a fan of Brendan Eich means you are a homophobic hater and must be blocked?

I am quite sure this ain’t it :)
For everything beyond custom electronic enclosures you should choose our approach ;)

Yes, their approach of having identified basic shapes that serve as a good starting point to customize these to one’s individual specifications seems to be the same. Most of the times we all have quite similar problems we need solutions for, but just a little custom.

Have you used their services before? What did you like and what did you dislike? How could they service your needs better? Thanks @matt_the_bass for making us think about our offering
I doubt they'd do it without warning you before hand to comply to the guidelines.
That's a plastic 'Flippo'. Similar to cardboard milk caps but they came in bags of potato chips and are made of plastic.
Any dumb programmer can write C.

Only a smart programmer can write Lisp. The popularity is proportional to how much cognitive capability requirements of the language. The story is the same with Haskell.
Why not public transport? Over the long term it's cheaper.
You can still learn python after 10 years of it.

It's a language with a gentle learning curve, yes, but a long one.

Don't confuse the fact it gives you quick productivity with being shallow.

Lisp is espacially deep, so i won't dare to compare the 2, but python has way more under the belt that it's reputation. Which is great : only learn what you need at the moment you need it. Then curioisity can take you ahead if you wish.
Perhaps so he can network with people he cares about, and ignore them?
Yes, something other than population, jobs and zoning are determining housing prices. Even a $70k price is twice national average of a generation ago adjusted for inflation.
To answer the author's question, "why do these molecules promote boundless love", it is selection bias. There's surely molecules that produce abject, existential, pants-filling terror, but those molecules dont get shared around in a communal setting, if they get shared at all.
Text version for EU users https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=621752789 , since declining tracking does not redirect to the correct article. It should work well with your browser's reading mode.
I did stray into polemic, but to be fair any serious user, including gamers should upgun their memory. It's cheap and effective. Also one of the complaints about mac book design has been that there is no 32/>32 memory capability!
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Perhaps he shouldn't care about a conference but when the deranged people start affecting employment, then they have crossed a line. Then it's all out war.

They should be ostracized, shamed, fired and barred from employment. We should prevent hiring anybody who shows any sign of belonging to the PC-brigade. (Make no mistake - they are already doing this to their perceived "enemies", and not just based on opinions but even sex and ethnicity.)

We should make companies understand the incredible damage these people can cause.
Django's docs were better than Catalysts (I would agree with you that python's docs aren't great).

Catalyst being Perl had more than one way to do everything, to the point that i couldn't actually work out what the framework was other than the URL router. Django had a far more sane approach which would seem to be needed if its your first time venturing into a web framework.
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Eigenyou Theory - Ribbonfarm
Amazingly well implemented website.

* Works well on mobile

* Does fancy tricks with scrolling without breaking normal scrolling behavior or turning into a performance nightmare

* Good design and very readable (when many other websites seem to equate good design with low contrast, thin text)
If this isn't already, it should be submitted to distill.pub
An announcement would signal the wrong thing. Better to just let some people become aware of the existence of blocking.

This is kind of like considering an "anonymous" donation more deserving of praise than a public one.
The final result of a Bayesian analysis is the posterior probability, which is the product of the prior probability (which can incorporate previous knowledge or convictions) and the likelihood (which is determined by the data you just collected). You can leave out the prior, and just report the likelihood. Another comment mentions this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17438643
Adaptive Cruise is life-changing. I couldn't go back to normal cruise.

A major downside to Adaptive Cruise is when another driver uses your gap to change into your lane, and your car slams on its breaks because suddenly their car is just inches away from yours.

Recklessly aggressive drivers are learning they can take abuse these safety features in the cars of other drivers, making roadways potentially more unsafe.
Ask HN: Does Sophia the robot have any unique capabilities?
I am visiting Sophia the robot today, but I have been wondering if she has any unique skills? Have there been any milestones in AI accomplished with her?
Because the more I read about her, the more I realize that she is just a pretty face ;) and tourism stint. Maybe I am wrong. But her skills are more of supervised learning, I don't even think it is supervised, it even seems scripted. Her jocks seem ahead of time to be learned.

What does her citizenship even mean? Does she have the same right as a Saudi woman, which, btw isn't much. Can she have a bank account? etc

Has anyone tried the Hanson Robotics API, I heard it's open source?

What do you guys know or think?
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> petty, deranged people

That has not been established. Without knowing the author’s history or any background the only thing I can conclude from the conference’s organisers is that they are disorganised and with misplaced priorities: if a potential speaker alleges they’ve been incorrectly blacklisted (and shows no obvious warning signs) then investigating and rectifying the situation as necessary should be a high priority: that’s just good customer service and community leadership - especially as checking the pedigree of a Twitter blacklist is a trivial 5 minute task.

If the author really was unwelcome for some reason or another they would have ignored his email or replied with an short “because...” message - not a “we don’t care” response - because that really does mean they really don’t care.

