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NowGoogle.com Adalah Multiple Search Engine Popular
Good news for us, especially search engine users, are now present among us a media search engine that complete and popular, why comprehensive and popular ? because search engines are equipped with the Multiple Search Engine that can make our search more effective. Yes nowGoogle.com is Multiple Search Engine Cool a search engine designed specifically to make it easier for us in the search
Ah, now I know why it wasn't trumpeted anywhere:

It was released in 2006, and it's still behind a $150 paywall.
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Amazon Promotion Tempts Book Lovers With Free Kindles
The new UI is very confusing, but the music is so good I don't care.

One way of reducing the confusion might be introduce UI elements gradually over time as a user keeps coming back. If at first it was just the big artist wallpaper with a small player controls widget (like the one on top of the old page), that would be so much more enjoyable. The next time the user logged back in, there could be a new UI element. This would probably also pique the user's interest and she might actually click on it. And so on...
For those that wish to see a video of roughly the same talk given by DHH at Startup School '08:

http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hans...
astonishingly beautiful, and nice that you greeted me with an acoustic of a new metric fave. unfortunately the acoustic version sucks and i'm similarly not a fan of any of the next 10 songs i explored. if it actually played music i liked, this would be my preferred way to listen - and experience - music online.
I get the impression that most product teams at Amazon contain about 5 people.

I love Amazon, btw, I just think they keep the teams lean and do amazing things.
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I'm (we're) still childless for a few months, but that was great, thanks!
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I really wish that thing had a touchscreen. No pointing device, no scroll wheel, and poor cursor update speed will make the interactions people are used to now impossible.

It shuts down its radio all the time right? I assume push notifications are impossible?
Definitely cumbersome, but you'd be hard pressed to find a 99c iPhone app that's 10MB. With the simplicity of typical apps and platform restrictions (black & white!), a lot will fit in the first 1MB.
I think a surprising number of your friends (and mine) are probably driven by nationalism. I'm not a big fan of nationalism, and don't swing any particular way when it comes to race or country. I do however actively support specific policies and ideas.

But particularly for minorities in countries nationalism provides an easy way for self-identity. You'd want to be able to be proud of some specific fact about yourself and unfortunately nationality is a particularly easy way for minorities like the Chinese (in the US) to do this.

And so this easily leads to American raised Chinese to jump on board supporting their home country. The alternative is to admit that their special home country needs advice from the US. Perhaps they weren't properly (or weren't in the US long enough) brainwashed to accept democracy, but something is causing them to think that they understand the complex policies better than the rest of the developed world simply because they lived there once.

I also know a Chinese international student in Canada for college who insists that I am brainwashed by the west. I think that's a pretty bold statement since it pretty much implies that I was too stupid to distinguish the noise from the truths when I learn shit, since the fundamental difference between the democratic world and the communist world is that in the democratic world the truth is always there no matter how much shit is piled on top of it and in the communist world they just pile shit on your face and actively try to hold the truths out of reach.

I think with the silly gaffs like the little girl who was lip syncing at the olympics that the CCP is still tripping over itself on universally backwards policies, and that all this is not just a case of the west trying to assert its cultural differences onto China.
I can see a plausible link between garden-food-awareness and learning or health. But what weight should that link be assigned, compared to everything else?

That is, would students with weak reading and math skills be better served by an hour in garden-education or an hour of other classroom work? Does garden-education reduce childhood obesity?

Answering those questions requires evidence, not just an attractive theory (or appeal to a 'broad mindset'). The author reports there is no hard evidence proving gardens benefit students, and provides some testimony that schools without gardens do more for their students.
very slick new design, but I'm missing a lot of things that made thesixtyone so awesome. Where are the playlists? now every next song is a gamble. Two songs further might be an acousting version or a cover of a song i'd love to hear. And why are the artist and song title only visible in the title?
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What is NNMF?
* Build it yourself with something that's fast for development, like Rails or Django.

* Pay the guys who work on the clones to add features.

* Pay a contractor to work on the open source clones.

* Work on the open source clones yourself.

* Get lucky and find something better than what you've found so far.

