skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benchmark numbers for the Compact Framework on ARM make this a lot more interesting. I used it on PowerPC (the XBox 360 .NET runtime used by XNA is based on the Compact Framework), and I was uncertain whether the issues were related to the PowerPC architecture. It looks like the Compact Framework is just bad.
That's a pessimistic reading.

Firstly, there's no requirement for universal vendor support for the coding system to be useful. Obviously the motivation for support is higher as is the critical mass of support, but it's not all or nothing.

Secondly, by definition one can convert from existing lat/long values to this programmatically. The burden at either input or output end to support this is relatively low and can be calculated from existing data; frankly the greatest burden is in UI, which is hardly insurmountable.

That said I'm still not necessarily persuaded this is the right idea or the best implementation, but I think you're overstating the barriers to adoption.
If you ever read CS Lewis's classic book "Mere Christianity" he uses a similar metaphor there too.
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Most people don't realize that Google and other companies are doing this. That's my main problem. It's not about selling books in my mind as much as it about communicating why something is in a search list for person A vs. person B. I don't want my Internet censored.
Impressive work, the analysis among many different emotional vectors is interesting. How do you guys work with non-English languages as well?
Interesting. I submitted this 3 days ago. Isn't the software supposed to catch duplicates that recent? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662662

ADDED: Thanks, it just occurred to me to check the URL and I noticed that.
It is the ultimate quest for serendipity.

If you filter by what you want you don't get what you didn't know you wanted.

I will give DDG the benefit of the doubt and try it out for a couple of months.

Starting now.
I'm curious if people have done the math on Govt jobs ... especially with respect to pensions? Whenever I've looked into it, I've felt some disbelief. Many govt employees in the US and Canada have defined benefit pension plans ... I sometimes think I'll never be able to save half that much because of my low-risk savings/investment style.

I've never considered such jobs personally because I don't feel it is what I want out of life. As I get older, I do wonder whether I am just being a fish missing the larger world of opportunities :)
Or a widely-available portable shunting device that broadcasts the "no video recording" code within a certain range. Attach a unique ID to each device. Create a bureaucracy to handle the registration and geolocation of such devices. Schools, libraries, govt offices, would all be equipped with them. Make possession of a jailbroken recording device in these areas a felony, of course. And equip the police with mobile versions so they can create a "cone of silence" around incidents and arrests, putting a stop to those pesky police brutality vids that keep popping up on YouTube.
Are the Self-Ligating braces not better than Invisalign ones?
The first example is totally borked. They first search for "climate change" (notice the ") and then search for climate change (without quotes). Of course the search engine shows different results for different queries.
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The poor guy is taking a beating in the code-project comments which is a pity since he obviously spent some time putting it together. In a comparison like this, you are always going to get people on either side of the fence claiming the results are invalid because there was some compiler switch or code construct that was missed.

The language-agnostic version of this article: you can write slow code in any language.
I've set it as default on Chrome. Maybe google is better - I'll get more python libraries and less news stories about sheep (or Darwin laureates) getting swallowed by pythons, but I can live with that. Besides, I'm pretty good at typing "google" if I need it.
I completely agree, but was mystified by this statement...

*Please, suggesting something like this and encouraging people to implement it is like coming out with a device that only charges over micro-USB. Just... don't."

What's wrong with micro-USB? I look for it whenever I buy a new device, just 'cause all new phones, cameras, etc. use it (and only it) for charging. It's a nice standard. No?
I'm ok with your colorful counterfactual about his current disposition, the same way I'm fine reading a Sutra talking about reincarnation, or a Nasrudin story invoking Allah. I don't think belief should have anything to do with cultural acceptability; and I think the people objecting to your comment are rude--but I also think "you people" is a rude way to address them.
Still, you have to admit, the iPhone is working pretty well as a Nokia killer ;)
Unitarians do this, but with religeon. Few are born into it; most are disaffected from something else. There are said to be 3 phases

1) Boy those {what I used to be} are full of it.

2) So, what's all this Unitarian stuff about?

3) {long delay} I see, I will always be {what I used to be}
I didn't notice that, but will fix ASAP. The base source of that image was from: http://www.thefilterbubble.com/what-is-the-internet-hiding-l...

