skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The largest problem with Disavow is that it doesn't scale as quickly as negative SEO does. You can't possibly build a legit disavow list, contacting every website, documenting effort, not to mention that Google doesn't even show you all the links, when $5 at Fiverr can toss 20k forum links at a site.
Look at HN everytime a CFAA case comes up (as only one example) and just watch and learn.

In the tech industry's world there's no such thing as:

- compromise or shades of gray

- computer-related crime

- a actual public servant, or an honest judge

- competing industries (only "old dinosaurs")

and you could keep going with examples. The worst part is that most of the time the tech industry is actually right, but as it stands they can't even get onto the field, let alone make forward political progress. It doesn't matter how morally right you are if you refuse to work with stakeholders to get a bad law fixed.
Not that simple, you have often stated that normal programmers shouldn't be near security and now you are stating that they should go implement something that is specifically to enhance the security of the web.

The gp isn't asking for a change of license because he hate the GPL, he is (properly correctly) predicting what will happen if that license isn't changed: specifically, the thing that Moxie is trying to prevent won't be.
Well there is a movie in which actions take place that actually involve the clothes, so there is a legitimate context for the whole discussion.
Yeah, I can be a cheap ass about this kind of stuff, but I do pay for some of their services already. However, I do think there is an area of need here for low income folks / students who cannot afford even $5-10/month.
Thanks Brennan. How active is the Micropreneur forum?
Apple deluges by police demands to decrypt iPhones
>> It argues neither. It asks the question: you apparently want to do this, you seem to have the means to do it, why do you go through a crowdfunding site?

Isn't the standard operating procedure for making movies to go out and find other people to finance the bulk of your project, whether it be private investors or a big studio? A lot of rich stars/producers/directors get financing even though they could afford to do it all by themselves.

>> Why do you go through a crowdfunding site?

Because it's trendy and has worked for some other projects (i.e., Veronica Mars)?
Do random sampling plus n lines of surrounding context.
At some point we could probably start searching stackexchange directly rather than relying on google to return stackexchange links. Their internal search is really quite good.
No, clients can't add tasks. It would be extremely simple to modify the app so that they can. It wouldn't take more than 5 minutes to make that change. I can help if you decide to purchase it...
If the plant had spread itself all over his field on its own accord, you might have a point, but that isn't what happened. The farmer found seeds, identified them as premium seeds and then cultivated them with the intent of cashing in on the value monsanto added. If you are blanket anti-gmo (not saying you are, just speaking to anyone that is), perhaps you should look into why the farmer thought these seeds were worth planting to begin with and be afraid of that instead. :)
Excellent advice. Quite often when technical founders aren't quite sure how to go about the validation process, we tend to double-down on development. Instead the exact opposite is what seems to work best; get out there and talk to people you think need your painkillers.
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time! Amazing!
Awesome! How does it compare with Sequel.js? http://www.sequelizejs.com/
I watched the movie awhile ago, but I remember that you could really see how much effort and character they put into her hair. That and the bow are the most distinctive parts of her character design.
True, but unfortunate and disturbing at the same time. He would effectively be tweeting similarly if he were to send postcards every single day (or a stack each weekend): more latency, basically same information.
Don’t scribble data all over memory via pointers. Each time you follow a pointer it will be a cache miss: [hash pointer] -> [Task Control Block] -> [Socket] -> [App]. That’s four cache misses.

Incidentally, game programmers have been spreading the gospel on this issue for several years now. See for more:

http://macton.smugmug.com/gallery/8936708_T6zQX#!i=593426709...

http://research.scee.net/files/presentations/gcapaustralia09...

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/11/07/an-example-in-data-...
There was a top article recently on how personal visits for chronic patients improves health A LOT:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/28/i...

it's clearly linked to the problems of loneliness - if patients form a bond with their nurse and know that someone cares, they're more likely to follow through with treatment.
Surely Google could crawl back with a "user" in a new IP range to detect and ban this sort of behaviour. I was under the impression that they did this to some degree anyway.
Wouldn't that break when they need to update the certificate, due to expiration?
Everyone is forced to trust them by default because of liberal cert inclusion policies of browsers and other ssl-enabled software.

Ask some random people on the street if they trust a mainland Chinese entity with ensuring the security of their communication with their banks, however, and I think you'll get a different answer.
Apologies your right. Trying to bring it back around to my original point by rephraseing my orgional statement then.

If your worried about this update then you haven't been doing seo right and If your relying solely on a 3rd party for the existence or profitability of your company then you have bigger issue at hand than just your seo.
I don't think modifying already self-replicating seeds should give you a right to dictate what happens with subsequent generations of those seeds. Any such agreements should be rendered invalid (like non-compete agreements in California).

