skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the end user will see a lot of change here, as its a pretty nuanced change. "First Click Free" is actually more of an indexing policy than anything else.

Since its an obscure topic, and the BBC article is fairly misleading, here's a little background on what "First Click Free" is all about:

Basically, showing a different page to Googlebot than you show to users (i.e., "cloaking") will get your site delisted. This puts sites like NYTimes.com in a weird spot. They want to force users to register before viewing any articles, but they also want Google to index these same articles (and a forced registration would prevent that). Google wants the same thing (to index the pages), but seeks to avoid special exceptions in its algorithm (e.g., maintaining a whitelist of sites who are allowed to cloak).

In an effort to resolve this problem, "first click free" (FCF) was born.

In essence, FCF means that you show the user the first article without requiring registration, but once they click through to a second article, you can force them to register without running afoul of Google's no-cloaking policy. AFAIK, its not a program you have to opt-into with Google, you just implement it on your site however you like.

The problem is that every click that originates from news.google.com is counted as a "first click", even though it could be the 15th article they've viewed on nytimes.com. So clicking through from Google News becomes a hack to avoid registering for nytimes.com (or wsj.com, etc).

So basically, it looks like Google is relaxing the rules a bit, and saying you can ask for registration even if the click comes directly from Google News, provided the user has already viewed >= 4 articles on your site.

tl;dr: this a fairly minor policy shift, as I read it.
It's WAY cheaper than AuthSMTP. 10k emails per month on SendGrid is $9.95. On AuthSMTP it's $168.
Murdoch is basically saying he wants less reach and readers for his content.
Aweber is not an option as an SMTP server. Even for a newsletter it's pretty expensive. Try FeedmailPro.com if you just want to get more features on your blog newsletter. Otherwise you'll have to go with a real SMTP provider like Sendgrid.com
Exactly, though the 8 million is not pings from phones but rather requests from police. Maybe the police are different, but when I use a web app to get live data, I tend to click refresh quite a bit.
One could hook up an electric motor to that crank handle. But I suspect the overseeing bureaucrat would disapprove.
Toyota's kanban was done with cards and physical cues. Computers aren't as flexible.
Why should he change it? The UI is simple and functional. There is no dancing bologna to distract you. Changing it just to make it comport with some layout pattern du jour would only disorient/piss off people who are accustomed to the way it is.

37signals, another company that seems to have a decent handle on how to get users, also believes that not providing features is part of why their apps work for so many people.
You guys. Get a grip. It's his company, he built it, you didn't. He makes the rules, you don't.

If you don't like that, then go build your own site that has the same level of success and define your own rules. And deal with all the people who tell you you are doing it wrong, that's a lot of fun.

For the record, I have no connection to craigslist other than admiring it. I'm flaming because I've got my own company and I deal with this crap as well and it's annoying. If you don't like the way someone else is doing it then either go do it better or shut the fuck up.
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From reading the article what is obvious but unstated "Know and understand your target market intimately"
Many apartment/house finding sites have these features: search pages with dozens of checkboxes and dropdowns, and equally complex data entry pages for the people listing the apartments/houses. Yet Craigslist dominates. Simplicity wins.
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This smells suspicious to me. Cash vs. physical settlement is part of the contract specification ... it's not a flag on an order you send to the exchange.

For anyone who wants to do some detective work and track down whether this really happened: there's only two places I'm aware of which trade physically-settled coal futures, NYMEX (QL) and ASX (YCX/YCY/YCZ). I'm 90% sure this post is talking about the NYMEX one --- the author mentioned some XML hiccups, and NYMEX moved to XML for settlement messages back in 2003, whereas ASX still uses some custom message format.
Interesting that all transactions show up as from squareup.com. This means that actual vendors are just virtual accounts and they could benefit from the economies of scale and can be provided those cost benefits that square up obtained. This most likely would be cheaper then any plan a small merchant would be able to get on their own.

I wonder what the overhead is per transaction (usually a small fixed fee as well as a percentage of the overall transaction). Having worked with some small retail shops, you usually trade off either a higher per transaction cost with smaller percentage fees for large ticket price items or the other way around for quick-serve restaurants for instance.
Oh, Windows Update on XP was terrible. And Vista's was far from perfect. But it was integrated into the OS and it did, for the most part, do its job of keeping software updated (however annoying it was about it). By 'good' I simply meant well-integrated and effective. I've had complaints about almost every auto-update system I've used.
I'd add Google Video vs. YouTube. Google Video came out first. :)
Thank you very much for the CD/DVD idea! I see five clear differently-colored copies of my local compact florescent tube in my DVD's rainbow... can you confirm that I am interpreting that correctly as five spikes and virtually nothing in between those spikes?