Update: the quotes vs no quotes doesn't change the top results on Bing (at least for this search).
It was reposted with an extra question mark in the URL, that way the duplicate detection was bypassed:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3331?
You can just add !g to the end (or beg) of your search and it will take you right there.
Sydney is a great place to live, but is very expensive. To be an academic you need a PhD but in the humanities you will also need to be a Post-Doc (Paid Post-Doctoral Student) for a few years before you can be sure it's 'in the bag'. The equivalent of Professor in the US is called a Lecturer here. To be a Professor in Australia means you are Grand poo-bah in your department. Like in the top 3 or 4 people. (Departments are still the same size, eg Sydney Uni philosophy has about 40-60 people on the pay role.

I believe anyone who is a resident can have free education in primary schools, we even have selective primary schools. Some are better depending on the area you are in.
People don't realize many things about search engine from indices to ranking algorithms, they do realize however that a search engine is to return the most relevant results for them and that is were personalization/relevance fits in.
Doesn't inertial scrolling refer to the scrollable area keeping on scrolling when you drag a bit and let go? And accelerating if you drag it "more"? (Like iOS table views do.)
Even though it does a terrible job staying true to the source material, I'd bet playing an old game rendered through a vector magic filter would have an interesting abstract aspect to it.
Yeah this is an important issue. Google apparently ranks results (for you personally) based on some 57 inputs, even when not logged into Google services. In short results suffer from a self-reinforcing feedback loop, forever constraining what you see.

I wonder how easy it is to get "clean" or "default" results from Google?

And I know it's been discussed many times , but just how easy would it be to maintain real anonymity across the web?
It's great to get almost fullscreen photos in chrome, but scrolling the text feels a bit tiresome. Pgdn helps a bit, but then the text ends up in an arbitrary position most times. If pgdn == new image, and pgdn again == comment on top of new image, and pgdn a third time == new image again, then that would be optimal. This is nitpicking though. This is a beautiful way to showcase your photos.
I wonder if this is the same thing that's used in WP7. Bad news if it is, I guess...
Here's a set of friendly follow-up questions to your question about vote counts:

1) When we see that pg opened a thread 77 days ago titled "Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

and wrote there, "The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted,"

wouldn't that mean that a reduction in total votes was exactly what was expected?

Later, when pg looked back on the experiment of hiding comment karma scores while posting a user poll

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595605

and he wrote, "There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen, where people would literally try to score points off one another, and users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two people fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those fights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since I hid comment scores," was there any concern about total vote count?

On my part, to answer your question by anecdote, I still vote a lot, especially upvoting comments that are thoughtful and informative, and at least some of my comments get upvoted a lot by other users, especially those that are the most thoughtful and informative from my keyboard. These days, as I reported in the last thread opened by pg, I can usually tell by comment placement in threads which comments are thought to be helpful comments by the community, even without numerical scores. I definitely have voted as much as or even more than ever, to let users who post good comments know that they are helping the community. I've also reviewed the Hacker News online documentation about what to upvote and what to downvote since pg posted his last poll. The Hacker News welcome message

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

gives an overview of the community goals here, summarizing the site guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The Hacker News FAQ

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

gives some additional details about how Hacker News is administered. All are good guides about how to comment, and how to vote (up or down) on other participants' comments.
We often forget that, although it's obvious search engines filter results, the information we see on social sites is also filtered.

Consider users of Reddit. Now most of them would consider themselves very open minded and enlightened, yet their is active discouragement for radical ideas without due consideration as to their merits. It's just easier to downvote and look at Mario cake.

Overall, I think in a way we NEED filters to remove the faff, but be careful to keep a social circle which encourages radical ideas to be bought out into the light of logic and due consideration,
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I've been using DDG exclusively for a little while. Half the time the results are identical to Google. The other half is usually a collection of links from sites I would have searched on to research the topic.
Incognito/private browsing + going through DuckDuckGo (even for Google queries, with !g prefix) works for me. (Edit to add since I can't reply: going through DDG avoids Google redirecting to country-specific variation).
Where is the money coming from to fuel these ventures? The last bubble seemed fueled by real estate.
Doesn't linking to icann's front page mean that nobody can submit it again without being sent to this item id?
You call finding-fixing most of the security vulnerabilities in Webkit "not substantial"?
Or it's an indication that people are throwing up use cases that weren't what I was designing the code for.

For example, people have said that the ability to compare two codes is important to see how close they are. They've said this without justification and it is not a use case for which I designed the code.

Also, people have said that arbitrary levels of accuracy are important, they are not needed for a navigation device being used by an individual to get to a location.

Others have brought up the issue of using it instead of postcodes. It was not designed for that either.
It's not happening to any extent, it's just a new FUD concept that is meant to sell books an confuse people, if you seek more info you can dig deeper into any set of initial results. Personalization == relevance.
Reminds me of http://www.sugarstats.com/
I'm at high risk for diabetes, but not diabetic. (Yet, anyhow.) I put that up front because it may be the reason, but...

