skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first result for mobile is organic as far as I can tell (it just happens to be a google property when looking for Italian Restaurants in Tribeca). Try switching the query for mexican restaurant and just a few blocks to the west in SoHo (hi Aaron) a menupages result is first. Also, on the mobile front, I believe the quick results are from places and not Zagat, since with the same mexican restaurants query there are a number of places with just ratings and not "Zagat" ratings (you can see this in the blog's screenshot for Olive Garden as well).

I actually don't mind this on mobile (but I also generally use something else for finding restaurants) since the majority of restaurant websites are basically impossible to navigate on mobile and all I really need to know is 1) where are they 2) what's their phone number. How organic that database is, I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem to be showing specifically paid placements.
Snowden is in Russia, in the airport, not having gone through Russian customs and without necessary documentation to do so.

My understanding is that he is technically on international ground, and legally not in Russia. He is free to hop onto any plane that lets him do so.

According to Putin's latest pronouncement, he's welcome to stay in Russia only if he stops the leaks against the USA, or he's welcome to go to any country that will have him.
We have checked with one of the latest beta builds. In that build it didn't show the warning. It happens with the live chrome version. The issue is much more complex.
On Motorcycles and Startups
Great.Another way to troll random 4chan users.
Expecting "install gentoo","remove kebab" and worse.
Ignorance is strength!
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I don't know about other European cities, but immigrants are priced out of the central areas of Stockholm, just like poor black people are priced out of Manhattan. I wouldn't be surprised if the same effect is true in other cities as well, due to the fact that most have been a lot more restrictive than USA when it comes to erecting high rises.
class participation and whatnot counted, and I had not a problem with that, when a teacher asked a direct question and I was not sleeping deeply enough (if I was half-sleeping and heard the question I woke up) I would usually be the first to reply.

Only later I figured this was bad idea (here in Brazil at least, the norm is to noone ever try to reply to the teacher, as a kind of weird social convention, and since I always replied, even while half-asleep, I quickly attracted negative attention, I was frequently involved in fights I did not started with the less performing boys... also girls sometimes pulled some horrible stuff, like spreading rumors or attempt to frame me)
I think we are still living in times where some parents would rather deliver a person in a society where the chances of being a porn performer are reduced, compared to the chances of being a sports performer.
Are there any private all-boys[1] schools that embrace this side of childhood? Look at tiger cubs and what not: they play, they bounce around, they fight, they figure out the world around them through investigation and exploration.

I spent so much of my time outside as a kid, but I also spent a lot of time inside on the computer. Both were amazing worlds where your imagination could run wild; especially in the early days of computers and the internet... being a part of a "wild west" frontier at the age of 10 was a special privilege.

My point is that learning and running around in the mud are both very valuable and can be balanced to create well-rounded people who have confidence with technology and the outdoors.

Has any institution figured out how to balance these two in a formal curriculum? Spend half the day exploring the woods and classifying wildflowers, the other half back inside working with math formulae and reading lessons.

Some might say there's not enough time in the day to spend half of it outside, but I disagree. The kids will be more efficient in their inside learning time if they've spent half the day learning outside.

[1] I'm not saying that girls wouldn't appreciate the same type of learning. I suspect that in an environment that harvests the physical energy (horseplay, outdoors activities) of boys to improve learning, even in a positive and productive manner, might alienate some young girls who might feel uncomfortable, so perhaps it's better to separate the genders in this sort of environment?
What's truly impressive to me (in a bad/sad way), is how despite all it's great features Firefox manages to feel so, I don't know, I guess clunky would be the word. And it's not a habit thing because I use it every day, although for disclosure Chrome is my personal browser.

It just doesn't feel like a piece of software that I enjoy using, like it used to some long years ago. Fix that, and you win me back.

PS: I think the memory score is not so relevant as a few years ago. People talked a lot about FF memory, but that was because it was leaking like crazy and ultimately lead to crashes of your browser. I don't care how much ram my browser is using as long as it doesn't start swapping nor crashing.
As an American, I apologize. Like all of us, I am a mendacious and predatory economic sociopath. The United States contributes nothing positive at all to the global economy or culture. If only we could be like Norway -- which is, as I am told, perfect.

[Edit to counter a bit of my snark: I'm not saying these aren't problems, I'm just complaining about the stupidity of listing all of these more-or-less known issues and then grouping all Americans into a lump and asking us why we're all such idiots. The United States is a gigantic, complex nation of hundreds of millions of people whose voices need to be filtered into some kind of governmental consensus. It's not at all fair to compare the US to a Scandinavian country.]
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It gets even worse, on some searches I have to scroll a full page down, just to see a result not pushed by a google asset (ads/map/etc). In essence it takes up about 90% of screen space on a large desktop.

