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It is good that power is being transferred away from a small number of publishers, but that power is being transferred to an even smaller number of platform owners like: Amazon, Google, Sony, Apple etc. To me, it just seems like a shift in power from old media entities to new media entities.
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The other thing to add is a "attorneys fees clause" so if you do have to sue you can collect your attorneys fees as well.

I believe that's the "Legal Costs" clause which is mentioned in the article.
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It's difficult to say exactly since SEO isn't really an exact science. Some of them will definitely be an improvement. For example, it's not really valuable for someone to land on one of your tag pages.

Putting all your links to your content pages inside H2 tags tells search engines that they're more important that other links on the page.

The /title one is big. Google likes short URLs without a lot of extra cruft. You're using rails from what I can see, so the change is trivial. :) Add a route, throw an index on your slug field, and have requests to the old URLs do a 301 redirect to the short version.

Page load time is also a SEO factor now. http://yakkstr.com/tags/7-Politics takes 4.25s to load according to your X-Runtime header. That's really bad. You're not paginating, and you're only loading a few entries, so I think you're missing an index. :) Here's some tips: http://madhatted.com/2009/8/12/faster-sites-done-faster

Check this out: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:yakkstr.com Lots of empty/valueless results. Maybe you can noindex blogs that have no posts in them so they don't pollute the search results?

Your slug generator is generating bad slugs: http://yakkstr.com/posts/1793-Climate-Change--- You should look at using String#to_url from https://github.com/rubypanther/stringex instead of whatever you're using currently.

Google text ads may convert better than the image-based ads since they're usually more relevant to the topic at hand. Try experimenting with them.
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What base is "10" in? I.e., is the question to count from one to minus two (in which case the answer is the empty list of numbers, with all of its members written in base -2) or to count from one to ten?
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I agree. Anybody interested in Redis should get to know its hash tables, lists, sets, sorted sets, etc. It's sometimes amazing how many problems Redis can solve out-of-the-box, just because it provides these common data structures as a persistent service.
Make things harder rather than easier. Got it.

Social media "experts" need better ways to spend their time and starting at schools with .edu addresses will help to build concentrated user bases. So, THAT won't be a problem.

Based on feedback, maybe FB's problem is simply that it's no longer theFaceBook. Its not exclusive, hardly worth my time and the structure is vastly overbuilt for what its meant to be: a people directory.
the first article you link (pot-in-pot) credits the same inventor as OP's article. In other words, while there may be historical evidence that the technique was used millenia ago, both articles credit the same man for re-introducing the principle in 1995.
>How has Mark Twain's work been remixed or creatively remained since it entered the public domain?

http://blackhistorypreserved.com/2011/02/black-history-censo... <=Replaced an offensive word with a somewhat less offensive word, basically murduring Huck Finn.

http://www.facetsdvd.com/category-s/280.htm <= All of those

Stuff like this: http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2009/01/keir_cutlers_adapat...
And no mention of memcache in the key/value list. Not cool enough anymore?
I get your second paragraph - it's more effective for him to use his time to programatically generate thousands of pages then to write one, but your first? If 99% of people use a certain terminology, and if you are selling, don't you want to speak their language since they constitute the market? Or are you saying you need to speak the blogger/technocratti so they'll link to you?
What I'd prefer to see is a system similar to Canada's points system[1], which -- in summary -- gives you points for various qualifications, such as education, work experience, family ties, amount of capital you'd inject into the country, and various other metrics to decide whether allowing you into the country would be a benefit for society.

Special-casing startups wouldn't be needed -- you would get points for having investments into your company, and the skills needed to build it.

[1]http://www.workpermit.com/canada/points_calculator.htm
I can see a bunch of toy companies salivating, but how will it improve the public good?

Unfortunately, IP companies are devising ever draconian laws that impact liberties, legal due process and privacy. IP companies have made themselves into one of the great enemy of civil liberties; if that is the logical consequence of having to enforce IP, perhaps the whole system has to be scrapped.

Still, framing everything in the context of 'public good' is a slippery slope. Some things are right or wrong without utilitarian calculus.

