skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fairly trivial to add a custom search engine to chrome or ff that automatically appends
There is both. There are highly educated, young demographic that is really pissed off about the lack of jobs and the corrupt governments neglect of investments. There is also a hungry, poor class that has also been neglected by the government. This is where fundamentalist mosques step in, provide food, clothing, and education in the form of learning the Koran. They aren't a majority, but the Mubarak government has been very effective at denying them representation.

Also, I take offense at "lets-suicide-bomb-westerners" style Islam. This is an unfair label of even the most fundamentalist sects of Islam. Suicide bombers are exactly that, suicidal, which means they aren't in the right frame of mind. Therefore they don't represent anyones views but their own. And are certainly not populist.
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Does PostDesk Debates only host one "debate" at a time? I find it odd that an article with such a pejorative tone is the only content on their site.
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I think that would be a dangerous precedent to set. Whose opinion should decide what sites add value to content that may not be completely original? I'm not saying efreedom is not "being evil", but I could foresee someone somewhere using another's original content and making it more accessible. For example someone could easily improve the accessibility of the content from experts-exchange.com.
Why China? There is some kind of secret startup culture there?
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Oh, come on. That's not a style of Islam, and suicide is not a populist movement. Could you please just see this as people kicking the bums out without getting your panties in a twist about whether it might be another reason to be scared of anything that's not American? This is a Fucking Good Thing all around.
Second that. WTB ability to customize my search results by blacklisting certain sites. Big change I know, but would be a hugely useful service Google could provide.
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Matt, this is great news.

How about sites that rank well with no content, just navigation? Here's an example:

http://www.collegegrad.com/entryleveljob/entrylevelaccountin...

It's generally a high quality site, but that page has absolutely no relevance to the query except for a title tag and some internal anchor text. The search terms aren't even on the page.

If I remember correctly, it used to rank #1 for "accounting entry level jobs," and now it's down to #8. My question is why is it even ranking at all? It's not even low quality content. It's no content.
No need to apologize since it was an honest mistake :)

I have seen the wrong spelling used at many other places as well....not sure if they are always typos, or if some people are genuinely mistaken about the name.
Posted many times before - I'll be interested to see if this engenders any discussion. Usually it didn't.
Nice to hear about this change Matt. "Fuckin' efreedom..." is an oft heard missive around our office, godspeed in ranking them and their ilk down.
Glad to see that Matt went out of his way to help us geeks and the StackOverFlow community!

In the future is there going to be some way for webmasters to do something like rel="canonical" across domains so if I want to syndicate a piece of content across two properties I own I can indicate which one is the original source? My understanding is that rel="canonical" is only meant to be used between pages on the same root domain today but I could be mistaken.
Well, have I got the definite resource for you!
http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Lord_of_War

"According to Director Andrew Niccol in the DVD commentary, the guns were real guns rented from a real arms dealer, as it was cheaper for the production to rent 3,000 real guns than to rent 3,000 blank converted props. "
I doubt the actual weapon was profitable. They literally made like 75 million of the things. The Soviets may have made a few bucks setting up factories in the 3rd world for licensed production.
Is this change restricted to programming-related queries only?

I noticed today that a search for "mubarrek london" returns a page of results where every result on the first page, besides the top one, is spam from www.88searchengines.com, www.30searchengines.com, www.70searchengines.com, etc.

I know this might not be related to topic of scraper sites directly, but not sure how else one can easily report these types of things.
"Either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests..."

So, he understood this very well? I must conclude so since he didn't avoid it. So he could tell me with precision when a "general population" has taken control of "its own destiny"? Whether "it" has "concern[ed] itself with community interests"? Generally, you can provide some measure with which I can find out if Chomsky is right or wrong in these statements?

I think not. Chomsky "carefully avoids" nothing; he treads heavily, makes a lot of noise, and kicks up a dusty fog.
This is a good point. If and as they proceed, they'd better run more than the usual level of due diligence to insure they don't become a vector for something nasty.

Google properties are some of the few I let through without a lot of filtering (Gmail in particular). If it looks like they are becoming a vector, this will lessen their utility for me and I will tighten the hatches on them.

(Of course, I suppose this factor won't apply for 99% of their users. We may be the outliers having no statistical significance. At least, until something big enough and bad enough slips through.)

I have mixed feelings about blocking advertising that provides supporting revenue, but two factors override: Motion (and occasionally, sound), that completely and thoroughly distracts me from the page content and which, over prolonged exposure, leaves me "frazzled" and ineffective; and malware. (Also, when graphics are overwhelmingly "bright" compared to the content, I need to dial them down.)

Nothing that hasn't been said a thousand times before, I suppose.
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."

