skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or you can go to the restaurant's website through the link either on the SERP or Maps page...

There are no links to restaurant's websites on that SERP page. Except one link to a Facebook page nearly falling off the bottom of screen.

If you click the photos or the red balloons on the map you won't go to the restaurant's webpage, but to another page on Google that presumably has more information. Sometimes the link to the restaurant's webpage isn't there either and I have to use yet another query (name of restaurant + location) to find the actual webpage.

The point/complaint of the article is that Google's results seems to be less and less coming from the Web as their index and more and more from information sources that Google controls.

Even though the change for the typical end-user might be small ("I can find the same stuff"), if continued, it signals a huge change in what Google is. It used to be a service to help you execute a text search over billions of documents, which I still think is a very neat thing to be able to do.
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> In fact the amazingly good hacker school I went to charges men $2000 more than women.

Is that even legal?
Okay, can someone please explain how anything else is on the front page?

Amazing work. My only comment is that the shortcode generator should be, well, shorter. For example you have A-Z and 0-9 which wouldn't match any existing/future routes and can be used to head up a code, rather than using a whole word's worth of space.

But really well done.
In what sense was pulling a gun justified even if she was holding a 12-pack of beer? "Alcohol Beverage Control" agents? Is this a repost from 1927?
Maybe, but Google have plenty of tactical products which only have an indirect at best business model. Reader shutdown seems more a case of management vision. Under Page's reorg there are now 5 consumer facing units:

1. Knowledge (Search, Maps, News, etc)
2. Social (Google+, Blogger etc)
3. Chrome, Android, Apps
4. Youtube
5. Ads and Commerce

Most natural fit would be 1) or 2), but evidently neither Knowledge or Social wanted to pick it up. That leaves 3) as the remaining possibility through a merger with Currents, but that units already spreading itself thin.

In the end I think they really wanted to recapture the server cycles since even at Google's scale caching every single feed and creating a searchable index for each user is expensive (for this reason none of the online replacements are able to offer search so far).

They probably saw Reader as taking too many resources for its relative impact, and we know from the former product teams comments that even while work on it was still active the upper management was was never really all that effused about it at the time. Page's views didn't change after he took over so it was really just a question of when not why.
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I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that Google does charge the companies that build these devices, so that cost is propagated somewhere to the consumer.

However, the real cost saver is the fact that, in my experience, FirefoxOS largely outperforms Android on many tasks, and generally is usable on hardware that is much cheaper than anything Android requires to run these days.
Linux version will follow, maybe not for opera 15 though but for the next release.

edit: Taken from official statements on the opera desktop blog, http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
My problem with tabs is that it groups all shell sessions together in one window, all the web pages I'm looking at in another window, all the files I'm editing in a further window of their own.

Suppose I am editing two files (A and B) in a text editor: two tabs in one full-screen window. And suppose I am referring to two pages (C and D) of documentation in a web browser: two tabs in another full-screen window.

(Can we take it as read that I have one monitor and it's not big enough to have a coding window and a documentation window next to each other without overlapping. Maybe I have to get a lot of work done while on planes/trains/buses; maybe I can't keep my concentration if I always work in the same chair and lugging second monitors around is tedious; maybe my boiler, washing machine and second monitor just broke and I can't afford to replace them all this month. A second monitor mitigates but does not solve the issues I will describe.)

If I am adding text to A and need to refer to B for a moment, I can just switch tabs. Easy.

If I am reading C and need to refer to D for a moment, I can just switch tabs. Easy.

If I am adding text to A and need to refer to C for a moment, I need to switch windows, and then maybe I need to switch tabs as well; I can't in general know whether I will need to switch tabs until after I have switched windows. At least if I am flipping repeatedly between A and C I will only have to switch windows.

Otoh, if I am flipping between A, C and D, then it starts getting a bit difficult keeping track of whether I need to Alt+Tab or Alt+digit or both (add a tmux/screen session into the mix and you've got three different ways of switching between things; scatter related things across multiple desktops and you have four). Because I just think of them as A, B, C and D; the computer thinks of them as Editor A, Editor B, Browser C and Browser D. The computer forces me to be explicit about whether the document I want to switch to is open in a different or the same application. The computer already knows: why do I have to tell it again?

This is a problem for me. Perhaps it is not a problem for you; perhaps you can deal with all these details subconsciously.

