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Google's method does not, in fact, require JavaScript support (whether or not Google chooses to only use it when JavaScript is available); that would be its primary advantage. It also may be more reliable on some browsers (as it does not rely on the browser keeping the previous page's scripts and requests operating as you move to the next page).

Honestly, given the behavior of when Google chooses to deploy this feature, I believe it to be an unintended bug. I believe that Google's intention with these links is for them to work as normal: to be simple <a href="http://example.com/>, and to only change as you click on them to go to the next page.

This would then explain why they require JavaScript: in order to pull off the feat of having the link work correctly normally but only change as you click it requires JavaScript; that then explains why they only serve this to clients that have JavaScript.

If you check the link out: they actually are shipped from Google as simple anchor tags. They they have an "onmousedown" that converts the link to a Google indirect URL only as they are clicked. With the caveat that this makes clicking the links really slow (due to the synchronous round trips to Google that sometimes even fail due to SPDY), this would seem to be ideal behavior.

However, right-clicking the URL, or clicking on the link and dragging it, also cause the link to be changed to the indirect URL. This could very well have simply been an oversight: a mistake caused months (even years) after they originally deployed this feature, and no one noticed or remembered it shouldn't work like that.

(edit: Hacker News seriously won't let me put a closing " on the href= of my <a> example tag... :(.)
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Wow, glad I've finally heard about this guy. His article about not going to college is superb.

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/10-more-reasons-why-par...
It always makes me a bit sad when any site is taken offline. I haven't even heard of Simple Desks before, but it still makes me sad that it is gone.

Destroying bits is so darn easy, that people do it too much. I don't delete emails (my spamfilter might delete, I don't). Once in a while it's nice to see what you were up to 5 years ago.

My personal homepage is still running. I haven't updated it in many many years, but it still there. Occasionally my friends and I check some photos from there that I posted almost 10 years ago. And I regret that I have deleted all previous version of my homepage.

And it was a sad day when GeoCities was taken offline.

Sure, if keeping your site up and running (even in read-only) costs too much, it's ok to shut it down. But please, try to save as much of the current Internet as you can so our children can see its history.
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Exactly my thought, Who gives a fuck ?
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This was an option I considered and discussed with a friend who is well known in the minimalism/productivity space.

To me, it's actually more of a moral issue: is keeping a site like Simple Desks online good, bad, or neutral to the world. I'm sure it's different for different people, but I just couldn't shake the feeling that in the end it was detrimental to people's time.

We have better things to do with our time, and much more beautiful works of art to get enjoyment from.
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What is your Myers-Briggs personality type?

If you don't know you can find out here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

For information on the Myers-Briggs type indicator check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator

The average numbers are in parenthesis after the choices and were copied from http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/MBTI.htm

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Ask HN: Are submissions / rankings broken?
I was wondering how the submissions / ranking system worked on HN. I have read a few postings that have mentioned it as well as changes that have happened over the last year or so.

The reason I ask is that a few times over the last month when I have submitted a link someone has submitted the same link a few hours later but it goes to a brand new post instead of directing to my submission; not that I mind, I'm over the great popularity contest of life, it just looks like the system is broken.

Secondly I submitted a post just a few hours ago now, and it appears to have been deep sixed. It racked up a number of up votes and then it just disappeared. As far as I can tell it hasn't gone past any momentous threshold, i.e. going past 1 day. I even checked all the submissions down to rank 500. Gone.

So... Is something broken? Are we missing good unusual stories that aren't submitted by 50 people?
It depends upon how events unfold. If some countries leave the Euro I can quite imagine Bitcoin, or a customized version of it, being seen as a temporary solution.
Oh, oops. Thanks for that! I actually miswrote it ages ago when I first read it. When I went to riff off it today I knew that I had liked the quote but I couldn't quite understand why. I told myself, "Ah Seb, this makes sense, you're just too tired to understand it!" ;)

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I was surprised to read this in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child#As_a_non-adult - "Recognition of childhood as a state different from adulthood began to emerge in the 16th and 17th centuries. Society began to relate to the child not as a miniature adult but as a person of a lower level of maturity needing adult protection, love and nurturing. This change can be traced in painting: In the Middle Ages, children were portrayed in art as miniature adults with no childish characteristics. In the 16th century, images of children began to acquire a distinct childish appearance. From the late 17th century onwards, children were shown playing."