This was the quote by Sir James Dewar that Morton Thiokol engineer Allan MacDonald put in the foreword to his book "Truth, Lies, and O-Rings" -- highly recommended if you enjoy pondering organizational banality and how human decision-making works (and often doesn't).

He goes on to say in the foreword: "I wasn't recommending not launching because of what I knew, but because of what I didn't know."
Its probably not possible.

Tesla was a genius, but had little formal EE theory - he somehow intuited much of what he did. His high-frequency coils were not mathematically understood until well after his death.
Sorry but are joking? I read the piece and everything the author said is spot on. It sounds exactly like the ceo has a great deal of insecurities and frankly shouldnt be in the ceo position. Why? Because im sorry but you cant treat users like that. You just cant. Its simply unprofessional. Especially when its not isolated. Tumblr has been having problems for months and they seem to simply not have any interest in fixing it but seem to be more interest in how rich they are.

They need to get off their high horses and fix the problems NOW! If they dont people will simply stop using their service. Especially if that service develops a reputation as having an asshole for a ceo. Especially at the startup stage.

Sadly it seems in this country that arrogance and egomania are being mistaken for talent. When tech founders are assholes people laud them instead of putting them in their place. Its really annoying and i see it here all of the time on HN.
Kindle outsells print for new books too.
Companies reserve the right to fire customers. I respect this attitude.
The morning works out best for me. I consider myself a "night person," but that can easily be changed. Have you read this: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-ea... ?

Also, the fitness subreddit is a great place to talk about this stuff too: http://www.reddit.com/r/fitness
"user-agent sniffing (long since shown to be a terrible idea)"

Wrong. On mobile the consensus is this is a sad necessity. There are services to automate and abstract this so you aren't manually creating your own UA DB.
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Yes. This was his ambition, and he was always looking for funding. He never achieved this goal.
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Would you call the IRA a style of Catholicism? Would you call the abortion clinic bombers a style of Christianity?

Individuals transgressing the law are no reason to paint a large group of people with the same brush.
rel="canonical does work across domains.
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Just saw the full email from Williams. Looks like he was threatening to leave Tumblr if issues aren't addressed in near future.

Have things really been that bad to leave their platform?
Right, Marconi was a marketer. When asked if he was upset Marconi had "beat" him to wireless communication, Tesla remarked something like "No, because he is using my patents"
On peace - the style of Egyptian diplomacy is a bit like a typical Western European country. They try to get their neighbours to get along with one another.

As for "good", you implied that a propagation of
Mubaraks would be a good thing. If I'm reading that
wrong, again, feel free to correct me.

I don't agree with this idea you wrote about, "The Arab world, and the world as a whole, would be far better served if the US and Iran let the arab people determine their own future." You're describing there places as thought they're frustrated democracies. I don't see it - I see powder kegs.

When Eastern Europe broke up, the only significant school of thought against the current system was a western style parliamentary dictatorship. They were ethnically homogenous countries. There weren't strong crusade narratives amongst the people. Whereas in the middle east, there's a strong attraction towards religious dictatorship, plenty of ethnic diversity, and plenty of people willing to die for the cause.

I'm not sure where your offense comes from.

It's the thing where I'm being attacked for things I didn't say.

I took issue, however, with your claim that a
middle east of Mubaraks would be better than the
current situation.

OK. I'm not attached to it.
Wow, you learn a lot around here if you're paying attention! I often wondered whether or not my results were being personalized. Good to know.
It's easy to say that Microsoft needs to "leverage" the connect in a "coherent connected TV strategy", but what does that actually mean when you get down to it?

I've got a connect, I like it a lot, but I'm completely at a loss for how it would be useful while watching TV. And don't say something about replacing the TV remote with gestures. That's just stupid. Nobody wants the volume on their TV to suddenly shoot up just because they accidentally flung their hand in the wrong direction.

If the Kinect gets a lot better and more accurate it could be a good interface for controller a TV connected browser or some kind of apps displayed on a TV screen. But right now navigating game menus with the Kinect is rather frustratingly wonky.
As a Brazilian who has worked with Europeans and Americans, I have to tell you that we work a lot more down here. Workdays are usually 8h30 to 18h15, as we have 44h weeks and lunchtime is not included!

