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I tried to use DDG exclusively for a month. Unfortunately, I had to drop back to google to find a lot of info. I still use DDG sometimes but for the standard stuff I search for, it doesn't fully do it for me.
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Very interesting reading on that subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_While_Black
The only thing that's kept me coming back is 'user interface' design or just working with a designer on a really tough web problem. This is why I've focused on another web startup that falls into this area, as it definitely takes all of the 'favorite' pieces I have. We built a super quick prototype, fell into a lull for a month or two, and are now iterating and improving it. Unfortunately the iterations are taking longer than I had hoped, but it's still moving forward.

The problem I'm running into on this one is having 3-4 GREAT ideas to improve the software, but being stuck waiting for idea #1 from last month to be implemented. This may be a big piece of my motivation issue. Figuring out how to release things faster is key for me at the moment, I've even turned to coding to try to speed it up.
"My world is a little darker." RIP Martin Gardner
The slider serves as a simple privacy reminder on your home page. It only takes a few moments at youropenbook.org to make it clear that many people could benefit from such a reminder.

It's not the intention that you would interact with the slider frequently. If you drag it to a different setting a dialog box would popup and explain exactly what the consequences would be.

Most people would be happy with simple privacy settings, and there's still a customize link for the power user.
exactly. and he can give away windows os on mobile because they are getting paid for android os on mobile.
I like Duck Duck Go. Mostly because, there is someone out there who is courageous enough to give it a go, single-handedly, into the search engine market. So props to him, I can support someone like him.

Having said that. There can be too much of a good thing. I feel that HN is being used as an advertising platform to promote DDG, which in itself is not such a bad thing when there are major developments and exiting features and news about it once in a while. So can we try to go easy on this promotional bandwagon?
And you'd have to differentiate further for:

- visitor from another country

- visitor from out-of-state

- skin colour other than default for that locality

- male / female / other

The variations are endless, and I think that for each of those the rules are subtly different.
You can tether with other phones on AT&T in the U.S. without problem. It's only the iPhone that appears to have the problem.
In other news, Microsoft sues software as a service company Salesforce.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/18/microsoft-sues-salesforce-c...
>> Although people who buy iTouches love all the apps and the ability to browse the web whenever they have WiFi, in the end, they're buying an mp3 player. They're buying it so that they can listen to music.

Our family has three iPod touches with no music on ANY of them. If you speak to families with young children, you'll find there are millions of iPod Touches out there being used as game/app/video platforms.
I'd rather see 10 more articles about DDG than one more about the ipad or fakestevejobs.
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Well executed product launch on Reddit.
I have no problem with high-risk, long-range research projects as long as they are funded voluntarily and no fraud or misrepresentation is involved in getting the funding. You seem to be forgetting that the tax money is take by threat of force.
I'm sorry but that logic will get you thrown in jail for the exact points you outline. Police are people and they don't like a jerk and they don't like someone who seems to think he's smarter than they are. You say just "No Comment" and they aren't going to like you and that is going to make them go after you harder.

What the statement I put above conveys is a few things.

1. That I respect the cops and their job and that I know they aren't after me personally(and hence won't try to parse every sentence I say and take it out of context like you did)

2. That I've been told by people that I believe to be knowledgeable that even innocent people can be convicted of a crime they didn't commit by saying something stupid and that's the reason I have a choice in not talking to them (and hence putting the "stupid" burden on my by implying "I don't think I'm smart enough to be in a discussion with you")

3. I explicitly stated "I'm not guilty" letting the cops know I'm not trying to be smug with them and that I do want them to know I'm not guilty.

Bottom Line: By saying "No Comment" you're trying to prove you're smarter than the cops while my statement lets them think they're smarter than me while still giving them nothing they can use against me
It would be wise to find out rates at the very least! Some lawyers might charge more than you can afford.

You might also want to ask the receptionist/assistant who answers calls to the office how you contact the lawyer outside of office hours and whether they need a retainer on file in order to service clients in these kinds of circumstances (ie call them out cos you have been arrested at 3am on a Saturday night).
The thing with this kind of advice is while it's important to realize that nothing good can come from talking to a cop, the circumstances of the situation has to be factored in. Case in point, a police officer approaches you about a murder investigation, then yes this is great advice. If you are pulled over for rolling through a 4 way stop, yeah clamming up just isn't warranted and likely to cause you more trouble than it's worth.
Why did he cave in to all the license talk and release it as BSD ?

