skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The two previous "compromises" you cite are both examples of giving you what you want, instead of what you said you want. While your anecdotal data says that you are annoyingly misled by that, I'm sure there's a measure of selection bias there, and I'm sure Google has a lot more than anecdotal data.

You can wave your hands around in pretty patterns all you want – the fact remains I'm a user who used to enjoy the product and now is frustrated by it. I'm not alone in this. Have they annoyed enough users for it to be a big problem? We'll see. But big or not – it's a problem. Adoption curves are led by early adopters. Do they really want to send the sort of person who was once a Google advocate into the arms of a competing service?

> I find it strange that everyone seems to want Google to just keep doing what it's been doing, to, in a word, stagnate. I, for one, am happy to see Google continue to do big things, undertake big initiatives, respond to a changing world.

I don't think we actually disagree here. If Google does nothing, it's dead.

I'm just not sure that the something they've chosen to do is going to be a good idea. If they lose the plot on search, there's not much to fall back on. But, sometimes you do have to bet the farm.
PeerConnections (will soon) give you pseuedo-UDP-socket-like ability in JavaScript. That with Media Source APIs and device access, one can build a p2p skype clone exclusively in the browser.
The one_to_one_equal example only works for sets, it looks like. This is a popular example in the Prolog literature, where they say

sort(A, B) :- permute(A, B), ascending(B).

(permute corresponds to your one_to_one_equal.)
Not a fan of apple products, but those are awesome results. Nice work apple.
Hey Apple, why not update my software when it's time to restart?
That depends, if they can use their piles of cash to improve further their supply chain, innovate even more and push out competitors maybe it is still better spent on that. Also with that kind of cash they could start being very agressive with acquisitions.
I suppose there are worse names. How about "Enlightenment Via Intimate Links" (EVIL)?
Is it possible to have a third volume as well, opened with a different key? Or a fourth?

Maybe the solution is to have a first "primary" partition, then an "under duress" partition which you'll fight tooth and nail to protect, filing every appeal possible... and if you finally do give up the key, it's filled with entirely legal but extremely embarrassing pornography, plus a few self-written Harry Potter fanfictions.

Meanwhile, whatever you're ACTUALLY trying to hide is on a third.

Sure, it's a big damn hassle, but if you're conscious enough about the stuff you're trying to hide to go with a TrueCrypt hidden volume, it'll be worth your effort.

(I'm not actually sure this is possible, but if it is, I'm sure someone else has come up with it already.)
these guys are awesome!
You're missing why oil companies are good targets for that sort of thing - people have little choice but to buy their products, prices to consumers are rising so the companies are unpopular and they are directly or indirectly responsible for shed loads of environmental damage.

That's not the case with Apple, Google, MS or other tech companies.
That quote still rings true to me. Google still makes diddly squat even if you spent all day on their sites (besides YouTube). They still want you in and out. Google+ isn't about becoming a portal. Google saw the sheer amount of incredibly relevant data Facebook got from users who were glad to give it away. That data is the prize, not eyeballs (it would be hard to get more eyeballs that Google currently does). With Facebook-like data, Google's ad platform would nearly be unstoppable.

Of course, this is troubling in an entirely different manner. But at least Larry isn't a hypocrite.
As a practicing urban designer, this strikes me as a great piece of investing if done right. These plans will take years or even decades to come to fruition (a big horizon for most tech people), but I am sure he will end up a real estate tycoon at the end of it. Commit a significantly run down area to a vision, and there is huge money to be made, as well as (potential) benefits for the general public....
In the README.md
Classical jibberish passwords are mostly muscle memory. I know I wouldn't be able to remember some of my mine of that sort after two weeks.

If you were incarcerated and you knew you might have to comply with an order to decrypt a hard drive, it might be in your best interest to create and shadow type many alternate passwords until you actually forget the important one. Then (hopefully) you're just a polygraph away from a not guilty in an obstruction charge.
Your whole web app becomes a giant nesting table, using divs, classes, and CSS instead of HTML table markup. The math on cell sizes is already done for you, and you're not stuck with wonky table markup and styling.
The pain of dealing with passwords for online services
I have a promise from one of the founders that they will be adding motorcycle search... ok that's a lie. I have no such promise, but I want motorcycle search
Completely agree. Do they release region wise sales? It'd be really interesting to see 'where' this 26% came from. I expect Asia (mainly China) to be the driver in this.
‘Disappointing’ iPhone 4S leads Apple to most profitable quarter in tech history
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Loper is a "Lisp-All-The-Way-Down" operating system (2008)
PalmOS, for all its cruftiness, had (and perhaps inspired) some very well-designed, highly usable mobile apps.

For all the flash and glitz I see on iOS and Android, that's still lacking in too many cases.

