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>I still do not understand how it makes them money

When I saw this post the page had 404d. However, the page was still active in the Google cache[1]

It is not just Github being targeted, a lot of other large websites with user generated content are also being spammed with this content[2][3]

The spammers are linking the content to blogspot blogs so that they can:
1. hide the referrer from their affiliate program (to prevent getting banned for spamming)
2. to utilize the temp increase in search engine rankings
3. save money on domains for one-off usage

Since the "live stream" is just a one-off game that will only be popular/trending for 1-3 days in which period the spammers will use a lot of macro scripts/bots to spam these websites. Believe it or not, even a "nofollow" link can give you an advantage in search rankings. They spam them to death in the "popular period" and then bank money from the affiliate program[4]

[1]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
[2]http://shine.yahoo.com/author-blog-posts/watch-38-enjoy-flor...
[3]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.f...
[4]http://www.officialtvstream.com.es/passport/signup.php?price...
> Proof of better outcomes is unnecessary.

That could be the most ridiculous comment I have ever read on HN.
Well the problem is my project isn't exactly something super hot that people go crazy over. It is something that would be useful to a lot of people with health problems though, especially when a lot of people are contributing to it.

So it seems terribly difficult to get people to actually contribute and spread the word, especially with 0 budget.
time ./drip -jar /home/user/research/jruby-complete-1.6.0.RC3.jar --1.9 -e 'a=1;puts a'
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./drip -jar /home/user/research/jruby-complete-1.6.0.RC3.jar --1.9 -e 0.03s user 0.03s system 4% cpu 1.282 total

time java -jar /home/user/research/jruby-complete-1.6.0.RC3.jar --1.9 -e 'a=1;puts a'
1
java -jar /home/user/research/jruby-complete-1.6.0.RC3.jar --1.9 -e 3.65s user 0.12s system 183% cpu 2.056 total

Interesting!! if it runs rails effectively, this could be awesome for jruby.
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> Because the attitude of Israel hasn't changed

An utterly preposterous generalization.

> The UN and the BBC disagree with you on the blockade

No they don't. You referred to an 'aid blockade'. Legitimate aid flows freely into the Gaza Strip.
Maybe some form of degree involving psychology? If your job is to find certain types of people, understanding how and why we do what we do might be of some help.
"The people coming illegally to this country are less likely to be the ones seeking to be producers. They're more likely to be the ones wanting services."

That's a bold claim. Can you support it?
There's an even cheaper way - host a porn gallery, and require a captcha to access it. Present the captcha you're trying to solve to the horny user.
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Google Cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
there's plenty of forks of the last version, I've made one myself :P

https://www.github.com/salgadobreno
That's kind of his point, I think. He's saying private or public isn't the point, whatever you do is going to be more than just one buzzword-thing like "take down unions" or "voucher system".

There isn't just one thing wrong with the US education system, there are countless things. Many of which aren't unique to a public or private environment, just plain old terrible schooling.
Is there a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip? No.

Israel provides the residents of the Strip with food, water, electricity, medical supplies, etc. The residents respond with rockets aimed at Israeli civilians.
I use tabs strictly in my projects, but often times I work on websites built by other people and there's a hodgepodge of 2 spaces, 4 spaces, and tabs. It's best to leave it as it is and get out as soon as possible.
Captchas just advertise that a service has a spam problem.
I think describing a recession or even depression as a collapse is wrong.
"If you love government mandates so much, move to North Korea".

Or Sweden, Canada, England or France. That's the thing. There's plenty of examples of advanced countries with a government run healthcare system.

There are zero examples of advanced countries that do things the way conservatives say would lead to prosperity.
exactly what I was thinking!

I recently moved one of my project to jruby and the startup time is the only thing I'm complaining about.
I'm one of the targets for this site, and I think it looks just fine. Works without JS, offers RSS feeds to drop into rss2email. It's pretty nice for the first version, IMO.
I don't see any reason too I'm afraid. If it was a security vunerbillity I would have, as I have done before ... https://help.github.com/articles/responsible-disclosure-of-s... (Ben Evans - @bencevans)
You probably aren't that immune either but the key is to shrug these people off right off the bat.

When you just wave the off and walk past you never enter the danger zone. Things get increasingly more difficult once you engage in conversation with them as they won't let you go unless you rudely quit and walk away, and most people don't want to do that. The logic goes that since you've already spent a while talking with them, spending your time and their time, why stop so suddenly and throw all that away unless you end up buying something to warrant the effort made. It's basically bullshit but that's how many people go about it: you either decline right from the start or end up "having to" buy something. It takes some strenght to break out of that pattern.
That mistake cost me around $175,000 personally as the buyer knocked that amount off the purchase price.

