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Wow, I'm so sad that blogspam-ing is becoming unprofitable. So very sad...
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If it was not so darn expensive, I would be psyched. But this way I will wait for the OpenPandora for my mobile mini-PC needs (for a telephone I love my Nokia 6310 and will use it until the day it ceases functioning).
I've given talks there and Jane Street is awesome. Just my 2c.
There is a funny dependency in there, apparently it requires 2to3 to run!
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The transitions I made from FORTRAN to PL/I to C to C++ to Java to Perl to PHP were each pretty painless

How do you go from Perl to PHP without pain? You lose pretty much every good language feature in the process, and significantly reduce the number of tools and libraries you have access to. This remark blows my mind.
As happy as I am that you're Google's unofficial ombudsman, Matt, you're a big billion dollar company who many of us are intensely reliant on for our businesses. There needs to be a support channel other than "make a PR issue for Google and Matt Cutts will swoop by to save the day".

I had a big issue with AdWords earlier this month. Google made it all but impossible for me to reach anyone about it. Earlier this year, I had an issue with my bank denying an AdWords bill (to protect me against possible fraud). It took one minute on the phone to resolve.

You make a hundred times what my bank does off me. Why is human contact only possible if we speak the secret password into the telephone disguised as a shoe which is stored in the unused broom closet marked Beware of Leopard.
Didn't anyone else notice that Google's "explanation" for disabling the account was the same as in another recent story:

While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers.

This was on HN a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=781751
Did you check the link to make sure that mail is not a phishing attack? It sounds, well, phishy.
Well, I don't want my landlord coming into my house, but if he did anyway because the faucet was causing damage, I wouldn't assume he was also be interested in going through my underwear. Why would you assume that?
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And the same excuse again:

While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers
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I don't trust security advice from tptacek. First because we had a discussion and we clearly do not agree as to who can be trusted, but second (and more generally), I don't trust anyone who has enough time to gather lots of karma on HN.
Most people have better things to do.
I travel quite a lot. I don't think flightcaster would be much help for domestic itineraries, from JFK to SFO, for example.

It doesn't deliver much value for the work week frequent flyer (those who travel for 5 work days). Critical stuff happens on Tues/Wed/Thurs for just this reason. It's no big deal if I get in late on Monday--I just sit in the lounge and hack or answer email.
> you either vote up or opt out

How about voting down?
Exposé is quite a bit different. It lines up the windows a bit differently and brings up minimized windows and displays them at the bottom of the screen.
Memories are things of the past. They might comfort you when lonely or make you nostalgic. More important than searching for what brings us happiness would be knowing what happiness itself is.
Is it just a feeling of elevation, of euphoria? I would consider a person happy if his mind is calm, devoid of regrets of the past and anxieties of the future.
I don't mind reading programming books on the computer. If you like to try the examples as you're reading, it saves you from having to move between the dim pages of the book and the bright computer screen.

For a novel, though, I definitely prefer the Kindle or a real book. (Real books annoy me now, because they are harder to hold. They are too springy, and fighting that gets tiring. Yes... I am lazy...)
It'll become AugR or AR or something. Damn jargonistas.

EDIT: Oops .. shud have read all the comments first. Sorry jargonistas, what I really meant was ...
While you make valid points, the major issue in question is Google's lack of customer service for the advertisement brokerage service they provide. Google may not have to "tell you a damn thing", but they should at least make themselves available to deny any requested information.
> It wasn't like Symbolics would start making Lisp machines again anyway, [...]

Sad as it is, but the demise of Lisp machines is a Good Thing. We are now so good in compiling functional programming languages on stock hardware, that special architecture is no longer needed.

For another example the "International Conference on Functional Programming" (ICFP) replaced the Conference on "Functional Programming and Computer Architecture" (FPCA).
Well said. Further to the above, Google had a very good reason to drop this particular site: Over the span of a week, their impression count shot through the roof with the sort of traffic that never clicks ads.

So all Google sees is a whole ton of 0.0000001% clickthru impressions coming from a former backwater site. If my ads were serving there, I'd certainly want them pulled.

Granted, Google is terrible when it comes to situations like this. But technically they did the correct thing here.
Thanks for clearing this up. Because I have been wanting to keep a cat since forever. Taught me not to jump to conclusions without research.
That doesn't quite work, because if you've got an unusual situation then it'd be unreasonable to ask your friend to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
(Meaning that they have low customer service objectives?)
Hizook could have prevented losing advertising revenue (or at least reduced losses) by having a backup or parallel ad network on their site. So if not Google adsense, what's the next best game in town?
OK, thanks. That's what it sounded like but his description was low on the details so I figured I wouldn't make that stretch. Anyway, yes, my guess was mostly based on Maxwell and a little vector calc (physics minor, nothing more) but it seemed to make sense.
Well being a "hacker" isn't just about computer related stuff, it's a lifestyle... interested in a little bit of everything, looking to learn all you can stand about something.

