skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's the most dodged response ever.

i think for his question to even be made, it was assumed he was being accused of possessing encrypted something.

Let's attach the old guy from france that got into the 3 strike law without even having a computer at the time. Now let's say instead of getting the IP of that old guy from france, the police got the IP of the comment above yours, from let's say mr Buttle. Now they confuse him with Mr Tuttle and assume he has encrypted criminal data. but all they could find on his computer is the file "not_encrypted_i_promise".

he is then throw in jail because he failed to provide the password. His infective defense was that he was "playing" with philosophical questions regarding encryption.
>Once I know the keyboard shortcut for it, this "HUD" silliness is useless.

Use the keyboard shortcuts when they're available or you know them, and HUD when they'er not?

>"people like Quicksilver, so people will like something entirely unlike Quicksilver" is terrifyingly bad reasoning.

If you think HUD is 'entirely unlike' Quicksilver, then you probably need to broaden your world somewhat. They're both just tools, and much more similar than not.
So imagine you define some amazing PSL (Problem/Solution Language).
It let's you "Code" by defining the problem and solution, ie:

Define SORT: Given SET(x), Find SET(y) Where [For i in y] y[i]>y[i-1].

So now you're feeling all giddy because this amazing language is so awesome--you didn't have to specify how to do something step by step. You just declared what you wanted, and it gave it to you. Fantastic.

But then, now that you have defined this "SORT" routine, you still need to use it. You end up with the following code:

Prompt SET.
SORT SET.
Display SET.

Shit! You're defining steps again.

You ultimately can never achieve your goal, because you will always need to define some steps. All programs of significance are a composition of tasks which need to be identified, and executed.
At least i can charge it with regular usb connectors. use regular microSD cards. remove the sim card with bare hands. etc. etc.

...now i only have one problem to deal with.
See Nile/Gezira: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2009016_steps09.pdf

Also, the STEPS project in general (read the progress reports): http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php

They talk about "active" or "runnable" maths. The programming languages they create aim to basically mirror mathematical expressions. This in turn makes the programming stack much smaller and easier to comprehend.
Out of curiosity ...what's an example search?

Where, you typed a word, that looks convincingly like another word had been misspelled, but in fact is correctly spelled - but has synonyms that you want to look for?
Have they come full circle and reinvented the command line interface?
I'm from Australia, but when I enter text into the "Near" box it says "Please match the requested format.".

What format was requested? I tried a postcode, and suburb, neither work.

Confusing as :(
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Just to confirm what you say about Google trying to be too smart I just searched for "SPYW" because to be honest I have no idea what is that word or abbreviation. So Google decided that I am searching for the word SPYWare and I was no able to find a definition for SPYW. That's why I am reading the comments in case I can guess what it is.
I suggest that you go and have a look at the reviews of the native Faceebok app both on Android Market and on the FB page of that app. The app basically stopped to work over a month ago. The web app is fine.
Can you explain what you mean by a No Load Index Fund? Can you give an example or two? Thanks.
"The policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones."

As much of a PITA it can be to delete Google accounts and reroute everything, I'm glad I'm not stuck in a 2-year contract with this nonsense.
True. But it's a lot harder to make profits in hardware than in software.
my gripe with 90% of car searches.

i'm not after one specific car. i'm buying a used car.

i have a fixed budget and a some cars that I would avoid. everything else is fair game.

craigslist is the only one that get's it correct.

1. put your price.
2. get a bunch of crap you don't like
3. add -crap1 to the search
4. repeat 2 and 3 until you get things you like
5. select a few, call, inspect, buy.

limiting by brand/model is like starting to shop by color.
It would be cool to have a "canary" system in encryption.

For example, without having entered the 'everything is OK' password every week, the drive/encryption automatically destroys itself.

So if the drive is ever compromised, or you are separated from it, etc, the fact that you do nothing should cause the protected data to be destroyed.
I have the same question. What do people use iPad for? I myself am laggard when it comes to electronic gadget and I haven't got an iPad yet. I got a Kindle though since it's good for reading.

Some of my pianist friends use iPad for reading music sheets while playing. But they don't use it much besides that.
If engines were intelligent beings constantly plotting and trying to fail

I am assuming this is hyperbole, but if it isn't, it should be noted that politicians aren't trying to blow up the systems they govern. No elite is. The situation where short-term interests systematically countermand long-term interests results from a mis-alignment of incentives in the system; it is nothing germane to government.

All large organizations...have a tendency to grow

Actually, no. They empirically tend to evaporate away. Most organisations have a desire to grow.