However, reading the source article (http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/essays/childhood.htm), I would say that this point of view (Lawrence Stone, et al) is not well supported. First, realize that this insight was made only to studies of the UK from 1500-1800 (a period very likely marked more strongly by society's ability to express notions of childhood through art - the renaissance, than to evolve the definition of human childhood so rapidly). Second, Stone himself abandoned the thesis of his work in the 1980s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Stone#Ideas) as more evidence about this time period was presented by his peers.

I suspect that some of these theories would not have emerged at all if evolutionary psychology, our understanding of the mammalian brain, and studies of mammals in their natural child-rearing environments had been readily available at the time when "The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800" was written.

Anyhow, I challenge that wikipedia probably should not quote the work in this context in the 'Child' page, nor should it be treated as a credible theory in the discussion of this article.
I'm glad you found something more fulfilling to do with your time, but that doesn't mean the Simple Desks idea was trivial, or on par with a porn site. I'm certain that many people can appreciate the ideal workspace setups of others, and yet it's not like something we would be fapping to. Honestly, I'm sad I didn't get a chance to really see the site before it got taken down.
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Yes. For example, Joyce's works were already in the public domain in the US, Ulysses has been available on project Gutenberg since 2003. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
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...and lawyers love people who use those words as verbs, because they get paid every time they write a letter to say that the verb is, in fact, a trademarked noun and could a different word be used, or the trademark be acknowledged?

Google used to (still does?) send cease and desist letters; and they've asked people to only use google-as-a-verb when people are actually talking about Google. Thus "I'll google it" when a person is using Bing is, according to Google, not on.
I found this reference from Google's analytics blog (which documents the change in Referer:s that people should expect), which seems to argue that ot is right: this behavior has been in place since 2009.

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/04/upcoming-change-to-goo...

(edit:) One of the comments from "Brett Crosby, Sr. Manager, Google Analytics" looks interesting:

"""Sorry for the delay in responding (especially Andre), I was seeking clarification from the search team. A lot of the comments were directed to them and I think it is best to let that team handle those questions. I do want to answer some of the Analytics questions though. Phil's comment above is correct. I posted this because a couple months ago Google tested some search results that added a # into the URL. This created a big problem for people interested in seeing which keywords were driving traffic to their site (anything in the URL after a # doesn't get passed in the referrer... this is particularly a problem for web analytics products), so we worked with the search team to stop that test until they could find a better solution. The announcement above is the answer to that. It allows them to test new search results without the negative side effects (if it introduced others, that was not the intent). Some of the other comments had interesting theories about why we did this (grassy knolls not included), but the goal was to allow new tests of search without making it difficult for analytics products to report on query data."""

The post he is talking about from Phil, for reference:

"""I have previously heard about (from various sources) the intent by Google to roll-out a hash '#' in the search results page URL that would strip the paramaters altogether - is this blog entry implying that this will not happen now?? or is this something different?"""

This also puts forward an alternative explanation for why this is served only to JavaScript-capable clients than my theory below (which was that the goal was to use JavaScript to make the behavior transparent, but that that intention failed at a later point and was not noticed).

Honestly, this new explanation makes even more sense, now that I notice that the search query no longer exists in the Referer: portion of the /webhp URL that is being used for the super-fast AJAX Google search pages they have been deploying for a while now.

(That said, it is still really weird that they choose to hide the behavior until onmousedown; the only reason it would seen beneficial to do that is if they wanted to make the behavior transparent, and the way it is currently implemented seems to fail to do that: interacting with the link at all causes the URL to change to a /url URL.)
I would be shocked if it was a bug. Search is their main product and the linked results are a huge part of it.
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hi, thanks! I'm the author.

I stripped out some of the things from the blog post that I tried that lead me down the wrong path, so while it reads like I kept making progress.. I left out the 3 or 4 things I'd try without any results.

I have done a bit of work in the past reverse engineering:

- I figured out the SHA-1 encoding mechanism on xbox 360 .XEX files

- I modified a laptop's BIOS loading bitmap image (that originally said 'toshiba') - http://os-fun.blogspot.com/

- A friend and I extracted the level data for the game "skyroads". We couldn't figure out the file's compression format so we ran the game in DOSBox, and dumped the entire 640k memory with GDB and then searched it for the decompressed levels, then ported them to some open source skyroads game.
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right, but forget fine china: some people would prefer to give their guests real plates, and do so when they have 10 guests, but don't have 100 plates, so when 100 guests show up on their lawn they use disposable plates. The reason doesn't matter. See my comment above about why it's hard to think of code as being a consumable good AT ALL (for any reason).

My point wasn't really about tableware, it was about disposable versus durable goods.
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I just rechecked there now and it has re-appeared, at the same rank as articles with 6% of the same up votes. Weird...
The re-writing is quite bad on Google sponsored links also: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/should-your-mom-use-g...
Of course you are welcome to do whatever you want. I find taking it to the moral extreme strange though.

That leaves you little in the way of daily activities besides pure charitable work. Does your short film make the world a better place? I doubt it.

It sounds like it comes down to what you enjoy, and that's great. The best motivation. Simple Desks though seems like the kind of site that some might get great joy out of.
>It always makes me a bit sad when any site is taken offline. I haven't even heard of Simple Desks before, but it still makes me sad that it is gone.

I'm very, very sympathetic to this issue, and agree that it hurts when any site goes down. However, Simple Desks was mostly a curated gallery of what already exists on the internet. A quick Google search for "Simple Desks" will turn up basically the same thing.

The other question to ask is whether permanence is a value worth holding for all things. Is it really worth holding onto all of that email? (This is a personal question, for everyone to answer, not for one person to dictate over others.)

My friend wrote a great piece on this recently (http://patrickrhone.com/2011/12/20/permanently-impermanent). It reflects on the freedom of not worrying about losing everything. He doesn't advocate being complacent, but simply acknowledging that no system is 100% sure to maintain our bits.
Only Buddhism doesn't use the scientific method. Unacceptable in a culture where we _try_ to use math to describe the economy, RDF to describe social interactions, and intelligent design to prove the existence of God.

For example, therapists teaching Ujjayi Pranayama (ocean sound breath) always start by mentioning that studies show how it helps x% of people with mood disorders.
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I had these guys flake out on me. I suggest avoiding them.
I'm in London, and at least one Starbucks even have office desks in it... Don't know about the rest of the UK.
That's a straw man version of my argument. My concern is that the observed history shows that commodity-backed currencies lead to economic problems. I'm not in the least against people choosing to operate their personal economies around barter based on commodities, but the data is clear; it's not good for any of us to use commodities as the primary means of store and exchange of value. Just as the invention of the limited company allowed entrepreneurs to start companies that benefit us all at less risk to themselves, fiat currency's greater flexibility allows us to better control both the money supply and inflation to our collective benefit.

Besides, calling the Federal Reserve a single point of failure is at best over-dramatic. Should we also have a free market in governments? It's not really a single point of failure by any realistic definition though. The world economy is significantly interlinked and managed by the co-ordinated action of several central banks. The dollar's value is as much backed by its use as the primary international trading currency as anything, so short of Ron Paul's proposed disowning of the dollar its value is guaranteed by a large network of individual actors, all of whom have sufficient dollar holdings that they have no interest in seeing its value collapse; while it retains its status as the only payment means for the world's single largest economy, it's fine.