I don't get this. If you didn't have the event, the $175K wouldn't have existed in the first place, right? If the event took place, then you'll be only left with the profit after the event expenses (which I think should be a lot less than $175k)

$175K can't be a liability. It's obviously cash. Your liability is your obligation to do the event. Your assets is the cash remaining after the event expenses.
But this is not just an ornamental artifact. What it attempts to do is simulate the actual way someone would turn a page in a large book, such as a dictionary, with lots of thin pages. I would argue that the technical way of implementing this would warrant a patent (utility) more so than the simple depiction of a thing that people naturally do with books. In no way is this design unique to Apple; there is already prior art from the way people turn pages in books. The choice to depict realistic page turning on an ebook reader is not artistically novel. From a video game perspective, this is like patenting the idea of showing a game world from an isometric point of view. This is a bad patent.

Now, I would agree with you that the NY Times article does exaggerate the impact of this patent. Apple has not patented the page turn, instead they have patented a particular realistic way of showing turning pages. In theory, Amazon could implement a page turn style where someone grabs the top corner of the page instead of the bottom and get around this patent.
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Could you please elaborate on that? How do you do "trusted" live forensics on systems with possibly infected kernels and stuff? Assuming these servers were normal COTS and nothing fancy (thinking of CPU-bypassing memory access...)
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> The second complaint is an inherent instability of such system - as soon as smaller ones are paid, or as soon as larger ones are unable to keep paying (paying doesn't have to be money, of course - can be policies, appointments, etc.) the coalition breaks down and the shopping season starts again.

To me this reads like an extremely cynical interpretation of what "working together" looks like. As someone who lives in a country with this style of government, I would hardly interpret it like that.

It's more like niches actually have a voice because they control some of the vote. I had never really seen that as a bad thing until you put it in those terms.

In reality, the leading parties can still govern, they'll just have a harder time pushing pet legislation through without the co-operation of the other parties. The other parties use that to their advantage so they and their constituents can be heard.

> offend [the electorate] by openly extorting the larger parties

How is this extortion exactly? In a system like this, the ruling party can still lead just fine, they just don't get unilateral control over everything if they don't get that much of the vote. I don't know how that can be spun as a bad thing.
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I really like how the author enumerated all his "mistakes" along the way.

I was reminded of my mistakes the night I couldn't sleep and embarked on a full-day bicycle journey up to San Clemente at 3am (mistake #1). Woefully unprepared (#2) and on my mom's upright commuter bike (#3), I got lost in Camp Pendleton (#4) after convincing the entry guard I'd walk my bike all the way to San Clemente since I didn't have a helmet (#5). Pretty soon I started hearing closeby gunfire (#6), found myself next to extremely fast traffic (#7), and was eventually escorted off the premises by a friendly, but firm Military Police officer whose parting words of wisdom were "you might want to try the 5; the highway patrol might have a problem with it, but you sure as hell can't ride back this way!" (#8).

As soon as I got off the base, I opted to explore a bit before immediately taking my chances on the freeway. Sure enough, there was a deserted road a little off the beaten path, sandwiched between the army base and the freeway.

Pretty soon, I realized the MP had inadvertently dropped me off in familiar territory. I was on the very beach trail to San Clemente I had taken with my dad, from many years prior in my childhood when I went on my first multi-day bike tour.

A few whimsical "mistakes" every now and then can make up for the rest of the bullshit in life. Oh, the places you'll go!

Great post, thank you for sharing!
Politifact http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2010/nov/24/vi... claims it's "half true".

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, supposedly no partisan outfit, says the dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power since 1913: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001519.html .

So Paul's claim isn't far off.
Bad name: Z3 is an SMT solver from Microsoft and a very good one at that. I'm assuming this LLVM OCaml thing is newer.
All large sites get hammered by automatic/semi-automatic spam, and occasionally some leaks through. Is this surprising?
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Ironically, the OP recommends that you read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, as well. I suspect that the mediocre example (I thought it was reasonably readable and somewhat interesting) was there more as a demonstration of the fact that R makes non-scatter plots easily, too.
I wasn't aware of that. The Z3 name was imposed as part of the university project this started with.

It was supposed to be part of the VMKit suite of compilers, J3 being the Java bytecode compiler and N3 being the .Net compiler.

