skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But detecting duplicate content should not be very difficult, esp. now that Google indexes everything almost in real time. The site that had the content first is necessarily canonical and the others are the copies?

Because we don't understand what's hard, we think you're not really trying, and then we make up evil reasons to explain that.

I believe if people understood better the difficulties of spam fighting they would be more understanding.
America's very own corrupt and stupid central planning....actually central planning implies some greater purpose, American ethanol policy is a kind of petit fascism because it is designed to benefit a handful of insider corporations (ADM, etc) at the expense of society at large. If you buy food, drive a car, or raise livestock, your government is screwing you. The impact in the Third World is truly tragic, as American ethanol policy is a significant factor driving the current food crisis.

Change we can believe in, indeed!
>Isn't that boycott novell?

Yea, it is the new name.

>IIRC that guy calls everyone who disagrees with him "Microsoft booster" so I'd take it at face value.

Yea, I do disagree with some of their claims. I just wanted to mention a source that I can think of off the top of my head to help readers.
On the downside I just saw inception last night, but that is the exception and not the rule.
Hey Matt, is there anything y'all can do about the content farm sites where someone buys an old high pr domain and sells 100's of links on it and drops them in between tons of content? Here's a prefect example of that: http://www.dcphpconference.com/.
Infocom?

Will we get feelies with our blog platforms now?
PadMapper is a very useful tool. I used it when I moved to NY. It filters results well, but the only problem I had was that it didn't always have the correct location. I assume it scrapes the link to the Google Map from Craigslist, so the inaccuracy might be from the advertiser who doesn't put in the correct geo-location.
SEO is supposed to be StackOverflow's core competency. They are completely aware most people end up on their site via Google. The search on their own site sucks.

The reason Q&A sites are so visible is that people tend to type questions in their search engines, so Q&A sites are a good match to those.
Can I just say that "secrets" sent over bare HTTP aren't secret, and that even before Firesheep, nobody really thought they were hard to find? I love what Firesheep did to popularize that problem, but it was an old, very widely-exploited problem.
DiskWarrior has a live CD/DVD that has just enough OS to run DiskWarrior. A full distribution of OSX isn't needed.

Thanks for reminding me that I need to update DiskWarrior for 10.6!
Do you mean; for instance, they have a .co.uk and you have the .eu/.com?
Sure, if you consider a million* subscriptions paying cash money every month "niche." I certainly wouldn't call a blog with a million paying customers "niche!" You could have a tenth of that and run a profitable website, with plenty of money to pay good writers.

* http://www.magazine.org/CONSUMER_MARKETING/CIRC_TRENDS/2009-...
i made this to brainstorm domain names
We started by writing (and re-writing) the script in-house. Then we hired a very talented friend in Portland to do the illustration and he recommended we hire a local animation house that he liked and had worked with previously. The voice over was chosen after auditioning/recording 5 of our friends and my brother composed the sound design. It was a very collaborative process with a great group of people. We built slowly, allowing for feedback and brainstorming at each phase of the process. It really helps to work with people you like and whose tastes you trust.
I don't bother obfuscating. I don't even use spam filtering anymore. I get about 5 spam emails per day max. I think it helps that my address starts with a "j" so most open relays / spam zombie machines have been shut down before they get to my letter of the alphabet in their email lists.
One thing worth adding to the list: Iowa caucuses and the fact that the state produces 19% of total corn produced in the country. Check [?|!]
Well, with Steve jobs likely not living through the next 4 years, and Facebook still an infant, I still think that the future is unset.
Sergey’s New Title.
Did anyone actually read the article? It's only approved for cars and trucks 2001 and newer, and will be specifically labeled. Just don't use it if your car is a pre-2001 make, right? What's the problem?
NodeFu.
Depending on your city, (if you're in the midwest email me and I can recommend a few people) there are firms (Small-Cap Investment Bankers) that specialize in acquisitions. Hire one, it'll cost money but you you'll avoid mistakes and get the optimal deal possible. If you don't know the due diligence process, you can very easily get screwed, so don't do it yourself (unless they are offering peanuts and doesn't make sense to hire anyone).

By what you said they should be offering at least a few hundred thousand if not $500k+. They are interested for the branding/PR aspect which could be valued into the millions. So don't only look at the financial, this is more of a strategic buy, so instead of asking what the company is worth to you... Ask what it's worth to them...
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haha disobeethoven and laundromatrimony!

so the stars favorite things / make them show up at bottom?
I don't. Unfortunately, TC's style sells, and they're quite popular. The loss of traffic from me and similar is less than the gain of traffic from others.
Apologies, did check, but couldn't see a previous posting!
i know, and that is what i meant, actually. looks like a good bit of crossover, and if they're going to work on CI community, too, that probably means less work on fuel. and who knows, maybe there's some sort of contractual obligations in there, as well.
> Because that wouldn't solve the problem for clones of other sites, or clones in other languages.

