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Corporations can't make promises. People do.
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Somewhat off topic but I've been wanting to to get into an electric cycle. There's been a lot of innovation in the space recently. I've seen some kickstarters and stuff. I feel like we're on the brink between clunky, expensive proof-of-concepts to good, solid, mass-produced (and thus more economically viable) products. any recommendations?
If I search for MLK, I see his picture on the side. I don't see how getting a picture of Southwest Airlines when I search for "Southwest Airlines" is that big of a deal.

Now, if I were to search for "airlines" and saw that huge banner up there, I'd call that an ad and I'd be right there, handing out pitchforks. This? This is just returning searching results in a (arguably) prettier way.
Today I learned you can pay Google to appear at the top of the organic search results.
How about just a banner. It reflects the content of the search. It would be an Ad if it was say, American Airlines pictured for a Southwest Airlines search. It's like seeing the official results being curated for the searcher.
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Show HN: "Memory" at VanillaGrape with modes:"Original-52","JAQK-16","Short-26"
What 10 links would a hypothetically perfect search engine return for that query?

Edit: Judging from the replies, many of you seem to think my question was "how many ads would a perfect search engine show?" Please note that this is not what I asked.
This is exactly the problem people are having with Google. We/they have this ideal of what they thought Google was/should-be and Google isn't/haven't-been-completely living up to it.
While it's definitely healthy to step back and attempt a broader view of any issue, it seems to me that "patent troll," by admittedly informal definition, means a non-practicing entity litigating solely for profit.

Maybe I'm missing something, and maybe it is a lot more complex than that, but I think this is one case where ill-defined or over-applied terms may be muddying the water with regard to what is or isn't taken into consideration on an issue that, by its nature, seems to have no redeeming value.
Good to know that the company that holds my email, appointments, two-factor-auth, credit card number, and search data has the reliability of a flaky college freshman.

Also good to know that there will literally ALWAYS be people willing to minimize the broken promises of corporations (when they're not insisting that no corporation would ever be so stupid as to break a highly visible promise because the outcry would be tremendous).
Hello HN community,
We wanted to showcase our first game, "Memory", at our new startup, VanillaGrape. VanillaGrape is a place for "delicious, free card games".

Currently, we have launched our first game, called Memory, and the response has been really positive. We've gotten tons of feedback from our family and friends, and have made changes accordingly, and we continue to improve the game.

To play the Memory game, you flip open 2 cards, and if they are same numbered cards, then you score a point, and continue to flip open 2 more cards. If the card numbers are different, then those 2 cards are flipped back, and it is computer's turn to flip open 2 cards. Here, if the cards are same numbered, then computer scores a point, and continues to flip open 2 more cards. This way, the game-play goes back and forth between you and computer, and whoever scores the highest points wins the game.

Last night, we updated the Memory game, and added 3 modes - "Original-52", "JAQK-16", and "Short-26".

Original-52 has 52 cards. JAQK-16 has only 16 cards available - Jack, Ace, Queen, and King of all four suits. In Short-26, the deck is cut in half, so that, instead of two pairs, only a single pair can be made. Meaning, if you pick two queen cards, then there will not be any more queen cards available.

We're very new, and it would be great if the HN community could please visit and play our game, located at http://vanillagrape.com.

And because we're very new, there might be tiny details that we might have missed out, so we'd like to iron out those things, before continuing on to make more games. The UI has been somewhat of a challenge. So, we'd love to know if there's any issues you find, or if there's feedback or comments you'd like to provide.

Also, you can read more about our development on our blog - "Thoughts & Talk & Tech" at http://vanillagrape.com/blog

Thank you! We appreciate you taking time in helping us.
I don't know how many people are gored by an elephant and live to tell about it, but it makes one heck of a story - http://www.conradstoltz.com/index.php/the-story-of-rory/
Ah, yes! Good point, upvoted.
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Yes, I thought this was (likely unintentionally) insulting. I rarely use urls unless it's a known site. Especially since I'm Canadian and the TLD isn't always predictable.

And on a phone, it's usually faster to google 'hacker news' or even 'hack new' if I'm lazy, than it is to type 'news.ycombinator.com'. (Yes, I'm horrible. And no, I don't want to bookmark it and make it too easy to come here....)
> (And Google must know rather precisely just how many.)

In the article:

"a system with about 30 advertisers in the US in which it shows banner ads for companies including SouthWest Airlines on pages which include them in web search results"

So google knows by the fact that the name of the client is in the search term.
Care to elaborate on how its better suited? Why return what you are calling image results on a page that historically has been text only, especially when there exists a perfectly functional Image Search already?

Plus, why insert an image at all if not to convert people that would otherwise miss (or not be looking for) the text result?
Here's another home made CT scanner project someone did, not as polished, but he does a great job explaining the principles involved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF3V-GHiJ78
Are we putting that much significance from a quote in 2005 by a Google executive who has since left Google?

While some see it as a social utility, Google is a $350B public company that generates its revenues from advertisements. 8 years ago, the world of advertising (and the world in general), was a different place. Holding Google accountable for something so far in the past by someone who is no longer there is a seemingly unfair standard.
You link seems to indicate that the site isn't suspicious and hasn't served malware in the last 90 days, what changed?
I switched from Sparrow to Airmail [1] a few months ago, and it's pretty much as fast. It has all of Sparrow's features -- Gmail and Dropbox integration, unified inbox, search across folders, multiple sender identities, conversations etc. -- plus some minor ones that Sparrow lacked, such as the ability to undo sending.

You need to follow the beta releases [2], though. The Airmail releases have always struggled with minor bugs. Things like some random spaces being removed from emails, or it displaying the wrong email (!). Nothing to ruin your day, and I'm sure it will stabilize eventually.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airmail/id573171375?mt=12

[2] https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/84be85c3331ee1d222fd7f0b59e4...
The funny thing is that no politican did care about the fact that all european citizens and companies have been spied on.
If you take the full quote, this isn't an open and shut case as it certainly isn't a 'banner ad' in terms of what everyone understood to be banner ads in 2005. The full quote is:

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever."

That Southwest Airlines screenshot doesn't look like a banner ad as described by Marissa Mayer. It doesn't seem to be flashing or flying around or popping up.

And, arguably, Google has been doing things that flash and fly around with the Google Doodles on the homepage for years. And no one freaked out about that.
Indeed - 8 years is a long long time. And who is actually harmed?

Would it be less evil if Google had to put banner ads up to make payroll?
No they aren't, which is why it's even more important to make sure we're actually talking about the same things. Semantics matter. I tire of people insisting that I know what they mean when what it's not what they said. I don't read minds, I hear words; the words you choose have meanings and those meanings matter if you want to convey your ideas to me.
You need something that people can share, that requires communication and so initiates conversation. (That gives people something to do with their hands? That fosters a sense of shared experience?) Some types of gaming can do that and in certain sectors gaming may be as universal as drinking.

It also needs to be sufficiently unstructured that people can drift in and out as individual conversations move past small talk.
This is trivial - assign a value to an attribute for all segments that are part of a bus route, then style accordingly (preferably in a gis, the approach in the op is a cumbersome roundabout way)
What's the alternative to not having a readable number on the card when I want to purchase something online?
That will still be the case. As the proposal makes clear, this will make the system tools use Python3, but "python" (/usr/bin/python) will still point to python2.7
A good essay on the PR business: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Almost anyone, regardless of age, weight, sex, health or ableness can sit around in a bar sitting a soda.

Although I've got muslim friends who are uncomfortable being somewhere where alcohol is being served.

I'd agree that a 5k run is vastly less inclusive.
I take a Piriton to lessen the effects of my various allergies (dogs, cats, grass/oak pollen) and, if I am feeling like a may have a cold/be ill in general, a multivitamin.
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" is one of my favorite books, and I have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for Hofstadter... so I'm really disappointed and saddened to read that he (quoting from the article) "hasn't been to an artificial-intelligence conference in 30 years. 'There's no communication between me and these people,' he says of his AI peers. 'None. Zero. I don't want to talk to colleagues that I find very, very intransigent and hard to convince of anything. You know, I call them colleagues, but they’re almost not colleagues -- we can't speak to each other.'"

Hofstadter should be COLLABORATING with all those other researchers who are working with statistical methods, emulating biology, and/or pursuing other approaches! He should be looking at approaches like Geoff Hinton's deep belief networks and brain-inspired systems like Jeff Hawkins's NuPIC, and comparing and contrasting them with his own theories and findings! The converse is true too: all those other researchers should be finding ways to collaborate with Hofstadter. It could very well be that a NEW SYNTHESIS of all these different approaches will be necessary for us to understand how complex, multi-layered models consisting of a very large number of 'mindless' components ultimately produce what we call "intelligence."

All these different approaches to research are -- or at least should be -- complementary.
If the problem is that you can be at top speed without peddling, why not just require that the peddles turn at a speed proportional to the power output of the motor? The rider would rest their feet on the peddles and expend no effort, and it would give the same signalling to pedestrians.
And? Does it run OSX? Is this anything other than an ad? Does it have a unique case styling that may or may not be better?

