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It makes sense that links that are only found in the sitemap don't get indexed. Unless you link to the sitemap somewhere on your site (not including in robots.txt), then you're not going to pass any PageRank to the sitemap, and it's not going to pass any PageRank to the pages it's linked to.

Being crawled and being indexed are two different things. Sitemaps allow Googlebot to crawl your site more easily. What gets indexed has a lot to do with PageRank, and if you're not flowing PageRanks efficiently through the site, you're going to have indexation problems.

Here's an interesting post on how sitemaps affect crawlers: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/do-sitemaps-effect-crawlers
You are handling this differently in that you're having a fuss over it instead of just ignoring it.
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This is just a dating site skin, it is just the main tour is marketed for ugly people, but i'm pretty sure the members area will have the same members as any other whitelabeldating.com site.

from the whitelabeldating site -

> "WhiteLabelDating.com provides the dating software, membership database, payment processing, customer support, hosting infrastructure, tax processing and much more.
You provide your brand, website design and marketing and we do the rest."
I would guess they do to. Netflix recently moved to the AWS infrastructure for their streaming and it was recently revealed that Netflix accounts for 20 percent of all internet traffic during peak times. I highly doubt Amazon simply said "go read our webpage" in a situation like this.
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This is for the Pure Data environment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data

Think of it as Processing, but for Audio.

Software is here, and includes a nice tutorial:

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html
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we make use of google site search for our search and sitemaps are the vehicle by which we can ensure a new site of ours gets indexed within 24 hours (we have a lot of small, frequently changing sites)
I should have said, it is set on weekdays.
(and with a nonsensical argument like "it's my business")

I'm sorry, but your argument also seems to be "it's my business".

Because if it's not your business, why are you so interested in telling me (and others) what to do?
I don't think that anybody meant to imply that you weren't allowed to have standards.

Either you consider the job worthy of the annoyance of applying, or you don't. Given the latter, I see little point in bitching about the process while still soliciting employment.

Call me old-fashioned.
Must be an awesome feeling to be "getting the gang back together". Any good examples of there startup teams having done this?
At least you can remove the annoying friends from your Facebook if you want.
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Standards don't solve everything. There is always a change management component, and nothing is free. To use the tractor example, Kubota may offer to provide tooling and training for "free", but they're not eating the cost. It's built in to their price. Say they still come in at a price lower than the incumbent. There are still going to be unforeseen variables.

I'm not saying the incumbent should always win. Far from it. We've bult a business on disrupting that exact scenario, but you'll find that your customer relationships are short lived if you treat vendors as universally interchangeable cogs. You have to listen carefully to the vendors and the stakeholders inside the purchasing organization, and make sure you hold the challenger accountable for their promises.
This is cool – there were two back-to-back one hour lectures on application states at WWDC. Absorbing this graphic is obviously faster and easier.
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Why do you need to cancel it? To my knowledge HN never e-mails it's members, so spam shouldn't be a problem. Just leave it be?
It would not surprise me if he did, and it's indicated that he is not sure that he wants to remain there.
This is low-hanging fruit not just for online stores, but for many kinds of sites, especially those that don't specialize in search. For example, I often have to use the site Grants.gov, which you'll recognize if you've ever had to submit or deal with research grants. And the search engine is terrible and frequently doesn't work at all.

The last time this happened, it inspired me to write a blog post about how to use Google for site-specific search: http://blog.seliger.com/2010/10/24/google-faster-than-grants... . Most of our readers aren't technical and probably don't know how to do this, but it can make search much, much better.

But that's for Grants.gov, and grants.gov dispenses money, which highly motivates its users. If you're trying to get users to pay you, on the other hand, you'll need to pay more attention to their experience.
That poor kid.
Interesting that HN now has enough reach that mainstream media mine it for new stories. From the transcript --

Andrew: How about that “Inc.” article? There was an article in “Inc.” which announced Manpacks, and then it asked other entrepreneurs to give feedback and suggestions for Manpacks. How did you guys get that article written about you?

Ken: The editor reached out to us in March. He said they would be interested in doing an article on Manpacks. Would you be interested in an interview? I said, of course.

Andrew: Okay. Was this after the Hacker News hit?

Ken: Yes. It was maybe a week and a half after.

