skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably has more to do with the technology they use than anything. With high scalability comes great pains-in-the-ass to upgrade. ;)
Store is up. Verizon customers may now upgrade
Corporations have the same challenge, some times called the "innovator's dilemma" or "cash cow disease". For example, Microsoft struggled when the web (and thus IE) threatened Windows' dominance.
Interesting, thanks, but doesn't address my question. To be clear, I'm wondering: are clicktrails from Google Toolbar, Google Analytics, Ad programs, or other sources (beyond just Google Search outclicks) ever used to help calculate search rankings?

Robots.txt-sensitive crawling is irrelevant to this question, and whether their toolbar tracks clicks from other search engine result pages is only tangentially relevant, as one small example of the general idea.

And I'm not asking if they've ever done exactly the click inference Bing has done. Rather, I wonder if they're doing vaguely analogous indirect mining of revealed web user preferences via clicktrails. For example, noticing which sites were visited together or in certain order even without crawler-visible links between them. Or noticing which pages were viewed for the longest/shortest times. Or which pages seemed to 'end' a purposeful session. Or other deep-science stuff I can't even imagine.

I don't want them to reveal any proprietary secrets – just whether they have ever used (or would consider it legitimate to use) all the clicktrail data from all their many non-search tools to help with search quality.

Because I've long assumed that they do, and would be surprised if they didn't.
Either way, another sign of how things are at Yahoo.
That's true, they use the java based web objects framework.
Very nice! I love the simplicity. I wonder if it'd be any good for press releases...
Well, from what I read elsewhere, Microsoft is saying that Google admitted to using the Bing toolbar during their testing, and that plays into the Bing results as it associates soon-after visited pages with the queries they used... actually kind of a smooth way to harness user interaction to power search relevance, if you ask me.
take phone on a trip outside the US = complete fail.

thats why i will never get verizon. also the no voice/data at the same time is a deal breaker because i often read up mails and lookup stuff online while on the phone. isnt that the reason you get a smart phone, esp the iphone?
Actually I'm seeing Apple having communication errors communicating with Verizon so I can't purchase yet....
Someday we will nostalgically recollect the silicon age :)
Right there with you: we're definitely getting sign-ups for our startup too (www.venturocket.com), but I would prefer a faster pace.

If I may sort of hijack your post and summarize your question: how do you get people to sign-up for something about which they know nothing other than what the splash page is marketing?
I really like your landing page, so I gave it a Like, and put in my email address.

If it makes you feel better, I'm in the same boat (minus the informative interview you had).

I upvoted you, I want some answers too. :)
HN: What's the difference between EBITDA & 'regular' profitable?
I noticed Jim, CEO of Rev3, said that they were EBITDA profitable.<p>Does that mean they are profitable before paying taxes?<p>I know if it was another company, and they have debt and interest payments - then it could mean that they were profitable based on expenses and revenues from operations, but not including interest payments + taxes.<p>But given we are talking about a web based company, that likely doesn't have debt - what could he be referring to aside from taxes?<p>Thanks.
saying NO is really hard, and takes a lot of strength. it's one of the big reasons i am really getting away from investing right now.
I had a 1st gen iPhone the day they came out. Loved that phone. Sadly I couldn't stand AT&T's customer service. So I went to verizon and bought a Droid. Loved that phone too, but anymore I just want a iPhone again. I miss having my easy integration with my contacts, iTunes, and iPhoto

Anyways I will be waiting till this summer for when the next generation supposedly comes out.
I don't think they need to be disolved, as in theory they perform a necessary function. Instead, merely sack all of the directors and hold parliamentary hearings for their replacements. Make it open and accountable, and you won't see the kind of patronage happening.
and don't forget, easy access to incognito:

ctrl(cmd for mac)+shift+n

handy for testing session/cookie issues without having to reset everything
keep us appraised of your sales, dude!
Project management is another good option, though I wouldn't want technical things being replaced by paperwork.

