skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. General search will give you general results. For day-to-day issues, like finding a nice restaurant in my neighborhood or some information of a device I own, it'll give everyone good results and that's fine. But once search become personal, i.e. about topics and issues you care about and (potentially) know a lot about, general search results aren't acceptable anymore as you know they're incomplete, not ranked accordingly to any meaningful measure given your understanding of the domain, and over-all the "generalness" of the results.
> you can do much more far more easily in notepad with a mouse/trackpad

This is just completely bogus. If you think about how large a terminal window is, on average, you have a grid of (e.g.) 100x50. That means you're trying to click one out of 5,000 symbols (for example the start of a word), which are very tiny. If you then think about this in terms of Fitts's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law), you can see how clicking one tiny character with a tiny mouse on a large screen isn't the easiest thing.

Compare that to using your keyboard. For instance, if you're looking for the word "pipe", typing this in vim:

/pipe

Is obviously much faster. I don't see how anyone could believe that using a mouse is more efficient for such tasks.
I moved to Oslo (the city mentioned in the article) last week. I have to say Google Maps hasn't always played nicely, if it were not for me having been here before I would have wasted a lot of time.

I have a much better experience using HERE Maps (by "old" Nokia). The great part about them is that you can download a region (not just buffer map data as you do on Google) so searching in the map, public transport, directions etc. all work when in unknown cities abroad without mobile data.
Because it's not really. The laptop would be an immensely powerful computer by the standards of the time, certainly. The Cray-1 came out in 1976 at 80MHz. Not sure how it would compare (doing mathematical calculations) with a modern laptop but I'd guess a few orders of magnitude slower.

Now that's a lot but let's assume our theoretical laptop from the future could be assumed to be indestructible and we could rig up I/O for it, etc. without any danger. Are there fundamental problems that we could solve using it that were simply way beyond 1975 technology?

Maybe some crypto in use at the time by the USSR. (Possibly. I don't know enough to comment intelligently.) I'm not convinced there were broader scientific problems that this singular laptop would move significantly closer to solving quickly.

The technology used to build the laptop would be more interesting than using it. Even if we lacked the tools to build the tools to construct 2014 ICs etc., the laptop would reveal a lot about architectural choices and directions, i.e. you can't really drive CPUs above 3GHz or so; you go multicore. (I assume smart semiconductor engineers could figure out that sort of thing from the physical device.)
So now the big question is... any reason to switch to this from googleapis.com? Short term loss in cacheablilty since the Google one is so widespread, long term less dependence on the Google corporation. Insecurity since CloudFlare seems like a prime target for an acquisition/acquihire.
not convinced discourse UX is that good either,in fact NodeBB copies a lot from discourse.
Why cannot they?
Online ads usually work and they benefit the company as well as the individual users in the long run as well as the short run
Ever heard of Google AdSense?
That is the most common way to make the online ads work
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There is package for rpm-based linux?
Answers like this are one of the problems inherent with this issue. One side bases its position on real problems. The other side responds with gross generalizations based on completely uninformed speculation. Then some politician tries to compromise. The average solution between real problem and imaginary solution is worse than the status quo, and everyone loses. The tyranny of the vocal minority brings us all down while everyone else was trying to get on with their lives. Way to go.
This is a great comment. Thanks for writing it.
Most JavaScript libraries end with .js: Angular.js, Ember.js, Backbone.js, Knockout.js... And yes, JavaScript is a mainstream language (in the browser, at least).
I see no privacy policy so you have to assume that they will log all they can about your visitors.

In these global dragnet surveillance ridden times it should be a no-brainer but please don't expose your visitors to third-party websites, respect their privacy, host your assets yourself.
The Kindle Fire is generally thought of as a mid range smartphone.

Comparing to other mid range smartphones:

- Moto E is $150: http://observationdeck.io9.com/moto-e-review-1594224578

- Moto G is $196: http://www.engadget.com/products/motorola/moto/g/

- Nexus 5 was $349 but has dropped: http://www.theverge.com/products/nexus-5/7422

