skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think where Google really shines (in addition to its personalized results) is tackling _vague_ searches with ease.

The other day, I couldn't remember what the title of a food-y documentary show I had watched on Netflix was - so I googled "netflix food show asian host." It's the first result on Google and a direct link to its Netflix page (as opposed to a blog or something). On DuckDuckGo, it's not listed at all. There's definitely room for improvement.

While 20m searches per day is impressive in a vacuum, it's more or less a rounding error on Google's numbers.
Yeah workout + water is a great combination
Telegram Leaks IP Addresses by Default When Initiating Calls
Pretty sure the vast majority of the gang/cartel related violence doesn't take place in the tourist areas, and that the few reports we hear about where a tourist has been involved in some violence are a tiny percentage of the overall problem. I've never had the feeling that tourists in the main tourist areas in Mexico were any less safe than at home.

Certainly I'd be more afraid of my safety in many parts of most major US cities.
Try to search for "duckduckgo t-shirt" ;-)
But what prevents an app that you gave permission to from copying your data and selling it to third parties, just like Facebook does?
Quick start guide to C-64 assembly programming on Windows (2011)
>I've been in my country's military (Europe) and most of the people are not psychopath (a few, sure). they are normal people thinking their job is an important one to protect peace at home.

If you live in Switzerland, that's a reasonable expectation for those people to have. If you live in the UK, it's naivety to the point of intentional ignorance. If you join a military that has a habit of starting foreign wars, you can't hide behind the make-believe motive protecting your country from invading forces. You know what you're getting into.
Im 100% on the same boat. I’m not too strict in regards to handing out my email, but my inbox (Gmail) is completely kept free of spam. Is it really just gmail keeping me safe?
The thing is, I use my inbox for receipts of purchases, confirmations of online accounts and all sorts of other stuff where I am interacting with, or storing information from an automated agent.
I was a freshman in college right when spice/JWH was first catching on, and from first hand experience I know at least 5 people who used it semi regularly even though they weren't expecting a drug test. The fact that you could get it cheaply from the headshop accross the street and carry it with you risk free was the main selling point then. Also it didn't smell like weed and you could keep it in the dorm without stinking the place up. Eventually we started learning about the crazy health risks and the law started catching up with banning the most common JWH formulations, and it wasn't worth the risk. Fortunately most folks in my friend group were able to move off campus and make safe connections with weed dealers and either do that, or sober up completely. But it definitely had appeals to people who could not easily get marijuana or didn't like the sketchness of getting it in a prohibition state.
oooh those look interesting. Thanks!
There is no doubt that a fully formed criminal organization would diversify its income if the drug money suddenly vanished.

The question is how lucrative its their new initiatives, how much of structure they are able to upkeep and how much crime there consist of "inherited" structure that is not viable with their new margins.

No organizational collapse looks good, and this is one that didn't look any good even on its best times.
+1. It's overall adequate for the average query but it falls completely flat too often where a similar Google search returns exactly what you're looking for.
Because some people don't want to distribute a full, buggy web browser with every application they create.
That doesn't seem fair. The word you quoted isn't even in the section you provided. The use of "server" is interchangeable with daemon/isolated-process here. That section seems like a decent explanation of daemon vs embedded for the junior dev.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a PagerDuty alternative with less features?
I’m working on an alternative to PagerDuty that doesn’t have a zillion features called Pagerline (https://www.pagerline.com/). It only does one thing: keeps trying to get a hold of a person on a team until somebody acknowledges it.

My thinking is that small to medium size teams don’t need all the bells and whistles of PagerDuty and should not have to pay for them either.

I’d love to get your feedback for what’s currently built at https://www.pagerline.com/ and hear your thoughts on everything from features to pricing that would make this offering appealing to you and your business.
Jokes on them, no one is going to watch it until its on Netflix, and then its just going to vanish into our queues forever and ever to never be seen again.
For most of my work my post-processing is 'darkroom' equivalent - shooting raw and then checking the white balance, and levels/curves (in Photoshop terms). I'll often crop. If I'm trying to flatter a model I might do some minimal retouching. And that's it! I don't usually return to a shot once I've done this basic processing.

For digital art my starting point is usually a 3D render created in something like Daz Studio rather than a real-world photo
If the maximum size is 13.3" as shown here, then no... they are not ready for prime time. That is big for a tablet or e-reader, but small for a laptop, and tiny for something called a monitor (outside of a colo).
"A death sentence" is exaggerating but just as in any city of 20m people in the developing world there will be some very dangerous areas.

