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I've been using DDG for about 1 year now, and I haven't missed google at all. The few times I don't find what I want, I !g to see google results, but they haven't seemed any better.

I find as more subject specific sites have grown, that generic search like ddg and google aren't as important to me.

I do more searches on sites like stackoverflow, yelp, maps.google.com, tripadivsor, etc. than ddg.
> The lawyers will drown everyone else out.

The worst lawyers will drown everyone else out, including the good lawyers. The lawyer that has a high conversion rate by promising it will cost $5000, but ends up costing $30k drowns out the lawyer who legitimately quotes $10k.

I agree, for certain searches, the ads are helpful, but I stand by the notion of avoiding SERPs with tons of high value ads. The person paying for those ads will likely be you.
Unfortunately, there's no evidence. (most of the article's information were from MwM and jokes_on_you themselves)

As mentioned with the article, Redditors shy away from conspiracy theories, because most of them sound too stupid to be true. Which, of course, makes actual conspiracies very effective.
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One issue is that people think that there is "the problem". It is a multitude of problems ranging from economic to cultural to institutional. There are many things wrong with our education system and trying to wrap it up in a talking point only prolongs the real discussion that needs to be had.
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I see lots of comments bashing Google, ads are evil, all that. But honestly how many people search for "italian food" on the web expecting global results to be relevant locally? Google is providing exactly what people are looking for when they google for Italian.
In addition to whatever severance I'm sure he'd get, it could be a no-lose situation. If they fail, he can try to fall back on "hey, they were going down anyways, I did my best to save things". If they right the ship somehow, he can claim a big part of saving the company. Then he'll be on the radar for startups as a potential CEO who can put a company on a good track. What does he have to lose, really?
> The Miltz brothers learned the hard way that cheating Reddit doesn’t pay.

1.6 million dollars per month doesn't pay?
To put it simply, if you're top 3 on organic results, Google is useless for your business. And sometimes not even being top 3.

Nowadays you're supposed to buy ads to stay competitive. Google grew so much that it's now a monopolist behemoth, and that's why they're swimming in money. But because they keep all the nerds in love with them, they manage to get zero flak for it.
I found a couple relevant links - a blog post of the author's about GPU optimizations [1], and an early paper on this work [2].

[1] http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/06/10/some-simpl...
[2] http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~eholk/papers/parco2011.pdf
I really should update the user guide, since the language has changed a lot in the last year.

I have an earlier post that discusses a couple of the optimizations that Harlan does: http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/06/10/some-simpl...

To me the win for Harlan over CUDA is its region system, which lets you work with more intricate pointer structures in the GPU. For example, there is an interpreter for the Lambda Calculus as one of the test cases, which would be much harder to do in straight CUDA: https://github.com/eholk/harlan/blob/master/test/lambda3.kfc

Very soon, Harlan will have support for higher order procedures, which is also not available in CUDA.
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Right, FLED. He is fleeing the USA because the government are after him because he revealed their corruption. Sure, the media could spin it but people already know.
Having been homeschooled, this is a great suggestion. It's pretty easy to get too isolated, and homeschooling groups help a lot. Also check with your local schools - I was able to take 2 classes while still being classified as 'homeschooled', for free (since it's part of taxes already), which can give access to tools that are otherwise way too expensive.
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(the word "hacker" seems to offend some)

The forum you're posting in has "Hacker" in the title.
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I turned on my television and none of the programs were organic. Instead all the content was controlled by my cable provider. I'm beginning to suspect that they just put on those shows to make money off the advertising.

It's rather simple.

When you type terms into the search box, just imagine the words, "Please show me advertisements for " in front of it.
well, it's an infographic, which usually don't introduce new findings, rather summarizes existing info in an easy to digest way, they provide perspective.
I few years back, I welcomed these gadgets as awesome ways to improve one's life, to make it much more interesting, efficient. Nowadays, when I start to grasp actual capabilities of myself and people around me, after seeing what power bad people have over the rest, not so much.

In fact, I am scared to death every time technology like this appears. I know it will be misused, it will become another instrument for hurting people. Or at least as long as we will tolerate it. And we will. It's what we (smart people) are good at. Tolerating. Coping. Working around. Fixing things for ourselves, mocking others who don't understand how.

What do I see in Google Glass? More behavioural programming via advertisements and/or information manipulation. Further corrosion of privacy (of others, wearers can turn them off). New symbol of higher social class, even more prominent than a smartphone.

Yeah, mock me.
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If he's willing to give away state secrets (I know we have objections to their content sometimes, but they are state secrets), he should also be willing to face trial in the U.S. in civilian court.

