skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember getting told by a lawyer that you shouldn't even say 'sorry' after a car accident, because that is an admission of guilt which would damage any defense against lawsuits that might be brought against you.
From the brief research I've done, Baidu never owned baidu.tw - their official URL is taiwan.baidu.com. Just take a quick look at archive.org - it used to be a web host/domain registry.

Flagged.
But here we are talking about aging people in China and relatively young poeple in India.
It's a public company's fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of it's stockholders, which in most cases is profit-centered (considering that the major holders of Google are investment funds and groups). It looks like after hours trading of GOOG is trending lower.
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My central concern is the population in China will age very fast. What if there is no much young people (even compared to U.S.), and old people is not rich enough to become potential consumer?
Strictly speaking, though, comments aren't part of the HTML document -- the tagging pair < + ! indicates that you are stepping out of the HTML document to provide SGML content, in this case, a comment about the HTML document. Yes, that is splitting hairs, but the point of the SGML markup is to signal to the user agent how documents and document particles should be handled (the doctype is an example of this), and the SGML comment tag is a "do not process this particle" handling instruction. It really shouldn't be accessible to the user agent at all.
That's brilliant. I guess Eric Schmidt has finally realised that there are legitimate reasons for privacy after all.
I have a G1.

Android apps I use:

DoggCatcher -- podcast fetcher and player, mostly for NPR and various tech shows. News on my schedule. I've used this since before Google Listen was available and haven't compared them, though many say DoggCatcher's better.

Pandora for music pseudo-radio.

Google Maps (great for traffic), GMail, Search, Voice Search (works surprisingly well), Goggles (less useful than I'd hoped), built-in music player for MP3's, camera, contacts, alarm clock, YouTube.

AndroZip for file {de,}compression and filesys browsing.

Dolphin browser, better than stock browser.

Watched a few TV show episodes on TV.com. Quite nice, I hope they expand their offerings.

ConnectBot for ssh access. Remote Desktop for remote Windows login over VPN during emergencies. Had a VNC viewer, forget which one, before last factory wipe.

Icviewer for PDF files.

AcroBible for full NIV and Portuguese-AA bible editions w/ commentary.

Google Voice for very cheap international calls.

Had a Facebook app installed at one time, I'll get back to it when I have the patience.

What I'd REALLY like: a way to reformat and fetch AT&T U-Verse DVR shows onto the phone from anywhere to watch them while away from home.
Dodgeball is one example where the team did not view it that way. The founders were excited at the time of acquisition with the directions they thought they could go with Google. After the acquisition, they found it difficult to get resources or traction within Google to improve Dodgeball. This led to them leaving.

Maybe today's teams coming in feel differently, since the Dodgeball story seems to be well known. Plus articles like this one.

That being said, there are plenty of examples where an acquisition by Google did take off. Android is the most high profile right now.
Baidu.com.tw or baidu.tw has nothing to do with Baidu.com
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Quick interjection on my own question:

I just started looking at http://outright.com. I've been playing with it for the last 30 minutes or so. Seems like a pretty nice system. It sucked in all of my PayPal history from last year, and even properly expensed PayPal's fees. First service I've used that did that.
We use EC2 for our site and our system monitoring that checks TCP connectivity on our elastic ip every few minutes reports outages almost every day now. Have tried the forums but no one seems to know how to troubleshoot this.
Mac only? Why not make it a web app? It certainly doesn't need any OS functions (beyond saving files). Also, I think if I really want to focus on writing, I want it to autosave and not bother me with formatting and such. Great idea, but would be usable with some changes.
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It should be noted that there's already a precedent for comments having real meaning: IE's conditional comments, which many sites use to apply different stylesheets to IE users.
An email address would help =)
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We use the crypto obfuscation+licensing package from http://www.ssware.com and it works well for us
Hey,

I totally get your point about this, and I do work for one of those corporates, and I've seen the heavy use of IE6.

For us, building the app in our spare time, making IE6 allowances just wouldn't have been practical for getting the app built.

Isn't Chrome fairly easy to install with regular privileges on Windows?

—Paul
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Hey Alex,

Awesome! Thanks for the kind words. We'll probably iterate on the homepage in the next few days: there are a few issues with it.

Let us know what you think, and what we can do to to improve.