If you take the old Windows taskbar (before it started grouping windows according to which application they were from) and place it on the left (instead of the bottom), there's space to display more windows before you run out of space. Add typical application-tab-management features to the taskbar (drag-and-drop to reorder, individual close buttons in the list), then most people won't need application-tabs (i.m.o, of course).

(Some people would have too many windows open for this to be feasible. But then some people have so many tabs open in Firefox that they have to install a tab management extension to manage them all.)

You might complain that to some extent I'm reinventing tabs at the window level. That's kind of the point: application-tabs are easier to use than windows. Their drawback is that they silo tabs from different applications away from each other. Let's break that restriction.
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LurnQs take on the entire MOOC phenomenon. What if courses went social?
The author said at the time that he is not an internet investor, but please tell me he was an early stage investor in google, please? I mean, google is just 3 months old, you're savvy enough to see what's right with it and what's wrong with everything else, he can't have missed the opportunity, can he? I mean, he is not being told by his investment advisor this and that, he can see it himself! I hope he invested.
haha wow… America is absolutely hilarious. The fact she was 20 years old is a great punchline
She had her arms full of a crate of water / "beer".

I think that if police are worried about being shot at when they approach under-age people buying alcohol the police might want to change their hyper-aggressive policing style.

Guns must be a measure of last resort. When you pull your weapon you must have the intent to kill someone. To have the intent to kill someone you must have reasonable fear that they pose a risk to you.

Under 21 year old girl buying "beer" doesn't feel to me like a deadly threat to my life.
I read this and still don't know how to make $912m. What a rip off.
Agreed. The last time I worked on some AI problems was years ago back in college using LISP. I supported this project and look forward to 'catching up'.

By the way, the author (Jeff Heaton) is the lead developer of Encog, available on github: https://github.com/encog
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I agree mtgx. Snowden has stated before that he's wanted to keep the focus on PRISM and not himself, although I'm sure the media has a hand in focusing on him, and not on what he has risked his life and livelihood to reveal.
This is why I will never visit Saudi Arabia.

Wait, where did this happen again?
A take on being international perhaps? As far as I know the US is the only country that uses M/D/Y format. PRISM does not only concern US citizens.
Is preventing an adult from drinking alcohol really a constructive use of 6 polices officers?
You are right, charges were dropped. So she is probably going to be fine.
It is based on chromium including blink, which is a webkit fork, so yes, it is.
I was bored so I downloaded the stock gingerbread image of the X2 and poked around the system a bit. It seems that the bulk of the code is in blur-services.apk.

Manifest: http://pastie.org/pastes/8102815/text
strings.xml: http://pastie.org/pastes/8102837/text

I also found a bunch of apks that look like 'plugins', haven't really looked at them, but should provide a clue to what they're snooping

blur_myspace.apk
blur_linkedin.apk
blur_picasa.apk
blur_orkut.apk
blur_lastfm.apk
blur_flickr.apk
blur_youtube.apk
blur_activesync.apk
blur_email.apk
blur_twitter.apk
blur_skyrock.apk
blur_facebook.apk
blur_photobucket.apk
blur_yahoo.apk

edit: from looking at some of the code, it seems that all this stuff is mostly to provide social networking integration for MotoBlur, and probably not to steal your data. Although personally I'd be flashing Cyanogenmod pretty quickly :3
Plus, it helps the positioning of the people running the agit-prop against Snowdens' supporters. We only know the guy for that one moment in time - developing his personality in social consciousness will give people more affinity for his stated goals. Giving them the same, boring picture to look at, will eventually devalue any attention that society gives him, because the picture becomes iconic, we detach our emotions from what we think is a "branding exercise" sub-consciously.

If we saw pics of him in the Russian airport, it would humanize him. The powers that be want to de-humanize this person.
If she has a gun, she can shoot at least one police officer. And as a police officer, you don't want to be the one getting hit. So human survival instinct says that you will try to protect yourself (even well trained professional could fail at times to control their basic reaction).

But I wonder if it is worth the time, money and effort of 6 police officers to prevent kids (even though she is adult) from drinking ? Drunk driving is one thing, but drinking ?
Apart from the name (is it pronounced "Lurnk"?) I think its a good job. You explain what it is you do in the header and then request an email address - can't ask for more in a premarketing site.