My local incandescent lights are just a rainbow smear.

Oh, awesome, I can do it to my LCD screen too and clearly see three differently-colored reflections!

...

Forgive my geekout, but that's cool and I've never heard it before.
What if I don't store cookies? Or I delete them regularly? Or a Firefox extension does this for me?
I really like this about Facebook. They're not afraid of change and are willing to make decisions that are unpopular with users but ultimately improve the service.
What about Juilliard?
> 99 Out of a 100 times, you aren't implementing a rigorous spec.

I'd argue that most programmers do, or are supposed to. Either because they are not the designers of the system they build and what they are expected to do is to "fill in the blanks and make it work", or because they implement something that operates with another system and should strictly adhere to the interface/protocol.

The ones who have anything to say about the design are usually the system designers (duh), small project contributors (because there is no spec) and UI people (because they're designers). So yes - if your spec is "1. make it work on this input; 2. make it fast", then making it work in O(1) for this and only this input is basically the best thing you can do (unless you can make it faster for every input in less time of course). Spending time on generalising it is based on second-guessing the intent.

I'd even go as far as saying that specs have absolutely no intent. You have an intent and describe it while writing the spec and you'd better formalise your intent precisely or you will end up with something you didn't request. If you want something on every input, you'd better write it down (when you give a task to someone else).
What on earth is happening with "Russia's GPS"?
If someone is complaining about your service, it may be a good idea to listen to them. All of the "Blah, blah, if you want it you should be able to create your own super successful site" posts are really rather pointless. Yes, site/company owners have to make some tough decisions about their product, and how users can access/use it. There are going to be complaints, and there are going to be users who disagree. Telling your users to "shut the fuck up" when they're saying they disagree when you've gone from supporting them to destroying what they've built without telling them anything about it seems to be rather harsh.

Its easy to come out and say "Oh, he can do anything he wants because its his company, and if you don't like it just leave". It takes a hell of a lot more effort to actually put the finger on why a move like this (blocking an entire site which hosts various mashups, over 2000 targeting just Craigslist, without notifying the users or having any real method of notifying the "developers" why it was done, or what they can do about it) and trying to point out to the people who actually could do something about it.

As a tip, if you're getting that much flak from your users that you have to start flaming users on the internet about it, you're probably doing something wrong.
That is what I like about this community as well. There are no artificial barriers to learning or to getting anything done.

Actually I think the barriers are still high. People are still hung up on credentials, and a team of startup founders from Harvard or Stanford always gets free publicity from the media and probably more investors as well.
we don't even know yet if the calculations in question here are not reversible.

??? If the calculations are reversible, there would be no argument. Everyone would know the base data.

I think you are kind of pushing it with your quicksilver example; I don't see how taking a single measurement is "averaging". If you mean to say that there is some built-in variance - well, that's true. But the fact is the variance itself can be established by other scientists if they know the model of thermometer that is being used. This is the essence of repeatability!

Now, imagine that a scientist had many temperature readings, and then they did some kind of complex calculation which involved regression analysis, statistical modeling, etc. These are the types of calculations that could easily have errors. Without the initial recordings, the results are unverifiable. That doesn't make them necessarily useless, but I wouldn't lean on those kinds of results.
Why, yes. Yes I can confirm that. And I can tell you that noticing it about 25 years back, when I was doing photography professionally, saved me a metric crapload of money on special meters and so on -- but only after I had button-holed every single person I'd ever met to show them what I'd seen whether they cared or not. I truly understand the geek-out part.
You've been able to get 1Gbps at home in Japan for some time now.
Kind of funny when you compare it against this rejection, also done by Steve Jobs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=950735
I would much rather read an article: First jobs of 10 wealthy entrepreneurs who didn't come from money.
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The part you omitted is the meat of the argument
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This would only make sense if Fox were the only trusted news outlet (to borrow the article's term) that Google indexes. Since it's one of a whole bunch, Fox is really only hurting themselves here.

People will go to Google to search for a story, they'll get a bunch of hits to news sources that are not Fox (and are not blogs, to keep this author's mother happy) and will read those instead.

The choice isn't "Fox or a bunch of blogs", it's "Fox or CNN/BBC/every-other-news-outlet-on-the-planet".
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Not long ago Facebook added the option to browse by city, which was a great improvement. When I travel I always look for friends in whatever city I am in. I don't think that removing regional networks will affect this...at least I hope not!
I'm an Iowan. Finally some tech activity here for a change!
Thanks for the tip. The pointer to your successful site is? Sorry, cheap shot but...

