skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's related to age? I've been wearing "behind the ears" aids since I was 7 and I never sensed any perception like that.

(I have no idea what is the correct term for "behind the ears", I hope it's understandable.)
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Do you hear that high-pitched sound all the time? That's tinnitus.

Or do you only hear it from dogs?
A curious case of generosity? Sure! A cup of coffee wont hurt.
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Despite the best effort of the manufacturers to force obsolescence, the tablets are not gathering dust. They're very popular as a child distraction technology:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2565061/How-i...

My wife still uses our iPad 1 to watch Amazon Prime on, despite it being years since the last iOS update that would run on it. I'm quite happy with my Asus Transformer which is stuck on Android 4.2.
Great breakthrough in molecular biology. I hope they figure out a solution to the oxygen problem. And study possible effects to humans as well.
Futurama anyone?
Cotton candy [1] has been around for some years. This looks pretty similar.

[1] http://www.fxitech.com/
"NeuroRacer is not commercially available. We do not have any plans of release NeuroRacer to the public because it was developed as a research tool and not a consumer product."

http://gazzaleylab.ucsf.edu/neuroscience-projects/neuroracer...
Do you ever touch the wrong key on your mobile keyboard?
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I don't think you have issues. I wonder if they sound dumb because of the difference to "normal" speech, where we typically say words in a daft manner to young children or those learning to speak? We associate them with reduced capabilities (in a sense) because they are children and are still learning. That isn't meant offensively, more that we know the child needs to learn?

But if it helps you hear, I think it's great!

That article you linked to was interesting. Thanks.
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I m monitoring several million MAU websites.. Smart phones are growing at the expense of tablets too. Especially the consensus on larger screen sizes boosted phone usage and cuts into tablet share.
Because for projects that are developed and maintained for years, with a new developer taking over almost every year, the history can be a real treasure.

Developers suck at documentation ( or lack the will to do it ). History gives you clues on what was done to fix what, a glimpse of the requirement and 'Git skills' helps to keep this history clean.
>One would think that Mozilla users would turn off Yahoo search immediately, but apparently some do not.

Mozilla recently reworked their search bar to make it much harder to change the default (coincidentally, at the same time as they changed it to yahoo... imagine that ;) ).

You can get the old one back in about:config:

browser.search.showOneOffButtons = false

Completely agreed on google and matching - it's got too 'smart' for its own good, and when I'm searching for specific words, it often 'helpfully' includes results for the complete opposite too, or for reversed word order that completely changes the meaning (e.g. foo guide for bar users == bar guide for foo users according to google). If I'm looking for anything at all specific or complex, I use DuckDuckGo or even Yahoo. I try to use DuckDuckGo day to day when I can too, of course, for privacy reasons.

The rot started when google stopped supporting boolean operators, +, and "".
> my experience is that a serious hospital stay racks up charges starting in the high five figures (and the sky's the limit)

This is USA specific. Day in hospital in Poland costs around 100-400 USD (and that's for people without insurance, so for >95% of population it's free). It's probably worse quality, but still..

I don't understand how you get so outrageus prices for healthcare in USA.
I'm not talking about indexing user info -- it's more about responding to various queries during normal workflow. The link in my post above is a good example (even if I'm not sure it's very useful): you are editing some kind of document and you want to get quick, in-place info about certain words, names, concepts. Or another example is universal search in the OS (it is present in OSX, Windows, Ubuntu, ChromeOS): there is one single location where you can search for everything (local files, web stuff, etc.). That needs to be powered by something, and a 3rd party engine represents a HUGE risk if that 3rd party is one of your biggest competitors. Same goes for voice recognition, etc.
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"very draining to everyone" hahaha that's made me chuckle. Thanks! I think you're right about "it's like you said the most obnoxious thing ever" hahaha

Is there a way of highlighting how often she says "what?" like a tally chart? I would try that with my mum to get a message across. She'd likely be deeply offended, but I think the message would get across.
This works because the free wifi makes the people want to stay there and spend money there, so in effect everybody pays for the wifi. In high-end hotels the relationship is entirely reversed and people stay there because they want to stay there, and the wifi is used to extract more money because people actually need it while staying there.