I also miss graffiti and the bubble keyboard both.
I wonder which of the prestige investors that Sarah just closed told her to write these Google hit pieces. Good old valley "journalism".
I guess my point is: doesn't demoting the front-end of TCP constitute admission that it should have been carried by UDP in the first place?

TFO basically says the handshake is really just UDP, and the TCP connection doesn't really exist except as a byproduct of an ongoing UDP-based exchange. The 3-way handshake is just the first 3 messages in that chain, and the TCP channel doesn't exist until that many have occured, but the unreliable "phantom" UDP channel doesn't go away once reliability is established. The head/outstanding link in the chain is always unreliable.

I think TCP is a strange mental error: nobody ever needed a to make TCP a real transport protocol next to ICMP and UDP, etc. It didn't need an IP transport number of it's own. TCP is just the idea of "reliability" and can exist entirely in software (and for that reason should, since it's one less thing to maintain in the kernel). UDP is enough. (and ICMP, for example addresses a different problem: out-of-band network feedback.)

Existing code would work the same. I could still ask for a "TCP" connection, and start sending with the real data carried by UDP and benefit from 1 round trip if I don't need to send more.

TFO does that too -- allows some of the unreliability to creep in in the hope that the system is reliable enough that it's worth it -- but it also adds complexity to the existing name "TCP", and I'm not convinced that's good or worth it. TFO solves the right problem in the wrong place IMHO.
There are other ways presidential candidates get more than 2,500 from a person. Please check out http://mydataorganizer.com/fund.html You can search for the donors who donated at least 30,000 . There are about 1000 people who donated more than 30,000 each for the 2012 US Presidential election.
Awkward Moment at Techcrunch HQ - Over Excitement of Apple Quarterly Numbers
Because I hate when my pc does that.
Weatherbill is now named climate.com
"Build a campus, or build a city".

They had to build something, might as well try to become the heart of downtown Las Vegas instead of investing in the purgatory of suburban sprawl.
I'm going to turn that right off (you can do that, right?)

Yes. Settings icon ( ⚙ ), then Search Settings, then Do not use personal results.
Have any of the windfall tax proposals ever moved forward? The energy industry receives heavy subsidies even as they make mounds of money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#Allocation_of_...
Don't use class names to find HTML elements with JS
Are you trying to reinvent prolog? Also, I don't really understand how a compiler for your language would actually figure out the efficient algorithms for getting the answer.

EDIT: I see there's already a bunch of people talking about prolog here. Anyway, the second question is still open :)
Really well written and can't agree more, and I think this applies to many companies alike and is very important in any work atmospheres.
Can somebody give me a tl;dr? That looks interesting but it's a bit too long for this time of night.
yes they do.

It's true that, if you want a list of "what to do next" they are not good. But if you want a list of "what I have to do", unprioritised, subject to change, there's little can beat just writing it down with a checkbox next to it. It makes it real, gets it out of your head. Gives you a place to write little related notes about it.

If you use a todo list regularly, you'll be aware of the dangers of ignoring the bigger items, or choosing the fun items. Like I said, they work if you use them as a list of things to do, not as a list of how or when to do them.
I'm Totally Against Killing Hollywood
And there goes the last slice of meaning to the word "pivot." I think it's now officially dead.
Pretty cool. Interested to know if there will be a space in the smartphone world for an intentionally-dumb-phone like this.
Would like the ability to search by cylinders, displacement, horsepower, and also 2wd, 4wd, awd.
I honestly don't know if it g+ will give better results for all searches or even any searches. When I search for "digital camera" the G+ results I get are people I know talking about cameras and sharing links about cameras.I think that is better than blog spam and content farms.

My main point was without something like +1 they are in a never ending arms race, they needed to disrupt that cycle of tweeks and return to status-quo.
A microphone is a mechanical device, so it will always produce output regardless of what your volume settings may be.

To get technical, you are controlling the gain of the volume of the stage after the microphone. So in the real world the microphone should always show input unless physically disconnected. Computer manufacturers don't follow any standard practices it seems, so you may see it both ways.
Well they are replacing scientist(or lab assistants) and doctors, who is to say any human endeavor can't be automated?
What you really need is a hard disk encrypted with many different partitions, e.g. one for programming projects, one for web browsing, one for email and correspondance, one of movies, one for porn, etc. This should be done using encryption software that allows for 100s of partitions, so it would be a lot harder for the police to argue that you're hiding some partitions.

The software should also, when if formats the disk, leave a random area of c.5% of it free, so the police can't count up trhe size of all your partitions and figure out you're hiding something.
You shall not commit (Without passing tests)
Hrm. AppJet and ReMail were both acquired by Google though. Greplin and Optimizely Googlers both had years at other companies between Google and the founding their companies.