Sites that are the victims of content cloning have to be very visible and valuable, so maybe a little manual curating could be relevant.

> the Stack Overflow cloners could just make other websites

Not really? The point is not to tag the clones but to tag the original; everything that is not the original and that has copied content is a clone -- its name, domain or country notwithstanding.
One strategy can be to find a buyer through a domain broker like sedo and see what they offer (so that you have a benchmark for how much someone else is willing to pay). You can probably ask them for 2x as much money for it and they can do it. I believe you would have to pitch their marketing department in order for them to purchase it, so find the person through LinkedIn.

Also, be very sensitive to the trademark issue, sometimes big companies can go after you for having a domain with their name and might to pursue you to sell it to them for very cheap as it could be viewed as trademark infringement since you simply own a domain.
I think yanw is wondering whether the author is only in Engadget's payroll or if there's another entity paying for his expertise after observing a consistent biased behavior.

BTW, I have no idea whether the author is or is not working for Microsoft.
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> Still uses a FOOD SOURCE to create GAS? Check, double and tripple (sic) check.

Since corn and soy-based foods are one of the leading causes of obesity, this arguement is moot.

Not to mention it actually costs less to buy a bushel of corn than it does to produce it: corn prices are already severely subsidized by the government. There's simply too much corn out there, and it's one of the main reasons why "junk food" is so junky. If ethanol was being produced from romaine lettuce and turnips, I'd be more alarmed.

For now, it's just one more little subsidy on top of an already massive agribusiness planned economy.

However, ethanol really has no place in fuel. The only benefit to E10 is that you don't need to use Heet in your gas tank in the winter.
TechCrunch allows one to view a microcosm of the Valley through colored lenses.
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Once there is tolerance of 15%, the other regular pumps which are allowed 10% will certainly get that, forever. One day politicians will want something else to please the corn billionaires and throw them 15% across all pumps as long as there are "labels".

It's very difficult to find a pump these days without ethanol and pre-2001 cars are going to be around for awhile given today's car prices.

Basically the EPA should be cutting it down to 5%, but now they are going in the other direction regardless of the consequences.
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> Lots of small touches in applications aren't strictly necessary(animation, transparency), but they do make for an overall nicer experience.

I can't offhand think of a single example where they've improved my experience. (With the exception of things like Google Maps where the JS is an important part of the user interface.) When, for example, a menu or picture animates open instead of appearing instantly, at best I feel mild irritation.

Maybe I'm just a cumudgeon.
Are there enough raw materials to support an infrastructure of 500 accelerators? From investment pool to mentors, is that spreading the butter too thin? Let's take my home state of Louisiana for example. There are several "incubators" in the state. Office space and computer services offered, but few mentoring relationships are build. I don't know of any true accelerators. The incubator success rate is definitely up for argument. They tend to succeed more at wooing startups to move to the region, than really cultivating an educational growth program. It's a mindset that is not as prevalent in the region. I think the OA forum has a better chance of successful ventures, let's say in Baton Rouge, LA, than an accelerator would in the same location. Great ideas exist all over the country, but the quality infrastructure to build these into successes is extremely thin.
Hmm, I thought Heroku used chroot jails to prevent apps from seeing each other. No?
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Indeed. Also, this is traditional journalism, done in a new medium.

TechCrunch is the new medium (Blogging) with a rough journalism slant.

There is a real life comparison too; TechCrunch is like the tabloid papers - they have all the content, plus the biases and the speculation and a bit of trash. The New Yorker content is like the Business dailys - curt, to the point, aimed at people who want to know the facts, plus sensible analysis from people who understand the context in detail (and are writing from academic interest as much as commercial).
Yes, yum install workrave :-)
What makes you so sure there will be a selection to choose from?
Apple is (mostly) a hardware company - they don't compete with Google in any meaningful way.

Facebook does, at least in the sense that both operate in the web/user space, and both have advertising as their fundamental source of revenue.
Analysis reporting (making educated guesses and telling stories) has valuable functions. It "shakes trees" in the sense that sources sometimes come forward to confirm or deny an analysis. It promotes skepticism by providing alternative to controlled press releases and controlled leaks. It also is a dog in the fight to influence the "commonly accepted narrative" of events - the interpretations about the uncertain aspects of reality that dominate our collective response to the present and near future.

If you eliminate all of these functions and just let a few official sources fill the news-hole, it is not as though non-objective analysis will disappear. Far from it. Instead, all non-objective but authoritative-sounding analysis will come only from those with the greatest economic and political power. In short, you will have a fascist propaganda machine.