On the other hand, we do have 30 day vacations plus the holidays.
Ah, that makes sense. I imagine allowing atomic reads without WATCH would complicate the code quite a bit.
Right now, Egyptian state TV, just a few hundred feet from the Al-Jazeera cameras, are showing and reporting a peaceful scene from Cairo. Al-Jazeera is showing a burning personnel carrier. Unbelievable, the difference in stories.
In Chrome, do this by adding an engine with the following URL, and make it default if you want:

{google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&pws=0&q=%s
My point is the OP talks about how all the options are self-evident.
Good, let it destabilize. I can't wait until $5/gas forces US to mandate electric cars as a policy. I can't wait until US pulls out of the middle east, and the government cuts all sorts of debt so that we don't burden our children with a miserable future.

And converting a government to democracy always comes with a price. I am sure the arab youth is ready and willing for that result.
I use Visual Studio with ViEmu and Visual Assist X.

While I really hated Visual Studio (and still do), this combination of tools really makes it worthwhile. It is an awesome marriage of a mediocre IDE, some substantial refinements to make it usable, and a phenomenal text editor. The nice thing about ViEmu is that is extremely full-featured. It even reads my entire .vimrc with all my customizations and personal magic!

So, I guess what I want to say is that instead of deciding between using an IDE and a text editor, you should actually use both! Real progress lies in synthesis, not analysis!
Microsoft was the only one to imlement the standarts completely in .NET 3.5 (WCF). Because all others were slow, in .NET 4.0 some advanced WS-* features are not used and interop with IBM/Oracle tools is almost perfect.
Hey, I'm a big fan. Thanks for all the hard work! :)

I've been using ST2 all morning, but after I closed it once it just crashes every time I try to open it. Restarting my computer did not help. :\

Edit: Managed to fix it by blowing away ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/ and starting over.
VBS has a great first-hand doc of North Korea: http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/vice-guide-to-north-korea-2-of-14

A lot of what they show resembles Artemii Lebedev's experience.
Im sorry but rather being respectful to the problems that hes having as a paid premium user all youre doing is being condescending and downright rude to the guy. Personally if i was the guy id stop using your company.

You know if you had treated him with respect and actually discussed the problems with him and apologized and just simply said youre working on it and sorry for the problems. Youd probably have a happy customer for life. Instead you have people that have nothing to do with the situation making it much much much worse then it could have been. Not a very good business move frankly. I mean they teach this stuff in entrepreneurship 101.
The comparison with the US is not appropriate, as we're talking about very different cadastral situations. The US has, at the time, a wide open western frontier, with enormous quantities of fertile arable land freely available. Britain is a country in which all the reasonably fertile land has long been brought under cultivation. Enclosures apply to marginal land (marshes, poor pasture), in which a few semi-squatting, destitute "cottagers" eke out a very desolate existence. This land can be made fertile, but only with a huge investment of capital (e.g. draining). The way the enclosure act works is that the cottagers are paid some meager compensation in exchange for their grazing rights. The landowner then gains exclusive access to his own land, which now becomes profitable for him to invest in, and transform into very productive arable land. Will the landowner work all this land by himself and eat all the produce? Obviously not. Some of the cottagers are hired locally, as farmers on the newly productive land that requires a workforce. Others move to the city, where the price and availability of food become much better as a result of the improvement. Whichever choice they take, they are no longer half-starved, and at least they have a chance to work for a better future. The alternative you seem to be proposing - dispossess the landowner, distribute the marshes among the cottagers - is not practicable, on account of the large amounts of capital needed for improvement, which only the landowner can reasonably obtain.

This being said, I think we agree on two points: the Enclosure Acts increased the pace of urbanization (but I believe it was by providing cheap food, not forced relocation), and they also increased the prosperity of society in aggregate. On my side, I argue that this prosperity registered a net gain for both landowners and the poor classes.
There's a larger problem here, the arbitrage of human talent.

demand media knows more about the potential value of on article on a particular topic.

They seek to maximise the difference between the cost and the revenue,

how much they pay the content creator < how much revenue they predict they can make

it's like Hollywood, but on a mass scale.

Demand Media is the new talent agent, although in reality the emphasis is on agent rather than talent.
I imagine theres not much you can be specific about when talking about google's algorithm, but can you at least disclose if the identification of "original" content providers is "determined" (by some automatic process) or is it "specified" (manual intervention)?

Stack overflow is an obvious benefactor of this new change, I'm just wondering if smaller content providers might benefit as well?
Amazon remaps the availability zones for each user randomly in order to load balance between then, making your "us-east-1" possibly be Ubuntu's "us-east-4". That is likely the source of these charges. Unfortunately, Amazon does not provide any official mechanism to figure out that mapping, but someone once noticed some trick I am now forgetting (and can't find as I have to run out) involving some UUID or hash-based serial number from one of the services exposing the maps.
This one of very few google hits for the phrase "get the juxt".
what's the data? is this the pie growing or is digital actually eating into physical book sales in a zero sum game, and to what degree?
Good to know, thanks! I wasn't sure if that was the case or not.

