skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cuil. On a serious note, it seems to me that barrier to entry for search is now exponentially higher than it was when they started. I'm not sure if it's even doable with small resources (in proverbial garage) anymore.
It is already happening that some (old) sites or blogs aren't popping up in their search results.
I doubt regulators have ever suggested breaking up a company into a bunch of dependent subsidiaries. There's probably not an office at the DoJ where lawyers are turning over tables and screaming 'you have foiled us again with your restructuring shenanigans, Google'.
Due to various double sandwiches there a lot of non US Googles with good assets to go after.
Conflusion?
Some technological progress is good and some of it bad.
Sure, that might be one factor, but the global imperialism of the British and United States is another huge factor.
adwords and adsense are patented by Google. DoubleClick was a more impactful acquisition than YouTube, hence $3.1B vs $1.5B

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/technology/14DoubleClick....
And to me that means Moviepass has done its job. I subscribed to the annual Moviepass plan, tried to use it last night (which failed, see article), so signed up for the Cinemark Movieclub, which lets me buy tickets online, and days in advance.
> They could introduce incentives to reduce the number of movies people saw a week? They could also start taking the most expensive users of their platform

They've already done this. Just like unlimited data doesn't really mean unlimited. I guess they need to lower the thresh hold even more and affect more of their customers?
I just (well, a few days ago) explained to you that your suggested "solution" would result in UB.

Then you come up with the "solution" that everybody must always check for NULL pointers before dereferencing them. If everybody always did that we might as well just define the behavior of reference-after-free, because what you said either a) requires you to keep a reference count (or null-check before every deref which may be even more expensive) at runtime(!), or b) requires a program-level proof.

So... no. What you suggested is not a solution in any meaningful sense.
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... and benefits from horizontal scaling.

Maps is okay, search is okay. Maps that can take signal from search to figure out what people care about, and search that can utilize geographic signal to guess what a person might want as an answer for "restaurants near me" is huge.
They could start on Google Cloud and work their way out from there. ;)
> who would hopefully guide them around pitfalls like this.

The technical staff interfacing with AWS is probably many layers removed from the day-to-day employees that use this sort of software in law enforcement. Federal agencies like the CIA & FBI have trained analysts to do this work, but your local law enforcement agency isn't going to have this level of specialization or training. You can look at the history of any new tool of forensic science and see unfortunate abuse when it's first deployed (like DNA evidence).
Changing the laws won't change the culture. The article clearly stated that she didn't do anything illegal, yet still wound up having to do 100 hours of community service just for getting 'caught' not-breaking the law.

As they say, you can beat the charge, but you can't beat the ride.
Why the downvote? It’s a serious question. IIRC you could buy an ice cream cone for perhaps .05-.10?
Good luck with that. That can take decades. How long have people been trying to change the War on Drugs laws? By the time you get that done, you'll be too old to have kids. Changing the laws means changing the culture, and these laws are a byproduct of our culture of fear. You're not going to change that any time soon.
I'm not sure their view into the human mind goes much beyond insights gleamed from searches like "cat videos" and "good restaurants".
No, I have graduated by the end of last Spring semester. I purchased the product while I still was a student last year. I will become Master's student once again in within two months.
I _started_ working as a developer when in my mid-30's. I am 50 now. I get paid more than I did when I was younger, and I generally have less trouble getting a job. However, two caveats:
1) your age is not necessarily held against you, but it also doesn't buy you anything. Expect to need to learn new skills every year, just like your 20-something coworkers.
2) the older you get, the easier it is to feel snarky about every new technology that comes along, and nobody wants to work with that guy, even when they are sometimes right. Suppress the urge to pour scorn on every new library/framework/language/architecture that comes along. If it is actually that bad, then it will become apparent. In the meantime, see what you can learn from it.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James Nicoll
At the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) we
are using a DICOM server written in Common Lisp [1]. DICOM is a network protocol used for medical images and other medical data. This
was originally developed as part of the Prism radiation therapy treatment planning system [2][3], which was completely written in Common Lisp, and was used as the sole
planning system at UWMC for many years.

1. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=963921

2. https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml/papers/lisp40yrs.pdf

3. https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(96)00322-7/abs...
Please keep generic ideological comments off HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I thought most of it made sense. However:

Open the translation

If you don't mind the distraction, you can also check the translation of the current subtitle line while you are watching the movie.

I would shorten that. For starters, take out the intro phrase "if you don't mind the distraction." It's an unnecessary distraction.

My mother says she learned English by watching TV. She had less of an accent than most German immigrants I knew growing up.