I'd be happy to change the name of this project if it ever gains enough traction to cause confusion in any way :)
Apple's real or fictitious woes aside, if the stock closed up 2.06 to 527.68 on Friday, how is Friday's close the lowest Apple has been in 6 months? Wouldn't that be Thursday's close of 525.62?
Yes, I believe Interbase might fit this description

Borland open-sourced Interbase in 2000, but then bought it back in-house. The OS code was forked and became Firebird (aside - Firefox was originally called Firebird, but changed names after the name clash with Firebird db was realised)

Interbase http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Firebird http://firebirdsql.org
mine...sadness. http://new.weavesilk.com/?d323
I also find the ability to branch and stash easily two super-useful features. Also, I like not having to go to the server to do diffs, merge, or pull files from other branches. bisect is nice, as well.

I use git-svn at work, so I have everything but easy (svn) branching and I find it super useful.
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That may be a matter of debate: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/26548/what-is...
More than 15000 Israelis Emails Informations
Hackers calling themself Gaza Hacker has allegedly accessed

and published more than 15000 Israelis emails Informations

http://support.prestahost.com/gaza-hacker-1.txt

http://support.prestahost.com/gaza-hacker-2.txt

http://support.prestahost.com/gaza-hacker-3.txt

or

http://pastebin.com/iSgmm2ec

http://pastebin.com/u6viCDij

http://pastebin.com/cRsCMfvm
The IPS are predisposed to support the underdog in any conflict, and yes, the BBC are widely regarded as having a pro-Palestinian bias.

As for the Electronic Intifada, which you previously cited. I think you can work that one out for yourself.

CAMERA have a detailed and objective timeline of recent events: http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=52&#...

Problems with the EI narrative:

1) The "unarmed, mentally unfit man" is also seen in a photo posted to a Hamas forum holding an assault rifle and wearing an armored vest. He was buried wrapped in a Hamas flag;

2) According to the IDF, this man ignored calls for him to stop and warning shots from soldiers;

3) EI cite a Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (go figure) claim that the boy was fatally wounded by "as a result of the indiscriminate shooting". This is unverified. He was hit during a firefight between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, while the IDF were disabling explosive devices (two days after two Israelis were seriously injured by a similar such device). The AP reported it was unclear who fired the shot(s) that fatally wounded the boy;

4) EI doesn't mention the explosive device that seriously injured two Israelis on 6th Nov. Nor do they mention the detonation of the explosive-filled tunnel that injured an Israeli soldier on 8th Nov.

It goes on and on...
RE: "I will pay for information if it will help me, but the examples I've given is basic information that's been written about for free so many hundreds of times"

I suspect your google-fu is stronger than most. Many people don't have the skills or time to do this. Should I spend 2 or 3 days searching and building a marketing strategy that works in 2012 by filtering through all the stuff written over the last 4 years and half of it is out of date or should I pay $99 dollars to get it in my inbox in PDF form. For many the $99 makes sense.

They are certainly not ripping off the startup community! If you even value your time as a startup founder at $100, it's cheaper just to by the dumb book.

Most startups doing subscriptions are doing b2b or b2h (business 2 hacker examples: github, seomoz, etc) business. Businesses and to a much lesser extent hacker don't care about the cost, but look at the value provided.

RE: "There seems to be no imagination in pricing, only to charge more and more. It's bad advice and I'll bet its mortally wounding a lot of young startups and impressionable kids..."

This is absolutely absurd! This is like saying "There seems to be no imagination in cars today, only to get better gas milage more and more". Of course, that's the point of a business is to charge so much your customers complain, but still pay you none the less. You're capturing the most value possible, while they still enjoy a net gain.

I'd argue even if this is bad advice for a majority of people, it's still good to get it out there that it is possible. Once we know it's possible, much like the 4 minute mile, we can achieve it. When it's locked away and only a choosen few know it is possible that is the real danger to impressionable kids.
AAPL is where RIMM was 4 yrs ago. Rest all is history!! :)
Heh:

Oh, and isn’t reddit’s real problem that they’re busy changing implementation languages (!) while digg is sorta kicking their butts? I don’t know which site is doing better financially (does either one even have a biz model? What might it be, one wonders), but digg seems more polished, has a more pleasent UI, seems more featureful, and more popular.

Setting aside the Python v. Lisp debate (which is so boring and pointless), I’d hate to be in what seems to be reddit’s position: serious, robust competition and remaking fundamental tech decisions.

Eek!
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I think newscloud is a good place to start. http://communitystarter.org/
We're aware of the problem. Just like any service like ours, we see a fair amount of spam repos, issues/comments, and, of course, Gists. We already expend a good bit of energy on handling it as it is, but we're always working on new ways to handle it. :)
Rothbard is not exactly an libertarian economist he is an Austrian school economist, not every libertarian is an Austrian school economist. Although I'm sympathetic to libertarianism I loathe the Austrian school because of their unscientific methods. No need to answer to me about that, it's only my belief and of some others in the libertarian camp, Bryan Caplan for example.

