skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outlook has basically proved this interface works well and I think it could be applied to other conversation types like Facebook. As in Outlook, making this an option would be cool.
Looks good. I just registered for Instapaper. Thanks Marco!
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As a part of that, there would be an ad at the top that temporarily "pushed down" the content for a few seconds, before pulling back up. Nothing was covered. Nothing prevented readers from getting the content. And the "pushdown" ad only showed once per visitor and never again.

This is precisely why I use an ad-blocker. I don't really mind animated gifs - I've learned to tune those out. But ads - flash ads are the usual guilty party - that actually fuck with the content actively piss me off, and they are why I have both adblock and flashblock.
Google is large enough that I assume they keep an eye on every language of note. As I understand it, they use a number of different languages for their various needs.
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You're right. When many people don't consider those sorts of projects ads then we're doing our job right. Good ads shouldn't be considered ads, but they should be good content.

And, yes, we do have conventional ads on the site -- and I'm guessing you're not a regular Techdirt reader (which is totally cool, by the way), but we've discussed this. Having conventional ads is a way to get companies to talk to us about the other offerings that we do. They basically act as lead generation for us because so many companies only think traditionally, they contact us about advertising, and we try to steer them towards other, smarter, programs. But we still let ads go through, even if we tell them that they won't be particularly effective. If people still want to give us money for no good reason, that's their mistake. But we are careful not to take intrusive ads.

And, our ad revenue is less than 15% of the site's revenue (during Q4 it goes higher). So, no, the conventional ads are a waste, and I expect them to die out over time. But, for now, they're a great way to get companies to pay us to become leads for more creative solutions.
They would have thought it an act of God and branded anyone who said otherwise an evil lying heretic. People still do that today, for instance in the comments (15 pages worth) to this post about Blood Falls where the author chose to use the word evolve: http://www.good.is/post/science-rules-antarctic-glacier-has-...
Qt app platform up and running on Palm Pre
Was this true before 1986 (the Wapping dispute)?

In Gerald Warner's ... eulogy to Michael Foot, "champion of the closed shop" (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100028361/sto...), he relates this bit of relevant history:

"One day in the mid-1970s, shortly after having a comment article published in the Daily Telegraph and while I was wondering, with the enthusiasm of youth, if journalism might be my métier, I bumped into an official of the NUJ who rejoiced in the title of “Father of the Chapel”, or some such quasi-masonic honorific, who told me he had seen the piece. “I hope you are remembering,” he said, “you are only allowed to publish two pieces a year (or perhaps it was a couple more) without an NUJ card… And just try getting one, you Tory b——,” he added with a sardonic laugh."

On the other hand I don't know squat about ITV and any other independent electronic media, and there's always magazines like The Economist which I hope didn't also live in a closed shop environment.
I know right? I wanted to be manly about it but that little Penguin just melted my heart.
Shoot, even I can do that -- easy!
Theoretical breakthrough for quantum cryptography
"AdBlock on my browser does absolutely nothing to reduce the amount of money that websites I visit can earn from my."

Yes it does. Not all ads are pay-per-click.
For primitive types, a modern compiler's dependency analyzer can get better stack locality than anything you can do. Therefore I like to put all primitives at the top so they are easy to find.

Mutable composite types that use the heap should be scoped broadly, to reuse their heap buffer without touching the memory allocator. Example: C++ std::string.

Immutable heap composites could be scoped narrowly to reuse heap as soon as possible. On the other hand that reduces locality of reference for the deallocator code, and probably spams the branch predictor. If the immutable is small and deeply nested, it should probably be broadly scoped because branch prediction is made of solid gold (unless the language is garbage collected, making deallocation branchless).

Hmm... That got complicated. Stick them all at the top unless you are optimizing a nested loop.
Sponsorships are reasonable, but branded content and sites seems like a minefield.
I personally like the grumpy naysayers of HN. For instance, I like myself. And it's nice that you care, but dude, it's text on a page stored on a server somewhere. It's not like I punched your mother.
I hope so too, and from what I know about Tufte, he will be true to the numbers. I would be less worried if the headline read, "Bi-partisan Commission Appoints Tufte etc..." From what I know about the stimulus, it's not something I'd want to brag about.

Did Obama just hire a very talented propagandist, or a guy who deftly presents the bill's inadequacies? I guess we'll find out. Either way, his presentation will certainly be the anchor point of the stimulus debate.
Big sites gets paid for just displaying ads, not just per click.
Would you care to comment on the "noindex" issue? It would be interesting to hear how these are applied and removed (algorithmically, by hand, etc?).
This app's icon and feature set bear an uncanny resemblance to Sherlock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
Seeing as you operate a search engine, what's your take on this whole thing? Do you feel this all truly lies in a gray area, or that there is a clear-cut way things ought to be in this situation?