I really don't get what you guys are doing. We have treatments, understanding, and even laws to help people who suffer from Diabetes, yet you are saying it's not done right... And I still have no idea how that's supposed to be different from the current state.

I can't figure out why (if I suffered from diabetes) I would care about your product?
are you also behind the http://www.wefeelfine.org/ project?

It was neat when it came out years ago... Although still not sure how to make any meaningful use of this tool. I suppose it is more useful for content generators..
Actually, this is super handy! When I know I want the wikipedia article I just add !w at the end.

Ditto for youtube (!yt) etc etc
In all seriousness, this is actually my main use case for the private browsing mode in chrome: to search google without the filter bubble(1)

It's quite shocking to see just how much those results differ from the ones I'm usually served, actually.

I know it's actually supposed to be 'awesome' to have every search tailored to _you_, but it just makes me feel uncomfortable that I'm not seeing the internet "the way it's supposed to be seen" - if that makes any sense.

(1): Or at least a smaller bubble, considering it still knows my location - even though i use google.com, my os, my browser, etc...
whoops, should've read the about us. I like it.
Do any of those include a check digit to ensure that the right code is being entered?
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Ask HN: What kind of startups can be built on top of bitcoin system?
What kind of startups can be built on top of bitcoin system using their API? Is it really worth considering for new startup ideas? Any examples of startup using bitcoin api?
I do this, too. I have naturally oily skin but I can't tolerate messy, oily markings on the smooth glass screen.
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No it's a non-issue, and by the way Google probably uses much more that 57 'inputs' (signals) to determine relevance. Personalization is just a different term for relevant results and this is just FUD, the source of which is people who don't understand the technical aspects.
Restrictive licensing terms for software on the iPad &c. do not indict all non-open source software. Apple's hardware based approach to limiting device function is in many important ways less conducive to misuse than one based on geolocation or device ID (not to suggest that it is a good thing) because it does not rely on receiving and processing information about specific individuals.

My wild ass speculation is that Apple's research in this area may be a result of the popularity of their devices within the US military for whom the capability to affect function at a distance would have meaningful tactical application and for whom it would make sense to fund the underlying research - it is difficult to see a significant revenue stream for Apple from the commercial market given the many alternatives to Apple's products for illicit recording of performances.
I TAed a class in college three times that covers a lot of the stuff on this test. Smaller "unrealistic" numbers allow you to focus on the concepts while also minimizing the odds of an off-by-one type error in counting.

For example, the actual 32-bit float format is 1 sign bit, 8 exponent bits, and 23 mantissa (or fraction) bits. The number 4.5 looks like this

0100 0000 1001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

Compare this to the 1-3-4 format (commonly used on tests in the class)

0101 0010

Even with that simple example, it's much clearer, and you're still calculating the bias and doing all of the binary conversion and binary point movement.

When you start to consider the more complicated aspects (like rounding), using the actual 32 bit format becomes unfair to students.

32 byte pages are helpful because it keeps addresses short, and there's nothing fundamentally more interesting about a 12 bit page offset than about a 5 bit page offset.
That's funny, when I search for "filter bubble" I can't find anyone refuting it.
I heard about this book on NPR a couple of weeks ago [1]. I really don't like this biased view of ML.

In summary what he said on the show was something like: At least the news shows (and news pappers, radio) gives the same information to everyone, so instead of showing Kardashians news they do show you Bin Laden news, even though, they know the Kardashians are more profitable... this is not the case with Google Search or Netflix, Yahoo, Bing, etc (all attacked by this author).

I think that ML helps more than it hurts and viewing it in a non-technical way is wrong, the author gives the impression that Google (the company and their execs) manually (via algorithms, but very manageable in his opinion) change the search results to not show things that they don't like, then it raises the question "do we really trust one company?".

Its arguable that the search results in Google or Netflix are optimized for profits, but how do you make profits in the customer industry? IMHO you do that by making their happier, showing useful results, for them, not for everyone.

I'm waiting for the time when I google: "what channel and time is Conan on" [2] and I get "channel 43 11pm" as the result. Of course that is very personalized, and the result will be just for me... but again I'm the one searching and I'm the one needing the results.

[1] http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-05-17/eli-pariser-fil...