If he really doesn't care and has now some more interesting C++ project why not leave the license to GPL and be done with it ?
But some problems, such as factorization, are known to be solvable on quantum computer in polynomial time, and there is no known program that solves that on det. Turing machine.

I agree that there is no reason to believe that quantum computers will solve NPC problems.

[edit] On det. Turing machine, in polynomial time...
Google will not do that because it would cost them a fortune in missed ad impressions and clicks.

The big question is how Gabriel will scale DDG with the design decisions already made.

It's quite possible that DDG can get to profitability with the layout the way it is today, maybe not as profitable as google but I don't think that would matter much.

Making a step back in income is a lot harder than foregoing a certain amount of income from the start.
I imagine that means "freedom from unsolicited porn"...
An interesting application of skip lists: http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/faster-list-intersection-using...

But I can't see why the same cannot be done using trees. :-/
An interesting variation on this is the VList, which works the same way except the inner arrays have variable size. This gives you an asymptotic rather than constant speedup for many operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VList
YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik&feature=playe...
>>since Android wipes everything between updates

My G1 upgraded from 1.0 > 1.1 > 1.5 > 1.6 without wiping.

My Droid upgraded from 2.0 > 2.1 (and will > 2.2 soon) without wiping.
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I hate patents. I hate patent trolls even more.
If you work in quantum computing -- which I did, full time for 13 years, and part time for a few years prior to that -- it's VERY common to run into people outside the field who believe that quantum computers can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. Dozens of wrong papers have been written claiming just that, and the claim also appears frequently (often implicitly) in popular journalism. The blog's subtitle is just acknowledgment of that fact.

Incidentally, P and NP certainly do have to do with the hardware. There are nonlinear variants on quantum mechanics in which all the problems in NP can be solved in polynomial time. See http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801041 These variants are, however, unlikely to describe the way the world works.
IPhone video conferencing surfaces in supposed test firmware
AFAIK it's a combination of the hardware not being good enough, and Apple not really trying to optimize for those devices (they'd be happy if you bought a new one). The iPod Touch went through several iterations, just like the iPhone; the latest iPod Touch is actually a bit higher specced than the latest iPhone.
I'd like to see a comprehensive breakdown of exactly what you should do in real situations when approached by cops.

I just read a very helpful book about that, Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face by R. Dale Carson,

http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...

which was recommended in another thread by another HN participant. Hat tip to him. The book is very interesting and practical. (I am a lawyer and used to be a judicial clerk, but I learned new facts from the book.)
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The more you say the more that can be twisted against you. "I'm not guilty." -> "Not guilty of what? We haven't accused you of anything. Why are you acting like you've been accused? What exactly are you not guilty of?" And so on.

The response with the smallest attack surface is "No comment."
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By the way, I was in a similar situation as well, about 3 years ago. I sold the site after putting 3 years into it. I'm still glad I did, it let me move on.
In a certain way it is already too late. Cops can pin random 'catch all' charges on your because the law allows them, some are vengeful and power hungry, they can legally lie to you, it is seems the system is already stacked up against you.

In other words, if you ran stop sign, do you want to be a "constitutional martyr" and expose yourself to a cop's rage? Do you want to be detained for a day when you have a family and a job to go to, do you want your car towed, do you want random charges that are hard to defend slapped on you? Even if all charges are cleared by a judge, the amount of effort, time and money spent is too much for most people to handle. They'd rather fly under the radar, hopefully, the cops will catch the next guy...
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> a part is based on the search queries you enter into Google

Can you prove that?

Because I have looked for proof of that and have not found any.

There seems to be a fair sized Chinese wall between google search and google adsense/adwords.

To the extent that they indeed use another crawler, if they shared data with search that would be the first place to see it.
There still is a significant chance this is not what he meant.
The rental car situation is a great example. A friend of mine's wife used to work for Enterprise and told me a story where they got back a car where one of the interior panels had been taken off and some kind of drugs put in there.
Google's core business is AdSense. This article doesn't take into account services. While amazon can take up an increasingly larger chunk of the internet retailer pie, presumably not all of Ads on AdSense are for goods. As long as people still use search engines to find services in addition to goods businesses will stay pay for ads and AdSense can keep growing. Amazon isn't really entering the ad business or killing off the need for advertising.
Fantastic! This community (or, at least, I) will absolutely devour content written by someone with your background.
what's up with the downvote?

