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> We aren't doing that and not planning to. Yes. Yes you are. You've spent unspecified amounts of money (likely millions if not tens of millions) on acquiring the you.com domain. Investors will be very interested to get that money back.
Just so you know, they got the domain name from an investor/friend.
Hi Richard, Please feel free to respond to as many questions as you have time for. 1. I'm a huge fan of your ML work while you were at Stanford. If I may steal a minute or two from you, I'd like to ask, why do you think recursive neural networks have lost out to other architectures (basically transformers) when it comes to NLP, where intuition would suggest the composionality of language would favor recursive NNs? Do…
Great deep questions :) 1. The driving force behind neural net architecture choice right now is hardware architecture. The model that can be trained with more data and more parameters, will win over any other model. Parallelization is amazing. I do think they'll make a comeback when people try to do more high level reasoning and try to learn that. 2. I do mean it in several senses. We looked into neural net algos for…
1. Wonder if improving training speed / parallelization for recursive NNs is a good research direction ...
2. Thanks for the insights.
3. That all makes sense.
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yea.. why? the truth is that most users have no other easily accessible way for them to switch away from a monopoly that sells them, their data and privacy to the highest bidder and requires all companies to pay a tax to exist in the online economy... if you are an expert, you can change your settings manually and hence not require the extension.
Respectfully: because nobody knows who the fuck you are, and your reasoning doesn't make sense. You want to offer a privacy focused search service, but the users need to install an extension because otherwise instead of just having a regular web frontend for the masses to try. Then it's too hard for lusers to switch; you created this problem for yourself. The more you respond, the more it looks like this is some poor…
It's particularly important not to pile on someone when they're presenting their own work—the Show HN guidelines have additional rules about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit.
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Respectfully: because nobody knows who the fuck you are, and your reasoning doesn't make sense. You want to offer a privacy focused search service, but the users need to install an extension because otherwise instead of just having a regular web frontend for the masses to try. Then it's too hard for lusers to switch; you created this problem for yourself. The more you respond, the more it looks like this is some poor…
You broke the site guidelines with this comment. Putting "respectfully" in front of something disrespectful does not make it ok. It's particularly important not to pile on someone when they're presenting their own work—the Show HN guidelines have additional rules about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html . Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit.
That concept becomes tricky in situations like this, because you're assuming bad faith, and then tone policing based off that. My point of view is that you got it wrong this time, but that doesn't really matter, you're the one with the hammer, boss. o7
Fwiw, HN needs an alert/messaging system of some kind to deliver these moderation messages to users. If I don't see you responded in an official capacity before I post enough to push it to second page of my profile, I may never see it, which means it's not serving it's entire purpose. The public signaling part works, but the direct signaling could easily get lost. I know usually you aren't doing this a day later, but in those cases, there's gotta be a better solution.
I know you had a bad day today Richard Socher. I am sorry for that. Reading through these comments must have hurt, and in some strange "The Egg" [1] way hurt me too. I felt as everyone that left a bad comment, and I felt as you, receiving all this. And all that after finally releasing the beta of your product, having worked very hard for that. I am impressed by your stoic attitude and not caving in under all this pre…
Thanks a bunch. We had so much positivity on all other platforms but things here did get very toxic and personal - which was a first for me :( We still listen to our users and dropped the extension requirement. Folks assume a lot of bad intent from us even though Chrome clearly states that the extension only has write access to one field and no other permissions. We'll improve and learn from this. We're a super small…
I tried it out and not bad. I like there are no cluttering ads like some search engines. The side scrolling is a little tough to quickly see the results. And as most said, the forced extension needs to go. It is basically saying if you use Chrome go away.
Great. I tried to build an open-source search engine back in 2007. I utterly failed, but it was a great experience. I also tried to launch a Chrome extension to summarize interesting web pages [0]. I wish you luck! Ping me if you'd like to chat ($HN_Username at gmail) [0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN/tree/master/Weekly-Su...
If it's built for devs then I expect it to have an API. Does it have one?
Maybe they included it so prominently because of how hilarious it is, growth hack and all that.
Until I can give it an 'improper' try from a web page (rather than installing an extension), no. Funny to say "it's built for devs" then go on to say that an extension is required because normal users...
We heard you - we no longer require an extension! Hope you give it a try, would love your feedback! :)
My suggestion would be to have all your developers use your search engine exclusively. Use their feedback, you may have already come up with many of the suggestions being presented here.