(There is constant rebellion against the tendency of the press to enrich its pockets by turning away from the wild speculation and radical analysis. Uh... Hunter Thompson was one symptom of that rebellion a few years back. More recently, I suppose that the "right wing talk radio" crowd is another symptom of the same tendency to rebel against simply receiving truths and their interpretation from the powers that be. Tech is a microcosm different in topic, not kind from the general field of national news reporting: people fight over which facts to highlight and how to interpret them. Some reporters are supposed to be in there slugging it out.)
Have you ever said "hey, look at this!" to someone?

(socratic question)
You're saying this collection is going to change into something more useful/poignant in about 15 years?
this is cool but i'm not sure i get how the input affects the output? the results don't seem related.
This is a movie plot notion of how M&A works. In reality, just because you have the assets on hand to buy another company, doesn't mean you can just go ahead and buy the company. First, you have to convince your own board, and then your public shareholders, that the acquisition makes long-term business sense.

Oracle bought Sun on a business model that saw them recouping the price of the acquisition not in proceeds from lawsuits but in shoe-leather sales to Oracle and Sun customers (which overlap intensely). Oracle already had the infrastructure to capitalize on that channel with Sun products.

Google had none of that. Had Google bought Sun, the first thing they could have expected would have been a shareholder revolt. The money isn't theirs to spend; it belongs, in large part, to Google's shareholders.
I agree, and perhaps I should have added that into my comment.

For a newbie, have them walk through it, but for the repeated process, then automate it.
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If you send the tree, you don't need to send character frequencies.
While I don't disagree, the problem is that this doesn't necessarily make good business sense; the dollar value of good editing and journalism is (currently) in decline.

No, the dollar value of good editing and journalism as currently packaged and distributed in public is currently in decline. I am sure that there are hundreds of executives scattered across the globe who each just arranged for someone else to compose a report that thousands or even hundreds of thousands of other people would indeed want to read or at least know the contents of.
Third time this story has been submitted, all from different sources, no comments of substance as yet:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2128701

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127498
Major ruling on CAN-SPAM and California's spam statute
> Also, not everyone has a Gmail account.

True, but I thought spam detection was something that was 99% effective with bayesian filters. Sure, not all of your clients will have them, but I figure that people who are truly worried about this sort of thing will either be running their own mail servers, or will pay someone to do it for them.
Jason - this is an interesting article, but why not release the dataset you used to make your graphs and charts?

A simple listing of accelerators along with website, location, average investment, equity stake, and length of class would be valuable to a lot of people.
If xbmc can run on appleTV 2, then a boxee port should be around the corner. Let's hope, as I love boxe's simplicity, in its ability to auto organize the entire library.
There is some value in the same story being reported from different sources - I mostly cross-reference to try to avoid split discussions. Currently there are no discussions on any of the three submissions (there was one after this)
you put in a word, and then it finds words that overlap phonetically in the front and in the back (left and right side of the page)...
That's a concern, true. Some e-mails from my family have ended up there, because they live in Russia, write in Russian, and are therefore suspicious.
Was 'wordmanteau' already taken?
So where is the company doing this?
I like http://fuelphp.com these days, it's like CodeIgniter (by some of the same people), but modernized. I liked Kohana too for a while, but they seem way to architect-y (the docs where never up to date, things kept changing etc.). Hope Fuel doesn't go there.
In my area, gas stations must tell you if they have ethanol in their fuels. Those that do, do it with tiny stickers on the pumps. Those that don't, put big signs by the road advertising their 100% gasoline.

A lot of stations which sold E10 have had to switch since the labeling law went into effect. People just don't want ethanol.
To be completely honest it's not at all a matter of being against publishing written versions of the content too, but rather a lack of time to get everything tidied up for an accompanying text version this week.

I figured it would be better to at least give the community something they could use until I was able to post up a written version too..

Plz don't hate on us content creators :)

- Addy.
Unfortunately, fulltext RSS feeds are easy prey for scraper/spam sites, which is why most blogs don't use them. Nowadays, it looks like most people use RSS as more of a notification when new content is posted.
In order for Schmidt to go to Microsoft, Ballmer would have to be forced out. I don't see that happening, given the success of win7, the xbox 360, and potentially wp7. I think wp7 would have to be an unmitgated failure for the board to consider pushing him out.

I agree that Schmidt would be a better choice than Ballmer, but I don't see Microsoft's board making that push barring some sort of catalyst.
Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android
That would be a rather awesome feature for evil people: Just copy&paste your competitions content onto SO (or any other specially protected site) and their google ranking will drop like a stone.
I couldn't disagree more. Asking the question "Should I" shows the realism required to successfully run a business you own.
Nilay Patel is almost certainly not. The classic Engadget site has really no one who is a Microsoft fan. The HD Engadget site does have some MS fans, largely because of Media Center.