I don't know, but I guess my follow-up question to your factual statement would be, "Do you have any examples attested by professional linguists who have carefully compared languages, or is this based on your personal experience?" The reason I would ask that way, which I hope doesn't sound impolite, is that my experience is to the contrary. I find English to be a rather informal language among the dozen or so languages I have studied most closely.
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So first off your original statement does imply guilt - as per my original comment and I would suggest you re-examine that.

"I know they aren't after me (and hence won't try to parse every sentence I say and take it out of context like you did)"

yeah good luck with that one. The police will take what you have to say and bend it against you to see where it goes. It's called probing and is a legitimate investigative technique. You prefacing the situation with your pre-amble isn't going to stop that.

"I explicitly stated "I'm not guilty" letting the cops know I'm not trying to be smug with them and that I do want them to know I'm not guilty."

They haven't said you are guilty of anything, if they are just investigating. It's that kind of behavior - denying guilt before any has been laden upon the suspect - that police zero in on.

Seriously, I think you should re-consider your position and read some other people's views, especially the ACLU. You're unintentionally pushing a load of buttons that the police will pick up on with your preamble that I don't even think you realize.
One really really big advantage of a rewrite is that it can be a good time to let you drop a bunch of crufty features that have been added over the years but aren't being used much. That's a win. Refactoring still sounds like a better idea though.
Jobs already offers freedom from freedom on the iPhone and iPad platforms.
I had the same mystified response. However, the kid in me fancied a remote control beetle.
And FYI in Chrome you can set it to use DDG for search instead of Google (they actually have quite a number of choices).
Nice idea, but there's a lot less money in a closed facebook than an open one. It will never happen. The portion of users that are A. aware of the privacy problems and B. care at all is so so small, probably less than 1%, that Zuckerburg couldn't care less.
This is dumb. This is awesome: http://ukijs.org/mail/index.html
First, the only reason you don't talk to cops is because you don't want to give them something they can use against you in court. So unless there's something in that statement that they can use in court (which there isn't) it doesn't matter.

Second, once you've asked for a lawyer interrogation MUST STOP by law. So there will be no follow up questions.

Finally, you're making the same erroneous assumption as dotBen above in that you're assuming the relationship with the Cops has to be adversarial and then treating it as such (which is exactly what makes someone look guilty).

What I'm saying is your best bet is to empathize with the Cops and realize that they don't like grilling people. So your goal should be to keep things amicable and give them "an out" so they don't have to interrogate you.
I've already cited books in this thread, and they list dozens of features of Modern Standard Chinese grammar that are confusing even to speakers of other Sinitic languages.

An example I often bring up to English speakers who are learning Chinese is that they have to learn that the Chinese verbal system is based on aspect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_aspect

rather than on tense. Many native English speakers misspeak Chinese as a second language because they struggle to impose their sense of tense on a tenseless language, and meanwhile get Chinese aspect marking all wrong. That can lead to misunderstandings in either direction, as my extensive acquaintance with persons who speak both languages often shows.
Tell HN: Android 2.2 - Froyo Released for Nexus One. Get it now. [Screenshots]
Google is beginning to phase in over-the-air updates to Android 2.2 / Froyo to Nexus One users on T-Mobile and will continue over the next couple weeks.

If you'd like to install it now, instructions are right here. Root access is not required; just download the update, drop it on your SD card, and follow the instructions to start the upgrade: http://phandroid.com/2010/05/22/manually-update-your-nexus-one-to-android-2-2-froyo/

For those without a Nexus One on T-Mobile, I've taken several screenshots around the OS and in a few applications. Check them out here if you like, and feel free to ask if you'd like to see something else: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cscotta/sets/72157623991007169/show/

The "Chrome to Phone" extension for cloud-to-device messaging is also available here: http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/

Have fun!
Or better yet MIT
How many times have you actually interacted with the police? Between being pulled over several times, living in an apartment that was previously occupied by a guy with warrants, being assaulted with a golf club, and various other stupid minor run-ins, I've had exactly one experience where the cop wasn't a complete dick and possibly would have let me get halfway through that wall of text you want to preface your lack of interaction with.

It's just naive to expect that you can, as a rule, calmly explain why you don't want to talk with them.

