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IMNAL nor familiar with American Antitrust laws, but wouldn't Apple actions fall under laws against Coercive Monopolies?

Apple are potentially forcing Amazon to price purchases through its iOS application at a higher price to make up on lost margins on sales due to Apples surcharge. Someone is going to pay for that: either Amazon will eat the cost or the consumer will.

What they are effectively creating is a barrier to entry for Amazon conducting business on their platform all the while Apple have a competing offering that is unencumbered by the surcharge.

Now if Apple didn't have there own competing business to Amazons ebook business I wouldn't be as concerned since there is no competitive stake hold in the surcharge. IMO, this issue has Antitrust written all over it.
In a way I see this click tracking that Microsoft is doing innovation. What better way to get relevancy than directly from the user and what that user clicks on?
Does the world really need yet another Twitter client?
Explain what you mean when you say that Google makes money by aggregating other people's content? Google makes money by indexing other people's content and driving traffic to other people's sites. That hardly seems like a bad thing.
After being down all day yesterday, the site's now working for me.

Not much crime in my small part of south-east London, except for an ominous 'other crime' at the end of the street...
Also websites can opt-out of having their content indexed.

How can Google opt-out of having its search index copied by Microsoft?

The funniest argument in this has been "Bing hasn't got the data, Google has an unfair advantage etc" as if Microsoft didn't exist before Google.

Microsoft have had years headstart to get their online division doing something worthwhile, but they still can't get it right.
Google News is an aggregator, hence Rupert Murdoch's problem with it.
Is anyone else surprised that Comcast has actually gotten off their ass and decided to start going ahead with this? I guess my expectation was that Verizon would be headlining IPv6 and not Comcast.
And yet this 8 bit microcontroller seems to have more fluid, smooth scrolling than all of them...
This one isn't half bad, but it is lacking. MSSQL has a much better query engine when your queries get complex and it uses indexes in a more sophisticated and efficient way. Also on larger databases where the DB-size exceeds the available memory by a factor of 100, you can really forget about MySQL all together while MSSQL will just keep rolling.

Also point 3 about MSSQL defaults has been moot at least since SQL Server 2000. While it does create a named constraint in the background, it supports a as minimalistic syntax as MySQL for setting defaults.

In fact, this is such a widely used syntax that you almost have to look up the overly declarative one he uses in his example to know that it even exists.

Besides that your link does give at least a light overview of the differences when it comes to programming them, so have an upvote.
I started with Qbasic and did my first more ambitious projects in PHP. I agree that it is really easy to get started, but the horrible security holes I created are the downside;-)
It's the company's legal responsibility to maximise value to it's shareholders not employee salary. Of course you should negotiate. It's a commercial transaction.

Would you buy a car or house without negotiating, trusting that the seller will come up with a fair price ?
Ah.. MASM, AFD, Peter Norton's PC Programmer's Bible... anybody remembers how that first hyper-link based helpfile was called with all the INTs and stuff ?

Although I studied programming (I was 13) one of those Soviet IBM System/360 clones in FORTRAN I did not like it. I was pretty much fascinated with Ataris which started to popup in USSR in late 80th, so I learnt 6502 assembly soon after I put my hands on one of 130XE. When IBM PCs came in I learnt x86 asm, then C and C++, but much much later :-)
The issue the NYT is complaining about is: the US prefers to use "place of incorporation" instead of "place of effective management" in deciding where a company should be taxed. Of course this should hardly be a surprise, when Delaware alone is "home" to tens of thousands of companies owned by non-resident aliens.

For those who are curious or suffering from insomnia, here's the actual laws that make Carnival mostly tax-exempt:
Internal Revenue Code Sec. 883:

(a) The following items shall not be included in gross income of a foreign corporation, and shall be exempt from taxation under this subtitle: (1) Ships operated by certain foreign corporations: Gross income derived by a corporation organized in a foreign country from the international operation of a ship or ships if such foreign country grants an equivalent exemption to corporations organized in the United States. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_0...

"Foreign corporation" is defined in Sec. 7701:

(4) Domestic: The term “domestic” when applied to a corporation or partnership means created or organized in the United States or under the law of the United States or of any State unless, in the case of a partnership, the Secretary provides otherwise by regulations. (5) Foreign: The term “foreign” when applied to a corporation or partnership means a corporation or partnership which is not domestic. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/usc_sec_26_00007701----...

In some countries, the laws and treaties care about the "place of effective management" of a corporation in deciding where it is to be taxed. That would catch out Carnival. For example, the OECD model tax convention says: Profits from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management of the enterprise is located http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/2310081E.P...

However, the US uses the following in most of its treaties instead: Profits of an enterprise of a Contracting State from the operation in international traffic of ships or aircraft shall be taxable only in that State. And, there is no double-taxation treaty between the US and Panama in the first place, only a tax information exchange agreement.
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Put up a terms of use or force users to accept a license agreement. They do no such thing today. So I think you'd have a hard time saying Microsoft has done anything legally wrong here.
Any ideas how practical it might be to get this running under Mono?
Are those Californian public employees paid for doing nothing? If not, then the California corporate tax is a "wealth transfer" to the same extent as any salary payment is a "wealth transfer".