Why did you post this?
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>You can absolutely trust them if they are say "we are doing this to maximize profits for our share holders / owners".

Eh, not necessarily. Enron executive said what they were doing was to maximise share holder value, but really it was to maximise their own wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_fraud
Low self esteem is build in youth. He came from very weird family. Jack was ignored and his father favored Joe who was groomed to become the president.
Devil's advocate: I want to use your technology so I create another company to develop an infringing product and sell it to me cheap.
This is not at all equivalent to a Mac Pro.
Serious question: this "arbitrary flag" would possibly be in reference to this widely-reported watering hole attack[1] (or was that attack misreported?), or are you referring to some other issue with that web site?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/dev-site-behind-appl...
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Here is a pastebin which I found
http://pastebin.com/XD0KyLxu
How could they not call this the Skynet challenge?
If you had to use a Xeon and ECC Ram the price would end up higher.

The performance might not be any better, but the comparison would be.
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I agree. Rather than arguing against the data in the study its easy to just use the strawman argument of "but it's paid for by Airbnb so it must be biased."

But I will say that I would like to see the actual original data in the study instead of just the numerous blog posts about the study. I did some internet searching and was unable to find the original study, just news articles about it. If we had the original study and we could see the data sources and actual data points then we could have a real discussion about whether or not the study is legitimate.
> In legalese language, I am pretty sure that a promise is synonym of contract

You are 100% wrong.
This is where I'm Feeling Lucky search is really useful. l <business name> sends me directly to the correct site very close to 100% of the time, even if I misspell the name of the company.
Police arrested four men because of looting bank accounts via malware
Didn't iphonedevsdk.com end up hosting a clientside exploit that got attackers onto the internal networks of Facebook and Twitter?
Love'd this quote "...the trillion-dollar question: Will the approach undergirding AI today—an approach that borrows little from the mind, that’s grounded instead in big data and big engineering—get us to where we want to go? How do you make a search engine that understands if you don’t know how you understand?...AI has become too much like the man who tries to get to the moon by climbing a tree: "One can report steady progress, all the way to the top of the tree.”"
How is this "equivalent?"

The Xeon E5 in the Pro is faster and costs at least $100 more. I'm not sure how these motherboards compare in quality. The ECC memory memory in the Pro is faster and more reliable. This also doesn't have Thunderbolt, onboard WiFi, or Bluetooth 4.

Last, this is big, loud, and hideous.

If the point was, "you can build an equivalent computer for $1000 less," it misses the point, widely.
Difference between Radeon and Fire Pro is only in the driver certification/support.

edit: also this thread is kinda pointless, because it should be well know that you can build the same machine for much less money when going by the raw specs.
Exactly. Basically research conducted in this way has a real confirmation bias problem.
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“Oh my god, Jerry, when you check your email you go to Altavista and type, ‘Please go to yahoo.com?’"
I agree that non-profits can and often are not independent of private influences. Universities can fall under the same influences as well, such as MIT's concrete research studies being funded and advocated by the Portland Concrete Association.

In this situation, I would have liked to see an independent non-profit or University group that was funded 50/50 by New York City and Airbnb to do the study. Perhaps you can argue that the funding arrangement is not perfect, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.
Not very surprising once you actually read the article:

> The social network boss received $2.28 billion in compensation last year with nearly all of his yearly earnings coming as a result of exercising share options when the company went public.
I'm nobody compared to the quoted people, but I use AI in computer vision, and while I love using Bayesian math for parts of it, I've found no substitute for pragmatically programming in knowledge about the system. Which is different from what the article is talking about; I'm aware. I'm just trying to make a system that works, not understand how the brain works. But I view those as somewhat orthogonal problems ; my computer is structured differently than a human brain, perhaps my algorithms should be different as well. Certainly I see no reason to view the brain as having the best algorithm - perhaps a very non-human brain type of algorithm would be superior. Evolution worked with what it had, and it is unlikely that the result is optimal.
Hi, thanks for posting my project :) A little bit of context: I did this as a 15h hackathon, the inspiration came from http://chat.meatspac.es/.
Don't hesitate to give me feedback !
Google's business model rests on the advertisement and marketing industries. It does not work based on trust. It convinces people to use its product. The only "trust" it has is in its ability to do so.
This doesn't really meet my definition of a banner ad.
Better host this on ultimatetimesink.net
Considering the compromise was a js script and most likely had nothing to do with PHP, both these comments are not relevant.
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This is the least funny, most obvious, most completely thoughtless and content-free post imaginable. I wish I had the ability to hellban you.
This fits perfectly with the ad designer that Google released weeks ago.
> Does google provide an api (beside just querying safebrowsing directly).