Andrew: That’s so interesting. By the way, I found that other reporters will look at Hacker News and come up with stories. And then those stories end up just kind of growing and growing and feeding on each other.
If a programmer writes code that is that bad in Perl, they will write code that is that bad in Python. They will write code that is that bad in C or in Ruby or in Haskell. No language will make programmers who don't care about good code to write good code.
I don't think there's anything surprising about the author being detained. I don't think there's anything unreasonable about it. It's the manner in which the interrogation was conducted that was the problem. Yelling in his face? Asking him what his religious beliefs are? Are they detaining him while they conduct an investigation, or are they going to arrest him for being Muslim?

What you don't hear about after a terrorist attack is how the attacker's innocent mother/brother/sister/friend/cousin was interrogated in exactly this way by a customs agent, and that's what started that terrorist down the path of violence. No one ever has a chance to be appalled at the aftereffects of interrogations such as these.
Telomeres prevent cancer by limiting cell division and Brooke's are normal. Other aspects of aging cause cancer but she is supposedly immune to those.

But if her telomeres are shortening, doesn't that mean her aging will eventually catch up to normal because her cells stop regenerating?
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Admitedly I've never done it on a long haul flight like Europe to America, but I have done that on 1-3 hour flights around Europe, just flying out for a meeting with nothing but a wallet, passport and phone.
I see by your last sentence where you're leaning so I'm probably wasting my time, but I'm replying anyway. :)

I've never had my house robbed, but I still lock the doors and have an alarm system. No one on my street has been robbed, but I can't just assume this street won't ever get burgled because I know that it does happen. So, I'm careful to lock up, but I'm not so scared I have inch bars on the windows, a guard dog, a watchman on guard, etc. There is just enough of a deterrent that it is a hassle for someone looking for a quick and easy break-in.
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How much does Theo support OpenBSD?

If he got hit by a bus, would the project go on, or as smoothly?
In my opinion, domain name (tld) are overrated in general. Because great content will always find its way to the users no matter how weird and long the domain name is.
Ask HN: Palantir or Facebook?
Hey everyone,

I know this may come off as kind of an odd question but I am truly very confused and stressed and would love to hear your opinions. I am deciding between an internship with Palantir or Facebook and cannot bring myself to decide. I was hoping to get some insight from those of you who are more hooked into the startup scene in the Valley to shed some light and your opinions on these two companies. I am an upperclassman CS major so really what I am looking for in the internship is a chance to learn new technologies and skills and to network with people in the startup industry.

Right now I feel like I am more passionate about the work that Facebook is doing but I feel that I would learn more and gain a bigger network at Palantir, given that is has only 300 employees vs. Facebook's 2000. My dream is to one day create my own startup (possibly right out of college), so I feel like this is an important aspect to consider.

Should I even be worrying about these factors at this stage? Am I just overthinking this decision? I really appreciate any insight that you guys can give me on this.
It's a great idea, and the snacks they send are varied and interesting. But they're really not "meals", and it's far too easy to scarf an entire box.

I found myself eating normally PLUS whatever they sent, which kinda defeated the purpose for me.

(Their website is stunningly good, though)
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http://www.safeb4sorry.com any thoughts?

Thanks,
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I've always loved the Blackberry's keyboard. I'm taking a hard look at the Droid Pro, a touchscreen and keyboard.

It's almost like my dream phone.
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Thats quite daft. Google clearly does plenty of innovation, not to mention Microsoft. Much more likely is that Google/Microsoft have such large patent portfolios and plenty of spare cash that suing them would be suicidal at best for most companies.
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A lot of the comments here don't take into account things Jobs said at the Back To The Mac event. He said the oversize trackpad was there so the Mac could run IOS-like apps. So it's too late to say you can't run them on MacBooks. He said they could.
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How does this work? Do you have multiple US passports? Or passports from multiple countries? Doesn't the US care and couldn't you get in trouble for having passports from other countries and not disclosing them?
>When you say freedom of religion, you don't mean complete freedom. What if my religion states that I shouldn't pay taxes? Obviously this religion would not be tolerated.

That's why we have laws which define the boundaries and interactions between the freedoms of society's members. It's not useful or practical to define freedom in any other context (i.e., that in nature, outside of society), because there would be no conflicts in that case. Freedom can only really be discussed in terms of social relations.

