skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting point this brings up is that it's sometimes difficult to tell whether you're in a "bad neighborhood" or not.

In other words, if I'm considering using co.cc to host my (legitimate) blog, there's no realistic way for me to browse through all 11 million subdirectories; notice that some 6,000 are spammy; and conclude that the site has a high risk of being burned by Google.

Of course, there are indirect methods of discerning a host's reputation and likeliness to attract spammers -- starting from the fact that co.cc is a free service -- but they may be too difficult for a layman to pursue.

Hence, I am going to start offering Google Burn Insurance. For a low monthly premium, you'll have peace of mind knowing that if your legitimate, non-spammy site is ever banned as "collateral damage," you'll get a tidy lump-sum payment that you can use to rebuild your site somewhere else.

Any takers? :)
Someone oughta show this to Calacanis as an example of how to write a honeymoon fanboy article.
Please don't get the government involved in this. As much as I dislike eHow.com, I don't think they need to be dragged away in chains for "SEOing one's way to the top of search results, title 256, section D". That's not a good kind of call for the government to make.
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Wondered if you have an invite you're willing to extend my way? I'm @ tomwilley at gmail.
This article is beyond useless. Firefox and Chrome are winning the browser wars by making a better browser. Part of that is constantly updating and improving which are the source of version numbers.
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From the title and picture, at first I thought she was looking for a date.
They don't have to explain it. They don't have to license these technologies under reasonable terms. They could, rather than seek royalties, seek injunctions. Or they could seek $500/unit in future payments (which would basically be an injunction). Although for past units shipped they'd get, at best, what one would consider reasonable.
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> spammers would inevitably just skirt around the edges

Imagine if spam were treated in the same way as child porn, the apparent "root password to the US Constitution."

Or the way drug smuggling is treated in East Asia.
Amazon launches pet e-commerce site Wag.com
And yet there are a lot of active exploits targetting Windows. If your logic was sound, given that Windows is by far the most used system it should also be the most secure: then again I invite you to research the subject, security reports often show that it is more vulnerable than most linux/unixes. I find 7 to be an acceptable OS (and I still use it everyday) but blindly beliving that Microsoft ecosystem is secure because it is Microsoft's is a mistake.
I am sorry to see you get hit like this, but relying solely on one company's ability to send traffic your way is also a bit blunt.

Like I said, it's sad, but they got the power over their traffic and can do whatever they see fit with it - even cancel it.

While sounding harsh, say "lesson learned" and diversify your traffic sources into more baskets. If one does the lemming thing, you still got others sending visitors your way.
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Very true. I imagine that even though 1100 will commit, some will flake leaving me with 800 or 900 (or maybe half that).

However, I'd like to prepare for that demand problem in case it does arrive whole hog.
Agreed.

My startup is very atypical for HN (Renewable energy, so we do multi-million dollar research projects, deploy equipment that costs from 2-100 million, and our seed round is looking like we are going to close at about 150 million dollars.)

Despite the vast difference in scale between what I do and what most startups on this board do, I'm still looking to run the IT side of the business the same - cloud-based, using the latest tools that this crowd and others deploy, running a lean shop, etc.

I am still deciding whether Google is the right answer, or box.net or Podio, or others... But we definitely will not be installing Microsoft's solutions.
I'm def not saying people shouldn't point it out, I just think people shouldn't base their entire opinion on the fact that he's an MS evangelist.
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smart words. Especially about supporting the VCs/Angels who are putting out for the founders. The contraction will occur, who do you want to still be standing? Help them help you succeed and all will be well.

In 25 years of consulting/contracting software dev it's always paid off to not let my rates slide up to the maximum the market will bear. MSuster's "high side of normal" kind of applied there as well.

When things slow down again who do you think gets work? The people who pushed clients for all the market would bear or the ones who let rates slide up a bit, but didn't go crazy pushing for the maximum last cent. Yep, the latter.
Will do for sure.
I did not hesitate to make changes to LoseThos, so LoseThos is exactly how I want it.

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This should be easy to sabotage/fix for the real jQuery.com guys. Since the fake .it-site hotlinks directly to the css and custom javascript from jquery.com they can add some code that will warn users that the site is a fake, automatically redirect all traffic to jquery.com with a 301, add canonical headers etc...
Looks like i pissed some people off with this. Maybe a few other people fell for this too?

