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I have actually found myself using bing lately only because it doesn't try to confuse me into landing on google+.

Seriously, guys; this is a problem. I'm searching for a coffee shop or restaurant or something, and I want to link my friends to the map.

I --DO NOT-- want to go to google+. In fact, I don't really want to google+ ever. For anything. Ever.

Seriously I feel like I'm navigating a maze of accidental google+ links every time I use google anymore. It's really frustrating. Bing at least seems to be just...a search engine.

In fact, google hiccuped all over my 8 years old gmail account, deleting my inbox (yay! Thanks for that guys, oh, and it's just lost, too bad for me!) two days ago.

The upside to this? It somehow also unsubbed me from google+!
I wonder how effective something like Kick Starter would be if it was applied to lobbyists? I mean, at some point it was supposed to be that whoever got elected represented the people. But now it is obvious that the elected just represent who ever gave them the largest amount of money. Could crowd Funding compete with big Co. and wealthy individuals?

Yes, the idealist in me wants to believe the system can be changed. But I am getting close to 30 and I haven't bought any new Bad Religion CD/MP3 since I was 22 to fuel the idealist in me.
Maybe it's French flowchart notation for a buffer too ;-)
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Because that's how MS-DOS used to work, and it was dumb. It means every program has to do globbing (or often, didn't do globbing). In any case, bash does get this right: ls * will pass the correct filenames to the ls program no matter what the filenames contain. Also quotes around variable expansions can cope with any characters.
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The antenna problem can be clearly demonstrated by anybody with that model iPhone, a finger, and a few minutes.

The RRoD cannot be clearly demonstrated in a few minutes. Presumably Microsoft needed to carefully verify these claims by studying the market and reported failure rates before acknowledging it publicly.
I got 3 for Google. The results are surprisingly similar to pick a winner. Probably because I chose some easy searches (Mr. President, person name, place).
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There are only about 40 or so actual lines of PHP (just a simple REST API handler).

The background daemon is based on PHP-Daemon too, which is actually surprisingly robust and efficient.
Now I understand what it is, this seems like an interesting project. As a Buffer user, the way it's worded made me think it's an app for Buffer and I couldn't work out what it was adding ;-)

(If anyone does want to build an extension for Buffer, I'd love something that let me schedule certain tweets to post on certain dates way off in the future.. but I don't want to sign up to Hootsuite or anything big like that.)
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But yet somehow banks stay in business while being legally barred from these same protections.
You might be surprised to learn that the A13 is available as QFP:

http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/cortex-a8-in-tqfp-sur...
Essentially ...

"Whatever the cause of the delays—whether they're because Microsoft has bitten off more than it can chew with the kernel transition, or due to some other reason—the situation is now growing critical. It's not just that it's annoying developers; the delays are undoubtedly hurting Redmond's hardware partners."
"Tampon"? Seriously? Trying to be edgy?
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Don't most modern VPNs use UDP as the VPN wrapper? That way it's the application's job to ensure connections are made and packets sent properly.
this is why I always sign in with twitter over facebook. No spam
The list of questions at the end are gold.

One trick that works for me is to see if there's some way I can help the event -- this works better for smaller ones -- get involved ahead of it a little. That way, when you get there, there's usually a few people who are looking to talk to you (the organizers), and they would introduce you to your targets if you ask.
Looks interesting. You can fork it here : https://github.com/julien-c/Tampon/
Not to sound like a grump, but if you don't get at least one full orbit, it's a carnival ride. Decades from now, people will look back at this introductory phase of civilian spaceflight, and the prices, and laugh at what people called "going into space."
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And people joked that Apple was hinting at feminine hygiene products when it first announced the "iPad"
Setting up your own VPN does not solve the traceability problem, unless you happen to find a colo facility that does business in face-to-face cash transactions only.

If you use Linode to set up a VPN, Linode knows your personal and Linode IP, knows when you access their network, and knows your name and billing info. If compelling by warrant they will turn that over to law enforcement.
It's not surprising this is at Columbus. I've had top-tier frequent flyer status for the past 5 years and Columbus is the worst airport in the country in terms of violation of your civil rights. The problem isn't the security checkpoint, it's stuff like this nonsense - they regularly do additional screening at the gate or as people are getting onto the planes themselves. There's no way this is constitutional, even in light of past rulings favorable to the TSA. I can't think of any other airport either in the US or abroad that has taken things to the extreme they have in Columbus. Perhaps the state of Ohio has forgotten what happened at Kent State? Must be something in the water.
Perhaps things have changed since I first heard about it; initial reports were less than positive:

http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2012-March/0...
So... a 10 inch Kindle Fire?