Thanks for your thoughts.
I think that'd be a better argument had they truly not been able to restore the account. I'm pretty sure this type of thing could happen to any company.

Human error in deleting information? Customer service giving out wrong information? Resolution following bad PR? At flickr/yahoo's scale, none of those (individually or combined) strikes me as indicative of anything.
What's your site? I'll check it out. That's at least 1 more for you ;)
I know that if you fork a GPL licensed project, you have to release your version under GPL also. That's why I said "Obviously folks other than Id Software can't relicense the engine under something other than the GPL"

My question was, how is the GPL incompatible with App Store licensing requirements? I haven't seen that spelled out before. The reason I brought up Wolfenstein was because an article I read back when it was released for the iPhone led me to believe that Carmack was almost expecting (perhaps even looking forward to) people forking it and making their own games for the iPhone with it. That is why I was surprised to hear that the App Store wouldn't allow a GPL licensed application -- since that would make such an outcome impossible.
I signed up. Where can I find more information about your startup?
There's depreciation and amortization as well. This could mean that Rev3 has one-time asset purchases (eg. servers, patents, TV licensing deals) that it is still writing off, and it would be profitable if it didn't have to depreciate those assets.
Redis and SQLite: Why wait for good enough?
Yes, which is the name of the book, which is on my to read list, and a website proposal, which I've studied. He documents the linear-algebraic calculations used by Chinese mathematicians in C4th. He's written some Perl scripts that implement these calculations.

The website proposal is at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rhart/algebra/
because some people don't like having boxes in the middle that they can't look inside of. I started hacking iphone stuff before there was an sdk, and as a result every time I start a new ios project I rip out all the interface builder stuff... the whole thing just doesn't make sense to me.

I'm sure it's a great tool though, clearly with so many apps out there, people are using it.
Yeah, my guess is it was actually deleted but because of the PR hoopla they went to tape or did something equivalently time-consuming to recover the data. It's something that wouldn't scale to everyone, but worth a day of someone's time in this particular high profile case.
That is fairly routine and understandable. Let's talk about a hypothetical SaaS system built on behalf of a large institution -- say, a university -- which does not include an admin accessible undelete feature because features cost money and they struck that one from the spec.

Let's imagine that this purely hypothetical university had a user who accidentally blew away some data. From the perspective of the sysadmin, thtr data is unrecoverable. But data is never really unrecoverable. Data is like oil: if you have enough money, we can drill arbitrarily deep for it.

Let's pretend that the undelete feature would have cost our hypothetical university X. "Drill as deep as you need" might get quoted at 100X or more. And that is totally reasonable, based on the hypothetical costs and benefits of the hypothetical data recovery.
Hang on, if the claim is that the source is under the GPL (and I'm not that convinced saying the characters are excluded is sufficient - a trademark violation would be more sensible) surely all they need to claim is a GPL violation (no source distribution) and cite the previous incompatibilities between the GPL and App Store.

As copyright holders they can later resubmit the game under a different license.
http://www.lifelitup.com

My startup is achievements, like Steam, but for real-life. A bit of a twist on Tourism.

I'm a New Zealander, so I'll be adding -lots- of NZ stuff (attractions, scenery, walks etc). It doesn't stop with NZ, we've currently got a heap of English and Canadian goals, too.
This is the typical anglo-saxon management method used in multinational companies (like English as language).

The french call it mobilité forcée, and some of the consequences were exposed for example at France Telecom. It is a manipulative oppression method of working people by killing them existentially along with their family (i.e. your kid will have to change school every 2 years, along with all the friends). This could only work if it is voluntary (you don't loose your job and outlook if you don't play along), but then again the goal of puppeteers is completely the opposite.
I already signed up. :-)
The difference there is probably a result of varying internationization.

"Kransas" is Swedish for wreath, which is likely why Googles' spellcheck doesn't automatically correct it.

Bing however won't even show me proper results for Kransas even if I tell it "+Kransas".

