skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many things that have only spread in a small area of the big social graph, but that doesn't mean that clones will go viral.

As stated above I can't think of one single instance where a clone product or derivative of a viral product or idea has itself gone viral. Whether that product is threewords.me, chatroulette, all your base are belong to us or hotmail.
Oral Sex linked to rise in some head and neck cancers
Shmoocon did 1600 people (1200 attendees + speakers/staff). Tickets were $150/ea. The Hotel was the Washington DC Hilton, right in Dupont Circle and freshly remodeled. The hotel was $40k, the open bar on Sat. night was $30k. They brought in $300k and had $100k left over.

It's seriously not that expensive, although 6 meals might cost quite a bit more...but only for 300 people? I can't imagine it costing THAT much more.
matt, how does google do competitive relevance evaluations without scraping Bing?
While I don't really agree with Google here, I don't think that distinction particularly matters. If you buy the premise that they're "stealing" from Google then it equally applies to everyone.
On the other hand, if it uses the OS HTTPS infrastructure, someone could probably add a root cert to IE and "MitM" themselves. If it doesn't, it's just a matter of finding and replacing the key; while that's not completely straightforward, it is done.

Darn, now it's really tempting to fire up some VMs. I don't have time for that.
How do we know hacker news isn't faking all this? Am I speaking to myself?
I'll take door #3: You're over-reacting in a wildly hyperbolic manner to the fact that the single most obvious meaning of a post consisting entirely of "WiFi?" in response to an article about a gadget is an inquiry as to whether it offers such a feature.

If you find that people are mis-interpreting your posts on a regular basis, consider looking in a mirror. And please, take the trollish aspersions to some other site.
What are they using to embed tweets like that? Is it publicly available software?
Sorry you're right. The other possibility is that bing is scraping the query term and all of the links out of the search page, and correlating them immediately. That means they're totally susceptible to google bombing (which is in effect what google did).

The key question is whether they have special rules in place for google. I am indeed presuming that if i were using the same tools google did on my personal website, i would not achieve the same result.
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Well, there's the next startup idea, a backup service for cloud services.

There is a joke in there about putting a cloud in your cloud, but I am not sure how that meme goes.
I'll open myself up to scorn by admitting that I buy these things often. You don't get to select your tickets in NY, they are ripped off one at a time on a roll that is in a locked container.

The most obvious vulnerability here is clerks and convenience store owners who unroll the tickets and hand out the loser tickets to customers. That risk is mitigated by the craziness of lotto addicts, who won't accept a ticket that doesn't come off of the roll.
You can't eBGP route private addresses.
(well, you can, but if you do, you should be shot).

The new ISP would need it's own space to announce (it's not much of an ISP if it's got no customers to give addresses too, so it needs addresses. It's also not much of an ISP if it's only got one upstream, so it'll need PI (provider independent) space, allocated to it from it's RIR (ARIN, RIPE, etc). And that'll all be gone soon :)
Most government spending is simply taking money from some people and giving it to other people. This is explicitly not in the interests of the rich.

This is categorically untrue. Social welfare and wealth redistribution, from the perspective of the rich, are a concession to the poorer classes in the interest of pacifying them and preventing a violent leftist uprising. Of course, this has to be done through the government rather than voluntarily because, for game-theoretic reasons, it can't be done voluntarily.
Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the secret of life
If you are a desk jockey, the best jobs in Japan are with foreign financial firms like Morgan Stanley. They pay a lot, you don't need to know Japanese, they hook you up with housing, you don't have crazy Japanese hours or crazy American finance hours, and the hiring standards are a lot looser than their US or UK equivalents.
That could be, but it would make even less sense to me. If they're talking about copying Apple, at least they did copy something from Apple, if only an idea. The copyright infringement claims have never been substantiated at all — it's just an accusation.
Interesting.

Take a site-specific search index like the one that reddit uses. Such an index can prioritize by votes, comments, users, fine-tuned spam filters, and so on. A search engine specifically optimized for reddit has a lot more information available when returning links than a generic web crawler ever could.

If Bing came up with a generic way to leverage site-specific search engines and help drive traffic to those sites, is that still perceived with negative connotations?
the whole story seems pretty odd and odious. two giant corporations having a catfight, even a catfight on twitter

I have no idea why would Microsoft "stole" results from anyone. their statistics research goes too far, but theft seems like a way too stupid action

are handwaving and odious flame wars part of a new Google's "startup" strategy?
Being better is a better way to stand out.
Link to sourced LA Times article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/02/google-as...

It's much more informative, in my opinion.