Amazon typically operate on low margins. The Kindle Fire is designed to sell Amazon services. A loss leader based on followup purchases ala xbox wouldn't be entirely unheard of.
You mean the car he can use to go to the store, to visit family, to go on vacation, to drive in bad weather? The car he pays property tax, fuel tax, insurance, license fees, registration fees, etc on? Yeah, all those unrealized externalities...
I think the people doing the 2-year-hop are the ones with a lot of inbound interest. The last two jobs I've had (including my current job) came to me through a direct inquiry from someone at the company (not a recruiter / headhunter). The thing with consistent inbound interest is that it creates zero incentive for putting up with non-regular advancement / promotion (except the 'devil you don't know' risk, but that can be ameliorated by asking around. It's not hard to avoid a completely blind scenario) because the perception of "job hopping" becomes irrelevant. I suppose at some point the inbound interest might taper off but until it does, it's almost irresponsible to ignore better offers.
I hate the sun as much as any other programmer, but I can safely say, after moving to a place with a lot of sunshine, my mood improved a lot. Even 10 minutes in the balcony just staring at a clear blue sky makes me more productive and calmer than any pill/supplement or exercise has done. And for my wife (suffers from SAD/depression) it has been a god send. Has been 2 years since any major incident, which corresponds exactly with the change of climate.

Do remember it isn't only the Vitamin D. The sun also helps regulate a lot of inner processes that artificial light mess up (circadian cycle being one of them).
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For me the two are kind of related. I have been working on a side project for the last two or three months. Got going really well for a couple of weeks, and coded quite a lot. Then I got busy with other stuff in my life, so had to leave it for a while. It seems a lot more difficult to get into the state when I haven't been there for a while, while during the good two weeks, I came home from work and managed to get into the state very easily. Enthusiasm for an interesting problem also seems to help me.
Well, this also allows powerful actors to inject malicious code into your page. I think they can easily be forced via an NSL to target certain websites or client IPs.
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I have definitely observed this phenomenon in at least one startup CTO in Boston.
> Sometimes we’ll have a thirty minute interview extend the rest of the day and into the evening. We don’t mandate it, and we don’t ding you if you have other plans. But when it works out organically, it’s a nice thing for everyone and it moves the process along much faster.

Yeah we're not going to penalize you if you don't have your schedule completely open. Like if you have kids or commitments or something. It's cool! But it's also sort of a strong signal that you're just not going to be a good fit here.

> My friend Shawn just brought organic heirloom carrots and a 6-pack of Sightglass coffee to an interview as a gift. That’s awesome.

If you want to improve your chances of getting hired just bring some awesome gifts along. Also it helps a lot if you're already a friend of someone here, which totally isn't insularity it's just having a strong network and connections.
I can't help but think of how simple things like injuries and aging affect everyone and how driving practically solves these problems.

You want to ride, go ahead. He wants to drive, that's fine. Neither one is more right or wrong than the other. Stop acting like driving is morally wrong (if you're not, many are).
Seek out Bill Gates, show him what he had accomplished and also demonstrate to him all of the security bugs of today and their consequences. On live examples, coded in C++ in the IDE. This to make him consider security from the design stage.
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It's only packaged for Ubuntu for now. But you can try to follow these instructions: https://gist.github.com/ruario/99522c94838d0680633c
We should probably just work on a procedural media algorithm and call it "pop cache"; but it's not really a cache it just generates the same garbage over and over again with slight iterations and adapts to current trends in news, politocs, social economics etc. This would save a ton of I/O.
Once again, computer science is the ring master for the Bread and Circus.

Just automating Max Martin really.
It's not a representative test (as I'm only providing one source), but I'm seeing lots and lots of websites proving that CloudFlare is faster than Google's CDN.

It might be because their "userbase" is still smaller than Google, but for now that might be 1 interesting reason to use CloudFlare.

http://www.baldnerd.com/make-your-site-faster-cloudflares-cd...
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When you look at the resolve phase, to have the lines/units tween into their new position (or bump one another in case of a draw), makes it easier to see what went where and makes it a bit juicier.
I am in Brazil and I have a 15ms RTT to googleapis.com and a 160ms RTT to cdnjs.cloudflare.com. So please don't switch.
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Discourse emulates the normal behaviour really well, good for them. After a quick look looks like they do not suffer from the issues I mentioned before.

I just do not see any benefits going SPA style when working with data that is essentially collection of documents.
I tend to disagree a bit here. Yes, that's how most bike lanes are laid out at the moment but in my experience, more and more bike lanes are moved on the road and inbetween car lanes to let cyclists become more visible. I welcome that because one can go much faster without having to take care of pedestrians.
> Google+ has its own special madness of it seemingly choosing which of my photos it deems worthy and not actually just syncing all of them.. only the ones it likes get 'highlighted' but even clicking into 'more' it seems (I swear I'm not crazy) it only actually syncs are subset of the rest. God knows why. Does not give me confidence in the solution.