I guess Biz Stone came directly from Google to found Twitter.

Given Google's size and the quality of the people who go in there, I'd have expected dozens if not hundreds of companies to be spawned by ex-Googlers.

I often wonder if certain companies simply produce more founders because of culture, money or simply bias in who they hire. PayPal is the classic example of a company that pumped out a good number of successful founders, but I can't identify any particular characteristic of that particular company that might have caused it.

I'd love to see some analytics about where the most successful or prolific founders come from.
>It's money not passion that's preventing them leaving.

Waiting for options/grants to vest, you mean?
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Yup. People who think he's investing in this as real estate are totally missing the big picture.
I have seen a huge surge in sales of Apple kit to our customer's development teams via Mac specific support requests.
I find it troubling that many scientist are so hell bent on refuting intuition when it has played such a crucial role in human progress and I think Maudlin is right everyone in the scientific community is doing philosophy, whether they want to call it that or not. Hawkins himself is engaging in philosophizing about time travel. To me the criticisms about philosophy seemed to me a mask criticism about one form of philosophy and that is Theology. I can't help but feel that it philosophy can be knocked down a peg then it also helps to lower theology. Philosophy is not about answering the questions, it is about finding good questions to peruse and at it's core it is about intuition. One branch peruses intuition through science and the other through emotion neither should be trying to discredit the other as the philosophical ambitions are separate and unrelated.
Frontier FIOS exists in some areas, and CondoInternet is slowly rolling out to places near downtown and is apparently going to start deploying in Bellevue soon as well.

It's not great but it's slowly getting a little better over time.
I really like how the article speculates that talented Google employees who value "don't be evil" enough to consider quitting over SPYW would take jobs at... Facebook.
Spent over 20 minutes to disable all of Google's bullshit personalization of search. I swear to Bob, if they shove one more god damn "feature" into Search i'm gonna make my default engine Yahoo.
From the call:

Mac sales outgrew the market in all geographies, especially asia-pacific (58% year over year).
no kidding?! That would make my life soooooooo much easier. If you have any contacts would be stoked to make the connection - my email is dw5ight@gmail.com, else I'll shoot them a line and see if anyone wants to talk to two guys in an apartment :P Thanks!
Apple is Wall Street's #1 Growth Stock
That route is just left in as a placeholder until there's a better way to view and search the public pastes. One that's not currently jiving with the template.
The thing about social relevance is it has to still be relevant. Some of the examples out there, like linking to Google+ profiles that aren't updated vs twitter profiles that are, throw relevance right out the window in the favor of a “social” link.

In essence, if they can't get those social signals via fb or twitter, they simply shouldn't use them. Trying to build your own social network that is getting questionable traction (at least among the majority of the people I know), then using that network to judge search results, means that your search results suffer. Your social network has to be the one people are using before the social signals are actually useful and can be said to truly help with relevance.

That is the fundamental problem here, and unless the promotion of Google+ content results in better (not higher, because they've got plenty of accounts, but better) traction for that social network, then they're shooting result quality in the foot, if not directly in the head.
I think Google thinks that you and I, who want a search tool that does what you ask for, are a niche market not worth going after.

I have no idea whether they're right.
Similar. I generally use a notepad (hardcopy) and some sort of textfile or email based system.

Notepad: date at the top of the page, things to do transferred from yesterday plus new items as they go.

Text files: I've created a number of systems which operate based on timestamped files living in a directory which I scan regularly. And email folder can also be used (the metadata's useful, but not entirely appropriate). Otherwise, inserting the date/time via a script and opening the file is pretty straightforward. Doing this one a daily basis (date +%Y%m%d), and including yesterday or most-recent file as "old todo") might be a reasonable way of working. Ultimately it's a highly flexibly, lightly structured system.
Kim Dotcom was the No. 1 player in the world for Call of Duty MW3 before arrest
You can wave your hands around in pretty patterns all you want – the fact remains I'm a user who used to enjoy the product and now is frustrated by it. I'm not alone in this. Have they annoyed enough users for it to be a big problem? We'll see. But big or not – it's a problem.

I'm not sure what you mean by "wave your hands around in pretty patterns." I'm not denying that these things annoy some or even many users. I'm saying Google's pretty obviously in the best position to be able to tell, and famously and religiously acts from that position to a fault.