My guess is that improving the open source clones is your best bet.
Considering developers will pay for app downloads themselves, it seems likely that only wifi access will be available. That's going to limit a lot of the kinds of apps that are popular on the iPhone. Why even install a wifi-only weather app when you can use the (experimental) web browser that always works?
My favorite parts of this blog announcement are the numerous comments requesting that google release the data on bittorrent. Google still has this option, if it ever actually wants to release the n-gram corpus to as wide an audience as possible.
Looks fascinating, but I don't have an hour to spare. Anyone got a link to something written?
It seems to me that Amazon likes to do things really thoroughly. They start out by specialising in one thing (selling books) and use the infrastructure to diversify (selling consumer products) and the expertise gained to make new products (AWS). I'm really excited about this, if only to see outspoken Jobs, who rubbishes competition quite easily, pitched against old school Bezos, who refuses to even talk about the competition.
"reverse" wasn't renamed to "flip", just one of the two possible meanings of "reverse" was renamed. reverse() still exists and reverses lists.
Test prep software like vocabulary flashcards might be useful.
Haha nice one. That's hilarious.
A Perfect Way to Get Your Smile 
Smile a lot; it costs nothing. A perfect smile will indicate the confidence of a human. However, in this stressful, busy lifestyle some of the people are forgetting to smile.
And when we run out of poor countries? You could say that that can't happen because when the Chinas/Indias of the world get to our current standards we will be at a higher standard and they will still be poor relative to us, but this doesn't appear to be happening. The American middle class had a lot more money e.g. pre-Reagan than they do now.
I'd like to add to that:

3) When I hover over a button/icon for a second or two, a tooltip would help tremendously to figure out what the button does.

This is a really great, unique design. Well done.

Update: I have run into some usability issues that I can't really describe because I have no idea how I got into whatever the feature is suppose to be. I don't think this UI is very forgiving for newcomers like myself. You're onto something with this "vinyl" look, and I know the improvements you're thinking about will probably fix most of these issues.
I don't think Kindles have wifi...

I would guess amazon would only allow non-networked apps
Click on your name in the bottom left, and you'll get a dark overlay box to the lower-right of the screen, and there'll be your 'featured' playlist. Note:

"it may take a few hours for your playlists to fully migrate over"

my playlists are about 40% complete.
I think what he means is: you can't measure a specific metric but you can see from the end result that some other technique ended up with a better overall result.
I don't really understand the politics surrounding Python, but I don't understand why they believe this could be "blessed" by inclusion into the repository.

Performance goals have not been met so far; it increases memory usage; PyPy is an alternative with more community support (if only because the typical Python programmer knows more Python than C++); and it makes the code much more complex, introducing lots of hard-to-debug problems, at a time when the developers already have trouble getting people to migrate to 3.x.

The 3.x branch does not need a reputation for instability.

(None of this is to say Unladen Swallow is a bad idea, or should be killed; but it should prove its worth first.)
There's a great website I use for getting my head around Polish (a neverending headache-inducing joyful task), and it seems to cater for pretty much well any language people are interested in:

http://forum.wordreference.com/

The forum interface sucks, and there's definitely a market for this kind of thing with a decent UI like the SE stack.

Good luck, and maybe see you on iRosetta!
Oh, I don't doubt that nearly everything we've seen or heard is exaggerated.

I make a claim about what the Bush administration's rationale for going to war was, not whether I believe that rationale is justified. To my knowledge, it's a factual and at least partially correct claim.
Mobile Core i3/i5/i7 benchmarks including actual power consumption (German)
the new ui is a disaster imo - usability is right out (yes lists are useful)

this redesign should have been as a new view on an existing model that is switched via toggle by the user

not to mentioned they sabotaged groups and they are now an exercise in futility called 'channels'

edit: https://old.thesixtyone.com/ is still available for a limited time
Ask HN: API limitations for Web services
Sometimes I have ideas of Web services that require the Twitter Search API. But then, after seeing the number of requests you can do by day (150 searches for example), I keep thinking: "well, this app could always be better written by them, on their servers. They could even copy my idea and do a much better implementation because for them there are no API limits."

With 150 (or 1000...) requests per day when your app got minimally successful it would also die.

Is this thinking correct or I'm missing something? (Not a web developer here...)
That, and the fact that his articles and speeches on education reflect a shallow thought process that lacks a real nuanced understanding of the problems and tradeoffs.
I wonder what language/API it uses? Java or C++ are probably safe guesses.
I don't have a Kindle yet, so I wonder what the connectivity is like? I think you can't just surf the web with a Kindle, so web applications are out?

This news makes me dither between excitement and desperation. Yet another completely different mobile platform to support? Fragmentation is really becoming a problem, web apps seemed like the only hope for a solution... In any case, I suppose it makes sense to wait for the iPad, perhaps we'll think completely different about mobile internet after that.
A quote that has stuck with me for 20 years now, by a Mexican immigrant who was not in favor of bilingual education: "They teach my son to be a busboy or waiter. I want them to teach him English, to teach him to be a doctor or a lawyer."

