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Not disputing understaffed possibly being true, and not arguing with you guys, but it's a poor excuse for Microsoft being one of the richest, most powerful companies in the world, while willing and continuing to lose billions on things like Bing, Xbox (it's true, they still haven't broken even if you count all they spent plus the red-ring-of-death write-offs), Zune, and now their mobile initiatives.

And what was Microsoft doing in those 12 years between C99 and C11? What are they doing so inefficiently in their design that they can't figure out how to implement C when every other C++ compiler team has? Come on, Clang didn't even exist until 6 years ago.

Stupid positions Microsoft takes like this with regards to C99 and C11 only underscore how pathetic, short sighted, and clueless they have been for over a decade. They have needlessly alienated developers they profess they need so much for so little reason. How ironic that now they are begging developers to do Windows RT and are promoting "going native".
This is an amazing discussion. I love this country
Right, but the success of a technical product is often based on results that can be tested and verified, and less on arguments through authority, though if Cutts is willing to say something like. "Wow, the OP has created something that surpasses Google in [whatever metric]", I'd admit I'd take his word on it.

But the OP's claim stands on its own and makes assertions that can easily be verified. Are you arguing that Google's search engine is as simple and literal as the OP claims?
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Oh, ok I didn't know. So it is indeed a syntactical shorthand for simultaneously declaring a variable and branching.
I think u mean Taco Bell instead of sunlight. It would be impossible to never see sunlight again.
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This is a very neat idea.
My understanding is that, over time, the absence of an English article results in the removal of the translated versions, for English-speaking article subjects anyway. True in this case for the French and Japanese versions of the article.

But the German article, which hasn't been removed, has significantly different content, so it will probably persist.
There is the death penalty for some federal crimes like terrorism even in MA.
Hover over the Samuru Logo on the results. We will tell you a bit about what kind of search we think you are doing.

http://www.samuru.com/?q=python+list+comprehension

While we get the same top result for this, we also show that WikiHow.com linked to the Python Docs. So you can see closely related articles grouped together.

This is useful for things like http://www.samuru.com/?q=samsung+apple+patent+press+release

But Google requires the words or the synonyms to be on the results page. So do we, but we know that a search for http://www.samuru.com/?q=cook+bbq+ribs is not just about how to make BBQ Ribs, but to make the best BBQ ribs, because this is a subjective topic, I like honey BBQ, someone else likes Mesquite. That factors in to our results.
Actually, you're using a slippery slope argument and fueling it with a hitler reference.
What is con man?
This looks really good.

Just for fun, try pulling one of the spider's legs and bring it close to the web! I really like how it clings on to the web.
Thanks gwern - I work at Posit Science, and that's been our approach since our beginning. When we got started, we ran an initial randomized controlled trial[1] which showed our cognitive training program improved memory, then ran a larger study[2], and then ran the largest study that had ever been done with commercially available brain training program[3]. Other research groups have gone on to show benefits in chemobrain[4], HIV associated neurocognitive impairment[5], and schizophrenia[6].

Different cognitive training programs are different - just like different anti-cancer molecules are different. Some are going to work, and some aren't.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17046669
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16888038
[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19220558
[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22918524
[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22579081
[6] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19448187
At which point, the Courts will say "you dun fucked up Police", and the self-incriminating evidence will be inadmissible to court, and not allowed to be told to the jury.

And the police will win the case _anyway_ because we got so much evidence on this guy they can win the case in their sleep. So it all won't matter in the long run.

Thats the good thing about the courts. The Police don't decide whether or not they're exercising the Public Safety Exception... the courts do.
Google Brandon Wirtz Greatest Living American. I am pretty good at understanding how Google works.

While Google gets things right with out all of our language stuff a lot of that is because they have user data about what people are clicking on and which things they come back after reading.

That data means if they can get the stuff on to the front page they can "crowd source" the rest.

We don't have that user base for a feed back loop. We have to get our results entirely based on software.
That's some really twisted mental gymnastics there. Torture is bad, because it's torture. It doesn't matter if you're a criminal or a human-monkey. How can they get away with it for so long? At least they didn't say torture is legal "because he's not a white guy", but their logic here is not that far off from that.
Who is "JayZ" ? Somebody important, I assume?
It seems that your rationale requires that you have heard of a lot of similar cases. Can you recall the other similar cases you have heard of where LEOs did not mention mirandizing the suspect?
You should absolutely be able to compile it under OS X 10.8 without any issues. All you need is Xcode and golang installed, the project repo has everything else. You would also need git for the git-related stuff.

What was the error you got?