I realize this is an issue with the laws themselves and probably not within the purview of the Supreme Court, but I was kind of hoping they'd step in and end the madness.
I read this often in these threads, but have never seen a citation to such a case. Could you provide one?
> That length restriction seems really bizarre to me. Is the purpose of that just to prevent their mentally ill inmates from bombarding the public with massive manifestos?

The purpose is to keep organized crime leaders from continuing to run their networks while incarcerated.
Agreed. OP, you could be sitting on a lot of money here.
> It's cultiavating a culture of "It's OK to have no security"

This is how the rest of our culture works. If you leave your door unlocked and somebody robs your house, we charge that person with robbery and put them in jail. We might shake our head at your naivete, but you won't get in trouble for having lax security.

If the tech community wants this standard to change when dealing with intellectual property, we need to articulate why and get people on board, because it's certainly not the default in either our current culture or our current laws.
Good catch! We'll fix it on the next deployment in the next couple of days
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Google Apps customers: 30GB shared between Drive and Gmail
FWIW, we try very hard to not write any check constraints and do any such validation at the protocol level, before the request even hits the authn/authz layer. (Spyne makes it easy ! http://spyne.io)
I see a lot of similarities with this self-hosted newsletter mail application: http://sendy.co/
With Android all you have to do is tick a checkbox to install apps that are not from the market, you don't need to root it and you don't need a special certificate.

Oh and if you want a dev user, it is a one time fee of 20 usd (or was, when I got mine).
I wasn't going to click on this as I don't use Ruby very often, but I'm glad I did as it's mostly JavaScript with a ruby helper!

If I were you I would reverse the focus and make it a JavaScript library with helpers for various languages.
I hope SEO can be expected to go extinct in the coming whatever and be replaced with "good content" approach. It is unfortunate that Google even addresses the shady SEO community boosting their might and glory.
> why on earth would anybody be outraged or otherwise incensed by this?

Many people, including mental health experts and human rights advocates, believe that solitary confinement is essentially torture. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-the-tortu... and http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_... for example.
> the friction of governments taking 25% to 35% of it?

Friction or error term + commons fee.

> Will the US dollar be allowed to be exposed as the always-inflating Monopoly Money

Probably more accurate to call it monetarist monopoly money vs crypto-anarchist monopoly money, though the monopoly is arguably redundant.
For some reason I always thought that was a manual affair. In Australia deposits are just money stuffed in an envelope with your intended value on it, that go into a slot in the ATM.
We all supposedly know how totalitarian Saudi Arabia is compared to the free United States, so giving Saudi Arabia eaves dropping and decryption tools is something we all obviously dislike. But we are all bathing in American propaganda, so many people, like those "patriotic hackers", support the Feds having the same power that Saudi Arabia is seeking. In fact, the US government is doing much more sophisticated eavesdropping of all our communications and storing it for later perusal. And they use the same "terrorism" justification as the dictators. And what is a terrorist? Whoever they say is a terrorist. Which can include anyone advancing any political ideology that is frowned upon by the bipartisan "washington consensus" of what is acceptable debate. From libertarians to environmentalists to any kind of anti-authoritarian that doesn't serve the interests of the establishment.
It's hard to know if it's a real problem because when people are caught, it's hard to know if they're lying about how a competitor did it to screw them over.

Anyway, here's what someone should do:

Buy a bunch of spam links on fivver for keyword "matt cutts" and point it to his domain www.mattcutts.com. (He's one of the few people on Earth with plausible deniability regarding Google manipulation.)

If you successfully remove his domain from spot one on Google, this is potentially a real problem.
FTA: 'Loneliness “is not synonymous with being alone, nor does being with others guarantee protection from feelings of loneliness,” writes John Cacioppo, the leading psychologist on the subject. Cacioppo privileges the emotion over the social fact because—remarkably—he’s sure that it’s the feeling that wreaks havoc on the body and brain. Not everyone agrees with him, of course. Another school of thought insists that loneliness is a failure of social networks. The lonely get sicker than the non-lonely, because they don’t have people to take care of them; they don’t have social support.'

From experience I definitely agree that having very little/no social interaction is not synonymous with loneliness.

I'm curious whether the social interaction/suicide relation is correlation or causation.
It'll change plenty if we do. Oppressive regimes are taken down by conspiracies and secret communication. If they eliminate this ability to associate, with our assistance, there will never be any space for revolution, or even reform.

This logic reeks of the law of averages: "I might as well swim over Niagara Falls because I could die any day, even from crossing the street. If I die today, it was just my day to die."