Just because an enormous city has some dangerous areas does not mean it is not a "normal, functioning, society". It also doesn't mean it should be equated to the middle east, assumed to be the same as the other 32 countries on the continent.
Not sure why this is so hard to accept, why would evolution stop at the neck? Nobody has a problem with saying height is mostly genetic, yet say the same of intelligence and it's controversial.
I think they're mislabelled and misdescribed a bit, and what those graphs actually show is what you get if you (1) compute an approximation to J using only a limited number of Riemann zeros, and then (2) use the inversion formula to compute what pi(x) would be if #1 had given you the exact value of J. So the y-axis shouldn't be labelled "J(x)", it should be labelled something more like "pi(x)".

Caution: I haven't actually done the computation and checked.

[EDITED to add:] Now I have, or at least one of them, for the "first 35 roots" one. I took "first 35 roots" to mean "first 35 with positive imaginary part, plus their complex conjugates". I got a graph that was much wigglier, and a much closer match to pi(x) than the one in the article. So then I thought maybe it was meant to be 35 roots in total -- though you really do want to take those conjugates in pairs, so the odd number is strange. Anyway, I tried with the first 17 pairs: still much too wiggly. With the first five pairs of zeros, I get a good (but not perfect) match for the graph in the article.
How does this work? How can one thing that causes the motion of the average not also affect the variation? How wouldn't the one which inherited the worst genes not benefit from environment?
Really? There seem to be a ton of key/value engines on the market, especially because it's such a simple model to implement.
This appears to be false.

> So, Who Protects Costa Rica?
Costa Rica maintains its military-free status and does not command any military units or house any war weapons. However, the country does maintain alliances with other countries, such as the United States, that can be expected assist in the event of war within Costa Rica.
https://qcostarica.com/costa-ricas-military-abolition-histor...
I indeed did not realise this was a comment on your comment. I guessed correctly, lucky me.
Yongfook translated means "Always Good Fortune", I like whats being done in terms of the design and how clear the article is presented. Very readable.
I would discount the validity of advice to stay away from performance enhancing drugs from someone who uses them. I mean they're right, but I don't feel... inspired to do so.

There are other ways to convince people, like appealing to their interests or punishing with retribution.
Show HN: Node REM – Rest Express MongoDB, Passport, JWT, Socket.io, HTTP2, Await
I feel like this underestimates the complexity of the problem.

Both markets and open-source software run on abstraction. (The official open source definition doesn't even allow restrictions based on field of use.)

If people want to implement "know your customer" like the banks do, and make decisions based on their own political values, your customers need to share a lot more information and there isn't going to be very much privacy. Buying services is going to require a lot of hoop-jumping.

And then consider the effect on product design. Unless countermeasures are built in, a copier can be used to counterfeit money. And that's an easy case.

Now we have a simple service for distributing text messages making front page headlines for its effect on society.

It was naive, but the assumption that customers are responsible for their own actions was a useful fiction. A society of mutual distrust makes everything difficult.
They could have confused orientation with arrangement.
Yes. (Mohan kindly included my name as "edited by", but all it means is that I read his essays and gave some feedback / made minor suggestions, before he posted it.)
And the next time there is a large scale conflict, some neighbour country may feel tempted to use that opportunity to send a single division to your country and absorb it.

Then you can say how wonderful it is to save a fraction of a percentage point of your GDP on defence and how it worked so well until the day it was needed.
It's not smaller, it's more constrained. Gasoline prices don't shoot up when the government organizes a big crime fighting initiative. I would bet the interviewed people are not correctly accounting for their risks.
HR managers appearing more concerned about avoiding negative publicity than protecting staff

But this is literally the job of the HR department. That is why Workers need guilds or unions as a counterweight.
40 million tourists in 2017
10 million Q1 2018..

Just a quick google search..
Huh? It's literally in the "Serverless Database Engine" section. I can update the quote to include the header.
I honestly think I have literally never heard anybody in the UK describe their height using metric units.

Weight is definitely more of a mix though.
It's very easy. One and only rule: Never look at your keyboard. Cover it with carboard if you cant resist looking. First week will be a pain but eventually it will just get faster.

Another good tip is to know what the "home row" is but if you've already developed a fast personal style you don't have to follow it strictly.
> There is another route though - to build something like Blekko engine, but it requires a big amount of help from the users.

Considering that Blekko was, ultimately, shut down, users may be less inclined to contribute to something similar in the future, assuming they remember.
Bill Sourour's blog post discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965589
> Basically Latin America has been like the entire Middle East for the last 10 years.