We seem to agree that Google can't do nothing. I guess my perspective on it is that Google's willingness to change even its core source of revenue continues to draw admiration from me.
When the top executives at your employer are saying "If you don’t get that, then you should probably work somewhere else" it means precisely "the matter is decided, agree, go along quietly, or GTFO".
Sometimes it's the small things that make working and life a bit awesome...so if it's bagels for some, then yes.
In the USA it is not legal (in violation of the 5th amendment) for the court to compel you to reveal a password (if your read the brief the Judge says as much). However, if the court can prove by other means that you own the data on a drive, they can compel you to provide them with the unencrypted contents of the drive via a search warrant.
If I were you, I'd look for a space that is more restricted than general-purpose programming but still rich enough to do nontrivial computation. If you can find interesting invariants that are true of all computations in such a space (but not true of all programs in general), you have a hope of leveraging them to create both a powerful declarative language and an efficient implementation for it.
The space of all programs in general is too large for this.

This is why SQL and spreadsheets have been such successes as declarative programming. If you find another such model, that could be a big deal.
I think the math is something more like:

$COMPANY provides bagels. +1 "Sweet!" point.
$COMPANY provides bagels, but later stops providing bagels. -10 "Sweet!" points.

The removal of a perk has a larger net negative impact on morale than its existence ever did on the positive side.
Why post this? Stanislav isn't working in public anymore.
Cloud Computing is Far More Than Just Technology
In december I bought a Macbook Air, iPhone and passed down my iPad to my nephew. I don't begrudge any of their profit, well done to them I say.
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
The goal is not to create billionaires, but to create an environment where people try to become billionaires. Simply spawning them serves no benefit.
So how do you find what to adjust in the CSS? Just read through it until you figure it out? For example, if I wanted to make four columns instead of three?
I am actually working on some CMS templating for a flat HTML templating engine and making heavy use of the data attribute for it. I think it is one of the greatest additions to the HTML standard. I like that I did not have to use a cutom built templateing variable / languadge to indicate that a template should go into a node. It is my hope that a CMS standard will evolve out of data attributes so that we can get rid of the 1000's of different variations of a simple thing like put the content here.
I assume it's Steve Jobs, not Balmer.

(edit) Why am I at -1? Balmer is a more reasonable match for Bill, but he is not a founder. Jobs is a better fit, but it is odd to see him paired with Gates.
I spent some time using systems that seem to do what you are trying to do. One of those is Specware (http://www.specware.org/). When I used Specware their tutorial had a sorting example just like yours but it seems in their latest tutorial they have a different example. My experience is that that those systems are very hard to use and very limited in their capabilities.
Downtown is not the Strip, it's a mile or so north from the northernmost part of the Strip. Downtown has a more funky, 70's era-somewhat gritty vibe to it. More Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas than The Hangover, if you will. A good vibe, though, with plenty of distractions of its own I guess.
http://markdotto.com/bs2/docs/less.html

Odd, it says that lessc can take --compress, but using the most recent version of less in npm says that there's no such flag.

Maybe it's on the way, or the bootstrap authors know something we don't.
Having lived in Vegas for the summer it is not as distracting as it seems. You really will only go to the strip when friends come into town or for the show/poker tournament etc. Residential Vegas/Summerlin is actually a really beautiful area.
I don't understand: one click opt-out is ok for Google but not for Facebook's product launches?
After hours snapshot: AAPL is up 32 points (7.78%), at $453/share, now has more capitalization than XOM (ie, largest cap stock in the world).
I agree that the social relevancy stuff is clearly not very good yet. But 1. I expect it to get better; and 2. Google faces a chicken-and-egg problem of not being able to extract meaningful signal from an unused social network, and a social network that no one will use, especially if it has no meaningful impact on search.

Bootstrapping the social product by funneling your actually successful product's users into it seems like a fairly obvious and reasonable approach to me. (I'd rather not get into an antitrust argument here, since that's been done to death, and I find it pretty uninteresting to begin with.)
I don't care much about google+ infiltrating search.

What I care most about is that searches are now more fuzzy.

If I want to search for terms : A B C D

The results will consist of things with any combination of those items, and sometimes things that are similar to those items.

There used to be a + operator to force things, but that has been removed in the last half year.

They supposedly added back something similar when you wrap things in quotes, but that doesn't work either.

Now when I go to bing and search for +A +B +C +D, it really does just return only the results I am looking for.

This is critical for searching for tech stuff.

Not convinced? Try:
+trueskill +javascript
In google, bing, and duckduckgo.
Apple sees over 350K digital textbook downloads
If you invest for n years and the fee is i%, at the end of the period you will have paid n x i% of the average balance.

or, compared to the final amount you would have had, the amount foregone with compounding is 1 - (1- i) ^ n.

a big number. for instance, after 30 years, for every dollar you would have had without fees, at 1% fees you would have 76 cents.

(for sufficiently low i, (1- n*i) would be a close approximation, but the fee i is usually not low enough LOL)
ICloud Now Has 85 Million Users
I couldn't find a link to your blog in your profile page. Care to share the URL?