skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s interesting how all these points would be super simple to validate a decade ago.

> They have no exclusive rights to "search". Bing, DDG, Yahoo, and more all compete in the same space.

They sponsor firefox and safari, so have exclusive rights on the default settings though.

Bing can’t be the default search engine on anything with more than 10% user share.

> They are not prevent me from using another search engine

Android system search is locked at the maker level if they include Google Play, and isn’t bootloader locking becoming the norm, worsening the locking ?
2010:
https://searchengineland.com/google-now-counts-site-speed-as...

It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor

2018:
https://searchengineland.com/google-speed-update-page-speed-...

Starting in July 2018, Google will finally use mobile page speed as a ranking in their mobile search results.
Maybe they're alluding to the $420/share going private tweet? Rumored to be weed inspired
Do you mind saying something we can learn from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nobody made anyone use the telephone network either. There were alternative, less preferred methods of long distance communication. But once an incumbent builds in self-reinforcing network effects--be they telephone lines or a rich network of data--they are able to leverage it to immense strength, left unchecked.
I was just about to come and post the same thing. It's hard to imagine it's not intentional, even the contrasting colors are similar and on the same sides. I'd think the authors may want to reconsider the logo as they have some commercialization of the tool (pro support.)
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Massive tax cuts for the wealthy, particularly for capital gains and dividends, have reduced the resistance for money escaping corporations into the hands of investors, rather than the value add of paying employees more or improving working conditions and benefits. These changes started to occur in the 1980's, rather than the Dodge vs. Ford decision from 1919.

While it is certainly true that nothing legally changed (edit: this isn't true: there is a full on attack on collective bargaining ongoing) in the more recent 30-40 years to allow for the massive accumulation of wealth and corporate practices that make the 'FULL STOP' in the original comment more accurate than before, the modification of tax law certainly has had a major impact.
Firefox definitely autofills ports based on your history. Below is a screenshot of it doing it for me.

https://imgur.com/a/VRXsyUf

I don't know what is going on with your nginx setup. Most likely you've configured it differently than you think you have, or are making different requests in Firefox and Chome without realizing it. Both firefox and chrome behave the same for me when I make an http request to to a server using https (e.g. http://www.example.com:443/)
> I can only imagine how many bugs I would type at this stage of my career after being used to [] for arrays but forgetting the pipe, and getting a list instead.

Luckily, the compiler would catch this anywhere you tried to use a list where an array was expected.

> how common it is to use lists versus arrays?

Lists are far more common in day-to-day usage. The language even has native syntax for list consing and destructuring, which is useful for pattern matching.

OCaml arrays do have their place though, if you have a fixed number of items and need random access. Float arrays are also specialized, their elements are unboxed and contiguous which helps with performance for certain types of number-crunching applications.
In the movie "Wall Street" (1987) Gordon Gecko has his lackey Bud Fox follow a rival around to try and figure out what he's going to invest in, so they can undercut him.

He follows him to a private jet and finds out it's flying to mid-sized city that happens to be the corporate headquarters of a particular company. In the movie it's sort of implied that this activity is illegal.

I wonder if it actually was, and if so, why that would be different than what those hedge fund guys you reference were doing?
The actual solution is to stop manufacturing infinite plastic, and stop wrapping every single thing that is sold in throwaway plastic.

The idea that we can "clean it up" is the sort of foolish impossibility that the packaging industry / recycling industry / garbage manufacturing industry will latch on to to distract us from the real problem which is the never ending infinite unstoppable flow of garbage that they pour out every single day.

We need to stop making garbage, not try to clean up the flow that we make.

If you want to solve the "garbage world" that we now live in, start putting the blame on the packaging industry / the garbage makers.
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Spare me. If you've paid $3,000 for the car and sell it for $150 in scrap the next day, that's not a win win transaction.
Well, if customer prone to lose anyways - "brokerage" is in good shape to collect commissions.

They'd be in trouble if customer suddenly strikes high margin gold and want to withdraw.
If acknowledging that force can take other forms than physical or legal restraint and that not all market interactions are equal and necessarily borne of free will is now a communist position, then yeah, I’m a communist now. Wouldn’t have expected that to happen, but life is full of surprises.
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We tried both Mountebank and Wiremock and opted for Wiremock as it had more features we needed. We run thousands of tests every time a developer commits and we see no problems using the Java API.