Most of Engadget is accused of being an Apple fanboi site. Engadget's claim is that Apple just makes good products. I'm inclined to believe them. For the most part they seem really fair.

I believe Nilay (and Josh and Paul) all use Mac Books as their primary computer. And Nilay uses a Droid of some sort as his primary phone.

If they are on the MS payroll... MS needs their money back as they routinely slam MS. They slam MS so often, I think you'd even enjoy the site. :-)
This is for "hackintosh" setups, just to point out. Mach/OS X itself, on a real machine, actually treats all block devices identically - without hacking around, you can boot a Mac off of anything, be it a USB stick, a harddrive attached over USB or FireWire, even booting one Mac from another Mac's internal storage by directly linking the two via FireWire (so-called Target Mode).
Good luck, see the Comcast & NBC merger. The FCC is impotent.
The more common term is "Corporate Welfare", which this most certainly is.
Finally, a use for Web Snippets.
Companies are selfish. They operate to serve the long term best interests of shareholders.
No need to, they sell them at the apple stores.
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There's a difference between writing with the sole aim of getting it out first (so that TechMeme gets you first or you get the most retweets) and writing a good analysis of a story.

That's why, imho, blogs can never replace real publications. Pick up The Economist or The New Yorker and you still get a lot of added value and insight, even if the events happened days earlier.
Is it cold under that rock?
Great talk on Twitter architecture as of Nov. 2010 by @rk. A lot of innovative high scale open source code and ideas are coming out of Twitter that will have (and already have had) a trickle down effect on the greater tech community dealing with these issues.

I particularly appreciated the dissection of snowflake, their distributed unique id generator, their realtime use of cassandra for distributed counters and their upstream patches for redis.
That video was 72 seconds.
It's always struck me as appealing to an upper crust, New England liberal arts elite with a heavy focus on discursive essays on dead literary figures and trying to recapture the cultural pinnacle that was New York City in the 1950s

You obviously missed the Tina Brown years.

The New Yorker has always covered a wide variety of topics; it's eclecticism is part of its charm.
Which is why you solve the boring problems by throwing RAM at them, and spend the time you just saved solving the interesting ones. :0
I wonder how much ADM paid for that law.
Programming on Parallel Machines [pdf]
> I think you'd even enjoy the site. :-)

Sadly, I have very little free time these days. I even gave up on Engadget's headline podcast...
Geohot threatens to buy a Windows phone
I think it has a lot to do with the failure of Java ME.
All true, but there is certainly a significant portion of the techie community that sees Apple as a company that succeeds entirely based on marketing themselves as being hip while building blingtastic stupidware for people who are unable to think for themselves.

That is who this article is talking about, I gather.
Sounds like a good opportunity for someone to pull a Carl Icahn.
Really love that post, but "The real important change at Google is not the new CEO" would have been a catchier title ;). I truly believe you are right and it will stir things up again for the company that has really grown into a corporation. Getting some startupish feeling back will be a great step towards more innovation again.
the original Macintoshes were every bit as resistant to consumer meddling and “improvement” as the iPhone 4

Until the iPhone, Apple never tried to stop you from running whatever software you wanted on your hardware, nor did they accuse you of being a criminal for doing so.
This is a great idea. I like the name, too.
Techrights cannot be called unbiased themselves...
We're using Azure heavily for Socialblaze.

At first this seemed great, but for us to even consider switching we would need to know a few things:

- How backups work
- How does well does it scale
- How is the MsSQL organized, shared db with thousands of users?
- SSL is a must
- Can't run any real web app without services, background processes
- Pricing (bandwith, storage, etc.)
Yeah 'word' does seem preferable to 'werd'.

> whois wordmanteau.com
No match for "WORDMANTEAU.COM".
Sure, but Firesheep made it possible to exploit it without even "script-kiddie" level skills. No easier in principle, perhaps, but easier in practice.
>"But what they really sell is an experience: consistency and ease-of-use, and working right out of the box, combined with solid and thoughtful industrial design and user interface"

What Apple really sells expectations, because actual experience only comes after the money changes hands. It's unfulfilled expectations which frustrate the subset of hackers mentioned in the article. Those expectations are in no small part legitimate. Apple thrives off the mythology of changing the world via the power of the individual...even while the prize is a passive consumption.
Thoughts on node.js and Haskell
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I sculpt in stone as a hobby. I'd heard that quote, or variations of it, before I started, and just regarded it as a clever quip artists make. Not really a reflection of the process of carving, which would be much more detailed and painstaking. I was surprised to discover just how true, for me anyway, that quote is.
They are content farms - plain and simple. You might consider throwing about.com in there, too.

They're made to earn the employers revenue, not help out people with the particular queries.