—P
The interesting thing is that the registrant is Chinese:

Domain Name: baidu.tw
Registrant:
zheng
xiaodo xiaodo zxd625@21cn.com
+86.75583146589
+86.75583146590
Shenzhen,Guangdong,China Shenzhen,Guangdong,China
sz, gd
CN

The address resolves to 66.102.13.103 or .106 which is owned by google.

So if it is a prank, which I doubt then it is just at the DNS level.
The Atlantic's James Fallows ran a piece last year about how the Great Firewall works. Long read, but quite interesting.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall
Ignoring the technical issues, Google doesn't want your free Gmail encrypted end-to-end because they rely on searching your email to serve you targeted ads (and deal with spam).
The value prop right now is:

1) A place to put your meeting notes. So, rather than searching through Google Docs etc. there's an implicit understanding that the objects are notes. Subtle I guess, but I'm a big fan of focussed apps as an alternative to kitchen sink apps.
2) Keeping notes collected. We're week on this right now, but I'm looking forward to being able to click on a project and seeing all my meetings/notes from that project.

—P
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I had some Skype credit expire on me. I don't intend to join in on this madness though. Skype sent me about 7 emails about this. Something like two months before expiration, one month before expiration, then two weeks, one week, then 5 days, then every day for the next 5. To save your credit all you have to do is make a call, it can last for less than a second if you want. I think they give reasonable notifications of expiring credit.
test

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7688415363

test
Wikileaks says:

Gossip inside google China is gov hackers found infiltrating google source code repository; gmail attacks an old issue.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7688415363

EDIT: I see "est" mentioned this rumor, too.

BTW, a CNN producer is tweeting that Google CN workers may have been sent home early. Conspiracy theorists would say that supports the idea of an attack from the inside. Or maybe Google just had mercy on its staff and knew they wouldn't get any work done today anyway.

http://twitter.com/joCNN/status/7702905501
I agree that it would be better to make this a mutli-OS app or an AIR app for that matter. It actually -does- autosave and if you don't care about the formatting, don't hover over the right side :)
Great to see this app mentioned here. I use it for writing articles for my blog and it works very well. Previously I've been using writeroom, but I've found this app to work better for me (I can concentrate better).
Except what the bigger business will actually be providing is just selling a cheap copies of the same product on razor thin margins.

The end goal of business is not to serve customers. It's to create more share holder value. If you can do that best by serving customers then so be it. If you can do it better by dirty tactics then don't think people will think twice about doing so.
either bug or egg, but it realy teleports goats too fast.
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Rumor is that Google China staff were sent home early today http://twitter.com/joCNN/status/7702905501
Lovely. Still can't use it on any machine I own though. Also, it didn't help that the video does not mention autosave, but it almost exclusively focused on the right side hover menu. I love the concept though. Might build something like it. My solution to this is using a separate screen for things that need concentration, and a smaller screen for all the potentially distracting things like email and browsing.
Well, for one, if someone doesn't specify something you should have enough initiative to make an informed decision on your own instead of, as this author is suggesting, acting like a conceded ass.

Two the "valid point" could be summed up in a sentence not two pages of text. Hence I felt is was a waste of time to read as there wasn't anything that was particularly insightful and the writing wasn't particularly good.
It might be easy enough to install (I'm not sure of the security protocols there), but I guess it just adds a little more friction to the process of spreading use of the app to other people. The install process is one thing, but needing multiple browsers open simultaneously would probably be another issue.

But I understand the compromises necessary coming from working in your spare time. I personally would never have known that it doesn't work on IE6 were it not for the fact that I was at work when I first tried your app. Your target market could very well be the non-corporate type anyway, so it might be a moot point.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to future iterations. It looks great so far.
Ask HN: how hard is it to maintain your own clone of HN ?
There's a site I want to start - and I think the code behind news.yc (http://github.com/nex3/arc if I'm right) would be a nice fit for that.

I'm not an arc-ist at all, hence my question: is there anyone running its own copy, without much knowledge of Arc ? Has it been hard to tweak, maintain, support ?

(I definitely appreciate the learning opportunity it would represent - but I really want to be able to sustain the site, first)

Thoughts?
I'll be honest. I didn't know who Brittany Murphy was until she went all over the news networks. Still don't really know -- didn't ready any of the articles.