P.S. Mickey Mouse is a Disney trademark, which makes it theirs in perpetuity. Arguably, trademarks are the weakest and least intrusive category of IP.
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Sure there are plenty of "ideas," but you don't base a company on a bunch of "ideas", you base it on an "Idea". From the article:

"Well, it is about the idea. The idea is the seed. It is the kernel that is the start of something new."

There are lots of details in the execution, and semantically you can refer to those as "ideas," but that's not what people generally mean when they say "an idea doesn't matter."

The Newton had a custom mobile operating system in 1993 [1], by the way. The iPhone did all of those things in 2003, eight years ago.

So why did the iPad take so long? There's a lot of technology inside that took a long time to get right. No one brilliant idea can be pointed to that's the "seed" that made the iPad work. Instead it's hundreds of hours of design and testing and iteration -- i.e., the execution.

If anything, the Idea behind all Apple products is that style, presentation, and user experience matter. But even that idea is worthless without a good execution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_OS
The rub is in the statement " 2M with 2% interests over inflation", which is harder to sustain over terms over 10 years.
The US Chamber of Commerce is pretty much in bed with the oil/gas/"old energy" producers, which has caused a variety of tech companies to leave it because of it's environmental policies which were often in the global warming skeptic/denier camp - Apple left in 2009, for example:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2009/10/19/091019ta_...
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The "10" in the question is in base (9+1). The question is to produce a sequence in base -2 starting with 1 and taking 9 steps forwards.
Compared to lost work from actually taking the time to write it, those will be negligible costs (for programmers).
I love the analogies, but I got a little lost on the energy output. What kind of effect would "the energy put out by the sun in 2 or 3 seconds" have if released relatively slowly? (The half-life of neutrons is ~ 10 minutes according to the article.)
This kind of idea might be new to a lot of HN readers, but it's a tired old game that doesn't work all that well anymore. Working with the limited data that Google provides on keywords/search volume/CPCs, you'll be crowded into the same niches that are already hyper competitive with hundreds of other people playing the same game.

Also, this is advocating the creation of classic webspam. Creating thousands of autogenerated pages using data thats already publicly available doesn't "help" anyone.

Puzzles me when I think back to the righteous outcries on HN a couple of months ago about the declining quality of Google's search results.
Doesn't it work if you just pass that url through?
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Exactly. Would you accept the next gift? Especially when giving the gift isn't a selfless act-- it's only given if it benefits the giver.

I don't use their APIs, and am not building a business on anybody else's platform, so it doesn't affect me personally. But if I were doing that, this would make me change my mind.
Of course, all art is derivative in nature. This artist is hypocritical to claim that her idea is entirely unique.
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For programmers, absolutely.
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Indeed. Memcached is very effective for what it does and IMHO one of the fathers of the whole NoSQL thing.
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Iteration from the wrong starting point could end up in a local minima. I think that's hard to recognize in some cases and takes something more dramatic to address (like simulated annealing)
Copyright terms in the U.S. did not always run into the 100+ years category.

Here is a rough summary of how the terms have evolved under U.S. law (the details of which are nicely summarized here: http://ipwatchdog.com/2011/05/27/copyrights-last-for-a-limit...):

1790: maps, charts, and books - 14-year term

1831: 28-year term with option to renew for another 14 years (musical compositions, prints, dramatic compositions, photographs, works of art and music added to list of protected works in 1800s)

1909 (a major act): 28-year term from date of publication, renewable for another 28 years (applied to "published" works only, with state laws governing unpublished works) (motion pictures added to list of protectible works)

1976 (another major act): newly published works (life of author plus 50 years); works copyrighted before 1978 (term increased from 28 to 47 years, for 75 years total with renewal) (applies to all works, whether or not published, once in a fixed medium of expression; state laws preempted and no longer valid; computer programs also protected by the 1980s)

1998 (Copyright Term Extension - "Sonny Bono Act"): works created after 1978 (life of author plus 70 years, with joint works tied to life of longest living author, and with works-for-hire, i.e., corporate authorship, getting the shorter of a 120-year term from date of creation or a 95-year term from date of publication); works created before 1978 (total term increased from 75 to 95 years)