[edit] Removed snark.
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"Yes, that’s right: America’s poorest are, as a group, about as rich as India’s richest."

or, how to completely misunderstand a graph and show you have no idea what you are talking about.
What a waste of time.
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I'd like to say "Apple, you're already bringing in record revenue quarters, why are you doing this?" But I think the answer would be "because we can," Apple is creating a monopolistic market place for media (look at the battle of record labels providing DRM to Apple and non-DRM to Amazon to lessen-Apple's grip over their digital content) and applications. I think requiring a big player like Sony or Amazon to comply with new policies, will not go over well. I can't see Sony telling Apple "forget it," since I don't know anyone with a Sony eReader... but I could see Amazon and the Kindle, rightly, starting an issue over this. Apple has done a great job of making user friendly (see: locked down) platforms which work well, but the DRM battle and now this could turn public opinion against them.

Apple is just trying to create a new revenue stream early on as iPad sales increase and the tablet market heats up; smart move. It'll take a big ereader player like Amazon to battle them, and if ereader content creates a price hike war due to Apple's insistence on 30% cuts, then negative public sentiment towards pricing or not having access to ebook material that has already been purchased on one platform will hopefully create a retraction in Apple's policy. But then again, the airlines never got rid the baggage fee, and even with negative sentiment we all still pay them.
I guess they gave up the idea of suing because they were unlikely to win. Even if Bing was directly scraping Google's results from Bing's servers, it's iffy because robots.txt is not something that's enforceable, and listings of things are not copyrightable. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
The other good news — at least for the younger set — is that there is a relatively new vaccine to prevent against HPV infection.

My press-release sonar is pinging:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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You might want to look into an internship or classes abroad: really, any sort of structured program. Unless you’re a hardcore autodidact, the combination of interesting everywhere and an unfamiliar, difficult subject might be too much, and you’ll end up not learning at all. This is almost a cliché with writers and artists, where they go abroad to be inspired and make art, and only come back inspired. As Dorothy Gambrell put it:

"Someone who shouldn’t be in charge of these things gave me a grant to make a short film about tourism in Western Europe. So between the manufacture of the last cartoon and this one I left North America for the first time, spending about three weeks in the UK-France-Germany-Italy. What did I get out of the trip? 'Elgin waffles.’”
http://catandgirl.com/?p=1606
Well, my thinking was: Euroclydon's friend likes to be technically correct about the term onomatopoeia, and jimmyk chimes in with the same level of technical correctness on the matter. So for levity, I point out how it is 'ironic' in a nonsensical way - hoping to hit their OCD nerve a bit. As it is clearly not an ironic statement, and we only have anecdotal evidence of cucumbers being able to mutter a sound.
Don't be silly. I am the one speaking to myself. Really, extremely advanced case of multiple personality disorder.

(Please lead me not into humor temptation. Jokes of this sort are discouraged here and I hate when my other selves downvote me.)
That last part is key here. Almost everything that the iPhone does existed before the iPhone. You can find most of the UI concepts throughout the old Palm app eco-system. Apple did a great job of bringing it all together and (most importantly) bringing a consistent UI metaphor to it all.

What Apple did was revolutionary, but they stood on a lot of shoulders to do it.
That's a pretty stupid move on Apple's part, IMO. All everyone has to do is 1) put in the in-app purchase and 2) mark it up 43%.

There are people out there who are going to pay the 43% premium because it's slightly more convenient. Most people will be "smart shoppers" and "go to the Amazon page".

Then again, what are they doing? Think about it. They're looking oppressive, but in exchange they get better UX. Most people will circumvent it for better prices, but that doesn't tarnish Apple's UX image. In doing this, they're just following their current policy.
A bubble like Microsoft Research for instance?

The comments on this subject seem very polarised and it is interesting to look at the background of the commenters.
That would be bad for anyone with a shared hosting/VPS plan, since most web hosts cap those types of plans.
Really? I doubt replicating Google long tail queries is the biggest benefit. User clicks seem like a useful signal of relevance for the same reason links from other sites are a useful signal of relevance.
Ask HN: What's considered to be a good annual raise?
It's that time of the year for raises/bonuses, and I realized that I'm about to walk into a review with no clue what is good/fair/bad when it comes to an annual salary increase.

So, what would you consider to be a good raise? I'm a back-end software engineer (rails/mysql/mongo) in NYC, but I'm also interested in hearing what others [hope to] get in other parts of the world and in other disciplines.

For bonus points, explain how you'd squeeze more out of that meeting, if such a thing is possible.
Just like in Streetview, indeed this is streetview with added detail images but for art galleries.

