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Forget Paypal! I'd be MORE inclined to support an organization/product if I saw that they'd opted out of using their service.

At least until they change their policies. They seem so arbitrary sometimes.
except that that's not what robots.txt is for. Otherwise your adblock extension could be excluded via robots.txt

edit: bing toolbar is effectively an extension for MSIE. robots.txt is designed to stop spiders. Spiders aren't extensions. Therefore that's not what robots.txt is for. What did I say wrong to get downvoted?
>Who "owns" the content the user "created" by typing in a search term and clicking a link?

I'm not sure that's the issue here. Unless I've misunderstood, what Bing is doing essentially lets them duplicate whatever improvements in results that Google innovates on. Google doesn't want Bing to reap the benefits of their hard work and money spent on improving their tech. I believe what Bing is doing is preventing Google from competing on a technical level. Honestly though, I'm still a little lost myself. There is a lot of back-and-forth going on here so it's difficult to distill the facts and weed out what is simply opinion.
Oh jeez, not again. This is the Microsoft we know and love to hate, less so now that it is falling apart and must be pitied as an underdog.

Let's see:

Market cap: Microsoft - 239.49B, Google - 195.50B.
Revenue: Microsoft - 66.69B, Google - 29.32B.
Profit margin: Microsoft - 30.84%, Google - 29.01%.

Falling apart. Right...
I presume your "dot net" entry encompasses any .NET language, other than C# which is already accounted for?
This is the question that will be the game changer: Will the current ad-break-supported television model even be around in 20 years?

I can't imagine that this model will hold up. Will the broadcasters eventually be cut out of the equation except for maybe live events?
They should really use http://WePay.com.
Microsoft did nothing wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking
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Maybe... I suggest that having an idea, not implementing it, then suing the guy who did build it (several times) doesn't count as "going viral for you"...

But yeah, it can still pay out pretty handsomely...
That was pathetic. He seemed incapable of even remembering the syntax for 'cd'...kids!

I found it curious that he was copy/pasting those wget links so quickly though. THAT part nearly seemed automated. Strange behaviour.
http://www.google.com/xml is wrong
I know this has been posited, but has it been confirmed anywhere that this is the case?
http://www.google.com/xml
How so? Bing didn't steal any code from Google tocreate this. It can only up to be saying A uses B's site responses and put them into their results, with like 8% of the time.
I think that the Phineas Barnum assumption is pretty much valid and this article proves it.
OK, so for IE8 users return a single page AJAX app instead as a variant of what's already done with Instant. Still no referrers but no POST warning messages (which, BTW, have to be one of the most annoying things about ASP.Net web forms - postback was a boneheaded design decision from someone who didn't understand HTTP.)
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Certain categories of public employees would do less damage by doing nothing.
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Somebody has to mention it so I might as well: WePay is not available in Scotland.

https://www.wepay.com/about/faq#thirteen
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Four years and having the account frozen every time? Those organisers must either be very patient or desperate to use paypal. Why wouldn't other payment processors work; like Moneybookers, Wepay, or bank transfers, etc?
Not until people in Europe can use it.

Its a Scottish conference.
A tiny emirate who's leaders just managed to acquire the world's biggest sporting event, and are trying to buy one of Europe's best known football teams.
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Provided a pulpit or were used as a pulpit? The post is poorly worded I agree but there's a difference; if I as a hypothetical editor went searching for such people as regular op-ed voices I think that would be unethical, but is it the same to broadcast their latest threatening diatribe when sent it? Al Jazeera seem to be the largest regional news source by some margin so it's logical for someone wanting to spread a message to send it via them and it's equally logical (to me) for them to report that the threatening message has been sent.
Loads of online services (esp. to do with money) are only available to USAians. :(
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WePay is so limited in it's scope at the moment (US only, events / fundraising only) that it's usually not applicable as a PayPal replacement. If someone wants to replace PayPal, they just need to copy all the functionality / features but not be so annoying.
There is no robot involved. An actual human instructs their user agent to retrieve a document on Google. A piece of code, running in that user agent, does something. If anyone has a complaint here, it is the user, not Google. (Google really really doesn't want to spin this as "MS is spying on our users" because as soon as they say that some person is going to point out "Google is spying on the entire world" and that person will be right.)
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This has just happened to me with my new business that saw exponential growth from the previous month. They asked me for all information within 2 days, from Friday, so basically they wanted me to work over my weekend.