One example of where they both 'fail' on an mispelling is "munday" which isn't autocorrected to Monday because munday is a proper noun existing in the english corpus---e.g. the City of Munday, the Munday family, etc.
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Except that Groupon is from Chicago.
Increasing Java heap space
It's a little late for me to elaborate but here's what I meant: Microsoft has a long history of copying its competitors and calling it "innovation". Absent any other evidence, that tends to put the burden of proof on them.
Strato claims to offer WebDAV and CIFS support on HiDrive:

http://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/online-storage-hidrive/index...

(not a Strato customer myself)
Geckoboard: “It’s Chartbeat For Everything Else”
Totally agree. IB doesn't make any sense to me either. You end up with some presentation code in one place, and some in another.

Also, what happens if you set all your background colours to white in IB, and then the branding/design people come along and ask you to change to off-white?
One you left out: Because space-based remote sensing can tell us about Earth. See:

http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/focus-areas/

(There are others.)
Total agreement. There is no rule, law, or moral stricture against earning money efficiently. (Some people seem to accept that a lawyer can bill $4,000 in a day of work but an engineer who does the same thing must be cheating somehow. I've never understood this.)
But I just setup a mixpanel account tonight for tracking ... pageviews.
Thank you particularly for the arstechnica.com link. The way I read the discussion before, I was expecting the conflict to be originating with Apple (like something in their agreement forbidding the use of GPL'd software or something). But after reading that article I see that it is the FSF that has pointed out how Apple's App Store restrictions make apps using GPL licensed software out of compliance with the GPL. That makes more sense.
To me, it seems quite simple. Someone at Google used Bing toolbar and IE8 in following way:

a) Search from Bing toolbar for hiybbprqag.

b) Bing does not display anything.

c) Bing toolbar remembers that term internally.

d) Go to www.google.com and type hiybbprqag.

e) Google displays one intentionally seeded link.

f) Google engineer click on that link.

g) Bing toolbar notices that shortly after user searched for hiybbprqag, s/he clicked on seeded link.

h) Bing toolbar sends that piece of that to mothership: There is relationship between hiybbprqag and seeded link.

...

i) After some time, Google engineer searches for hiybbprqag from Bing toolbar.

j) Bing looks up its index and there only one piece of evidence regarding term 'hiybbprqag'. It is not much, but it is all it has, so it presents it to the user.

Google accusations strongly imply (using words like 'stealing') that Bing simply scraps google.com for results, while reality is not so simple.

Now, bigger Microsoft problem is that it employs VPs like Yusuf, who cannot express simple facts and easily fall into corporate speak.

UPDATE: Here is good summary of what I wanted to say: http://directmatchmedia.com/google-proves-bing.php
Will Apple die without Steve Jobs?
Thanks for sharing the video Matt - I wrote a summary of my thoughts from an SEO perspective here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/summary-of-the-futuresearch-talk-...

I was fascinated by Bing's hints that an author's authority might not be tied to a specific domain. Don't suppose there's any chance you could share Google's thoughts on this Matt?
He's a smart guy so when he does tackle something he is very efficient. The stuff about being lazy is just his way of saying his intelligence was very poorly measured by usual metrics like academic success.
Yes!
I was pleasantly surprised myself. That just means that HN is really good place.

Regarding your questions: you could follow advice mindcrime gave earlier, in 3 easy steps :)
Matt, you are way too close to this dispute. You need to take a step
back from the debacle and try to see it from the user perspective.

The real company motto of Google is simply, "Be Creepy." Even your CEO
Eric Schmidt has said as much. Google will track people and invade
privacy in every way it believes it can get away with. That is just the
Faustian bargain every person makes when using Google.

Microsoft simply implemented another way to be creepy, invade privacy
and track users that Google didn't think they could get away with or
Google would have implemented the same. Sadly, Microsoft is actually
getting away with it.

