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The explanation for this is actually quite straightforward. Google fights spam in 40 different languages and we absolutely take reconsideration requests in many different languages, including Italian, French, German, etc. We've also improved our reconsideration requests in the last few months to tell webmasters whether the requests have been granted or whether the website still has issues in our opinion.

People have told us that they'd like to have additional feedback though--not just a "yes/no" type of answer. So we've been experimenting with giving more in-depth answers. I discussed the experiment in this video we published a couple weeks ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rsWc78dits#t=1m36s (watch from 1:36 to 1:56 or so).

Now you know enough to understand what happened in this case. This person, after violating our quality guidelines, had done multiple reconsideration requests. His English-language reconsideration request was selected to get a more personalized response, but then when the Googler started to investigate the site, the actual site was in Italian. That's what triggered the "this language is not supported" message because the person handling the case was expecting an English-language site based on the English-language reconsideration request.

What you need to know:

- we absolutely do handle reconsideration requests in lots of different languages, including Italian.

- we've also been experimenting with giving more in-depth answers to webmasters. The mismatch between the language of the reconsideration request and the language of the website caused this message to get sent, but

- we'll still send this site more in-depth advice. Based on the website's spammy linkbuilding techniques mentioned in the blog post, it sounds like they could use the extra guidance anyway.
This is one of those annoying problems of working remotely.

Unfortunately if you are working from home, you might be building mountains. But no one is seeing you do it, what that generally means is unless you announce explicitly what you are doing people think you are doing nothing.

Contrary to whatever one thinks and the truth is. Perceptions matter a lot more than the reality.
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The statement's point is pedagogical - you don't risk more by buying an option than you pay up front. It's also true - if someone were to offer you free options, you couldn't lose money by accepting them.

This is distinctly different from, say, a future or a forward, which is an agreement with no money exchanged upfront (other than commissions and margin requirements).
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Love the idea! I look forward to seeing how it grows.
Much more likely than Ballmer not feeling that Sinofsky is up to snuff for the CEO's job is that Ballmer is afraid the Board may view Sinofsky as a better candidate for the job than him. There have been some calls for Microsoft to get rid of Ballmer, and it's more difficult for them to do so if there are fewer viable alternatives.
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I'm wondering what equipment/dongles/software/tools you find yourself using the most (besides a PC or a Mac). Any repairs you're seeing a lot of that someone can get into easily?
You want some free publicity? Try a small stock on launch.
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Every time I read something about the weird Erlang syntax I get so tired and try and tell myself not to get into the discussion, it's not worth the effort, some people will never just never learn, etc. But sometimes I can't help myself. So some of my thoughts on this:

- Syntax is the easiest part of learning a language. It's all written down and its just a RTFM. And yes, I have written a lot of C and lisp and prolog and erlang and ... and I never have problems with the syntax.

- If people worry so much about the syntax what happens when they get to the semantics?

- Seriously, why would you want to Erlang to have similar syntax to a language with different semantics? In my view that would be asking for trouble. I think one reason why I haven't had trouble with mixing languages is that both the syntax and the semantics are different. C looks like and behaves like C while Erlang looks like and behaves like Erlang.

- The erlang syntax is actually very simple, much simpler than the languages you would like it to look like.

I will now stop before I say something nasty.

I liked the blog.
Mark Cuban did this back when he sold Broadcast.com - see here: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Cuban-survive-the-dot-com...
That's close to what I used to be called. It's a very overused and vague term, I'd argue far worse than the already bad 'data scientist'. Search job postings for 'analyst' and see the wide variety of jobs that turn up.
It's just that an e-mail filter is the last thing most scientists working in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine are actually working with, so it's (in my opinion) a rather unfitting example, you might be selecting against these people who fit the bill of "data scientist" probably better than the average "I once did something in Excel"-web guy.
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Since this is going on github, why not expand it a bit to allow people to submit things like stylesheets for different types of media/screen sizes or even JavaScript code for formatting the CCD XML format or maybe doing different internationalization formats? Anyway the next step after the design is for everyone to try to code the same design, so might as well at least be open to that part of it.

I don't really have time but if I wanted my submission to be considered I would try to cheat that way by creating working JavaScript code that processed XML and spit out different formatted versions for phones vs. larger screens and also different languages.
Hi Grellas, I feel honored by your comment on my submission. :-)

I personally didn't read "force of law" into the viewpoint of the author. However, I can see how it could be read that way, and certainly that would be one action item that could be drawn from the essay.