Which I sent to them, and then they say that they'll follow up and it's been like 4 days. What pisses me off, is that they don't return the same courtesy / haste that they expect from us.
That's not feasible in most situations.
I wonder though: Why do email lists not have the same half-life as Twitter?
Is it that people take longer to get through their inboxes and so the traffic is spread out over time or are they storing emails for reference and returning to it later?
Since the original discussion has been overtaken by this link, I shall link to it - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2167808 so nobody here misses it.
Maybe not, but it would be nice to see.
I tut-tutted and pish-toshed for the first couple of slides but Incanter actually looks quite interesting. Is Clojure here to stay or a fad?
Maybe Al Jazeera should just run with being a 21st century, Internet delivered news channel.

they are! I haven't seen any news network that has such high priority for having live feed on the internets. they literally have their live feed at almost every internet video delivery provider - youtube, real media, livestation, you name it...
I've bought maybe 15 titles through Kindle (on the iPad) and I don't have a problem with the Kindle app but I really do have a problem with the quality of lots of the conversions - these seem to vary between acceptable through to downright shoddy.

So while I don't think there is a problem with the quality of Kindle itself some of the content has been converted in a way that really hurts the experience for me.
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Here's the thing.

What would have happened if the population of egypt had been armed. Would they have used them? Definitely the temptation would be there, and it only takes a mistake or to to spark something off.

The military has refused to fire on citizens; that's a pretty massive decision, not quite so easy to make if you're being shot at...

By removing all guns from the equation the military has pretty much ensured the revolution will go down fairly peacefully from here on out.

So, in this case, yep it is definitely a good thing the population wasn't armed.

Being armed is the hammer solution to the problem of being arrested by plain clothes police in such a manner. You takes your risks, but at least you weren't shot :)
Can someone translate what's happening for those that can't read this code? :) Thanks
The short version? Accepting payments internationally is effing hard and effing expensive and the risk of fraud and other illegal activities is astronomical. Paypal does it head and tails better than any other organization.
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You're wrong, I decided to found this site because my friend dropped and cracked my iPad, and I couldn't find any suitable cases. The site was inspired by a true life problem, and I know 100's of people that found it very useful.
Ask HN: How should site owners respond to complete data compromise?
I hacked a local social networking site here in Croatia. I was looking into the innards of how one of their features works and while tampering with HTTP I accidentally sent a request with a semicolon in one of the fields. The rest is history: full access to their database, files, etc...

I informed the site owners immediately and they fixed the hole within a day or so, while expressing gratitude and surprise that somebody would go out of their way to describe the depth of the security problem, etc...

But during the talks with their tech team I realized that they have been aware of the hole for at least two years and had no idea if anyone ever exploited it. What's worse they were not going to disclose the hack in any way.

Considering that this was a hole that'd let you fetch all the data just like the POF hack, and considering that there might have been sensitive user data leaked, I'm questioning the wisdom of their choice of keeping the lid on things.

What does HN think: how should site owners respond to such complete failures of security? What would you do?
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But the effect is the same as intentional scraping and outright stealing: search results that could have only come from Google are appearing as Bing results.

Bing needs to blacklist Google from its clickstream. Simple.
hackernews, what?
TC / Crunchbase might want to change their WooMe's company profile on their pages as well, in light of this article.

Kind of funny that the article calls it "bait-and-switch, from the horrible kind" while linking to an internal-ish overview that says "best of all it’s free".

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/woome
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I'd assume the recording process cut out all instances where nothing changed on the screen. All the thinking pauses seem cut out.
A more free-form way of getting those posts out is setting up a Planet (http://www.planetplanet.org) that aggregates the blog posts from everyone in the company. This is very common among open source companies and communities. Although Planets are generally different than what is being proposed in the article which I guess is more about having all developers writing posts for the company's official blog.
Am I alone in really not liking the use of the .prototype property in Javascript?