Have a look at this list (especially during/after the 50s) [1] and tell me what most countries have in common.

> Perhaps this was inevitable.

I very much disagree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
> How can you own something that is inside my head?

If I put it there, I own it, and I should be able to destroy all proof that it's not purely a fabrication of your imagination. (Sure, you can still know it and use it to guide your decision, but it shouldn't be legally valid any more, and there should be no way for you to convince others it's true.) Yeah, obviously if it's in the heads of other people too, it would be more accounts in favor of that information being authentic, increasing the probability that I am lying about that in a legal situation. But key thing would be that it's a probability. I can destroy the certainty. That could swing depending on context, maybe I'm more trustworthy than the group of people arguing for the authenticity of that piece of information.

Obviously there's great deal of criminal activities that can be protected by going too far with this, so it's a question of "tweaking the dial" until we get the right amount of informational "light" and "darkness". As Jung said, there are some who need light, and some who thrive in the shadows...
> Although the test tubes are not aging (old test tubes do not break easier than young ones)

This is untrue. Glass accumulates microscopic fractures as it is used, which increase the likelihood of breakage.
I've heard "hamburger menu", but never just "the hamburger".
Well I don't have particularly high expectations of myself so I'm not sure how I'd define 'issues'. :) For me the dexterity is a learned skill just like memorising the chords/notes.

I think very young people might have an advantage in how quickly they gain the required dexterity. However I've usually associated a young person's ability to learn the guitar quickly with the fact that most young people have a lot of free time on their hands and they just spend a lot more time practising than a busy adult.

Unless you've got an explicit ailment (eg arthritis) I don't think age is a barrier. "Working man's hands" might slow you down a bit at the start. I guess I'm lucky to have "programmers hands" :)
There are too many video games. Now what?
> but tech news aren’t really important.

I thought this was hackernews...
What about killing to protect others, as part of your duty?

I'd argue that not killing certain bad people is an immoral choice in itself, designed to absolve one's of responsibility at a great price to others.

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm"
But how can we blame America, especially law abiding citizens for this?
No, this is just good email discipline.

Almost everyone I know who gets way too many emails and complains about 100s or 1000s of unreads has put themselves in that situation by signing up for everything. Spam is already handled well and there's just not that many sources of email if you take away newsletters and notifications.
The Technical and Legal Side of ICONOMI’s Transformation
My first side project – A job board for PHP developers
Hi all :)

today I launched my first side project. It's basically a job board for PHP devs.

https://php-at.work

In the moment, everyone can post a job listing for free. I review it and activate it manually.

I seeded it with some PHP jobs from http://remoteok.io to didn't launch with an empty list.

I would love to hear any kind of feedback :)
@tree_of_item nailed it.. what you're asking for is an entire field, with many people working in it. The Wikipedia page for Program Synthesis is a so-so introduction to the area:

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

There are even annual competitions related to this topic. See, for example:

http://sygus.seas.upenn.edu/SyGuS-COMP2018.html
These are helpful comments, I will make it more actionable, but please also understand I need to test if there is a market for it, first. So that is what I'm doing now and I will improve the product to show actionable information. Just give me some time.
The linked article is behind the paywall. From you comment I still can't take out _why_ this costs so much. It sounds like development cost X because phase of development cost Y. I find it strange that you can say that something called "phase 2" costs precisely $40-50M+. What does it involve that it cannot cost $1M or $100k? What's so hard about biology that makes it expensive? What I am seeing is just words but no substance or maybe I don't understand something? I would love get more insight.
Well, YMMV... A long time ago I took a taxi in Beijing (this was way before Uber was even thought of though). When we stopped at my destination the driver quickly unplugged the meter and then asked me for twice what it said. I knew this because I was traveling on a shoestring and wanted to know how fast the meter went for future reference so I had been looking very carefully at it. Maybe I was just unlucky...
I think it's just pragmatic. It shouldn't be interpreted as a statement on how things should be, or how we might want them to be. Virtually everything in my life is predicated on me having and earning money. I think it's best to just come to terms with that and try to not spend too much time dwelling on it.

I don't think the statement is much different from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs placing physiological needs at the base.
Mexico and Brazil are on different continents and are very far from each other.
Hm... not exactly sure how your quote stating that Costa Rica maintains a military-free status falsifies the grandparent's comment stating exactly the same.
i know how to use the repl. i moved between computers during comments and wasn't able to inspect my repl session where it originally returned false. as i mentioned, i must have redefined something or shadowed something which caused confusion, and i just didn't realize it at the time.
Another user CBS won't miss, I guess
I feel like Bokeh is way too complicated for what it does.

