skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree: doesn't make sense to support versions that run on unmaintained Ruby versions. I didn't see that when I posted.
My point is that you can add reductio ad absurdum as an axiom. So long as you can't then derive the law of the excluded middle, your assertion is incorrect.
Sorry, this is way to broad of a generalization. Yes, "SEO" is a bit of muddied term. Yes, people target Google first. However, there are quite a bit of standard practices that aren't Google specific that need to be followed. Schema.org and Sitemaps.org are great examples.

Also, a serious business would be kidding themselves if they thought that targeting engines like Bing wasn't important. Reaching customers is important.

With that being said, Google is the biggest player in the game. This means they can make up whatever rules they see fit. However, one of the biggest SEO "secrets" has nothing to do with Google:

"Build for readability, good content that fits your targeted keywords."

Again, this is a general rule, and only a starting point.
Wow, that's actually great news.
>"Revenge porn" is posting pornographic pictures of your exes

>Apparently the sites also include real names and hometowns of the people posted, or in some cases even addresses and phone numbers, to increase the chances of them being embarrassed by people who know them finding the pictures.

>It just happens that the founder of a revenge porn website is a huge asshole

Didn't see that one comming! Did M. Night Shyamalan write this post? :)
As others have suggested, there is a vast amount of resources for basic search optimisation, I'm on my mobile at that are online, but I will write a pos linking to them at some point
What exactly is "link building"? That itself sounds pretty scumbaggy to me...

In an ideal world (white hat) SEO should include things that make the site better for their users and search engines, and hopefully improve search rankings organically.

"Building" links in order to increase PageRank sounds like it's manipulating the system.
1+2 are good. Also:

3. Abundance. People didn't have to "limit themselves" 2000 years ago because they either were usually, or at best occasionally, starving back down to size, along with massive vitamin and mineral deficiencies (so you can eat 3000 calories per day as a sailor, but if you're also simultaneously dying of scurvy, they you don't have to worry so much about getting fat). In the shorter term, religious fasting seems to have died out although oddly enough we keep religious feast traditions alive pretty well. Also gluttony seems to have disappeared from the list of sins. Someone who wanted to eat until 400 pounds 2500 years ago could want all they want for free, but they simply aren't getting the food to do it, so... hungry and skinny even if their internal weight thermostat says 400 pounds is a great goal. No caloric intake limit for an entire lifetime in 2010s America.

4. Non-ag lifestyle beginning a century or so ago has lead to weird ideas about our diet, so "rediscovering" what farmers have always known seems new. So 98% of the population doesn't farm. People discover corn products can be yummy and start exploding waistlines. The 2% of the population who farm are like "duh, everyone knows corn is the best way to fatten up hogs and other mammal livestock, duh!" but we don't respect farming as a profession so we need scientists to "discover" hmm corn consumption seems to positively correlate with waistline, how curious I wonder if cutting back on corn would help obesity... naah the corn industry lobbiests would kill me if I said that... Pretty much if farmers slop the hogs with it to fatten them up, you probably don't want to eat that unless you need fattening up.
IF Google were to bias in favor of "FLOWER" while disregarding content relevance, it would be an abuse of their dominant market position. But from the outside looking in, it seems like Google strives for nothing but providing the most relevant search results for their users. Controversies tend to arise when Google tries too hard, it seems, localizing based on fragile heuristics and such.

If this is the scam, what's the alternative? An open search engine, perhaps, where development, ranking algorithms, etc. are completely out in the open. I'm not sure this is realistic any time soon though given the cost of hosting a search engine.
If all you were doing was changing the genders of the two main characters in another story, then yes.
The person who takes the photo does own it. But despite owning the photo there are still lots of things you can't do with the photo (like make money with it) without the signature of the "model" you photographed.
The 5"x7" iPhone prototype
I for one miss the status bar (I don't like "hover url display", attract my eyes) and have the addon bar to control adblock+ and ghostery.
Many (most?) state and national forest lands are open to hunting. There's other publicly accessible lands too (but those two are the big acreages).

