skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

Read his blog. Matt Cutts is a Google engineer who spends his time answering these kinds of questions. The poor bastard.

Unless SEO is your career, don't spend too much time on this stuff. Really. I've seen too many people latch onto SEO like it was eternal salvation with a side of ice cream. Then they descend into endless, almost Talmudically obscure discussions over 302 Found vs 303 See other.

Don't waste your life trying to divine the minute thoughts of God/Google. Just be good. Produce good & original content, link appropriately, make sure your site is fast, and watch your 404s. Get that stuff right and you are 90% ahead.

It's your job to do things that people, real people, will enjoy. It's Google's job to connect people with what they want. Never forget that. Never try to short-circuit the user to directly please Google.
You might also want to think about musicians who use pedals as their instruments (I am one).
I thought that PR takes in mind the whole site, and the domain name, and the relativity between other pages on the same website?
There seems to be a disconnect between the questions being asked and the survey - the blog post linked asks specifically entrepreneurs to answer the survey, but the survey does not seem specific to entrepreneurs. Rather, it seems to map the perception of entrepreneurs amongst the general population.

If you have such a questionare, but seed it with answers only from a specific group of people, your result will be wrong. It's like asking - do you think pandas are cute, and then only inviting 3 year old girls to answer the survey.
Application support in the major mainstream software market isn't horrible, but support outside of it is awful. The cost of porting software to IPv6 is a major hidden drag on adoption. Which doesn't bother me much, since I'm not sold on IPv6 at all.
He does seem to be pretty misinformed. For example, he chooses to validate against HTML4 strict, and then compains that attributes like target and width don't validate. However HTML4 includes two additional doctypes (beside strict): transitional and frameset, exactly to cater to people like him who like to use frame-related features and presentational HTML.

His argument about user-generated content is also spurious. If you dont parse and filter user-generated content (with a real HTML-parser, not just regexes), then you are vulnerable to script-injection attack.
I've never heard of an open-source solution that has gone through formal usability tests.

WordPress has.

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/usability-testing-r...
Obligatory Wolfram primer:

1) http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/

2) http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/37f51351f5340e58...
I work for an embedded Linux hardware company. We use ext3 on our SD drives and IP over USB to handle writing to it from Mac and Windows, obviously natively from Linux. I'm not sure why TomTom chose FAT. We didn't even have to write our own drivers. Another option is to make the device wifi or Bluetooth so that the filesystem is completely irrelevant to the host.
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SourceForge? Google Code?

Or do you mean something that keeps the source code private? I never really understood the point of private source code hosting; if it's on another company's servers, it's not really private anymore, and I'm sufficiently paranoid to distrust it.
"Since lawyers are not permitted in small claims court, Google instead sent Stephanie Milani, a Litigation Paralegal."
Im starting to believe that.
All of these new TLD are ridiculous. Its hard to imagine anyone giving up on the idea of getting a .com for any of the mildly weird new ones...
Big same. Bucknell University, where I worked as a teenager on their computer help desk, had an electronic facebook that all the techies jokingly referred to as "Stalker.net". That was 1998.

I don't know when Friendster launched, but i know people who've had profiles since 2002, so again, a "social networking site" had already been done and launched.
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They support Hacker News! Why would anyone here use friendfeed?
Is there a possible startup business that helps people go to small claims court and win? A "How to" FAQ of course is useful, but I wonder if there is way to get a business model behind it.
To followup on that idea: pick a particular segment of the graphic arts industry and find what Photoshop features they use that GIMP is good enough at. Then write the manual targeted to them that explains how to use just those features. Also if you change the GIMP UI (god, I hate that thing!) so it's optimized for those tasks, I'm sure you could sell it for at least 1/2 what Photoshop costs.
It always puts me a bit off when I see people trying to apply science to an aesthetic issue like this one (this article is way less guilty than many others on the subject).

There is no doubt that engineers are mastering pop music "louder" now than in decades past, but it's too easy to jump to the usual conclusions of there being some kind of Volume Arms Race, with each successive album attempting to be louder than the others surrounding it.

There's a hard limit of 0dB that digital recordings can reach before digital distortion, and it's not like professional audio engineers are trying to push the envelope there, curious to see what happens.

The real reason pop music (and we're only talking about pop music) is mastered so loud these days has much more to do with the general trendinesses of pop music than some kind of unscientific and unjustified commercialism.

In other words...