It also needs to be kept in mind that all these asian small places have DIY wifi, while hotels got into the wifi game way too early and locked themselves into expensive, underdelivering and long-term contracts with 3rd party companies that do the wifi for them.
Actually only got it into a decent enough state for that earlier today. Image quality was previously suboptimal if the delta between the original size and target size was too big. We haven't done the 1000 photos yet, but I expect it will take about 10 - 20 mins to process all of them. All of the photos are processed offline, so it's primarily just a function of CPU speed, browser javascript engine, and original/target picture sizes.
As far as I understand, this messages was used in conjunction with Operation Chameleon. On it's own this message wasn't supposed to do anything, but it had to be discrete because this operation was clandestine.

The goal was to give them hope. That's the point. To let them know that there is help on the way, but there in't no accurate account by how far.

The `action` here is the Operation Chameleon, which is a secret.
Sure writers can write, they just dont write codes... Dont think its fair to expect them to and vice versa.
Could you get some higher impedance headphones? They would be quieter as the iPod wouldn't be able to drive them so well.
The digital is a place to hide
Then again, by that criterion a 40-year-old who loses his job and can't find another one is suddenly not an adult anymore, which doesn't really seem to match what most people want the term to mean.
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I have always used grymoire.com for regex and sed tutorials since probably around 2009. Thanks grymoire
The hostages were mainly soldiers of the colombian army who had been fighting against the FARC's guerrilla tactics for a long time. There are many hostages, held at different locations throughout the jungle by different captors. And they just know better than you and me, no need to read any article.

Now, the message is not a call to direct action because there is no possible action that would benefit all hostages getting it. It's just providing them hope and information (we're busting our assess off on active operations, so if something makes you think we're coming or around, there's actually a good chance we are). Do as you see fit if/when that happens.

Also, your whole reasoning is fairly solid, but you are building it on top of a wrong context. The hostages are not the average american and the captors are not the bad guys from a movie. Your popular culture is wildly different than the cultures of the involved parties. You should get that straight before making any reasoning using your own context instead.
I'm a big fan of Self-Destructing Cookies (on the desktop and on mobile).
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Well, for Yahoo, 10.4% from 7.4% is 40% increase.
Very true about the conversation in your head. You can sometimes drive great distances and not remember any part of the journey, which is worrying in case you missed dangerous road conditions etc.

This is particularly true if you have a "lot on your plate".

Perhaps putting on an irritating radio station would help?
The main problem with google is that it's too 'smart' for its own good (smart tool makes stupid users). If I search for something, I don't want it to by default include a massive list of other 'helpful' things up to and including antonyms or different word order that changes the meaning (e.g. how "foo guide for bar users" == "bar guide for foo users" according to google). Google has been getting dumber ever since it stopped supporting + and "".

Similarly, although most search engines (except DuckDuckGo) filter bubble people, it is by far the most pervasive and irritating with google. So far, every single person I have explained filter bubbles to has been weirded out by the idea and thanked me for telling them about it.

Of course, the other reason Google loses ground is privacy - Yahoo is definitely not good on privacy, but at least they fought as hard as they could before their hand was forced where google capitulated immediately. I can't wait until in a year or two DuckDuckGo is as good as google (not as hard as it used to be)...
I suppose that training the network requires the cluster stuffed with GPU's?
I think I actually miss old phone booths, particularly the bright red BT ones you used to get here in the UK. Nice booths, although they always got beat up for no good reason.
Its definitely worth the drop in performance!
Is port access really problem? I think that the offloading could be done at sea with intermediary ships with just a little modifications.
Perfect usability.
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Why am I only learning about this now? :(

It's like the mode to disable 'personalised results' (AKA filter bubbles) - I've explained it to several people in the last few months and they were all amazingly grateful. Of course, we still don't have any way to measure where there is no filter bubbling with them off, or just less... :(
Why not? I consider sofa and couch to be synonyms. This lets me do two searches in one.
Being literal is one of its best features, I think, at least in comparison to other search engines. I don't want a google-style filling my search in with long lists of antonyms, related words, or context-changing term reordering... Words that literally mean the same thing are fine (although ideally that would be a selectable setting), but substituting words for something only peripherally related is not.
How is this a useful comment? This is for Clojure. You truly suggest people load a JS engine every time they use math in Clojure? Why JS and not Java then?
That's what a heroin addiction means. Daily use, or withdrawl, which is really not as much fun as it's made out to be on television...
Is the language really that important to the end product? I know we like to write in our favourite languages or the language we think in, but when you use software daily, do you only use software written in C, for example? Do you refuse to use anything written in C++?
>it can and should be integrated deeply into the OS

No, it shouldn't. Some people care about their privacy.