I've made it compile under Ubuntu earlier [1], but there may be some issues with dependences there. This one is trickier as it's not my main dev environment (and I'm taking some shortcuts for now).

[1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/...
I was going to ask about that, seemed strange to feel that a self imposed constraint was a challenge you had to work around.

There are other options outside of app engine that could help you achieve the same thing. I outsource most of my processing to picloud (specifically because I need more ram than I have).

I don't work in your field but I think it's a really interesting problem you're working on.
The following has nothing against or for Steve ( which every comment seems to be focus on ), but a matter of opinion on the problem.

So she has a problem with THE highest chain of Command cutting her across the queue for lunch?

May be i am the only one who dont see a problem with that. ( If everyone higher up then you would cut queues then i would have a fxxking problem. )

Engineering Project Manager - I am not very good at those inflated Titles. ( So what's higher up? Senior VPs? ) But that title suggested to me she is responsible, whether or not some Jerks up there gave Steve a suck up or not. MobileMe was a disaster. To me it was even worst then the Map problems Apple have had.

As an Engineering Project Manager, By letting it out, knowingly this is Apple, which holds an even higher standard then other company. Did she have a go at Steve or higher up about the launch? Because if not, then she didn't burn the bridge, someone burnt it for her already.
We have that issue because it turns out many brand pages don't have any content. We are still balancing the domain bonus, but think how many home pages for brands have no text. No text means we have nothing to analyze.
It is not at all unique in the world of startup luminaries and investors either.

Board seats have pros and cons.
Meanwhile as Android continues to gain marketshare and developers, more and more Java developers will have to ignore Java 7 and Java 8 features, to maximize chances of code reuse since Android is indefinitely stuck on Java 6.
Thank you for open sourcing this. The spider example is just awesome!! Good Job!
What pisses me off most about fanatic gun owners who talk about their rights and being able to protect themselves in case the "government goes rogue", is that they seem to be very apathetic, or even supportive of measures such as this or of government infringing other rights like the 4th amendment, the 1st, the 5th, 6th, etc. You'd think that the people so worried about the government going rogue would be the first to be outraged by such infringements of rights, too. But apparently not.
Do dig up those articles please, I'd be interested.
No. They know you tagged it a review.

I could tag it review and have it be a sales copy page for a product.

Our stuff knows that a review expresses an opinion, backs that up with facts, and makes a conclusion.
This is great, it doesn't seem to have any lag and I can't wait to see this being implemented.
Yes.

No/don't care.

Hire expensive lawyers and accountants.
For heaven's sake. Assuming that they have arrested the correct person, he and his brother had a stack of tactical explosives that they were throwing around with abandon, as well as having bombed a major public event with loss of life and a huge level of injury. Of course the public (via its designated law enforcement agents) has a legitimate interest in establishing whether all possible explosive devices have been found and neutralized.

Bear in mind that for his trial (if he doesn't plead guilty) they'll have victim witness testimony from a person who says he saw the suspect perform a bag drop shortly before the bag exploded and blew his legs off; abundant photographic evidence, with probably more to come; whatever forensic evidence they found at the brothers' shared home; and all sorts of other information gathered in the days before he was found and captured. There'll be camera footage from the 7-11 that they held up, testimony from the person they carjacked (to whom they apparently admitted that they were the bombers), forensic evidence from the car, vast amounts of ballistics evidence...I could go on and on.

There is no way that his conviction is going to be pendant on what he says before being mirandized, and the public safety exception is about as justified here as it could ever possibly be - far more so than that in Quarles. That was a guy who allegedly had had a gun and was wearing an empty holster when caught. True, abandoned guns can be dangerous. A bumper variety pack of bombs, which it appears this suspect had and employed on multiple occasions in the last few days, presents a substantially greater risk to public safety.
Then I stand corrected. Thanks.

edit: I do keep harping on about it, but his book "Intelligent Image Processing" is worth a read for more info on how the Eyetap works (amongst other topics).
This thesis obviously relies on some ad hoc assumptions about mutation rate and species diversity. Higher mutation rates and more species running in parallel equals shorter evolution time.

This is pure conjecture masquerading as science.
What's happened in practice is that the market is moving towards free apps + IAP to make money. I think this tends to ruin most games but for a lot of other categories I don't think it's a bad model.
I agree, it's becoming too navigation heavy for larger scenarios and code bases. This is a problem I need to address. Right now you can't "pin" things to another layer and have them stay there regardless of how you move the main layer. I think being able to do something like this might be helpful. After that, I'll have to see what else can be done... I'm thinking global fuzzy search to help get around.

It is becoming [1] a bit more keyboard-able, and being as open as it is, you could pretty much add any kind of shortcuts to anything you want. That's the whole idea that the user is in full control. Right now that part is probably too inaccessible for most people, but it's my goal to make it friendlier to customize.

[1] http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6977/imageay.png
Turning things around, I often have SQL dumps around, so ack --no-sql is a real lifesaver in my Rails (i.e ruby, coffee, less, shell and whatnot) projects.
You know, he regularly parked in Handicapped spots too (before he had a Handicap sticker - which I'm not sure he had when he was really sick, but he certainly could have qualified for one then).
If you are going to compete with Google you might as well step in to the arena running on the same hardware. :-)

Also the best targets for acquisition put Google high on the list so building things the way they would makes sense.
Thank you so much for the overwelming response from the HN community. I will now spend the night going over all your responses. I'm going to book a counselling session through my university and hopefully they can give me some advice as to where to go from here.

Thanks so much
Sounds like he knows Linux...
They are also getting away with it because the torture isn't of the "strap electrodes to his genitals" variety, which most people would immediately reject. Stuff like "loud music," "putting a holy book in a toilet," or "make him think he's drowning," don't evoke the same sort of immediate reaction. If the administration were openly performing at "Inquisition" levels of torture, there would be massive public outcry.
I have always wanted to keep an M249 around the house but I keep hearing that I can't as a civilian. I'm glad someone else recognizes thatI have a right to unrestricted access to SAWs. Can you point me where I can find this legal precedent so I have it ready when those whiny ATF thugs come after me?
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Finally the hunt is over

Thanks to the authorities. I am sure Boston will be as safe a place as it was earlier.
Boston is a Home to prestigious MIT and Harvard, along with more than 60 other universities. Vibrant Boston area is full of students and workers from all over the world and I am sure very soon it will revive its charm as lively safe place

John Lennon said "give peace a chance"!
Yeah, seems to me their idea can be summarized as "in the absence of a specific goal, keep options open".

Which is generally good advice, but only "in the absence of a specific goal".
As far as I'm concerned, DISCLAIMER, (and to a lesser extent HELLOYES) which I quoted below, wraps up the story and allows us to all stop wondering and move forward.

You, of course, may feel differently.
I'm not bothered by it because it isn't and hasn't been a problem in this country. We have laws against such abuses that work quite well and have, if anything, strengthened over the lifetime of this country.
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> Ignoring Dennis and John while celebrating Steve is like fawning over the interior decorator with praise about the warmth of a house while ignoring the carpenter and contractor.

Which is exactly what people do!
> I work at Posit Science, and that's been our approach since our beginning. When we got started, we ran an initial randomized controlled trial[1] which showed our cognitive training program improved memory, then ran a larger study[2], and then ran the largest study that had ever been done with commercially available brain training program[3].

Problems obvious to a scientist:

1. Poor controls. Both the experimental subjects and the researchers know, or can easily establish, which are experimental subjects and which are controls. A built-in bias.

2. The study was conducted by the company that stood to benefit from a positive result. An obvious procedural flaw.

3. Inadequate precautions against counting a placebo effect (an imaginary benefit) or Hawthorne effect (any attention paid to the subjects improves their state) as a meaningful outcomes correlated with the specific treatment rather then any treatment.

But I am sure you already know this -- it presents the usual litany of legitimate objections to this kind of study.

> Different cognitive training programs are different - just like different anti-cancer molecules are different. Some are going to work, and some aren't.

That's true but irrelevant. The only meaningful question is which methods work in principle. There are no methods that consistently work, and no one can explain the outcomes, only describe them. Which means it's not science.
| which is why evidence obtained as a result of
| a Miranda-less interrogation is nonetheless
| admissible

I don't know. I think that it seems reasonable that if statements obtained by police from a Miranda-less interrogation are inadmissible, then evidence that is a direct result of those statements should be to. The statements and the evidence that is linked to them seem like they are all part of the same package. The only exception I can see here is if there is a reasonable/convincing argument that police would have obtained the evidence eventually without the aid of the suspect's statements.
An interesting presentation on this subject "Thriving in an App Store World" http://jury.me/blog/2013/4/2/thriving-in-an-app-store-world
what did you do (if anything) to get 270.2 in apr (apr is not even finished yet)? and 155 in mar? why are some months missing?
Tim Cook would need another job if that worked.
I usually don't have a concentration problem. I plan things early and get things done before the deadline. I am also generally very persistent. These traits have brought me a long way. But I have my own problems. And my own problems have to do with anxiety and depression.. And things have gone really bad before.. And even now, it is still not that easy. The point I want to make is that everyone has weaknesses. In recognizing our own weaknesses, we could sympathize with others' weaknesses even though they are different from yours. Also most importantly we should not let our own weaknesses stop us from achieving our dreams..Weaknesses are just something we have to overcome in life. Seeking help, from professionals or from friends, is a way of finding out how we could overcome weaknesses. In short I think the most important thing is to recognize one's weaknesses and be motivated in trying to find ways to overcome them.
Can't we at least be happy he's in some way opposing this publicly?? Clearly if Congress gets its way this is fast-tracked no-questions-asked.
For the b2c ones that just means they go "we can't say it does (x) because nasty big-pharma owned regulatory agency won't let us; make up your own mind" campaigns, and most of their customer base will see it as a bonus...