Both Google and Microsoft are creepy. Both companies spy on people for
numerous reasons including for the sake of improving search results.

Now here is the tough question; Why do you believe Google has some sort
of moral high-ground in this dispute when Google would do the same if
they could get away with it?

The difficult part about posting this pointed question is I'm actually a
big fan of all the hard and important work you do removing scam and spam
sites from the Google search results. Though I may be critical of some
of the practices of your company, you personally have my respect for the good stuff you do.
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New Zealand is rather isolated geographically, it's expensive to build infrastructure on the periphery of the network. This is true for the South Pacific islands in general.

This is a snapshot of the current undersea infrastructure in the Australia-New Zealand area: http://i.imgur.com/K1t4y.png
Thank you for the reply. I was able to cancel the subscription before it got billed. But I didn't expect it in the first place.
Probably not. While the Droid mark is a distinct trade mark, it seems to me that Google would have a compelling argument that calling a non-Android Droid would lead to confusion amongst consumers.

Additionally, although unlikely, it may be the case that the licence Verizon has been granted by Lucasfilm relates only to Android phones. As the licence agreement is not public, it's difficult to know whether this is the case or not.
They weren't particularly swift. Every other party had come out strongly against UBB while the conservatives would only say they would be "paying close attention" to the ruling. This was simply such a wildly unpopular decision that it would have been political suicide to support it, and once every other party had come out against it the Conservatives couldn't be the only ones not to do so. The Conservatives are well-known for being anti-regulation and pro-big business, which aren't very popular sentiments in most of Canada. They couldn't afford to wear this albatross around their neck.
Hadn't heard of about:DNS before.

While using it I was surprised by how pervasive Facebook is on the sites I visit.
I viewed it with Chrome 9 beta in Windows 7. It rotates very nicely in 3-D.

But it looks like Hawaii Punch graffiti defacing an HTML5 logo. Does Hacker News support images? What is it supposed to look like? I'm curious.

That's probably a stupid question, about Hacker News. I'd be satisfied with a link to a 2-D image version, thanks.
let the fun begin?
Hey, my email is in my profile. I'm obviously unaware of the details but $300k to "tidy up operations" seems to be a pretty large budget. I feel reasonably confident I'd be able to help you out (ie. providing such services) for less than that.
The likely reason Speedtest doesn't add up is because the file you are downloading to test with is hosted by your ISP.

Speedtest was originally made to test the 'last mile', assuming your ISP's connections to the rest of the world is always faster than that. In most cases that is true, but it is possible it isn't in your area.

As a particular clear example of that, here's my little write up on Speedtest.net usage in Rwanda: http://blog.nyaruka.com/stuff-0
From what I've heard her say, she didn't do the final edits and was surprised by the WSJ take on her book as well (likely, her publisher was involved, though). She was on Colbert last week and seemed quite reasonable. She explicitly states it isn't a parenting book, it is a memoir about parenting, immigrants, and culture.
aka porn mode
You should link madebyloren.com from the footer of your t-shirt page - the benefit to your blog because of a link from a viral page will outlast the t-shirt sales. :)
People tend to keep telling you have to follow your passion. I'm happy the guy who picks up my garbish every week is doing his job. Will he do it with great passion? Di I care.

Luckily not everyone follows his passion but brings food on the table.
It depends. When "Unlimited" service is sold with a Terms of Service that includes an "Excessive Use Policy" like Mozy's [1], the heavy user is operating in an ambiguous zone where continued use of the service at the advertised price is at the whim of the provider.

We've seen this with unlimited data plans with the cable ISPs; they're not really unlimited.

To me, it's similar to having a traditional credit card versus one with no pre-set spending limit. Which would you rather have? The latter has a limit, you just don't know what it is until you hit it.