The rough summary above is just that and many nuances exist. If this all makes your head spin, there is a nifty "public domain calculator" to assist you, found here: http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/calculator.html

The trend is pretty obvious: wildly long terms for copyright are in fact a relatively recent phenomenon, as are legislative efforts to go back to early works and give them ex post facto term extensions. It didn't always used to be this way. The focus seems to have moved away from protecting primarily an author's rights to a creative work during his lifetime to protecting a "franchise," often corporate, that lasts well beyond the lives of those around when a work is created. These are policy decisions, of course, albeit (and sadly) much influenced by lobbying today.
I don't think the report deepens the mystery, it answers questions. The flight data recorder information was recovered and tells what happened. The flight speed sensors weren't working and so autopilot shut off while the captain was taking his rest period. Then the two copilots didn't know what to do and called him. When he came they all continued doing random things indicating none of the three had any flight training that they remembered. This behavior, of not knowing how to deal with flight problems because they are used to running everything on autopilot, is not uncommon in airlines based in third world countries where pilots are the nephews of autocrats, but is unusual for French pilots.
Probably quite a few.
Nice, tell more people how to make total shit sites that really don't make 2k anymore as Google already 'fixed' this bug. How did this get on the frontpage?
Also for a car. You're going to buy a car eventually, right? Do you want to borrow the money and pay interest while it's wearing out, or save the money and BE paid interest while your current car is wearing out? Notice that either strategy will tend to repeat itself, so the net difference over time is huge. One person said saving and getting paid interest amounts to "getting free cars."
I thought they left it off because it wasn't persistent.
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WP Super Cache will serve up cached files via PHP with the flip of a switch. While this isn't as fast as letting the server serve up cached files, it's an easy win.
I think most people here can make educated guesses about the things you're referring to, but it's still a good idea to make specific claims.
Key/value store or maybe a document database. But it certainly has nothing to do with being column oriented.
Why does it seem ludicrous? Copyright and "intellectual property" have created more problems than they have solved.
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I thought this was very well-written, thank you.
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I would be interested to see whether a genetic algorithm performs better than a hill-climbing one in this context. By hill-climbing I mean searching for a vector in the seven-dimensional space you've defined which makes the biggest improvement in the fitness function. I tend to think hill climbing would converge faster than evolution among random mutations.
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If the half-life of a neutron (outside atomic nuclei) is 10 minutes, why is it stable inside a Neutron star and what is it that makes it stable?
This is just a particular tradeoff IMHO. It is persistent as long as the process is running. Other databases are persistent as long as the HD is working :) Others are persistent as long as N nodes are still working. Just tradeoffs.
You could be surprised about the efforts many folks do to try to put the different DB solutions into some kind of schema. The reason for this is mostly opaque for me...
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It's iPad app is also free.
According to the article, degeneracy pressure.
Does anyone know if a non-video summary or set of slides for this video exists?
You didn't really answer the question. I can do all of that work, how much do you think it will increase organic google traffic? 10%? 20%?

This is an experiment I'm trying to do ;) My hypothesis is that these things won't make a significant difference.
Disney's hypocritical plundering of the past

How do you "plunder" the public domain? Is there not an army of pedants out there eager to tell me that copyright infringement isn't stealing because it doesn't deprive anybody of anything? Is it not the point of the public domain that anybody can use it?
> within the context of A' I'm also the owner of your stuff.

But I don't live in context A'. I live in context A (which I was born into). If you want to transition to A', you're going to need force of arms sufficient to overcome those of us who'll shoot back in defense of A. Good luck with that.

> this is umpteen thefts later. I see no reason to stop

Because theft is bad. I didn't participate in any of the umpteen previous thefts. I can't untangle them or reverse them, but I see no reason to add to the mess.

> if you rent it from the collective

If I use any "rivalrous" good, my use deprives someone else. Whether it's land or food, if I'm using it you're not. If that's your criteria for determining that something belongs to the collective, then I can never acquire the means by which to pay rent to the collective. Even my labor is rivalrous and therefore falls under the same objection -- if I choose to use it for one purpose, I deprive you of the ability to use my labor for another purpose. It seems to me that "use deprives someone else" is a poor choice counterargument to private ownership.

