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> People obtain data on their competitors' performance all the time and tailor their products accordingly. It's not theft, it's competitive intelligence.

Yes, but in this case, its more like claiming competitors product (the search result), as your own in your product directly. I would consider it a theft.
That's why it's so funny: that's exactly what infographics do.

This post is textbook satire.

EDIT: see my sibling for proof.
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The reality check: for the most of github-hosted erlang projects no one seems to use erlware..
I think you could have one sort of flowchart at the top of the graphic, using arrows to indicate how my servers and devices can be pushing out calls to your service etc.

I don't know the ins/outs of what you're doing, but think:

my server -> your awesome service -> oooh charts

Then underneath this main simple illustration, perhaps in grayscale, you could have an example of the "old" way to do something like this (and point out why it sucks).
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I can't argue about the legal vs illegal. I sure would like to tell the bing team that they should better google in their attempts. This strategy is mere copying into- 'look, I am as good as google'. Microsoft never learns from past do they??
> Why so cynical?

Well, infographics are often drummed up for SEO reasons. You simply take advantage of the fact that people hotlink 99% of the time, and all it takes is one controversial or popular infographic to get approximately 1MM backlinks.
Here's Wikipedia's summary of that dispute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_and_W...

It looks like the NPG asserts that use of the images is illegal, but isn't willing to sue the Wikimedia Foundation over it, so they're at something of a stalemate with Wikimedia de-facto winning (but with no guarantees for other parties who aren't Wikimedia). Wikimedia's official position seems to be more or less an ultimatum of, "these are public domain, sue us if you think we're wrong": http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD...
I assume that Microsoft displayed these search results in e.g. Germany as well, where directory listings do enjoy copyright protection. So if they wanted, they probably could sue.
FWIW, dysfunctional on iPad. Wants to select and scroll instead of draw.
It might be a good exercise to chase down old posts of people who wrote the first browser toolbars, as well as the browser infrastructure that made them possible. We can contrast the speculation on why they might have been a good idea with the actual result. Not as a way to trash them, but as an exercise in how smart people can miss the mark.
Fair enough - I clearly missed the point. :)
Thanks for asking.

Folks with other technical backgrounds are welcome. The bar is a bit higher = we are more selective on that. Really we are looking for some web application experience, otherwise the learning curve is a bit too long, generally. [ We have more flexibility on that for in-country-Panama members. ]

So if you don't have Python, but you have Java/Ruby/PHP/Web, that sounds interesting. I would recommend someone with mainly C/Unix start building some websites and webapps of their own w/ something like Python and App Engine (little plug: request an invite to our beta for one way to get started with that). In this day and age, if you really want to be in a startup-oriented environment, it should be difficult for you to not be creating some web apps with these tech's on your own etc.

Later on we may have more flexiblity when our team is larger.
Anyone can test that Microsoft's software sends the clicks back to Microsoft, although I believe Microsoft sends the data back by SSL, so it's harder to verify even that than you'd expect.

Google's search results are blocked in robots.txt, so I don't believe Bing has been able to crawl our search results directly. All the evidence points to users' clicks on Google, which are then sent to Microsoft.

Microsoft has (so far) declined to admit whether our allegation is true. Getting them to talk about exactly what they do and what software they use or don't use would be the easiest way. I'd like them to confirm or deny, which is why I wanted to go to this search panel later today and ask them.
So as a website owner I get paid each time a paying readability user views my website in readability?

If I get my pages to load a second copy of themselves inside a hidden iframe, except including the extra readability bookmarklet js, will that allow me to "game the system" by getting every visitor to my site to view (in the background) my site via readability...

I would never do this. It was just a thought...
Some points that appear to come out of the data:

tcc (tiny c compiler) appears to be really good - it scores very well in both compilation time and execution speed

open64 (added in second batch of tests) also appears very good, for the same reasons

clang is quite slow.

Programs compiled with gcc -O2 often run faster than with -O3.
Considering that the rest of 'em are already open source, any current plans to open source Cinco?

I'm presuming that the back-end for Basecamp Mobile is the current Basecamp Rails app -- I'm curious about why you decided to use Stitch to package your JS, instead of what Rails is using (probably Sprockets or Sprockets 2).
Google copies Bing's layout for images. Bing copies Google's search results.
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I believe the search panel with Google and Bing will be live-streaming, so anyone can tune in. It's by a group called Big Think.
If the Instapaper app causes a Readability payment to the visited website, isn't that against Apple's new "no in-app purchases without Apple getting a cut" rule?
What is an 'Advanced Persistent Threat,' anyway?
OSX's activity monitor does something similar, it has 4 statuses: Wired, Active, Inactive and Free.