Of course, I have less of a reply to "Even if I don't sell it to them, someone will." The middle class finds it very easy to rationalize behavior that will keep the consumption flowing.
I think we're talking about simplification in different contexts. Overtime symbols get simplified. That doesn't restrict the manner in which those symbols may be combined. Nor does it mean that, people won't embellish when they feel the need.
patio11 puts it well:

The worst customers, I call them pathological customers,
are attracted to things that don’t have a lot of money.
It’s amazing how many people have told me this. You raise
prices, and you deal with less crazy people. At 99 cents,
people have very unreasonable expectations.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-who...
Black hatters these days don't really even care about long-term rankings

Is that not because Google has successfully eliminated the long term viability of the tactics? Sitting on the sideline (sort of) it looks to be easier and easier to get rankings the "right" way and harder and harder to get them the "wrong" way.
The value of US currency stems from its being accepted by the US government. The value of bitcoins stems from their being accepted in exchange for other currencies.
>FWIW, we try very hard to not write any check constraints

I like check constraints. I would never consider removing them under any circumstances, I've dealt with far too many databases full of inconsistent data. I'd just rather not have to duplicate them (or triplicate, etc) in each of my apps that accesses the database.
Have you heard of stereotype threat enough to convince
someone who believes in it?

Well, stereotype threat has actually been debunked. I encourage you to read this full pdf, including Steele and Aronson's response and Sackett/Hardison/Cullen's reply:

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/ogandy/C45405%20resources/Sacke...

I find people as confident and dismissive

This is a matter of perception. From my vantage point, people who don't know much about genetics, neuroscience, biochemistry and the like are extraordinarily confident in dismissing the influence of hard scientific evidence in favor of the wishful thinking and hand-waving of much less rigorous sociological disciplines.

I don't think the parent was even suggesting it was 100%
cultural effect either.

See above: jackowayed himself notes that people with an alternative opinion are "berated". Only on the internet can the facts about genetics even be stated without character assassination. And then, and only then, the backpedal starts from a 100% cultural to a "50/50" position.

Who knows what the split is? How can we know? Gene-culture environment interaction is so complex. And what about _epistasis_.

But "we don't know" is not the position that Sandberg takes. And of course, if the position is actually not 100/0 then these gaps can never be fully closed [even if this were desirable], and this resilient inequality is not the fault of men but of Nature itself. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think "the gap can never be closed" is a position you would subscribe to (let alone jackowayed or Sandberg herself). So yeah, I think it's fair to characterize the conventional wisdom as a 100% social constructionist position, which executes a tactical rhetorical fallback when confronted with overwhelming fact...changing not one iota in its policy prescriptions, which are still in the main comprised of struggle sessions at places like Facebook HQ.

Whereas you seem to suggest its 100% genetic, which would
preclude the possibility of any woman having better spatial
abilities than any man

You know, there's something about this topic which makes people unable to reason statistically. Obviously there are tall women and short men. Obviously there are Emmy Noethers. That's just not where the averages or medians are. I mentioned Lisa Leslie and Cheryl Miller; y'all really think people who know what item-response theory is aren't intimately familiar with the concept of overlapping Gaussians...maybe even more so than people who blanche at the very thought of Bell Curves?

But overlap isn't equality.
>> I would say that Disney is actually a usually a pretty good steward of creative vision and characterization.

IIRC, right before they bought Pixar, Disney's animation division was a mess. It was releasing crappy direct-to-video sequels one after another, and their deal with Pixar was the only thing producing high quality content.
Social media may finally be dying, but the BS around it hasn’t
As someone who has sold links and seen that income dry up completely, I would disagree.
I've been a bit more mindful of this in the past few hours, and I have to say, I disagree even more.

Disqus does threads nicely, and every discussion I look at benefits from threads, and would be a disaster without them.
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2012/07/05/whoa-meridas-real/

I think the above costume was pretty tastefully "sparkled" up. If you want more, you could add the tiara from the movie or a more jeweled belt. Not even the Queen, mother of Merida and trying to shove the princess ideal down her throat, was _that_ dressed up for even the main event of the movie. I don't think this is any plainer or boring looking compared to some of the other Disney Princesses.

Also, not everything has to appeal to your niece or other girls or else we're telling them it's bad to be feminine. There's still a target audience for the Merida from the movie and it doesn't step on the toes of those that want a sparkly Princess.
Writing "good content" that you intentionally craft in a way to get optimal traffic from search engines is inherently search engine optimization, so no, SEO won't ever go away as long as there are still search engines.

There is this movement lately to call it "content marketing" instead of just SEO, but really, content marketing is simply an SEO technique.
I do think this is a market long forgotten and I do love the application itself. Congratulations on getting it to market!