Running across the ocean is possibly the most cowardly thing, and only further cements his future legacy as a "traitor". Unfortunately one narcissist cannot decide the policy of a nation, and Mr. Snowden has made a mistake in attempting to do so via leaks of classified and top secret information. It's... Traitorous.
Once Russia has what they need from him, they probably don't care what happens to him. Ship him back to the US, probably--that way they can try to patch things up diplomatically, and I imagine they have whatever they could squeeze out of him, intelligence-wise.
I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in a plane to Venezuela, after all Maduro is in Russia at the moment.
Or they never went to school in the first place.

Similarly, the average high schooler was better back then because the average person stopped their education at the eighth grade, if not sooner.

(Note to non-Americans: In the US, high school runs from ninth to twelfth grade, usually named freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years.)
Hey man,

I am a junior developer too and unfortunately don't have any work for you, but just have two quick comments. First, your first site seems to be down right now. Second, from the articles I've read on here, it is never a good idea to offer work for free. I can't find the link to the article I read most recently, but basically it gives people the idea that your work isn't professional and they won't treat you as a professional. While most people on HN hopefully won't treat you that way, I think it is a good rule in general.
Thanks! What kind of performance do you get with some of those more intricate pointer structures? My own research right now is focused on how to build some common abstract data types with less pointer indirection, so as to be more easily vectorizable.
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(This is a tough one to debug, perhaps if Firefox had a pixel perfect Chrome theme it'd work for you?)
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I recently release my first bit of open source code. Nothing major, a jQuery gallery plugin. The problem is I have no idea how "good" it is in code terms.

I'm not a developer by trade (didn't study cs) but I enjoy coding. Are there any mentoring programmes or code review sites? How do you asses how good your coding is if you're not working with peers?
"School is half education and half babysitting."

As currently designed, the five basic functions of public school are sorting, socialization, warehousing, training, and FRPL. They tend to be pretty aware of all of these.
Between all the image macro sites, who holds copyright on the base images?

I imagine the owners of Grumpy Cat (the cat) are motivated to continue to allow photos of their pet to be used as Grumpy Cat (the meme), because they get exposure. But what about Overly Attached Girlfriend (apologies, don't remember her name IRL) -- the photos are of her, not a pet. I would think she has a stronger case in demanding ownership.
What's also a good thing is social time with your peers. We separate kids based on age, based on which random class they're thrown in, and in bigger schools, which random lunch time they are assigned. None of these may match up with their friends outside of class time. Perhaps there would be less classroom disruption if friends could have time together outside of the one class they took together knowing that would be the only time they could be together?
> Can you give an example of an auto insurance company that is a non-profit?

Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) is not "non-profit" but theoretically "policy holder owned" with surpluses to the benefit of subscribers.

To your point about credit unions, insurance 'unions' are interesting:

Overview: http://www.pureinsurance.com/about/index

That said, there is a marketing arm that extracts value as fees for marketing and management, and a financial stakeholder umbrella seeking return on capital. It's an interesting structure:

Structure: http://www.pureinsurance.com/about/pure_group

In any case, my experience with PURE has been superior to my experience with other insurers (except Met-Life who was excellent but unable to competitively insure my property), and my costs have been 30% less than the most competitively priced usual players.
...in your opinion.

What would your dream window manager do with all the windows that are currently accessible via tabs? Would I always see a list of these windows somewhere so I can quickly and easily access them?

If so, you're reinventing tabs, which work fine in my opinion. Obviously also in the opinions of all the people asking for them.

Let's be specific - What is your problem with tabs and how do you propose to fix the problem?
The telephone example is near exactly Google Voice, right? Massive voice database for the cost of some subsidized VoIP and storage?

"...cost of recording, storing, parsing, and analyzing all that data..."

You do realize that this is exactly the Google and Facebook business model, right? Targeted advertising using user-generated content?

"The number of people that might sign up for privacy invasion in the interest of a 2 for 1 Big Mac would be so insignificant"

Over a billion people have signed up for Facebook, giving up their own social graph data and (as we've seen recently) address books, and that's just for a free shitty profile page whose design changes on a whim. Add a burger to that, and you've got a deal.

There's no slippery-slope here--at this point, the dataset is large and obvious enough that if you aren't blinded by the magical nerd future you'll see very reasonable concerns over what might happen.
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This was accounted for in the tests (and I think that in general the effect of fragmentation is overstated).
Champagne and sousveillance? Is this the egalitarian utopia we were promised?
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You make some really good points, but why do you say "a country with good, but not great, relationships with the US?"
Please, our CANADIAN Firearms Registry program cost 66M a year. And that's Canada, the gun land!

I would expect Prim to at LEAST cost more than Instagram, no? :)
The obvious solution for 4chan would seem to be retargeting because no-one wants to expose themselves to the 4chan audience, but retargeting would mean only targeting those members of 4chan who would be seeing their adverts elsewhere anyway.