Here's a symptom of the cultural prevalence of hunting in the U.S.:

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/sta...

Most states will have such a listing.

There is also plenty of private land kept for hunting, which as you might mean to imply, is not cheap.
Epic Flash memory leak track down [2012]
Home defense makes no sense unless you believe that if someone steal your TV it's ok that you potentially kill him/her for tresspassing.

The safest defense is to not have this turn into an arms race. Both for you and your children.
"Or at least they care more about being the kind of person that cares about truth and logical consistency."

I think this is the more true statement :)

I don't disagree with your premise, by the way, and maybe weird irrational opinions are rarer in engineering/sciency/computery people, but they're definitely there.
Scott Turow: No Private Company Should Control .book/.author Domains
JavaScript Objects With Value - valueOf and toString
Doesn't seem science.
Google Play portal down
Google Play portal is completely broken.
- The homepage is incomplete.
- App search is yielding totally irrelevant results. Search "Google" and you get a complete random list with "Verizon Mobile" as the first result.

Anyone else ?
Does one thing or a few and does it well.

I haven't checked, but for starters you possibly could look at the download size.
eh? what about baidu?
'end of story', 'All I need to know' are expressions that begin to end a discussion, they certainly don't make way for a healthy and productive exchange of ideas.

No exchange of ideas on this topic, I've considered them all and I have decided to be armed while in my home. Whether I use it, how and when I use are a different story, but at least I may have that option. Others may choose not to have a gun, it's their choice.
Yamato Global: Leucadia to Acquire Jefferies
Cloud66 - Full Native Redis Support
Good for you. It's content that you wrote and you, as the author and copyright holder, made a decision to release it for free.

That's not exactly what Aaron Swartz stood for, though.
Witty, but doesn't seem particularly recursive (no more than language generally).
You have a partner and access to a beach. I have neither and haven't had a job since 1988. Yet the only thing I have found boring about my life of late has been reading this. I am not going to tell you to stop bleating, to accept the uneliminatable imperfections inherent in life so you can better focus on reducing the recurring overall inefficiencies because I feel it would fall on deaf ears. You can't be helped. You can only help yourself out of this mental rut and change your subjective perspective towards your circumstances by developing not a positive mental attitude but a pragmatic one. I can't reach into your cerebellum and rewire it. You can. It will take about six months - assuming you don't kill yourself in the meantime.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I already use DownThemAll but it could not even grab the download. It may be the site's fault, once I click on the download link it opens a new tab and the download starts, on chrome I can start another download but it gets stuck on Firefox, it may be that the page was made with chrome in mind idk.
Ever played an MMORPG?
In this case the specific software we're talking about had a feature whose specific purpose was to detect someone entering a credit card number, screenshot it and upload the image to an FTP server:

'In further MSN chats with the FBI, the person alleged to be Hogue answered a question about whether the Blackshades software would automatically conduct key logging or whether it had to be initiated manually. "It auto does, and you can download from all at once, or scan for keywords or digits," came the reply. "And if it detects a credit card is being entered, it can send screenshots to FTP and you can scan for digits that are 16 in a row :P"'

It also had as a feature to encrypt a users files and pop up a ransom notice:

'Blackshades went beyond DarkComet in its support for features that were likely to result in illegality, such as the "File Hijacker" that could encrypt a victim's key files and then pop up a "ransomware" message demanding payment into a remote bank account in order to free the files. (A note attached to this feature said: "However, one thing to put in mind: This feature was made for educational purposes only.")'

In general, even tools that are quite clearly intended for illegal uses seems to be ok. But this one took it much further.
Ubuntu Touch Core Apps: How you can change the smartphone world
INCIDENTAL COMICS: Minimalism is Simple
It would appear that they've targeted know distribution systems, with Play and the App Store being the obvious choices.