What I did read out of the essay was an interesting approach to maximizing productivity, which runs counter to an initial assumption. I see a lot of glorification of super-long weeks around HN (some people thrive on them, it seems), and I think that a counter perspective is useful; if the studies are born out, it's even a productivity hack, as one might call it.

Anyway, I do totally agree that legislating 40-hour work weeks would be a disaster. It'd really ruin the freedom we have in the US to really go deep when we need to.
It's more than "adopting" sim cards. Verizon and Sprint are CDMA networks, and incompatible at the very root with GSM networks like T-Mo and AT&T.
This!

Every few decades there is some revolution, but there is very rarely one that is as revolutionary as the one we are living in now.

The argument can be made that the shipping container did something similar (with respect to distribution) that the internet is now doing - but that's only half of the equation.

The other half is building the product. Before the internet, sure you could find a public library near you and hope they have the right information (for you) that will help you learn the skills needed to build the product you want from scratch.

Now, everybody has access to not just the right information, but the best information - and it just gets better every day.

It's like having the library of congress at your street corner, no matter where you live, 100 years ago.

It is unprecedented how much we can do right now, how many people we can reach, and how much of an impact a single person can have with such few resources.

This is why I love economic progress. Without 'economic growth', we would have never reached here. People don't get that economic growth is synonymous with advancement. If we don't grow, we can't advance - and if we don't advance we can't grow.

I don't get why people would advocate not focusing on growth. If we don't grow, we die - if only for the fact that population growth is not slowing.

But also for the fact that in order to push civilization forward, we have to grow which creates the environment for these types of disruptions.
Gianluca, we absolutely do support reconsideration requests in Italian. See my explanation elsewhere on the page if you want more details.

Would you mind adding an update to the top of your blog post or otherwise correcting your blog post? I'd like to debunk the misconception that Google doesn't take reconsideration requests in Italian, because that's just not true. It looks like most of your blog post has been written on the assumption that we don't respond to reconsideration requests written in Italian, and that's simply not true.
Who says the Sharks decide who ultimately wins or loses?

There are a lot of Producers and EPs who have a narrative to fulfill.
I did this before when I went back to school to focus on CS classes. I already had a degree, but made it clear to my employer that these CS classes would benefit him later on. Irony is that the classes weren't applicable but the friendships made paid off dividends.
So english speaking folks working on behalf of a non-english speaking site have to communicate in the language of the non-english speaking site? How very quaint.
Nice work, guys. That's a really beautiful piece of engineering you've put together. I'm a little curious how the automatic shutoff works -- will it come back on again if you roll over or stir in your sleep?
Remind me, why does anybody care what Petraeus and Broadwell are doing in their freetime? What's the legal basis for that having an impact on their jobs? (Sorry, I'm not from the US.)
My question was why is a proper MAC better than appending a checksum to the plain text and then encrypting. With an appended and encrypted checksum, the system could easily reject corrupted messages, that's the whole point of a checksum in the first place.

So why is a proper MAC better than appending a checksum or hash to the plaintext and then encrypting? Or maybe I am misunderstanding something?
(and additionally checked an irrelevant point by checking for Installous)

Nit: I'm almost certain that they checked for MobileSubstrate.
Nice and clean! Keep it up guys!
> Maybe he drinks all that money with friends after race driving.
> Maybe he donates thousands...

Damned good show if he does. The world needs more young, selfish playboy millionaires who make absolutely no public show of being philanthropic. Leave that stuff to the billionaires. (No irony or sarcasm intended; I love to see the rich having fun, as long as it's not to anyone else's detriment.) Matthew said it well in the Bible: "Take heed that you give not your alms before men, to be seen of them." He didn't have much to say on car racing, but even Jesus liked a boozy wedding.

> Maybe he doesn't feel like immortality is a worthy goal to pursue.

It's usually only the most awful people who do think it's worth pursuing. We'd all like a few more years, but it takes a special sort of narcissist to think their presence will be appreciated after 200, 500, 1,000, 1x10^6 years...
Wicked pumped for you guys. Very well deserved.
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Ignoring all the problems like: who gets to decide; how are the decisions made; how often is success measured; what corrective measures are allowed; what is the best way to help the poor; what is the best way to redistribute the wealth; how to prevent lobbies from destroying the plan; how to avoid money escaping the countries implementing this into tax heavens.

