skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it since Google is fighting this battle in public instead of getting its lawyers involved.

On the other hand: An interesting and possibly relevant legal issue here is how WestLaw's star pagination system was copied by LexisNexis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlaw#Legal_disputes)

It would seem that Google's ranking would be similar to WestLaws pagination system and might be protected by copyright.
At a minimum, I'd expect a cost of living increase that's roughly at the level of inflation in your country.

From there, it depends where you are in your career, what your performance has been like, what the going rate for someone in your line of work is, what condition the company is in, and what condition the economy as a whole is in.

Spending a few minutes at http://www.glassdoor.com/ might be a good use of your time to find market rates for people in your job.
No, it's not. Harry Shum admitted this morning that the behavior was due to using users' clickstream as a signal.

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/20...

Here's where Bing is wrong: Bing should not be using clickstream data from Google searches as a signal. The core offering of Google search is getting used by its competitor, without any citation. That's wrong.

If you were to take the core asset you're supposed to produce, source code, from another developer and pass it off as your own work, would that be right? Oh, but you didn't know it came from another developer? Doesn't really matter anymore, as you've been called out on it. Admit that you were wrong and fix the situation.
This is one of those questions where people tend to reply with semi-snarky advice like "as much as you can get" or "it's relative". And they are right in a sense.

Still, based only on my own past experience (assuming your review is a positive one) I'd say 4%-5% is fair... more than that seems like a clear reward and message that "we need to keep this person", and less than that seems like "eh, here's something".

EDIT: As to your second q: knowing what similar people in your industry and area are being paid might be a good figure to know (and if you can do it tactfully, bring up) - but being able to point out some of your accomplishments in the past year that the reviewer may not remember or be aware of will probably get you farther.
This is a tremendous help for art history students who can not easily access some of the most praised works of art in the world. Seeing a work of art in a museum creates a transformational experience that can not be replicated on the page of a text-book.
The relevant analogy to phones would be if the Windows Phone team took all of Android's source code--and somehow decompiled the proprietary bits--changed the branding, and distributed it as their product.

There's a huge difference between doing work that is influenced by someone else and just stealing someone else's work.
We ended up settling on a combination of TrustCommerce and Chargify.

Chargify made the integration ridiculously easy. Initially I wanted to go with BrainTree but the deal we got from TrustCommerce was more favorable to us since we do not yet have much traction.
See also the revision history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torsoraphy&act...

(cur | prev) 03:03, 2 February 2011 Nihiltres (talk | contribs) (26 bytes) (;))

The commit summary is ;)

Just another wikipedian causing mischief.
On the other hand, you can predict with 100% accuracy that any idea you _don't_ build _isn't_ going to go viral. (at least not for you...)
Do you really believe Al Jazeera is uncensored?
It's nice that Google would like Microsoft to stop copying them. Everyone else who generates unique content (news site articles, TripAdvisor reviews) would like Google to stop copying their content into Google News and Google Places.

Apparently Google only cares about sites copying other sites content when their it's their own stuff getting copied.
oh, for the love of god! "gate" is not a goddamn suffix! you do not add it to things to connote scandal! this is not an acceptable practice; it's down there with "irregardless" and "should of". stop doing it!
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Nice! Is there a form for developers to apply?
quite the contrary, pretty much all of the email newsletter companies charge based on the number of subscribers.

a few do have the pay as you go plans that are based on # of emails sent...but they are all secondary products for them
Hush... don't give them any ideas!
Why does he think that Google were not aware of the clickstream data when they set up (several) experiments where they specifically install what they thought were sources for the clicks and then purposefully clicked?
This story sounded familiar -- it turns out that some of our own HN'ers have done this too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1823191
This is fine if you're just using Flickr as photo storage and publishing, but (especially for pro photographers) a big part of the reason to be on Flickr is the social networking features. If you've got people linking to your photos and photo stream, you can't easily duplicate that outside the Flickr ecosystem with your dropbox hosted photos.
Unique and useful to lots of people, you pass the rep hurdle easily. If it's only useful to a few people passing the rep hurdle will take a very long time.
Google's search engine serves up content from other people's sites. And advertises against it.

Is that right?

I'm handing this one to microsoft. They found a simple, elegant source of improving their results. Tough shit that it's at google's expense.
Pandora is probably the best-known app written with OpenLaszlo (and I'm not sure how well-known this fact is).

