skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious: Gmail, since the very beginning, has been predicated on the idea that Google will serve you relevant, content-related ads. (I thought that was a non-starter, but the world proved me wrong.) How long did you use them, and what finally triggered you to say "No, this is not OK"?
I was hoping it would have a tiny little flywheel in it or something and be purely mechanical but I guess maybe it needs to charge a "real" battery to keep the flow of power more consistent.
I think it's different when the rules are explicit from the start like in most forums, versus Reddit's case of actively upholding free speech and the right to like and link to (sometimes really) gross stuff.
When I'm using an application that freezes with a spinning pinwheel, I can Cmd + tab to the Finder and get to the Force Quit utility in the Apple menu. While it's true that I can switch to any other running application and do the same, I find it comforting that the Finder will always be there if I have only one app open and it freezes on me.

[Yes, I realize there's also a keyboard shortcut for Force Quit, but I don't know what those symbols even stand for, since they're not on my keyboard (except for that Cmd 4-leaf clover thingy), so I can't type them here, and won't be able to look them up if I'm stuck in a frozen app with no way out.]

There are a lot of reasons to hate the Finder, but I don't feel like this is one of them.
I'd rephrase this as: Enabling people to skip the paywall by doing a minimal thing which is a little more than a click.

Behavior design matters and is a great challenge for engineers.
This is old news, but we successfully use https://github.com/freels/table_migrator in production not on heroku. It creates a copy of the table, performs the schema changes, copies the data over, then renames the tables for almost (i.e. 1-2 seconds) no downtime.
The first link to DuckDuckGo on the page is a link to Google's main search page. Typo or some joke I'm not getting?
To be fair, it's the number two crasher for the same reason Safari is the number one crasher.

VLC is very stable nowadays, but just like Safari tons of people use it, and people ask it to process really random and broken data without batting an eyelid. Broken or corrupted video? VLC will play it. Half downloaded file in some obscure format? VLC. Bittorrent download that only got to 75%? Yes, VLC will play it (glitching through the missing parts).

That does result in crashes, because unlike say, QuickTime which will simply refuse to play something if it doesn't like the cut of it's jib, VLC will attempt to play anything and everything you throw at it. Just like Safari will attempt to render any data you throw at it.
I love the !bang searches and use them daily. Even on a regular search, the zero-click gives me what I want quickly. I'd like to see DDG improve on the following things:

-Instant Search: maybe I've been spoiled by Google, but DDG feels slow in comparison

-Foreign language searches: Have you tried them? They're absolutely horrible.

-Ads: They're not relevant at all.
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"It's surprisingly hard to come up with a balanced version of such rules."

Unless you're satisfied that the occasional "false positive" is an acceptable side effect. Sure, a "no swastika tattoos in my house" rule _might_ mean I (or the OP) end up not becoming friends with an edge-case - and that might be sad, but if the flipside is having to go to a lot of extra effort to find some more specific way of screening the neo-nazis who outnumber the edge-cases 1000:1, maybe that's a choice I'd reluctantly make.

Sorry strange-religion-guy and artisticly-dubious-gamer-dude - you might just end up "collateral damage" in my fight to simplify my life.
It must be a mistake.
I don't know who actually goes to google.com and types the query in. I simply CTRL+L to Firefox bar and write "wiki http codes". the same number of clicks as going to DDG and typing the 'bang' query. I'd probably save one click when having DDG as main Firefox search and CTRL+K and 'bang'
Doh, definitely a mistake. Fixed!
Interesting the amount of value that is attributed to a user typing a slogan.
>And yet, very few people call bullshit on the bullshit.

Interesting, coming from a guy who (in my humble opinion) writes as much bullshit as anybody, and actually moved to a personal blog that doesn't allow commenting. You know, so that people can call him on his bullshit.

Ironically, this is probably the best MG piece I've read, as it describes nicely how I've always felt about his TechCrunch writing.
This is quite simply false. Reddit has always banned child pornography. The post we're discussing is quite clear on this point. There would be absolutely no outage if this was about banning child pornography.

Your statements here seem to come from a place of rage and hate moreso than rational analysis, so let's not continue this.
If you are directly going to google.com/duckduckgo.com, you are correct. You get the zero click benefit by using DDG as the default search in Chrome or Firefox.
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I imagine about 20% of my email correspondence is all it would take for Google to form a pretty accurate picture of my interests and habits and circles of acquaintance. That's the way machine learning usually works: you don't need a complete dataset to make useful inferences.
I spent a week on duckduckgo and I jumped ship because it was slower than Google. The queries took longer to return and it took me longer to cognitively process the page (because I'm so adjusted to Google.)