Switzerland

I'm Swiss, and yes, I agree that we have a damn good system of governance :). But it is very nuanced moderated democracy that exists in a specific environment. I am not so sure it would work in a more heterogenous society; we are having terribly xenophobic reactions to our Muslim minority.
I have an iPhone
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However... artificially ranking their own links, ranking that isn't objective, is deadly to the utility of their search, and to their brand. In the past, google products have seemed to rank highly, but google claimed this was their natural rank. What is the evidence against them now?

I think the notion of objectivity in search is a fallacy, and I would hesitate to characterize the addition of social search as artificial inflation, at least not any more artificial than any other part of the algorithm. The fact is: Google has more information about how to rank G+ profiles than any other profiles. That extra information adds google juice. Yes, other social networking profiles are indexed and ranked, but Google doesn't have the appropriate extra information on them that it does wrt G+.

This doesn't seem particularly hard to understand, and I'm not sure how the focusontheuser.org bookmarklet illuminates the issue. I agree that the G+ profiles are probably given too much weight, and that's probably for two reasons: 1. It's brand new and requires more data for calibration; 2. It props up G+ as a product.

From Google's perspective, even if search quality is negatively impacted in the short term while they calibrate and funnel users into G+, as long as in the long term search quality is bolstered by the additional subsequent data, it's a win.
Hackpad: a simple Wiki system for your projects
He should throw out his keyboard too: http://vimeo.com/2007855
LOL @ Jessia not "talking you out of doing something crazy." You didn't do anything crazy, you put up a web page that says "I think Hollywood is doomed!". And that says you possibly might be willing to bet a few grand on someone who agrees with you, maybe. Oh Paul, you daredevil you!
I would argue that journalists shouldn't be making "jumps" at all. Report and critique the facts not what you think they may imply.
I see this more as a feature on an already established link sharing site such as hacker news or reddit than as a standalone website. Good concept, though. Please prove me wrong.

EDIT: Also, I dislike the design. It's not very pretty. I'm not much of a designer myself, else I'd try to help you with it.
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The TOS is short, but the arguably more important Privacy Policy for Google products is still huge: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Foxconn makes stuff for a lot more companies than just Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers

They could ask, and even encourage, but not dictate. And Foxconn is not likely to do something that puts them at a competitive disadvantage.
the only consensus i'm seeing is that everybody wants to hate ubuntu. a mainstream product is the perfect place to test new UI concepts, because mainstream users don't care about these things and they don't have any expectations. despite what you might think, being very similar but not quite windows is not a good thing for a mainstream user.

everybody i've tested unity on has adapted to it really quickly. the very basics need teaching (things like showing them how to open the launcher), but beyond that users are pretty good at discovering things for themselves. the problem with making things very like windows is that people expect it to be exactly like windows, and panic when something isn't where they expect it to be. unity removes expectations and the user starts off with a blank slate, and they can learn fairly quickly. also, mainstream users don't panic over change they way you imply they do. they just don't notice change. there's a presentation from google that mentions when testing google instant, many users didn't even notice anything different.

the people who are hating on unity and ubuntu are not speaking for the mainstream, they are speaking for the power users who have a library of learned behaviours that they don't want to unlearn. a mainstream user doesn't have a whole lot of learned behaviours to overcome, and they will benefit more from a UI improvement than any other because so many of them are essentially re-learning the system every single time they try to accomplish something. lots of people say they want ubuntu to be built for the mainstream, but what they actually mean is that they want is a distro built specifically for themselves.
As a current resident of Vegas, "warm" might be understating summer temperatures a little :) Everything is air conditioned (and there are 24 hour air conditioning maintenance companies!) so you'll be inside most of the time.
hm, not sure how we'd add exclusion to the search. do you find any of the price/mileage filters useful or do you really just want to be able to say "No Hyundai" (or whatever)?

I think we'd also like to add some basic recommendation engine type stuff soon - my last car was a $500 tercel so feel you on the ubercheap classification. If we had a "Sort by Cheapest Reliable" option would that be useful?

Thanks!
Then explain that to the judge. The defendant in this case is not claiming to be the victim of mistaken identity.
I've driven a lot of different cars, and this one was... interesting. Probably too much for a daily driver.
What ever happened to "provides employment" and "provides value to its customers"?

Largely depends, I suspect, on the level of VC involvement. Most (all?) would be looking for a big-money exit in the future- just ticking along nicely means their bet doesn't pay off so well.
it's simple! You just need to search "define: spyw"

Definition for spyw:
Web definitions:
(SPYWS) Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study.
www.health.am/acronyms/s7/

you're welcome!
(edit: to be fair though, the first link is a good one and explains the whole situation)
(edit 2: oh wait! That's because of my personal search results. This is too funny)
you can even use the free google voice service
How can you characterize Google's effort to make their privacy policy and terms of use more simple and clear as "evil?"
Google lost me at Nymwars, they banned me, a loyal customer who had given them loads of money, for using the same name I use all over the net. That was the binary switch for me, perhaps they had been eroding my trust for years, but there was a clear snapping point where they jumped from good guys to bad guys, and it was a calculated business move on their part.