Now, I know, satisfying the social urges of yuppie parents to have their kids get their hands dirty (in a carefully supervised way with a bottle of disinfectant close at hand and absolutely no chemical pesticide or genetically modified seed used) probably won't hurt anyone. Those kids are going to be decently educated in spite of it all. But for the kids who actually need school to get ahead in life, can we focus on teaching them to be doctors/lawyers, etc?

Incidentally, I am reminded of a Chris Rock comment regarding Martin Luther King Blvd: if you attend a school named Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, you probably can't afford to have your education planned by trendy educators.
I've known a few people in this situation. If you're feeling completely burned out, you might want to chill out and travel around for a few weeks (or whatever) to clear your head. After that:

- If you want, go back and get your degree (it only gets harder as you get older)

- Do an entrepreneur-in-residence gig (instead of an associate.) From what I've seen, EIRs do anything from hanging out and shooting the shit all day (i.e. very little) to reviewing investments/networking/helping portfolio companies to actively incubating their next idea (or a bunch of ideas simultaneously)

- Join a growing startup that is past the ramen-fueled-fight-for-survival frenzy, which might be a good balance of upside vs expected value. A lot of former YC founders do this if their companies don't work out. As a current venture-backed founder/CEO, I can say with certainty that your startup experience would be highly valued.

- Join Google, Microsoft, or Facebook, check your dreams at the door, and ride out comfortably into a middle-aged sunset (I kid, I kid.)

Feel free to email me at drew at dropbox[dot]com if you want stories or intros to people who have been through this.
Berlingske Media steals sports fantasy game from small partner [in danish]
Having met him personally, I am 100% confident he's telling the truth, at least from his perspective.
A handful of screenshots that proofs the case can be found here: http://swush.com/berlingske-media/

The partner (Swush.com) was even mentioned by name in the ruleset of the "new game". And they still claim they did not based their new game on the product that Swush.com makes.
Nonnegative matrix factorization. It was the advantages of keeping a sparse matrix sparse, can be iteratively created and generally the bellkor team's matrix factorization of choice.
"Therefore, implementing monitoring according to a country's national context is what any government has to do."

There are two big questions:

1) What legitimizes a government to to define "national context" and the will of the people? Or simply, what legitimizes government?

2) If government is legitimate, what are the limits of its mandate where an individual's fundamental rights are concerned?

Western governments can claim to express the will of the people because it is the people who have elected them (directly or indirectly). The Chinese government's power is based on a military campaign many decades ago. It cannot claim to speak for the chinese people. The laws it makes are nothing but the the will of a clique of people with guns.

The second question is a very difficult one. Where do fundamental individual rights come from? Who defines them with any legitimacy? Does it have something to do with nature or psychology or are the relative to culture? I don't know, but I do know that I want to claim individual rights independently of any collective expression of opinion and power, and everyone else I know wants to do that as well.

If western governments run a system of censorship it may in many cases be a violation of fundamental individual rights. That doesn't change the fact that it may at the same time be a legitimate expression of the will of the people. It may be the will of the people to violate fundamental individual rights. That's the contradiction we in the west have to grapple with, and it's totally different from the problem the Chinese have with their clique of men with guns holding them hostage.
It's a shame they're not offering ogg theora (thus excluding firefox) but a step in the right direction nonetheless!
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As with most things in life, few things are mathematically true. You should rather read it as "your chances to succeed will drop by 99% if you're not in banking, marketing, government or publishing".
I attended this talk in person, and have to say it was easily the most entertaining of the series I've seen all year.

The most interesting take-away was that DHH wants to build scalable companies in the sense that profits grow non-correlated to the workforce, ie. you don't hire 2 more people for $500million more in profits. Someone asked, wouldn't it good to employ 100k of people and create 100k jobs to which DHH said, no it's better for my personal wealth (which is the point of all good business) if I keep the profits to the smallest number of people possible - those 100k people should actually go out and make shit instead (his words). Food for thought.
Add a BIG button that gives a fun tutorial on how to use it. Otherwise love it. It took me a bit of tinkering to figure things out but, that kind of makes it fun!
If someone suggests that Apple is going to put CDMA and GSM in the same phone, or even that they'd have two versions, I think you can safely disregard everything else they say.
Once you've failed at one VC-backed startup, it's usually fairly easy to get funding for an infinite string of other failed VC-backed startups. I have quite a few friends with no less than 1/2 dozen startups under their belts over the past 12 years which never profited, and often never brought in revenue. Think of Venture Capital as upper middle-class welfare.
Suppose The Earth Got Saturn's Rings...
It has a basic web browser, but for international customers it seems most sites are restricted -- I can only browse Wikipedia (it uses the mobile version, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/ )

I suspect the deals they've had to do with however many 3G provider companies mean more expensive bandwidth outside of US.