I'll use it when I want independent search results, but Google's catering to my interests usually works in my favor. When I search for Ruby on Google, all of my results are about the language. DuckDuckGo gives me results about the gem.
Sorry, just saw this reply. Hadoop comes with a distributed cache that is generally used for small files -- a common example would be doing a large join against a small table that would fit in memory. For example if you wanted to filter out stopwords or something, the currently accepted way is to put this stopword list into the resources/ directory of your JAR, which is not really optimal for data that might change frequently.

http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/api/org/apache/...

and for discussions related to Cascalog: http://groups.google.com/group/cascalog-user/browse_thread/t... and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cascalog-user/l5SEW3...

I have not seen any info on using Cascalog alongside Avout, but the idea makes sense.
If you're writing your code to work against multiple schemas, how do you test it? Do you run your test suite twice, once with the pre-migration schema, and again with the post-migration schema?
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I use percona tools pt-online-schema-change http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.0/pt-online-sch..., wrote a custom gem for it while ago
I'm thinking it's either just for the novelty of it or Anybots is sponsoring.
I once had this really fascinating discussion with my father. He said, his IQ while not ridiculously high was in the ~1 in 30,000 range which suggests in theory something like 10,000 people in America are 'smarter' than that and more importantly around 200 his age. But, many of them don't even end up at such schools and 200 people can't fill the fill the 'top' schools anyway. Thus, these schools can't be anywhere near that exclusive.

At the same time, everyone bases their internal scale at their level so while he met a few people that where smarter and many where far more educated there was always this feeling like he was surrounded by people that where just a little slow.

PS: He also generally referred to IQ in terms of speed. Most people have interesting things to say as long as the conversation is slow enough for them to follow.
Reminds me of the kink springs in Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Wind-Up Girl.
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beyond that, its probably the most robust / flexible media player available. I've actually been using the alpha release of 2.0 for a few months now, and I've been very happy overall
More than the UI widgets, I think the key part of the interface of a video player is whether the program is smart enough to (at least offer to) resume playing a video from wherever it was when that file was last closed.

It has always slightly boggled my mind that VLC, and many other players, don't do this.
That is exactly it. If Apple were to put safe guards in place, that were not optional, these things would not happen.

This is the same reason Facebook apps have to explicitly ask for permission to certain data.

It is Apple's platform, and Apple's app store. They own more of this issue in my eyes. They are the ones that make the rules and review the apps.
Because Python's motto is "There's more than one way to do it."
I see little reason why we couldn't ban CP which was produced with real children, but legalize CP which was not (e.g., cartoons, CGI, etc).

Note that /r/lolicon is one of the banned subreddits.
Fantastic that you believe that. Unfortunately, pretty much all science on that topic contradicts you. There's a metric ton of studies that show that our brains worked best focused on a single task.
Hey HN. Thought i'd share this with you. I am in a fine arts class and we were supposed to make a hypothetical art project. I wanted to make something I could make so I put this together today. Give it a try.

Go to http://everybodyshomepage.com/edit to edit the page and the changes should show in real time on the main page.

Also the code is available here: https://github.com/Jonovono/everybodyshomepage. Might be useful for someone learning Node (which I am still) and working with Now.js.
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Indeed. Now those of us not in Mountain View will have to watch a video feed of a robot playing a video feed.

Remind me to miss this.
A counterpoint... Perhaps unrelated, but ... erm... perhaps related...

Most of this discussion focuses on whether or not the reading is truthful and not on whether it's helpful. I admit that the helpful bit is really hard to assess and could be dangerous[1], but ...

My wife's father and mother died within a year of each other. She talked to a friend and the friend gushed about a particular 'psychic', blah, blah, blah. My wife talked with the psychic, took lots of notes and reviewed them with me. I had lots of reasons that could explain each of the seemingly inexplicable notes. But my question to my wife was: are you more comfortable with the loss of your parents? She said "Yes" and "Do you think she was telling the truth?" And I said that it doesn't matter; I'm happy that you're more comfortable, so why bother thinking about that question.

