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Not so fast.

CSE wants you to list sites that you want to search from. Of course, you can't default to '' or '.'. They even stated that '.com' and '*.org' etc. won't return any results. That's unacceptable. Secondly, given you could configure it meaningfully it seems it's pretty hard to configure your browser's search bar to use this CSE instead.

And that's what I think most people use for searching. At least I do.

Facebook got it right this time: with each post, there's an option to hide that post, that person, that application, or that site which posted the post. One click that means "don't show stuff from them anymore": that's what Google needs, too.
And yahoo to google. Facebook has a bigger moat because of logins, but, erm, I still think messaging is a pain in the ass.
There are no immediate plans to port XMBC, but it is open source so all it would take is some determined people and some time to make it happen.
At least the first direct-brain interfaces won't work that way. They cannot recognize what you're thinking and transcribe it, that's way too hard. It'd be more analogous to having an extra limb (which you'll have to train extensively to be able to use it effectively) you can type/move the mouse with.

I'm fine with such direct brain interfaces, as long as they don't have to cut a hole in my head, or shave my hair off and put sticky stuff on my head :P
Totally! :-)

I just tweaked the server settings and I think its holding up now, fingers corssed
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You could try reading the guy's bio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Plotkin

Or even the article -

But I guess everybody who succeeds on Kickstarter has to answer this question.

How did I do it, really?
First, spend 15 years working hard on projects with no reward but community goodwill.
Omitting these domains from results is "automated".

Managing the list isn't. It's based partly on how many users report a domain as being spam. At least that's one of the reasons for inclusion. And don't bayesian filters, with little data to work with and if newly implemented always have false positives?

Maybe some are labelling valid stuff as spam out of spite.

When blekko has millions of users labelling stuff as spam instead of very few, the system will be harder to abuse and the list much better.
Somehow a gym subscription that you're going to use for 4 hours a month seems like a waste of money.
Will vi be around in 20 years?
But isn't the speed advantage gone very soon as soon as you have to type non-english text such as programming languages and specific commands (which are a large part of using a computer, you don't only want to type the text, you also want to format it and move it around).

Try listening to http://www.linux.fm/ for more than three minutes and you'll get my point :)
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One of the WSJ staffers who writes for that blog and a lot of their tech pieces, Jessica Vascellaro, dates Sam Lessin. He was in Mark's frat and just sold his company to Facebook.
Ask HN: Functionnal programming for UI?
Hello,

I wanted to make a complete javascript web client. The standard usage with imperative language is to use the MVC pattern.
I used object oriented programming but the javascript syntax for OOP was a really poor experience. I had the feeling that using a functionnal paradigm would had fitted better with js.

I know HN was done with Ark a functional programming language. So I wonder if an MVC pattern was done under the hood? May be there is a good recommendation or a known pattern that help making UI under a functional programming paradigm?
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Great link, although 24K doesn't seem like much for a lifetimes work! I look forward to playing some of the games. The teaser reminded me of Infocom's Hitchhikers Guide for some reason...
The java script function :

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I also really want to use this app - it's like the Seinfeld calendar - but the Facebook login turned me away.

I can understand, though, how this would be a selling point for 'normal' people.

Is there anyway to turn off the 'tell everyone on facebook about this' feature if I login using my FB account?
Yup, I've done this as well at current and past jobs. I'll usually just invent a new project, it gets the boss's attention and they like it, so I get to work on that rather than the normal boring stuff.

It's great to invent your own projects at work.
Maybe try using something like a decision tree where the classification steps are much more obvious.

There are parallelizable implementations out there...
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I have to second the brazil nut recommendation. I've been chomping through three before sleep and three on waking and the difference in appetite is... pronounced. That plus the butter fat/fermented cod liver oil and extra kimchee.
Trivia: total donations came to $31,337, exactly.

New interview of the author: http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/intervi...
What I need is a startup recruiter for people working with time to spare. If you don't assume someone has to take the complete step of faith and quit job cold turkey, you have a very large talent pool, tho you'll need an innovative work strategy. Patio11 has seen success here, as we know.

My .02, and would work with such a recruiter if existed. Email eric dot holloway at gmail if wishing to converse w/ me.
He eventually raised 31k, and this is just for the development of Hadean Lands - which he will also be selling on the app store once completed.

So the sum is more like bootstrapping the monetization of a lifetimes work by financing the first project!
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This is the function used by Tunisia Gov agencies to harvest login/passwords :
see also http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201101/6651

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Presumably you read my first reply, in which case you do know "what those would be". Once again, it's about convenience.
While hubris can be a problem, I'm very much a fan of stating your opinion clear and bold. One might be wrong, but astute readers should be able to judge ideas for themselves. Speaking clearly will also make it much easier for people to see if you're wrong.