Those public employees are doing things like teaching schoolkids and collecting the garbage and making roads. If they aren't ludicrously overpaid (I've heard stories suggesting that some public employees are ludicrously overpaid, but what's the situation in general?) then what's actually happening is that corporate taxes are transferring ... well, maybe "wealth" sounds too specifically like money, so let's say "well-being" or "welfare" or something ... from beneficial owners of Californian corporations, to schoolkids and homeowners and road users and so forth.

Maybe that's a good thing, maybe not, but it's not quite the same as just taking business-owners' money and handing it to public employees.

(Much the largest expenditure in the California state budget is education. I think a high-school math teacher in California earns about $60k/year. Doesn't sound lavishly overpaid to me.)
This is an interesting idea, but I'm not super clear on what happens to the posts after they're written. Do you have a separate blog for people to look at and associate with the company, or do you have an internal-only blog for the posts?

Do you ever worry about image problems from opinions posted in PBH posts -- especially here in Japan?
They've done as much legally wrong as bundling IE with windows.

It's most certainly morally wrong.

I want to see a project started to r/e the bing toolbar, and create something to send rubbish data back to bing to screw up their search index. That'd be awesome to see.
Is there a super secret feature which keeps ol Mark Zuckerberg from accessing my info?!

But on the whole, good info to know about finding out other devices who may be accessing your account.
I recently started a daily blog that I've given to a few close friends -- I write about anything and everything that I want to, from things that happened to me during the day to rants about whatever topics bothered me on a given day. Worrying about my audience and personal brand tended to hinder me in the past, so this time I'm trying to just write daily and not worry about that kind of thing. I'm averaging over 1000 words a post.
First article I've read in a while that's taking Microsoft's side in the whole situation. Every paragraph of this screams publicity. I am just wondering here if this is a PR tactic. Here I would be happy to see a balanced review of both companies behavior but this is just one sided bashing.

<quote>Shame on your pretentious, obnoxious, indefensibly egregious double standard in the field of using public information to turn a profit.</quote> <<-- Ironically, Bing is doing the same and unlike content creators who can opt out by putting a robots.txt file Google cannot opt out of this because like it or not toolbar is always sending back information.

Google indexes public content but how it aggregates it and displays it is their deed. The ordering, etc is Google's work not content creators.Copying it is just like copying an IP. I would love to see this go to court and be fought.
We're discussing morality, not legality. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right.
To be fair this was from April 2009; I am sure after their expansion and funding since then this has changed.

However Jeff/Joel (from listening to their podcast when they did it) seemed to have a massive black spot when it comes to some areas of web scaling that I would have thought were trivial. e.g. saying it was extremely hard to scale beyond a single webserver as it held session state (they seemed to have not heard of memcache)
Sho probably needs to sell its differences a bit more (if it has them). I didn't see any promises that would make it worth my while branching out from python's scipy + matplotlib + rpy packages. Maybe they're aiming for .Net users more...
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Google don't object to meta search engines (e.g. Dogpile) aggregating their results with those of other search engines.

Google are objecting to Bing seemingly passing off Google results as Bing's own (and not including their ads, no doubt).

It's clearly legitimate for Bing to index a Google results page if it follows a link to it (assuming absence of robots.txt etc) and visa versa.

Does it matter that Bing obtained the Google results via a search from a human not affiliated with Bing?

Does it matter that Google blocks crawlers from accessing its search results, using robots.txt?

Does it matter that Google's result pages don't include the noindex instruction?

Tbh, if I was Google I'd mark my results as noindex and see whether Bing respected that.
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http://www.google.com/robots.txt

First two lines:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /search
<meta name=robots content="noindex,nofollow">?
Oh: we have Tim, our resident blog editor, review the posts and tidy them up, then schedule them for during the week. We share the posts so we can all have a look before they go up.

Image problems in Japan? Not yet... we're not super careful at the moment but we're also pretty sensible people too.
The problem with this model is obviously going to be producing the content and I'm surprised Gruber doesn't mention that.

Distributing books this way will add a lot of complexity and cost to an already expensive workflow. If this format succeeds I imagine it will have more in common with "games" than it has with traditional "books". The model for funding and producing these "books" would therefor probably be more similar to how games are produced.
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Except that he only made it sound that way by pretending that the people being paid with those tax dollars are taking the money for doing nothing, whereas in fact they are, e.g., teachers and policemen and firefighters, and the government is handing that money to them in exchange for doing their jobs, and their jobs do in fact involve providing public services.

In other words, exactly what taxes are meant to be used for.

