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> Look at the title of #26 and honestly tell me you'd trust its claims if you had access to it.

because it violates your local social norms? What if I changed it to "Stop Teaching Our Kids to Smoke: A Call to Action Against Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco"?
Why does your site use behind-the-window popups even though I have popup blocking explicitly enabled in my browser? If I were hired at TripAdvisor could my first project be to get rid of such scumbag behavior?
we need something like this with a google chat interface and an emacs/ vim interface
> or are you just being honest?

I hope I'm being honest, why would I lie? Anyway, said company had a contract with a European Union Agency, and, as mentioned, said Agency was putting a major emphasis (as in more points awarded as part of the tender process) on sub-contractors that had only CS-graduates as programmers.

And the "tax-deductions for companies hiring CS-graduates part" I'll admit, it's not an EU-wide, EU-mandated policy (hence my mention that the tax was collected by my country's Government), but my suspicion is that my country is not the only one adopting this particular tax treatment. I think the people that came up with this policy thought that this would somehow create an IT bonanza. It might achieve that, who knows? But you'll have to admit it has some perverse effects, such as non-graduates like myself being at a disadvantage compared to degree-holding programmers.
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Cost in "scare quotes"?

Beside, you've already got your answer. Read the last sentence: This is a scalability issue. And my understanding is that it's difficult and expensive to build these things to scale to urban densities.

Density is the issue.
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Suppose someone is selling you a house. They're desperate to sell : are you saying it makes no difference whether they're selling because their aunt just died (i.e. random sale) or they're someone within the town planning department?

Or suppose it's a car mechanic that wants to unload a car cheaply?
I'd rather enjoy what little life I have left than spend it avoiding all the things that are supposedly going to shave years off my life and spending the entire day standing. I got a nice cushy knowledge-worker career precisely so I wouldn't spend the entire day standing while flipping burgers or digging ditches, thanks.

Besides, I'm in pretty poor health due to my own lack of attention to it and of all the things I could bother with, "standing all day at my desk" is pretty far down on the list of what would actually make an important improvement.

Plus, you know, I'd rather spend thousands of dollars on something else. A desk of any useful size that is able to bear any useful weight load on it and is also adjustable in ranges enough to go from sitting to standing are incredibly expensive. I'd rather use the money to pay three or four months of my mortgage.
First off, we're not spamming the search engines. Spam, by definition, is unsolicited and is sent by someone who has little concern for who receives it. The websites will all be highly-optimized, and optimized in such a way that they are put in front of the eyes of those who are looking for a specific solution to their problems; a solution we provide that is 100% legitimate. So, by it's very nature, this network of sites is not spam.

That being said, I agree that automation is key here. But, automation ≠ bad design and content. There are automated ways to go about generating quality designs and content. All that's necessary is that the people manning the tools to do so know what they're doing.

Point taken about the designers. Going forward, I will be making everything as cut and dry as possible, i.e they should do A, B, and C, no questions asked.

I really like your idea about hiring a dev to code something that can output mass websites that aren't 100% replicas of one another, so I will look into that.

I don't doubt building 1K sites in a week is possible, but you have to remember that while my knowledge of this industry is pretty advanced for my age, I am still young, so I don't know what's all out there in terms of software that makes the ability to build 1K sites in a week a breeze. So, do you think you could recommend pieces of software that would assist me in that endeavor?
Much better than the Diesel version. Didn't know people were still making desktop apps!
>the article never explains what that strategy was.

if memory serves me right it was already discussed here.
Just google "airbnb craigslist spam". They admitted it themselves :

http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/02/airbnb-admits-gaming-craig...
What's particularly interesting about recent research is the revelation that sitting for extended periods of time does significant damage to human health that cannot be undone by exercising. Sitting for several hours each day is bad for you, like smoking is bad for you, regardless of whether you do healthful activities, too.

Which is why this story keeps coming up. Sitting for 8-10 hours a day is NOT countered by going to the gym for another 2.
WP.com turned it on by default for everyone.

I don't know if that was a good or bad deal for the OnSwipe team. I know that having my site switched over with no input pissed me off, and even though it was the fault of WP.com and not OnSwipe, I still assign some of the blame to OnSwipe and dislike them more than I rationally should.

At the same time, it was good exposure for them, so for all the people they pissed off, they've probably more than made up for it.
I like using an exercise ball as my computer desk chair. That helps me move around more as I'm at the computer. But there is no substitute for getting outside and taking a walk, which I think I will do just now on one of our first really pleasant, rain-free days of this year.