I don't understand this, are you saying that not all the pictures are synced to the cloud or that you can't see all the pictures synced?
> DEs were themselves busy switching to Qt.

Interesting. I know only of KDE. Are there others? (Genuine question)
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This is very much my experience too. Binge programming can give you a false satisfaction of having done intellectual work without too great an intellectual effort. I find myself itching to write up some code precisely at those times when I am feeling frustrated that I am not working on something “deep” but when the really “deep” things seem too hard and their rewards too far away in the future.
Some researchers would be motivated and energized to avoid the Wikipedia-described future. Especially those not in it! Those listed in Wikipedia would get more attention and competition.
Last time I used Opera there was no way to change the default search engine. That was a deal-breaker for me.
You would also need to take an arduino and ftdi cable, then you'll be able to interface with anything
Opera, please open source the discontinued Opera 12!
what use would it be there without the additional features that assist resulting in mere productivity?
it would be waste of resources unless WiFi and other facilities are available back then
Does it still come with mail and bit torrent clients?
It's flat.
I totally agree with you there.
You seem to be talking about something else than the OP. I was under the impression he was talking about fathers paying up for kids, not kids being taken away from their parents.

Let's check if I understood you correctly, though: your opinion is that parents who can't afford their kids anymore should have their kids taken away from them. And you are sure that is what is best for the kids?
> His overall view of probability is satisfyingly coherent, but I do not consider myself sufficiently expert to assess whether it is meaningfully better than the alternatives.

You're probably under-confident. I have read the first two chapters, and they just felt obvious to me. While I understand we could refine probability theory, I think we can say that anything that contradicts it is probably bollocks.

> And there are places where I believe he is just wrong, e.g. he seems to reject Bell's inequality and view quantum probability as just another case of limited information.

There is a part where he's definitely right, though: the so called "quantum probability" is not a probability at all. No matter how much it looks like a probability, it's something out there in the territory, and probability is in the mind. Besides, the idea that complex numbers (amplitude) could be probabilities is rather ridiculous. And of course, the then popular interpretation of quantum mechanics was crazy: it was either contradicting or denying the very equations that made so good predictions in the first place!

Now he could have criticized Many World as well, for it may seem it's a cop-out as well. We have reduced the Born statistics to an anthropic problem, but we haven't solved it yet.
Thanks, I think I shall start answering the phone as "Reactor Control Room, Torness Nuclear Power Station".

I even got a spam sales phone call from a company offering devices to prevent spam sales phone calls...
Setup a home server with Fedora and BeagleBone Black
So basically you don't really believe that diversity and social mobility are important with regards to the workplace.
neither am I, there's a good reason people are willing to pay for older BB systems like IPBoard and vBulletin, they work and they are iteratively improved upon instead of 'UX-rebooted' like Discourse and NodeBB. I personally don't think any of the systems are perfect but the the older forums work fine as long as they are popular enough that resources are dedicated to policing them.. so I personally feel proper inter-forum karma integration should be top priority, more-so than new UXs!
How did they control for whether the hyper-attractive group was "average" for a real world sample, but not their sample?
Oops just noticed I linked to turning an audience and their devices into a stereo system.

Here's the movie clip I speak of above http://vimeo.com/m/93899424

This is new(ish) type of technology that requires solid and FAST Internet. It may or may not work in various countries based on Internet speeds (10Mbps or higher is recommended ... Possibly 5Mbps of higher could work too.
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It does not seem safe or anything...
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I tend to disagree. People jumping too much here and there are not "fighters", and I certainly do not want them in my team. I might prefer "average" but ones that I can trust rather than top performer who can leave anytime. It's not just about technical skills...
Are you hiring a pal or a professional? Maybe it's useful to have someone different than you who can spot a different kind of flaws than you in the latest fad framework. Who gives a damn if it is Michael Bolton in someone else's earphones.
So one builds a model in Reflex based on the requirements, then tests that model. Even when the requirements are complete (which often they are not), the real life implementation afterwards may still bring zillions of problems (my own bugs, using a bad framework, whatever) which this model testing cannot catch... eh.
Jaynes was a physicist.