I am now weening myself off google, its hard, they own half the net, but when their own employees are being silenced for defending my best interests, it is time to leave.
That's what I was thinking, that this has more to do with more people having web-capable phones than any lack of future for any kind of developer.
"Right to be forgotten" on the Internet too expensive
Google's search tweaks are making it better and better for most users. For me, though, I want the old simple-minded Google back. I would rather get what I ask for, even when when it's garbage in/garbage out, than wonder if some heuristic somewhere is filtering out the pages I want to see.

For example, I'm sure Google "knows" that I am a monolingual English speaker, but I can read enough German, French, and Spanish to struggle through a blog post telling me how to diagnose or work around a problem with my computer when that's my only choice. (Especially now that Chrome will run the whole thing through Google Translate for me.) I set an option in Google to show me pages in other languages, but these days I don't see non-English results anymore unless there are only a few pages of search results. It seems like non-English pages are penalized heavily, regardless of how high they rank as search results. (Or did everyone who used to post about technical topics in German switch to English over the last five years?)

Even if that's not true, the fact that I even think about it is a bother. I wish Google would be more simple-minded so I could have more confidence in how I understand the results.
From what I understand, turnover at Google is very low, especially among high ranking engineers. That might be why you see fewer ex-Googler startups than one might expect.
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I've felt this same way for a while, I've been running a used car site since 1995 (http://www.ausedcar.com). The sad thing is I've experimented with all sorts of other ways to search for cars over the years like what you are recommending (in the past I've let you search by fuel economy, etc...) but nothing seems to convert (ie work) as well as the same convention everyone else uses of Make and Model :\.

Also Craigslist will probably shut down the linked site soon, it's quite unfortunate how Craigslist essentially took the entire FSBO car market, but won't innovate in the way that this site shows it could.
You may not want to turn it off. From an advertising perspective I would suggest you split-test it. Yeah it will annoy some people, but entry-pops have great effect and are used by most performance marketers whenever possible.
Your comment is very confusing to me. If it's a public API, why would Google have to return anything?

And Google's proposition to all web sites everywhere is that in exchange for indexing their content, they provide exposure through the best search engine and the main interface to the web for most people. This is also what FB and Twitter are complaining about: that they aren't receiving proper exposure.

It seems like a fair deal to me, and for Twitter and FB to be complaining about lack of exposure when they're trying to charge for the data that would appropriately affect their ranking is what seems absurdly hypocritical to me.
If you mix a little red in with a little blue, you start shifting it out of "blue", but it's not abruptly "not blue".

No significant political party or other large group in history has ever demanded perfect adherence by all members to all aspects of platform or ideology, that doesn't mean the groups didn't exist.

I'm also not sure where you get the idea that lowering taxes is not a Democratic thing, or creating social programs is not a Republican thing. It sounds like you're getting your ideas of what the parties stand for solely from the loud-mouthed extremists.

The world is nuanced, that doesn't mean identifiable groups do not exist.
I have often wondered what people do to their computer to break it? I have a windows 7 install that is a couple of years old at this point. And my linux install is an unbroken series of debian upgrades going about 7 years.
I have them in Sacramento. Fantastic ISP, make sure you can get their Fusion service. You won't regret it.
I think more its an acknowledgement of two things, the first being that Microsoft really is a company that always suits up. The second being that WP7 is an attempt at coming up with something new and innovative. I think from the Apple executives perspective that's a significant change.
I have an iPad and barely use it as well. BUT...that is because my wife and 1.5 year old are on it constantly. If you have kids, it is absolutely the most fantastical product you could ever own. Beginning at around 8 or 10 months, my son could use it pretty effectively. For xmas, we got a case to mount it on the back of my car's front seat. Just slide it in, turn on a movie and the kids are engaged for hours.

I actually do use it a lot, mostly for surfing web, reading email, watching movies/tv, etc. I generally use it where a notebook would be awkward such as in bed, while watching tv, in the car, and, yes, on the john.
Which is why most people buying funds should buy their index funds through Vanguard. It's not a sales pitch. This company, owned by the fund holders, is the lowest cost way to buy index funds. Probably the only lower cost way to own stocks is to buy them directly through the company via their dividend reinvestment programs, but then you aren't buying an index and you are wasting your time.
For starters just let people browse all used cars near them, you can even geo-located using ip.

