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Yes: because the band is expanding both in-front of AND behind the ant, it will be much further on than X cm after X seconds.

(Also: this is not a problem concerned with the physics of rubber or biology of ants. This ant is immortal, the rubber infinitely stretchy, etc.)

Thirty days has September, April, June, and November;

All the rest have thirty-one except February alone which has twenty-eight;

Except on every fourth year, when it has 29;

Except on years divisible by 100, when it has 28 again;

Unless the year is also divisible by 1000, when it's back to 29.

Interestingly, the bricks-and-mortar Microsoft Stores seem to sell laptops with a version of Win 8 that has no crapware/bloatware and is optimized to run well; a lot like doing a fresh install.

Thanks for that Matt; I didn't see that recent post or your comment, so sorry for dragging you back here to repeat yourself.

Looks like I'm going to have to stop relying on searching 'hn' when using a different computer, and start typing in the full URL. First world problems are such a burden.

pg also commented that he doesn't want traffic from Google anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808990

In which case, he should add: <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> to the html head of every page.

(I have to say, that's a smart way of avoiding any Eternal Septembering, but it'd be a shame. I often use Google to find old HN threads that I vaguely remember from months or years ago.)

I found this old thread, where pg had blocked most of the Google bots, and it caused Google to think the site was down:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661

Could be a similar issue? I'll take a look.

That wasn't the reason for Digg's issue at all: Google had tried to manually deindex some pages from the site, but made a mistake and pulled the whole domain. They reincluded it shortly after.

The Panda update definitely pushed lazy/low-quality pages down the SERPs, but doesn't tend to deindex pages.

Also: while the page doesn't have any of its own unique content, it presumably still has high engagement and low bounce rate.

We use Google+ for loads of internal communication. It's easy to restrict posts to our organization via Google Apps.

While I've not seen any use to adopt G+ in a public way, it's been a phenomenal internal comms tool for async sharing, discussion and debate that isn't critical enough to go on an everyone@ email list.

Certain lighting (most often used in public bathrooms) makes it very hard to see your veins & shoot up.

The advantage of the traditional format is that it not only includes four fundamental constants (1, 0, e, i and π) but it also includes the four fundamental operators (addition, multiplication, exponential and equality.)

I guess that: e ^ i*tau + 0 = 1

would be a suitable hack to get that beauty back.

It's an incredibly quick way of getting something out there.

If agility matters, I've not found anything that beats it. You might not want your service running on there as you scale, but it's enough to get a few thousand users onboarded as a proof of concept.

I wrote up advice about the 'Rapportive Hack' last year, and published a spreadsheet to automate it: http://www.distilled.net/blog/miscellaneous/find-almost-anyb...

which others have taken and improved in creative ways.

This was one of my favorite versions, which checks against Gravatar: http://linksy.me/find-email

From the perspective of a non-NYC resident, this is terrible.

I had understood that bedrooms in the USA had to have a closet and a window/external door. Is that not the case?

This is tricky. I was shocked when I saw it, but this is really just a visualization of the terms they're looking at for spam detection.

I'm surprised they added this feature to the data-viz to be honest. People don't like being reminded that our emails are parsed, even if just for spam filtering.

As is often the case, Google has to find a line that allows legitimate brands to do their thing, but also make sure that smaller/less legitimate sites not exploit their systems.

Google won't tell Amazon/Target/Walmart, to stop selling a product or get banned from AdWords.

But a small retailer who wants to circumvent the rules could capture PPC traffic for a similar (but legitimate) product, and then funnel people to the 'banned' product page. Rather than Google policing the landing page's CTAs & on-page intent, they find it easier to just say "you can't sell that thing."

Here's what I would do if I were Google: simply not show any PPC units (paid or product listings) on the SERPs for 'Assisted Opening Knives'. Suddenly the whole issue goes away, and Google doesn't look hypocritical - since they're then not making money off a product class that they claim to find objectionable.

Are you telling me that enterprise grade version control, powered by machine learning about my organization's workflow is out of scope for a small, simple, free service? ;-)

You're absolutely correct though - yes - this quickly becomes a way bigger issue than I originally gave it credit for in my HN-esque knee-jerk comment. I'd still love to be able to leave comments on a card though.

I'm playing with this now, and it's enough to make me want an iPad/iPad mini.

However: it seems that when you're offline (eg: away from wifi / on a plane, etc) the app becomes Read Only. This means no adding to cards, creating new cards, etc.

Is there a technical limitation which means that changes made offline couldn't just be sync'ed back later on?

Here in Seattle, the pedestrian signals are serious business. A colleagues dad was given a $70 ticket for crossing on Stop.

Going back to London / NYC, I always forget to just do it and walk across whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Dan, I was looking into anonymous sending options recently.

Two quick questions: - "don't mind having to pay"; what might you be willing to spend? $5/month? $50? 2c per email? - "they have to work very hard to get my real identity"; get-a-court-order hard? Or harder than that?

Robots.txt is only an indication of which pages should/shouldn't be visited.

Instructions about which pages can be included in a search engine's index (and hence linked to from results pages) would go in a meta tag on the relevant page.

Very large sites would love to see a 'noindex' parameter in robots.txt; sadly it's not there.

A friend from Texas discovered this whilst on a road trip, when he arrived at the Canadian border. He had to turn around and drive home, because of an bounced cheque from ~a year beforehand - that he'd never heard anything about since paying it.

I'm not the author, so I don't know any further details of this situation, but as I understand it:

The Reconsideration Request is _explicitly_ for use by people who knowingly broke Webmaster Guidelines or (as in this case) who used the same (albeit spammy) techniques that loads of other people were involved with and then later realized that these were outside the guidelines.

I wasn't involved with this, but wanted to share.

Alongside the new Microsoft.com, it's great to have another big name site that's built on responsive design principles, for when people ask if anyone is actually using it.

A user's home was trashed:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-air...

I've been looking into this.

Just as a rough idea: what monthly price would you find bearable?

Fixed; thanks.

PS: you wanna be my CTO? I think this things going to blow up. Obviously you'll have to work from my garage with no pay for a few years, but you'll get a huge payout when we exit.

Interesting, thanks.

Seems like I need a much wider image for the BG on mobile devices; I guess this is down to the very high resolution of iPhone screens?

Also, looks like the webfont character in the H! didn't work either.

Also: there's a great business model here....

I sell advertising space in the outbound phone calls to someone like a dating site. "Hi, here's your excuse to leave if you want. But next time, use SomeOtherDatingSite.com to find a better match!"

See, it's a foolproof plan.

It 'only' costs four cents per use, thanks to Twilio. (1c per inbound/outbound text message and 2c for the call.)

I'm fortunate to be able to put a bit of cash into a slush fund for giving away things like this for free. (I have other free apps that are costing me a LOT more to run, though still in Beta.)