As an aside, your comment about blocking sites manually for your users just crystallized the value of DuckDuckGo (and by extension other smaller search engines) to me. There is definite value in a search engine that has some opinions about what kind of results are considered quality results. There's probably a name for this; but "curated search engine" or "opinionated search engine" don't seem right.

It's kind of like the difference between a micro-brew and Google's Budweiser.
However remember that he's only one member of a panel that advises the board that's actually going to be publishing stuff. We and I'm sure he have no idea how influential he's actually going to be.

How influential has Paul Volcker been?
"Ad blocking isn't killing any sites. We didn't really say it was either."

Did I miss something or did Ken specifically say: "Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love" That seems to be the same thing, no?

And when you say "the result of not being able to rehire people who were laid off last year specifically because our ad inventory is being hammered by ad blockers."

You're still missing the point. You're blaming your readers who chose to use adblock rather than focusing on ways to build a better business model.

Come on, you guys know this. You've covered the RIAA/MPAA doing the same exact thing over and over again. Don't blame your users and the choices they make. Focus on providing more value.
Why not? Many games can be played with controllers instead of mouse and keyboard. If you're using your computer as a media center hooked up to your TV, then being able to select the game via remote could be quite convenient.
It's the horizontal distance that is the problem. This redesign takes the information from the Newsfeed and spreads it across the entire page. If you want to read comments you have to travel horizontally and then go back to read the next item in the feed. That is a pretty big readability nuisance.

But yeah, this is from 2006. I like the branding on the left sidebar. I just happen to not be a fan of the layout mostly.
Do more airline fees mean your luggage gets treated better?
I really like the Steam Play concept and hope all the older Valve games I bought will use this feature.

Finally no more or at least less reboots to windows
What a difference that redesign makes! The whole thing looks much more compelling now.
why do you say spam?
Google publishes a pretty clear and simple "Webmaster guidelines" checklist to follow: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
It will be very interesting to see how many private corps begin working to develop this new technology and if it will ever be accessible for large scale energy generation (ex. coal and nuclear replacement). The potential behind this theory seems limitless.
If we're talking about making code easy to read, type signatures are one of the best tools. Many times you can look at the name of a function and its arguments and you have a very good idea of what it does.

This is unlike many dynamic languages where the returned value could be an object of just about any class. Are we getting a hash? An array? A custom class? Who knows without reading the details of the function.
"I like the spirit of this. Rather than argue about the ethics of ad-blockers and ad-blocker-blockers, why not focus on the implicit challenge: Can more publishers find ways to make money from ad-free content?"

Yes, by either:

1) charging for content
2) making each article an advertisement for something they are trying to sell
3) selling their own products, which will still involve some sort of advertising

It seems like the people fighting against the advertisers are against all forms of commercialism. Even non-flashing pure text advertisements like Google Adsense are blocked by default in all of the adblockers. If it really was only about annoying and flashing ads, why is this the case?

"Adblock is like Napster. People want content; the vast majority of publishers only have one business model; a lot of consumers decide to take the content without bearing the cost imposed by that model."

What an elegant way to put the reality of the situation: Some users feel they are entitled to free content. It's an emerging trend that is starting to happen in many industries (music, movies, books, software, and advertising).

If I, as a content provider know many people are using an adblocker, I will try to find a way around it (or start charging for content). If people stop going to my site because of bad advertisements, I will make any effort to remove the offending ads.

It reminds me of passive-aggressive children. They are pissed at a site/company and instead of telling them about it, they just decide to block ads and go there anyway. If the movement was really trying to make the Internet a better place (with better ads), they would actually be making an honest attempt at notifying the offending site.

"Some people won't pay no matter what - music filesharing is still around, of course. But a lot of people did start buying music again when Amazon and Apple and eMusic changed the price structure to something they were willing to pay."

We aren't talking about paying money. The only thing people have to do is view a simple advertisement. It takes almost no effort.
"If you change the password for one copy of the game, you will then be locked out of all copies of the game, until you re-enter the new password for each of them on startup."

I don't understand this. You do not need to be connected to the internet to play, so once you install the game with a legitimate key/password, what triggers it to require you to enter a new password.

Also, you don't need to be on the internet to install, so if a key/password combination is valid for the install, and you can change your password - what is to stop you from using any password you want?
Calacanis shady business practices have been outed for months, plenty of google employees read HN, there really is no reason for him to still be around in the google index.
If you have an Internet-based business and don't have any particular emphasis on your location ("helps you navigate the local subway"), then "based in NYC" means very little; you could always relocate for at least a summer.

As for "doesn't really require any funding", the money represents the least important reason to work with Y Combinator. We didn't apply because we thought $17k would make the difference between our business succeeding or failing. We applied because we want the business guidance, connections, meetings, resources, investor days, and the opportunity to work on our project full-time distraction-free.

