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Thanks! I can parse any applications really since it reads the data from the display buffer. Web browsers was just an example, it is application agnostic at the core.
If you could parse out other applications I could see it being a hit.
Could you elaborate?
The prime difference is that the proposed feature would rate the stories according to HN algorithm (taking threshold into account) not chronological order as 'new' does. It'd give a filtered-out 'new' section. As in, a story that is upvoted by 2-3 people and has made to second/third page of HN but never makes it to front page. Few good stories deserve wider audiences IMO.
Great feature!
I had a suggestion: This feature gives you stories 'above' a certain threshold. I think it would help a lot if there was an option for stories 'below' certain threshold.
Rationale behind it is that lots of folks here (like me) don't check the New Submissions section regularly and lots of good stuff never gets much love. If there was an option for generating a front page for stories below certain points, a user can review them and upvote worthy ones, which eventually can feature on normal front page. Any opinions?
Every time I read something from aforementioned blog, I finished with a feeling of disappointment. No insights, no deep thought process, just plain apple-fanboyism.
No they don't. In both cases, this patent is cited by the examiner, who probably had good sense of humor.
I went through both Samsung and MSFT patents that 'refer' to this patents. This patent, in both cases, is cited by the examiner. So, my idea behind that is the examiner either didn't like his job or had a good sense of humor about whole patent process!
You're free to classify me as foolish for this, but before clicking the link I honestly expected this to be one of thought provoking articles (as there are often ones here on a sunday), with an intentionally absurd headline.
Not to beat a dead horse, but could we be any nearer to reddit? I wish I could hear from people who upvoted this one.
It would help if fellow HNers read through the content a bit before upvoting something quickly. Here is a project which was last updated more than 2 years ago (no changes in source/tutorial/wiki in 2 years). There's no working implementation to support the claim. Any sane programmer would highly doubt existence of a (faster_than_C && safer_than_java) claim. Why are we as a community are becoming more and more obsessed with sensational link-baits?
You said you found the writing style immature, but have you considered the job ads of the companies OP might have applied to? "Xbox's PS3 Nerf guns Starcraft/Rock band competitions !!!".. How mature is that?
I am not talking about the 20% interviews where it didn't workout, but the other 80% where there was no reply, I am sure many of those job ads won't classify as "Mature" in your view. Some of the best programmers i know can't write even proper English sentences, since its not their first language. Do you think they are any less able to do the job? And does it disqualify from expecting even a reply to their application?
its 40k, not 20k.
umm, what I meant when I said there have been attempts is - those seem to be not full hearted with no outside support. E.g. there's no open-source social network project I know of which plans to run through people's contribution (financial and technical).
I completely agree, but on the other hand, facebook was at one point of time far behind myspace. one of the reasons it became a huge success is that the myspace had even bigger issues with privacy etc when facebook was considered nice and trustworthy. And its only after facebook became clear market leader, the user backlash started/became frequent.
One would wonder if there were any code reviews in place or not? Any code that has monetary effects has to go through a series of code reviews (saying from my experience working with a client in banking industry) and tests. I would be curious as to how the 'bug' went undetected until deployment!
They are too young of a company to be pulling this sort of seedy stuff.
I do not think this kind of seedy behavior is appropriate for company of any age, young or old. If anything, a company should get more responsible as it gets older.
Ironically, I was watching this video recently when Calacanis was talking about "How to kill Google".
Correct me if I am wrong. I think I have found a way to track sales of both the models on sale.
Depending on how many items you ask for in order screen, it lets you go ahead or displays "stock unavailable".
For the Mettalic Silver, It seems 57 items are available at the time of writing. and for Black Anodized, it is 108. I have to take a reasonable assumption now to get the sales numbers (may be 200 at beginning?).
The following statement made by the Author doesn't sound like a programmer (leave C++ expert alone).
"I think I once managed to read all the way through Stroustrup’s The C++ Programming Language and have looked at at least parts of The Design and Evolution of C++. But I have never done any serious programming in it."
All I can say is, any programmer worth his mettle would make such a statement... Going through Stroustrups's book isn't possible if you're not interested in C++ programming (given that its not part of For Dummies series), IMHO. It is exactly like comparing it to a Novel. A programming guide is not about reading, its about learning.
I guess the whole backlash against search results was Content Farms outsmarting Google (atleast temporarily) and distorting results.
Google's search results in 2000 were better than any competitor or Google itself 2 years before. But the same thing can't be said with certainty when comparing 2010's search results to 2008's.
As they say, fifth time is a charm!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604933
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553937
<something that catches people's attention> + 1000memories.
Few other examples: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862700
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005187
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598485
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985340
I used to like the idea of 1000 memories back when I heard it for first time. But the aggressive PR posts on HN has ruined it for me. I never visited it again since I felt 1000memories' publicity rather relied on emotional exploitation (that is a strong word to use, but I can't think of a better one).
Pardon if I deviate a bit from the main topic.
I live in Ireland, and it was quite disheartening when the last budget cuts appeared. Taxes were increased across the board. If you were earning 25,000 Euros a year, you would pay an extra 1000 Euros in tax (and surprisingly enough, this low earner class was the worst beaten income group by hike in tax in percentage terms - 4+% more tax!).
Since its general consensus that banks, govt. etc are at fault (to which I agree), I want to say something which generally is ignored, just a theory. The Celtic Tiger years, due to low Corporation Tax rates, have had the similar impact on the economy as Resource Curse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse). Ireland got rich so fast with all the incoming money that lots of careless spending by government as well as people was ignored. The property prices went up crazy, things became awful expensive etc etc. When nobody cared about how much govt spent or how much banks are landing real estate developers, this was bound to happen IMHO. If Ireland had gotten rich slowly and on its own (by increasing exports, productivity etc), such rackless spending bubble economy would probably never have manifested itself.
One difference between Google's vs MS's approach. While Google's first post was much more rational (with proofs) and convincing to tech minds, this post seems more a politician's attack on Google with vague and scary sounding words like "click fraud". Only if some evidence for the above "click fraud" were supplied!!
I guess that's best possible defense for them at the moment.
"We do not copy Google's results (however, we do use them in 'creative' ways!)"
Oh, I thought interface was pretty difficult to navigate until I learned that I could use typical 'game controls' like arrow keys or a,s,w,d to navigate!
Small correction: Accenture was incorporated in Bermuda. But moved to Ireland in 2009, again for the tax purposes though!
very useful tool, thanks for this!
One suggestion: It would be great if you could improve color scheme overall.. espcially on the result page, its difficult to read with dark grey bg and blue fonts.
Its convertible debt, meaning that whenever the startup raises the A series funding, at how much ever valuation, SV angel gets 150k worth percentage stock in the startup.
e.g. If the A series funding was taken at $1.5 Million valuation, the SV share in the company would be 10%. No valuation ceiling, no discount. Lower the A series valuation, better off SV angel are.
did you try with &pws=0 (personalized search disable) option with the query? That solved the problem for me. I do not see efreedom on top for this query.
Adding &pws=0 turned the personalized search off and hence got rid of the efreedom.
Also, I cleared my web history and searched again. The results are same now signed in or signed out. Problem solved! :)
Thanks!
UPDATE: I am even more surprised to see that when I logged out of my account and searched again on google.ie, one of the efreedom disappeared!!
So, does this mean that Google search now takes into account my past search result clicks (or rather mis-clicks)? Or ranks contents in someway that proves efreedom is somehow more relevant to me?