Ever seen "Hackers Are People Too!"? It's a great documentary and sums it up beautifully.
Now that my infatuation with the apple app-store has died down (to the point where I am only using Phone+SMS+Browser+Maps) I think this would do.
I couldn't agree more. Much smaller companies with much smaller capital have options to contact for support issues in a person to person basis. With Google Adwords, it is virtually non-existant. Considering the fact that you have to either really screw up or get a lot of attention to yourself for Google to get to you, without that you are out of luck.

Automated response is not a solution to all problems.
For maximum efficiency, buy stuff that's used to generate memories. For example, a sweet pair of rollerblades.
From the article:

> So after I submitted the paper I put down my 30 bucks and got a blood test," he says. "It came out negative. I was so surprised."
>It encourages conforming to majority views and rewards people who are talkative rather than insightful - often mutually exclusive groups, since insight is gained by thinking & doing rather than posting comments.

Erm, I always upmod comments that I consider insightful. I think the picture is more complicated than you make it out to be.
You might want to try other flying cars instead:

# Moller http://www.moller.com/

# Terrafugia http://www.terrafugia.com

# Volante http://www.volanteaircraft.com/

Moller is my favorite.
Dell installs physical Keyloggers on their laptops
So during a discussion with a good friend of mine who at one point worked for Dell, I was surprised to discover that Dell has physical Key loggers installed on (hypothetically) all of their laptops!

I did not believe him at first, however he disassembled his laptop to prove it to me. Low and behold, in between the keyboard connection and the rest of the motherboard there was a miscellaneous chip. Upon further examination we uncovered a name on the chip and found it had connection to a government run company.

I am not sure if this is true for all Dell laptops, but it's likely.
Yes, it's a great example of deductive reasoning.

From my logic studies ten years ago I recall that an argument is considered 'Valid' if true premises must lead to a true conclusion (ie, no gaps in the logic); to be 'Sound', however, it must be Valid and have true premises.

This seems Valid to me so far. I guess the peer review (formal and crowd-sourced) will test for Soundness.
I use it as my resume since I gathered a couple of recommendation from my old colleagues, and I also receive letters from recruiters from time to time.
also be aware when you join a pre-series-A company that your percentage of the "founding shares" will not be the percentage of the final shares that comprise the eventual company at the big liquidity event. during the various funding rounds the company may create many, many more shares arbitrarily to hand out to investors, employees, and the CEO's mistress. the dilution of your shares through the various rounds will depend on the perceived strength of your company and the general tech investment climate at the time.
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Ok you're right.

Firefox on the other hand seems to be kind of a douche, calling itself awesome.
"A research team found that they could alter people’s judgement of importance just by getting them to answer questions using a heavier clipboard."

A heavier material implies a higher cost, which may be associated with commitment, health, being well-off, status. It's the same psychology driving costly signals in males when approaching females (like owning a expensive car, or building impressive branched horns, or long and colorful feathers.)
Here's my thinking:

1. Google knows how to scale computers, and perhaps engineering teams, but not people in general.

2. "You make a hundred times what my bank does off me" - Exactly, and hiring pesky call center employees, who would have to be good on top of it, would ruin Google's profit/stock price.

We're all desperate, depending on practically the only ad game in town, so we bark but have no bite. A higher-end (aka non-cpc|cpm) revenue model is the only way out, I'm afraid.
Here's that one HN article about how it's best to ask nicely first, and make it an issue of respect.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462259
This post is only a comment. Read the original source instead:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/08/23/...
So "technically" allowing a number of days to go by without response, not providing a method to escalate an issue, or not providing a method for users to get any straight forward answers about a particular situation that Google initiated is, as you said, correct?
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This is a well known issue with the so called Digg effect. I warned people years ago not to aim for Digg traffic because Adsense tracks page impressions and click throughs and Digg users behave like robots, flooding a site with requests and bouncing off right away.

[edit:] Reddit is even worse, higher bouncer rate (95%+), and even lower engagement than Digg.
What I meant was that much of what I learned with language N was applicable to language N+1.

Some of these new programming models don't seem as if they build on concepts that are familiar to me.

Maybe I'm overstating this, but I get the sense that we are approaching some sort of discontinuity where the developers who can take these new, non-procedural, declarative, loosely typed, implicitly parallel systems and make them dance and sing will be light years ahead of the last generation and their pithy procedural languages.
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Though it may not be a complete answer, it is encouraging that people from Google will reply on public forums. You'd never see an Apple employee posting on a thread about someone whose iPhone app had been sitting in the pipeline for months, or a Paypal employee posting on a thread about someone whose account had been summarily frozen.
I second that. My s.o. works in that field. Tiny discoveries mixed with frustration. Still it's fun.
Or at least pictures of what you disassembled. Honestly, my first thoughts are that you are either a troll or delusional. If not, this is a big enough deal that it merits more information.
heck yeah!!! in addition to roller hockey, that also buys you roller frisbee, 4-court roller tennis and shortcuts.

ps - roller hockey sunday 2pm at ahern in cambridge, ma
Taking on a lot of debt to finance an education is never a really good idea - unless you can afford the risk. If the market for your training goes sour, or you never meet the right people, or you become disillusioned with the position you thought you wanted, that debt might weigh on you for half a lifetime.

Those who can't afford the risk need to consider working their way through a public school. Life can be enjoyed without a prestigious job or lots of dough.
Great title. You're really adhering to those guidelines, huh?
I was half expecting memory implants and a reference to Philip K. Dick and 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' short story (basis for 'Total Recall' movie, story is good and differs from the movie).

That said, I don't regret a single over the budget experience I've had.
Is pithy really the word you mean to use?
They have to crystalize the proteins to make the xray-technique work.
I guess you would make more webmasters happy besides yourself by making Google set up a team that deals with such issues where webmasters don't have to raise hell first to get noticed.

Maybe Google should hire the 10k "permanent temps" again it spit out a few months ago during the "financial crisis" panic.
What, do you work for Duracell or something? :P
Seems like Nokia internet tablet n810 + Nokia 5800. Would like to see it's performance before even thinking of buying (it always sounds nice on paper).

btw. Linux instead of Symbian, finally!
Is this an android phone?
Wow! It has flash!
There is a support channel for appeals, and it sounds like hizook.com submitted an appeal via that channel earlier this week. My guess is that the Google team is already looking into it; I just wanted to let people know that I'd ask the relevant team from my side as well.

Given the hundreds of millions of users, tens of millions of webmasters, and many advertisers and publishers that Google interacts with, it would be difficult to have one-on-one conversations with all of them even if everyone at Google did nothing but try to provide that support. Historically, we try to tackle that challenge by reducing the need to talk to a person at all (e.g. our webmaster tools let people diagnose lots of issues without talking to a webmaster expert at Google). We try to pursue scalable communication methods such as forums and keeping an eye on the blogosphere too. I wouldn't claim that we're perfect--I'd be curious to hear more about the AdWords issue that you had--but our first instinct is to look for ways so that people don't need to telephone Google in the first place. I think a lot of companies do that; I can't remember the last time I needed to talk to Amazon or Facebook or Netflix on the phone, for example.

But I take your point, and while we do have support channels, I think it's good to keep an eye out for blog posts because that feedback can help us improve so that future people interacting with Google don't get as frustrated.
Does anyone else have a recently purchased Dell Laptop that they can take a look at?
Not sure, but I've been up for 20 hours and can't think of anything more to say. Goodnight!
http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/the-dell-keylogger-conspi...
Yeah. Don't pay people to do customer service is still more profitable than losing a few customers a they are not many search and Adsense/Adwords alternatives that can really compete when it comes to reach.
actually, if you consider that afm is directly detecting charges, I guess we're talking about more than probability here - that picture ought to be a (rough) record of where the charges in that molecule were as the AFM needle passed over the molecule in that 20hr period
> Damages, whatever. Terminology is really not worth fighting over.

That's like saying "Cars, bicycles, whatever. Terminology is really not worth fighting over." There's a difference between the two.

> There is no conceivable way this company did that much damage to Verizon. In fact, it's unlikely they damaged Verizon at all, especially when we know that most users find pages through Google and that Google would certainly return Verizon's real site first. If anyone was damaged, it was the people who thought they were at Verizon's site but weren't, and the number of those people is probably 3 at best.

OnlineNIC claims that it made ~$1500 in profits from it. That's just their claim and already far more than 3 visitors. Some of those visitors may have gotten lost and never ended up on Verizon's website. They may have been able to make more from their visitors than OnlineNIC. Their brand is lessened by the experience. They had to find OnlineNIC. They had legal expenses. And there's probably more.

> Look at the other story they link to about file-sharing.