"Dude was careless" is the entire point. Google should not have ranked that site above jQuery's site, but you should check that you are at least downloading your JS from the right domain.
I have gotten from two different people now and none of them work.. I get the "Keep me posted" message.
Louis C.K talks about starring in, writing, editing, and directing his own show.
Try rebooting, it usually fixes some of the issues. (Disclosure: I made the JailbreakMe website; not the jailbreak itself.)
I'd really like to see the huge economical effects of Japan having that huge amout of raw materials.
Why not tell us about your product? Maybe we can be more helpful if we know what you want to sell.
> I don't think they need to be dragged away in chains

Why not?

I would love to see spammers imprisoned or perhaps even publicly flogged. With hangings for repeat offenders.

The social cost of spammers (in terms of the time and money wasted on filtering attempts) may well be comparable to that of burglars.
I have access, but none of the invite workarounds seem to work any more. If you know of one, I'd be willing to try it.
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Interestingly enough, there is an effort to "port" the Tractatus' logic to software engineering: http://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20110219T1113Z.html
> Uh, wtf, since when? They're allowed to do this without a warrant? They just randomly drive along the streets and check heat signatures?

"Emissions" are part of a Constitutional gray area because of the murky definition of privacy, but generally cops are allowed to utilize them. Heat signatures are not placed in the same category as wiretaps, but rather in the same category as walking down the street and happening to see something through someone's open window. The reasoning is that the heat information is "broadcasted" and therefore publicly available.

And the cops don't cruise around examining heat signatures. They do fly-overs. That, and stake-outs.
Not to mention the lack of proper regulation. Particularly at the exchanges: http://nerdr.com/bitcoin-exchange-scam-bitcoins-are-worthles...

I was days away from entering the Bitcoin marketplace until I read that. Now I realize it's speculation propping up an artificial market price. Saying that, I would be open to hearing opinions on estimates of the true value of a Bitcoin, based on it's use cases and value proposition if anyone has any...
In short -

Beware of downloading JQuery from jquery.it, which may appear before jquery.com in related Google searches. The end.
Technically how should he know jquery.com is more trusted than jquery.it?

jquery.com does NOT appear to have a fully valid SSL certificate: Chrome gives me "the site's security certificate is not trusted!"

Like it or not, Google is an important part of establishing reputation -- that's what pagerank was built on initially and if that becomes worthless then finding the true source of something becomes very difficult.
No, it doesn't excuse carelessness, but that doesn't excuse Google either. As the saying goes, "Blame is a non-zero-sum game."

We developers should heed his warning to be careful about download sites. AND Google should do a better job of blacklisting spam sites like this.
Unplanned pregnancy used to be a catalyst for marriage. No longer. That has alot of impact and limits earning potential or limits the actual value of working! What percentage of a single parents income goes to daycare?

Check out old census reports on a rainy day. Its amazing how things have changed!
Well perhaps your point was that those services were walled gardens & incompatible with each other before the Internet took off. The Internet opening up with it's low cost ISPs & flexibility was the end of those walled garden services & many BBSs, true.

That doesn't really have anything to do with the Internet being centrally planned or not. It was just planned to be more open than those other services.
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How many domains do you think will be willing to give away free subdomains if Google keeps delisting them because of spam/fraud/etc?

This won't happen for very much longer.
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This headline is sensationalistic beyond the pale of respectable journalism, and certainly beyond that of HN. The article does nothing to justify the title. Speculating ways in which Twitter might eventually lose to a new competitor does not license you say they've already been "mortally wounded".

To the extent that anyone reading this has the authority to change headlines (I only know for sure that pg does), could you please modify it to something reasonable? Thanks.

For others, please note that improving headlines is not only permitted, but very much precedented and generally encouraged. Bad headlines let shitty articles get upvoted, and degrade the overall quality of HN. (With some sources, namely Popular Science, I'd even humbly suggest changing the headlines be mandatory.)
Well, in this specific case, the header comment in http://code.jquery.it/jquery-1.6.2.js still references jquery.com
Me too. I have 2 invites and neither work. Seems they're blocking new sign ups.
On the plus side: there are a lot more interesting things a spammer could do with a copy of jQuery than accidentally include a syntax error.
I checked it out. RezVera is obviously a commercial name, not a generic name, and its entire internet presence consists of a few PR sites. Google News finds them all, and puts them on one page. It's not like they are crowding out better RezVera news. There is maybe something to be done here about delisting these sites altogether, but I don't see a huge problem for this particular search. Or is there some legitimate review of it, which gets crowded out?
Facebook has "circles" but they are called "groups."

I have sources that say, unofficially that:

1) They were not blindsided at all. They worked hard to compete on major features before g+ ever came out.

