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Google ads are displayed in the right column by default, and you can't simply buy your way to the search results column. Google displays the ad there only when it considers the ad as relevant as a search result, and relevance judgement is something you already trusted Google for.

Patio's ad is pretending to be curated and endorsed by the site where the ad is shown, and it is displaying a fake rating pretending to be from the users of this site. It's also way more similar to the non-ad text on that page.

First, you shouldn't judge anything by the worst of its kind.

Second, why I keep seeing related stories piling one misunderstanding on top of another on Hacker News?

The submissions go there first, and bubble up to HN main page only if they get enough upvotes.

This kind of question is pretty useless as a poll, if pg shows actual statistics I think it would be pretty far off.

Can you normalize it against total text volume? Number of mentions always goes up with time as HN grows, % of posts mentioning will be a better measure of mindshare.

I also think Google broke and still breaks rules, just your example is not very good. Interesting that this reply of yours is upvoted over paul, pg and tlb in this thread.

Not sure about memory efficiency. You can use __slots__ in Python or custom data structures (e.g. blist) if you have specific needs.

FWIW: I like the comments with hidden scores better than before.

Our daily life seems to rely on literacy much more than it relies on numeracy. You can only know how to add and subtract (mostly money) and you will still function all right in your daily life and a great variety of jobs. Not so much if you have difficulty reading. This seems to be slowly changing in the future, but if you consider the learning curve, mathematics has a much steeper one compared to reading and writing well.

Does anyone have a better explanation?

I used to think that too, but it's not true. Stock price matters for the existing shareholders, including founders and employees, who may need to cash out for personal reasons. The stock price is an instrument to align the interests of many.

max((s[start:end] for start in xrange(len(s)) for end in xrange(start, len(s)) if s[start:end]==s[start:end][::-1]), key=len)

Tornado also wraps Facebook API and has authentication with Facebook, Google, Twitter and everyone else.

Try talking to your close friends about how the world is and how you'd like it to be (no need to get into details about leaving it). Maybe you'll find you can do something about it, albeit small.

I have looked at those search APIs and they don't let you write your own ranking formula. They just give you back 10-20-30 top results. There is no info on term frequency, inverted document frequency, pagerank or any other component of a decent ranking formula. So you can rank yourself the pages from your own crawls, but you can't merge this nicely with the API results.

If I were Garbiel, I would merge them in some crude way basically assuming my results are better, and add those URLs to the list for my crawler. The top URLs for all one and two word queries aren't that many.