Now, of course it's possible that California is employing incompetent people to do those things, or that it's prioritizing them badly, or that its bureaucratic overhead is much bigger than it should be. But (1) Patrick didn't offer any sort of evidence for any of those things, or even say them, and (2) those things, if true, aren't problems with taxation but with other functions of government. (Unless they're incurable, so that anything paid for by taxes is inevitably going to be done badly; but, living as I do in a country where all sorts of important things are done quite competently using money raised from taxes, I find that difficult to believe.)
Most definitely NOT! You are absolutely correct!
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Google doesn't make any money off of Google News.
Oh I obviously misunderstood the article. I'm so sorry.
You mean competition, not concurrence. use dictionary, HN will upvote. :-)
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I'm pretty sure microsoft doesn't care...

They're capturing what users click on, which doesn't include any information about the wishes of the website owner.
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There's a lot of useful stuff built on R, but I think it's a shame to say there isn't any scope for innovation in this area.

Incanter (Clojure) is worth a look, too.
Picking on one consequence of a thing and calling it "profoundly evil" (or for that matter profoundly good) on that basis is ridiculous. On that basis you could make anything look either good or bad.

Giving money to some people who make bad decisions may very well mean that more people will make similar bad decisions, and yes, that's a bad thing. On the other hand, it may also mean that those people don't starve to death, which most of us would consider a good thing. It may mean that they're less likely to steal to get the money they need or want, which again is probably a good thing. It may mean that some of them get the support they need to fix those bad decisions and get their lives back on track, which again is probably a good thing.

Oh, and I liked the way you skipped straight from "giving people money who make bad decisions" to "welfare", as if the two are the same. As if no one ever found themselves in serious financial trouble for any reason other than having made "bad decisions".

I think you're looking for profound evil in the wrong place.
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I think Google is right to be upset here. Google's biggest asset is their search results and Microsoft's response seems tepid at best. Effectively MS is claiming that they don't scrape google search results, instead they merely constructed an automated device which essentially does exactly that. If Bing doesn't see what's wrong with that then they are not terribly smart.
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Ask HN: What are the facts in the Google v Bing scuffle?
"Facts" I have read, please correct me in what is wrong, incorrect or missing.

#1 Google suspected MS/Bing of straight copying their search results.

#2 Google setup a honeypot like system. Landing pages indexed bogus terms in their system. Essentially noise, that would not exist previously as a search term in either system

#3 Google used a web browser, with the Bing toolbar to navigate bogus search terms

#4 In turn, this user activity was used to cross link a term entered by the user to a web page in MS/Bing's system.

So this opens up the can of worms about user privacy, content ownership (lets drag up the deep linking hysteria of several years ago), morality/legality etc etc etc.

But how exactly did Bing violate Google's terms exactly?

Did Google invalidate their own data by simply using the bing toolbar? Accepting legal terms of the toolbar, device, OS by using it?

Who "owns" the content the user "created" by typing in a search term and clicking a link?
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Okay, if we're really starting to do this, then I guess I have to figure out how to upgrade all my code to deal with IPV6. I use the BSD sockets interface for most things.

I assume we'll be living in a mixed IPV4/IPV6 world for awhile. Who's got a tutorial for making a connection to a host using IPV6 if available, but falling back to IPV4 if it isn't?
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Maybe not directly, but I am quite sure that Google uses Google News to enhance search results (they know more about you and your interest), and so indirectly makes money.
However, Google does use Google Toolbar data for rankings.
No one has shown any evidence that Microsoft has directly copied Google's search index, or even violated the directives in google.com's robots.txt file.

What Microsoft apparently has done is to infer relationships from Gooogle SRPs to various sites by way of information gathered through the Bing toolbar (and possibly other documented and user opt-in channels w/in IE). Using toolbar collected signals is well-established practice -- that's how Google obtains information regarding site performance.
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Yes, it's perfectly legal, but is incredibly stupid in this case because of the liability.

If you work on security this way, you are going to get sued eventually. If you are a monotributista or responsable inscripto, you will lose everything. A SRL (like a LLC) is the logical way to handle this kind of work.

What I meant by illegally is that it would be illegal if he was already incorporated as a SRL and exporting services (he needs to do the escrow to do that legally).
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Google gets no benefit from Microsoft using their data.

What happened to the Google line of "the more happy searching people we have online the better" (usually brought out in justification of their android investment)?

Shouldn't the same logic apply? Especially since at least half of the people using Bing aren't doing so voluntarily § shouldn't google be willing to trade that one search for having everyone happy on the internet and consuming more of it?

Is an incremental increase in Bing's search quality really going to take market share away from google? I'm skeptical.

§ 50% of Bing's traffic comes from fb, msn and windows live mail: http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/google-is-4th-largest-traff...
It will be interesting to see if other backup services will follow.

I've always wondered how they managed to keep prices so low. Considering the price of S3 (asuming their costs are similar to Amazon's) then only the storage costs of 100Gb is $14/month (excluding bandwidth). Even if they store it very efficiently (erasure coding, compression, de-duplication etc) it would be very hard to reach break even at $5/month.
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Microsoft do NOT steal Google's search results. They use clickstream data from Bing toolbar users to improve their search results.

What happened is that Google engineers engineered a use case, in which signal from those clickstream appear like a stealing of search results. Or in other words, Microsoft uses Google users behaviour in their ranking algorithm. But that's not unethical, and Google is doing the same thing.