I love e-ink, but most books that would benefit from a large screen for complicated layouts and all, would benefit from color.
I used to be a fan of Blekko until you started spamming my favorite download site with a crappy toolbar. Why sell out so early?
I had PayPal freeze my merchant account while I was registering it. I didn't even get to sell anything, because their broken, confusing interface made me fill out something wrong, and when I tried to correct it they froze the account. I believe every word of this article.

I've been hearing a lot about Stripe lately, but haven't used it yet.
So wait... Wayland does nothing, makes existing things harder and requires the Linux ecosystem to greenspun X in perpetuity?
To answer my own question: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/20...

Seems it is opt-in users.
40 or so lines? I'm sorry, what? https://github.com/julien-c/Tampon/tree/master/api

Also, I don't think this counts as security:

if (strlen($id) == 24) {
// Looks like a valid MongoId

Edit: this looks bad too:

$post = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
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Sure. But there's a way to say "this would be awesome to have, here's all the places I could use it" and ask politely versus "I'm going to make a public display of this on a popular news site in order to pressure you into what I want"
I have this theory Microsoft keeps funding bing as a tax writeoff.

I've yet to see a website where the search referrals are even within 30 points of Google.
As a Google shareholder, I really want to know whether Bing search results are better than Google. And I really, really want to know what the trend is over time.

However I don't think Microsoft's study is any good. They say, "In the test, participants were shown the main web search results pane of both Bing and Google for 10 search queries of their choice."

So it seems that the study participant had to think of 10 search queries, one after the other. But this is not how search works. In the real world users need to perform one query every so often, and their choice of search terms is based on an immediate need rather than what comes to mind.

A good Bing vs Google study would ask 1000 people to use a split-test search engine for their browser search box, then monitor the results over time. I've asked HN about this before and got nowhere:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3966121

So is there business opportunity here? I imagine that there must be thousands of Google shareholders willing to pay £100 per year for the results of an unbiased, ongoing study into who gives the best search results. In fact, why doesn't Google set up the study and provide such information to shareholders?
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"but we rarely hear about how many credit card thieves PayPal's system rightful stops. (Answer: It's a lot.)".

How do you know it is a lot if we rarely hear about it?
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I'm usually the guy who defends science, but I kind of disagree with you here.

Science looks for statistical trends. But I'm just one guy. Something could fail for >90% of the population and still work for me. Conversely, something could work for >90% of the population and fail for me. If the costs of trying the solution aren't high, trial and error (guided by some basic scientific theory) might be more successful than scouring the journals for whatever self help theory happens to have a little bit of clinical support these days. A lot of these theories haven't been tested, and a lot of them that have weren't too rigorous.
> one of several business services

Could elaborate on the other ones?
I wasn't entirely clear in my description of a "bogon" since the
definition is a bit hazy. Some define it as unallocated address, and
others define it as an address you shouldn't see in use. For example, if
you get a packet supposedly from 192.168.1.1 (in private address space)
on your public interface (i.e. has a public IP address), then some
consider it a bogon.

Address space that hasn't been allocated by any of the RIR's (Regional
Internet Registries like APNIC, RIPE, ...) are sometimes used without
permission, and usually for nefarious purposes. These are also
considered bogons since you should never see those addresses in use.

When you see a bogon, something is definitely wrong. It could be your
service provider is misusing address space that hasn't been allocated to
it, or it could be something far worse (malware, compromised network
routers, ...).

The "Debogon Projects" and "Bogon Monitoring" are run by the various
RIR's to find those who are squatting on misued address space, and also
to get firewall sysadmins to no longer block the unused ranges. Usually,
following the allocation lists of the RIR's is sufficient, but some folks
don't update their firewall rules as often as they should.

http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon/

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-351
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My first thought was "With a name like that, won't people be a little embarrassed to say they're using it?"

Then I realized I need to grow up, as I wouldn't have batted an eye if it were called Jock Strap or something inherently male in nature.

Bit of a disconnect between the "meaning" of the name and the logo, but again, part of this may boil down to my own level of discomfort/unfamiliarity with products that women make use of on a day to day basis.

Or maybe the person who made it is intentionally going for something that will cause discomfort and discussion, to further spread awareness of his product.

tl;dr; Things that initially make us uncomfortable may end up revealing a little something about ourselves.
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Viewed through Bayesian lens, the problem with this article is pretty obvious. You could almost define "speculative" as "giving an observation for which the priors are unclear and only vaguely gestured at".