I think this is a great idea.
One complaint about English is that double negatives are not grammatically correct. The word "not" is so important it should be re-enforced in someway. Spanish supports double negatives. The French add redundancy with "ne" and "pas".

It's worth noting that American gangsters often talk with double negatives and the U.S. military use the phrase "repeat NOT" since their discussions are often mission critical. But I am certain their are countless examples of harm because someone in a hurry, omitted the word 'not' in a discussion or email.
To add another data point. Middle-class South Africa is pretty much the same. The laws might not be as strict but there is a lot of peer/social pressure. You should see the traffic jam around schools including high schools where kids as old as 17 are dropped off.
But wasn't WGA somewhat a part of verifying a given installation of Windows wasn't pirated?
I'm not only disappointed in the ACLU for misinterpreting the results, but also because I usually have a lot of faith in their competency, and they absolutely should have seen this response coming from Amazon.

What'd they think Amazon was going to do, roll over and be like "turns our our facial recognition software is racist, woops!"? Now instead of a meaningful dialog, we've got a line in the sand where on one side, the ACLU, champion of the people's rights, doesn't understand technology, and on the other side, facial recognition software is Bad and Evil. Shits so polarizing these days it seems there's no room for negotiation, as much as I'd like there to be.
Google doesn't keep others out of the search market through any other means than just being better...

They have 98% market share in europe. They also provide the main revenue source (AdWords) and the most important implementation of the web stack (Chrome) - which fitted with mandatory automated updating. If you combine those factors, they are in a position where they can to a large part dictate what the de-facto standards for a successful website are. They can also rapidly change those standards or choose to promote or bury certain technologies.

If that is not an advantage over competitors, I don't know what is.

And this is just for the web. On Android - about half the worldwide market for mobile apps - they are not even a market participant at all. They are basically the government.
Indeed.

As bad as the current supervisors are, the former ones were a hundred times worse as they opposed ALL development.

And because of the changing demographics of the city, the worse politicians were voted out. Which basically proves my point.

And as demographics continue to change, the political power of this voting Bloc will continue to improve as well.

Maybe in another decade this increase in voting power will allow us to vote in politicians who are actually decent, as opposed to merely being less horrible than previous ones.

Yes, techie voting power has fought off the worst of the problems, but we can still continue to improve.
nit: Android was purchased long before Apple entered the market. Doesn't change your argument, no one was expecting vendors to rush to a new OS because of the iPhone revolution.
The problem arises when needing to know how frequently to checkpoint, i.e. the size of said blocks. If I am running the emulator on a machine 200x faster than the emulatee, the check should be every instruction because we have the time and executing too many instructions between syncs will be very noticeable. But if I am running the emulator on a machine 1.05x faster than the emulatee, we don't have a lot of time to work with, so you'll guess at the block size between checks? Get it wrong and you've done too many ops or too few. Either way, you definitely don't have time to sleep or use small block sizes. I'm sure I'm over thinking it.
They've done this in the UK for at least a decade. The two biggest chains each have an unlimited subscription service. They're both £18 though, so a lot more than moviepass
I looked at an AMC I've been to. They have 20 movies listed as available to see today. Many only have 2 showings or something, but they have 20 screens, they seem to turnover more than 5 or 6 movies in a month.
When a user searches for "Restaurants near me," how does Google answer that question reliably without using its own mapping service?

Trying to feed that query to a third-party service and then give users the results back adds significant risk that the third-party changes their API, changes their feature-set in an incompatible way, goes out of business, gets in a corporate fight with the search provider...

It's both cheaper and more convenient for the end-user if the search provider handles the mapping itself (in the absence of some kind of universal understood interface standard, complete with some kind of incentive to adhere to it).
Indeed. It is quite odd (perhaps to the point of being misleading) to use scientific notation ahead of "tonnes of kg", instead of just using scientific notation combined with Kg.

I made this mistake reading the article–I divided 10^7 / 10kg per car --> only enough cobalt for about 10^6 cars (1 000 000) cars.

Instead the calculation is 10^7 tonnes * 10^3 kg/tonne = 10^10 kg / 10kg per car = enough cobalt for 10^9 battery packs = 1 billion cars.

I think we will be ok...
The laws are put in place as a measured response to real threats. You need to remove those threats first before the laws can be changed.
It's their own business. That's like saying your sales team is colluding with your engineering team. Also, no one forces anyone to use Google. And am I to assume that you do everything you can to help your competitors?*

* I say these things as someone who has many problems with Google--and as someone who does in fact assist his competitors :O
Twitter has some misguided PR priorities. So many news stories include tweets from extreme perspectives that have gotten thousands of likes/retweets/whatever. Since Twitter really works on their API for this, it's clear they think it's a good thing.