[2] At the moment I get this 1st result: http://articles.boston.com/2010-11-10/ae/29330376_1_conan-an... which is not what I searched for nor wanted...
But every hop is also a new attempt... and any variance for a hop could also be encoded using error bars.
I've lost my edit overnight so I guess it stays, but I apologize for the error, I never really understood the difference between the two until now. Thanks, I will try to remember this for the future.
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what type of work are you in?

australia is basically a mine and a farm. so if you're a miner or farmer, it will help a lot. preferably a miner.
I made it so you have to scroll the text a little bit further so that the photo would stay pinned down long enough that you could see it, and scroll horizontally to the other photos. You're right, though, that page up/down (and arrow keys) would be a nice way to nav also.
Sort of neat, but doesn't look very useful.

I have to admit, I was expecting a 3D globe view that displayed geographically the intermediate nodes and end point.

It would have also been cool if it showed when it hopped onto the major trunks.
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Of course, I might want my search results to be filtered. To take but one example: Neither FOX nor CNN are providing any valuable insights at all, so filtering them out is a good idea for me.

Or, to get all pithy about it, the problem is not the filter bubble, it's the crap bubble.

If there's a problem with relevance sorting at all, it's the issue that it is based on history, not intent.
I think this is a real issue, and I am glad that DDG is addressing it. This is a more-compelling take on the tracking issue IMO.

What I'd really like to see, is a search engine to allow me to do both. I'd like to have a profile (that didn't use my name), and when I wanted to, I could click a result as 'useful'. This would go into my personal algorithm. I could then toggle between filtered search, or unfiltered search, whenever I like.

It might even be useful to build search filter categories. But I'd keep that a bit buried for the power users.
Relevance: I emigrated to New Zealand in 1999 then Australia a few years later. I'm back in the UK now so have no local knowledge, but here's what I know from going through the process for both countries.

Australia and New Zealand operate a points system for immigration and regularly publish lists of desired occupations. You get points for years of work experience, educational level, field of expertise. If you can prove you match a desired occupation then the requirements drop.

It may be simpler for you to get a visa, rather than your wife. If you get accepted for residency (no need to give up citizenship) you are entitled to work and bring in dependents. From what I remember student visas tend to have restrictions about who else can be admitted on them.

Residency = five years before you have to renew (when I had it, may have changed now). In both countries, if you were still in the country at the end of your residency you qualified for citizenship. So to answer your question, if you get in, chances of staying long-term are good. Australia and New Zealand are actively growing their populations and keen to add the right skills.

No other suggestions for you. I can recommend Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne as awesome places.
I just had to explain this to my co-founder last night after he freaked out because our old site with a different name was showing up first in his search results with our new name as the query . With web history off the old site wasn't even on the first page.Now I just have to explain that no one searches for early-stage startups let alone cares if they change their names :)
Long time DDG user here. I highly encourage people to try and make the switch. I often find DDG gives me the needed information without having to actually having to visit the site. I still find myself going to Google sometimes if DDG doesn't give me what I want, but it's smart enough to get me the most relevant information faster most of the time. Often enough that I don't feel the need to switch back.

In making the switch, I highly advise you to spend a little bit of time learning the keyboard shortcuts, especially the !Bang feature (https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html). You'll love the HN search options. =) There are so many, you won't be able to learn them all.

You can also still use Google if you want, or even Bing (or other engines). Basically, the !Bang syntax would mean even if you aren't using DDG, it enables you to quickly use whatever engine you really want.

I'm just a fan of DDG. Hope you find it as useful as I do. =)
You might find this helpful: http://huffduffer.com/

It only works for things that are already audio files, but it lets you create a customized podcast feed of the random talks you find online.
Confirmation bias is bad enough already, it's really a shame that powerful companies like Google reinforces it just for the sake of giving you more pleasing search results. (Pleasing and Good overlap, but they're not equal.)

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

http://lesswrong.com/lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark/

Edit: I didn't intend to bash Google specifically. But they are faced with a choice in which their own interest conflict with those of their users. And as Capitalist Bastards are more and more accepted in our society, we don't blame them for the selfish choice. Maybe not a shame then, but at the very least a pity.
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Ask HN: Why "do not reply" on rego emails
Why is it standard to have "do not reply" on registration emails (or any email from a company).

Couldn't you just add a "Reply-to"?

Wouldn't this be better?

I figure your customer has your email open at that point, they want to talk to you, they can just hit "reply" rather than going off to your website to find a contact form.. (like an idiot)

So any reason not to allow this?
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All these geniuses at Google and nobody realised it was a dumb idea? They haven't all gone to Facebook. Marissa Mayer needs a tighter grip on the still, only just, minimalist homepage. I'd prefer no doodles at all, but I demand no power hogging js doodles!