Some SEO Suggestions, if this is related to something you are distributing. Look into somehow implementing Rich Snippets [1]. Also, Schema.org [2]

[1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

[2] http://schema.org/docs/schemas.html
Amazon's Quest for Web Names Draws Foes
Quick server debugging with WTF
Lightning Captured at 7,207 Images per Second
Whenever I hear "SEO", I instantly feel a presence of something shady and unpleasant with a desire to wash my hands afterwards :) For me, it became synonymous to con artists and fortune tellers.
> Do you never find a page and think, "ah, this will be useful for project X later"?

I do. Then I delete them again three years later when I bother to check my old bookmarks.
GitHub gains new prominence as the use of open source within governments grows
Interesting, all of these have identical links. Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once.
Perhaps people who don't install it are much more likely to know what they're doing and avoid common sources of infection.
The business case for IE is to hold back the progress of the web, so that it doesn't threaten Microsoft's main profit centers.
User Types: The Tourists and The Explorers
Preboot - a comprehensive and flexible collection of LESS utilities.
The Brushed Metal Diaries: A Trojan Horse and a History of Abuse
> At this time and until further notice, it is not possible to make any payments to members in accordance with their settled account balance until the investigations have concluded.

It seems they are not paying out at this time.
Is Apple running out of juice?
Now on topic :)

So wood burning is bad, and it makes sense. But I have to heat myself with something and that thing is probably coming from coal, gas or nuclear. Is coal any better for the average person or maybe some hit the jackpot and the plant is far away from you? On nuclear it's OK, until it happens, ala Fukushima.
Good enough for dad good enough for me but is there any research to support it? There is no shortage of research supporting low carb whole grain and fresh fruit over highly processed foods. There are also numerous well documented incidents of people moving from native foods to processed grain and other food suffered negative health effects.
Personally I dont think whole grain foods are all that bad in reasonable amounts.

I got lazy as there it doesn't take much work finding research supporting increased fresh fruits vegetables and lean meat.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/news/docs.htm?docid=9234
http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=23004
http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=22791
"We have documented measurable evolution in large mammals in timespans of only several hundred years."

So, the good news is that in perhaps merely several hundred years, a diet consisting of lifetime unlimited quantities of regular Mt Dew, tv dinners, bacon, and potato chips will none the less evolve humans who successfully reproduce. Oh wait, whoops, all these people are medically crashing with lifestyle diseases at age 40 after having 10 kids. And meanwhile for those couple hundred years, any small segment of the population who avoids evolving will personally benefit..

There is also a horrific ethical component to evolving mankind for profit. So Monsanto, Dow, etc make a lot of money, at the cost of hundreds of years of humanity dying young in agony. Hmm. It sort of like saying we "should" evolve ourselves to tolerate lead in the environment, or tolerate any other poison. I don't think that quantity of human suffering because of the evolutionary process balances out with some megacorps making a couple extra bucks. I mean, if killing ourselves via diet educated us, or permanently improved the ecology of the planet, or sent us to the stars, or improved our culture, well, not definitely yes, but "maybe". But all that suffering merely for a goal of "some rich dirtbag will get richer", well, uh, "no thanks".
People who describe themselves as SEO's usually give me the shivers at first, but it's definitely worth mentioning that there are good top quality SEO people out there. They do exist and they approach the problem in an analytical, evidence based and sustainable way. Bad people exist in all industries, but bad SEOers are particularly nauseating in my opinion because of the types of people they target and hurt, and damage they do at often extraordinary cost to these people.

Good SEO's are few and far between though, and generally wont reach 'mom and pops flower shop'. The SEO's these small businesses will probably be most exposed to are the cold calling scammers. The problem with a lot of these scammers is some of them don't realise they are scammers, they are just awful at their job and disguise it by charging a lot of money.

Bad SEO like the OP mentions can seriously damage your business (look up negative SEO for good example of how bad SEO's can shoot themselves in the foot). Before you buy anything expensive in life, it's worth doing your own research otherwise when you pick an SEO you're gambling.