Is Google the only engine that supports it currently or is it standardized?
Yeah, it's called Realpolitik and, for better or worse (usually worse), it's generally the basis of American foreign policy.

That said, "idealism" is also often a terrible basis for foreign policy as well.
From what I understand, Tumblr is an extremely small company. Your local Denny's has more people on payroll. NYC is running out of top-notch developers (thus why Bloomberg goes out of his way to tell people from other cities to move to his). Finding and hiring people who fit your company and managing them is a time-consuming process if you want to do it right. Nothing about what they're doing or will have to do is easy. Ultimately, they need to find people who have experience with scaling massive apps, which means headhunting at Google and Facebook. Not saying they shouldn't fix the problem, but I can understand the frustration their team is experiencing.
so what if Karp is a nice guy?
it is not about whether he is nice guy or not,but how customers (free & paying) are treated.

Are you saying that since millions of customers are getting a free service ("five MILLION visitors every single day, almost none of whom pay a dime.") and so should expect a lower level of service ?

it clearly shows the frustration on Karp's part and that he is not able to handle the pressures.
The gold is in the comments
I ran across this list just now on sites that may be using SO content: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24611/is-it-legal-to...
This was a huge disappointment to me when trying out Kinect Sports bowling. Wii bowling's ability to accurately track wrist twists made if feel a lot like real bowling. Kinect bowling doesn't feel like bowling at all. :-(
may be here is a good place to ask - may be someone can answer - what does the term "original content" actually mean , original in what sense ?

if you have a blog about wines, then what do you need to write - in order to be "original" blog about wines - does it mean mostly:

1) express original opinions about wines,
2) original structure of sentence and original wording - but the same opinions that 10 other sites write about,
3) original brands of wine you talk about - original names mentioned,
4) original content in the sense that you have not copied the text 100% from someone else - or what
5) combination of the factors mentioned above
6) something else that makes your content original ..
Yup, I actually posted over here at HN a little bit before I did a post on my personal blog.
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This doesn't seem to be the case: http://twitter.com/#!/olaonline/status/31020613325819904

Also seems to be backed up by others:
http://twitter.com/#!/olaonline/status/31020613325819904
http://twitter.com/Firas_Atraqchi/status/31010020443299840
http://twitter.com/#!/beshr/status/31037492174004225
I remember reading recently about a similar project in Germany. Thankfully my failing memory allowed me to google an even better link. Shame they don't seem to have anything in my city. Tech center of the Netherlands, my ass!

Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_netw...
Yes, but 2 things.

1. The SO results shown don't address the query I submitted as well as the efreedom one does.

2. Why doesn't the stackoverflow article that is being duped show in the results?
If this comment is interesting to you, you must read Mother Earth, Motherboard [1]. It's a fantastic long technojournalist piece by Neal Stephenson dealing with transoceanic cables.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
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This is NOT the similarly-named talk by Chris Houser from Strange Loop 2010, in case anyone else was thinking the same thing. This (from Stuart Sierra) is worth a separate read, and has nice visuals with a row/column metaphor.
Its called RSS.
My comment appeared to have been temporarily removed from the postdesk.com blog entry, after I tried to share John Maloney's statement that the email had been sent to every employee at Tumblr: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152203

Edit: I spoke too soon; either I missed it as I read the comments or my comment was re-enabled.
Not that I disagree about SS being a time bomb, but I think you're slightly mistaken about where SS revenue comes from (or I could be mistaken; anybody out there who knows for sure should please correct me). What most Americans think of as "federal tax" is actually several separate taxes, and which ones any given individual actually pays varies depending on their employment situation.

There's a specific tax that workers (either self-employed or otherwise) pay that goes to social security (as opposed to the general federal income tax), and as far as I know, those specific funds go to the central social security trust fund rather than the federal government's general fund. Funds used for invading other countries, paying off interest payments, etc. etc. comes from other revenue streams.

As I understand it, the reason SS is potentially in trouble is that, the baby boomers are beginning to retire and draw on the system. This represents a simultaneous large decrease in the number of people paying into the fund and increase in the number of people extracting money from the fund. The precise financial implications of this seem to be up for debate- some people say that there will be sufficient money to cover everybody, while others say that there won't be.

I personally don't see how it can possibly work, but I'm certainly not an economist so what do I know? At any rate, I don't expect to see a dime of it when my time comes. At this point, I view the whole thing as basically a charity for baby boomers, and from that perspective it kind of makes sense- unless we want to let them die/starve in the streets, we're going to end up paying for them one way or another; we may as well make use of the existing infrastructure for helping to support elders.