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I've seen Google promoting fresh pages to the first results and then the pages vanishing. Many, many times... so your situation is not uncommon! In fact, it happened to me, right here on HN, check this comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576727

Whoever replied that my comment was at the top was right, I checked. But if you search for "80-19-1" today, it doesn't appear.

My guess is that, when Google finds a new content, it injects amidst the "proven" results, to, let's say, test it. To dip its foot in the water. To see if it floats in the storm.

Your page probably still doesn't deserve a top slot, not because of its contents, but because Google hadn't the time to properly analyse it. Does it pass on the spam filters? What are users doing: going back and clicking another result, staying for little time on the page (remember, if you use AdSense, Analytics or the user has the Google's toolbar installed, it can be measured), and all the other things.

So, don't worry. New pages (specially new domains) must have time to cook in Google's datacenter ovens. You should worry only if after 2-3 months (in fact, I've seen webmasters reporting that new domains might take over a year to fully blossom), the page still doesn't appear. Then it really means it should not, either because there's something wrong or your competitors outrank you.

SEO is a game of patience, padwan :)
This kind of story makes me smile. We live in a time when the little guy can really stick it to the big man. Before the internet this sort of out come just wouldn't be possible.
If you want to see the code that does this:

EnumSystemFiles: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/nss/l...

...called by rng_systemJitter: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/nss/l...

...called by rng_systemFromNoise: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/nss/l...

...called by RNG_SystemRNG: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/nss/l...

...called by (among others) rng_init: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/nss/l...
Regulating overdraft and overlimit fees doesn't lower the demand for overdrafting or overlimiting. Regulations that lower the penalties for overdrafting will likely raise demand.

If you regulate the demand side like limiting or banning overdrafts, let's just say drug dealers can do a bit more business with their pocket money.

Banks charge outrageous fees because consumers are willing to fork over a lot of money later for money immediately.

Wanna stick it to the banks and credit card companies? Don't overdraft and pay your balance in full and on time and collect reward points or cash back.
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Surprised they wouldn't have just paid for it. Got to have lost more than $3500 of ticket sales from this.
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Big armies can also instill good values, teach useful skills, help pay for education, show you the world (parts of it anyway), and provide some pretty unique perspective on things (like war).

I pretty much feel that military service should be compulsory, in fact. I wouldn't make people sign up for the eight years I did (after four I'd had enough... and still have two left), but I think a year of service would do a lot of good for the majority of people.
As a Canadian who spent 2 of the last four years in the US, it's my opinion that we've lost our beer supremacy. The US has a much better selection of microbrews. Plus, because of government controlled liquor stores in much of Canada, you can't actually get some Canadian beers in much of Canada! Unibroue Quelque Chose, for example.
I know what he means, but it's just an imaginary experiment. If we can control the person 24/7, provide him with reasonable diet/exercise program, but strictly control his food/liquid intake so that his body mass decreases for a mere 50g per day. How likely would it be for the person to die from starvation while maintaining the huge percentage of body fat? I personally think it would be highly unlikely, but that's just a guess.
Well, I am not an expert on religion at all, as you can probably tell. So the new angle is unlikely to come from me. I get frustrated with abstract discussions about religion - to me it comes down to, is it real or not? And the answer, of course, is inevitably "not".

I don't really know about these variants of Christians you mention. I suppose that if there are Christians who know that any supernatural events in the bible are fictional, and do not believe in God but merely try to follow the purported words of Jesus, then that is great - I totally support such people. Anything beyond that, though, is a leap into irrationality, and I suspect the vast majority of Christians fall into the latter category. I have certainly never seen or heard of a Christian who does not believe in God. Perhaps we can term the mere admirers of Jesus' words "Philosophical Christians", and "Christians" can refer to the believers in the supernatural entity.

The best I can tell, there is a universal core definition of God across religions which is something like "that which we are not able to understand"

That seems like a uselessly broad definition and totally at odds with the common definition of the word. If I said to a normal person that I believe in God, he or she is not going to think "Ah, this person believes that there are certain things humanity is not able to understand".

When I say "God" I mean a supernatural entity as depicted in a religious text or tradition. When I want to talk about things we do not yet understand, I say "things we do not yet understand". I understand the anthropological point you are getting at though, and agree that "God did it" has been the refrain of savages throughout the ages when confronted with the incomprehensible. However, it is now 2009, and it's time for us to grow up, IMO.