If you decide to get an exercise ball as a chair substitute, the advice I have received from a YMCA trainer is to size it so that your hips are higher than your knees when you sit on it. For a lot of men of near-average height, a 65cm ball will do. The size can be adjusted up or down a little by how much you inflate the ball.
This is correct. This is also the reason why you would be hard pressed to find a venue that would show an NC-17 rated title in some places since most major theater chains refuse to show NC-17 rated films as policy.
I give people with an agenda less weight even if I agree with them. You're deriving weight from someone deriving weight from someone with an agenda rather than making your own arguments. It's a pyramid scheme of poor citation.
My weekend is only worth more than $50 if I didn't enjoy programming it, or it took time away from making money from another job. If I was planning on sitting around watching television, but instead spent it programming this project that wouldn't somehow make the weekend worth less, in fact I would argue that it built value, intangible or otherwise (knowledge learned from building the application that I can put on my resume/maybe a few paying customers that end up actually using it/etc)
What's a desktop app? lulsec
Especially if you can't actually install programs on your office computer :-/
I think that one instance of the NY Times publishing a rewrite of their own travel article from four years ago is hardly damning. Compare this to, say, the front page, which links directly to 100+ original, recent articles and even 4 video features. In this context, I consider comparing the NY Times to a content farm absurd.
Or open source it? I was always really impressed by the results that SearchYC produced. I'm itching to have a look at what's under the hood.
What you're saying is not exactly right. They own most of the Wired internet infrastructure, but when it comes to Mobile there are 4 networks with their own infrastructure. This deep scanning was only meant for mobile internet, AFAIK. If 1 company would increase prices on data (or certain kinds of data), they'd lose customers. If they'd do it together, they'd get huge fines for forming a cartel.
I disagree with your assertion, but fair enough. Done. Why don't you actually go find any evidence at all. Show me that violent video games make my kids better citizens.

Edit: it's not a strawperson. People are biological systems. Spending 3 hours a day with something makes one better or worse, stronger or weaker, faster or slower, never the same. It's sort of like a business: if you're not making money, you're losing it.
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Interesting that it doesn't mention the craigslist spamming. I'd wager that's far more responsible than YC. As great as YC is for many things it's not a significant source of traction for most startups.
We use an auto-ticketing system that has that feature. They say, "halp i can't log in!! ur site is broke!!!" and see a page that says:

"Do any of these articles answer your question? If not, click the 'Submit my ticket' button below." One of the articles is titled "Can't log in? Try these steps..."

I assume that's catching some of them, but plenty still click the submit button. You will always have some people who navigate through every automated trap you set up. You can choose to ignore if you want, but your customer service reputation will suffer.
Depends on what you mean by successful.

I know a small company that makes about $300-500k per person year and several smaller ones in the range of $100k per year that never had any major problems. They are not particularly interesting stories, so you'd probably never hear about them otherwise.
I love living in Capitol Hill so much (I've been living here in Seattle for 5 years). I got rid of my car and now just use Zipcar the 4 times I year I need a car.

Interestingly, when I go south to visit relatives in Tacoma or Olympia I feel a little like I'm going back in time about a decade, or visiting some underdeveloped country (bad food, bad transportation, almost no entertainment other than TV, malls, movie theaters and TV, etc.). They don't understand how I can live in a tiny studio with my gf and I can't understand how they don't go insane living like they're in something that feels only slightly more real than an episode of invader zim.

I'm not sure if this perception of the world is to my credit or not.
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It uses no more than 15% CPU on default smoothing and 19% CPU here on bouncing ball with chrome 14 on ubuntu with a i5 CPU 670 @ 3.47GHz regular PC.
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They actually controlled for exercise and then went on to find that even the slightest movements are helpful.

Here, I think this article actually explains the research better: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.h...
A strawperson! I love those. No one claimed that.
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What about base-e?
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This is anecdotal, but in my experience I'm equally likely to die after sitting or standing.
Agreed, I personally know 2 people who make their living playing poker...both are former magic players. It was explained to me like this...magic has so many different variables the odds on different hands are very complex, poker by comparison is very easy (odds wise vs. magic). I used to watch one of them play online, 3 monitors with 8 tournaments running per screen at the same time, I think he was in the top 50 worldwide for a bit there (not to mention winning a very large sum in one of the poker tours).

Both of them moved out of country when the Poker stars crackdown happened so they could keep playing.

When I mentioned I liked Blackjack they laughed and said "...odds are terrible...you might as well play the stock market..".
Do you apply this to other mediums, such as movies? They are also self-regulated, so theoretically your kids could also purchase "scantily clad, dripping-with-blod warrior princess"-themed movies from a video store that isn't following the industry regulations.
> If you want a society of people that understands values, you have to teach values. You cannot hope for them to arise on their own by simply depriving them of whatever you consider a corrupting influence.