For starters, it doesn't play well with native classes, so if you're trying to bind native objects to Javascript, it's going to create problems. For example, when using .prototype, the constructor creates a pure Javascript object - for JavascriptCore at least, pure Javascript objects don't have the possibility to be linked to a native object, with JSObjectSetPrivate() returning an error.

Secondly, it just generates all sorts of problems with handling of member variables - every instance of a subclass objects links to just one copy of the parent class, which means that all of the subclass instances share state - this is generally not what is wanted in subclassing.

Crockford suggests using prototyping in a more free-form manner, as follows:

function MySubclass()
{
var that = new MyParentClass();
that.newMemberFunction = function()
{
}
return that;
}

which corrects both of the problems that I mentioned above. Personally I use this style a lot in Ruby as well as JavaScript, which shows that it is more portable than .prototype as well.
Hey don't knock the horse face. I did fine at Burning Man wearing a Horse Head mask. Maybe there are a lot of playa princesses on WooMe.
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Not just poor people. The stoopid as well.
I do agree. But I feel this complaint is different to the "I started making money and Paypal suspended my account" complaints that are normally posted.

It's the repeat nature - asking for the same documentation over and over again - that's so annoying here.
If programming languages were cars... http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.html
I'm working on a new to-do list application, and yes I do think the world needs "yet another" one. Are all the Twitter clients out there perfect? Is there one that fits your exact workflow, has all the features you want, and no bugs? If not there is space to innovate. Yes, the market is saturated but if you have a new idea, I say go for it. Even if your "perfect" new Twitter client is only perfect for you, hey, you now have a perfect Twitter client. Odds are, it's perfect for someone else too.
Which leaves me wondering: Why is there no credible alternative to PayPal? I would have thought that there would be plenty of money in this kind of business given the fees PayPal is able to charge. Although I imagine that it's a very difficult service to provide well and to provide internationally at the scale PayPal does.

(The historical UK alternative to PayPal is Nochex, of which a cursory Google search also reveals plenty of dissatisfied customers).
Also, do we need another answers site (Quora)?

or photo sharing site (Instagram)?

or search engine (Blekko, DuckDuckGo)?
the problem is that it's very hard to design a true flat tax system.

corporations have to make deductions, but different industries need to deduct different levels of expenses. thus you still end up with (somewhat) progressive tax system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax#Avoiding_deductions

another issue which I think previous poster raises, is that it might seem unfair that person below poverty line pays the same tax rate as billionaire. So here in Estonia we make basic income (something that will keep you just above poverty line) tax-free (also everyone pays the same VAT on purchased goods, but obviously poor pay proportionally more in VAT than rich). But that means that it's not a true flat tax system (even though politicians like to claim it is)! Then the question becomes why shouldn't we have progressive tax if we don't have true flat tax system in the first place?
He was definitely a script-kiddie though, but 'worst hacker' is kind of over-statement.
Most of my downvotes are not solely because I disagree with a particular point of view, but because the opinion presented seems to have been formed because the poster is missing a fundamental fact that is crucial to the opposite point of view.

I can't tell if he is ignorant of this fact and would change his view if he knew, or if he holds his opinion despite it. Expressing a contrary opinion requires suitable acknowledgement and refutation of the arguments going in the other direction if it is to have any merit.

If such a fact is acknowledged and refuted, then I am happy to upvote.
Honestly, I think this is a little racist. I agree that there is risk there, but surely there are legal frameworks in place to insulate the YC companies from that risk? (If "the best of due diligence" doesn't uncover anything shady, what more could they have done?)

If you want to talk about "ill-gotten wealth" or "shady characters" do you really need to look any further than American investment firms?
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I think, as patio11 states above, it's because it's very hard to do without losing money to fraud hand over fist.

It's also why Apple/iTunes is so important and why the mobile carriers should be rubbing their hands with glee (if they had any sense).
I have a feeling that people's reaction on this is biased by the fact that one of the two companies is Microsoft. What happened here it's not ethically correct, but come on guys, we must be honest. This is business, it's about billions, it's about market shares. It's not a news that money is not ethical.

