Mauricio_

Are you sure there's a page on the web that has the stack trace you search for? Maybe there just isn't anything.

Could it be that there just isn't a single page in the web with the exact error?

And how do you determine which websites are good other than checking if they are doing seo? Is reddit.com good or bad? If a good site that does seo should it be taken out?

And what if what you're searching exists only in a non good website? Isn't it better to show a result from a non good website than showing nothing?

but the resilts he got were ireelevant and worse than the results that he would have got when searching reddit directly

Wrong. Internal reddit search has bad results too, and why even let you filter by last month.

my website zachvorhies.com doesn't show up on Google's search index, even when using the exact url as a query!

Just searched it and it's literally the first result.

Most articles (like the one you linked or ) conclude that it's technically possible, but found no evidence of the microphone being used when it shouldn't.

That's actually a pretty good idea. When I'm in a position to get a rootable handset,

I meant easy for any security researcher, to the point where one would've found something by now. But if you have assistant or siri on your phone then the microphone is always on, so it wouldn't really be trivially easy to test.

https://www.consumerreports.org/smartphones/is-your-smartpho...

It's 3am so I'll read the article tomorrow.

In the mean time: I think it would be trivially easy to verify: just take a rooted phone and log accesses to the microphone. Somebody would've found that it's being activated when it shouldn't by now.

I'll admit that it's quite likely that advertising algorithms are sophisticated enough to anticipate our needs based on previous behaviours with uncanny precision and timing.

Or it could be that among the hundreds of random ads we see online everyday one of two happen to be related to one of the dozens of conversations we had in the past days.

I can hardly think of anyone I know that can't attest to the experience of discussing something as a non-sequitur, only to receive ads about it shortly thereafter.

No way in hell that's true. Things are bad enough, you don't need to make stuff up.

You can use hntoplinks.com

It's intentional. Anti-tax republicans believe taxes should hurt. That's the main reason it's still not automatic.

My friends have switched from finance & medicine to CS majors - for the money Don't worry, something tells me they won't get very far.

Then DuckDuckGo would have access to rebrand googles search but keep its privacy benefits

Have you heard of startpage.com? It's literally that. Essentially it's to Google what DDG is to Bing.

I suspect that every person commenting about how DDG has been improving is a person that doesn't know that DDG simply calls the Bing API.

I'm too late to comment, but my 2 cents: As long as there's something important at stake people will try to hack the test. There's no way around that.

The best that can be done is to try to keep the correlation between the "test" and what it's trying to measure add high as possible and to teach everyone how to hack it, that way everyone is on a level play field. If everyone hacks it then the difference in scores will be mostly about what is being measured and not about who hacked it and who didn't.

That's why big companies actually advice interview candidates to practice on leetcode and give them example interview questions.

But I agree with the main point that being good only at "hacking tests" in life instead of being good at your profession is very bad.

Sure, but what's the alternative?

I know big companies do a lot of AB testing with interviews and change their approach over time (Google stooped asking why are manholes round and looking at AST scores because data showed them those things had almost zero correlation with performance).

That's good, they're trying to put everyone in a level play field given the system they use.

IMO I find the regular mobile version of Reddit as bad as the AMP. I just ended installing an unofficial app (boost) for whenever I wanna browser Reddit on mobile.

If not, why can a brain with a bunch of neurons and chemicals?

Either: - It can, and so can rocks. - It can, but there's something else unknown that's necessary to generate consciousness. - It can't, consciousness doesn't exist.

Small pet peeve: why do some people write GOOG, AMZN, etc instead of Google and Amazon when the context has nothing to do with the stock market?

Probably because most SO questions can't be answered with product recommendations.

Also SO is very specific and narrow (programming questions only), while Quora is very broad, so it's probably harder to moderate effectively.

You could listen to it while you do other stuff. There are apps that do text to speech.

Dear author: thank you for making multiple small programs instead of a single command with 400 flags.

They add dedicate hardware keys/buttons to invoke Feature X

Okay now you're exaggerating... oh wait, that's literally the Bixby button on my phone.

a weekend long music festival with excessive drinking

Where can I send my resume?

and transferred to Deepak _fucking_ Chopra

Nevermind.

Seems like a pretty ugly language judging from the sample.

Can you put a comment in bold in hacker news?

"They presume a four-byte floating point operand consisting of a one-byte exponent ranging from -218 through +127..." Is this a mistake on the magazine?

Just curious: Did you ever find what you were looking for? If so, can you find it with Bing / DDG? It not, is it in the web at all? Maybe there just isn't a webpage for what you want.

Not reading this. I don't want spoilers for the documentary.

I suspect it's bad on purpose to force people to install the app.