Then provide a keyword, mileage and price filter on left--may be use range sliders?
Bullshit. Sorry, but there's nothing essentially "broken" about programming. You don't like it, but it's a model that works.

Until you create a true AI, this is the way things are. It's not broken, it's apples and oranges. Instead of fixing programming, fix your way of looking at it.
In a criminal case (and likely in the worst of criminal cases), the suspect has no idea when the FBI will come bursting through the door to arrest him/her and seize hard drives. A dead-man's switch would be impossible to prevent in this scenario (aside from never using one in the first place).
That function definition is a monstrosity because it is poorly factored. Assuming pre-existing fromBase and toBase functions, here is a definition that in my opinion is easily readable and matches your verbal description:

halton b n = fromBase b (reverse digits) / b^(length digits)
where digits = toBase b n

Just to show there's nothing up my sleeve, here are the fromBase and toBase definitions:

toBase b 0 = []
toBase b n = (n `mod` b) : toBase b (n `div` b)

fromBase b [] = 0
fromBase b (n:ns) = n + b * fromBase b ns

They too read like how a mathematician would define them. (I abstained from use of foldr/unfoldr to make this clear.)

Edit: On second thought, it's easy to implement it as a direct recursion. I'll demonstrate it in C so I'm not accused of language chauvinism:

double halton(int b, int n)
{
return (n == 0) ? 0.0 : (n % b + halton(b, n / b)) / b;
}

Here the digit reversal is implicit in the recursion (the oldest programmer trick in the book).

This C code is self-contained and compiles to a tiny handful of machine code instructions, so it's hard to see how your statement that "this simple 1-line equation in math becomes hundreds of thousands of loops in practice" holds much water.
Your excitement about what Haieh is doing is awesome, but what does it have to do with Jobs? One of the biggest annoyances I have with the tech press is their tendency to throw Apple/Jobs into any article, no matter how unrelated. I'm gonna have to call your comment out for the same thing.

I'm excited about it too, but the men had completely different approaches for different industries and, while I'm trying to stay neutral on the issue, Hsieh has quite a ways to go before he's anywhere near as revolutionary as Jobs. Comparing the two is an unnecessary distraction which doesn't really serve any purpose.
I imagine they would hold you in contempt until you convince the lawyer to provide you with the password. I'd be very careful about entering into such an arrangement. It's basically a conspiracy to withhold evidence.
Google's new privacy policy from 2012/03/01
Several APIs work like that. One example I can think of is IQEngines' (see http://developer.iqengines.com/apidoc/current/apis/query-api...). You upload an image and a few moments later need to query another endpoint to get your results.

One thing that makes it easy for developers is that they do provide a web hook feature (as does the likes of Github).

@skram
thanks!

We feel that if you can progress through each stage (which contains 15 levels each) and get to the end of all 3 stages (45 levels), you will have learnt the words pretty well. Right now, we're focused on teaching vocabulary.

Glad you like the design and pricing point as well. We want to make it affordable.

Yes, its the first app we've developed. We've been working on it since September 2011 and released on android first.

I don't have much coding experience. My role is business and operations. One of my co-founders has worked on mobile development previously at a sports mobile application startup.

I see that you are also involved with languages. Would be great to speak to you.
Ho-lee-crap.
I think you are referring to www.AppGratuites.com

Really interesting story and thanks for sharing! It sounds like quite a journey for him to go from a review blog to become a meaningful marketing channel. Respect!
And note what's at the top of almost any page of Google search results: paid ads (granted, they're in a different color, so you know they're ads, but they're still at the top of the page). Not so different a model.
Devoid of the proper context, it's amusing to think about your post in terms of the uncertain legal implications of users actually reading and understanding the TOS.
Try a low self discharge battery. Less wasteful, more convenient, and you can reach in to a drawer a few months after charging them and know they'll work.
Very good! Now how about the hard version?
I use mine for everything I use a computer for which isn't creative. So things like watching movies, reading books, reading the news, reading textbooks (who said learning had to stop in high-school/college?), reading articles, playing games, facebook, twitter, browsing dribbble, in general chilling out and screwing around.

Once I need to write/design/code then I whip out my laptop.
You can print a wide variety of metals, as well as use them for molds for casting. There's also 6d CNC milling etc.

I bet you could manufacture a car if you wanted.
Works great until your ISP tells you to restart your router.
Just curious.. how does this differ from http://data.influenceexplorer.com/contributions/ (formerly transparencydata.org)?

Thanks,

@skram
Actually we might not bridge the gap (http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/08/21/software-is-eating-all-th...)

The Luddites were right - technology does destroy jobs. The hope is that new technology creates new jobs fast enough to replenish

it is just a hope.
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