My main problem with Ron Paul besides the fact that he never tried to approach libertarianism as something that is useful to solve pragmatic problems that exists today and tried to develop a confrontational attitude towards other people, he was someone who always chose tribalism instead of being a good politician, the racism in his newsletters and the fact that he always appealed more to the angry white male stereotype than to the common people, mom and pops of every ethnic group who are working to pay their bills and raise their children. That and the fact that he's a firm believer in the Austrian school.
Yes, because it's the absolutely the same thing. There's really no difference between $10 a month birth control pills and cancer treatment.

When the government writes thousands of pages of regulations precisely dictating what type of health insurance coverage individuals are required to purchase and how doctors are required to provide and charge for their services, then healthcare choices aren't being made by "the individual and the doctor", they're being made by a remote, unaccountable, unelected bureaucracy.

By all means, let's subsidize health care for low income people. I think there are very few people other than hardcore libertarians who don't want their to be some kind of a safety net that includes health care for those who need it but can't afford it. The point is that a national political party that chooses to make free contraception into a major electoral issue in the middle of an economic crisis is fundamentally unserious.
I'm sure they could have thought of a better name than Rapiscan. I don't think many people want to get rapi scanned.
Happier Clojure hacking days ahead :)
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Great idea. Good luck. Have bookmarked it for future use.
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Python is my go-to language, so I use matplotlib frequently. But I think R's ggplot2 is easily the best visualization library out there.

Bokeh is supposed to be a ggplot2 clone for python, but it's still in the very early stages.
> Proof of better outcomes is unnecessary

What I think natrius means, is that the burden of proof is on the anti-choice option. Surely the default should be giving parents a choice on which schools their children attend. In other words, we shouldn't need evidence to show giving parents a choice gives better outcomes because the evidence should be provided that taking away parents choice is better. If there is any doubt then give parents a choice.
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Wow, reading the newsgroup discussion was fascinating...and didn't reflect well at all on LIsp or its adherents, even though they were acting in the best spirit of hackers.
Eugh. I don't get why anyone wants to read this mindless speculation. What else do your tea leaves tell you?

"many investors were disappointed that Apple wasn’t able to blow through Wall Street’s estimates"

Well, great. Maybe their goat's entrails didn't predict well enough last time, but this time they were wrong the other way. Almost as if it were random - or as if the market had already compensated for their predictions?

There is no new information here. So allow me to share my own totally uninformed opinion about the future of Apple with you.

Apple sells physical devices for a massive profit. No one else has been able to sell phones/tablets for so much. Apple will keep doing that as long as it can, regardless of Google's efforts to undercut. I think Apple will pour more effort (or just marketing effort) into their app store, trying to promote it to developers as the "one you make money in, the one where people will actually spend money on apps". Now I leave it up to you to make quantitative predictions off that.
Interesting idea--thanks for bringing this up. Would have been cool to add how OP implemented this idea and interesting findings.
If you are planning to explode a plane, presumably with yourself aboard, a timer and a switch do not change your personal outcome.
Thank you checking it.

edit:
I have checked it and it seems that they do not give prices in their site, nor a demo version to check whether my team can use it.

Thanks anyway.
What would you 'avoid' it with? Grow your own food? In poisoned soil? What if you lived on extremely fertile ground but didn't have the time nor resources to support yourself?

It's amazing at how so many people in the first world have absolutely no clue the kinds of things that go on in developing nations. Bribery, extortion, violence, genocide, and murder all exist in these regions over basic items (even that coffee that you drink every morning and cry about because the company you work for doesn't have the good stuff!).
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You can purchase 1000 captcha solves for $1.39 last time I checked.

CAPTCHA only security is fantastic for spammers.
"Analysts say that Apple has had a string of misfortunes lately, ranging from missed earnings estimates, management shakeups, missteps on mapping software, supply chain problems, and increased pressure from competitors."

I think the bigger issue is that Apple has accumulated a ton of technical debt recently by having a ridiculous number of products in the market. To keep the plates spinning they've been forced to hire a massive number of new employees, which in the long term at best limits their growth potential and at worst is setting them up for a Microsoft-style lost decade.
> By extension any woman who suffers a miscarriage is a murderer, or worse, has a fertilized egg that fails to implant. Are you sure you want to stick with that definition?

Murder requires intention. Don't be silly.
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