Quite awesome.
Im sorry...but I, being a designer who has done both consulting and full-time work and 'likes to think' he tries to solve the customer's problem first and foremost, find this rate of $300-500/hr extremely high. Has anyone else heard of numbers like this being made, be that full-time or consulting?
This is going to be nasty for nasty for Apple if they push it too far, and they may already have. I wouldn't be surprised to see an AG get involved. Either an app can prompt you to buy books in Safari or not.
I agree that there are some UI issues in Sakai. I particularly dislike how the back button does not work as expected due to the way the sessions are maintained. However, with the source being available, it is only a matter of time before improvements are made.
Actually, the article mentioned that most of the stores would be okay with refunding unused tickets.
Hey thanks for trying to sign up I see the issue in my logs.. working on it.
zxczxczxczxczx isn't on the web page. It's on the search results page, but that page isn't for crawling, by robots.txt. Either MS is ignoring robots.txt, or they're parsing the URLs.
yes.. twitter released it a few months ago, Blackbird Pie.
http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/

edit: actually they use the Blackbird Pie wordpress plugin
http://themergency.com/twitter-blackbird-pie-wordpress-plugi...
Thank you! Checking it out now. Lol, I didn't want to be a snob, so I'm glad you mentioned "are". Also this article left me wondering how they assumed he was nabbed by plain clothed police? Hopefully LA Times clarifies that.
Because iPad's also perfect for reading the web. I've tried it and it feels so much better than a computer. You can't effectively browse the web with Kindle. Now I'm going to consider buying some Android tablet.
Gruber hardly ever gets this close to criticizing Apple. I guess there's a line which even the most ardent Apple defender isn't willing to cross.

I'm still waiting to hear more from Apple's side on this but if it turns out that they really do feel they can be this capricious and selectively self-serving in their enforcement of the rules there's no way in hell I'd consider building a business on their platform, no matter how lucrative it might be in the short term.
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IE (with certain settings on) is sending page data back to Microsoft. If it sends the URL, title and referrer back then the following session is pretty easy to reverse engineer.

1. URL: "test - Google"
Title: http://www.google.com/search?q=test

2. URL: http://test.org.us
Title: "Test"
Referrer: http://www.google.com/search?q=test
Time: 2 secs

2. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket
Title: "Test cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
Referrer: http://www.google.com/search?q=test
Time: 249 secs

It's really just an extension of page rank by seeing what links are being clicked on and not just which links exist. Whether MS should be capturing this data under false pretenses is another issue.
Thanks for pointing that out. Much Appreciated!
Gruber's commentary on Microsoft abusing monopoly power over access to Windows customers (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2006/05/01/msft-goog):

“Who, us? Abuse a monopoly in one area to ram something down our customers’ throats so as to build a new monopoly that damages our leading competitor? What would ever make you think we’d do that?”

Gruber's commentary on Apple abusing monopoly power over access to iPhone/iPad customers:

"This sucks for Sony because, for now, they’re locked out of the App Store. It sucks for Amazon and Barnes & Noble too, if I’m right that, going forward, they’re going to have to offer in-app purchasing as an option. But you can’t say it’s surprising that the rules are evolving toward more money for Apple while improving the experience for users"

See, when Apple does, it's "to be expected". When Microsoft does it, let's unleash the outrage.

If Apple is successful in forcing Amazon to fork over 30% for iOS-originating Kindle purchases, then they don't even need to improve their iBooks business - they would get as much money from Amazon for each book sold as they would get directly from a publisher and either destroying Amazon's margins or causing the books to cost 30% more.

Neither option is good for customers and the sooner government steps in and clips Apple's wings the better. Personally I don't want to see more abuse from Apple and enforced toll-roads for access to users of Apple made (but owned by people who purchase them) devices.

It is becoming clearer and clearer that Apple is not satisfied with making bunch of money the ethical way and will use every means available to make even more money unless someone with an ultimate stick steps in and delivers sound beating.
How do these seizures work? Is it only for US ISPs? I tried hitting http://atdhe.net/ and I get the regular site, not a DHS seizure page.

They have a banner at the top saying it was shut down this afternoon but how did they get it back? Or is it still blocked in the US?
> Web giants Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, with a combined one billion visitors per day, are participating by enabling IPv6 for their main services that day. … unlike during the IETF IPv6 experiment, IPv4 won't be turned off.

Why don’t they turn it on sooner?
NoScript provides a yellow warning, and is by default opt-out.
Fair enough, though I don't think that's the only POV - you could analogize it to ripping off an existing song wholesale vs. making some kind of collage of short samples from 10 existing songs.
But this is a matter of core functionality. 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. Yes, it's a side effect of the Bing bar's clickstream tracking, but it's still an observable, quantifiable effect.

It’s like if Developer A takes Developer B's code and passes it off as his own work without any citation. Does it matter if it was malicious or incidental? Not really, it's still wrong. And if Developer A gets caught doing it, he should own up to his mistake and fix it.
I'm amazed that an NYT writer could have made such a big mistake and that no one on their staff detected it.