So, really, apply. :)
I also see ads that say "mom working from home earns $500 a day online!". If it was so easy to make "instant $50/month" then I'd just sit there and set up a new site every day for a year, and then retire. Truth is - there's no get-rick-quick scheme that runs on auto-pilot. A site isn't just a domain, you have to publish content on it, you have to continuously improve SEO and gain links, you have to invest in the domain, hosting, bandwidth, time, content, links, etc, etc.

First decide how much an hour of your time is worth. Then decide if an investment in this website is worthwhile.
how do you propose he control it? by writing his senator? hahahaha
No, I'm not a Techdirt reader. But thank you for the explanation.
um, no. i thought the airlines were fairly clear that the fees were introduced to offset increasing fuel costs. so, the treatment of luggage would theoretically stay the same.
"It'd be good if we stopped pretending everyone runs adblock. 99.5%+ of people have no issue with ads, and actually find them useful.

That 0.5% who run adblock etc, really aren't worth worrying about much."

Adblock plus on mozilla.org gets around 1,000,000 downloads per week. It may not be a huge percentage now, but if it continues at this rate, it will be.
because this has nothing to do with the content of HN.
I suspect we'll see more of this in the next month or so.
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Wow, I didn't know MeetingMix was a YC company. We use it at work and it's great. Simple interface, does everything you need and nothing you don't.

Now I feel even better knowing we use it and it's a YC company.
Yup. It wasn't meant to be elegant, but "I'll be there after I write this down" is both natural and common and (the only thing that matters here) perfectly good English style and grammar.
Actually, a fold is walking a Foldable with an accumulator :)
But ignoring readers and the choices they make (and more importantly, why they make those choices) is every bit as much a part of building a better business model as "do something else you dumbasses". It turns out that the vast majority of our readers block ads without thinking about it, because they think it doesn't matter, or by mistake (seriously). The vocal ones are a vast, vast minority. We spend more time than we should addressing them, but articles like the one we ran are more an attempt to reach the casual blockers.

The difference between us and the RIAA/MPAA is that we're not justifying our lobbying efforts to reform copyright control. We're simply experimenting with technical means of keeping content bundled with ads and social means of educating users who might actually give a shit. The moment one of us goes to congress and says you need to legislate our ability to serve ads alongside our content is the moment you come gripe to me, and we laugh together because I've already quit my job.
How vulnerable is sensitive intelligence material to cyber attacks?
Interesting thing is that the latest version of Launchy works on OSX as well.
Most importantly, Google and Yahoo, for the most part, don't hurt anyone. They make their money in unambiguously ethical ways. US health insurers, by contrast, contribute to a 9/11 every month in preventable deaths. I don't object if Google makes a lot of money; they provide great services and they should. On the other hand, health insurers are essentially hit men-- they kill* for profit. Their pathetic numbers just indicate that they aren't very good at it.

* This may be a bit inflammatory, but it's only a mild exaggeration. In reality, their profit-making model is to externalize costs, and they don't really care whether the patient dies or (more often) the costs are dumped onto the government, or hospitals in the form of unpaid medical bills.
And this is why we (Ars) specifically prohibit ads that fuck with content. :)

Advertisers are increasingly demanding about those, though, which is one of the reasons we worked so hard to make "no ads" a feature of our subscriptions.
Strangely I've started off computer usage by having a fear of breaking hardware and no fear of breaking software.

I assume this is because I've always though I can "undo" software changes, but hardware was expensive and you couldn't "undo" much there. This might also explain why I've never made my own PC from scratch.

Of course, now with OSX on the laptop and virtual servers in the cloud I've almost abstracted away hardware :-)
ClickToFlash rocks. The lack of Flash not only frees up system resources, but it also doesn't show the _really_ annoying ads that blink constantly telling you that you've won a prize.
"It blows my mind that people actually mention sponsored content as a feasible alternative. It's true that ad blocking will ultimately drive many sites there, but I really value the firewall we have between our writers and ad sales. Not only that, but I really don't want to read a site running ads-that-look-like-content. It saddens me that so many seem to miss the implications of doing this."

Well, it saddens me that people running adblockers will force many sites to do this to survive.
HA!

Last year my SO and I went to her daughter's wedding. Ont the way back the TSA goons spilled perfume into her luggage. She is extremely allergic to perfume and other odors. She wad bed-ridden for a week and took a month to return to normal.

So I would say, no.
How does one measure how often adblocking happens?

I have a site with (in february) 37663 pageviews reported by google adsense, but 49581 pageviews reported by google analytics. If the mismatch there is from adblockers, then I must be an outlier. I hope it is that google didnt have ads to match and displayed some public information message instead.