Wired and Active are basically the RAM being used (Wired is a special activity status for stuff which can not be moved to disk), Inactive is the cache (generally programs which were used recently) and Free is… well, free.

When checking used/free, Inactive and Free count towards free, Wired and Active towards used (though that's not always consistent).

Also, I don't think you have 8TB RAM.
Why would a new ISP have no v4 connectivity? They'd be connected to someone, and they would likely have v4 connectivity. Wouldn't they be able to have a private network connection to them (10.x.x.x)?
I have links to a few govt.-provided data sets at http://elev.at
You could argue that it makes your furniture cheaper, but isn't it more likely that the additional profit that IKEA accrues due to this complicated scheme is 1. siphoned directly to a small number of individuals 2. divided amongst the shareholders or 3. simply wasted on the tons of accountants and lawyers that it probably takes to keep this system running.

Even if its not the case (at least not entirely) then you can still argue that the fact that IKEA is doing this is anti-competitive, which is surely against your ideology of anti-collectivism because it distorts natural market forces.

Even someone adamantly in the Chicago school of economics would be against a scheme like this because it implies that IKEA is effectively able to compete under markedly different market conditions than its competitors.
The real question should be why is Google not doing this. Bing seems to be learning from what results users choose and improving their results.

Seems like a no brainer, unless i missed something.

I also really like this for some reason. It's very ... gangster. Shows that bing is scrappy and willing to bend the rules.

That being said, i will still continue using Google.
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Go to your local community college and take some classes. Maybe not a full load, but a few.
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are you claiming that google never scrapes bing search results pages? or any other search result pages?
I only ask because cross-site request forgery protection is enabled by default in Rails 3 and require some extra coaxing with its authenticity token. Since this is in Rails 2.3.8 as you've highlighted, it's a moot point.
Ouch, you're totally right. So you're saying that because Blekko and DDG are powered partly by Bing, the rankings on all three engines are showing the results that Google inserted?
I think a big part of this, in the US at least, is that ISPs are monopolies that can do whatever they want to their customers. We granted telecoms monopoly power back before deregulation became popular, and those monopolies have carried over to the internet. But since the general trend over the past 20-30 years has been to remove existing regulations and not add new ones, there are few laws on the books to protect consumers in the realm of new technology. This is, I think, often a good thing in competitive markets, but when the service providers have monopolies, deregulation may not be the greatest.
Also UC Berkeley has video podcasts of entire courses on iTunesU, with materials available online.
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Matt Cutts from Google and Rich Skrenta from Blekko are also speaking at that event (not to mention Peter Thiel, Esther Dyson, and Malcolm Gladwell). It's an industry event that happens to be sponsored by Bing, it's not really an MS event though.
There's a prefix allocated explicitly for that. The problem isn't getting an address, the problem is getting the software to use it.
If I'm not mistaken, this is bad: it enables a trivial DOS attack against any web service that accepts floating-point input. (For instance, one of the commenters on the OP noted that Google Spreadsheets backends are vulnerable.) This includes, as a special case, any service that accepts JSON input.

I expect a lot of teams will have to rush out a patch. I feel for them...

Incidentally, I haven't seen a simple workaround posted anywhere. Has anyone seen a regexp or code snippet that can identify strings which would trigger this bug?
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This image is nearly definition satire. So yes, it does constitute satire.

It should be clear that the complaint here is about the explosion of "infographics" that are at best a shallow aesthetic improvement, at worst a migration of text into an senselessly organized image.
I haven't lived in Japan, but my understanding is that it is bizarre. For instance they don't do organ transplants at all. period. none. They also visit the doctor 15 times per year on average, which means they go to the doctor when they are not actually sick, so the doctors are in the habit of not actually treating anyone.

Japan may have the highest life expectancy of any country in the world, but Japanese people in the US live about 5 years longer on average than Japanese people in Japan.
As noted in the comments, the major problem is that he compares the "rational" strategy of moving to the Australian outback with the "default" strategy of having a US job and spending the statistical average on housing, food, etc. But if you're assuming a highly rational person, the second strategy has loads of room for optimization: you don't need a McMansion, a new car every 5 years, or to engage in status games of conspicuous consumption with your neighbors. With a relatively small amount of planning and discipline, it's easy to save lots of money earning $100k/year in the US.
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Most ads in North America aren't like this, which is probably one reason this stands out.
My take is this: the whole Google ethos is that they are trying to have the best algorithm to give the best results. Outside of this sting they have always been at pains to put forward the view that nothing is manually ranked.