Good job dude.
Couldn't 99% of all complaints/concerns (especially on the internet) be classified as first world problems?
Sometimes I think the lack of Armed Police in the UK is a benefit as they take arming an officer with a lethal weapon is a serious matter and requires specific training/psychoanalysis.

What possible requirement could the " Alcohol Beverage Control Division" need to be armed?! Does every Government Official get a weapon/carry/threaten permit when they join?!
It does not help to be mad at reality. Reality does not care. Ironically I'm also a victim of the same generalization process. It is assumed that most people can't separate logic of reality and actions based on emotional morality. When I can, it is assumed that I can not, and discussions derail always in this highly predictable fashion by people calling me names.
I would really like to see the websites of nearby restaurants.

Not another website listing them, not dots on a map with phone and address (although that is also useful), I want the actual sites, so I can compare them, see their menus and whatever else they have decided to share with visitors.

I don't think I ever got a result like that from Google when searching for <type of restaurant> + <place name>, it's always been just a few restaurants mixed with way more restaurant-listing-sites.

But currently Google sort of tries to hide them, it takes you a few clicks before you get to a link to a restaurant site. So no quickly opening 5 of them in background tabs, for instance.
Got a link for that story?
Interesting question.

Bulk loading/saving big binary data from/to IndexedDB is basically as fast as accessing the file system. Using TypedArray or (upcoming) BinaryData, JavaScript can also manipulate binary data pretty quickly.

I haven't attempted doing any serious graph processing in JavaScript, but these days, JavaScript is extremely fast at tree manipulation (much faster than OCaml, which has long been the fastest high-level language for this kind of thing), so I would imagine that it's quite suited for the task.

If you are serious about this, you should come and chat on irc.mozilla.org, channel #openwebapps for instance. We'll be happy to help you get started, plus that kind of discussion is often how new features and optimizations get started.
I love countries where guns are illegal for exactly this reason.
I'm always a little amazed that the age for buying booze in the states is 21.

Wait, am I understanding this correctly? At the age of 20 she's not allowed to buy alcohol but could have already owned a gun for 2 years?

The world is a funny old place.
> Sometimes

Not sure I've ever thought that arming British police on a routine basis would be a good thing.
You silly Americans, you.
Seriously impressive write-up! I love it, and really want to have a go at doing something like this myself. Where's the best place to start? I know a _tiny_ bit about hashing functions, enough to know not to ever write one myself... ;)
Greatest nation.
I'm not sure I understand where you see a limitation that could block you. See my other reply for a more elaborate discussion :)
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Because they closed a service? I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone - company, non-profit, whoever - who will maintain a service indefinitely.

If you want to keep something running for as long as possible, you need to eliminate single points of failure like those (except yourself, of course). That means building a stack where each part is either ran by you or a replaceable commodity.

For example, I run my email, RSS and website on a generic VPS (of which there are many providers) which runs an open source stack that I know how to configure and maintain.

I still rely on other people, but not on a single person or company.
Yeah , the country of freedom when you're not even free to buy alcohol at 18 like in most western countries ... what a joke... and they think they are free...
Which is funny, considering that a huge number of iOS and Android apps are actually HTML5 apps often using an engine slower than FirefoxOS', maskerading as native apps :)
But by that logic, police should just pull a gun on everyone they ever see, because the person could have gun themselves.

I agree with you that this is a big waste of resources, though.
Thanks, Its pronounced - 'Learn'-'cue'.
Very True - I really think untrained humans cannot handle the stress and high pressure of logically assessing a potentially lethal situation.
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The Washington Post also has the same slides, and probably other information, but are being equally slow in releasing it.
Massive +1 to this.

It seems to me that the UK police, since they are not armed, generally try to defuse situations. (Of course, they can call for armed backup if it is necessary.)

Time and again, I read of US police unnecessarily escalating situations. If your immediate response to any tension is to pull out a gun and start shouting, then things are very likely to get a lot worse in many cases.

Perhaps this is just confirmation bias though. I only get to read about the US cases where things have gone wrong.
The joys of information asymmetry. I have a feeling that Glenn is playing a long game here. Also with Snowden in Limbo I suppose he just sits and waits for a good timing.
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The hipsters I know wouldn't be seen dead with coke (too mainstream). Where was that, Brixton?
Also, why the hell would it be illegal for someone underage to buy, have or drink alcohol? What kind of stupid law is that?