There's plenty of money in selling placebos to consumers.
The takeaway for me is if you want to murder folks, make sure you do it in a mundane way so the hive mind does not get involved and your case just shuffles off to an overworked homicide desk
Steve Jobs was not a perfect man, but this criticism is just asinine. No great leader implements all ideas of their own. Ideas are one small factor in achievement. As you should know from hanging out on hacker news, execution with brilliance and competence matters far more than the non-existent notion of "original idea."
On the other hand they openly talked about extreme sleep deprivation (a few hours a week for months on end) and "walling", which is where you throw someone into a wall over and over.
Other features I should have mentioned:
Threaded results. If a result is cited by other results, they will be grouped so that you can see the conversation across sites.

Better Social Media integration. We do Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus not just Google Plus for showing authors.

Voice Input if you are on Chrome 25 or higher.

Results are returned with Summaries not Snippets.

With that I am falling asleep. I have enjoyed answering questions on this an the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579336 thread but 5 hours of it has worn me out. If you leave comments I'll promise to get back to them.
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| a way to just skirt civil liberties when
| it seems relevant

That's exactly what it is, with good reason. When this is used, we are saying that the rights of others trump the rights of this suspect. When we're talking about the possibility of active bombs hidden within a civilian population, I would think it's a no-brainer that the rights of the people to not be blown up trumps the suspect's rights.

Also, as @anigbrowl says, this isn't going to be a case where the majority of evidence comes from the suspect's Miranda-less statements.

Edit: I will admit that this could hurt the suspect's eventual defense. Even if the statements aren't necessary to the prosecution's case, making them admissible in court could limit explanations put forth by the defendant.
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Struggling to find out is it worth moving to Codeigniter from Joomla? Should we invest that effort now or change when we redo everything
It might cause more competitor apps to be made, which might put that constant stream of money to danger.
Nice project. The spider was a bit unexpected though. I had to jolt back a bit. I then pulled it out of the web and it died. Phew. (:
I recommend that you avoid thinking of yourself as having some kind of disease. The term "mental illness" is a sneaky and ill-defined term meant to put mental behaviors on a par with physical ailments. But in fact, all mental behaviors are adaptations to specific environments, and some are more effective than others (some aren't effective at all).

To refute this, one would have to start by identifying someone who died of a mental illness. Such things don't happen.

Also, the causative agents for real illnesses can be viewed in a microscope, which means they are present or absent as a matter of empirical fact. Mental illness diagnoses are dispensed through the opinions of psychologists, and psychologists are famous for not agreeing about anything.

The only people who benefit from the stigma of a "mental illness" are psychologists, who pretend to be doctors (which they aren't) able to offer meaningful treatments (which they can't) for the mental illnesses they have created by voting rather than research. All the new mental illnesses going into the new DSM (about to be published) were included there by secret votes, not evidence.

Imagine if real scientists behaved like psychologists: "Is there life on Mars? Rockets are expensive — let's vote!"
This is one of the few demos I can try on Linux without jumping through hoops since it's canvas-based, so I appreciate your choice to not go with WebGL actually. Looks good; looking forward to reading the code more closely!
So they use AES as a building block of substitution cipher?

One would think that if something is insecure anyway they could at least make it efficient.
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Ya know, I'm all for "innocent until proven guilty" but blury pictures of them dropping a bag, a witness description, a car chase where they threw bombs out the window, a shootout where one brother got hit with shrapnel of his own pressure cooker bomb, etc.

Let justice do its blind thing but it's OK for us to state the obvious. They did it.
It can be both. There are going to be companies that are serious about actually protecting their customers (but don't have the technical know-how to be an informed customer), and there are companies that see these laws/rules (PCI, HIPPA) as hindrances to cast aside with the least possible effort.
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What does it take to read someone their Miranda rights? 20 seconds? The dude has been in custody for hours and they simply said he won't be read them at all. It's not a safety issue at all.