This is their biggest source of free advertising and it always presents Twitter as a fringe-fest or, worse, knee-jerk mob mentality and nothing more.

They really need to re-think promoting a system that gives the outside world a view of only the most extreme and unflattering view. No matter your political views, someone you respect will have negative Tweets presented in the news. It really makes it feel like it's only a platform for someone else.
Because then this is pretty much a false statement:

> Unlike petroleum, batteries are almost 100% recyclable.

Although they can be, they're not.

That's a big point in electric cars, that I think gets swept under the rug in the green-washing of electric cars: the main widget that makes electric cars electric cars is discarded as hazardous waste.

It's too costly and impractical to recycle them. We essentially want to replace a billion gasoline cars with electric ones, and the tech. to recycle those future billion batteries doesn't really exist.

Just a point I wanted to be cleared up.
I remember spending way too much time reading threads on usenet (fr.comp.sys.mac, mostly) on the beloved MacSOUP. In this dial-up area it was great to be able to download a forum content and read it offline, writing the answers offline, and then synchronizing everything when going online.

On the other hand my communication skills were atrocious, and it took me way too long to understand that sarcasms have no place on forums...

In many ways I feel like reddit is sort of the new usenet (without warez, as far as I know), but it's not quite the same.
No technological progress is bad. Sometimes this progress is used badly, but knowledge is definitely not bad.
Shareware.
How common is this, really? Are parents in the US being regularly harassed for minor things like in the article? I'm not trying to discredit this person's story, but it's easy to believe that this is an "issue" when everything is anecdotal.
This is the idea behind Esperanto, the movement behind which further stipulates that the common second tongue should be universally second, to avoid privileging native speakers and promulgating hegemony. (Granted, Esperanto vocabulary and orthography is quite Euro-centric.)

Learning a second language is difficult, especially one very unlike your native tongue. Native speakers of the de facto lingua franca always have a first-order advantage.
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The WSJ article says that's for standard 2D films. But A-List encourages subscribers to see 3-D, IMAX, Dolby, etc. It also says the studios aren't on board with the $8.99 figure and are seeking changes in AMC's calculations.

https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2018/06/25/amc-s...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hollywood-studios-fear-amcs-new...

The studios are not going to sit back and accept just $5 per admission to Black Panther on 3-D IMAX on Saturday night of opening weekend, when that ticket retails for $18-25 (depending on location). Studios usually collect 80-90% of ticket revenue for big movies on opening weekend.
The best point that the article touches on is that English is a good "neutral" language for countries like Sudan and entities like the EU with many different languages spoken. There is a bit of a snowball effect where any language having the advantage of being spoken as a cross-cultural communication language further incentivizes learning that language for people wishing to communicate in that manner. I think such a universal language existing is good for the world, it's just somewhat unfair how such a language gets chosen. English is an adaptable language, but I think much more importantly, English has been native language of one superpower or another for the past 200 years

I completely understand how someone would feel attacked by the fact that their children or grandchildren may not fluently speak the same language due to the influence of English. But at the same time, though the author somewhat dismisses it, this seems pretty nationalistic - though we shouldn't ignore that promoting English due to chauvinistic nationalism is just as silly.

I do think in the end, people will glad if in X*100 years the vast majority of the world will be able to communicate with each other in one language. The main unfairness is that the way that language was chosen (assuming it is English) was through militaristic and economic domination
> Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, French etc

The pre-Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of Britain have seemingly made little impact on English, aside from retention of some British and Roman (and Romano-British) place names.

> Considering that English has basically emerged as a "pidgin" languages, taking elements from the languages of various peoples coming to the islands -- Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, French etc -- and being simplified in the process

There's no clear evidence that English was ever pidginised in England (though there are of course lots of English-based pidgins/creoles). There does, interestingly, seem to be some truth in there being an increased 'simplification' as languages gain more speakers, but mainly at the level of morphology, and not necessarily in syntax/semantics or phonology. (For instance, English still retains /θ/ and /ð/, which are really rare sounds crosslinguistically, especially having both of them.)