Meanwhile, I've been consuming news about Google.CN for the past four hours. Ought to go to bed, but this is so fascinating!
Yes, Erlang's syntax is something you can still complain about a little bit even after having gotten comfortable with it. It's just not one of the language's strong points in my opinion. Of course, for a competent programmer, it's nothing more than a minor annoyance and is no reason not to use Erlang for projects where it would be a good fit.
I feel inspired to want to go work for Google now....
The level by which Google intends to "negotiate" with the Chinese Gov't is truly bizarre. On one hand, I'm hoora-ing for someone finally growing some balls, but on the other hand, I know from experience that - "negotiate" with the Chinese on Chinese turf and the Chinese will always win, especially with a company as inconsequential (in China) as Google. It's also the first time I can recall outside of the Eastern Bloc where cyberattacks have spurred a policy change. I feel like I'm reading a sci-fi novel...
"$600 million in 2010 revenues"
But what's the profit, i.e. less the costs?
And in what currency and which country's banks is that profit (if any)?
Once the Chicago-Kansas City trains fill up, you get to St. Louis via a Chicago-New Orleans train. That is much, much more expensive for some reason.
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Almost same here - I send all the receipts each quarter, pay my VAT and other taxes based on what my accountant says. My accountant also does annual report.

If it's useful to you, I use freckle (http://letsfreckle.com) and/or google calendar (see http://blog.logeek.fr/2009/11/27/how-to-use-google-calendar-...) for time-tracking/invoicing.
I also welcome comments on how hard it was to customize the look or behaviour, if you did so.
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A CNN Beijing Bureau Associate Producer tweeted "Craziness on #Baidu. Searched sensitive term+got huge results list, that never happens. 20min later results GONE, error msg back up."

http://twitter.com/joCNN/status/7703269253
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I found this while researching a vacation for my partner and I. Looks like they have special kinds of gay travel options.
job you just don't quit

Did you really mean "just don't quit", and not "don't just quit"?

If there really are jobs in Japan that you are obligated to stay at for life, that would seem to be a pretty large impediment to growth.
Actually, not all email passes in plain text - a decent chunk (although doubtless a minority) uses SMTP over TLS.

Many servers have it configured, and if it's available on the destination almost all MTAs will use it to send mail to other servers, even if they don't support receipt of mail in this way.
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One could argue they may have purposely done it this way to protect the Chinese staff from blame for this decision, hoping that the Chinese gov't wouldn't prosecute Google.CN staff because the "fault" for the decision lies back in the USA.

(FWIW, some reports say Google.cn already is uncensored, which may be against the law. Thus the staff could be at risk.)
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Why are you surprised? Chinese companies steal designs and pirate US products as a matter of routine.
There are many rights that can in fact not be signed away.

You have no idea what you are talking about, do you?
http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/
FWIW, Eric Schmidt was part of a dinner Secretary of State Hilary Clinton hosted just last week with tech leaders. And Clinton did issue a statement today saying she has a speech planned on internet freedoms Jan. 21.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-liebman/perspective-on-d...
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135105.htm
The social norm for men who work in my status (seishain (正社員), company employee) is that we have essentially guaranteed employment to retirement and that in return for this we work extraordinarily diligently for our employers until retirement.

My relationship to this social norm as a foreigner is a little weird.
"an attack from the inside"
Of course it was. China is an insider's society.
But they want users (I think).

Or do they also buy pure tech startups - the software equivalent to a fabless semiconductor firm (e.g. ARM) - just a patent and a demo?
I think you need both talent and persistence to be successful. And I agree that talent is generally overrated (but needed).

If you have some talent and also some persistence in things which you like, than you may still have some problems: you need some time management strategy. This is by far the key issue for me: What am I really interested in? Shall I dig deeper in that subject? Or shall I go and learn new things in which I am a beginner and not THAT interested? Shall I do things which I am really interested in, or shall I work in a day job for more money, to make enough money to take care of my family? Shall I practice creating algorithms, which I am pretty good at right now but not the best, or shall I learn more about marketing, in which I am a beginner? Shall I choose a hobby project in a theoretical territory like creating an interesting programming language, or shall I execute my other idea which is not THAT interesting intellectually, but still interesting enough, and can earn me money if successful?

So I think the key is not only persistence, but to choose what to do, to find your style, to find out what is the thing you are really talented/interested in, what you want to excel at. Hacking is still a very broad territory in itself. You cannot be the best in every aspect of it even if you practice for years or decades. To reach a very high level the key is to choose what to learn and practice very cleverly (or luckily).
> I like the idea of the web being https by default.