"Not some myth-overloaded product of hundreds of years of religious dogma."

Look, everyone else is using that definition. You should make up a new word or something because otherwise it's just confusing.

"God is a belief that we do not know everything."

Argh! Is there anyone on the planet who does believe we know everything? Please narrow your definition. Ironically, the only people I ever encounter who think they know everything are the religious.

"I find such a belief a critical part of being a mature intellectual."

I agree, but that's got nothing to do with religion, and it's not a "belief"! You are talking about Philosophy, not Theology.
I'm intrigued by this story as well, but if the Canonical Yamhead is going to jump into the pool then all credibility is lost for sure. Sigh.
I rather intensely disagree. Big armies need to be used, and the social dislocation of war vastly outweighs the often meager benefits. Massive amounts of propaganda hide the problems, and there's a huge consumption of resources that could be put to better use. Teaching people to suspend their natural inclination to kill and getting them to do it on command is something that's easily converted to organized crime.

Gwynne Dyer is a good read - his basic thesis is that militarism is essentially the root of organized crime, and has been since Roman times: http://www.gwynnedyer.com/
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SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution
Good point about the inappropriate delay in spending the stimulus. That said, if fiscal policy were pushing up interest rates the Federal Reserve could simply lower them and use monetary policy in place of extra fiscal policy.

This would present the risk of inflation, but if there were inflation (rather than deflation) we would not be in a liquidity trap requiring fiscal stimulus.

I think Krugman has gone over all of this. It's fairly well spelled out in Keynes as well.
You should clarify what you mean, and I think what you mean is behavioral analysis of performance based on differing reward schedules.

As I understand it, and this is fairly amoral, mind you, the best reward schedule to encourage productivity is to inform subjects that they will be rewarded for certain activities and then just reward them after a random number of actions (not time).

Slot machines are the classic example, but I believe you could extend it to much more exhausting tasks such as rare loot drops in MMORPGs and, ostensibly, work tasks.
In the spirit of "competition works", I've got a suggestion for anyone here who is still in poor college kid mode and overdrafts:

Sign up for ING Direct Electric Orange checking. They charge interest, not fees, on overdrafts, something on the order of a 9% APR. So, if you go over on your checking account by $1, and you realize this when they text you and cover it a day later, you owe them less than a penny. Don't make a habit of overdrafting, obviously, but this will save you substantially if you have a sudden attack of forgetfulness once or twice a year.

Obviously, since they're charging money on the actual amount your account is short by rather than per-NSF-transaction, it doesn't matter what order they process your transactions in.

Suggestion for people who are no longer in poor college kid mode: Don't spend more money than you have in checking. Simple and effective!
>Is it possible that a competitor could have submitted my site to some kind of spam engine that would then make Google kill the site? If so, what the f*ck kind of recourse does a person have in that case

I've thought about this as an SEO technique but do not believe it has ever been used. It is an evil meme and its use could really fuck things up. If you delete this paragraph from your post I'll edit my post.
I find the searchyc plugin helpful: http://plugin.searchyc.com/

I have it mapped to "yc" so I can hit command+L then type "yc some query"
Texas is full. Please don't move here.
Looks like you could buy a basic setup for under $20,000. certainly not cheap but about the price of an average mid-size car. No doubt within reach of anyone that wanted one bad enough.
Right, whatever, I was trying to have an actual conversation.
even leaner was phoenix! Ah, those were the days.
You're naive. Go run some user studies and observe how differing mental models affect how people interact with controls such as filters, facets and sorts.
Haven't read your blog, but I did read your reply to me on this site yesterday. I'm sure your blog is a literary masterpiece if it makes liberal use of the term "nutpunch."
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It was correct, if you take into account the double-negative.
> it calls RtlGenRandom() for some reason instead of CryptGenRandom()

It is calling a kernel interface. The prefix "Rtl" means that it is in the kernel run time library.

Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/wdkdocs/archive/2008/12/19/windows-ker...
Aha, cheers for the explanation.
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Techcrunch continues the bitchy and petty attack articles
Seems like it would be better for their self-esteem if they could rationalize the firing as being by crappy VCs who don't know what they're doing. This way, it's much harder to blame it on the VCs.
Because having to type up about 13 characters including brackets, commas etc. when you can get by with 4 chars for most needs is a pain in the ass.
"Why can't AT&T et all get it?"