Here, we have the observation that Sweden gave $60 million foreign aid to Cambodia, but we are given no clear idea of the prior probability that Sweden would give this much and at this time (but we are given the implication that the evidence is significant). We don't need a hard probability estimate (few of us are actually going to rigorously apply Bayes' rule), but we do need enough information to come to a basic idea of the probability on our own. What does Sweden usually give to Cambodia? When is this usually announced? If this is an unusual amount of money, are there other good explanations for this besides corruption?

The problem is that the data in the article leaves us to use a relatively uninformed prior. $60 million is not that much money for a nation with Sweden's economy. It seems fairly likely that some kind of diplomatic news mention would happen regarding Sweden and Cambodia within any given two week period (close enough to appear associated with any given event), and since Sweden and Cambodia are on friendly terms, that mention is likely to be positive. Supposing that this is an unusually large amount of aid, there are plenty of possible reasons that Cambodia, often plagued with both droughts and floods, might have been hit particularly hard in the last year and needed more, so even if this is an unusual amount of aid. This all puts the prior for the observation pretty high, which cuts its evidential weight down very very low. As you illustrated, that prior gets higher as we add information, further weakening the evidence.
I wonder what would happen if I just politely refused. On most occasions I would be willing to go to jail over this.
5-0 in favour of google. I was quite surprised too since I used fairly generic queries that I thought Bing would do as well as google.
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How does your experiment go/went? I really like this idea, it may give better overview of local startups without waiting until their HR machine is rolling & it's rolling super slowly here - It's my 3rd week here and i'll get final answers beginning of next week. I'm just thinking, should i post new HN topic : "i'll develop for curry-wurst&beer until i got final answers " or just build new web-app, called "CouchCoding".
and the TSA has not caught a single "terrorist" ?

There's a lot of TSA crap and the whole agency should probably be zero'd out, but this isn't the right measure.

If a metal detector at an airport never stopped a gun, that wouldn't mean the metal detector is useless for keeping guns off planes.
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Question for the developer community:

Would you go to a hackathon or hackfest hosted at a high school? Why or why not?

(My school is trying to put together a hackfest in a Gov 2.0 style. Teachers and students would be paired with developers in a competition to build the most useful technology for improving the productivity levels of teachers and students)

Thanks in advance for the responses!
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> By the way, never ever use a debt card online. You're handing over access to your bank account.

Are you sure about that?

Visa will refund you money if your card is lost or stolen:
http://usa.visa.com/personal/cards/debit/visa_check_cards_fa...

My personal bank also has similar verbiage for my debit card. They also mention that internet purchases are considered non-PIN purchases and are offered the same protection.

Yes, there is more risk since money can be taken directly out of your account instead of going against your credit, but there are mitigations in place.
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Tampon is French for Buffer. I think this is funny.
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Their clients are really just thin wrappers around their website, e.g. UIWebView for iOS. Not sure how that takes three iOS developers.
Yes, Google "reshoring" for a number of news articles and opinion pieces about how it's happening to some degree and how big of a deal it may or may not be.
Banks have a much more rigorous approval process and are more limited in the merchants they accept (especially internationally).
I don't think we need any more litigation and definitely not in search. Google search wins by pure accuracy of their results. They should be proud of it and just ignore scavengers.
Perhaps it's a hopelessly misguided attempt to encourage women to get involved with the project, but I think it's just an attempt to grab attention via shock value.

Cringeworthy.
There are a frighteningly large number of distinct pieces of hardware that live inside a case marked "Galaxy S2". Literally there are three whole families of SoC's represented: Exynos 4, Snapdragon S3 and OMAP4; plus all the variant radios carriers demand. Some of these have have working builds, some don't. My use of "virutally all" may have been hyperbole, I don't have numbers handy of what works and doesn't.

I'm not saying that this is a clean process. It's not (and frankly can't be). I was simply saying that if you were going to rule out purchasing a phone you would otherwise prefer, it would be a better idea to do some research first.

And to be clear: I have a Galaxy Nexus in my pocket. But I wouldn't fear a OEM phone if I really wanted it.
I eat apples faster than I eat pizzas. Clearly this says something about apples besides that they're much smaller...
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Focus on standing up. Alarm clock is set to the news and I'll listen for anything interesting. Use toilet, drink glass of water. Go to kitchen and get breakfast going for family. Only then do I check email/messages for anything urgent. I used to be more vigilant about checking email first thing in the AM but not now.
That works in the US, but it does not work internationally.
I wonder if the Windows 8 kernel will also hurt Microsoft's chances for ever competing on the mass market. So far all of the announced WP8 phones are using hardware like Qualcomm's latest gen S4 chip, which could be a way for them to streamline the launch process, but it could also be a performance issue with WP8 (based on Windows 8 kernel), which I doubt is as lean and nimble as WP7 (based on Windows Embedded).
Even given that, I think PayPal has done a poor customer service job.