I think giving clear statements of your opinion and being proven wrong is much better than obscuring your point with "maybe" and "personally" and "IMHO". That's depending on the context of course, as you don't want to unnecessarily offend people (which is bad in general, but also counterproductive). But in a general analysis like this, not attacking particular people's shortcomings? Go for it.
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Story behind this: http://cpj.org/internet/2011/01/tunisia-invades-censors-face...
Yes, this is a very much requested change, so I'm going to move it to top of my list

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You can say shit here.
"Google's P/E is ridiculous" - really?

Google's P/E is around 25 which I think is reasonable for a company that a) has been growing earnings on average 20% per year for the last 3 years; and b) Is sitting on a big pile of cash worth about 15% of its market value.

(Disclosure: I own google shares)
That, a Harward freshman could see it and pursue that with a perfect execution, when most couldn't care for, is awesome!
Certainly in the west, I think there's a world of difference between now and say 10-15 years ago. Within that timeframe of porn ubiquity (although I'm implying correlation not causation here) there's been massive changes in womens' rights and dealing with deadbeat dads, to the point where women can put themselves in a bad situation by getting pregnant, but can also put men in a bad situation too.

At the same time the rights of men have not changed with this, and in many legal systems there's an imbalance (e.g. the father has to make payments but does not have the same rights of access, that there are female DV shelters, but there's nothing I'm aware of in the UK for male DV victims, which is more common than you think).

I'm not saying this applies to all people in all cases, but just as the biological skew against women exist, there's a counter skew on the legal and societal side against men (for various values of $legal_system and $society).
I hope so. I don't mind iTunes as a music player on a Mac. It's as a central point of navel lint I have the problem.
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I think cubism was hell of an idea. Probably an idea of an genius. :)
You don't need thousands of documents to leak interesting stuff.
Maybe part of the issue is "Many of the best college students at MIT are risk averse and think short term." The top students at the top universit[y|ies] form quite a narrow recruiting pool. Are you sure the people you are looking for can only be found within this group? You've also just helped to alienate the top 1% of students from long tail universities, or none at all (why waste time on a program that will sift based on your alma mater rather than your abilities? - I mean what are you actually looking for from recruits?)

Also, if that is your target group it's bizarre to exhibit any sort of surprise that there is fierce competition from other recruiters (Wall Street, Google), and that statups might not fare well against them (who has more $$$ to offer?).

"Too Many Startups / Choice Paradox. Students have no idea how to pick the right startups. Even if they did, there are an overwhelming number of choices. This is classic paradox of choice."
I expect that anyone who knows how to pick the right startups should consider moving into venture capital.
Where is this a stolen piece. If they did the whole picture it would stolen, if they took a certain part of the picture it would be stolen, but the didn't.
The picture of Picasso is just awesome, the Finder icon is ok, could be drawn by a kid.
Well, we're still at the very early stages of social media on the web. As someone else points out in another comment: owning the complete social graph may very well be the most valuable asset ever. I think the potential market for Facebook can grow much more than just 3 times over the next 7 years.

Inflation has been low the last decade, but sure, that affects the numbers.
BizSpark is a big win for startups - if you have anything even slightly to do with Windows (eg your users use it to run web browsers) you should be a member of BizSpark so you get access to everything for free.

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Does he explicitly recommend fermented cod liver oil or just any cod liver oil?
The Palo Alto 24/7 Hacker House: You're Invited.
An excerpt from Fortune about the early “office” of facebook:

“The house at 819 La Jennifer Way, with a resident population of seven guys, felt like a dorm. Some people — female and male — stopped by for days and just hung around. Stanford University was only a mile away, so the housemates would announce parties using a Facebook feature that enabled them to target specific schools. They were mobbed by Stanford students and townies.”

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The house is in Midtown Palo Alto (walking distance to anything you will ever need) and has a huge open working space for whomever wants to come. We work 18+ hours a day (somebody is always awake), have a constant supply of snacks and beverages, and invite hackers around the world to drop by anytime, 24/7 to work, live for a bit, hack with us, play a game of ping pong or just hangout. Email me anytime to get the address and drop by or say hello. evan dot reas at gmail
In pitching as much as $1.5 billion in stock in the closely held social-networking company to wealthy investors, Goldman Sachs disclosed that it might sell or hedge its own $375 million investment without warning clients.

Source:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-07/goldman-efforts-to-...
That's not something any revolution I have ever heard about has been started over

Because revolutions of the future will be nothing like revolutions of the past.
Proves again, there is really no excuse not to use HTTPS for everything.

Encryption/certificate validation make it much harder to pull of a MITM attack like this, especially by companies and small repressive governments.
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funny, but rather pointless...
I'm seeing:

http://www.deadmau5.com -> Really, spam?

http://www.comparethemarket.com -> Price comparison site with no known biases in the UK and not owned by British Telecommunications, as it is listed.

Even ONE false positive is enough to make me think this listing is a load of bullshit. How is geocities' "closing down" page spam?
Goldman have a lot of other ways of profiting from this other than simply taking a share of FB margins. For a start, they get to be in charge of the entire IPO process. That alone will be very profitable for them.