But these are issues that U.S. courts have had quite a lot to say about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_the_Unit...

And the situation with Islam today certainly has historical precedents:

Anti-Catholicism was widespread in the 1920s; anti-Catholics, including the Ku Klux Klan, believed that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy and that parochial schools encouraged separatism and kept Catholics from becoming loyal Americans. The Catholics responded to such prejudices by repeatedly asserting their rights as American citizens and by arguing that they, not the nativists (anti-Catholics), were true patriots since they believed in the right to freedom of religion.
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One of the reasons for which women tolerate pain better than men is that they have to give birth. Even if some women manage to do it without pain killers, it's still not a walk in the park.
Because it was a story critical of the big, bad government, so it must be accepted at face value.
I would choose Facebook simply for name recognition. Having Facebook on your resume would carry more weight with many potential employers and partners.
Am I the only one that thinks about these things?

No, but there's fewer of us than there should be. Which is sort of understandable; aging is terrible and until recently there wasn't much hope of doing anything about it, so not thinking about it may have been best. But today that strategy is counterproductive; we're spending trillions of dollars to slightly extend the lifespans of old people, but we won't spend even one percent of that investigating ways to prevent or repair the underlying damage done by aging.

FWIW I've started making semi-regular donations to the SENS Foundation. I believe their work has the potential to be tremendously valuable in terms of both economics and quality of life.
I want to see someone start a fruit delivery service to offices. You'd sign up for a weekly delivery and pick the pricepoint that matched your needs - maybe you have 4-5 people, or maybe 20 or many more. Perhaps you just want some basics (bananas, apples, etc) or maybe you want to spring for mangos.

The delivery guys would dress in gorilla outfits and drive yellow cars. They'd cruise into the office, high-five the receptionist. Someone would yell out, "It's the gorilllllla!" Maybe they'd do a brief dance after putting down the box/basket - something new each time and fruit-themed (picking apples, peeling a banana, etc) and then they'd leave. Out of work acting types and arts students could handle the deliveries.
Emotion is not appropriate, regardless of what they claim their "rationale" is. Clearly they weren't using reasoning here, so I don't think the emotion was planned or well-intentioned.

The questions were not merited at all, from my reading of it. Candy, bullet without a gun, a musing about US citizenship. Nope, no merit.
You're right. I have a tendency to rush through the loads of articles I loaded from HN's front page.
It does look like she will get to keep her baby smooth skin though; Supermodels might be interested in that.
I had the same first instinct. Search is almost always an after thought unless it's the primary focus. If anyone wants a startup idea, the search feature on forums is something that people constantly suggest using, but generally provides awful results. Furthermore, a lot of forum owners restrict search usage for guests because it eats memory. If you make a replacement for vBulletin, phpBB, and Invision I wouldn't be surprised if you could sell it for $50+ to more active communities.
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Maybe the user wants to delete their account. Seem like a reasonable request.
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At a few places I've worked I had reasonable success with a similar approach by simply setting up some mail forwarding rules and MHonArc[1] to create customized internal web-based mailing lists capturing topic-specific company knowledge.

1- http://www.mhonarc.org/
Unless there's an overwhelmingly great reason to go with another one, I would get Facebook on my resume and set myself up to easily get jobs for life.
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With what measurement, out of curiousity?
I think the wandering naive tourist is more likely to get upset or be overly watchful than the violent fundamentalist who has been trained for that moment.
How is not relevant? Your arguing that "Big surprise Windows (from many different OEM's) outsells OS X (on one)". Yet that obviously has ridiculously huge consequences to the overall markets.

As a developer you can (more or less) release one product that runs on these phones. So those aggregate sales numbers certainly matter a lot.

I've long thought that this feels like Mac vs PC part II, and it's certainly looking that way.
Well, to be fair men of the past probably experienced just as much pain- I mean, it seems possible that being impaled with a sword or cut in half with a battle-axe is pretty uncomfortable.