I don't if it means no referers.
Google, Citing Attack, Threatens to Exit China
It's bullshit. The man tightens his lips and pushes up his chin every time he doesn't believe what he just said. In particular:

Drummond: "With what we know now - that there's been an attack that's targeted towards Chinese dissidents, we just no longer, in good conscience, can continue to censor ourselves."

Kudlow: "You're saying those conversations [with the Chinese government] are ahead of you, not behind you?"
Drummond: "I think that's correct."

Drummond: "Our revenue from the China business are truly immaterial [face relaxed], so it's not going to have an effect on our core business, one way or the other. [lips tight]"

And, of course, the last bit about this being something about "noble, American, capitalism". But what's more upsetting, IMO, is how painfully obvious Kudlow's avoidance of the question regarding Google's talks with China between December and now have been. He plays along like this is a move without any Google/China back-story. What crap!
We use xero.com.

Your best solution might depend what tax jurisdiction you're in, though.
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From what I have read this article has some merit. It seems the breach/hacks occurred from within the Google shanghai office. This is a possible reason for them saying that the china office had no notice of the US announcement. I know nothing however, and am just watching the spin...
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It certainly is. When we moved from Aus to Europe, we shopped around for broadband plans and I kept asking what the download limit was. Lots of blank looks. I used to have a 30GB/month plan in Aus. They don't have limits here.

In fairness, Europe and US have large populations accessing data over many links, so the cost is spread wide. Australia accesses much US data over few links and must bear the cost of that. Data is simply more expensive in Australia.

The telco's have probably had discussions on how to make local data not part of a cap, but it would be too hard to explain to normal people how to ensure that the data is locally hosted.
> What leverage does Google have?

Consider that Google owns about 65% of the search market worldwide (http://www.businessinsider.com/bing-who-google-worldwide-sea...). In addition, they enjoy a tremendous amount of goodwill - they are really seen as the good guys by a lot of people.

If Google wants to play tough, they have a lot to work with. At the very least, the Chinese regime would be launching a PR nuke on itself.
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I've toyed around with it for a couple of days about two minor releases ago, it was quite stable but under load that might be a different situation.

My lisp knowledge is around -270 degrees so I had a real hard time understanding the code but bit by bit it started to clear up and once you get past that it looked very compact.

The only person that ran a real production clone of HN with substantial traffic that I'm aware of was nickb, together with prakash and miles under 'newmogul.com', since then this has been taken over by markenomics.com, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of activity there.

As for stability under load, from what I can tell by observing HN the server goes down several times an hour and has a script wrapped around it to keep it up or something like that. Every time it goes down it re-reads the state from a bunch of files and then seems to work quite well until the next crash. The crashes - as far as I can see - rarely lead to data loss though there have been some rare instances of comments getting mixed up in the wrong threads.

I hope this helps.
Yeah, it's something I wanted to see as an open-source app. Adobe Air looks good in theory but it's closed source.

Too bad this one is OSX-centered, hopefully we'll see a Chrome-based Rich Internet Application.
Presumably Google would decrypt your mail for you.
Actually, I think it's kind of interesting. Granted, it was impolite to crosspost the comment from boundless without asking first, but this could be an interesting thought process. I'm kind of wondering what conclusions andreyf was trying to draw.

Edit: After a little thought, I think you may be blowing this up a little bit. He did delete the comment when boundless objected and it wasn't exactly a work of art or anything.
That said, Chrome is ridiculously fast at loading scripts. In absolute time, Chrome took an average of 12 milliseconds to load jQuery in the baseline test. The next closest was WebKit with 36 milliseconds. In the “string” test, Chrome takes about 50 msec compared to WebKit’s 45 msec.

http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/272853740/cut-your-javascrip...
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Dragonfly is a Rack app to handle image resizing on the fly, usually with S3 as the file store.
As Mark Hall noted on his blog (http://mhallville.com/2010/01/13/google-china/) the debate seems to have polarized between two camps: the moralists and the cynics.

Lost in the noise is the fact that the Chinese government is not longer only censoring and intermittently blocking Google sites, they are now actively attacking the infrastructure. That has a business cost.
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Thanks, that's interesting. However, I'm a little confused about the categorisation. It looks like the categories add up to 100%. If that is the case, the category "blogs" doesn't make sense in my view. All other categories characterise the subject of the content whereas "blogs" says something about the publication channel. In my view, there is no sensible way to label a blog post about technology either "technology" or "blogs".
I agree, but are you ready to pay what it really costs to make things?