There was a bunch of other stuff like this discussed in the threads on the goldman investment itself.
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I bet truck drivers do, especially drivers with terminals in their trucks.
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>there are virtually no long term gains you can realize in a day that will increase your vertical leap.

Eh, I'd bet you five bucks that if you measured my leap now, then had someone who knew what the hell they were doing show me proper form, maybe walk me through it a few times, you'd see a pretty radical improvement within the hour. Not, of course, due to any sort of muscular growth, but instead because I imagine my current vertical leap form is horrible, and you can usually get pretty good gains out of that sort of thing just by doing it correctly.
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I don't think complexity is nearly the enemy of hackability that manufacturer lockdown is. Modern cars can still be hacked -- everything from OBD-2 interfaces to modified firmware for engine control units. FPGAs provide a way to tinker with hardware concepts.

The demise of hackability is and will be due to DRM and the hardware equivalents (like impossible-to-find proprietary screwdrivers).
That is the correct answer on a LOT of "How do you do it"s, actually. Sometimes there are alternatives, but you cannot beat a longtime community involvement if you want your voice to be heard...
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All three? I think you may have miscounted:

BlackBerry, WebOS (if HP keeps it up), WinMo, Android, MeeGo, Symbian, iOS. Did I miss any?
Doesn't include swik.net which is a crap link aggregation / search tag spam - I'd expect that one to be removed...
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I wasn't clear: I meant, if you visit other people's profile, you can see that info there, that is used to display whether the person replies frequently or not.
The one-click install without having to dick around with disk images and dragging icons from one part of a window to another is great.

But there's still lots of polish that it lacks.

It puts every app in the dock. What happens when someone wants to remove the app and tries to do so by dragging it off the dock?

The app still resides in the Applications folder but the user thinks it's gone. Now if he wants to download it again and goes back to the App Store the app is still marked as 'Installed' even though he thinks it's gone.

If he knows to look in the Applications folder and then tries to drag it to the trash, you get a UAC dialog asking for the root password.

So, they've partially solved the App install experience but not fully. The interface still has rough edges, which I'm sure they may eventually get right.
Ask HN: Ramifications of violating patents with open source
I'm curious what damages would be if you released an open source project that violated patents. I've found info about cases where this happened and the project shut down or was granted a royalty-free license but not anything about it being brought to court.

Obviously there would be the expense of defense. Wouldn't monetary damages be based on losses? Wouldn't it be the burden of the patent holder to prove damages?
> at the heart of human sexuality, at least human sexuality involving men, lies what Freud

And I'm done with this steaming pile of misanthropy. An essay on sexuality that falls back on Freudian ideas is beyond redemption.
+1 I like the idea, this seems like a pretty interesting way to build a relationship with tons of like minded people.
Insulting others is rarely the way to motivate them.
A site in the UK that gets a huge amount of traffic and is backed by a large off-line national advertising campaign. Why has this been banned? Never seen spam on there, nor have seen them spamming.
This shows that all female authors secretly want to set a low standard for evidence!
Fortunately, because the fake "wo0dh3ad" page accessed was on their site, Facebook may well have a log of everyone whose account was compromised and can take steps to warn and protect their Tunisian users.

Why would the Tunisian government have allowed ISPs to forward these requests? Facebook probably knows nothing about this.
Probably the second one. Financial documents are typically prepared by lawyers and bankers, not cryptographers.

Or he asked his friend, "hey, can I see your document... yup, they're identical" and then leaked with impunity. If the public really wants something, and you send a document with that information on it to a bunch of people, it's going to be leaked. I think Goldman is smart enough to realize this; the buzz is helping their business, but they knew they would get in trouble if they just announced the numbers. So they just gave it to random people with a I-did-my-due-diligence-NDA and let entropy take care of the rest.
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I think beyond all that, you need to have the ability to keep all of it in your head at once. It has to be a cohesive thing, not something that's strung together like Frankenstein's monster.
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With this scale of access to the network infrastructure[1], I'd be worried about them injecting drive-by downloads of browser exploits which install trust for a root certificate controlled by the government. Once in place, MITM attacks on https are possible. The tricky bit would be telling apart requests from compromised machines and uncompromised ones. (attempting to MITM the latter will cause the browser to start jumping up and down, potentially raising suspicion)

Even more scary is the thought experiment that Microsoft might cooperate with the Tunisian government and allow installing trust for such a root certificate via the windows update mechanism. (I have no evidence that this actually happens, it just seems a convenient vector)

[1] They're under no time pressure and can transparently proxy every single TCP connection and IP packet if they so desire. They control DNS.
I'm not sure what your problem is with the "syntax for OOP". At any rate, I have just finished building an MVC framework for Javascript without any major difficulties. Perhaps you could share an example that has posed you problems?

One thing that I will say about functional programming and UIs is that they can be somewhat antithetical - to get good performance out of UIs, you often need to cache pre-computed results, which is just another way of saying that your code is going to have a boatload of state. Incidently, if anyone knows of a functional solution that overcomes this difficulty, I'd love to hear it.
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Girls watch porn too. That fact apparently eludes the author.