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atlantiqueon Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

That sounds like the job of an encyclopedia. Maybe some sort of collaborative encyclopedia where people can edit pages and add references.

atlantiqueon Ask HN: How to stop anxiety from too many choices?

This was really helpful. Thank you.

atlantiqueon Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

I get the feeling you're reading this too literally. I think eyelidlessness is talking about using a technique that is analogous or similar to that of a virtual DOM. Nobody is talking about an actual DOM.

atlantiqueon U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession

Ultimately decisions about diet are made by yourself and affect nobody else (unless maybe you're feeding dependents). Smoking is prohibited in public areas for the same reason that businesses are shuttered now; it subjects others who do not have a choice to a situation that is quite frankly dangerous.

atlantiqueon U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession

Poor diets are not highly contagious.

atlantiqueon SELECT wat FROM sql

It sounds like it is operating according to a closed-world assumption, in which this is reasonable behavior.

atlantiqueon Battle for the Internet

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atlantiqueon Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.

Skype is Estonian.

atlantiqueon The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea

Not every IME has fuzzy pinyin and I don't think the Microsoft one has it enabled by default.

atlantiqueon Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

Yes!

atlantiqueon Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

Hey! Your comment was a little vague in what you wanted, but we wrote a little extra documentation. Let us know if it's not what you needed. https://github.com/TheBerkin/Rant/wiki/Getting-started

atlantiqueon Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

Rant is very well documented and it can be found on the GitHub wiki. Here's a link! https://github.com/TheBerkin/Rant/wiki

atlantiqueon Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

Absolutely! Try this out: <name::=a>, <name::=b>, <name::=a>, <name::=b>

This is called a match carrier. https://github.com/TheBerkin/Rant/wiki/Query-carriers

atlantiqueon Show HN: Maim – A simple screenshot utility for Linux

Thought I'd let you guys know we are in #maim on Freenode in case you need some help or have questions. Thanks!