The one thing I can really agree on here is the installation procedure involved with users. I know someone brushed on it but it may be worth looking into Linode StackScripts and Amazon EC2 Images?

It might not even be a problem or suit your needs but I think it might help in some cases
I would certainly agree that it is in Monsanto's best interests to ensure their seeds don't spread on their own, if only because the presumption of innocence that must attach to each and every single case they'd try to prosecute.

I know that civil cases have an easier standard of proof but it would still have be difficult to prove every time that a farmer was trying to screw Monsanto over.
This is 100% the reason that I haven't jumped on the independent contractor wagon. I know that's probably not considered very ambitious ... but I just know that I'm not the kind of person that can focus on bizdev while at the same time busy with shipping software.
Hi, this looks like a nice and affordable product for freelancers like me. Great job! If I purchase this app now, will I get free updates (eg, bug fix) for at least a certain period of time?
> Because it's trendy and has worked for some other projects (i.e., Veronica Mars)?

Right, and that's the other thing people can take offense to. Many early "big" crowdfunding project had a feeling of "you're making it possible at all", that makes people think they can have an impact. "I heard there's free money to be had"... not so much.
I'm getting to the age where things start coming back under new branding. I remember in my childhood when my father would talk about bell-bottoms and how trendy they were once. They they came back and he was shocked.

I remember Doc Martens. They're back.
I remember gumby haircut. Its back.
I remember ripped jean...also back.

Technology follows this cyclical trend as well, we just give it fancy names like Big Data, Cloud and Anything-as-a-Service.
> Monsanto already make a killing selling Roundup,

Your information is extremely dated. The patent for Roundup expired over a decade ago, and in the last 5 years the market has been flooded with cheap chinese made Glyphosate.
Is it effective at doing that? Wouldn't crime bosses just do that through their lawyers?
The most ludicrous part of all of this is that you can patent biology.
At what point do you differentiate naïveté from negligence?
It could be people who seek out socializing are trying to distract themselves or are seeking for something external when they're needing are internal skills to manage life and the internal issues (emotions, etc) they create.
For this I currently use:

UPDATE Table SET ... WHERE id=$1
if (rows_updated == 0) {
INSERT INTO Table ... WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM Table WHERE id=$1)
if (rows_inserted == 0) {
throw "Conflict!"
}
}

It's a bit of a hack, but works well enough. I agree would be nice to have a more transparent way of doing it.
These look great. For the sake of the permalinks, I'd love to see these hosted on another domain. Maybe a Wizard app domain, to increase brand awareness?
Project politics. We did run benchmarks and Oracle's ORDER BY clearly came out ahead, but the analyst espousing bubble sort was entrenched and dismissed all benchmarks as special cases.
The Next Dinosaurs
A New MailChimp Is Coming.
A qualified name makes more sense to me. Having them exposed as top-level classes just doesn't feel right, given how they are defined.
I would agree with your last points, but I still see almost zero connection between the actual reasons why people hate Monsanto and Hipmunk.
Yes and that's kind of the point.

It's like Firmware in VoIP, although VoIP implementations leave something to be desired. In essence they're doing something similar to a checksum on the certificate such that any change to the certificate causes the transaction to fail.

You would have to hard code the new dates in.
> If you leave your door unlocked and somebody robs your house, we charge that person with robbery and put them in jail.

Certainly! And rightly so. If they wanted to be a good neighbor, they could politely point out that you did something stupid without actually going inside your house.

> We might shake our head at your naivete, but you won't get in trouble for having lax security.

A business is a bit different though. I don't know the relevant laws, but some businesses have a duty to protect their customers' data - a moral one, if nothing else.
It's a little bit less clear cut than getting rankings the right way or wrong way. I personally know many churn and burn blackhatters, and the eventual demise of their domains is just part of their business model.

Google has never been good at handling short term black hat spam (buy viagra is the colloquial example always). They are good at filtering sites out after they've been ranked for a while though.

But when these blackhatters are making tens of thousands of dollars a day with their short term rankings, it's hard to convince them that they need to be focusing on the long term rankings avenue...
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Those are the two to start with.

If you like those, check out some of her nonfiction books: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism, Philosophy: Who Needs It, and Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (these are but a few - Rand wrote a long series of nonfiction books).

Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith (a philosophy professor at UT-Austin) is excellent because it unpacks Ayn Rand's ethical system in an academic style. Finally, Leonard Peikoff's Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand gives a comprehensive view of Rand's entire philosophy.

Light reading (not by Objectivist authors, and not in any particular order):

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner

The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson

What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman