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Relatively little is known about pre-colonial history in North America, due to the absence of writing from those times. This is pretty much true of all peoples that did not have writing.
I think what the author is saying is that the history taught in schools and colleges should not omit the part about the how the lands were acquired from the native americans.
> Why not? I consider sofa and couch to be synonyms. This lets me do two searches in one.

For you. For this one use-case. Which may or may not be good.

It's the effect of this scaled up, for all use-cases Google's cluster can identify, for all users which is bad. It's one of the reasons I use DDG instead of Google these days.
I kind of ruined it with my reflex to run "git branch -a" (DO NOT run this command if you want to play fairly); but I was able to complete it fairly quickly nonetheless.
Not entirely what you're looking for, granted, but might help:

http://flashlight.nateparrott.com
Heh, with the government using stuff like IMSI catchers, I would not be surprised at all if using a faked AP is a common tool in the box of the 3-letter agencies.

I'm fine with Marriott using deauth jamming against rogue APs with their SSID (or a similar impersonating one, e.g. "Mariott Wifi" instead of "Marriott Wifi"), or operating on their specific wifi channel (thus downgrading the experience of the customers), but they absolutely have to leave APs alone which have a different channel/ssid.
The only reason why I "use" G+ is for photos - and that's only because Google got rid of all the Picasa albums. But the interface is so horrible I can't believe it's actually made by google. Once you got to photos it opens the most recent album by default(why??) and the option to switch to albums view is not where you would expect it(on the 3-stripe option icon that every other product got us used to), but instead it's hidden away. It makes absolutely no sense and I hate using it as a product. The only reason why I have to visit it occasionally is that Picassa(the actual tool) is fantastic for backing up and managing pictures.
Exactly.

Has the author never worked for a different employer? It's very common in a lot of companies for developers to be excluded from (hearing about / learning about / have input on) something, simply because they don't have (specific job title). That's a legitimate concern. Even tiny 10-ish person companies often fall into this trap.

The companies that promise candidates not to worry about job titles because "we're a flat organization", "we're agile", "we're a meritocracy" tend to fall into this trap even more than the older ones do -- knowing and using the right buzzwords is almost a red flag in itself.

So, completely hypothetically, these are all problems that would be bad and should be avoided, as the author writes.

But in practice, it sounds like a candidate was concerned about making sure they'd have enough authority to actually make improvements and not just shoved onto busywork at random.

And instead of addressing that concern in any meaningful way, the company took that as an opportunity to respond with a bunch of buzzwords and ad-hominems, and then pat themselves on the back about it.
This is cool! Thanks for sharing.

Considering I'm new to Postgres (been on MySQL for too many years), this is definitely making my life easier because of the autocomplete :)

But a question for you: how does this help someone who's a power user of Postgres?
Lewis and Fowler provide a nice definition in their Microservices article. [1]

They drive modularity through the pattern of change, so their judgement is based on the development, rather than the code itself.

"You want to keep things that change at the same time in the same module. Parts of a system that change rarely should be in different services to those that are currently undergoing lots of churn. If you find yourself repeatedly changing two services together, that's a sign that they should be merged."

Although that article is about services, believe it can be applied to any type of modules.

[1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
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The issue being phones are horrible to do any actual work on. People search more, yes, but for things like maps, not products or anything else search engines might conceivably make money on advertising on with the main exception being simple stuff like "nearby restaurants". Nobody wants to, for example, buy a new TV on their phone if they can at all help it; they'll do the research on a real computer and the purchase either there or instore.
sofa -couch still works. Also, verbatim mode:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/142143?hl=en
No, they still use Bing (assuming their site is accurate)

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

"DuckDuckGo gets its results from over one hundred sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, which are stored in our own index), Yahoo! (through BOSS), Yandex, Yelp, and Bing."
In the search bar (in the nightlies) you have a clearly visible "Change search settings" menu-option:

http://imgur.com/7IqYMHD

(Notice also how the current search engine being used is represented with icon and name.)

Clicking "Change search settings" brings you to a dialog which clearly gives you the ability to set the default and remove unwanted search-engines:

http://imgur.com/qSM0BAd

Yes. It's one more click than it used to be. But now it's visually 100% clear what it does and how it does it.

The previous incarnation required one less click, but my guess is that most users didn't even know they had the option to change defaults or remove search-engines since it was not spelled out explicitly.

It may not address all your concerns, like suggestions on non-default engines, but I think overall it's not 100% a degradation either.
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Nice idea, you should certainly keep working on it.
Or, use something like the closure compiler to remove unused code automaticaly.
Well, they could do client-side filtering/sorting, saving the personalization parameters in local storage. It'd require the server to send a bunch more results up front, though, otherwise the client would have little to work on.
Previous discussions from the last few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8838465

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794033

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8848144

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8843726
Made me think of all the things that can go wrong.
Good idea. Even if I would prefer have it online. BTW I am thinking that I could build my personal system
Also see: "for your convenience".

It usually means the customer needs to bend over and grease up, because somebody's getting screwed ...

"For your convenience, we are increasing our fee from $1.95 to $9.95 ..."

"For your convenience, the complimentary continental breakfast is now available upon payment of a $14.95 convenience fee ..."

Now and then I look at how badly customer-facing businesses are misusing the word "convenience". Unfortunately, I am rarely disappointed.
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I used to love Dragdis, but the development is slow and not functional on lot of devices!
This is quite a good write, up, points out when you would want to use one or the other, and not crapping all over PHP just because it isn't a great language.

And interesting that he points out that finding a dev will be way easier in PHP. I had a non developer friend with a start-up application. He had obviously spoken to a number of bioinformatics (he was a wet lab biologist) who had obviously ranted about the benefits of Python. So he got a Django dev. Then got a second stage of funding, to pay for a junior-ish level dev. Except no Python / Django devs (he asked me) were willing to work for the money he had available. Had he gone with PHP, he would have probably managed to continue, despite everyone probably telling him PHP was a crap language.
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The election is the appropriate forum. Except that Americans somehow keep on voting for parties they don't want because they have silly idealistic rivalries.
Try using a Google+ account. That way, Google can learn about you, and it doesn't need to resort to "popular" search results.
How does svn make feature branching difficult?

svn branch is a "free" operation (branching doesn't use space), svn switch means you can hop between branches easily.

I can see how a dvcs is nicer to work with locally but I'd like to hear your struggles with svn.
I see your point. The removal of features to make it more specific or aim at a niche area is important.

I wonder if there were any Geocities sites of importance that needed aggregating for an endless (memory-eating) scroll view?
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I'm whining about your phrasing. I wish people only used "principle" to describe very strongly held beliefs.

You are weighing your belief that 'data is data' against, basically, a trivial convenience (you have many options, among them: no music, downloaded music, cheap streaming violating the principle, expensive streaming respecting the principle). That action says something about how strongly you believe in 'data is data'.
I wonder if I post on HN/proggit about my cool new ruby project, and start it off with curl | sh, but put something malicious, how many people will blindly install it?
98% degradation then, maybe. Still took a nice feature Firefox has that other browsers don't and made it significantly worse.
I don't think it is - the search engine option in Safari does not affect Spotlight. Spotlight is hardcoded.
Was "El Norte" (the Spanish settlement of California) only along the coast, or did they never lay full claim to the land? Curious as to why it doesn't really show on this visualization.

There's an excellent book about settlement patterns in the US called American Nations, by Colin Woodward. His theory is essentially that we don't pay nearly enough attention to the different influences of the competing original colonies, and that if you examine the history in this light there are all kinds of interesting narratives that you can draw. E.g., tidewater slavery != deep south slavery in fairly significant ways, because of the origin of each of those colonies (british gentry vs progeny of barbados slave owners) - and yet we generally make no distinction at all.
Previous discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8025493

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7053638
Replace "America" with "Germany" and "Eastern Europe" and consider whether you would like to uphold your position.

The author's point was that the common narrative of European settlers colonizing an empty continent, alternatively European colonists bringing civilization to wild, barren lands has to be extended with European settlers bringing mass extermination to the indigenous population, through many different means.
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I know lawyers who are Owners, traders who are Talkers, and others fitting one of more of these groups. And in some tech places - shitty financial tech places, but still tech places where you do technical work - you do get promoted for owning something and title does matter.
Unfortunately, that always happens. New product gains power users, starts to dumb down to appeal to room temperature IQs, loses power users again. See also: Firefox.
In fact, I've been involved in collaborative writing and it was organised so that it didn't require any such thing.

That just means your group chose to limit the potential quality of the work (by not allowing people to improve on other's parts) or expand the timespan of the project (by disallowing concurrent editing) on behalf of simplifying the process.

They're valid tradeoffs, but too limiting for most software projects, in my opinion.
what do you need to have besides a tv or monitor to use the Compute Stick?
"I should mention that I have no real opinion on the language itself; I’m not a languages person (C will do, thanks), and that’s not the part of the system I have experience with anyway. Rather, the runtime and toolchain are the parts on which I wish to comment."

Might I suggest changing the title of this post to "the golang runtime and toolchain are trash"?
So the solution is to have your privacy invaded? Count me out.
(For the record, I think "con" and "cunt" are very identical, since they both mean "nasty idiot" and "female genitalia")
A great book to learn all about the history of shipping containers, container ships, and the technical innovations involved therein, is The Box by Marc Levinson.

http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy...
As a platinum member of Marriot and Hyatt, it's clear where I'll be staying on my next trip.
And the OPs point is that we should not stop there either, because it is an arbitrary point in history. Also, as the number of immigrants increase in US schools, White guilt and other forms of self flagellation lessens. If you are not European, and your parent immigrated you have less of a complex about where the land came from, and are less likely to want to carry some burden foisted on you by some one with a funny political agenda.

It's interesting to me how we finally got rid of Original Sin, but now have replaced this with other, atheistic forms of this, like trying to make our children feel guilty about Native Americans and Slavery. I personally think this is the best way to increase tensions.
> so do you mean two inequality constraints that conspire to be an equality?

Exactly. This can be solved by the described method (but there are probably better ones).

> The very nice feature of interior point methods is that they also work for non-linear optimization, which has far broader applicability.

I would not argue with broader applicability, if adding a constraint after finding an optimal solution requires a complete new fresh start (the dual simplex algorithm doesn't have this problem). This is very important for cutting plane algorithms for solving (mixed-)integer linear programs.
At one point, MS were paying people to use Bing. Their loss was probably in a large part due to marketing it aggressively (see: that horrendous "Bing it" product placement in whetever TV show it was), while DuckDuckGo/startpage spread mostly by word of mouth, and Yahoo maintains market share via inertia (and shady third party referral deals that cause malware to often change your search engine to yahoo, but that's another discussion...).
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Search is useful when you have shared folders that lots of people are working with. Unless you have very strict control everyones seperate mental models are mashed together into one big mess.
For those interested, the "This Week In Enterprise Tech" podcast covers this whenever it makes the news, and they go into some detail into what's happening (yes, it's deauth packets).

They also have a pretty good back and forth on the issues about it. One can probably find it in the show notes if you want to find out which casts have covered it already.
Interesting. This is what happens in cities and stressful work places all the time.

Also why meditation and mindfulness work, because then the environment is no longer an issue. You can create your own environment, inside you, and this becomes the way to handle every situation, with inner reflection, instead of external reflection on what surrounds you.
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I'd rather pay £5 for firefox (one off, or even yearly...), especially if it stopped them making rash "must copy chrome!" reactionary decisions that just make the browser worse and frustrate users. Mozilla could do a registration/donation scheme in the manner of Vim, where it isn't strictly required, but allows people who do so to vote on new features etc.
For Linux they seem to be recommending the "Tobii REX" at a comfortable $795. Ouch. :(
I use DuckDuckGo mostly, I always want a specific part of the Django documentation, say so I don't get the movie links (except for an ad).

As you say "django" gives you the movie, but "django class based views" gives you what you would expect.

For most search I feel that DuckDuckGo has become increasingly good, while Google has become worse. It might be because I don't login or flush cookies when I close my browser, but that would mean that Google rely on personalization to a disturbing degree.
Is there an avenue for a Joe Schmo investor like me to get some exposure to the marijuana market? I'd definitely put some dollars behind the future of that commodity.
I sympathise with your point but I think there is a role for patterns of all forms; the advisable and the inadvisable. Essentially they attempt to encapsulate and share experience in a form that can help guide the less experienced. Obviously, a characteristic of an expert is someone who knows when to buck conventions and patterns but what is 'stupid' isn't necessarily always obvious to everyone.
Cisco sell a Wireless LAN controller, which can send disconnect packets to "rogue" APs that get set up, rendering them useless. This is particularly important at events where the airspace is severely cramped, such as big arena events, racing, horse racing etc. where the myriad of APs to provide coverage of free wifi to pundits would have to compete with these other APs. In a severely crammed airspace, this would help to encourage the other AP providers to turn their boxes off.

And getting a mobile telephone call in such events is even trickier, given that 50,000 people are in one space and the masts to serve them are oversubscribed. If they all suddenly want to place bets or browse the web, that's incredibly difficult to provide on the mast, so providers will set up additional masts for big events (like the big horse-racing events here in the UK). That's why they provide free wifi too, and having other APs set up and attempting to provide wifi over the airspace doesn't really help.