In 2009 Kanye West is a popular musician. When asked why they like Kanye West's music, people often say things like "it's got a good beat to it," or "I like dancing to it." People think Kanye West's music has a good beat because of the overall mid-scooped equalization of the track, and the effect of compressed and "loud" mixes coming out of large speakers. It makes people want to dance, and the dancing makes them happy.

But, when they get home from the club, exhausted and tired of being on their feet all day, they put on a relaxing Sufjan Stevens (or whatever the kids are listening to these days) album. The mastering is far lower in perceived volume, and the same person who was dancing to Kanye West because it "had a good beat" is now saying how much Sufjan Stevens lets him "mellow out."

Think of the difference between top-selling pop music today versus 20 years ago. I think that alone does a better job justifying common engineering practices than conspiracy theories of being the loudest song on the jukebox, or on a radio segment or whatever. Especially considering that there's a volume ceiling that is already being reached.
I do not believe that any legitimate valuable software product has lost a significant piece of their marketshare to free software. The free options HAVE required that the paid software have a true value though.

Which browser are you using?

Not only have open source browsers like Firefox gained huge market share, but if you remember back in the day, you had to pay for any browser until MS decided to start giving IE away.
Well, it's absolutely NOT the same "thing"!
I don't know pg in person, or any of his partners at YC, and I never talked to them in person... but here is what I know:

1- YC is hosted at the Silicon Valley, which is considered a huge advantage itself.

2- YC is a well known brand name in the seed funding, and if your startup goes to investor under YC's brand name, then they will listen to you, just because you are funded by YC, and they trust it.

3- If you are funded by YC, then everyone in the Silicon Valley will know about your startup so fast!

4- Because of YC, all the editors on the web, like TechCrunch will write articles about your startup. Like what happened with DivvyShot and others.

5- You would be so lucky to be funded by YC, simply because they are experts! Paul and his partner has a vision... it's not only about the money and investment! And their vision and ideas are probably playing a critical role in their startups life!
The interpretation of valid HTML is standardized. The interpretation of invalid HTML is undefined. Make your choice.

Error handling is not defined in the standards so if you rely on it you're at the mercy of every idiosyncratic error handling decision of every idiosyncratic browser implementor.
Do small claims have any bearing on legal precedent? Could someone site the legal reasoning in this case to also sue Google for their small claims, or even higher amounts?
Don't forget the AMT. It's the granddaddy of all phaseouts.
I was thinking of programmable pedals recently, Found these: Line 6 DSP dev kit http://line6.com/tcddk/index.html. Or open source Open Stomp http://www.howleraudio.com/index.html. Has anyone tried these?
I've seen and agreed with this warning several times, but today I realized I have yet to do anything about it. My router and my machines are all using IPv4 and I haven't a clue as to how well my ISP supports it. What about everyone else here? If were not on it in any numbers yet, the general population will take many years.
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I'd have been more impressed if he also write a 2-line ORM based on SQL statements fed from browsers.
This sort of thing will be the downfall of google. The lack of communication with smaller (1-10K/mth) business partners is a big problem. When you do a certain level of business with them you'd expect to be able to talk to somebody on the phone much less get a response to an email. Communication is worth at least 10c CPM.
Maybe the push towards DNSSEC will sweep IPv6 along with it.. we can't afford not to have either of these things, and both require some significant maintenance work - why not roll out both at the same time? Maybe DNSSEC should only support IPv6?
So what exactly would I use this for. Aside from shitting myself with geeky-ness
FOSS lowers your revenue if you want it to or not, but if you play ball it can lower your costs so that you can make the same profit anyway. Aim for B2B sales of complex software over consumer - especially now - and the open source part won't actually cost sales while allowing students and hobbyists to learn your system for free.
This is great for them by encouraging people to put the most ridiculous and outlandish one star reviews possible on Yelp, in hopes that their review will be turned into a T-Shirt. They'll be left with positive reviews and off-the-wall negative reviews that no one will take seriously anymore.
I want to make a web framework that I can control through pedals!
I'm not sure how anyone would get around 6,256,642, which is "Method and system for file system management using a flash-erasable, programmable, read-only memory", which honestly just sounds like the idea of a filesystem trivially applied to flash. It may be possible that some other filesystem would not match the description closely enough to be enforceable.

That said, two of the other patents are regarding long filename support in fat32. If the outcome of this is that fat32 is put to rest as the default embedded filesystem, I personally could not be happier about it.