(Though I’ll make a snark about how the JS community moves so fast that anything useful gleaned from a JS conf would be obsolete in a year’s time anyway - limiting the potential value of his attendance anyway)
Are the long-chain molecules "disassembled", or did they just turn into billions of plastic nano-particles? Out of sight, out of mind? Something falling into tiny pieces isn't necessarily a good thing. For plastics, we want the actual molecules to degrade to something that can enter the usual organic circles of life (the biochemical pathways in various organisms).
The productivity loss of watching the World Cup
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I've always enjoyed teachers who prepare their material well(like you possibly do), but one thing that made teachers for me stand out is doing a great material and also presenting well.

Being able to be sometimes funny or interesting, throwing some anecdotes in the mix, paying attention the the feelings of the students: sometimes things in computer science is hard and tedious.

Recognizing that and that this can make students have a hard time paying attention or enjoying it, might make your class better as for those topics, you would try to maximize the students attention with what I've mentioned above: throwing a joke, giving it some pause etc.

Other than that, I don't believe much further can be achieved. The student must also be willing to learn, and unfortunately not all of them will be willing, at all times. It's just how it is.

I don't teach because it cant pay as good as doing software dev for me(and I don't have a masters), but I've done a lot of stuff at university and teached a lot(was TA, helped people before exams etc) and have really enjoyed that time. But I saw that no matter how hard as I try, if the other part is not willing to listen, there is nothing much I can do. But that doesn't let me down, because for every 1 student that wasn't willing, there were always 20... I hope that later in my life I can teach some at college again, I like it a lot, but the financial obligations people have early in life makes it hard to go through that route, at least in most locations in the world.

Good luck, you are doing a favor to humanity!
Took a glance at this one not so long ago - quite a nice tool to auto-generate PDF docs yet not that good at editing. For such a purpose I still use this PDFfiller https://w9.pdffiller.com but it's a paid one and written in JS. Nevertheless it's well-crafted enough to do all the works on visuals and overall layout
> Likely by using a stingray

Article title: “proved”
But just after he sent a message to several people and probably on twitter and different means, they told him - in a rude way - to stop. He probably didn't stop and he was blocked.
I've not read everything yet but the adversarial attacks remind me of an article I read about evading SVMs and perceptrons by a simple gradient descent.

Biggio et al., "Evasion Attacks Against Machine Learning
at Test Time", http://www.ecmlpkdd2013.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/527.p...
https://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/sofia-robot-hanson-robotic...
For example in this article, the conversation seems scripted:

Goertzel then asked Sofia what is her next frontier and what does she want to achieve.

"Don't know, maybe the world," she said. "Maybe the world. That was a joke.

"Seriously," she continued, "what I really want is to understand people better and to understand myself better. I want to be able to do more things and soon my capabilities will be advanced enough that I will be able to get a job."
> Tesla certainly has strategies to respond if GM/Toyota enter their markets.

Elon Musk's stated purpose for Tesla is to kill the fossil fuel industry, not to create a profitable enterprise. And he is tracking well towards that stated purpose. He actually wants those much bigger companies to start doing what Tesla is doing at scales that they can achieve and Tesla can't. He said this very clearly in an interview with DiCaprio. I don't know why people keep thinking there's some master plan to be profitable when the guy steering the ship has repeatedly said the plan is orthogonal to profitability.

As an investor, I am well aware of this. I'm also well aware that the profits of SpaceX eclipse what Tesla could achieve even in its best case scenario, so he probably really doesn't give a shit about making profit via Tesla.
Great post and sums up my experience as well. Have tried all you have and more (accept never got around to trying a Topre. I refuse to spend more on a keyboard than an i5 CPU).
Amazingly, that Dell keyboard is ALSO the same exact KB that got me to just the same two cents as you! Typing on that Dell KB522 right now and have been for 7 months after someone recommended it to me in a popular online keyboard community.

Dell has history of making some of the best membrane keyboards. I had a SK-8115 for 3 years, then used one of their Taiwan RT7D5JTW Quietkey keyboards for 7 years and then I went through my mechanical phase for a year. Only to end up back on a Dell membrane.
Note that the above acknowledgement was only just added[0], likely in response to this blog post.

[0] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust/commit/e0d3adf656db000b1c...
Well, the UK government seemed to genuinely believe that had they not bailed them out that we might have been in a pretty bad situation: looting, troops on the streets etc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24184728

However, with the benefit of some hindsight - I do wonder if these stories were just a bit exaggerated for political reasons.

Also, if the implosion of the payment system is an existential threat to a country then why haven't done anything to ensure that this couldn't happen again? Yanis Varoufakis mentions in one of his books that he proposed a alternate government controlled payment system that could be used if Greek banks stopped functioning - why don't we have something like that prepared to fall back on in a future crisis?
Where is the evidence that any “PC brigades” are raising illegitimate complaints affecting people’s careers?

Your post reads like fear-mongering of laughably incorrect activist-left stereotypes. This is HN, we can do better than that.
Of course, then you have a societal problem in that you’re tying people’s ability to keep a roof over their head to their ability to correctly find a partner they can be with for multiple decades.
How open is too open?