> When picking someone to legitimize your claims of possession ... pick everyone

You mean everyone you didn't kill with force of arms when trying to transition to A', right?

Why not actually include a true "everyone", by allowing people to voluntarily live under whatever system they choose? If you want to be a collectivist, go find or start a collective and donate all your stuff to it, and join with others who voluntarily agree to it. It can be done without using force of arms offensively. Whatever force of arms was used to steal in the past, leave that in the past.
I think what we've actually seen is the simple realization that government can provide perpetual monopoly with the smallest of bribes (err campaign contributions). Once the idea that the government would step in give you a monopoly became understood, functionally infinite limits on it were all but guaranteed. In 100 years, Micky Mouse will still be just as copyrighted as he is today.
wtf.. Why screen scrape Facebook from a bookmarklet, when the Graph API gives you all this and more in JSON.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
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Potential problems: 1) people would set up two accounts, one to look at points and one to vote (and then log into both of them on separate browsers). It would be possible to modify the site to detect this, but that would be extra work for pg. 2) It would take less than a week for a browser extension that did this automatically (putting points into a page) to be released - there's already one attempt to build a database of points with an extensions (it records the score of points of anyone who has it installed and makes that information available to others).

It's a good idea on its face, but it wouldn't work.
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I don't exactly deal with any high amount of visitors (current record being like 300 hits per month).

But for using it directly with a application server I just use it as a backend and handle Cache-Control headers directly in the app. As for static files I haven't really handled them but caching them forever seems like a good enough option. It seems to work great and I haven't discovered any problems yet and with grace-time in varnish you could even survive a backend dying if it's serving out fairly static content.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2594477
So, are there no pilots in french airlines who also happen to be nephews of people in power?
You really believe FB will rule the world with under 50% of the world's *
current internet users? I foresee millions of "new customers" with different expectations in the next decade. FaceBook wasn't first and I don't believe they'll be last.

Junk food? True but I'd rather be Starbucks than McDonalds. If I do this, we're doing it right. I'll be back with something you can see this summer.

You want a simple organized directory that makes communication with your entire network dead easy? Got it.
Similar story...

My senior year in high school I got hooked on an online multiplayer Tetris game called TetriNET. I eventually created a pretty sophisticated bot to play for me, which absolutely crushed the games. A friend recommended I submit it for consideration in the regional science fair, where I wound up taking first in the computer science category.

Lots of details on the blog [1], including screenshots, source code, and details of the algorithms used.

[1] http://www.mattmazur.com/2009/05/creating-a-tetrinet-bot/
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The question not answered is why three trained pilots made wrong guesses as to what was going wrong with the plane.

BTW, I imagine a pitot tube placed on the body of the engine would not need extra heating and would be very unlikely to ice. You can even place it inside the exhaust and compensate the reading for engine flow.

We have to figure out what went wrong, what mistakes the crew made in order to prevent future accidents like this.

And I, coming from a third-world country, take offense at your statement. Pilots here endure very thorough training. One would have to be a lunatic to trust his nephew to a flying computer. The pilot must always know what's going on.

And that brings the main point: people die when the machine surprises its operator. "Smart" planes have become so smart pilots have trouble understanding what they are doing under all that software. And that's assuming the software is not buggy and they didn't got a very unfortunate NullPointException in the worst possible moment.
I see your point, and while it is largely sensible (both ideas and execution matter), it doesn't seem to add enough because no one is really trying to argue the other side. We all agree that the idea matters, and that every now and then there is an extraordinary idea, in and of itself.
The thing to remember though is that we simplify messages in life and online all the time for effect. I think "Ideas don't matter, execution is everything" is just another example of a useful (and powerful) simplification, but it's far too simple and distilled to argue about.
Up voting here, cstross is a subject matter expert.
It's not missing, he specifically addressed caching at the end of the article (indicating he didn't cover it).
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