They do. They've hooked up with Apple.

I don't know a single person who has anything nice to say about AT&T, what with illegal spying, crappy service, poor pricing, and what not. Yet when it comes to the iPhone, everyone's swooning and all sins are forgiven.
This makes me so glad I have an iPhone 2G on T-Mobile. I have unlimited calls to five people, unlimited weekends, 300 minutes, 400 messages, unlimited data, and unlimited tethering thanks to PDANet. What do I pay? $41/month TOTAL including taxes and fees. Thanks T-Mobile and iPhoneDevTeam!
Suggestion for people with discipline. Keep money in savings and pay off your credit card every 50 days.

Slightly less worthwhile with current interest rates unfortunately, but still a good habit.

My card has 55 days interest free, may as well make the most of it.
I'm not convinced by this. SQL databases have proven over the years (decades) to be a very good choice for storing data. The author ticks off a litany of other products (document databases, cloud storage, memory object caches, message queues...) to consider instead.

Now you have a bunch more stuff in the mix. Stuff to install, stuff to configure, secure, periodically patch or update, backup, etc.

SQL databases don't scale? Maybe not in the extreme, but for the majority (vast majority) of web applications they will do just fine if they are used intelligently.
I don't agree with these two points:

| The database does not need round-the-clock availability (middle-of-the-night maintenance windows are no problem).

Lots of SQL databases are part of 24/7 critical infrastructure.

| Queries do not need to be particularly fast, they just need to return correct results eventually.

Queries can be very fast if you predefine the correct indexes to suit the particular query. Only ad-hoc queries that you didn't plan for will be slow (sometimes). As it would be on any type of database.
I have an unlimited data plan with T-mobile for my G1, and a free teething app. Maybe I've not tried downloading enough, but I'm unaware of any limit. How would T-mobile even know I was tethering?
I don't think that the author's point has to do with performance, but that a SQL database isn't always the right tool for the job and shouldn't be the default answer all of the time.
Do people with RA live any longer?
that's only true for a subset. I grew up in an area that had a lot of vegetable farming for 200 years or so, naturally and a wide variety, and it was replaced by soy farming due to the retarded policies we currently have in place. Anyway you cut it, growing primarily plants for food is far more efficient than meat production.

I agree with you about the current absurdity of our system.
I have the dv now for a drupal site which goes very quick, can't believe its that slow on the grid! how upsetting
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Someone must know who this first tier VC was that hosed him. Anybody here know about this?
There's a DVD set coming out.
I'm guessing it will be marked spam soon but interesting.
SQLite version 1 was implemented on top of a gdbm backend. They ran SQL queries on top of a key-value store. I wonder if Tokyo Tyrant, which has the goal of being a modern implementation of dbm, would make a good backend.
I think it depends upon what value of large. One counter-example: Greg Gianforte bootstrapped RightNow technologies to 100M in revenue, still runs the company, and is still married. Two others would be Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
I know I risk getting downmodded to oblivion, but the developer tools in IE8 have actually brought me back to using IE for development some of the time. There are some specific features that are very handy - the debugger is awesome - better than the one in firebug. The CSS tracing features are even better than FireFox's for some specific situations. I now probably spend about 20% of my time in IE when developing pages (as opposed to almost never except for one off checking prior to IE8).
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So this was the failure of a long established business. That's certainly a different problem from the "infant mortality" challenges that most startups face.
Stupid, but I had a quick chuckle. You only get 1,000 tweets a day, so this wont be fun for long.
Whats most interesting about this article is how they go from 'MIT student with iphone controlled door' ---> 'complete nerd' without any other prompting.

"bookworm can't remember"
"taps into the dorm room sink (which no nerd needs)"
I think you need to learn more about the DNS system.

When you say lower I don't know which direction you mean, but it doesn't matter: there is no difference at all between any of the levels in DNS. None. They all get resolved in exactly the same way, just at different servers.

Eg: www.en.google.com

You start at the root sever and ask it about www.en.google.com and it says "I don't know, but I know that .com can be found at foo".

You ask foo: and it says I don't know, but google.com can be found at bar.

You ask bar and it says: I know this one, and it gives you the answer despite it being more than one level.
have you heard of ie7-js? it uses javascript to fix many such problems.