The difference I see is men didn't need to be able to tolerate and survive that pain, 'cause they were dead anyway. Women, on the other hand, really need to be able to survive and cope with the pain of childbirth so they can raise their child.
Standard stuff. Child mortality for example or GDP, literacy, poverty and so on. There are some countries which are lagging behind and some which have gone backwards but the planet as a whole has progressed.
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I was in a doctoral program (different faculty) at U of M. There was course work (basically 2 years at 80% of a full-time load), a teaching and a research apprenticeship and a candidacy exam before you were allowed to start work on your dissertation.

The absolute minimum time you could complete it was 3 years, but typically you were expected to take 5-7 years (though it was also expected that you'd be teaching at a university during the last couple of years).
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I've been working on an e-commerce project for a client that ended up having some major issues with database imports and the client wanted results now. Anyway, we got all of the items online and in Google with sitemaps, but the links were orphans ... You could find them in the built in site search and from a Google search, but not through any link path ...

After about 2 or 3 months like this we started to see the traffic going down and the item pages were getting de-indexed.

Since we fixed the import (and internal politics) problem (about 6 months after de-indexing) we have seen a steady increase in traffic again and the number of indexed pages is going up slowly ... very slowly ...

My take on this experience is that you need to have some sort of click-able link path to get to your content or any gains you might get from a sitemap will be taken away ... Sitemaps might get your pages crawled faster, they may even get into the index faster .. .but to keep them there you need good site structure ...

It is a tool and won't fix design problems ...
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So this guy might have guessed (sort of) correctly:

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2010/08/fund-manager-exper...

Given how fast computer processing is getting small and powerful there is a reasonable chance I should be able to clone a whole computer into a mobile phone – and keep it in my pocket – but have it securely running on the desktop as well. Apple could win at this – and I do not want to speculate as to where they are going.
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But who wants to meet a future spouse on a dating site for ugly people? Rather, an ugly person would prefer a dating site for smart people or mac enthusiasts or music enthusiasts, etc.
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Is there a twitter account associated with it?
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He is trying to do just what you are talking about.
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Domestic abuse isn't a subject to make light of.
How do you feel her family is being hard done by? This girl is certainly not the model of immortality that the article makes her out to be. She's likely to have a very hard life.

If anything, I think it's sad that the father sees his daughter as some sort of valuable item, rather than working with researchers to help figure out why this developmental problem came about.

Even if the genetic information is an important piece of the puzzle of immortality, is keeping this information from the public, and himself, in anyone's best interest?
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From all appearances Apple never acted on these grumblings. And they started after the introduction of native apps. As I point out we don't really know how it would have played out with no Android.

I do think that if talk to Google they do believe that over time the app store experience would be the one pushed by Apple and the web deemphasized to the extent they could.

Remember Android is all cost center for Google. The only real benefit they derive from it is keeping people on the web. Which is one reason why the Android app store will not be as strong as Apples.
can anyone provide a link to the cited video? would be interesting to see.
Are you asking me for advice or what you want?

If you are asking which I'd pick, I'd pick google. However, I'd specifically want to work on/with google earth. I think google earth is awesome and would like to know more about it, the technology behind it, the geosciences that make it possible, etc...

If you are trying to figure out which offer you should take, you should ask yourself what you would rather be doing. Would you rather be working in the world of searching? Or social media? It might be worth asking both of the companies for more information on what roles and responsibilities you would be expecting, and what department they might stick you in.

I wouldn't stress it as the most important decision of your life -- after all, if you work at google and decide you don't like it, you wouldn't be the only person to apply at facebook! ;)
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Jesus you shouldn't even have to ask this question. Facebook all the way. It not only carries more weight, but you're more likely to work with new cutting edge tech. Remember Palantir is mainly a Java shop in the finance and gov sectors, while Facebook is the "next big thing", just like Google was.
HTC Incredible, Droid 2/X, etc. Android devices running, or with an upgrade path to 2.2 and beyond, a rough example.
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Programmed isn't quit the right word. It is true that aging is in our genetic code, but it has arising via random mutation combined with selection. This case is hypothesized to be a result of yet another random mutation that has tampered with the aging mechanics. Thus, it's interest to scientists.
My guess is that like many articles, the title is not written by the author. My comment was targeted toward the article content, not the 1-line headline, which is quite often just link bait these days.
Totally agree. I don't want to know or learn or care what a slashtag is.

Back to work..