Google collects data too, Google does its own shit like everybody else, like Microsoft. Google has its own toolbar too. And all this story seems more a marketing move against Bing.

What I want now to happen is to have more competition, instead of crying Google should work hard to be unbeatable and competitive. History teaches us a copy it's never better than the original.
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I'm ethnically Chinese. The thought of going go the outback to serve beer to a bunch of racist Australians (I think someone in this thread described it as "tired of immigration" LOL) for a pittance is about as appealing to me as slicing my face off with a cheese grater.

Ans as far as teaching English in Asia goes ... this must be a SWPL thing because to me it just sounds like a giant waste of time.

I'll stay in California and work at my six figure tech job. Thanks.
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If a bug in my code put my customers' data at risk, I would fix the vulnerability; make sure I fully understood its scope; make sure there were no other similar bugs; write a blog post alerting the world to the problem and providing any mitigation strategies; and email all my customers to make sure they saw the blog post.
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If you set a function's 'prototype' property to a new object, it's a good practice to set the object's 'constructor' property back to the function, so

Triangle.prototype = new Shape(3, 3);

should be followed by:

Triangle.prototype.constructor = Triangle
The winnings could have been used to buy bootleg DVDs.
Absolutely true. If you have a certain task to do (programming a wordpress plugin, etc.) - the programming language chooses itself :)
If you don't know yet, Python would be my best bet.
That's like the oldest scam that pretty much every single dating site uses. I'm surprised how TC is shocked...shocked to find that on a dating site.

Reddit did the same thing starting out...the only difference is that they didn't try to trick you into paying.
It is quite fun how little of a shit chinese factories give about the intellectual property issues surrounding the components they produce.

Must be a headache if you're selling the products, but it's entertaining/money-saving for the rest of us.
I wouldn't. Replication yes. A logical backup? no.
4 year subscription to Flickr Pro? That's not even a year for every year of photos he has lost. I would think that if you deleted 5 years of a users photos the least you could do would be to give them a life time subscription to Pro and buy them the best damned camera available so that they can take new photos.
Wow. That is a horrible. Can't believe any VC would invest money in such a misleading, annoying startup.

Are these messages coming from WooMe internally or are they SPAM submitted from "Russian bride scams"? Either way, I'm staying away and warning others!
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> Google has 12 years of the entire history of queries and clicks to mine for signals about how to rewrite queries

How about Yahoo ? They have a longer history I suppose. IMO it's all about quality and engineering.

More importantly why did Google survived and flourished for 12 years ?
because taking money as everyone else has mentioned is covered in fraud, which is why Paypal "suck" and why there are no competitors. It's a miracle Paypal exist and for all their flaws, the service they do offer (international, open to almost everyone) is great. Most people don't seem to realise the people who do have problems are a tiny minority of all customers.

If someone screws over a Paypal customer, it's Paypal who have to swallow the loss. Can't really criticise them for the way they act when it's their bottom line that gets affected.
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$50M cash is a fantastic exit for a company created only 4 years ago, with one round of funding ($6M).

Congratulations to the team! I hope the guys at IAC won't destroy the brand/product though... I hope their blog OkTrends will continue to publish fascinating articles too, it would be a great loss.
The only way this could work in the US was if the store was in on it. Returning unused tickets for a refund would not be succesful.
That's an LG Philips (Korean) product that anyone can buy. They said they "believe" it's going to be in the new iPad.

Talking shit on China sure is fun though.
There are a number of payment processors out there that do a better job than PayPal, but none of them is able to match the international reach they have.

If you need international payments and you don't want to be credit card only then PayPal more or less is the only option. (in many countries credit cards are not nearly as common as in the US)
The problem with me is that these passionate urges to write occur maybe once a year. For someone like me, setting aside one hour per week to just man up and write no matter how unmotivated I am is the only way to really build the habit.
I have found the only real solution to this is to make merry hell for a couple of days until it becomes easier for them to fix it than leave it.

I got down to half hourly emails to the customer services manager "in charge of my case", but was ultimately worth it.
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