And your claim that you or the other folks are a user is based on what? Craig takes care of the _actual_ users, the people who buy/sell stuff there, use it for job listings/postings, etc.

Your point about listening to your users would be valid if you actually were one. Or better yet represented a whole class of users.

The whining here comes from a set of people who are leaches. They are people who want to leverage craigslist.org. Whether it is for profit or for fun or for fame, it's leveraging the work of someone else. In no way are those people "users" of craigslist.
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How much did you spend on your startup of your own money before you got ramen profitable or got funded?
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The "binary api" the article mentions is for binary data types, which JavaScript lacks, not serialization protocols.
They're not getting rid of school and employer networks, just those based only on geographical location.
I should have qualified it with "I wonder how he got in; that is one heck of a hack". This article wasn't mean for that perspective, though. Sorry.
off topic, but nice username
What's with the twitter fixation? I've benefitted from Knuth's work for over 20 years (as a practitioner, not an academic). Twitter? To me it's a curiosity at best; I've never used it.
I majored in computer science, with classes in math, physics, linguistics, etc... but also spent about a year majoring in music. In my opinion, the music classes were harder, and I had been playing music since I was 6. It's intense stuff. It really is like a form of applied mathematics, and you have to not only understand it on paper with your eyes, but hear and understand it with your ears.

Mastering the basics is hard enough... being able to apply this knowledge creatively takes it to a whole other level.
> Actually space is ~130,000 degrees (slightly less, disappointing I know) because it's 3 dimensional, not 2D.

That's what I was thinking, but it came out in a 2D manner. How embarrassing. ^^;;
> an engine-in-front design may protect the driver from nasty impacts, in this case blue-shifted gamma rays and microscopic particles that have been blue-shifted to the point that your ship is in a giant particle collider.

Ah, I thought that we were talking about other radiation (solar,background,gamma,etc) in space. In that case, you can't really hide 'behind' something because there isn't necessarily a single source to hide from. Even if only nearby solar radiation was a problem, if you ended up in a binary star system, you would have two sources to 'hide' from.

> IMO though, if you've built a black hole, you might as well be moving something big, as in either a planet, small moon, or giant colony.

I thought that the LHC was supposed to create miniature black holes. Though they're supposed to immediately dissipate, I don't think we've necessarily crossed the boundary of 'able to move whole planets' just because we're able to create a black hole.
sounds like you need something pretty basic, pretty much every freelancer would be able to do all of that.

Cost wise it can really differ, from $2-3K for some freelancer code monkey, 5-10K for someone who is a little bit more advanced(HN quality), 60K-100K/yr if you hire someone, And a few million if you hire some big design house.

Having dealt with freelancers, I'd avoid those guys like the plague. Unless you can sit on them to get them coding, it's a waste of time and money.

Personally I'd go with the HN solution, surely you'll find someone here who can help you, and you know you are getting someone competent.
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"Tastes like despair" was the first thing that sprang to mind.
I was under the impression that the Earth's magnetic field was doing the majority of the work. IIRC, the reason that Mars has no atmosphere is probably due to lack of a (or just a weakened) magnetic field, causing solar winds to strip away the atmosphere.
But omitting it makes it a pointless but sensational one-liner. Win! :/
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The real question isn't if 8 million times is too many, but if one time with out the approval of a judge is too many.

If it is important for law enforcement to have the information, they should get the OK of a judge, to prevent abuse.
PayPal Wars is also really informative (although not well written) http://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/09...
On the other hand, when I say something remotely intelligent, I can get serious responses from people literally twice my age and ten times more experienced than I am. And they don't ask me for age or experience (unless it's relevant), they just take what I say at face value for the content.
Finally, a way for politicians to actually make jobs!

Seriously, I got a very eerie feeling as I understood this machine. Good art.
Thumbprints on the seller's machine would be useless; they could just save the data. What we really need is the buyer authenticating and somehow notifying the middleman that they want to buy stuff.
> Or a Firefox extension does this for me?

Isn't there already a bugmenot.com FF extension?
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I would hardly qualify as a bored, underemployed web developer, but I do believe there's a decent way to go about things. There is also some evidence that what Craig did was the wrong way to go about it.

1. Craig was having a discussion with Romy that was clearly misleading. The fact that there's been no further communication and pipes have been turned off demonstrates that.

2. All pipes were shut off. Even if you thought that Romy's pipe was commercial, some might not have been. Drowning everything might be easy, but it doesn't seem good.