When I tried OpenLaszlo a few years ago it was very nice to work with - definitely better than plain Flash. Then again, I actually don't mind XML.
This piece is so bogus. If, as he suggests, Google's query data is accidentally getting caught up in some larger Bing project, then why doesn't Bing just say that in their numerous posts and tweets about the scandal? Instead, they've just thrown mud at Google.
Google Launches Shopping App for iPhone
The way I see it, it's like if B builds entire applications by pasting snippets from Stack Overflow without citation, and then pitches a holy fit upon realizing that one of his/her amalgamations of Stack Overflow snippets has in turn been cut and pasted.

The boundary just seems arbitrary to me, which makes the whole thing seem hypocritical.
No, Wikipedia admin Nihiltres intentionally created the "torsoraphy" page (at 3:03 today, no less) and made it redirect to "Tarsorrhaphy". It's not the search algorithm being clever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torsoraphy&act...
Blame my hurried pace. My apologies both for not linking to the RWW article that talked about the (supposed) abduction as well as for the use of are rather than our. I've since fixed both of those problems.

Next time, leave a comment for me on the site, will ya'?
I don't think this is as unethical as you say. I sincerely believe all Bing is doing is using the toolbar to get (long) search trails.

Using search trails is a near-standard practice--to guess intent, find deep links, yada yada. Does Google want Bing to special-case links going out from their site? Or all search-engines maybe? What about techniques like this? http://www2005.org/cdrom/docs/p66.pdf

The paper authors sure call it innovative, not cheating :)
(Also, techniques like this search+wrapper are great for Product Search, and I'd be surprised if Google doesn't use them).

I think Google's stance is rather unfair. While Bing may have "copied" results, I feel this was just a side-effect of trying to build a good index, rather than a case of "oooh.... let's see what's google returns for this, and just copy the result").
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I'm a high school senior right now and I think it would be a pretty bad move to -require- students have laptops.

They won't pay attention to the teacher for sure. If there's a web filter then students will download games from home and put them on; especially Flash games. If even one student knows they can do that, then it'll spread pretty fast... And I'm sure there will be a good handful that do.

I think basically, if you give students something to do other than listen to their teachers, most will stop listening.

It's better to let students bring laptops, so the serious ones will actually put them to use. Maybe they could even make laptops available to loan, if poorer students want one but couldn't get their own?
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Really? If you are serious about your startup, you should waste hours on a Coming Soon page instead of spending them on your product? Drop the few dollars on a service like this and get it other with.

This looks like a more ambitious version of something I worked on a little bit ago. Hopefully it works out for them. I think the key is to add features that developers normally wouldn't add if they made the page themselves (nice dashboard, populating a newsletter, sharing stuff, etc). It seems like that's exactly what LaunchRock is doing.
Jailbreak?
United Nations stats (lots of goodies)

http://unstats.un.org

some free, some paid

http://infochimps.com/

AIS Data (Marine Traffic)

http://www.aishub.net/

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

And there's a great list of sources on Quora

http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-get-large-datasets-open-to-...
I'm pretty sure when I signed up for Flickr Pro, that their TOS said something to the effect that even should Flickr go out of business, they will ensure that your photos are preserved for a reasonable amount of time.

That said, I can't seem to find it now. Weird.
Ironic since TechCrunch bought InviteShare.
Downloading an "app" requires effort and more to a degree, commitment. Browsers will get faster or Safari will become the nerd-age IE.
http://mediatemple.net is popular. Not all that cheap, but not outrageously expensive.

You could also just use http://wordpress.com
While Android it obviously inspired by iOS, it's not a direct copy. A better example of Google's hypocrisy is their outright copying news articles into Google News despite the source companies asking them not to.
I wonder how long before we start seeing articles entitled
.{com,org,net} domains considered harmful?
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It's not necessarily a bad thing. That's what happened to the original IBM PC and it made PCs cheaper and led to the PC revolution. Did it suck for IBM and Apple? Yes, but the benefit to the world was immense.
The only thing Dropbox offered me was their team product: $795 for the year, 350GB. Additional 100GB packs, $200. So it would cost me $895 for the year, or $75 per month.
That's the address of Google's Taipei office:

http://www.google.com/corporate/address.html

To be fair, I only thought to check that because I recognise the guy's name and know he's in CS (though I had no clue until today that he worked for Google) --- he co-developed LibSVM, which I've used heavily:

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/
I don't think ordering of results could be considered copyright, that's more like a method (since Bing presumably still crawls the sites and builds it's own index, with perhaps Google as a ranking factor).