We did run into an issue a small when we parallelized our tests. After a certain parallel factor we saw what looked like Wiremock not being able to keep up. However this might be FUD and we were running these tests all on one machine including a docker-composed test harness so there were a lot of moving parts

Overall Wiremock is excellent. I really rate the functionality to attach state to scenarios. You can model quite complex behaviour with this
Except Vienna housing keeps getting more expensive as there isn't much stock available.
Based on another comment you made, I looked at your resume, here are my thoughts:

* Skip the crammed-together logo crap and links on the left.

* More whitepace, it's hard to read.

* Don't jam the position/company/location/dates all on one line.

* It's impossible to figure out what you (think you) know without reading everything: without a summary section you likely won't get past many automated or human systems.

* Even after reading your experience I have almost zero clue what languages and environments you know, have familiarity with, prefer, or enjoy.

* Stop with all the freakin' icons, flags, and pictures.

* References on request.

* Elide all/most of the "Personal Interests"

* Nobody cares about your iBooks in 2005

* I would keep the language, education sections; academic awards, meh; as a hirer, I don't care.

* Add a better summary section.

* Add usable, relevant info to the job history (e.g. "I wrote this", BFD: what did you use to write it?) or add an overall technology section, and don't lie, because if whoever is interviewing you is anything like you, I will ask about the weirdest shit you put on your resume.

Bottom line: lots of wasted space, way too light on actionable data. No clue what you actually know, what you want to do, how any of your experience is relevant to what I'm hiring for.

Tangential: For better or worse, your religious views will raise certain feelings in certain people. And if your life was predetermined, then this is all what's supposed to happen anyway, right? So why complain? Just sayin'.
It doesn't have to be new, but we have new and more ways to increase shareholder value. Like vastly improved methods of automation that have appeared in the past few decades.
And thank you for it. Tangent lines have never meant much to me; your way of explaining feels much more intuitive.

Also, I love your algorithms book! It is the main resource I used when preparing for my coding interviews.

Thanks again, I look forward to your next project!
Here's a really good video talk of some real-world mobile testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hK_BQVqvZ0
It's not like Google can influence Berlin zoning laws to build more apartments ...
I'm not a lawyer, but this definition can't possibly be correct, can it? If you're a janitor and you come across a piece of paper or a conversation between bigwigs discussing a merger and sell it to a trader, the trader and the janitor can surely both be sent up the river for insider trading, right?
What he describes isn't gambling though, it's a very detailed and tedious list of tasks that are apparently necessary to succeed.
Doesn’t google claim that if your website loads as quickly/is as light as amp it will recieve an equal rankings boost?
Where I live people are on facebook selling home cooked food and offering to do handy man work. Jobs I grew up with in fast food that could be relied on to provide 38 or so hrs a week now provide my teenagers 16-20. The teenagers are competing with adults for the jobs.

I am of the opinion outside metropolis areas the entire nation is running on Empty as far as finance goes. The people I know who live here and work normal blue collar jobs run just under the max on their credit cards and keep alive by paying minimum. Opening new lines of credit to pay for emergencies

Granted this is only my personal experiences but its common enough its disturbing.

When people run out of money to buy things what happens ?
Yeah, cause moving from a text domain with no collision possible to some sort of collision prone visual system to ensure are able to understand the domain they are viewing seems like a great idea.

FFS, if users cant see that somedomainname.com is different than somedomanname.com how does a randomized image of the domain name based on a hash solve this.
> Steam controller/Steam Link > Huge flop

Totally agree! I bought a steam controller and it gathers dust. They didn't pair the release of the controller with a killer game, there's nothing pushing me to use this over my mouse and keyboard. My friend has a steam link and it needs a lot of polish, some games don't work and it crashes a lot.

> VR

Another flop because of no killer game. A couple indie studios put out some quick hacks you might call video games, but other than that.. yeah total flop. I do see VR booths at places new age arcades like Dave & Busters, but I doubt there's enough of them to prop up the whole industry.

Fortnite is one more nail in the coffin for them. Video games are a zero sum game - I can only play one game at a time and there are only so many hours in the day for me to play. If I'm playing Fortnite, then I'm not playing Dota 2.
Well, okay, but "make the entire world stop making plastic" is not something that an individual can actually do, while "build a big ocean plastic harvester" evidently is.
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Also this video talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xQCNf_5NNM
>Captricity then uses sophisticated machine learning to package up these fields (we call them “shreds”) into quickly identifiable packets.

Reminds one of the "Librareome Project" from Rainbows End. That book is dense with the future...