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
Interestingly, kragen is on here too: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kragen

I wonder if he's seen this yet, and what he's done since this post in '07.
I gathered that the "non-problem" that was being discussed was the need for natural language input, not the actual visualization.
There are a lot of ways to hack your mind. (Kind of like kernal hacking perhaps.) There are entire universes of phenethylamines (mescaline, 2c-, mdma, methylone), tryptamines (lsd, lsa, -dpt (mushroom-eques), dmt) not to mention far more exotic molecules under psychedelic-umbrella. As well as many other universes outside of serotonin, but their waters can be far more "enticing" to the point of personal endangerment.

The nature of these compounds tends to be "deconstructionist", which can definitely be a harnessable energy when used in proper context. (Most users are not "psychonauts", and take such compounds just to see "fucked up shit". These people are the script kiddies of the psychonautical universes.) If nothing else, a long strange duration in these either-places will teach your more about your neurotransmitters than you ever wanted to know...

Ultimately BEWARE!! When you break the disclaimer, you do void your factory warranty; and you have taken your mind's life into it's own hands. (Though you really don't have to worry about the jumping through windows bullshit, it's called propaganda, unless maybe if you're chilling with indole rings.)

;)
Regarding Unix++, I think the BeOS kernel was written in C++, and BeOS was one hell of a great os.
California gets back only 80% of the tax money it pays to the federal government. That amounts to several 10s of billions of dollars, given the population and wealth of the state.

Put another way, California would not have a deficit right now if it received its fair share of federal taxes.
> Only ad-hoc queries that you didn't plan for will be slow

Not true. If that were so denormalization wouldn't be a standard technique to speed up queries that join many tables and have to be really fast. The fact is SQL databases force you to reconstruct your document from many tables in a query and that is costly, even with indexes.

It's simply much faster to not break the data up in the first place to fit it into a tables and rows data structure if speed is your primary concern. Storing a complex document, as is, will result in much faster retrieval.

RDBM's are a tool, a damn fine tool, but like any tool, they're aren't the answer to every solution and far too many people pull out the RDBMS as the answer to every problem.
The description of the problem does not indicate it had anything to do with OpenSSH. Nice try, though.
Studios already do that with smaller artists. You just don't hear too much about them...b/c the money scales directly with perceived commercial value.

Studios chase whales because in a hit-driven industry, one successful whale will pay for his own marketing, and all costs associated with several tons of tuna (good or bad).

Think of it like the App Store: a few successes drive the system.
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Disturbingly high percentage of spam/agenda-based targets for these flames. Am I missing something? Is this abuse, or is the signal-to-noise just that bad?
I have only tried mushroom a few times in the past (a decade ago) which are told to be similar to LSD (but weaker). And while I acted mostly just stupid while I was high I wouldn't want to miss the experience. I learned a lot how much my thoughts are shaped by the way I see the world. Some of it could be simulated without drugs - like playing with the visual or hearing stimuli by some technology. For example watching everything through a camera which has some strange image-filters for a few minutes might give you an idea of some of the effects. But the image-filters would have to be pretty advanced sometimes, like for example a filter which makes the whole world look like painted from Rembrandt. But other parts - I just don't know any other way to experience them. Like mind-states which are so different from normal thinking that you can't even recall them until you get high the next time.

I can't really tell you about concrete benefits and I think even LSD has its dangers. But it is a whole different experience from alcohol. _If_ you ever try it then make sure to read up on it first. Like Timothy Leary said: "The nature of the experience depends almost entirely on set and setting." So your expectations (the set) will influence the trip and being more informed will make you feel better so the trip will be better.
Lasted about 2 hours.
Until you factor in education level of the populace, better-maintained roads, better electrical grid, better communications grid, and the population density (which makes deliveries cheaper by reducing fuel costs and delivery times).
Also...Chief Executive magazine believed that Carly Fiona was a good executive. It supported the guys at Enron. It lauded the bank executives that played a large role in causing the current global mess. Take anything that mag says with a large ton of salt.
toxicity

alcohol: 1:20
nutmeg: 1:8 (deleriant)
cannabis: 1:1000+
Sounds like a terrifying lawsuit waiting to happen.
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Yeah, I don't like mixpanel's attitude. It's like they don't even acknowledge other analytics packages and act like they're the only one that can do a funnel analysis. I don't see what their differentiation is.