I think the same thing applies to Bing here: if they have a generic algorithm that ranks results based on toolbar (or other data) it could be easy to see how their data is skewed by Google given the amount of traffic Google search gets compared to the rest of the internets. This seems fine to me.

But if their algorithm does stuff with activity on google.com because it is google.com then this is a pretty clear foul - it is both essentially copying, and the equivalent of manually ranking results (specifically, Google results)

The corollary of this is that if their algorithm is generic, then it will still work if Google were to cease to exist. If it's not generic, it would be useless without Google.
From my experience, Googlebot doesn't crawl pages that are blocked in robots.txt files. Check out Bing's robots.txt: http://bing.com/robots.txt - notice how /search is disallowed. That typically means that Googlebot isn't able to access that page. The same for the other search engines, it's more down to if they specify (through robots.txt) that Googlebot isn't allowed to crawl those results.
Another part of it is that cable companies/telcos already provide content for a fee that many content providers provide on the internets for free. Hence, content providers cut into their supposed bottom-line.

Content providers piggy-back on the ISPs in markets within which the ISP has already entered: one would expect the ISP, as a local monopoly, to exercise market power to force exit of the content providers.
They can accomplish a lot just by being human. If the applicant can sell himself to them despite his poor academic achievement, then he can sell poor products to customers, keep employees faithful at crappy jobs, and attract investment dollars to underperforming companies. If he can't, maybe he can get a series of promotions anyway. By acting as "charisma detectors" and "bullshit quality meters" (i.e., normal human beings) admission officers can spot people who have a future, people whom it will be beneficial to have the college brand on and who might donate to the university later.
Maybe I'm dense, but why does this affect apps that use JSON?
The real problem is that their regulated/colluded monopolies.
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The problem is not that infographics are aesthetically pleasing. The term "infographic" has come to be represented with low-content, high-flashiness presentations of data. (There are many good graphics that also convey information. "Infographics" generally do a bad job of the latter.)

Since they're pretty and usually not completely content-less (bad infographics are a great way to spread very few facts over a very large area), they often get a lot of hits on social news sites like Reddit, Digg, and even, sometimes, HN. Because of this, they've become a favorite tool of people trying to do SEO to take advantage of that traffic.
Indeed. Drucker somewhere makes the point that a business's key activities are innovation and marketing -- which implies you don't necessarily have to be innovative in your marketing, just good at it. Hmmm... I was just thinking that rather than do my own exhaustive search for startup companies to invest in, I'll just check who has gotten support from Y Combinator and offer them a deal, piggybacking off of Paul Graham's work. Wait, it's been done? Oh, never mind.

As a practical matter, I doubt customers will care so long as they've always had the option of turning off that part of IE's behavior. I mean, when did you last care about the authenticity of your phone directory's information?
I upvoted this by accident (meant to downvote), so I might as well respond:

> The fact that someone would promote dropping out to live in the outback
> serving beer to a bunch of tourists is insane.

I know several career bartenders who love mixing drinks and the social aspect of being behind the bar. What's insane for you is absolutely heaven for them. Quality bartenders can make fantastic money, but let's discount that and say that, for some folks, being happy with their job is more important than how much they earn doing it.

> Don't kid yourself. Work is hard and there are no easy way about it.

You yourself say that bartending for tourists during the busy season is so horrible that you can't survive one season before bailing. That doesn't sound easy, but if you love bartending, it's not so bad. Similarly, some of my clients are hard to work with sometimes, but I love developing software, so it's not so bad.

tl;dr: grow up and learn that there are valid viewpoints that differ from yours.
poacher69, we crawl the public web. Anyone that blocks us out with robots.txt, we won't crawl. If you check bing.com/robots.txt, it has "Disallow: /search" . So no, we won't crawl Bing's search results pages. If anything, users tend to complain when search results from Lycos or wherever show up in Google.
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I don't get it. Is this compile by javascript or what? Where i can look to language compiler source code?
Wages in Norway are quite flat compared to the US. The low end wages are much higher and the high wages are lower. If you're making $20-30k in the US you'll earn a lot more in Norway. If you're making around $100k you'll probably make the same. If you're earning over $200K you'll probably make less.
Could you elaborate on the fixed costs of the self-build option? I'm curious what tools and experience you have. If I tried to build that I imagine I'd end up paying more in medical bills from banging my head in frustration. It does sound fun though.
It exists in most countries, in a form of estate or death tax. Also has same problem, as it forces people subject to it, to spend on accountants and lawyers to minimize it.
Why wouldn't they? The IPv4 addresses would either be behind some sort of NAT, or they would be IPv4 addresses in IPv6. If the apps can't handle IPv6, then they can't handle IPv4 addresses in IPv6, and they definitely won't be able to communicate with newer hosts that have IPv6 addresses outside of the range of IPv4.
Yup -
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/RealWorldJSFLinks

Anecdotally, a lot of those [\w+]tube porn sites probably run on a Java server considering the heavy lifting that goes on there.
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As far as I can tell, the majority just wants the politics debates to stop.
I worked in Japan for 3 years as a technical translator and the better part of 3 years as a software engineer at a large software consultancy. Software engineers do lots of things, but theoretically the main reason I was there was to develop software (mostly Big Freaking Enterprise Java web applications, for universities, and software which supported the development of the same).