So a year later my wife informs me that she made an appointment <<for me>> with the same psychic (WTF?!). Whatever, I'll go with it. Time comes. I get on the phone with the psychic. She's very nice, etc. I don't mention that I'm an atheist, reductionist. The conversation is <<fucking fascinating>>. She talks about my business. She talks about an upcoming venture financing event. Etc. At the end of the hour, I said [somewhat to hear her response] that I didn't believe that she was communing with the spirits, etc, but that the discussion had been immensely valuable and that I would plan to talk with her again. She laughed, said thank you, we exchanged pleasantries and ended the call. And, as I told friends, I was serious. I don't know how she pulled the information from me (and I have bigger things to worry about), but I now have access to someone who can pull incredible information from me and that's fantastic.

So I've stepped away from the whole is-reading-true-or-false question (it's false...) and have focused on is-this-discussion-valuable. In the space of an hour, a woman I've never met was able to engage me in a discussion that touched on deeper professional issues than very close personal friends of 10 years have been able to do in many more hours of discusion.

[1] this way lies confidence tricks... I'm not sure where the line is with psychics, but I'm confident that I could avoid it... I'm less confident that other people could.
Inception is currently very underpriced behavior goal.

We do our best to measure it and wake-up the brands. They're quite entertained by other flashy & wavy stuff on the screen at this time.
> "I'm in no way upset by these particular degenerates no longer having that avenue of access to their fap material."

The banning of today's subreddits didn't bother me very much.

The proliferation of comments like these, on the other hand, have. "Degenerates" is a favourite word of, well, just about every bigot out there. It also bothers me that we've made lepers out of pedophiles, and makes me wonder if we've done more harm than good in the long run.

I'm against child porn and child exploitation, I am however adamantly against the marginalization and dehumanization of pedophiles.

> " Look up the statutes yourself."

The defining line is the Dost test, which is far from concrete. If I educated 100 randomly selected people in the US on the Dost test, and then gave them each 100 images to classify, sourced from the abovementioned subreddits, what sort of agreement do you think we'd get? Would it even come close to a consensus?

Something that is codified doesn't mean it's not in a legal grey area.

As a photography enthusiast this issue has come up more than once. You may or may not know this - but there are groups on Flickr that cater to just about every fetish and kink out there, and group moderations can "invite" an image to be added to the group's galleries. Yes, some of these involve children.

I've gotten requests in the past for perfectly innocent (in my mind) images to be added to these groups. A woman sitting casually wearing hosiery is suddenly fap material to a whole boatload of people. A child playing in the park is suddenly wildly arousing for someone else. I don't think it's at all a stretch to say that child porn, like any other fetish, is more in the eye of the beholder than anything else.

There are also substantial slippery slope concerns. It bothers me that so many have chosen to sweep these under the rug because the word "slipper slope fallacy" exists, and saying it will somehow make these concerns null and void.

After all, we are seeing calls to shut down (IMO equally reprehensible) subreddits like /r/deadbabies and /r/beatingwomen - of course, sheer legality won't help us here, as these are legally even more poorly defined than child porn. There are also complaints that /r/gayteens (not sure if I have the name correct) got shut down despite holding themselves to a strict 18+ moderation... the responses to which simply derided people for being attracted to teenaged gays.

In any case, this is anything but a clear-cut issue.
Another reason to use DDG - they don't "bubble" you with their search results, and have a strict privacy policy. See: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

I have them set to my search engine and I would say about 90% of my searches hit productive results. For the other 10%, I consult with Google via their handy link or just via Google directly.

You can't compete with Google for breadth of web search, but I find most of my searches don't utilize that for accurate results, eg finding a company page. When I look for a specific error message or help with a code snippet, GOOG is still king.
The previous replies do a good job of addressing your post, so I won't repeat what's already been said.
The only thing I want to point out is that the in the specification I mentioned in my original post, the requirement was to circumvent the operating system's built-in warning to the user when their contacts were being accessed. Why go through the trouble to do this except to consciously deprive the user of the ability to say no? iOS doesn't have such a warning (and therefore I don't think the current issue is equally as egregious as this), but I think a lot of people are starting to wish it did.
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This is a press release about a very preliminary finding. I will wait for replication by other researchers in other labs and see what happens over the next several years. This is a long way from being verified as a safe and effective treatment in human medicine. As usual when I see press releases about preliminary findings here on Hacker News, I will post my all-time favorite link to put into Hacker News comments, "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" by Peter Norvig, LISP hacker and Google's director of research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
Not sure what you mean about packaging process. Are you talking about combining "gem build" and "fury push" into one command?