Hindi is actually not so dissimilar to English in having been impacted by lots of different languages. Just as English is at its core a Western Germanic language (closely related to the Germanic languages of the low countries and neighbours), Hindi is at its core a northern Indo-Aryan language. But just as English was impacted by other Germanic languages (e.g. Norse) and then Norman French (itself a Romance variety acquired by Germanic speakers), and so forth, modern Hindi reflects the influence of a number of languages around the area of Delhi, including Punjabi, as well as heavy Persian influence (where Persian itself was already impacted by Arabic), and even retains some Turkic words carried into India by the Persianised Mughals, and then later on Portuguese and English.

English's place in the world really seems to be the result of a snowball effect of socio-economic factors, rather than anything linguistic.
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In previous centuries French and Spanish were dominate. English emerged in the last century for political reasons, not because it was easy to speak/learn.

I'm pretty sure Greek and Latin filled a similar role, but I don't know my history well enough to claim it as a fact.
If you are contacting a customer, and the customer was not expecting your communication, calling by name is an additional way to assure that the communication is not made by mistake.

Person to person, it should be used in moderation, like, well, anything else.
Having before college stumbled across the "study then toss it to the background and wait for inspiration" method, and used it successfully ever since (& having studied neuroscience in college & seen other similar mistakes), I can say that the author's study & results are likely accurate, and definitely irrelevant.

The key is NOT, as the author describes, to work hard on topic B while topic A is expected to percolate in the background process. This will have the exact result that he found, no progress on A, and indeed many studies show that it will actually interfere with learning/cogitating A to immediately switch to work/study/cognition on topic B.

Instead, the method requires focus on topic A until near exhaustion, then active rest -- do something not requiring any big mental energy/focus, e.g., go for a walk, do work with your hands, go to a cafe for idle conversation, and await inspiration (with writing implements at hand ready to write furiously & in no particular order when it arrives).

He highlights a nice little study showing 1, stuff we already knew (similar to studies I read of decades ago), and 2, are irrelevant to the question at hand.

I'd go even further to counter his title and say that there is barely any such thing as conscious thought, and that the vast majority of thought is unconscious.
This Coursera Course is pretty interesting:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/internet-history
Or even just the cultural exports due to British and US media (BBC, Hollywood, etc) or the desire to do business in wealthier markets.
"Your product" is something completely different if you're a mom-and-pop shop or startup or if you have 90% market share. This is why antitrust exists and what arguments like this always seem to ignore.
A mortgage guarantee is normally good for a non-trivial amount of time. If you're really worried about this you could string them along "until you find something".
A month ago I built an entire working MVP for a cloud-based biomedical knowledge management, discussion, and decision-making system, entirely in CL (ccl), using raw HTML, down to the metal, in a week. And we went from MVP to mid-VP (near beta) in another three days, and were running live user experiments at the end of that week. ~2000 lines of CL. One.5 weeks' work. MVP NLP and ontology management, discussion management, role management.

Yes, I'm for hire! :-)

ps. That was a month ago. What I've done in the meantime, aside from wind surf, is build the AI underneath that -- another 2000 lines of working CL. Lisp Rules!
English is also nice in that there is no "baked in" formal or informal use of the language. I think it breaks down barriers in conversations with a superior or a random stranger. I wonder if this has any larger scale effects...
Another factor there might be that "redhead" rolls off the tongue quite a bit better.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again.

Also, please avoid name-calling like "intentionally dense", even when you're not attacking someone specific. It lowers discussion quality and points the vector downward for others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>>People mentioned it can come back after a couple months, you'd notice quickly as your feed quality would suck, you just redo the same.

Don't you feel like a rat in an experiment?

What's the point of this if you don't even own the controls to the software?

Rhetorical questions.
Wait nothing about that Atlantic article suggests people are funding libraries less because of book boxes? I'd be shocked if there was a correlation there (I'm not at all shocked by the correlation with book boxes and affluent neighborhoods).

Also as an aside, if you are thinking about doing a book box there is no need to give the littlefreelibrary organization money. You can just put one up.
did you originally open the account using an "alternate email"?......and now they have Temporarily Suspended the account...?

But they give you the option to provide a text able phone number and give you 10 minutes to use the texted Access Code?

I have had that happen 3 times......... they after your cell phone number and holding your account hostage to get it.

They will not respond to any other option nor give evidence of what they claim violated any Terms of Use. They just say "Suspected".
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Chemical/electrod...
Sure! Can you point out what's been inflammatory? I mostly try to keep it to conversational fidelity, so I can see how what I post can be interpreted as trolling.
Uber also plans to cut costs significantly in the future w/ autonomous cars. May be a pipe dream, but if they believe in the successful widespread deployment of the technology, that means they just have to stay afloat until then.

MoviePass could start to make their own movies, but that would require a substantial investment and isn't really comparable