If he was a biologist or a doctor, he would probably have written the paper you cite himself (medical research appears to be quite sensitive to crazy statistics).
LXDE - the ultra light weight DE - is switching from GTK+ to Qt. I think Canonical is switching Unity from GTK+ to Qt as well.
well it needs top be appreciated here that Apple has gone ahead with developing such an app. it would certainly help doctors and patients to keep track and pace
I'm still sticking with 11/12. It's pain to use any other browser. Performance is worse, ux is worse, basic functionality is missing, weird bugs everywhere. Now I use combination of Opera, Firefox and Chrome (for js heavy apps like gmail). Eventually want to switch to Firefox.

It's really sad they let everything go and made just another dumbed-down featureless browser.
"At the risk of sounding like that guy" kind of gives it away ;)
Given how easy it is to buy stolen cards, encode them onto gift cards and then use those cards to buy goods in big-box stores that can be easily resold for cash, Lavey said he wonders why old-fashioned bank robberies are still a problem.

EMV.

I know it's far from perfect, but it raises the bar considerably. You can't just clone EMV cards that way. The USA really ought to try to catch up with the rest of the world on this front.
I was just about to complain about overriding the scroll behaviour. The homepage doesn't work properly because I have Chrome at a weird size, so I'm unable to see all of the features list, if I scroll slightly it takes me to the next section.
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When you get old enough you realise you wouldn't do what they do now not because you can't, but because it was pretty dumb.
Not everything on the internet is of a Question-Answer form. There are cases when a SO style forum doesn't cut it, think for example online games/MMORPGs.

That being said, I'm not digging that tiled design on the main page either. I think a list view would work fine, not need to reinvent the wheel there as long as the underlying technology is modern and robust.
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Conversation with chatbot Eugene Goostman (which passed the Turing test)
How to get started with layer fonts in CSS
We might be inclined to think of highly decorative and multi-colored fonts as belonging to the digital type age. Not so. Chromatic Type which enabled the use of outlines, shadows, and multiple colors (among other things) go back to the mid-19th century. They were made up of two or more corresponding sets that were printed one over the other, to create the desired effect.
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You'd like a small Coke? Okay, that'll be $4.
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If you have users in China, then you definitely need an alternative to Google. Google has been almost completely blocked since the days leading up to the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen, so sites using Google's CDN are broken in China. Most people assumed the block would be lifted after the anniversary passed, but so far it's still in place.
Why are patents and locked-up science seen as the way forward?
Obviously, Jaynes was talking about a reasonable prior probability you had before you flipped the coin. And he was talking about flipping the coin in a way that the head/tail outcome is completely unpredictable for you (50/50) probability, minus epsilon for weird stuff like landing on the edge. He later addresses the coin flip problem more rigorously.

Besides, once you have observed the outcome, it's probability is not 1. You could have misremembered the sequence, or you could have missed a flip, or otherwise done your observation wrong. The probability of making at least one such error with 1000 coin flips in an informal setting is actually quite high.
I'm staying one step ahead of the conversation.

We're all talking about parents taking care of their kids: If moms have the option not to have to take care of their kids - as they currently do - then fathers should have that option as well.

Once fathers have that option, and women are thusly treated as responsible adults, then we will come across situations in which mothers claim not to be able to care for their children. They will require assistance, or so they shall claim.

Simple solution: If the caretaker is sufficiently irresponsible as to have children without the means to care for them - which is precisely what they are claiming - then the children should be removed from their irresponsible care. Offer the father custody, and if he isn't interested then off to foster care.

Why is this so important? Why am I being so callous? Why is this relevant?

Simple. You incentivize behavior, you get more of it. Current law in Anglo-Saxon nations incentivizes irresponsibility by women. Get rid of these silly laws and you'll have less of this silly behavior.
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Amen. I work in the valley and live in Red Hill, which, as you can tell by the name, is crazily steep. Anyway, we still have stacks of cyclists around here (and Paddington). Personally I walk and get the bus.
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Well, for what is worth node.js didn't come out yesterday. I would argue it's reasonably mature for a production app at this point.
Maybe this is good generic advice to some, but this is not how to "pass" a technical interview. In a technical interview, the interviewer needs to determine where your skills lie - would your skills fit within the team? Does what's listed on your resume match with your answers? Is your learning book-knowledge or from experience? How do you respond when shown a very difficult problem? You can't BS your way out of these by "taking charge" and trying to trick the interviewer to move on to soft skills questions.

Maybe your advice works in certain situations but, against a full on neck beard who cares only to see if you know data structures and OOP, your advice would guarantee that you do not pass the interview.
...or live somewhere where it's possible to live that way.