A good resource to start is SEO Moz's beginners guide to SEO:
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

If you get to grips with the basics you'll find that you're likely able to do most of it yourself if it's something that starts to interest you. And it doesn't need to be a big time soak either.
Pocket has completely taken over this responsibility for me.
There's only one search engine that anyone cares about.

Companies live or die by their inclusion in that index. SEO is a nasty little cottage industry that benefits from the algorithmic monoculture in search.

On a somewhat related note, there is only one display advertising program that anyone cares about.

If you get banned from Adsense because a competitor hammered an ad on your site, say - you're out. Forever. With no explanation from Google. Just an unhelpful "you've violated one of our policies but we can't tell you which one" stock email.

I've been there. I tried the (token) appeal system, and failed. It's hard to appeal when you don't know what you've done wrong. Google won't tell you what you've done wrong because it might reveal part of their algo and thus help the bad guys.

So I forlornly moved on. Amazon ads are perhaps the next most profitable display ads for me - they generate less than 10% of the revenue that Adsense did.

I love Google for their excellent free services. However, I've come to depend on them, and that's dangerous because they're so ubiquitous, yet owned by a single entity with a single culture.

As geeks I feel we need to re-examine our relationship with Google.

Android fanboys and "Google Openness believers" could sleepwalk us all into the next dark "Microsoft" chapter.
Facebook Redesign Kills Ticker, Almost
How we use Sidekiq and Redis for massively concurrent workers
Firefox's dev tools are still inadaquate compared to the ones in Chrome, even with Nightly. Thankfully Firebug and another Firefox profile solves that.

As far as opening both Nightly and Aurora, create a shortcut to Nightly with the following options "...\firefox.exe -p -no-remote". This will let you select a profile on startup, keeping your Aurora and Nightly profiles separate and running both at the same time.
Yale Researchers Find Way To Reverse The Brain's Clock
I agree. One partial workaround I use is to test sketchy pages in a second Firefox process. If things go bad, it takes out all of those tabs, but not my primary browser tabs.
> The second issue is the lack of tab sand-boxing. A fairly large part of my job is testing for edge cases in our products. Our products are JavaScript heavy. I often find issues which crash the browser... well.. they crash Firefox. In Chrome the tab shows an error in the console and I have the option to close the tab. In Firefox I never get an error in the console. The whole browser freezes and stops responding.

Why not simply run two FF instances in parallel (e.g., via the profile manager) - one for actual browsing, and another for testing, that can blow up as often as it "needs" to?
But what he is trying to say is you don't need any fancy rules except for:

>> Yes, eating lots of carbs is bad for you. So is eating lots of fatty food. Or lots of anything. Just eat lots of green stuff, and make sure you get adequate amounts of protein & carbs. To lose weight, make sure calories in < calories out."

By agreeing with him, you have to come to the conclusion that following the above advice is what makes any diet good. There is nothing "unholy" about grains. I believe that was the point nqureshi was trying to make.
+1 "but we don't respect farming as a profession"
> Wife: You mean "http" like the beginning of what I type into the browser?

What browser does she use? It wasn't required to type that anymore for ages already :)
please do :)
Is this an ad for LinkedIn?
Hanlon's Razor applies here: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Creating a digital watch in pure CSS
Windows 7 may be more secure than XP but that doesn't make it immune to this type of infection.
The "OS" column in this screen shot[1] from the article has a number of "Windows 7" victims.

[1] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bs1x.j...
'The Single Biggest Problem That Apple Faces,..
EA apologises over 'dumb' SimCity launch
Some dark corners of C
Some dark corners of C
you have a point , sorry i'm a bit western-centric. There is also yandex , yet it doesnt really make sense for non chinese or non russian centered businesses to invest in Yandex or Baidu ranking. I live in europe , few have heard of Bing for instance, so Yandex , or Baidu ... it is like Alpha Centauri to them ...
> Let's cut the crap , SEO is Google rank optimization.