I think we agree that you have to do both: teach values and fight corrupting influences.
I'm sorry, but your mathematical reasoning is very muddled, and the pattern you predict is wrong.

According to Benford's law the odds of a leading 1 are 1.709511291351... times the odds of a leading 2. This isn't the factor of 2 you thought it should be. The odds of a leading 1 are 2.409420839653... times the odds of a leading 3. This isn't the factor of 3 you thought it should be.

Yes, I know that it is fun to try to figure things out for yourself. But it is essential to learn when you're headed down the wrong path. That lets you correct your misconceptions before they cement and lead to severely wrong impressions of how to do things. Your whole desert/rock analogy? That's a wrong path.
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I am not sure about "faster", but it is more scalable and more flexible - especially considering that the datasets to be "joined" are small, page-sized datasets. We have a lot of different content types, with a central member database. Not having to have all of our content on one machine and not having the memory demand of doing joins allows us to scale more easily. This is not to say we "never" do joins (our member database has multiple tables), it is a matter of find the most appropriate modularity.
The phrase he uses statistics like a drunk not for illumination but support comes to mind. Look at the methodology and read the original research it is inadequate.
oMG do it for the children is no reason to abandon the scientific method.
Your scenario almost sounds like Stanely Milgram's Obedience Experiment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU9toPHU2U0
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> New York Times owns about.com.

Wait, what?! Fuck, I hate that website. I was once searching for something like "Chernobyl cancer statistics" or something similar and, sure enough, about.com was there in the top 10 for that search. And that was after update Panda. At this point I've started to give up, I'm just adding "wiki" in almost all of my searches, hoping that Wikipedia has something smart/accurate to say about the subject I'm interested in.
I didn't touch my mouse for a week
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If you bothered to look at the above linked article/video prior to replying you'd find it is not some stirring endorsement of standing desks. He actually explicitly makes the point that sitting or standing poorly all day will be detrimental to your health, and in reverse taking a few minutes to learn to do either properly can have a significant positive impact.
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I think it is a matter of judgment. Bugs that bring the site down,I agree. Minor bugs that most people will not notice on a consumer site where we can quickly patch them, I would rather get more projects out. Where you land in between these positions depends on a lot of things.
I liked the fact you could just type "searchyc.com/$queryString" and it would give the results.
Initially there were plans to extend the deep packet scanning to over-the-wire communications.
So to be clear, you're asserting that a report by one of the most reputable organizations around college pricing and enrollment, with published data, full sources, and better access than any other organization in the world on this topic -- is equivalent to some meaningless mortgage thing you stated?

They provide the data, a report (which you can read at http://trends.collegeboard.org/downloads/College_Pricing_201...), and have better access than anyone else on this outside of the gov't itself (although they're much better organized). Furthermore, this has also been reviewed by chancellors and college presidents.

I just find it hard to believe that in the battle between one of the most high profile publications that the College Board does and Duff -- anyone would go with Duff.
EA forces password reset but tokens don't expire after use.
In response to the LulzSec password leak, EA forces a password reset for everyone. However, the token doesn't expire after it is used.

A screenshot of the email with the token removed of course. http://min.us/mvfYihP

Sweet.

edit: updated title to reflect that they may expire after a certain time, but not after use. This also raises the question, what happens if they expire but you don't use the link before the token time expires?
The study, as far as I can tell from CNN's reporting, does not support this conclusion. The relevant data: In particular, the American Cancer Society study finds that women who sit for more than six hours a day were about 40% more likely to die during the course of the study than those who sat fewer than three hours per day. Men were about 20% more likely to die.

They make no mention of also measuring overall activity levels, which you would need to do to account for that potential confounding common cause. Perhaps the real study did this, but CNN does not tell us, nor do they tell us which study this actually was so we can look for ourselves. I suspect the real study's conclusions are not as strong as this reporting on it.
I drink Diet Dr. Pepper when I'm working. It's stored about 25' away from where I sit. So I end up getting up, getting another, getting up to drop one off, and sometimes bending and lifting to restock. I didn't realize how much I was doing for my health until this line of research came up :-).

From a mental perspective however sometimes getting up and walking around the office or the building helps me focus because there are so many windows on my desktop feeding me information.
He must be thinking of the flash crash...it recovered in minutes.
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The JSMin license issue is not a case of "do no evil" coming secondary to "business concerns". Google's action there was motivated entirely by a desire to do no evil.