I would be happy to talk to you about that experience at length. The capsule summary is that I cannot recommend working for a Japanese megacorp as a means of broadening one's horizons unless one has the very specific desire to learn about Japanese megacorps. The work/life balance works out such that -- even if you enjoy software development very, very much -- you will likely have insufficient time/energy/health to see much of Japan in your rather few non-working hours.
If infographics are wrong, then I don't want to be right!
And still only 0.19% of the top sites (according to alexa) have ipv6 enabled:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/02/ipv6-is-not-here-yet-in-fact-...
Unix has been doing it... You talk as if Linus personally invented the idea of caching.
not sure why i'm being downvoted. if you don't agree leave a reply.

it's very discouraging
Android is not i386 based and this is x87 FPU and gcc specific bug in commonly used atod() implementation, so I assume that this does not happen on Android.
I agree. I did a quick check and only 0.19% of the top 1 million sites (according to alexa) have ipv6 enabled:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/02/ipv6-is-not-here-yet-in-fact-...

And the biggest issue is that very few people really understand ipv6 to make for a smooth transition..
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It seems you have to select the drawing tool for every new line you make.

(Chrome, OSX.)
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IPv6: Only 0.19% of the top 1m sites have it enabled
For what it's worth, I cofounded it, and I'm a principal, but Dave Goldsmith runs it. Working with me is a hazard of joining us, but working for me isn't, so much.
Although this is lame on Apple's part, can we also agree that it's lame on Amazon's part to disallow affiliate links for use on mobile devices or websites aimed at mobile?

I have struggled to understand why they would want to keep people (like me) from making apps to drive purchases to Amazon on mobile, and I don't have any good answer at all.

Having said that, I can't quite decode this move by Apple yet...
> so I don't believe Bing has been able to crawl our search results directly

Isn't compliance with robots.txt more of a voluntary thing?

I'm not accusing MS of ignoring it when convenient, but if you/we/someone is accusing them of acting unethically wrt search results in the first place, telling the crawler to ignore robots.txt wouldn't be that far away, would it? (And likewise faking the user-agent, etc.)

For better or for worse, UA identification, robots.txt compliance - all those things are voluntary. I'm not suggesting they shouldn't be, but it certainly makes a difference in terms of whether something's possible or not. (And, if you ask me, places an even higher obligation on the actors to behave ethically, lest trust completely evaporates and the whole thing goes to hell in a handbasket).
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Not just the IP packet format. Most software ends up storing IPv4 ip addresses in a 32-bit integer (because it fits exactly). All of those pieces of software would need to be updated to work with IPv4's 'new ocetet' as well. As the other poster stated. If everything needs to be upgraded, then might as well do it right the first time.
I have to agree with you. After reading all comments in the thread it seems like the best bet for Google is to use this to make MS look bad. Using the cheating in school test analogy. If you get caught cheating, it is a blow to your reputation.
This alone will put you in the top half of the programming community with regards to knowledge and overall understanding.

Really? Is the bottom half really that dumb? Or people just choose to ignore things which are not immediately of there need. I completed that book and though it was a great read, I wouldn't say I know much more than a person who has a CS degree.
The hardest part for me is not getting everything done ASAP. I'm an impatient entrepreneur, and I'm not sure recovery is an option.

Quality takes even more time, which is why many people don't want to make the necessary sacrifice.
A few friends of mine are in various sorta-financial fields - insurance underwriting, and some sort of accounting thing. They're constantly amazed at how much of what they do could be automated... and then ignore us when we tell them that they should just spend a month picking up python and lessening their workload.

Then again, their computers are locked down pretty tight, and I guess if you write an app that does your job, you're basically proving to management that they don't necessarily need you.
Who coined the term 'fail whale'?
Given that Google appears to have an active program to monitor the results of search queries on Bing and to track Bing's page rankings and the ways in which they change over time in (How else is this more likely to have come to their attention?), they should hardly be shocked, shocked to find Microsoft doing something similar.

[edit] I have always suspected that the real value of Bing for Microsoft is to prevent Google's data mining of queries originating in Redmond.