It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft's legal team was not trying to pull crap with Linux, the kernel, and the GPL here. I suspect that they're really going after the Navigation System patents and there's probably a legal reason why they have to prosecute as much of their portfolio as applies. IIRC this prevents the otherwise unprosecuted patents from becoming unenforceable at a later time because they were neglected or not tended.
How about Jesusonic? http://www.jesusonic.com/ I haven't tried it because my tone goes to crap every time I throw something digital in my signal path.

Build a programmable analog device and I'll come running with an open wallet.
This is pretty cool. About 6 years or so ago there was a company called Dimensional Photonics that pioneered some of this technology. I worked with them a little bit when they were running out cash, as I was looking to lease some office space at the time and introduced them to a potential VC in the area. In the end, I believe their IP ended up getting sold and the company itself folded. But it was cool to see how they could do a complex scan of something like a car door in about 1 minutes and have super-precise measurements.
How much more money could he have made had he put all the time he spent complaining about Google, suing them, and then writing about it into improving his product? Or coming up with something that's at least not totally lame?

At decent programmer salaries, $761 is like 2 days of work. Probably more if you're self employed and have a decent business. There's a reason why startups do their best not to get involved in lawsuits...
I think its important not to think of free software as mutually exclusive with paid software.

It's been proven that you can create a profitable business by creating open-source/free software and building a business on top of that. Same goes for SaaS apps that have free plans.

Take a look at the article on Zimbra that was just posted. 40 million paid email boxes. Yet, there is an open-source version of Zimbra's software suite. Similar things going on for places like RedHat, MySQL, Google Apps, SugarCRM, etc.

You can create an open-source app and reap the benefits of it ... and still make money by:

- selling premium versions

- selling support

- selling hosting with per-seat licensing

- selling add-ons and custom development services
>I can see how you could pity the guy, or dismiss him out of hand

I think more people would feel that way if legal action wasn't involved. Suits & lawsuits tend to leave a bad taste in people's mouths...
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Google is pretty good at it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=small+claims+court

Heck, they've even got a business model around it: look at how many Adwords results there are!
Backtype says you don't exist:

http://www.backtype.com/people?q=fake+sachin
I use Firefox. Pretty much all browsers are free.

I remember browsers backs to Mosaic, don't remember there ever being a charge for personal use. As important as the browser is, in many ways it is also transparent (or least supposed to be ;) ). I'm not sure that there ever really WAS a market for browsers. I remember Netscape was trying to make their money by selling server software, not the browser itself for the most part. A little like the razor blade model.

Your point is well taken, and there are exceptions to every rule.
What's really strange is that all this hate gets so much positive karma. Anytime I post something like these guys, I get blasted into the negative.

I'd be curious to know the general thought on how often it's appropriate to get yourself into these types of legal issues. (AG seems to have a pretty loose trigger finger when it comes to serving papers.)
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Tom,

I don't think we've ever met, and I'm not sure what I ever did to you to merit repeated disdainful (and in this case, misleading) jabs in public forums, but I actually think 280 North is really cool and I look forward to seeing where Atlas goes.

In the meantime, my so-called claims (which are narrow and do not include the wild notion that I "invented social networking," but do involve execution and not merely an "idea") were verified by The New York Times and are publicly available for inspection, so they're really facts. The trademark dispute is in the middle of discovery right now, and ironically, there are posts on this thread that support my case--so "tried" wouldn't be the best word to use, either.

Anyway, if you want to selectively link to only articles that call me names, that's your prerogative.

Aaron
As others have pointed out, search engines also need to parse your pages to extract text and links. You can't really test if Google parses malformed HTML the way you think it ought, so I would say better safe (valid) than sorry.
I think the point is that PHP is a web framework by itself and there is no need for a fancy framework around it.
The branding for music products is embarrassing. But I strongly suspect that is because most of the consumer are in fact in their early teens.
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who wants to partner up and build an iPhone app that does this?

[edit] - I was half kidding before, but I looked into it and well, I think it is a great idea. no?
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are you kidding?

They're protecting the people that buy ads from them, people like me, people with no advertising budget that are just trying to get a few people to check out their stupid blog (http://www.gibsonandlily.com).

Those ads cost something like $1 a click (or more). If I found out that my tiny tiny budget was going to ads on some stupid domain parking website, I would be LIVID.
Yeah, google terminated his account. They did it to protect people like me, and they are the reason the reason that people like me use them.