I also hate this fascination with search in general. If I want somefile, I know it's in Documents/stuff/foo_project/ ; I don't need to search for it.
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> Yahoo is definitely not good on privacy, but at least they fought as hard as they could before their hand was forced where google capitulated immediately.

Can you share a source for that?
I'm not sure we disagree. I'm not saying "we should use Dropbox instead of Git". I'm saying "we should design a tool that makes the most common Git tasks, including tracking history, much easier so that we don't need a terminal game to learn it".
Those pictures are mighty impressive, but made me feel ill very quickly.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/yahoo-fight-for-users-...
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It would be pretty interesting to see people assume that a ten-year-old suffered from senility because he was wearing a hearing aid. By definition, it only applies to the old.
Deep learning videos and lectures are good. Great list.
The CEO butting in all the time was really annoying, had a business partner that did this in meetings all the time - its fucking annoying and rude.
On the surface I have no idea if this is ground breaking or not, my first thought was ahh nVidia using Linux!
People havent really realized the dangers of posting selfies, nude or otherwise... That's why I am never fan of selfies.
I use twitter as a bookmarking service
I thought even to get voxels you first have to "solve sudoku"?

You have sum of all the voxels "opacity" along rays from many directions and you want to know each voxel opacity.
Great game! We should make a "bash skills" game for you in return, Henry!
I store them under revision control, and that allows me to share them across devices and browsers:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public
I think this is very useful for average people to understand more about how machines work. Sometimes scientist tend to talk in machine language themselves which is difficult for an average person to understand. I think this is a great avenue to get more information about industry news and whatnot.
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Well, you used to be able to use "sofa" with google, which would exclude 'couch' etc. but then they killed that. Still works with other search engines.
> No, I use Git because I want to perform complex operations on a directed acyclic graph which represents the history and structure of my project.

To accomplish what? Note, I'm not trying to diss you, I really want to understand why you want to do that.

I mean, I never woke up in the morning and said "woa, I really want to perform complex operations on an acyclic graph today". Maybe you and me are just different, but I usually want to make software, together with my team.

I want to hack on the same software as them at the same time, so we need a way to deal with all the technicalities that make emailing ZIP files around unpractical. I want to keep track of history so that I can see why we did what when, and so that I can undo stupid mistakes. That's really all I want.

I don't completely understand why I consciously need to perform complex operations on a directed acyclic graph to accomplish these things, but somehow that what I end up doing, and that makes me sad. I find it to be a horrible distraction. For me, the "D" in DVCS is an implementation detail, and I bet this holds for 90% of GitHub's paying customers.
As your interpretation, it is a sign that your time as a hostage might come to an end, because something might happen, as it happened to other 19 hostages.

And that `goodness` is what this message is all about.
First, sorry for my bad english.

It's because working out is againts the human race, we will "crafted" in a time that se haven't nothing, in a misery age back then and we were built to livre, which means that tour body will work to keep you alive. You will never see a Lion for example running to loose his belly fat, animals just spend energy for 3 things: food, sex and running from a predator, basicaly.

So, to achieve this habit, you have to have a "military" willing, because your nature will always fight against you.
Google does not have majority share in Yahoo! JAPAN. There reason Yahoo! JAPAN uses Google instead of Bing (unlike the rest of Yahoo!) is because Yahoo! JAPAN felt that Google offered a better search product in Japan than Bing.
They claim it's high speed and low cost, with the fact that it starts up at $400/month. Yes that may seem like a hefty price, but you get what you pay for. And I'm all out on trying this "fastest Internet service" anytime soon. Too sick of Comcast, DirectTV, DSL, Verison and all those other Internet service providers.
>unless Firefox grows a lot (which seems unlikely) the damage to Google is done.

Another way mozilla are their worst enemy. Making firefox into a chrome clone just drives away its users, while the masses they are trying to attract are staying on chrome because all they deliver is a compromised experience for the people who want firefox.
Consistently ignored? Not at all. We are constantly reminded of this topic these days. It's very popular.

For instance, all you hear about on Columbus Day is about how (supposedly) horrible Colombus was, and how people are insulted that we still celebrate him.
Interesting, can you link any article?
Why not use C-r?
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go get github.com/nwidger/nintengo

Nope
Flux without the singletons
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The article did not really explain anything, other than providing some (interesting?) background.