As far as pricing, unlike Github, our $9 pricing is for unlimited Gems. Can you suggest a plan that would work for you (# of Gems, collaborators, price, etc)?
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The author is using Chrome. He could set up search engines to use in the Omnibar instead of visiting DuckDuckGo (e.g. ama[TAB] to perform a search directly on Amazon.com).

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
People go on quite a bit about the bang syntax in DDG, but is this not a functionality that's entirely contained within Chrome's (and many other browsers') search keywords function? When I type 'wik http codes', it takes me directly to the wikipedia page for http codes, and it's built in. Does bang syntax do anything else in addition?
Perhaps it's useful (for what? I don't know, but at maybe for discussion) to distinguish between

smart: how much you know

intelligent: how quickly you can learn

wisdom: the perspective you have about everything you have learned

This works well with hat I've observed: intelligent people who are not smart, smart people who seem rather "slow," and that surprisingly wise person you always seem to come across who seems to know the difference between what is worth knowing and what isn't.
Yes, this is in Firefox too. I've had `wp %s` bookmark for many years now bound to the wikipedia search page, so I do `wp cat`, etc. etc. The JavaScript example really didn't hit home for me either because I'm always on Freenode, and /msg ecmabot mdn [term] is faster than anything else, especially because I usually have a chat open with ecmabot already.
I believe to remember a recent discussion on HN where Gabriel seemed to be somewhat astounded by how important query speed is, even when we're talking about seconds here, and promised to look into that. I guess we have become spoilt and now cannot go back to waiting if only three seconds sometimes.

I've been DDG as my default search engine in Firefox for quite a long time now, and sometimes I still find myself re-running a query with "!g" - mostly when I expect to have to tweak my query once or twice and google is just faster (and still gives better results sometimes).
Now that MG quit TC it's just not cool to spew out garbage on your quest for pageviews!
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The difference is in the effort required to moderate the content. An /r/trees worst case scenario is two people meeting up to perform an illegal activity at a later point. An /r/jailbait worst case scenario is illegal material being indexed by the site.

Additionally, /r/trees isn't generating hundreds of flagged threads for review by the admins (who are then forced to spend man hours browsing pictures of under-aged girls).
As explained, the author is not really using a search engine as most do. He/she really is just using DDG as a bookmark for searching a specific site. This works, but how would you then discover that a better information source is available?

When would you stop asking Jeeves or HotBot and switch to Stack Exchange?
This comment was intensely confusing until I realized that "phonograph" meant "pornography".
It may assuage you a bit to know that sexual abuse (http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Children/U...) has been on a dramatic down trend for quite a while. Interestingly, there has also been a decline in rape per capita (http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/rape.cfm).

I bet if you took a survey, people would think the opposite is true.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I do use DuckDuckGo via the omnibar, which would be necessary for any of the efficiency gains I refer to.
If your phrasing were where this is going I'd have no issues with it, but I think (if this is successful) it's going to be much worse:

"The idea is to create experiences that ... are targeted and clickable enough for brands to actually make money and potentially avoid using a paywall altogether."

The most likely use case is to make pop-over ads 100x more annoying, not to complement a paywall. I would hope user revolts would kill this, but I'm not optimistic...
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sound science? i very much doubt this makes sense. if the energy density of springs were comparable to batteries then we would have wind-up teslas on the road (and spring-driven ups in data centres...).

and if the energy is stored in the spring, what's the rechargeable part for? and what kind of generator is efficient, compact and slow? it's a completely improbable mess.

the closest workable solution i can see would be to drop the spring, extend the battery, and have a simple wind-to-charge battery. but that still requires the generator.
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I suggest that google places cameras in my house because it is possible to get in my house anyway,
But I suggest to build your own house in google country and not rent it from google in case they turn evil.
Google works in the world of ms not seconds.
I love it when blog authors have comments and then turn them off for pieces where they got slammed for bullshitting.
also, in chrome, using google, you just type Ctrl+K, wiki http codes, it shows you the google results, tab and enter.

I love the keyboard functionality google has.
I didn't realize Hindu's were "strange-religion-guy", being 1/7th of the planet and all.

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/04...

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lspjjptRL71qzs5bqo1_500.jp...
Read it again, you missed half of the process.

You twist to compress the spring. This spring then releases, causing a recharge generator to rotate and that recharges the actual battery.

Rather ingenious I say.
Congrats guys! There is easily millions of dollars worth of value in this idea, even if it's not for everyone.