Real world consumer product companies copy what the competition is doing every day (it would be like US Airways putting it's interior designers on a Southwest plane), as long as Microsoft isn't using internal Google spies to steal code or something.
How in the world would they be? Scraping web-content is pretty much Google's entire business model. Is 'slightly' hypocritical for them to even speak out on this in my opinion.
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My heart goes out to him and his family, and I hope he turns up safe and sound. I'm interested in this case from another perspective as well: How hard would it be, in our age of increasing connectivity and decreasing privacy, to truly make someone "disappear"? Presumably, he had a cell phone on him. Were he arrested, that phone would have logged his journey to the police station or jail or ditch in the desert. I'll bet there are many people at his carrier who could check his account logs and see what tower his phone is currently connected to if it's still on, and the last one it connected to if it isn't. That information in itself could prove illuminating, independent of call logs and text messages sent.
As a not-designer, what tools are you using to do iOS/Android APP UI design?

Forgive my ignorance - but is it photoshop skinning?
So, if anyone from the Mongoose team is around, please correct me if I'm wrong - but defining a model's schema helps mostly in scenarios where you would typecast or otherwise transform attributes.

It's more about helping you easily use data that's retrieved from the DB more than about defining a schema.
TSA yanks option for airports to have their own screening
Apple is far from having a monopoly, as the Android users and Apple hater keep reminding us. Microsoft at the time I think had 90% of the market or something ridiculous like that. Amazon is free to take its app to the other 100 tables presented at CES.
From my reading of the article, zxczxczxczxczx isn't in the search results page either, it was special cased at google to display the honeypot page for that specific query.

But is Bing "parsing the url" any different to what Google's doing when I go into Google Analytics -> Traffic Sources -> Search Engines, and select Keyword in the second dropdown (after source)? Google are clearly showing me the search terms parsed out of the referrer urls from people who found my site in Bing.

I think this is perhaps not obvious behaviour to the general public, but surely pretty much anyone who goes to the trouble of installing the Bing (or Google) toolbar has worked out for themselves that they're choosing to send data like this to Microsoft (and Google), and that it'll get used to "improve search" if it's found to be useful for that?
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That is really scary. Does anybody know a free way to download all the flickr photos?
Thanks a ton for the input. Appreciate it. We are about to try to start monetizing the site after developing it over the last few months and appreciate your help!

Would love to hear from the others.
Let's compare their coverage of U.S. politics to CNN, NYT, and Fox:

http://alexkrupp.com/picture_library/rp/rp.html
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Do you actually do the UI programming for the apps, or is it Photoshop comps?
There's a problem with the apparent user experience logic here. By all indications, what Apple really wants (aside from a 30% cut that Sony, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble will gladly give them in hell) is for users to have a single (iTunes) login to purchase any kind of content inside apps.

Problem is, a single login is impossible. In any of the ebook cases, users will have to log in twice: Once to authenticate for iTunes, and once to authenticate with the ebook store – otherwise their new purchases remain orphaned on the iPad and their existing library is stranded in the cloud.

So, there goes the UX angle. All that's left is the financial angle Apple can't possibly expect the other ebook retailers to cave on. This, then, leads ultimately to the possibility that Apple simply wants them off the App Store. Which decreases the value of the iPad for anyone invested in those ecosystems. Maybe Apple never wanted them as customers, anyway?
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Uncensored - yes just as Fox News or CNN or the BBC is uncensored.

But all practice some degree self-censoring, where they. for example, beep out language deemed offensive

More importantly all have some degree of bias. (Let's not get into the discussion of who is and more or less biased and in which direction.)

The only true way to get the news these days is to watch from different viewpoints and form your own opinion. That's all Al Jazerra is asking for. They are also offering coverage of news that is otherwise unavailable - isn't that a good thing?
Google Docs Becoming the Mythical 'GDrive'
Does anyone know if cable carriers in the US don't carry AJ because of lack of demand or is there documented evidence of active exclusion for business or political reasons?

Please don't take this question as conspiracy theory flame bait. I'm just curious about what is known about this.
It's downright ridiculous if section 11.2 is applied universally. So does Apple get a cut of Cisco's WebEx contracts whenever a customer decides to fire up the free iOS app? Does Apple get a cut of OverDrive's contract to deliver eBooks and audio books to local libraries if someone downloads the iOS app? This doesn't even make sense.