ISTM a ML firm that can't get the ML to work and falls back to Mechanical Turk (how did that wonderful name get past corporate PR?) is kind of like Theranos using normal blood tests to stand in for their imaginary ones: at least as much of a scam on investors as on customers.
The solution is: You're not gathering evidence.

Instead, you are making sure that deliverables are clearly defined, and expectations are clearly understood.

Then it becomes binary: did they meet expectations, or did that fall short.

Your evidence is properly documenting that you clearly communicated deliverables and expectations, AND the other person understood and agreed to both.
The American right and center are willing to break bread with the left, those on the left have bullied eachother out of doing the same.
I've worked in a place with a "high school" office culture and it was horrific.

At the time, the company had no structured way of determining your work performance so it was all based on people's opinion. If your manager thinks you're amazing and tells others, then that information gets passed up amongst the ranks. Social value (popularity) meant more for your career than actually doing good work.

A former coworker once saw my email inbox and commented that I had a lot of unread emails (over 3000). A few weeks later, I got brought into an office by my manager where he kept stating how vital it was that emails need to be read. I do read emails -- I just don't read Github notification emails.

Any office culture that revolves around rumors and reputations will likely be a dysfunctional one.
Conformity is a rational method that society uses to maintain order. It shouldn't be surprising. That's an objective observation and my own values are irrelevant to it.
Although China is on the other side of the equation, it provides plenty of clear examples showing automation not eliminating jobs. It changes the available jobs, and generally improves them (ie digger operator instead of hand-shovel "operator") but jobs are still available.
a monopoly is not defined by the things you list. it is instead defined by the ability to exert disproportionate power on a market, enough to create favorable conditions for itself (i.e., it's anti-free market).

it's usually characterized by a large, but not necessarily majority, market share in a given industry or segment (monopolies can have as little as 30% market share), and pricing power, both of which google has in search.
> The opposite effect was observed with the patients given a dose of their own pre-antibiotic microbiome via FMT. Their native gut microbiome returned to normal within days.

Maybe in the future people have 'shit banks' similar to blood banks. You make a deposit before you take antibiotics. Then you take a transplant after using the antibiotics.

It seems like FMT can be done in pill form as well. You eat a capsule that travels past stomach before it dissolves.
> Instead he went the old-fashioned route: Advertising.

Not the best point to bring up, considering that Google owns a significant portion of online advertising…
Mailchimp. It's free up to 2k contacts and it's got a great feature set.
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>We don't measure well performance of a company in terms of hiring people.

I feel like you're implying we should. But people having to work is a cost, both to the company and to society as a whole. It's like suggesting we measure the effectiveness of an engine by how much smoke it emits. The measure of an engine is the power it's generating, and the measure of a company is whether it can produce something that's more highly valued than the sum of costs, an attribute that is pretty tightly knit to shareholder value (certain modern era tech companies notwithstanding...).
It would probably be easier to just build an AMI for one of the existing mailserver-in-a-box systems to proxy email via an AWS t2.nano instance. You can run a t2.nano with a 3-year reserved instance for $30/yr, and then proxy all your mail to and from your home server on non-standard ports.
It looks horrible to me. I use a lot of FP math, and I'm not going to pick up the habit of sprinkling these dots everywhere. The fact that the language designers would even seriously consider this solution tells me it's not for me.

YMMV, of course.
let's talk about it here
eh, whatever, it's legal in CA. if a bunch of people in new york want to freak out about it, let them.

also the execs that quit are simultaneously useless and easily replaced MBA types. call me when engineering or manufacturing brass leave. i could care less about communications officers, HR and accounting leadership.
I'm saying that it's unsustainable to maintain a hundreds of features for the benefit of different slices of 1% use.
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I'm interested in having an offline backup of my Gmail, ideally in a standardized format. I was about to use Outlook but it wants to "Sync Gmail with the Microsoft Cloud". Is Thunderbird still a viable option?
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AFAIK all these - Bing, DDG, Yahoo, and more all compete in the same space. - are simply a single search engine (Bing) with some additions over the top. I suspect that there are about 4 true search engines remaining in the world, two of which are strictly regional (Baidu and Yandex) and Bing is only remaining afloat due to sheer willpower of MS which may end abruptly, as with some other products. I consider this state (with all other factors) as effectively a monopoly.
Long term: yes, the controversial banning of "native" code [1] is in part motivated by the idea that JS should be an interchangeable implementation detail.