I don't know if it "worked" either, as I don't use it! Of course, I am a small market of 1; thousands more use it for old-looking photos.

I am surprised by the repeat of the same ideas again and again. Since the early 90s when Geocities was available you could easily share text and pictures in your own site. Then MySpace allowed the same, Bebo, Facebook, Twitter (with limited text!), Google+, Instagram.... is there anything else I've forgotten? Each one mandates an account to post data or view specific data.

They all allow sharing pretty much the same (some content, whether it is text or photos) yet they are each hailed as the next big thing and the best thing since sliced bread, and you must be a sad weirdo if you're not a member of the currently fashionable site. Remember the looks of surprise/shock/disgust/anger when you state that you don't have a Facebook account? There are over 252 million (or more?) domains active yet there is obsession over a handful.

Maybe I'm an old fart, but I don't get it? I wonder if people class Google Image Search as the next big thing? You can see pictures in there too. You can also get text if you click on the "web" search tool too. Apologies for the sarcasm there :-)
Just people.

At the low end when eating out in restaurants occasionally having wait staff ignore him and asking other folk at the table "what would he like", or people assuming that he couldn't hear and talking about him — to at the high end having a guy shouting "deaf fuck" at him repeatedly on the street for no obvious reason.

I'm not trying to say that this happened every day — especially the outright insults. But it was enough to be noticeable.

I suspect, as @hibbelig commented, age had something to do with it.
T-Mobile also has a truly unlimited plan, to an extent.
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Is there a good cross-platform alternative to FileZilla?

Or seeing as it's licensed under GPLv2, maybe we should just setup a GitHub repo with the latest source and links to pre-compiled binaries.
Ill have to agree totally here.

Having build a great SAS that is far superior than anything out there, trying to convince people to use it and keep on using it is extremely hard ! Making people pay for something is much harder than any piece of code that i wrote.

Unfortunately a great product isnt enough, that is why mediocre products with a great sales team success.
Totally. At my work, a team of 5 devs manage to version their 25 years old software (>10.000 files) using SourceSafe !

No branch, no merge, only a central repo and intelligent check-in/check-out. They are way more efficient than the agile-y teams working with Git/Mercurial.
Ah OK thanks. I suppose the division between smart phone and tablet is disappearing a bit after the "phablet" revolution. I still have distinctly different sized devices for phone and tablet; that would explain my confusion. Thanks.
The Box by Marc Levinson gives a great history of the move of sea freight from bulk storage to containers, and the various companies and players instrumental in this change.
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Just use Ctrl-R in bash to search backwards in the history
Re: pork, yes, you are correct, thanks.

Re: The provenance of the theory. It makes a lot of sense to me, but I don't know how valid it really is. If it first appears in Ivanhoe, that's very interesting.
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How about before all this NLP mumbo jumbo they do something useful like simply let users sort by price, like every other hotel site. Or, you know, fix the rampant bugs.
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Project Mycroft has hundreds of configuration files for browser search plugins, including Google verbatim.

http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google+ve...
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I'm a mobile computer technician in rural north Cornwall, UK. My clients are domestic and small biz (5 or fewer employees).

One of the things that surprised me was the approach to search that my non-technical clients take. Anecdotally, around half use Bing because they like Internet Explorer. Curiously, more than two thirds of these folks also have Chrome installed, so they can use Google; the misconception is that they _need_ Chrome in order to use Google _anything_. Chrome is use for Google, and nothing else.

I don't recall a single person using Yahoo! across 300+ home and small office visits. Firefox is rarely seen, and if it does crop up it's usually because of a years-old recommendation from a trusted family member.
Well, I don't need it either, but I clearly see why and how others do need it. At the moment, the industry goes towards search instead of manual structuring -- it's an interesting topic to think about, but that's a fact. Google tries everything to move people in this direction. You don't even need to look at the search engine, just think of how Google Maps or even Google Keep works. Menu entries, options, basically explicit filtering/search is transformed (dumbed down? maybe, maybe not) into a single search box where you tell it what you're looking for. When the most popular Linux distro integrates Amazon search into it's desktop search, then you know this has arrived. :)

Well, obviously it needs to be switchable, and it certainly will be both in Linux and in Windows. Not so much in Google OS, obviously.

Again, I'm not voicing my personal opinions and preferences on whether and how I want to see search integrated into a desktop OS. I'm arguing that Bing won't go away because the current industry trends require Microsoft to have a reasonably good search engine under its control.