3. He's on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation. These are both great organizations that advocate for openness, transparency, and the sharing of data. These groups would despise an action like this.

Craig has a right to run his business the way he wants to. However, there's a odd level of hypocrisy here and it merits being pointed out.
If privacy was the reason for removing regions, why not just remove any privacy stuff associated with regions instead of removing regions all together? Facebook without region info will look awkward. No longer would I be able to visit a city and in a click see friends I should hit up.
Facebook has way too many users for regional networks to be useful in its current iteration.
I understand you don't want to scare people away, but why would anyone sign up for a service if they didn't know what it was? Screenshots would definitely be helpful. Consider a screencast too.

Also, why not show publicly shared content? At least give some indication of what's inside if you sign up.
So... cops don't have the capability for a simple bash script and phone lists?
37signals also makes APIs available for developers who wish to create software that relies on their products. It's one thing to say, "Hey, most of our users wouldn't appreciate this feature, but go ahead and develop it for yourself" and another to shut you down mid conversation.
But there's no real argument, just a flimsy assertion that this will somehow allow people to better control their privacy.

The inference is that often people are unaware that a network such as "Los Angeles" has millions of users and thus are inadvertently sharing their private data with strangers. Frankly, I call bullshit.

If Facebook was serious about my privacy they would a) Create a single page for security instead of the current maze of pages, b) Change the defaults for new content to just "Friends" and not "Friends of friends", c) Make it far easier to find how to remove yourself from Friends/Fans/Groups than it currently is.

Apart from a), which has been mentioned before but never materialized, you won't see these happening because they go against the interests of Facebook, and Facebook seems quite fearless when it comes to upsetting their users.
At least with a print paper you were reasonably certain the ads were reaching people in a certain geographical location (and you could data mine your subscriber list for more stats).

With an online site -- especially one with no registration required -- you know very little about the people reading, so advertisers only pay commodity rates for ads that could apply to just about anyone (whiten your teeth, refinance your mortgage, etc). Advertisers are still very willing to pay to reach potential customers, but newspapers in the online world haven't really figured out a way to connect to them.
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Murdercury. The sale of things that contain mercury should result in companies being charged with attempted murder.
From the sound of it, the rate at which you turn the handle isn't directly connected to the dispensing rate.

I suspect the crank just turns a small generator that powers the rest of the mechanism, which dispenses pennies at fixed intervals.

Attaching the crank to a motor might kill the electronics with an overvoltage, but probably wouldn't produce any additional payout.
So true and to make things worst, people that are busy building things don't get time to comment. Markets, incentives, life - go forth and conquer my lord (free forever). Last sentence was a joke.......
Of course, murdercury containing lightbulbs are obsolete:

http://www.envirowarrior.com/pharox-light-bulb/

But the GE and the military industrial complex wants us to buy 50 years obsolete poisonous garbage bulbs instead of using things like Pharox bulbs.

GE lightbulbs with Hg = murder.
totally. one of my housemates reads and writes magnetic strips for fun. we buy a couple memberships to something and then duplicate the cards to share.
This is one of the most truly balanced, well-written, pragmatic articles I've read on HN. Instead of the typical dogmatic spew that is nearly epidemic in blog posts, it reads more like a scientific paper, but without all the dryness.
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I am in a similar boat. I built an app that is somewhat "cheeky." It breaks no rules, no private APIs, etc. It's been in the review queue for 5 weeks now!
http://tweetminer.net/stats -- I spent $zero! :)

(check out http://techzinglive.com for weekly updates on how the business has been built)

Oops I guess the domain was an original cost $9
Do you have any recommendations on feminist material to read? I have tried, but much of what I found was very silly.
Mostly just time invested so far, thats the biggest chunk by far. Funds spent so far: $500 for legal, domains, hosting, etc.
This article is a classic false dichotomy: Pitting Fox against blogs. In reality, there are literally thousands of news outlets world-wide covering every major story from every angle. If Fox were to disappear from Google, who would even notice?

Checking out Google News right now, there are 9,881 articles on President Obama's recent speech. Fox is just one voice amongst thousands. And ultimately, that's what Murdoch is truly upset about; news is an easy obtained commodity and is therefore rapidly losing its worth.
I learned and somehow forgot this lesson in my journey through the public school system. And that is not an indictment of the system per se, but the effect I allowed it to have on my development.

Any one seeking to master any field should go through the litmus test that experience provided him as early and often as possible. No parallel to learning at the hand of an accomplished practitioner.
Ah, yes, μTP is what I meant.
Not only is the cost of the experts high, it causes expenditures of time and money all up and down the organization internally.