I wonder if Marriott hotels have the same approach in order to provide better wifi coverage? I have been in numerous hotels where the wifi coverage was great if you're sat in the bar but abysmal if you're down the other end of the building (where the hotels here in the UK are large old buildings with thick walls, very tricky for wifi).

Irritating if you're trying to use your phone to provide wifi to your laptop in order SSH to your own box at home or to get content via your mobile (which might be faster than their Internet access in some cases). I suppose you could just use a Bluetooth PAN instead (and it uses less power!)
Sounds like a Cisco Wireless LAN Controller in use! Great for helping protect your airspace.
just to satisfy a possible curiosity: No

Your intuition is in the right direction, but not quite correct.

Think of a cartesian plot. Now, think of the Y axis "tilted" to the front. With those 2 "vectors" you can still describe the whole plane (for whatever "describe" means =P)
If you tilt it so much the "Y" axis becomes paralel to the X axis, then you lost something.

Instead of "orthogonal" what you need is a mathematical property called independence (as in linearly independent) that basically means "not redundant to express a space"
Search has imho become too much of both a privacy intrusion, and at the same time too much of a market determinant. I think the following has to happen.

(Just thinking out loud).

- Search has to be made into a replaceable service, or a commodity. This means that one could easily switch search providers without any other noticeable difference (to the user) than a difference in search results.

- This means that search engines should be stripped of their user-interface.

- Search engines should "be" simply APIs that browsers can hook into.
An advantage of this, is that search engines could be denied the use of scripting, which disables the possibility of user tracking through "device fingerprinting".

- Of course, if desired, the user could enable personalization. Personalization could be handled like it is now (through user tracking). But we could invent an API that reveals only a user's interests to a search agent. For example, you could reveal that you are researcher or a programmer, interested in technology, and certain programming languages, and you could list a set of webpages that you use regularly.

- Of course, different profiles could be used for different searches.

I imagine that the privacy-aware engines like DDG could start with the development and implementation of these protocols, and cooperate with e.g. mozilla for a base client implementation.
The counter to that is The Recluse, which tech industries seem to have far too many of.
it's not clear to me if rendering an independent set of data on top of the unchanged OSM data layer (i.e. effectively render two maps, on with some transparent sections) counts as building on top of the OSM database

If you render OSM data with a unique map style, and produce an image, then you have made a "Produced Work" and you only have to attribute OSM, and nothing else. You can make it so people can't copy it if you'd like.

If you make a new database by combing OSM with something else, that new DB is ODbL.

Just showing something on top of OSM doesn't mean it's derived from OSM.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ
Please show a paper where fine-grained vehicle classification in unconstrained images is anywhere near this performance from 20 years ago. You will not be able to, because it wasn't.
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So what happened? Did you get the regular $10 discount or nothing at all?
First of all, my comment was meant in the context of the article which is the use of technology by _teenagers_, not the general part of the population. And even so, yes people should know better, privacy has a big place in the public debate nowdays.
Mobile firefox still lacks depth of extensions. If it could have adblock or a similar level of addon, it would probably be a different story.
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No wonder they got robbed with the vault security of something you could assemble with items from your local hardware store over a weekend. Removable magnetic plates, key in the closet, primitive sensors, no live guards -- sounds like a bad movie plot. If such security practices are the norm, I'm actually shocked that so few vault robberies happen.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815778
Maybe it's because Perl was really popular at the time I discovered Unix and its tool, but why would you use sed and awk instead of a Perl one-liner? (Or even :s// in vim or M-x query-replace-regexp in emacs, if it's just regex munging)
That wouldn't be nearly as clickbaity, though.
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Neither does searching for a local file in the documents folder. I was referring to the "fascination with search in general" which can be invaluable when you have a lot of data shoehorned into directories or other inappropriate structures.

As for local searches commingling with online searches, there are some cases where it makes sense, others where it's a blatant violation of privacy, and many more in a subjective grey area. It's basically a matter of making sure people are informed (really informed, not small-print-in-the-legalese informed) and needing to opt in, not out.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815778

Sometimes down-toning titles doesn't work out right.
There was no claim of ease, just of plausibility.
Yes. Ideally history taught in schools should present all sides in an unbiased manner without leaving parts out and go all the way to the present. But it happens all too often that parts of history are left out because of political agendas, ignorance, or lack of data. My understanding of the article is that the auther is pointing out one part of history that is consistently not taught (but should be).