Short term, officially: hell no, Evan declares a sharp focus on one use-case and discourages experiments with other platforms, even server-side node.js [2].

Short term, unofficially: I heard of a compiler to Elixir [3]. Elm's stance on "native code" (see above) seems to make such projects feasible.

[1] https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/native-code-in-0-19/826

[2] https://github.com/elm/projects/blob/master/roadmap.md#can-i...

[3] https://github.com/wende/elchemy
To preempt the discussions that happen every single time this project comes up:

* Being able to clean up environmental messes is more important than preventing them in the future, and they are not mutually exclusive.

* The quality of the recovered plastics is lower than conventional recycled plastics, but they are sold at a premium to brands who want environmental responsibility credit.

* Yes, we should prevent plastics from reaching the ocean by cleaning at the mouth of the contributing rivers - but the only reason we have identified these primary sources contributing to the ocean garbage problem is because of the research published by this same group.
Putting a tax on plastic would be a great start.
If there is an APP called anti malware or anti spyware or mega antivirus there is a 90% chance that it is just the opposite.
Why the angry language?
It looks like a relatively light weight dam that blocks most of the sand in wet weather run off.

Following is my interpretation:

Basically the dam slows the flow of runoff enough to allow the sand content to sink. The bulk of the water flows over the dam, at that point containing mostly just silt (so nutrients for farming?). This results in the water being able to saturate the ground on the upstream side of the dam while also resulting in cleaner water down stream.
Thanks for sharing. Important context regarding Uber’s pivot into all forms of transit (bike, scooter, public transit). They must see the same writing on the wall.
No, I had not. Interesting idea. Presumably over the existing SSH, rather than using the rsynd-deamon?

Not a bad idea, but I guess I'd need to think about it. Mostly the "large" files I pull from github, or distribution sites. I tend to only upload some simple config-files, and systemd-service units. So the extra overhead of SCP isn't so significant.
100% agreed. Cynicism abounds, but at least they're doing something even if it fails. Embracing failure, moving fast, learning, and pivoting needs not be limited to early-stage tech companies.
Check out Richard Perkins of Ridgedale Permaculture. While he also does offer courses and has written a book (which I can recommend), he also puts out a lot of information for free on Youtube.

A major emphasis of his work is to run his farm as a profitable business while using Permaculture design principles.

Is Regenerative Ag Profitable? Looking at Return on Investments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A0uNUN9UG0&ab_channel=Richa...
> it seems outrageous to claim that it can 'actually hurt you' when, in fact, we have no idea what's going on.

Uhm, wait isn’t that exactly how the lack of knowledge actually works?
Is it odd that instead of a large company, I think W3C should be setting standards? Lockout is a game I've seen played by nearly all of the big tech companies, why is this different?

Another concern, I write hobby JavaScript web apps, this AMP seems to limit JavaScript. Is the Canvas still able to be seen?
There is a larger point here about being human that's not related to tech or democracy.

1. We do not know what is good for us. We only know what we like and don't like. (We know this because we can look back in our own lives to times in which we did what we liked and it was not as good as if we had did something else, sometimes disastrously so.)

2. Many times we have to be annoyed by ideas and other concepts we don't like for a while until we realize that there is some bit of great value here for us.

The logical conclusion to points 1 and 2 is this: there is some degree of being annoyed that is a normal and healthy part of living. Too much aggravation? Probably not. But you can definitely have too little. Too little aggravation would be far, far worse than too much, in fact.

So goods and services that seek to reduce/eliminate everything we don't like are not actually acting in our best interests, whether they're some social media tech or a new brand of opioid. A bit of this kind of thing at the appropriate time is great. Too much is disastrous.
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I have opposite experience with Chrome as well: I like when URL bar behaves just like URL bar and does nothing extra. I worked in company that used custom TLD for all sites in internal network, and every single time I entered such `site.tld` in Chrome's URL bar it insisted on _searching_ for that instead of just appending protocol, '/' path and visiting it like reasonable browser.

To be honest, Firefox likes to mess with input too, but it can be easily tamed with few prefs, namely:

keyword.enabled=false
// no implicit searching from URL, must use explicit keyword or Searchbar
browser.fixup.alternate.enabled=false
// this prevents trying www. … .com or other configured suffixes when domain-like URL fails
browser.urlbar.trimURLs=false
// do not hide protocol and slash
browser.urlbar.filter.javascript=false
// bookmarklets FTW
And here I thought that was the whole point.

If your microbiome is in such great shape, then why would you be taking probiotics?