I'm curious what mistakes you think the Federal Reserve is making now that are causing you to suffer greatly. Inflation? Low, and (while it remains low and somewhat controlled) A Good Thing as I said before. General economic malaise? No, the FR's action on quantitative easing ensured any degree of market liquidity remained in a situation where it would otherwise have dried up almost entirely through fear of unknown and unknwable liabilities. Why would the ideal remedy to a crisis caused significantly by a loss of market liquidity be to move to a medium of exchange with little or no liquidity and what there was being outside of your control? It's madness.
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So you shut down a tumblr hosted site that didn't cost you anything to run except for time - and now all of us who had never heard of it before can't even see the content that used to exist. I'm glad you are doing something better with your time that you will find more fulfilling - but I think it's a shame you went this route.
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No, granted, but then like I say, I've moved around a bit. Milton Keynes (where I was before) is hardly olde worlde but café working seemed absent there. For that matter I used to be in London very regularly on business and I never saw it there either, and that's probably the biggest centre for 'new media' in Europe.
You shut it down because nobody should give a fuck about it, yet you tell us what computer you used to develop your website? I don't get it!

Also, don't you feel a bit selfish for removing something that other people obvious find value in from the Internet?
I think it has to do with Google Instant. They redirect so that the referrer is accurate. With Instant and without a redirect you could have different search terms in the URL that would be sent as a referrer.
apparent update:

"Back, and better than ever January 20th, 2012. Many thanks to Pat Dryburgh for his excellent work over the years. Unfortunately, he has chosen to end this venture. We think that is a great shame, and we've decided to bring it back, but in a different form. When we relaunch on January 20th, Simple Desks will return with a more substantial aim: to provide food for thought on the subjects of productivity, minimalism and design and technology (along with some occasionally unrelated musings). We hope you'll join us. In the mean time, we suggest you read Pat's excellent blog post (patdryburgh.com) on his decision. We hope to avoid some of the issues he raises with the new incarnation of Simple Desks."

http://simpledesks.tumblr.com/
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why the audio input? Are there any restrictions in Apple's hardware partner program for gaming devices?
Weirder still, it is gone again. The only place you can get to it is through the "new" page.
I would suggest to just take this advice, work on it, or atleast TRY IT. We are so focused to find excuses that sometimes we succeed at an incredible rate!
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We're simply looking for more people and our bar is high enough that we don't always find the right people.
I can't help feeling that he's barking up the wrong tree: If people criticize your new language for imaginary shortcomings, then maybe the available documentation isn't communicating its purpose/idioms/concepts clearly enough.

Not saying that a new language needs to launch with impeccable documentation and a crystal-clear understanding of what problem it tries to solve at all, but those "I can't imagine ..." criticisms can also be a (not-so-greatly worded) way of saying "I don't understand" - an opportunity to learn how to talk about the language better.

I'm sure a lot of people here have already learned this lesson the hard way, but: If you're blaming your product's users for not reading the docs (or for not trying it out), you're missing out on a great opportunity to improve it.
Well, under the assumption that it is a bug, it is one of those really subtle ones that doesn't affect the vast majority of people (most people don't even realize you can right click a link and copy it; even fewer care when the result they copy/paste isn't the URL of the destination page as long as the result works if someone else clicks on it).

Let me alternatively put it this way: for the same reason (that search is their main product, that linked results are a huge part of it, and that theoretically they care a lot to make the experience of that work really well), I'd be shocked if this isn't a "bug"... the idea that this behavior would be considered a feature is simply awkward.

That said, I now have managed to find a reference (linked above in this thread) to someone from the Google Analytics team describing why the /url feature was put into place, and it definitely sounds like something that wasn't given /that/ much thought.

(Specifically, that they broke analytics tracking systems, including Google Analytics, when they launched the AJAX search results pages: hash anchors are not sent as part of a Referer:. It then sounds as if the Analytics team sent a nastygram to the search team, who threw in a patch to make the Analytics team stop yelling at them. ;P)
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debunked: http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_09_20_a_personality.html

about as relevant as polling for astrological sign.
I had my suspicions of Apress already after reading their Practical Django Projects (2004) book. Book itself was quite ok, but it was referring to downloadable source code of the presented projects from Apress website. To my knowledge this sourcecode of the sample projects isn't still there. Gladly I found some bitbucket projects with those sample projects written by other readers, but my trust for Apress was lost.
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