It should only ever be illegal to sell or (as someone overage) buy for someone underage.
America has a culture of glorifying police violence. Wasn't true 30 years ago; has been building for decades. Now there isn't a night goes by some cop show doesn't have the good guys beating up the bad guy, threatening to send them to Guantanamo. We're supposed to cheer? Makes me ill.

Those cops grew up watching this crap, they know what a 'good' cop is supposed to do.
If I recall correctly, most humans freeze, not shoot. The natural reaction is to either flee or freeze. I think policemen are specifically trained to take the gun out of the holster and press the trigger in such situations.
Thats exactly the reason why we built http://pixter.in . Facebook's incentive is to get as much data of you and retain it. Our incentive is to build the best product. If your incentive's are clear and aligned things like this won't happen.
Even if I agree with you that google handled reader shutdown pretty well once it's been decided, I'm not sure the "they're a company, they do what they please to make money" is better than the argument it's refuting.

You can't say "Please, let all of you use our products, it'll be awesome !", then say "we don't care if you're not satisfied, we do what we please". Having users also imply responsibilities.
In Northern Ireland, all Police Officers are armed. I may be wrong in this but in recent years it hasn't led to many shots being fired mistakingly and I don't think there has been any deaths.

Even still, why would a unit that polices underage drinking need firearms?
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I guess no point. Pick the one that you feel better with.
First, Sublime Text is not a "better" editor than Vim. You may find it "easier on the eyes", "easier to learn", "more comfortable", "more modern", "more intuitive" but as far as text editing goes, it doesn't hold a candle to Vim. And its text editing is a large part of the Vim's appeal for the programmers who use it.

Second, programmers shouldn't learn Vim. Programmers should learn whatever makes them better programmers. If you think nothing beats your current tools/languages/practices there's no point even looking elsewhere. Just keep trucking.

Third, Vim is just as "visual" as ST: you "can use the mouse cursor for moving between tabs or copy or paste codes" just as you would do in ST. The catch is that, for many programmers and most people who work with text, the mouse isn't a very good manipulation tool for words, lines or the arguments of a function. For those people, the keyboard is the best tool for the job and the mouse usually stays there, unused for hours. You can use your mouse in Vim to select text, paste, resize or focus windows, click on quickfix errors or click on a file name in netrw to edit it… but Vim offers much more than what can be done with the mouse or even with your usual Ctrl+Alt+Shift+x combos. Whether that's something valuable is entirely up to you.

If you don't mind pressing thousands of Ctrl+arrows a day then Vim's wWbBeE$0^(){} won't appeal to you. And it doesn't matter. If you are comfortable with your setup, stick with it. No one will judge you negatively for that.

I started to learn Vim because I was in the process of switching from Mac OS X to Linux and the last and most important part was the editor. I was very efficient with TextMate and, well… I just wanted a cross-platform alternative. I wasn't looking for something better than what I was used to but I wanted something that did just as much.

It's only after a while that the evidence jumped at me that TextMate was in fact very limited and that Vim's design (its famed "language", text-objects, modes and so on) was an order of magnitude more empowering than TextMate's lush but too conventional features.
So, why should an adult choose to read this over actual literature?
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Surely you can't let a 20 year-old get away with what might be a beer.

Law enforcement showed great mercy in dropping charges against this girl. In fact she should consider herself lucky they spared her life. But I fear other disobedient subjects may think they too can get away with no consequences for their reckless actions.
Wow, funny country.
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I don't understand why you would need many calls to random. Are there any obvious reasons it wouldn't suffice to get one random number and then reuse it throughout the stream?
To every innocent action there is brutal police overreaction. Newton's long lost fourth law of physics.
Ask HN: Snapchat, the harbringer of the bubble?
From their App description:
"Snap a photo or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend (or maybe a few). They'll view it, laugh, and then the snap disappears from the screen - unless your friend takes a screenshot!"

So default functionality can essentially invalidate their entire angle in the texting game. The only way this has an 800M valuation is if it is acquired, which is pure speculation. This isn't even vaporware its bluffware.
I can actually see what you mean and agree with you. I remember some driving law...something about not obstructing a driver's field of vision (which is why it's technically illegal to drive with a handicap placard or even a little tree fresher hanging off your rearview mirror).

It'll really come down to officer judgment, since they can also view it as hands free (like a Bluetooth).

In regards to this app though, it doesn't appear to serve any function while driving, so I can't imagine it being used during driving.
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