That's not true in Russia, China, etc. And even in the West, dominating the rankings for your segment in the competing search engines could be extremely lucrative.
The "Temporarily allow top-level sites by default" option gets you most of those benefits, while allowing most websites to run just fine without having to explicitly whitelist anything.
What about all of the exceptions?

Can you eat corn (domesticated some 9,000 years ago), sugar cane (8,000), or bananas (8,000) Wild almonds are toxic, but safe domesticated varieties started appearing some 5,000 years ago. Also, macadamia nuts have a similar problem, and they were domesticated only some 200 years ago.

What about strawberries? Wild strawberries are edible, but tiny. It wasn't until about the 1400s that we started breeding them for size. Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, savoy, and Chinese kale are cultivars of Brassica oleracea, but no one 10,000 years ago would have been able to get them.

Olives are treated to make them less bitter. Is curing or fermenting permissible, or does one eat only the olives which can be eaten without processing? When does the food become too processed?

By your logic, you've given up on coffee, chocolate, and alcohol, right? No paleolithic person ever tasted a drop of whiskey.

I'm not saying that moderation or abstinence in the foods you list is a bad thing, only commenting that the logic behind it would preclude eating or drinking certain vegetables, fruits, nuts, and berries which were not available 10,000+ years ago.
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The sad truth is that while SEO might just be the most uncreative and sleaziest web industry for the authentic creator, it'd be pretty naive to think that just putting a great product out there that people rave about will take care of ranking your app #1 for photo filters.
Two points: One, the post is from 2004, so maybe she could remember a time when typing that was required (I wouldn't know - I was too young to be using the internet at that time).

Second, this conversation seems to have been "enhanced" for the sake of the blog post, so it's quite possible that all the details aren't 100% accurate. Some of her questions seem a tad too convenient.
>Totally orthogonal issues.

http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2011/11/20/electrolysis-proj...
Add-on were one of the major issues blocking Multi-process Firefox.

>Not to mention Firefox ate memory like a pig until recently, despite not having sandboxing.

Agreed. Sandboxed Chrome was like a gift from the IT gods back in the bloated FF3 days.

>Now it's somewhat better with post 16 stuff, but still it's slow. Chrome is much more responsive and fast.

Responsive and fast until it starts thrashing when your physical RAM gets all used up.
HISTORY STUFFING WITH HTML5
Love your book! I already own the dead tree copy. Any idea about how hard/costly it would be to sniff the PS3's XDR bus? Even better if you can modify just one 4-byte write. Before the lv0ldr keys were released publicly, it was thought that a well funded piracy group had figured out a way to dump XDR RAM because they could only resign games for lower firmwares, they couldn't patch out key checks in new firmwares (no lv0ldr private key).

At one point in time I was trying to figure out how to use the XDR bus calibration routines to write arbitrary memory at startup through the Cell BE's SPI configuration ring. Fun times!

While having fun with the PS3, I got a DMCA takedown notice for an "anti-circumvention tool" that decrypted and reencrypted a sort of "sandbox profile" for the PS3's OS. I hadn't even interpreted the data yet! That scared the crap out of me, especially since Sony went after a German PS3 hacker to the tune of €750,000. [0] I have no idea how Aaron felt with a federal prosecutor after him. =(

[0]: http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/02/grafchokolo.html
For what it is worth I've been an HN member nearly four years and I've never seen this before. I enjoyed it and up voted. I don't think reposts are necessarily a bad thing because there is always going to be new members who have not seen the item yet, or old members who were "in the zone" coding instead of wasting time browsing HN on the day the item was last posted.
Seeing ads in Google Chrome, I'd say they use the browser for more than that. But yes, I can also remember hearing something like that. They're profiting regardless of the outcome.
A webpage finding out what software I have installed is all kinds of bad, esp if there is no flash involved since its the page to download flash.