Example: http://imgur.com/AJtOPkf (this is zoomed down to 65% to capture all of it....)

They need to remember that there are alternatives just a click away, and serving too many ads degrades the entire internet.
Don't you think that you can substitute 'race' in your description of CT with 'money'? Ie - rich people live/drive and shop in different shops from poor people.
there is no such things as "internet searches". Because all search engines behave differently and nobody can tell for sure how panda works , except people working on panda. So the rules are decides by whoever develops the search engine.
Like there is no such thing as SEO , Google has a monopoly and the rule is pay to play.
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Do you have an example page where this happens, like a demo login page? If so it'd be a good idea to post it as at the moment there's no way for us to see what you see and no way for people to help you work out what is wrong.
I don't have my cellphone camera pointed at everything I'm looking at. As an experiment, you could hold your cellphone up and point the camera at people you talk to and see how many like it. Sneaking a peak a woman's bosom could have more serious consequences than her saying "my eyes are up here."
As another commenter noted, you do not get hammered on cost when you exit BizSpark -

"When you exit the program you get to keep all licenses free with all future patches. We exited the program 2 years ago and have yet to buy a MS license for IIS or SQL."
Here, let's go the other way (maybe they even go together!):

Let's imagine a world where you sign up for discounts on certain goods in exchange for allowing your Glass to randomly take pictures throughout the day. This data is mined and tagged and sorted, until one day the .gov or .mil or some hacker decides to pull it and use it for nefarious purposes.

The fact is that the nerd fantasy of getting a HUD (to track what, exactly? Ammo? Health? Some numbers in a database you've been trained to equate with self-worth?) is not worth the societal cost of losing privacy.

"But we've already got smartphones with cameras!" doesn't work--the camera is there, and likely just a change of app policy away from being always on.

This is such a shortsighted idea.
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Also historically, many, many children have been thrown out of school or deemed ineducable because they couldn't sit still in school and behave themselves.
We did start out with a miniKanren type inferencer and region inferencer, but I replaced it a couple months back with a unified type and region inferencer. Region inference is definitely an interesting challenge for miniKanren, since a lot of the constraints it introduces are soft. There are many legal region assignments, but deciding the best one requires some heuristics.
The biggest problem with buying 4chan traffic is that it's not easily targeted towards any specific type of person. The anonymous nature of the site will forever hold its ad revenues back in the past as other social sites (Facebook, Twitter, PoF.com, reddit, etc) further advance their targeting abilities.
In the 'real world' when it comes to memory I believe the google chrome is still winning. If you keep these two browsers with more than 10 tabs open for a while (1h+) and then close a few tabs, google chrome will have an immediate reduction in memory usage, unlike Firefox, which continues to consume the same amount.
There seem to be two major topics governing the front page of hackernews lately - the NSA leaks and Google Glass (though Glass was obviously much earlier). And reading through the comments about these two topics feels like being on two completely different web sites, with completely different audiences: a device tracking minute details of your life, that is sold by an advertising company, intended to use all the information available to sell you even more stuff you don't really need, is hailed nearly uncritically as the next big thing. A secret service that tries to track all physical and virtual movements of every living human is rightly criticized as detrimental to democratic societies.

Glass is a wet dream for intelligence services. I would have expected these two topics to influence each other much more. Is it because there are indeed two disjoint HN populations (or rather n disjoint populations), or because some of a nerd's aggravation is easily soothed by the latest cool gadget?

Disclaimer: I find Glass fascinating and creepy at the same time, so I could fully understand the latter possibility.
I am not planning on implementing that, but let's pretend I want to. When would that dialog come up?

Attempt #1: show that dialog as soon as a page tries to load some JavaScript. Result (I'm guessing): dialog shows up on 99.9% of all web pages one visits (even for the nerdiest of nerds)

Attempt #2: silently download the JavaScript to figure out whether it is 'benign' or 'evil'. Result: users complain that they pay for downloading stuff they do not want.

Attempt #3: make that dialog less intrusive; do not require acknowledgment. Result: users get trained to overlook it; users who accidentally enable the mode will never figure out what happened to their browser.

Attempt #4: a whitelist of allowed scripts. Problem: users will disagree about what should make it into the whitelist.

Attempt #5: the JSBlock extension. This may have merit. So, if you want this feature, download it, or write it if it doesn't exist yet. If the API does not allow writing it, bicker Mozilla.
Tax is assessed on exchanges of value - not money itself.

Otherwise, corporations would be able to just pay people in kind by providing them with accommodation, transport, clothing, etc, and save a giant tax bill.