Ignoring all that (and many more questions of the sort) I'm left with only one question: how exactly is Musk helping "the poor"?
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Thanks for the answer, and thanks for clarifying he situation and the reason of the answers. Maybe adding a line saying: "You did a request for an italian site, so we kindly ask you to refer to the Italian reconsideration request procedure in Italian".
Remember he is not a professional SEO, and these kind of "subtleties" maybe are not understood so fast, especially when you see your previous reconsiderations not answered.

Said that, as I was saying in the post, my friend is aware that the site have problems and I know he is working on solving them. So, let's hope he will adjust those issues in order to have his site graced, and that the strategy based on content marketing will be implemented.

Ciao and thanks again for the clarification
People who have illicit affairs are susceptible to blackmail. It's a common way for people in important positions or with access to secure information to be compromised to enemy operatives. Similarly, having a good credit rating is important, and not gambling, because people in debt can also be desperate and vulnerable.
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No. If you have an Italian site that spammed, you can do a reconsideration request in either Italian or in English. We'll process either language.

What I tried to explain in my other comment is that we have also been trying an experiment in giving more in-depth info to site owners. That experiment is currently English-only. Despite that fact, we'll still send a more in-depth reply in Italian to this website that was violating our quality guidelines.
The needle. It allowed humans to hunt and live in cold climates. (disclaimer: watching Andrew Marr's History of the World. It's got everything you need in there).
The ultimate boot CD will be very useful for you.
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Right, and Korea was a "police action" and the Iraq war ended in May 2003.
You're very close. The blog post claimed that Google doesn't allow reconsideration requests in Italian, but the blog post was mistaken. We do allow reconsideration requests in Italian, as well as for Italian sites.
True, except that defining "results" has not been easy with software.
I was sure to show this to my coworker that just purchased a new hot dog. He said it slightly ruined his meal.
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And that's exactly why I prefer to make my own sausage.
I think that's simplifying a bit much. If you read Matt's other comment, it is a function of this response being chosen to get more detailed information. The "more detailed" information is not currently supported for people who send requests in English if their site is in Italian.

The wording of the response was quite bad. The reasoning behind it is not. Personally, I cheer Google for trying to give more detailed information. Few things are more frustrating than the "We are killing your livelihood. No, we aren't going to tell you why. Live with it."
Not really, no. Depends on what how narrow you are about the definition of "queue".
Has everyone on the edge of their seat! Excited. Good luck to all.
I'm guessing this is actually pretty common. We went through something similar as well:

http://blog.useost.com/2012/10/12/osttoost/
As a non-programmer who has some frustration of trying to automate his work schedule the last several years, I think many users don't understand WHAT could be automated, or consolidated, or integrated, etc.

Like many things in starting a business, what "sounds" simple is in fact pretty difficult.

Learning to ask the right questions is also difficult in just figuring out the needs of your "acquaintances/friends."

If you can find just one small annoyance factor, and ask a secondary question just a little bit deeper, then a little bit deeper, then a little bit deeper, you may hit a wall of "I don't know," and that could be a potential solution.

Like regular conversation, questions tend to tree from one another.
It's a fantastic idea, as there is so much valuable content in many of these massive reddit threads; very easy to filter and pull out good quotes.

I'm glad that you're donating the proceeds to the EFF! Cheers
Oh man, you're the guy that did the cool site face lifts :).
I like the way you put it - "Put simply, go to where your potential users are".

I would add - Think about not just users, but power users! At-least in the begining you are not looking for a regular joe, but somebody who would benefit the most by your product, and be the cheerleader moving forward.
Bob Hawke had an affair with his biographer while he was Prime Minister of Australia in the 80s, and they are still married. The incident is barely a footnote on his Wikipedia page covering his long and successful career.

It's beyond me why the Americans feel the need to cannibalise their highest public achievers for trivial personal faults.
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We were new to Hacker News and made a mistake by posting a frivolous comment about our bootstrap e-commerce effort. We are very sorry about this and would like to know if there anything we can do to reverse this?
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looked up a bit for existing records, and required fields and there is no placeholder for genetics data.

Maybe I'm wrong, or I'm overseeing something but I think that "Patient has inherited malicious BRCA1 mutation" information should be IN patients medical record.
I had know idea this has been an issue anyone cared about. Is there some back story that would explain this petition?
Indeed, I have heard from a few friends who worked in consulting that hourly productivity held steady up to around 60 hours/week. Over 80/hours per week, it dropped off rapidly. Between those two figures was an ambiguous zone.
When semantics are very different and syntax tries to pretend they aren't to create false familiarity this will lead to some very painful brain-splits later on. I can assert from my own experience with alternating the use of = between Erlang and C++.