2) "Groups" has more or less similar functionality, and the feature is known to have a poor UI right now. The point though is that FB thought about this and even though they aren't up to the same polish with that feature, the feature exists, no architectural changes necessary. Just UI polish.
It isn't clear from the article whether the new system is in production and the old system has been thrown away. Those are the two most important questions.

If the company is maintaining the old system to support existing users, that's a bad sign for the rewrite. If there is a separate team for the old system, that's a really bad sign for the rewrite (not to mention for the company).

Doing this is harder than it sounds. Technical success may be a necessary condition but it isn't a sufficient one.
Len was a huge part of my young teen years back in Pottstown Pa...I remember burning our first CD together (11 hours) playing the Hill Schools version of Zorg and of course YMCA Leaders. We grew apart and only communicated on occasion over the past few years. I don't know what I can do or say I am truly at a complete loss as to what to do or say, if anyone knows who to get in touch with it would be a great help. Leaderkam at gmail.
I tagged you in a photo. I hope that still works >_>
I chuck 1p, 2p and 5p coins in a pot at home rather than ever carrying them around with me once they've got as far as home. There is a machine at my bank that you can poor any coins into and it will count them into your account with no charge. I do this once a year, it is only a ~10 minute detour on a trip when I was walking into town for something else anyway, and it usually works out at one 70cl bottle of Smirnoff Red plus a pound or so.

So I'm happy to keep the small change. I consider it to be a free drink or few, in exchange for some minutes of my time.

There are similar machines in supermarkets that give you a voucher to use at the till when paying for your shop, though they tend to charge (as much as 15%). They do usually have the option of giving the rest to charity though, if you are so inclined (but you could do the same at the bank and donate without some other entity lifting off up to 15%).
Thanks for the offer, man. But I was looking for something else that describes typical startups (don't think all startups are "hip"...whichever meaning the word implies).

(Believe it or not) I initially wanted to name the magazine "HUSTLE".
You'd rather they lie to you?
You're confusing cynicism with paranoia. A cynic would think that Google has lost faith in its algorithm and is taking to manually blocking spammy sites; a paranoid would think that Google plans to have websites pay to be included in search, and is retaliating against hosts that don't use Google Analytics or Adwords.
Hell is other people's code?
Here's a hint: If it's free on the internet, spammers and scammers will try to take advantage of it. If you can't see anything to stop them, then there's probably something you can't see that will stop them. Like Google delisting the entire domain.

Pay for your own domain and hosting service and this won't happen to you.
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"Each of us on average has hundreds of friends on Facebook. When you share things on Facebook, you have to share it with all of them! How stupid is that?"

It would be stupid ... if it were actually true. Facebook's privacy controls are actually pretty sophisticated now: by default I have anything I post shown to friends of friends, but excluding certain people. For potentially controversial status updates I restrict visibility to a couple of lists. If I wanted I could target a photo or status to an individual person.

So, Facebook already has all of this control baked into its architecture. In theory, all it needs to do is make it more easily discoverable and easily used. Of course this is easier said than done, but it's certainly not a 'major architectural overhaul'.

I do wish that, when people slate a platform for not having certain features, they would actually do a little research instead of assuming.
Microsoft holds patents that it claims Linux violates. Android is a Linux. Therefore Microsoft claims Android violates it's patents. QED

Companies that wish to stay on Microsoft's good side(anyone who wants to build a WP 7 phone, or sell a desktop) and use Linux licenses those patents. Thus they pay MS for android.
What I find incredible about this is that Google has gotten so good at returning exactly what we want that we no longer bother checking the authenticity of it, even when it's something specific. If Google was "lagging behind on the game" as some people are suggesting, this never would have happened because we wouldn't be trusting it to return what we want.
Honestly, I would buy the .com and just move on. There's not much you can do except protect yourself going forward. If you own your domain you can always pick up and move to a new host.

For what its worth, people will probably search for you upon not finding your site. With an exact match domain, you should rank really well and your fans can find you. Maybe throw a HelloBar.com style message at the top explaining what happened, so they know they've found your new home.

Best of luck. Hate that this happened to you.
I believe TechCrunch will have similar data. Chrome seems to have about 50% market share on the big tech sites, while FF is maintaining its share, and IE is almost nowhere to be found.

I think it's a pretty good guide on what browser market shares will look like for most sites 5 years from now. IE8 is the last one standing. I don't think IE9/IE10 and beyond will come close to IE8's market share in the future, which means Microsoft not wanting to adopt features such as WebGL or WebM is pretty pointless, and it will probably even harm them.
How are you going to make money from this venture?
That is some amazingly selective memory corruption, homeboy. How whack is it that it is causing neither widespread segfaults nor widespread reports of creeping data corruption despite these VMs having logged billions of hours of CPU time in production all over the planet, dawg?