Crockford thought it would be hilarious to put a joke line in a license. The joke line, lawyers apparently agree (at least IBM's and RedHat's), means that the so-licensed code has unclear usage restrictions that make it non-free. (IANAL, TINLA) JSMin-PHP inherited that license, even though the JSMin-PHP author doesn't particularly like the joke line (but he believes he's legally obliged to keep it).

Google's original policy when setting up google code was that it would only allow free-licensed code. This policy was chosen in part in an effort to avoid evil, INCLUDING the small-but-real evil of confusing license proliferation and too many ways for two pieces of code to be legally incompatible. Crockford's code, and derivative code, falls afoul of this reasonable policy.

You might disagree about the goodness/evilness of their approach, but saying that this one was business over ethics is total bullshit. Business took a backseat here.
Google, Bing and Yahoo! have recently started http://schema.org/ a shared markup vocabulary based on microformats.

If some of your data can fit in one of those formats you could benefit from a enhanced presentation in the search engine results pages.

Example: http://schema.org/Recipe — google "spicy pork recipe", I see some results with photos, calories, etc.
Germany sounds delightful, but I enjoy playing video games. Including violent ones.

Which, of course, goes to show the whole problem. Simply saying you're taking your ball and going somewhere else doesn't really deal with the problem that everywhere is pretty much under the same sort of absurd situations, in one form or another.
Rackspace Cloud is (sort of) missing on your list. "Sort of", because Slicehost is on your list, but Slicehost was bought up by Rackspace, and Slicehost will eventually be moved into the Rackspace Cloud brand, as far as I know.

Also missing: Gandi.net.
If standing desks ever take off, I wonder if we'll eventually face news articles with titles like: "Standing for hours can shave years off life"...

Very, very unlikely.

The whole "exercise good, sitting kills you" thing was first noticed in England among bus drivers in 1953. There the driver and conductor were from similar socio-economic backgrounds, similar pay, etc, but one sat all day, and the other stood. Drivers died much faster than conductors. Every significant followup since has confirmed the basic conclusion. Sitting all day is not healthy for us.
Why stationary?
TCP is end to end. 3G is just carries data to your service provider. So wouldn't faking TCP screw up the communication between the mobile service provider and the server you're communicating with?
You seem to think paying for insurance for the unemployed is negative...and it probably is, until you're unemployed yourself. It's not so much about wether you're paying it yourself, or via taxes, but it's about social security. After all, you need help most in times you can't afford it.
This isn't true. Benford's law applies just as equally to ordinary, arithmetic growth as well. The reason Benford's law works is because a growing number spends as much time with "1" as its initial digit as it did traversing the entire previous order of magnitude. This is true true whether the growth is exponential or arithmetic or multiplicative.
Switch the Dr. Pepper for some cold water and you'll be even better off.
Google to pull plug on "PowerMeter" and "Health" services
Since corporations are considered private citizens, it's a shame that they don't take on the same responsibilities as private citizens. You know, lobby for civil liberties and privacy, because it's the right thing for a citizen to do and all.
"Edit: it's not a strawperson. People are biological systems. Spending 3 hours a day with something makes one better or worse, stronger or weaker, faster or slower, never the same. It's sort of like a business: if you're not making money, you're losing it."

I'm not going to say "violent games good, you stupid. Me win argument." I'm going to say they can be good or bad depending on circumstances, just like any media.
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I think this comes down to judgment.

Design appropriately. Short sighted designs are as bad as ivory tower designs. Every situation is different.

If a person does not own something, no one does -
everything comes down to the individual. This does not mean that there is no overlap in knowledge.

Source control is a must. So are scripts that detect changes in your area. So are tests.
Rate Your Seats lets fans review their stadium experience 
Buying tickets for live sports events these days can be an expensive undertaking. Worse, it could turn disastrous if you arrive to find you've bought bad seats. Enter Rate Your Seats, which aims to take some of the guesswork out of live event seat selection.
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I almost died of complications from blod clots in my left leg 4 1/2 years ago. I recovered OK, but I have been on the war path since then warning people about not sitting too long - both my doctor and I think that working too long at a desk without breaks caused my blood clots.

I recommend simply setting a timer for about 20 minutes as a reminder to get up and walk around for a minute or two. Also, it is probably a good idea to walk around the block (at least) a few times each work day.
Your back and leg muscles are much more active while standing than sitting. You are actively burning calories, building bone mass, building muscle mass. Despite tightening my belt a notch over the last year of having a standing desk, I have stayed the same weight with only marginal additional exercise.
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New Capcom game permanently changes after playing, to eliminate used-game sales
I'd buy both - I'm guessing people might misspell one thinking it's the other...