Glad you liked the blog.
On the other hand, even getting Google to remove obviously inappropriate content from their services such as child pornography is a pain in the ass. I've been trying to report some blogs hosted under Blogspot on the last two weeks, but their abuse report tools are far restricting and confusing. All I managed to get until now was a contributor on Google Groups asking me to wait for more two to four weeks because “freedom of speech is relevant here.” Geez, say about frustration...
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I've got Collins Gem Malay <-> English dictionary, which requests Twitter access, then when denied throws up a dialog saying 'Run in Safe Mode!' and crashes.
What if it's a relative you'd like to see live another 10 or 20 years because they're too young to die?

Yeah, we need more playboys. The kid with cancer or malnutrition and his family should just learn to cope with death.

Anti-death people are such narcissists. The financiers like you are the true heros. You get a lot of hookers and blow and we should be thankful for you consuming them.
The bid is now at £2050 ($3280), mind you they are all from accounts with 0 history. Only one bidder has a history and its at 40.
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Could you explain this a little better? I'm sure you're not contradicting yourself, but that's how I'm understanding it.

What risk is there of not finding the other side when you are playing the options game? In your first post you seem to imply that this isn't really a risk.
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On a technical legal note, U.S. overtime laws have long since institutionalized the 40-hour week for non-exempt (generally lower skilled) employees and that remains the overwhelming norm in the economy. In that sense, there is no need to "bring back" the 40-hour week. It never went away.

Except there are now so many exemptions that most of the white-collar working population is "salaried-exempt", and basically subject to no labor protections at all.
Thanks! I actually needed to find photorec today.
I've answered that already. The MAC allows the cryptosystem to reject messages with corrupted ciphertexts. If you don't do that, it can be possible to use controlled corrupted ciphertexts to learn things about the plaintexts of messages, and not just via CBC padding oracles.
One of the best data scientists I know doesn't have anything near a PhD. Just a plain old Undergrad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dw09N5_Aw

I think there are too many ways to miss the mark when it comes to hiring data scientists. Looking for PhDs only is just as dumb as looking for people with 10 years of experience with Hadoop. There are some important things that they need to know, sure, but where they come from is next to meaningless.
Gut, mostly. I haven't seen an effective study on the matter, so there isn't much else to go on. The terms I'm using are also badly operationalized.

Substantially, all I'm saying is that affairs don't work like your standard relationship: they're always contextualized by the existing relationships.
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yeah I agree, Firefox OS is probably the only platform that will benefit from this application.
fdisk will partition an USB stick or other removable media. I remember partitioning SD cards as long as 8 years ago.
Not in my experience. It certainly adds to the cost of mobos/cases, so most pre-builds don't bother. Most people still buy pre-builds.
Keyczar is sound.

NACL is sound.

Using straight-up TLS with OpenSSL or your platform default is fine as long as you test that you're validating certificates.

PGP/GPG is fine.

Everything else is extremely suspect.
The Wheel is probably pretty important. Also I would argue the transistor is pretty up there. As would be the nuclear bomb.
> because there's no way one can show a period of ten thousand years, on the same scale as billions of years

Isn't that what log scales are for?
I had to do this sans connections, and found their form worked pretty well.

In my case I had a stronger claim - the company I was with (@ShirlawsUK) had registered the handle originally, but handed it over to an ex-staffer who had changed the password, never used it, and left several years prior (so email mailbox was long dead). Took about 48 hours from memory, and the account was ours again.
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The message I responded to was proposing an alternative to what was used (draft folder) and instead using GnuPG.

However even if they only used encrypted text in the drafts and never sent them, you could still use traffic analysis techniques to help categorize the content (size, frequency etc) assuming the drafts could be read.
He's helping the poor by making energy cheaper indirectly through kickstarting an electric car industry.

The tax issue can be resolved by luxury taxes. If people decide they'd like $100 million yacht, tax them $200 million for it. Countries like Singapore already have punitive taxes like that on cars.
Not sure why this is on the home page...
Based on his username (a meme) and one previous comment, I'd say he's perfectly aware (and intends to post it anyway).
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A lack of measurement is not any better either, why do a better job or go the extra mile for this customer if it's not going to impact you in any way?
Yum. Actually makes me want a hot dog...