I'm not bitter or anything though. I block ads myself, mostly because I'm too afraid of accidentally clicking ads on a site of my own, and the punishment that can lead to.
Brilliantly put. This is exactly the mindset of an engineer/hacker.

(Incidentally; talking about the market - I'm very jealous. Im still on the look out for a traditional style, fresh produce market that I could feasibly live very near too)
Yup, this is the worst part, he is getting away with this even though tens of Google employees, and i'm sure including Matt Cutts, have read these articles. They do nothing about it..
It's a brand new app with 1 - 1.5 developers; give them a chance ;-)

The design is great. It's a bummer that Quicksilver development has ceased. Google QSB is cool, but it's also nice to see a free/ISV competitor pop up with a genuinely capable product.
I couldn't agree more. Here are the two sponsors of the bill:

http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/House/members/Hou11.h...

http://www.senrollieheath.com/

If you live in Colorado, contact them and let them know what you think.
Black Hat Seo

0. Find a new, non discovered niche. This niche should be gold, this mean the Adsense Pay Per Click is high. Register a related domain.

1. Purchase unrelated domain names, any domains really, get ".info" domains since they are cheap.

2. Buy a SPAM tool like Xrumer and SPAM related/unrelated blogs with unrelated keywords. (Did you wonder the thousands SPAM comments you get with xfdfrg in anchor text and wonder why the spammer didn't found better than those keywords?).

3. SPAM a couple thousands blogs, get a couple hundred back links. You need many links, your anchor is not targeted, so quantity need to beat quality.

4. After you get the back links listed in all your domains, make a 301 Redirect, this will bring all the Google juice (back links) to your domain.

5. Your domain rank high, it brings traffic, optimize it for Adsense.

Why all this mess?

A. It helps stay under Google SPAM radar since you are using unrelated keywords, in fact keywords that related to nothing.

B. Other black hat or white hat web masters won't discover your Gold niche while you are building back links.

As I said, this is black hat and involves spamming. I never tried it, but it seems to bring some good cash it you choose well the niche.
They still have an AMAZINGLY good sales team. As for Drizzle, if it didn't have a multi-hundred-thousand dollar price tag, I'm guessing Oracle isn't too beaten up about it honestly.
Build Links. Here are my 5 steps to get started from nothing, with 5 free bonus steps. Do one of these per week, in a little over a month you'll have a foundation. Remember SEO is like farming, you reap what sow and it takes a long time to reap the harvest of all the hard work.

1. Leverage your competition, by finding your top five closest competitors and spend your first round of SEO getting links from the top 100 sites that link to them. Once you filter out the ones that you won't be able to contact or you know can't edit their content to add another link, you'll be down to 20% of those 500 links. Now, you can do this in a day. Create an email, send it to each one of those guys asking for a backlink, telling them you're in the space and explaining why they should link to you. Don't pay for links, because it's not worth the risk of the google "police" finding out.

2. Long Tail. Don't focus on ranking for the super-competitive keyword such as "flowers", rank for medium-tail keywords that you can make some ground on with less effort. "flowers going away party", "flowers evil mother-in-law", etc. Related to #1, when you ask for a link, feel free to suggest anchor text in the link that helps you get what you want from that link.

3. Kickstart your on-site content strategy. Make a list of 100 articles that would help you drive traffic. Take the top 10 ideas and hire someone to write them. For each article, when you publish it, find 100 more people to ask for links to the article. Send them specific text and a specific page you want them to link to.

4. Authorities. Make a list of 10 authorities on your subject who blog or create content. Write an article that you think would be interesting to them, something specific that is in their space. Make the content really good. Contact them personally (phone call, even) and ask for links to the article. In the flowers example, academics focused on environmental issues related to flower farming, for example.

5. Directories. Build resource articles that cover your space in a way that focuses on your strengths. Find directories and ask them to link to your article. In the flowers example, an article on determining the proper type of flower for all special occasions or religious events.

6. Build links.

7. Build links.

8-10. Build links.
Okay, when did Nokia decide Qt is going to be pronounced "Cute"? At Mobile World Congress? Earlier?

I've been working with Qt for 5 years now and I never heard anyone call it anything other than "Que Tee", including Trolltech reps. And I'm gonna keep it that way, dadgum it!
I never use the arrow keys when gaming. A friend showed me the setup I use to this day: look with the mouse, right mouse walks, left mouse fires, shift/c strafe left/right, z secondary fire, x duck.
So when will site owners/managers put limits on what sort of intrusive, hopping/beeping/sliding ads they are willing to allow by their advertisers?

When I get to the point of site launch, my plan is to please the visitors - not the advertisers. The advertisers with a brain should find the former goal valuable, too. Or rather, let me say, I'd like to derive my income from advertisers who share my user-experience priorities.

Am I doomed? Well, I'm sure going to give it my best shot to offer quality over commercial glitter/abuse.