---

[1] http://mozy.com/terms/ "....excessive use of the Service, which means usage over a given period far exceeds the average level of usage by users of the Service generally..."
I felt the same way, but then I took the time to understand exactly what the XIB was doing and now I'm comfortable with it.
HN is fairly anti-reddit because a lot of the people on here were early reddit adopters who left when it ceased to be programming and tech-centric, and when the site got big enough that the quality of the average comment dropped. That said, there are some great subreddits on there, you just have to cut out most of the main ones. I dropped r/pics, r/atheism, r/worldnews, r/gaming, and r/reddit.com. I added r/humor, r/netsec, r/python, r/java, r/math, r/depthub, r/truereddit, and a few others. It's a much improved experience, now.
Congratulations on launching, Paul! Huge accomplishment. How did you get the coverage on TechCrunch?
Also, what happens if you set all your background colours to white in IB

In that case, its easy for marketing to do it themselves. IB is a UI, after all. You click on a field and select the new color from the wheel a bunch of times.

The alternative is that you go through code and manually paste it in yourself. And you can't `sed` it because not all backgroundColor properties belong to views that need changing (labels might be clear, some other view opaque, etc)
No, it's because the "More" links are implemented with closures, which then get garbage collected after a while.
Ask HN: Can I legally scrape my competitors website for data?
I have an idea for producing a website for buying used cars which includes a new way to visualize the search results.

I would like to populate my database with details of cars on my competitors' used car websites. The information I need is Year, Mileage and Price of the car for sale. I would also like to store a link to the competitors web page for that car so my users could get more information.

Of course, my competitors aren't going to be happy and would like to stop me producing a website based on their data. I know that in Europe there is a 'database right' which would prevent me from using their data. But could I do this in the US? What about Australia? Are there any court cases which have settled the issue?

Thanks
I tried a similar thing about a fad in Germany during the soccer WC but it didn't go anywhere as I sucked at marketing it.
Can you tell how you did marketing and especially how did you became the official T-Shirt for that facebook event?
Kapil Dev and Imran Khan at 'Idea Champions Of The World' press meet
Unfortunately for Canadians, I believe it's far from over. Business/Politics are known to make ambit claims [0] that are hard to fully remove as there's a tendency of the well-meaning of compromising is exploited. Examples can easily be seen with Obama administration with the Republicans [1] .

Canadians would have to ask for more than a reversal. It might be an overhaul of the organisation due to widespread assumptions of regulatory capture [2] that's serving the needs of monopolistic industries over the public interest.

As long the department continues to exist even though they had the sheer audacity to implement it despite public submissions; this issue is not going away.

Well done. To me, it's a small step however.

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ambit_claim

[1] http://i.imgur.com/1ULKE.png

[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Regulatory_ca...
you can also clear DNS cache here

chrome://net-internals/#dns

and it comes with a very handy HTTP req/response capture tool

chrome://net-internals/#events
What did you use to build the page, if you don't mind me asking?

I've been wondering for ages if pages like that share some common tool/template, or it it's just that the 'full width' idea makes them look cut from the same cloth.
> it could be that the GSM iPhones have hardware or driver problems that the CDMA iPhone 4 does not. But, alas for AT&T, GSM iPhone users around the world do not share in the problems of GSM iPhone users in the United States.

Certainly not true. Writing from Europe: I've had all the iPhone 4 dropped call problems in the middle of the city whenever I've forgotten how to "safely" hold the phone until I've bought the bumper case. My provider here is T Mobile.
I'm not sure, but it might be this part:

"The amendment that passed directs the Office of Management and Budget to tap up to $44 billion in unspent funds appropriated for other purposes to cover the revenue that would be lost by repealing the 1099 requirement.

[...]

The amendment sets "a terribly dangerous precedent," said Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Difficult decisions on how to reduce spending lie ahead, he said, and its Congress’ responsibility to determine where these cuts will be made. Delegating these decisions to the executive branch "may be politically expedient," Inouye said, but it also is "thoughtless and rash.""
The lot of icons are pixelated (upscaled maybe) and not very good to see. Take a look at the Angry Bird one for example:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15741404/ab-as.jpg