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Cert racket and other attendant problems aside, there is little in the argument itself against banning HTTP. It is the same old argument - If we change things, things will break.

Yes, this is the nature of change. Not all change is good. But no good will ever be discovered without attempting change.

Could you elaborate? Do you have any possible alternatives in mind?

Also very curious to know why you need to work with the zone file on a daily basis?

YC has been branching out with it's investments with companies in areas like charities and biotech. But it's as of now a small percentage. I understand predicting anything into the future is mostly an exercise in failure, but what do you think YC's mix of portfolio will be like in 20 - 30 years?

I don't have any legal knowledge. Hope someone who does can shed some light on these questions:

Aren't antitrust laws designed to protect the customers from the power that a company can wield due to it's monopoly?

Isn't this what Youtube is doing? - Exercising it's power to 'force' her to move from ContentID to a new product.

And wouldn't this then also qualify as bait and switch? And isn't this according to some law illegal?

I do take your point. In fact I'm in the process of writing a small update with In App Purchases. With this update, it'll be free.

I suspect rc=1 applies to enterprise search.

I've found this to be consistent behaviour with Google. The number of search results tend to be totally unreliable. I don't know if they use the same search algorithm for gmail, but the same problem occurs there as well. Initially it might say 1-50 of 100 results, go to the second page and suddenly it's 50-100 of 2000. And on the next page 100-150 of "many".

Google search-hit count has never been fully accurate - I say this empirically from use over the years, and having tried to use the number of hits in some random experiment I can no longer remember.

Interesting. I was looking at:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEurop...

There are subdivisions like Germanic and Romance in the language family which do seem sufficiently far apart. However, there are quite a few subdivisions that seem very closely related.

I wonder if there is a way to draw entirely new subdivisions based on benefits of knowing languages from each subdivision.

Also, intuitively, what you say about knowing unrelated languages makes sense. I am curious however, if you had some deeper insight or knowledge into why (if true) this might be?

It's unclear if it's an isolate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_isolate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japonic_languages

Also from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language: "During the Heian period (794–1185), Chinese had a considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese."

I think that qualifies as somewhat related?

Let's take three families of languages:

((Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese),

(Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati),

(English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Latin))

Are you saying that knowing one from each set is more beneficial than knowing three from any one set?

I am somewhat amused by the multiple studies and articles on Bilingualism. Simply because I happen to be just one of the many pentalingual (if that's a term) people I know. My entire family speaks five languages. English, Hindi, Marathi, Kutcchi and Gujarati. Kutcchi and Gujarati are what I was born into. The rest are mandatory through school here (Mumbai, India). So anyone who went to school is at least trilingual. In fact most students are fluent in at least 3 languages by the time they are 6 or so.

If there is any good at all in being bilingual, what does it mean to be trilingual? Let alone pentalingual? Does the law of diminishing returns apply?

What you are saying is:

A: If an observation has no evidence, then the evidence is yet to come.

B: If an observation now has evidence, it validates the observation.

It's circular.

I re-read the article. Nowhere is it clear that there is even an attempt at invalidating science. He really does seem to be trying to use science to shore up his ideas. Another excerpt:

"This is the basis of Zen itself — that all life and existence is based on a kind of dynamic emptiness (a view now supported by modern science, which sees phenomena at a subatomic level popping in and out of existence in a ‘quantum froth’)."

At what age did people who died from smoking, first get infected? How many years did they live with the infection? Did they have the difficult but still viable option to quit smoking and survive a few more years or even have a full life?

How many people contracted HIV by hugging someone? Or being in the same environment for a prolonged period of time? How many contracted it because of unprotected sex, or perhaps sharing needles? Again, how long did they live with the disease?

How many people did not die from Diarrhoea and Malaria? Do we have medicines for these diseases?

It takes two weeks to die from Ebola from the moment you are infected. You don't have any choice in the matter. It has extremely low survival rates. We have no cure. It infects anyone and everyone. Being infected with Ebola is closer to being the victim of a random shooting than any of the diseases you mentioned.

And finally, in numbers alone, from the original article: "WHO and Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) both estimate that the number of people infected is doubling roughly every 20 days. This means that in 20 days 6,000 infections would become 12,000 and in 100 days, 6,000 infections would become about 200,000. In 200 days – early April 2015—there would be 6 million infections and in 400 days—roughly Halloween 2015—we would see over 6 billion people infected, nearly as many as the world’s total population."

He does go on to say: "Unsustainable trends will stop; that rate of new infections will slow down.[3] We will not see the world’s whole population infected with, and more than half of us dead of, Ebola before the end of 2015. It is possible that outbreak may end up largely confined to the three current epidemic countries in West Africa. Other parts of the developing world provide some hopeful signs."

So, there is hope. And it may not be as bad as the whole world being infected, but the possibility is much larger than 60, 25, 6 or 15 million. That too in one year, and not in 14.

That makes sense. Added.

I do the same thing - re-listen audiobooks. My favorites are Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry.

RIP Robin Williams.

You created a new account just to say this?

I can't locate your personal email in this post. Am I missing something? Or you edited the original post and the email in it is the personal email?

Interesting. Since I am admin on my Google Apps account, I assumed it must be for that. Guess all Apps accounts get it.

This happens when you are logged into google apps as admin.

There is some weight in looking at the article as being about deconstruction, what with the title saying so. However, the most important take away, I think, is the effects of isolation on any field of study: "It is a cautionary lesson about the consequences of allowing a branch of academia that has been entrusted with the study of important problems to become isolated and inbred."

That'd be an interesting exercise. Here's the fetched dump: Might be quicker to use: http://lab.varun.io/hn_all_time_top_links/top.json

To answer the questions around source and weighting etc:

1: I'm using https://www.hnsearch.com/api, which the page itself seems to indicate is used by HN for certain views.

2: The url is http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?prett... The API won't let you fetch more than 1000 results in total (using limit and start in tandem).

3: I'm fairly certain the API is fairly new because I never came across any results older than 2010 while fiddling with it. As such the couple of suggestions of weighting by active users might not return the desired balanced result.

4: I'm fetching the results at one go (all 1000) from the API through a cron the runs once every 48 hours.

:) I did notice it when I was making it. In fact the idea to link to google cache popped when I saw that the second highest link was dead, and figured there might be others.

Tweeting doesn't provide any link to download the app.

What is really exciting about this is that it could potentially be used as an ad hoc surface generator. A basic idea would be to have physical keys on the variety of piano apps available for iOS. An extreme example would be having terrain pop up of the screen in games like "the bard's tale", providing tactile knowledge of the game levels.

There isn't much information on the actual implementation on the website, but if you could make the surface depress-able or not depending on the context requirement, then the variety of applications is endless: Think of the blind, being able to use tablets to read with Braille(non depress-able), or the piano idea from above( depress-able).