And yo check this: maybe this "fatal flaw" is actually just an edge case bug that isn't cropping up much in practice. Fo'shizzle!

And maybe we can drop the ridiculously asinine slang and douchey bravado, "bro".
Well, generally how search works now was actually one of the first things I learned when I started working for Google, but my point was that you don't know and are just making things up.
Facebook has "circles" but they are called "groups."

I think Friend Lists is what you may be referring to.

They need to make the feature easier to use/find, and they need to make the News Feed more sensitive to these.
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Not sure they'd want to spend 3 hours, but there always is some handholding entailed so I'm planning for the worst.

A template marketplace is coming, but it will take a little bit of time. Ideally I should be almost entirely removed from the equation once that happens.

As far as goes with the local designers, I've been going through an auditing process. The one problem is that since they'd need to deal with the clients directly, I need to be sure they are somewhat personable themselves.
I posted this because in many ways Louis C.K. is quite amazing in that he does every thing on his own. He describes his creative process and what drives him, and while reading it I noticed several parallels to the sort of hacking culture that HN loves.
I think you're confused. There are clearly normative questions; "Should I do X?" for any value of X is a normative question. You might have intended to contend that there are no normative facts: that there is no "right answer", as it were, to normative questions, merely what we choose to do.

However, this is not something that science can prove, at least without adding the claim that the only facts there are are physical facts. You're basically suggesting that we open up people's heads, look around, go "Nope, no norms here!" and take that to be evidence that they don't exist. This is problematic at best, since were they to exist, normative facts would seem to have properties quite at odds with physical facts, and your assertion starts to look question-begging.

Metaethics is not my area, so I'm afraid all of this is rather rough and ready, but the SEP article [1] is a pretty decent starting point.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/
It can work out for you, but I don't see how it applies to just anyone. Going to the events takes time, social skills and money (if the events are far).

And, what if you move to another country or switch to a different industry? You still need recruiters in that case, so the Monster isn't releasing it's grip anytime soon.
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Facebook, Apple to take on Google with HTML5 platform?
edit: She changed her Facebook profile picture to that photo about 4 days before the article was posted. She's also made it her Twitter avatar (@marenkate). So I guess it's not a joke, and it's not about getting a CTO. That's just how she represents herself online.
Not only has Google ranked the site highly, it seems to be the financier too. It looks to me that this was done just for the Adsense income.

Why this was done? Here were my first few thoughts:

1. Display ad revenue. - Maybe initially, there is Adsense markup but the ads aren't showing for me so perhaps Google has disabled them.

2. Affiliate income from the links to jQuery books - I can't see an affiliate code in the links so probably not.

3. Hijacking the Donate button - No. This leads to a blank page with just a Time to Generate snippet.
The complexity of the PDF specification isn't what's relevant here. Even if pdf.js were to implement all of the PDF specification, it would still be more secure than Apple's renderer, because it's written in a memory-safe language.

This is one of the reasons pdf.js is so important: it reduces the attack surface of the browser.
They all know a base price, and that it might shift upwards. The issue is how much it might shift...
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Is Stumbleupon referring more traffic than Facebook?
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So there is Blekko (http://blekko.com) which does use what we (yes I work there) consider better social signals for ranking search. Try this and let me know what you think:

Go to blekko.com, enter your two words and append /monte to the search. That will put three columns up, results from Blekko, Google, and Bing. Pick the column with the best search results and see which service delivered them.

It is a great way to see what is what.
Interestingly, I did the exact same thing today: tried downloading jquery 1.6.2, was not careful enough, got a syntax error when I used it.

Just checked, I'd gotten it from jquery.it...
Sadly, I foresee a future where you have to whitelist everything in order to be truly safe. You got screwed over by two characters.
Then the fake site would just copy those as well.
"Just UI polish."

If Apple's success has taught us anything, it's that "UI polish" trumps pretty much everything else when it comes to making money from software, and it is hard to get right (or else everyone's UIs would be just as polished as Apple's).

So if Facebook is behind Google in "Just UI polish" they may have very much to fear, indeed.
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They're all marketing contacts, they're probably less annoyed than average.
Nope, it's just an inevitable quality of any site like this. Keep doing what you're doing.
Wow, that's just in time. I was just starting to look into learning Clojure. Nice!
I think that would be Absurdism, but instead of reaching it, we can't understand it.
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