I'm not sure about Kindle as an app platform; it feels a little too sluggish when the screen needs to be updated. Good enough for going to a new book page, but interactive applications may be difficult (e.g. just moving the cursor around faster leaves a visible trail). Maybe a new generation of the device with faster screen updates (some kind of dual e-ink/OLED screen?) and better keyboard.
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WordReference does have a ton of valuable content and a vibrant community but as you mentioned, the user experience isn't that great. Thanks for the encouragement ;)
128/75 is just fine, though, according to standard guidelines, even if the 128 is a bit close to the upper limit of the normal range.
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Rosetta is a trademark and they might come after you if you managed to get this off ground. Just a word of warning...
Citation needed :-)
nope - you're just not using them properly. they're great for getting the gist from a piece of text.
Without evaluating the value of the code itself, the associated copy is nonsensical:

"I’m going to spare you the geek-speak and tell you straight up — it’s basically programming blocks of code that you can use over again."

The smallest programming blocks we reuse are called functions, not objects. DRY is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of OO.

"So for our purposes, OOCSS is basically a flexible HTML structure..."

Why would you give anything composed of HTML a name ending in CSS?
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This was one of my first thoughts.

Although the brand name is actually Rosetta Stone - so they might not be able to make it stick.
I think his quote was a little more inspiring than the Gordon Gecko version: his comment (in response to a question from an Indian gentleman as to whether a company with 100,000 employees wasn't more socially beneficial because it provides 100,000 people with jobs) was that if you desire to make a positive influence on people, rather than employing them you can teach them to "go out and make shit". Then you're both better off.

And, hey, I've never gotten a buck from 37Signals but in terms of job creation DHH only has maximum 99,999 to go :)
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I didn't get any answer from him at this time.
You're right, but I was also talking about the general playlists, top, latest etc. which seem to have disappeared in favor of the model they used to have for moods.
Good point, though going into Civil Disorder is leaving the game - I guess this would let them leave it on their terms, possibly screwing over one of the remaining players in favor of another, but that doesn't strike me as that big a weakness.
It's based on Drupal.

Nice to see the UK being innovative. sigh
When you say "The OS feature that polls for activity" do you mean epoll/kevent? Because otherwise (and even then I think) it isn't O(1).

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
OK, I didn't express myself well. Let me try again.

I didn't mean that StackOverflow is like it is because of the career site. I don't know why it became successful.
My main point is that people ask stuff there because it actually helps them do their job. This means:

1) Vague, badly written questions and do-my-homework requests are frowned upon.
2) It's a service that people would potentially pay for.

In contrast, on places like Yahoo Answers people ask all sorts of random questions and get an accordingly wide range of answers.

It might be that regardless of the professional nature, programming provides a higher barrier of entry than language study.

That's why I thought it would be good to market it to translators.
I'd love to hear about your experience, as I'm intrigued by the idea of trying caloric restriction but am somewhat stymied by the details.

Specifically, how did you transition to a restricted diet? How have you felt, both emotionally and physically, throughout the process? What is a typical day like in terms of intake? Where do you get recipes? Do you count calories?
Previously, I never believed the notion that calories in/calories out was wrong - it always seemed too much like "feel good science" to me. Y'know, where a diet says it's not your fault that you're overweight, it's just because of the darn environment around you, so feel good about yourself, etc, etc.

I think I was mistaken.

There was a thread on here with a video that was just incredibly insightful and it was a big part of what convinced me. I'm starting to rethink my own nutrition and diet.

"Sugar: The Bitter Truth", +132 points, 86 comments
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006980

Takes a while to watch the video, but it was very worthwhile for me and highly recommended.
Thanks Bruce.
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In the past I have installed cygwin and sshd on Windows, so that I can log in to localhost via PuTTY, because I like PuTTY better than the default cygwin shell or rxvt.

I was just setting that up tonight, when I ran into a PuTTY version that does not require sshd to log in to Windows localhost, only cygwin.

http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/

So far so good.
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The irritating thing is that it took me months to find WordReference, as it seems like Google really struggles with decently indexing some language sites. To be honest, I can only speak for Polish as it's the sole focus of my foreign language studies, but it's been a nightmare to find more than a handful of decent resources online.

If you want to bring more users to the site, I'm not sure if it'd be worth experimenting with adwords. Throw, say, a few dollars a day at adverts that target phrases like "Why does French..." or "How do I say in German" and so on. It might bring enough users to give the site critical mass.
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