If a significant sized community creates a moneyless economy, the tax man authorities will take an interest, and just start assessing transactions based on financial equivalences.
I think your hypothesis is quite far off. Can you give an example of an auto insurance company that is a non-profit? I couldn't find any. Perhaps you mean a mutual insurance company? Furthermore, when I bought car insurance last month, Geico gave me the most coverage for the least amount of money (after quite a bit of research), so I also don't agree with your assertation that Google is no help in that regard.

While I agree with the concept, as I work for a non-profit and belong to a credit union instead of a bank, I don't think your hypothesis holds without some data to back it up.
Get a lawyer. Send a demand letter to Google's corporate counsel that they stop falsely identifying your software as dangerous. Fax, FedEx, and email it. If they don't respond in 24 hours, have your lawyer file an emergency injunction in federal court.

Google's failure to respond to issues like this is appalling, and it's probably going to take a lawsuit and public embarrassment to get them to stop being evil.
The problem with #2 is that Snowden isn't publishing this stuff, the journalists that he already gave thousands of documents to are. So I wonder if this statement from Putin is either ignorant of that, or intended to sound far more beneficial than it ever could be.
The point that I make to people of your generation is that you can't lie to reddit. It's remarkable how many people try, but they don't understand that reddit's ability to detect bullshit is insanely high.

Gabe Newell Reflections of a Video Game Maker [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8QEOBgLBQU
I read through the user guide in the git repo, but it hasn't been updated for a year, and doesn't tell me what I'm most interested in (namely, what kind of optimizations does the compiler do, and what's the win for this language over CUDA, besides being able to write kernels in Lisp instead of C++) - does anyone have any insight?
Agreed, I did overstate it a bit. It has been possible before. It has just recently became a lot easier.
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This is the heart of the matter:

> But over the week that Mr. Snowden has spent at Sheremetyevo airport, top Russian officials have tried to remain neutral on whether Mr. Snowden should be granted asylum, perhaps because they are wary of the damage it would do to their relationship with the United States.

The same scenario is going to repeat with most countries on the planet. There are three kinds of countries: 1) those that have an extradition treaty with the US, 2) those that don't and are neutral to the US and 3) those that don't and that are enemies of the US.

Countries in situation 1) and 2) will never accept to offer political asylum to Snowden. At worst, countries of type 2) will have to be given incentives (trade, money, etc...) to extradite Snowden but they can certainly not afford angering the US.

Which leaves countries that are enemies of the US (e.g. Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba to some extent, etc...). Such countries couldn't care less to damage their relationships with the US and will gladly have Snowden over, but for Snowden to accept to move such countries would be openly admitting that he is an enemy of the US as well, which is what Putin is hinting.

Blowing the whistle is one thing, disclosing confidential matter that damages the US on the geopolitical scene is usually referred to as treason.
Yeah, fancy showing relevant local results when you search for a Restaurant! The bastards!
As a graduate of the BizSpark program, $100 gets you full license to the software you were using. Software licenses are then transferred to your organization. You don't suddenly incur $1000s of expenses.
Ah, I took your position as being able to determine screen size (or have it determined automatically through CSS or some other hands-off mechanism) itself was also unneeded, not just that JS should not have this capability.

I can get behind most of what you say - as long as we are talking about simple, presentation based websites.

Where I think there's a breakdown in this view is when you consider complex web applications, including games. At that point, I believe some level of inspection capabilities are required, if we desire to have complex web apps delivered through the internet. I'm by no means sold that on-demand web delivered code is necessarily a good thing though. There's far too large a surface area to adequately secure while still making it useful, IMHO.
No. Free software doesn't suddenly require payment 3 years down the line to remain legal to use
To be fair searching for "italian restaurants" in San Francisco the first result returned is a Yelp link on mobile, so I guess that the Zagat one wasn't a way to show necessarily a Google owned property. Everything else is the same.
You mean "image macros"
These are definitely outliers.
Well played, Mr. Putin
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IIRC, there is/was a Chrome Store version of Angry Birds. Not sure what the mobile performance would be though (or the gestures support for that matter).
Having asylum revoked is certainly possible. If you have asylum in the US being convicted of certain crimes is enough to get it revoked.
I still do this at 26.
I see it as the opposite: Russia is completely in control here. They avoid complying with US wishes whilst portraying themselves as keen to avoid antagonism, get rhetorical ammunition to defend their own policies of censorship, and retain Snowden and any actually useful information he might actually be able to supply them with as a bargaining chip.
I just want to say that you might want to consider public high school. There's a lot of social development going on there, even if most people come out of the entire system bitter.
We have thought about this every waking moment and then dreamt about it as well. We all knew what we had to do and it was high time that somebody put their hands up and decided it was enough. The Sorry OpenERP campaign is our way of declaring freedom from the cradle of filth, that we all know as Open ERP.