I guess flutter has really spoiled me; my expectations from a UI framework are just too damn high now xD
> The idea of linked data and semantic web has been around for almost two decades now and I have yet to see an application, technique or site that amazes me.

Ted Nelson invented the idea of hypertext in the early '60s. It wasn't until the creation of HyperCard in 1987 and the WWW in 1990 that there were practical applications of hypertext that you could put your hands on and use.

Ideas can take a long time to mature.
Mini trampoline rebounding for cardio + weightlifting.
The UnQLite website has described it as a "serverless database engine" since at least 2013 (according to the Wayback Machine), long before it acquired its current buzzwordy definition.

If you ask me, using the word "serverless" to mean "a library that doesn't need a separate server process" makes a whole lot more sense than "a system that runs your code on a server that you don't control".
Agreed. It's crazy - I run 6 days a week, but if I ever skip just TWO days or more, it's really hard to feel motivated to run the next time.

Streaks are really important in anything that requires deliberate practice.
It seems like steemit.com may be a better model. On steemit, all of the data is public on a blockchain. As a result, things you share are public but not locked into any one application. Many apps exist using the same underlying structure but serve completely different purposes (See dtube)
Syrian man arrested in Berlin for alleged chemical weapons plot targeting Israel
US and just launched in Canada too.
> of killing people and destroying their civilization

You should exchange these two parts, making it "destroying civilization and killing their peoples". It is ambiguous currently and suggests a dangerous act of directing a military against its own people, which happened in history and brought bad results every time.
Please - go file a GDPR complaint
That argument could be made about pretty much any small country using a superpower as the "neighbor". Take for example Russia annexing Crimea.

At the end of the day, it isn't the presence of a military that makes the difference, but the strength and spread of the country's treaties with other nations.
Right, but if you are an absolute pacifist, you should never join a military contractor. No matter what you work on, you are helping an organization whose mission involves killing people. Even if you were just making them lunch, you would be indirectly helping them do THEIR job of making killing machines better.
Not a lot of who/what/why/how answers in that, that I could understand.

Anyone have links to more information, or does one have to wait until the "end of September" followup mentioned?
tl;dr man working for the military is shocked to find out that his code is helpful to the military. edgy writing about ethics ensues.
Looking forward to installing emacs on http://fread.ink once that's possible.
Month after brexit of course
When people try to be positive by saying: "it's not all natural talent, you must also work hard and persevere!", I wonder, aren't those also shaped by our genes? Is the ability to work hard and the mental fortitude not to give up not also something dictated by our genetics?
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. Glad to hear it's useful for you! Any particular extensions or approaches you're using to capture user behavior?
I remember discussing with people about how significant some of Google's changes would be to their overall bandwidth and server needs. They used to periodically try tweak the design of their already fairly minimal landing page and shave several kilobytes off it. Back in those days even that small change would have been significant.

These days they just don't seem to care any more.
This means that anti-tracking measures are working.

This is good news.
These "combatants" are often non-combative, the logic our government here in the US uses to classify combatant purposefully mis-classifies a huge chunk of the populace.
Preloading always include subdomains (it's not possible to preload just tld).
Sounds like the startup fee is too low compared to the metered fee. Otherwise taxis would be keen to get you off their back so they could collect another startup fee...
I agree 100% that complexity theory is the most important thing you learn that doesn't come intuitively. Unfortunately, a lot of us idiots, I suspect maybe the majority, have to have scalability completely beat down into us until it's internalized and fully respected. It's similar to the hot stove lesson where you know conceptually that it COULD and probably WILL hurt, but a lethal mix of naivete, optimism and some arrogance convinces you to push that shitty 1.5-seconds-a-transaction piece of code anyway and then - oh wow! - it scorches you. If you're in a shop with no existing or only surface-level code reviews, then you learn the lesson in production, and it brands you for life. In an instant, all that big O theory and combinatorics you did in college makes complete sense. This is the single most common lesson every shop with junior developers learns at every place I've ever been at.
Costa Rica is not next to russia or north korea.
Ask HN: What strategies do you use to encourage users to promote your website?
What strategies do you use to encourage your users to promote your website? Here's a bit more about my specific situation;

I created a saas product used by schools some time ago. I don't store or collect the email addresses of my users except the initial school contact. Therefore I have one contact for roughly 80-100 teacher users per school. I get really positive feedback from my users and I would like to harness this without getting in folk's faces too much.