https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/
"Loud?" I wouldn't call a Noctua cooler loud.
I'd rather get that back to me as a percentage compared to a Phone Booth filled with nuclear waste (but only 75% of the way up) while standing 13.43 meters away with the humidity levels at 95%.
This is a bad article, especially for a technical audience. It romanticizes things a lot, as journalists have to, to keep up the readership rates, but it doesn't make for a very balanced judgement. This kind of debate is going on and on, you can read a much more reasonable account here:

http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

I find the analogy to Einstein at the end of article especially funny. I think it's much more likely that people will look upon current defenders of "good old fashioned AI" like they now do upon people who still looked for ether after Einstein's discoveries.
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The market share of Microsoft in the desktop computing business in no way represents any kind of quality. Nor does it in any way mean that your users like your product. If I look around me in any office, I see people constantly fighting their computers as a result of the worst user experience on the planet.

The main reason for Microsoft's market share is a historical one: They partnered with IBM in the 80s, then PCs (IBM compatibles) became the de facto standard.

Add to this the abuse to the progression of the Web that is Internet Explorer. As many of the HN readers are web developers, well, do the math.
This sounds like depression/apathy/burnout. If it is just work related, remind yourself that is completely within your power to fix.

Two suggestions:

1) Make sure your human interactions are actually positive. If your clients keep pointing you in different directions and making you context switch, fix that. Spend an hour thinking about how that interaction could be better, and some steps towards making that happen. I've had success with writing down requests on a shared whiteboard, and making sure the people asking understand what you would have to de-prioritize to work on the new shiny thing they are asking.

2) If the job was initially exciting, it can probably be exciting again. You should take a break, or find something not-work-related to spend our time doing (e.g. a hobby).
> Anyone know if they tally calls for people calling to say thanks or good job or whatever?

A number of my friends work in the policy-and-politics sphere - I can assure you they definitely do tally those, and it does make a huge difference, even if your Congressman is one of the sponsors of the bill.

Aside from the official counts that they have to keep whenever constituents call them, the main thing to remember is that these offices are small - even the main offices for senators like Schumer or Gillibrand (who represent big states) in DC are only staffed by a few people at a time. If they're flooded with calls from any particular group, what do you think they're going to be talking about over lunch, or at the (figurative) water-cooler, etc.?

A friend of mine worked for Senator Clinton around 2007, and she loves to tell the story of how they got flooded with fake "Valentines" from the Association for Heart Disease[0] the week of February 14th, in support of some bill. It was a pretty uncontroversial bill and passed with wide support, but just fielding those letters and calls took up so much of their time that week that she still remembers it, years later.

In short, please do call them - they'll remember it the next time they consider sticking their neck out for something that they believe is the right thing to do but may be politically risky.

[0] I don't know the name - you get the idea
What ads you see will vary a lot by location. For example here in the UK 'trash can' returns no ads at all for me. On the other hand 'rubbish bin' results in a page with 8 visible ads and only 3 visible organic search results: http://i.imgur.com/7frlR2J.png
This is the exact same problem I had. I ultimately uninstalled the app because I didn't want to see the "BBM Connected" notification, particularly since I haven't even created an account yet.
This is ridiculous speculation on your part, you can't speculate with security, for all you know the webmaster's ex-girlfriend could have inserted the malware.
Agree about freshman, just wanted to add, that this freshman has managed to do other not so nice things recently, thus increasing cumulative damage to the reputation well beyond sum of each part. I assume that at some point powerusers will start to migrate to different services, when/if competitive enough offer comes
New Relic now supports Node.js
"Now to get Excel to talk to eBay…"

Should just use python for that too.
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Given a new project or an unfamiliar codebase, how do you go about reading and understanding the code?
to me this is a glimpse of the computer world near 2000. the idea of file compression just becoming popularized.

these days, every time a startup reaches an IPO, we get a movie, book or long series of articles. we learn the guys revolutionizing social media are total basketcases
In some cases, it just isn't clear what the right page is.

Absolutely. Which is why Google isn't doing this across the board but for carefully selected cases. They'd do it for advertiser clients for whom Google's data demonstrates a vast preponderance of intent to just go to the company's web site by name. I'd bet quite a bit that [southwest airlines] queriers are looking for Southwest's own customer applications (pricing, booking, flight status) far more often than for Wikipedia or news articles. It's to Southwest's benefit if these users more smoothly find southwest.com and Google can pick up a slice of the benefit as the middleman.

Google (presumably) wouldn't do this for a local business with an ambiguous web presence. Nor for a company whose name more likely indicates searching for news items than for customer applications, perhaps [Goldman Sachs].