Saying "I have nothing to say" works. Saying "May I go now?" works. Trying to justify yourself, using phrases like "I can't" or "I don't want to", implying that you might have something to say if a lawyer were around, anything more than conveying you have nothing to say and want permission to leave, is just asking for a headache.
Different carriers have different policies. I use an O2 UK prepay SIM, and they have a kind of "subscription" you can sign up to, the web "bolt-on": they charge 7.50 GBP against your credit once a month, and you have then have "unlimited" web access for that month. You can cancel at any moment, so there's no obligation; and if you don't have 7.50 credit come billing time, you simply don't get the unlimited web access. In other words, the downside risks are negligible.

Another difference is that SIM credit is generally measured in actual currency, rather than minutes. Different calls then cost different amounts of currency; but if you buy credit in bulk (20 or 40 GBP instead of 10), you usually get a 10 or 20% increase in nominal credit value.

Also, calls received are free if you're not roaming to a different country. Mobile phone numbers have different prefixes to local numbers; they essentially have their own area code. This also means that calling mobile phones is more expensive than calling a landline, especially from a different operator. (There are usually special deals for intra-operator connections.)

I use a Vodafone Ireland SIM when I'm roaming. It has a different approach to the data plan; up to 50MB data per day costs 0.99 EUR. If you don't use any data on a day, it doesn't cost anything. If you try to push it to the limits, in theory it means that you could get 1.5GB/month for 30EUR/month. The Vodafone SIM data charge seems to be the same in all countries I've been in; Vodafone is in almost every European country, but it also works in France (SFR is 44% owned by Vodafone) and the US (on AT&T).
Again once you've asked for your lawyer interrogation must stop. So there will be no probing.

Second if you're being interrogated than you're suspected of something. To suggest otherwise is again treating the cops like their some kind of idiots. Be an adult and treat the cops like adults and try to create an adult understanding between you. Don't act like a petulant child and repeat a mantra over and over again.
what legitimately constitutes formal grammar

Kindly define that. As a student of linguistics, I observed some very broad approaches to researching formal grammars of natural languages. Grammar of natural human languages includes much more than just the features of word accidence you would learn about in a course in Latin or Greek.

I would have just downvoted for disagreement, but you wrote, "But I'd also like to know if I'm wrong," and I can only cheer that willingness to learn. Chinese grammar is expressed largely through different means (word order and function words) from those through which Indo-European grammar is expressed (inflection of word endings), but end result is still that the language has many fussy, arbitrary distinctions constrained by historical accident (or possibly by information theory) that allow for miscommunication among speakers of Chinese who are not all native speakers.
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Ask HN: How many business failures before your first success?
HN is often full of success stories, but I'm curious as to how many business failures people have before their first success (defined as self supporting). I think the positive bias might skew people's ideas of how easy it is to make a successful business, hence the question.
Just in case you don't know, this plugin does that for Google, HN and a bunch of other sites:
http://autopagerize.net/

It's great, except it would slow down Firefox notably for me. I haven't tried out the Chrome version.
No, there is not. When the real Steve Jobs said "freedom from porn" it was in reference to the app store, where there is and will remain no porn.
Again once you've asked for your lawyer interrogation must stop. So there will be no probing.

But they might take you down to the police station and wait for your lawyer to show up. Do you see that as a successful outcome?

Second if you're being interrogated than you're suspected of something.

You're just plain wrong about that. They may think you're a witness or have information that they need.
Hokkien text, even when rendered in characters, is largely incomprehensible to Mandarin speakers.

I can confirm the truth of this example, which is one of the examples I had in mind in some of my earlier comments.
First my Aunt is a CHP officer (CHP is California Highway Patrol for those who don't know)

Second I worked in a computer store where police would come in all the time and hang out for hours. I've taken hundreds of smoke breaks with them (I don't smoke but I'd stand out there with them and talk).

Third I work at a boys home for troubled children. The cops come by about twice a week for various infractions (usually involving drugs) and since I know many from my previous job I talk to them all the time even now.

Having all that experience the one thing I know,for a fact, is that Cops are people too and they hate when other people treat them badly (which is what repeating "no comment" or asking "can I go now" is considered). If your job was to get information from someone else wouldn't you be upset if they just said "no comment" and wouldn't tell you why they were saying it or even if they had the information you were looking for? The cops feel the same way and explaining exactly why you can't talk to them and giving them your word that you don't have the info they're looking for will help your relationship with them.