It'd also mean that all 4chan users would get different adverts so there would be no momentum around a particular advert in the community.
Yeah, sadly that happens sometimes. I revert to Google (with bang syntax) when I am looking for something programming related and want a lot of results from stackoverflow. However, DDG is definitely better at finding some things. I recently searched for gentoo+postgresql related stuff and got highly relevant results, which weren't in Google's SERP.
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This is why I'm more excited about Ubuntu Mobile than Firefox OS. With Ubuntu, I get an open ecosystem with native performance and am not locked into using the Firefox browser. If the gesture system on Ubuntu is done as well as the BlackBerry 10, it will be a welcome change from iOS's and Android's UI.
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This is hands down the best company with which I have ever done business. Their technology is amazingly far ahead of others in the banking and insurance space. I was taking a photo of a check with my smartphone to deposit it years before it became mainstream.

It is a great example of how constraints build value. By constraints I mean, they have had to deal with military customers stationed in far flung places for years. This built their capability to conduct business virtually.
And also Snowden (allegedly) has poison-pill archives in place around the globe. They could surface at any time, and they're outside his control.
My oldest is 15 and the decision is his to make. There are lots of avenues for social development and we talk about it as a family. He chose not to this year. I've offered both public and private options.
It gives Putin a face saving way to deny Snowden asylum while making it look like it was Snowden's fault.
"Out of the box" I don't find that to be true, at least not with Linux 32 bit Firefox 21.0 and Chrome 27.0.1453.93 just now. Same results for auto mechanic and Italian restaurant, except my local market is too small for anyone to have bought ads for the latter.

I assume I could configure Adblock Plus to hide the Google ads, but at least for me and what I normally search for they're not really an issue.
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It's unfortunate there's not a single country that can withstand US influence. Not even so called "dictators".
Yeah, but that's often hard to pull off.

For instance in the original example you're violating an internet law. It's not exactly something the PD can just pretend to stumble upon unless you're really careless and do it in a public place.
Android is a much worse platform in terms of language choice. There are no production-quality languages that will run on Davlik other than Java and your only other choice is C++ with your own UI.
If you are willing to share the source code for these projects, I think the canonical answer (at least in 2013) is to use Github as your portfolio page.
While I think chrome having strong anti fraud protection built in is nice, the fact that there is no way to understand what constitutes "correct behavior" and no clear way to get clarification is appalling.

It is essentially engineering how things should be developed, which still could be tolerable if there are guidelines.

If an average user sees a red page indicating risk to a page, then that site/page is essentially killed.
Basically, "Stay here as long as you need to figure out where to go next and how to get there. Just don't put us in a difficult position in the meantime."
I comment on Glass articles because I'm very excited about it. I don't comment on NSA articles because I personally don't find it to be an issue and I know I'll be burned at the stake and deemed an idiot for even considering having a differing view on privacy than the majority here.

In the first instance, I'm excited and can expect rational discussion. In the second, I'm more or less indifferent and certainly not masochistic.
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I think that is a valid point. I also agree that both were disappointing corporate puppets, which I think is a great synonym for "politicians"!
I got in trouble a lot for fidgeting at school all the time. I got diagnosed with ADHD and had to take medicine for it, mostly because of the fidgeting. One teacher made me put a giant a big inflatable cushion on my seat everyday and it was humiliating and didn't help at all.
About an hour ago Glenn Greenwald tweeted this (https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/351730381478821888):

"NOTE: Snowden's leak is basically done. It's newspapers - not Snowden - deciding what gets disclosed and in what sequence."

If that's true then Putin's condition that Snowden stop is easily met, or impossible to meet depending on how you read it.
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Well if we're going to spin a narrative, allow me to spin a different one just as reality-based as yours. He took a job to get a clearance, worked there for a few months to get access to sensitive information, dumped it to the internet before he had to take a lie detector test and took off to avoid any consequences of his actions. And wow, what are the odds, he ended up in a country with a recent history of espionage with the USA (I'm sure we do it too, I'm just pointing out that it's an interesting choice).
My son has taken up my thinking about the difference between anecdotes and research studies, and he actually mentioned the issue of successful co-workers he has who are public school alumni in another part of his email to me. But I shouldn't have to quote his whole personal email to make the point for onlookers that OF COURSE some alumni of public schools turn out to be very successful, and they are much more numerous than people who have been homeschooled. But there may still be an advantage for homeschooling at the margin, simply because it is generally more flexible and responsive to individual learner needs than mass classroom education.
I think it's more about the level of background "noise" in the brains of young kids. When unchecked/unfiltered in some kids it will start to trickle into the motor/cognitive areas of the brain and that's how you get fidgeting, twitchiness, those kinds of things.

Balancing on an exercise ball seems to engage those involuntary areas while not interfering with high-level processing.
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The App Store is a marketplace you have no control over, and you're hoping the owner plays by the rules. The uncertainty of such of a marketplace has to factor into your outlook. (No one assesses their business without considering both risks and opportunities)
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