Are Netflix and Hulu going to hand over 30% of their subscription fees to Apple if the user wants to fire up the service on an iOS device? Is that even feasible?

Are the Apple tax examiners going to look for login screens and reject apps based solely on that now?

No, probably not. It's probably just a cover for Apple to beat up on its competitors (Amazon, Barnes and Noble) and to let everyone else (Netflix, Hulu) get a free pass. Much like how Apple singled out Adobe yet allowed Appcelerator and UNITY to continue without pause.
Art Term Papers—Writing an Art Exhibit Review
Writing art term papers on art exhibit reviews can be an interesting experience for all art students. This will require students to visit a gallery and select an art exhibit, analyze it thoroughly and provide an informative and interesting review about it.
move upmarket. A small dotcom may now be able to pay $300/hr but when you're setting up an independently regulated financial utopia (See the independent finance centre of the americas) a few shekels for design is nothing.

I have no doubt sites like national geographics website cost over a million. Just like a good iphone app costs $200K+ good design costs, and is exceedingly rare.

example: winkreative
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Right on the money. Literally. ;)
I do UI engineering as well. Wireframes/UX diagrams -> high-fidelity mockups -> full implementation of the UI (Cocoa/Obj-C or HTML/CSS/JS). It's nice to do both ends as I can think about implementation as I design and start thinking about where hiccups might occur.
I may advise you to think twice about trying to negotiate your raise. If you work at a good company that values your contribution they're going to bump your salary as much as they can reasonably afford, keeping in mind fairness to your colleagues and the current budget.

In most cases your opportunity to negotiate is during the hiring process. It's hard to push back about your pay once you're hired. The best case is they give you the money because they're afraid you'll leave, but then they'll likely take the necessary steps to make you less integral to the business in case it happens again.

You might be better off asking for the opportunity to go to a conference, a workshop, take grad classes, etc. It's easier for them to justify those add-ons because the company stands to benefit from what you learn. It also makes you more valuable, which will possibly get you more money down the road.
I believed they were sucking up to the Qatari regime until late 2009 when they nearly caused themselves to be de-funded after exposing that 20% of the country's oil exports were unaccounted for.

They are censored, by a tiny emirate which I don't care about, and even then they test limits of their own sandbox there. It's not like Qatar has a huge global influence and alliances it must watch over. And their own self-censorship regarding Qatar is one of omission, rather than, say, creative reporting.

Al-Jazeera is good for us because it holds the four major forces in the region accountable and on their toes: the regimes, Israel & America, Iran, and Saudi Arabia and its Jihadi minions.

Al-Jazeera angered everyone when it broadcast a program calling the Arabic language obselete and said university students should be taught in English to compete in the global economy. Stuff like that doesn't buy you a lot of friends.
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Actually, if you follow the references in the wiki article, you'll find that there was lots of documentation on how to make FOGBANK. The actual components were completely known, as well as the manufacturing process, however the specifics of the manufacturing process (-exactly- which machines) were lost. In fact, what you'll find is that when they finally got around to making FOGBANK (albeit at lower yields) the reason the original FOGBANK manufacturing process had such high yields was because the material they were using were actually more impure than the rerun.

FOGBANK is actually one of those materials that relies on impurities for it's qualities, and the original documentation did not note this (probably because they did not know), and it was only with more recent techniques that we were able to establish that.

Anyhow, the FOGBANK stuff is no where as simple as 'uh durr, silly engineers forgot how to make something'.
Someday Gmail is going to have a catastrophic loss that's beyond parity bit recovery.
Google doesn't represent that content as their own, instead they link to the original source.

I don't think anyone would be complaining if searching on Bing just redirected to google.com/?q=whatever_you_searched_for
That sort of "control" wouldn't necessarily be conclusive; Bing could be using click data weighed by a prior calculation of how trustworthy the clicked-on site is (e.g. an analogue of PageRank score), whereupon clicks on Google would rank much higher than clicks on some newly-created fake search engine.

I guess my point is, unless you have deep knowledge into the secret workings of a search engine with hundreds of inputs, simple "tests" to figure out the nature of just one of those inputs are bound to end in multiple plausible explanations for your results, unless you rig a huge fraction of the WWW. And Google has better things to do with their time.
If a user uses the IRS's Tax App, should Apple get a 30% cut?