The graph shows the poorest 20% of Indian society. Within that group, the richest people (i.e. people at the 20th percentile) have incomes comparable to America's poorest.

Unfortunately, the writer seems to have ignored the fact that the richest 80% of Indians aren't covered in the graph.
Take a look at feature list here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mslr/feature.as...

Combing features 130, 131, 135 and 136, I think it is understandable what Google engineers did can give those fake links a boost in the search results. In a way, they cheated the algorithm.
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This is a problem that Mr Incumbent Benevolent Internet God could solve, IF Google wanted too.

"Dear The Internet. We are switching to IPv6. We STRONGLY suggest you do the same. If you don't, your customers WILL cry and WILL migrate to the other carriers, because they're not going to give us up.

Love and Packets, Google.

PS: We know everything your CEO has ever searched for. Yes. Even "THAT"."
You know when I read pieces like this, I really really feel so insignficant (not in a bad way). I mean what does it actually feel like to be in the shoes of such awesome folk? Their thought processes are so unlike normal people. And yet there is a certain humility to them. aaaaaaaaah. brain exploding just being unable to fathom that whole other realm of brilliance! Even coming up with something like "thinking about the future because Il be spending about the rest of my life in it"... sounds so casual and "obvious"! yet so profound...

Edit: Sorry that was a bit out of place I think. The "piece" I was referring to was actually http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/streamliners/peopleevents/p_ket..., which I came about by googling Kettering.
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Here is the video of Wael Ghonim (possibly) being arrested by the plain clothed police during a report from SkyNews starting around the 1 minute mark.

What do you think? Looks like him or not?

http://vimeo.com/19255226

Link from the more in depth article by LA Times provided by zachallaun
>Apparently by creating fake results they've published something "creative" and thus potentially able to be copywrited. Just speculation but interesting.

And then given Bing explicit permission to copy it by accepting the terms and conditions of the Bing toolbar while installing it.

If you repeat the experiment with 2 made up results instead of just one but clicked on only the 2nd one, only the 2nd one would show up and not the first. They are copying the user action(for which they got permission), not the results directly.
Google has asked for my help, my idea is to start some collective action in getting information about him.

I'm starting a wiki anyone can edit, help me learn everything about where he last was and where he probably is (assuming he was apprehended and detained):
http://knol.google.com/k/eric-leschinski/recover-wael-ghonim...
I go to see my girlfriend, play DoTA (sorry, computers again!), or just pick up a book and read a bit.
I think it's likely that Flickr has a way to recover the data but the front line support personnel don't, and they don't want to have some dev spend a few hours to fix a single customer's problem, even if it was Flickr's mistake.
The English wikipedia has a redirect at [[Torsoraphy]] that was created hours ago. [1] Google observed this behavior months ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torsoraphy&old...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2168609
Who the hell is in charge of the PR for these two companies to allow them to late night bitch at each other over Twitter??? These companies rake in billions per quarter and are acting like they're gonna be on TMZ tonight.
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Solidly decent ramen is still fairly cheap in some countries.
Think Dropbox. They have all sorts of launches and viral referrals. These techniques could be provided as a service by LaunchRock.
Supposedly the "Agency Model" that most publishers have moved to in their dealings with Amazon guarantee the publishers 70% of the purchase price of the book.

In which case marking the book up with a 43% premium wouldn't change anything; Apple would still eat 30% and the publishers would eat the other 70%.
I don't think either google nor bing searches for the term in wikimedia. I think google spent time finding this misspelling, and bing is sitting on the shoulders of a giant, capturing the same effect with their clickstream analysis.
I like to imagine that the bing algorithms are so smart, that it realizes the preciousness of the signal in clicktrack-logged visits to websites with a referrer "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s. This single feature is given so much weight that bing unintentionally gives the appearance of wholesale google duplication.
UX is SUPER important in this product.

definitely opportunity for hands on input.

if interested, get in touch.
clickable http://crowdsavvy.com/

kill "Your customers are..." and replace it with "Customize in-app surveys"

good luck. nice idea.
Even if All Jazeera is seeing a huge traffic spike, it's still only a small percentage of Americans who are trying to seek out real news. The vast majority of Americans don't even want an uncensored media.
Uh, well now this is amusing:

http://www.atdhe.net/ shows seizure notice

http://atdhe.net/ still works

(Site looks pretty shady, by the way. I'd suggest something like NoScript.)
Can you update your original project with something worth mailing people about, then include in its footer and in the footer of the mail-out, something along the lines of:

"The Makeee network includes OriginalProject.com and the all new NewProject.com (has to be seen to be believed!)."

Or:

"PS. If you've got time, please check out my latest project - I'd really appreciate your feedback."

Or, perhaps a little spammy, do a joint mail-out for two projects in one newsletter?
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