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I found The Dreaming Void a few years ago while wandering a library desperately trying to find a good science fiction book to read - none of the suggestions I got from friends were there. I'm so glad that none of the suggestions were there.

[Pandora's Star](http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0330518917) by Peter F. Hamilton. A old book, yes, but a part of some of the best science fiction I've read.

Gah! I hope not

Interesting point. At first I was gonna say semantics, but in this case it matters. Guess they need to phrase it better when they start quashing the convictions.

Guilty of breaking the law of the time? Semantics? Guess you could say "he broke a law. There shouldn't have been such a law, but unfortunately it was there, and he broke it."

So isn't this new petition kinda irrelevant?

In that blog post you point out that there was a legislation in the British parliament that would roll back convictions of gays, and that it was close to becoming a law. Whatever happened to it?

Alan Turing's contributions to science and the war time effort were immense, and immeasurable. However, granting a pardon to him and him alone won't mean much. He was guilty. The law which he broke was draconian, no doubts about it, but it was the law at that time. I do not think he was the only Briton who was oppressed because of that particular law.

If there is a pardon, and there should be one, it should be granted to everyone who was convicted under that law.

Nice, love this game. There is a similar(very similar) game on my cellphone involving a helicopter, but without any enemies or things to collect. This is definitely much more fun than that.

Just for kicks I searched for 'search engine' on Google - once on Chrome(logged into my Google account), and once on Firefox(not logged in). Didn't get Google on the first page on either searche, did get google custom search engine though(which is a completely different thing). Duck Duck Go was in the first page both the times, as were Bing, Yahoo, some engine called Dogpile(never heard of 'em but it was #2 on Chrome), the Wikipedia article for Web search engine and a few other links. There was a list of popular search engines at the bottom of the page in Chrome, DDG wasn't there, but lots other were, and it was compiled from other sources.

Don't see much discrimination there. Especially when they don't even list their search engine on the first page

Chrome search screenie - http://goo.gl/HffYt Firefox search screenie - http://goo.gl/nUe7t

Try searching for something using their api, and compare with websearch. There is a world of difference between the search results. IIRC they aren't allowed to share results from some of their other sources via their api, so you can get a good idea of how much they take from other sources and how much from their own index.

But that is a non-issue as far as I'm concerned. As long as the results are relevant and they got them legally, then who cares where or how they came from?

I don't know what he is talking about. I have my search engine settings page open and there are more than 20 different search engines listed that I can make default with one click, including Duck Duck Go!

I like the idea and philosophy behind Duck Duck Go, but maybe improving the search results, which are no where near as good as Google's results, would help bring more traffic than whining about non-issues.

The idea is to have one password, with a salt(or service name) for all services. To make it a little more secure, you could set up different levels - email and social, news sites, games..., basically any way you want to do it, and have a different passphrase for each level. When changing passwords, you just need to change the salt of that particular service.

Could use different passwords for different levels, no need to different hashing algorithms.

And its pretty much the same thing isn't it - different salt vs bumping the site name.

I got a similar idea when I saw this link. But I think it would be better to have it as a browser extension that automatically hashes the password/passphrase for you, depending upon the site. Different salt for different website, that changes on the click of a button(to deal with enforced password expiration, or password changes), and maybe a different hashing algorithm for different levels of sites.

Well that depends.

How many people know about it - is it a secret that only I know or a few select people know about, or is it common knowledge.

Is it inevitable or can something be done to stop it or mitigate it's effect? And if something can be done, can I help?

And finally, does the world ending mean that end of all Earthly life? No Moon or Mars base, or one or more spaceships with humans on them.

Looks like Tim Cook is trying his hand at the distortion field

The Udacity CS253 course is geared towards making web applications, was taught by Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit - http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253/

Other than that, pick a web framework and start going through the examples in the documentation.

4 edges o.0

You mean to say that under the tunnels, that is under all of the black, there is more? And there is more stuff in the air too?

Ima kill Randall Munroe >_<

Phew, found both the edges, traversed all of the tunnels. Finally I'm free!

Also, really impressed. The way the tunnels on the left side met up with the Mario tunnel was pretty cool.

Translation of Apples pathetic attempt to compete, not by innovation, but by litigation - Waaahan, Samsung made a better phone, quick call my lawyers.

Go read this before blindly supporting Apple and it's patents - http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=9227

Also, patent for rectangle with rounded edges, or slide to unlock! I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's next patent is on how to wank. That should make it some serious dough

Where would I go if HN shutdown for 1 month - reddit

Would I come back - definitely!

Weird, usually when I submit a link that's already submitted I'm redirected to the original submission. It posted so I thought I was the first

I have had private chats using G+ posts and I attest that they never turned public. Once you make a post, you can't change it's visibility. You can only delete it, or lock it down - comments or reshares.

Though I think gPlus + Wave would be the ideal such environment for me.

Erm, care to point out a few of the things in the article that are false? I could find none. The article does not try to explain what India is, but why India doesn't win as many medals in the Olympics as are expected from a nation this big. And it's does a pretty decent job of that IMO.

Recently Google started people with Google accounts to update their birthdays, promising a surprise --> https://plus.google.com/u/0/116113014152499702246/posts/9SF8... So I think a personal Google doodle is that surprise.

It seems like what you want is a learning resource that is geared towards having the learner building something real. In that case you should try Udacity's CS253(http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253/CourseRev/apr20...). It's a 7 week course that'll teach you how to build a blog using Python and Google App Engine and the video lectures have been recorded by Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit. If you want to learn LISP, then there is Land of Lisp(http://landoflisp.com/), which teaches you to make games using LISP, and for Python is the free to download Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python(http://inventwithpython.com/)

Ah, so this was the surprise they were talking about. Nice.

Well it all comes down to what metrics you use to decide the importance of social networks, doesn't it.

If you're judging by the ability to interact with your real life contacts online then facebook is probably the best social network(gah!)

If you think that meeting like minded people & having awesome interactions with them is more important, then maybe Google+ is the most important social network.

If you agree with Jane McGonigal that games can help make the world a better place, then WoW is probably the most important social network.

But if you think that collaboration on software is more important(and facebook & WoW are softwares), then GitHub is probably the most important social network. It all depends on what you rate higher.

And putting myself in the shoes of the writer, I think it's the end product that comes out of social networks, is the metric he's pointing to. While other social networks directly affect the lives of more people, much much more than GitHub can ever hope to, the products coming out of GitHub are, or would soon affect more people than any single social network could hope to do.

Someone out there is building the next facebook, the next WoW, the next Linux, or maybe the next Google and it's likely that GitHub will play a part in it.

Keeping that in mind, I'd say that yes, GitHub is maybe the most important social network on the internet.

Well you haven't mentioned how much math you're familiar with. But I'll assume that you know school level mathematics and are looking to learn more about the math mostly used in computer science. Get Concrete Mathematics( http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Comput... ) by Graham, Knuth & Patashnik - It's based on the course taught at Stanford since 1970 & it's really really good. Another book I think you should get is Meta Math: The quest for Omega( http://www.amazon.com/Meta-Math-Quest-Gregory-Chaitin/dp/140... ) by Gregory Chaitin. It's not really a math course book, and is mostly the authors take on his favorite topics in math, but if you want to improve your thinking process then this book will definitely give you a different perspective.