I'm sorry, but domain parking/squatting/tasting/leeching/whatever-you-want-to-call-it is an instant failure in my book.
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Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for the link!
They're entrepreneurs here, or at least they identify with entrepreneurs. I think it makes perfect sense.
Yeah, because you see, Twitto is a web framework you can't use for web development. That makes it the coolest web framework around.
I don't know any programmers that respect Jeff, I can't imagine any who value C would respect him as a programmer.

Jeff is a respected blogger.
While I agree with most of your sentiments, I think Google could have at least provided an explanation.
So you can download new maps onto the cards by putting them into your PC and clicking on their website.
You would probably be better off putting the blog in a subdirectory if it's practical. Google used to count subdomains as entirely different sites, and although they have now moved to treating them more like subfolders, you'll still probably help the root domain more from a subdirectory.
Pedals exclusively? Interesting! Do you have anything you can point to? Do you mean pedals + vocals like Reggie Watts?
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Clearcase IS a version controlled file system. It's built around kernel modules. Reiser4 does much the same thing, if I recall correctly.
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TrustRank is built on the whole site, so every quality link you get into your blog will make your entire domain more trusted. This is why you see massive sites like Amazon and Wikipedia ranking for everything.
I used Zimbra for the first time, when I became Stanford student.
When I logged in to my Stanford University email, I found out it's Zimbra...

Zimbra is really great product, and yeah... more than 40 MM are using it; What is the problem with that?
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I can't find the exact quote to properly cite it, but somebody once said something like, "Stick five of the best open source programmers in a room for a week, give them a really hard problem, and you'll get three mail readers and two text-mode web browsers."
4. That every time you move to Dubai to cash in, the economy tanks and you have to go to debtors prison to pay off your car loans! More human rights please....
Out of interest, what alternative solution would you prefer? Starting to use NAT and private/unrouted address spaces for everything seems like a terrible way to deal with the situation. (and I've had various problems with VPNs as a result of it; learnt my lesson and use "rarer" subnets like 172.16-31 and 192.168.x where x != {0, 1, 2, 10, 100} now) I'm surprised nobody seems to be suggesting we break up some of the Class A networks - IBM, HP etc. surely don't need 16-32M addresses.

I admittedly know very little about the shortcomings of IPv6; I do know it handles fragmentation differently, which is apparently causing problems with tunnels, and as far as I can tell, it's a much "bigger" standard, not just IPv4 with a bigger address space, with some parts that are possibly completely pointless. (a little like multicast in IPv4 which seems to get very little practical use) As a developer, is there any particular technology other than IPv4 and IPv6 that I should be targetting?
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Your ID: pj looks so phishing for me!

I thought that you are pg for the first impression!
Things should be better now - we were getting a ridiculous number of requests. Let me know if you're still having problems, though.
As the article states, lawyers aren't allowed in small claims court.

The same para-legal would have sufficed with better preparation -- finding out the reasoning for account termination (i.e., non-content domain).
1. He didn't mention that to the judge.
2. That is not an admission of anything tangible.
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I think it is a mistake to pretend that the world is perfectly just and to ignore the mechanics of how various systems work within it. Many websites receive more than 50% of their traffic from google and so their rankings can count for a lot. It would be great if google's results were a perfect reflection of utility but that isn't always the case. So, at least defensively, many sites need to consider the impact of their actions on their search results.

In agree that 'being good' should be the core of your strategy but ignoring other factors is naive.
Someone for whom programming is a passion, and not just income. Someone considerate enough to help the next programmer who will look at the code.

This type of person then naturally picks up good practices with experience. For example: using multiple languages (and not being afraid to use the one best suited to a task), testing carefully, documenting responsibly, and favoring clarity over cleverness and optimization most of the time.
Word-of-mouth took on a new form.
Take the fact that many people who buy software can't use it without help...free software will never out compete "paid" software, where help is a major portion of the product.
I'm oriented around the "enterprise". The mainstream free software I work with tends to be powerful but difficult to learn to use effectively.

As far as I can tell it's reasonably difficult to find people who are able to work through simple network connectivity problems without paying a lot of money.

Here's a two minute business model for someone who aspires to start a mISV:

1. Learn how to methodically diagnose connectivity problems between points on tcp/ip networks.

2. Identify a niche with money that relies on connectivity.

3. Write some software for people in the space (or find some free stuff that does it that other people don't have time to learn how to learn)

4. Become known as a person who uses such software to solve problems.

5. Profit!