I have no interest in comparing anything to file sharing/piracy. That subject seems to cause some powerful emotions that make rational discussion impossible.
Maemo (pronounced mime-oh) - it's a bit more of a traditional Linux platform than Android, built on Debian and Gnome. The browser is based on Mozilla.
SAS has a boatload of statistical primitives. I dunno what makes it "scientific" but it's way useful for doing that kind of thing.

(I did SAS for years, building trading models. Which isn't science.)

I hated the language, but I miss the functionality terribly.

You CAN do this sort of work. But it's nice for k-means or whatever to be a one-liner.
If the keyboard works fine after you boot from Ubuntu LiveCD(or any other LiveCD really), then the problem might be some deep problem with a really smart Windows rootkit. That said, I haven't heard of such a rootkit which was able to survive a clean reinstall(it is possible as a proof of concept though).

The most likely explanation is a fried keyboard. I used to have the original Microsoft Natural Keyboard that I spilled a drink on, it started doing weird stuff similar to your laptop keyboard afterwards.
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The phone looks really cool.

As a programmer I'm lusting for one of these last-generation smart phones as I have some cool ideas I need to try out. Unfortunately I couldn't afford one (got lots of other expenses that have a priority).

iPhone bothers me because you need to have a Mac to develop software for it, and I don't. And iTunes is awful and you're bound to it (I have an iPod Touch, and it's the worst experience I've had with any player ... the codecs are limited, the battery can't be replaced, you can't use it as a storage device, and you can't install third-party apps that aren't on the iTunes store unless you crack it). I've also heard of horror stories related to getting your application approved in iTunes Store.

Android seems interesting, but there's only one device from HTC with Android on sale and it's not that great. I'm waiting for other brands to release Android phones (like Samsung). Also their choice of developing their own VM with incompatible byte-codes seems awkward. Surely it's optimized, but it would have been better if they slimmed and extended the current JVM ... that way libraries depending on byte-code manipulation wouldn't have to be rewritten for Dalvik. And in 3 years from now those optimizations won't matter anyway, and we'll be stuck with an incompatible VM.

There are a couple of interesting devices with Windows Mobile, but the OS is awkward to use ... you need to have a stylus, and the responsiveness is just bad. Maybe that will change with 6.5 / 7.0.

Nokia N900 seems really interesting. It has Flash integrated and Maemo kicks ass when it comes to developer support (GTK+, Qt, multitasking, and you can even install Mono on it). Nokia phones are also solid and I've always been under the impression that it's the only company able to compete with Apple.

I'm waiting to see if N900 delivers.
False. This is an example of an overworked dev who has to explain the same things over and over again to people who refuse to read the relevant docs.

This has nothing to do with GPL inquisition. The exact thread could have happened on OpenBSD mailing lists.
Giveaway: antique and nostalgic PC
Maybe antiferromagnetism can speed up your hard drive?
Unfortunately, even this isn't enough. You have to understand the funding structure of the company as well. Who owns preferred stock? What payment options do the investors hold?

You may own 1% of the company and the company sells for $100M... that doesn't mean you get $1M. The investors may very well have preferred stock beyond that and you end up with nothing.

Understanding the WHOLE picture is very important for anyone joining a startup. Unfortunately this is a big topic with a lot of stuff you need to understand. You owe it to yourself to know it.
Hm ... according to 1, 3, 4, 5 around 718$, pre tax and pre carrier subsidy, to 2 750$. I don't think this is too much of a prize for market entry. Remember the 1st iPhone, with all of its specs.

1 http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10319133-94.html
2 http://www.nokian900.com/nokia-n900-internet-tablet-rumors/
3 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/08/nokia-evolves-aw...
4 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n900_is_now_officially_outed_a...
5 http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-...
"June 2009: In approximately 3-4 weeks we will publish demo-video of our gScreen laptop BETA models on Youtube.com."

Are they defunct?
Imagine this with politicians: Not knowing whether a speech was made by Obama or Cheney would greatly improve trust in politicians ;-)
we've had 3D atomic level detail for molecules - especially horrendously more complex ones than this - for a long, long long time. NMR and X-Ray crystallography in all its guises are the two main candidates here. NMR even gives you that info in real time, and (if you so desire) in more realistic conditions (vital to learn about folding and activity).

Not to piss on a parade, but I don't see this as major breakthrough. It's a technical achievement with an established technology, of primary benefit to material scientists and nanotechnologists, both of whom already have imaging techniques at this level, but lack easy, cheap and instant ones, and face most of their hurdles at the design and synthesis side, not imaging/proof of construct

From a biochemist's point of view, if it was anywhere near real-time, THAT would be awesome.
My first thought too. Strange how they went into detail about the guy scooping up shrimps to feed his fish, but almost nothing on the aircraft.