They long ago could have introduced some sort of premier business account that drags serious merchants through a proper vetting process.

Then they could have made the "we're scared of you" experience for non-premier users much less confusing. They clearly have a lot of internal structure and rules. They want to keep some of that hidden, to minimize fraud hackery. But they could expose the broad strokes to users, make clear what state they're in, and offer them the opportunity to upgrade to properly vetted merchant accounts at any time. People aren't upset about the restrictions; it's their arbitrary, opaque nature that makes them seem so unfair.

I think the real problem here is that PayPal is owned by EBay. I hear EBay is getting better, but the place used to be a nightmare to work at, and one glance at their website tells you how thoroughly they're focusing on exploiting their existing model at the expense of trying anything new. With that kind of ownership, I figure anybody with a desire for innovation long ago left PayPal.
We focus on building a solid product with a consistent experience for several platforms - Wunderlist 2 will launch with native clients on Web, iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. To build a high quality product on every platform, I think you need at least 2 developers for each platform. If you are interested this is how we split our team:

3 iOS Developers

3 Android Developers

2 Mac Developers

2 Windows Developers

5 Web Developers (they not only build the web app)

5 Backend Developers

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I doubt people are outraged. I know for myself, I don't care what he wants to do. I just think he should rename it if he wants to be taken seriously.
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I'm a web developer. I spend half of my time developing, and the other half cursing The Web.

Tired of my rants going to the trash bin and inspired by Alan Kay's "the web (...) is a joke" interview (http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442), I decided to write this simple app.

So the next time you find yourself writing awful clutches to overcome the web's static nature, at least you know a place where your frustration won't be ignored!
Bing you fool but not we :) it is definite we use google search engine everyday and what search term we will use in this contest is more likely the term we already use to search frequently let say "Design" and almost know the top ten search results of google. So when bing produces couple of different search results people will give definitely give first 2 or 3 clicks to bing just for the sake of change but for long term user most important and refined results belong to Google we know :D
What about

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brilliant title
Agreed. You wouldn't be the first - Enron's first logo apparently looked like an obscene gesture in Italy even though it was perfectly acceptable in the states, so they changed it. Also, apparently they were originally called 'Enteron', but that approximated a Greek word referring to the intestines.

So, in short, if your market is global (and it is), try and go with a word that doesn't have any additional connotations in most languages, especially English, which a lot of your target audience will be using as a primary language.

Why not take a page from 'Enteron' and shorten it... 'Tam' or 'Tamp'?
Wait... why would it be bad?
With robotics and 3D printing, we'll probably see a lot more on-shoring of manufacturing soon.
Well yes, but as I said, that's exactly what I don't want to do, because then it'll be included in my requirements.txt file when I run pip freeze (unless I manually delete it each time).
I wonder what percentage of the smartphone market microsoft can capture using their usual tactic of integrating everything into their business offerings. I.T departments like service contracts and the ability set policies for end devices, windows mobile will probably never displace iphone/android with consumers but in business it might...
For sure, when you launch the beta let me know and I'll give you my honest feedback. I might even be able to use it on a project but will have to take a look at the product first.
Google deleted your inbox? Could you elaborate on that?
Great for these guys to have their event sold out! (Though... the justin bieber comparison is a bit disingenuous, but hey, i clicked the link so it worked.)

Here's a question: for companies that sponsor hackathons, do you find value in doing so? That is, are you able to measure the effectiveness of that channel from the perspective of making more people use the product, recruiting better-quality candidates, or anything else to help the business? How do you even measure and track the value?
I don't think women get attracted to the name (just because they are women). I think it's more for people with a sense of humor.
So does the lighter blue of the bing links.
Not to miss the 24-70 f/2.8L
Are recruiters so loathed in the industry?
I wouldn't have batted an eye if it were called Jock Strap or something inherently male in nature

Really? I would totally cringe at something called "Jock Strap" or "scrotum" or "foreskin".

Tampon isn't just a feminine word like "flower" or "butterfly", it's biological and personal. "Anal Probe" is gender-neutral neutral term that also feels inappropriate because of its personal and biological nature.