Why Google made this change, from the article, "In this case, we are following the lead of the UN, Icann [the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers], ISO [International Organisation for Standardisation] and other international organisations."
When it comes to Israel/Palestine, every mapmaker in the world is taking a stance.
Another example: long form sales pages. They've been discussed here on Hacker News before, and many people here hate them, but they do (apparently) convert very well.
For a bare-bones approach, this shell command would also do the trick.
cut -d\ -f1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
(Note: There should be two spaces after the -d\ .)
You're right, but money already is involved in these articles. Authors and actors (and agents, I've suspected in a few cases) are keeping a biased eye on their articles.
I think it would be difficult for Wikipedia to be corrupted by money. There's too much transparency, and there's too large of a community. The admins have already discovered with dealt with large-scale attempts to game the system.
What's actually at stake here is the appearance of objectivity. Affiliate links, which are nearly universal across the web, should be minimally objectionable.
I've always wondered why Wikipedia doesn't include affiliate links to Amazon on all their book and movie articles.
I think their current logic is that affiliate links force them to choose which online store they want to support, which is something they appear loath to do.
Look at the page they send you too when you do try to buy a book in an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0802130984 . It's so large and completist that it has two tables of contents, and it's so obsessively non-preferential that it does a good job of hiding the one amazon.com link that most people are probably looking for.
Personally, I've bought 100s of books and DVDs after reading their Wikipedia articles, and I'd be happy to let the WikiMedia Foundation get my affiliate dollars.
(from Jakob Nielsen)
"Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html
The article includes the results of an eyetracking study, and a few examples of viewing patterns where people did spend a lot of time below the fold.
As someone with technical knowledge and no purchasing power, I dislike talking to salespeople and technical people. I just want the name of a product that I can recommend to my boss. I want that datasheet.
I recently tried to recommend a great product to my boss. I had used it in a past job, and I knew what company made it, but I had no idea what the actual product was called. I didn't want to waste my boss's time, so I tried to do the research on my own and figure out what specific product I was looking for.
Their website wasn't very helpful, it was filled with generic product names and an amalgamation of SEO-friendly keywords and the word "solution". I emailed them to find out which product I was looking for, and next thing I knew I was on a sales call. Then I was on a sales conference call. Then they popped in for a sales meeting, even though I never told them my company's address.
I came away with a vague idea that their products were both nameless and probably very good. I explained it all to my boss; he took a pass.
I could've saved everyone a lot of time if I just had that comprehensive datasheet.
Some bots auto-revert changes that are likely to be vandalism or spam, like if an anonymous user adds a link to a blog on a free blog hosting site. (Specifically, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:XLinkBot .)
Sometimes you can work around this.
Find the install.rdf file for the plugin, and change the maxVersion variable to "4.*".
It doesn't always work, but I've had good luck with it.
I ran it for Javascript, Ruby, and Perl, and I got this:
{"JavaScript"=>48, "Ruby"=>46, "Perl"=>28}
I was about the say the same thing, but about Infoseek.
Politics and current affairs
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. By David Remnick
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers. By Richard McGregor
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory. By Peter Hessler
Molotovâs Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History. By Rachel Polonsky
Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalistâs Frontline Account of Life, Love and War in his Homeland. By Basharat Peer
The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe. By Peter Godwin
The Watchers: The Rise of Americaâs Surveillance State. By Shane Harris
The Rule of Law. By Tom Bingham
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Childrenâs Futureâand Why They Should Give it Back By David Willetts
Biography and memoir
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance. By Edmund de Waal
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Familyâs Feuds. By Lyndall Gordon
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. By Stephen Sondheim
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece.By Eric Siblin
History
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. By Timothy Snyder
Why the West RulesâFor Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future. By Ian Morris
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962. By Frank Dikotter
Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream. By Francis Spufford
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided. By Amanda Foreman
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Americaâs Great Migration. By Isabel Wilkerson
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth. By Hilary Spurling
A History of the World in 100 Objects. By Neil MacGregor
Economics and business
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. By Michael Lewis
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite. By Sebastian Mallaby
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg. By Niall Ferguson
Science and technology
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. By Paul Edwards
Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life. By Rob Carlson
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. By Matt Ridley
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. By Steven Johnson
What Technology Wants. By Kevin Kelly
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. By Siddhartha Mukherjee
Culture, society and travel
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. By Guy Deutscher
Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, With Some Unexpected Results. By Michael Scott Moore
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre. By Larry Stempel
McGilchristâs Greek Islands. By Nigel McGilchrist
Fiction
Freedom. By Jonathan Franzen
To the End of the Land. By David Grossman
Parrot and Olivier in America. By Peter Carey
The Unnamed. By Joshua Ferris
Mr Peanut. By Adam Ross
The Imperfectionists. By Tom Rachman
Selected Stories. By William Trevor
Poetry
Human chain. By Seamus Heaney
White Egrets: Poems. By Derek Walcott
(lets hear it for perl one-liners.)
I disgree.
If someone replied to a post with, "You're wrong and an idiot," but the original poster replies with a reasoned defense, then I would certainly vote down the first reply and vote up the second.
If someone is trolling with a dumb comment like, "Capitalism never works," but then receives well-thought out replies as to why capitalism does in fact work in this situation, then I would leave the original comment alone and vote up the replies.
Which is often "just like game X, but more complicated."
I think that's the route of most startup pipe-dreams: Take a successful site or product, and make it more complicated.
Did they actually say "appreciate"?
"some youths high on googlemania - a local thing"
Is this really a thing in Germany? That's the weirdest part of this whole story, that kids would care that much about an international corporation like Google. It'd be like getting in a fight with someone because they didn't drink Coke.
I've been trying to work this one through. One possible solution, (using a hefty dose of mathematical illiteracy, that looks like one of those word problems that occasionally appears in Marilyn vos Savant's column):
base salary: $100
$100 * 1.2 = $120
$120 * (1.2 * .8) = $115.2
Maintainability.
Same reason that, when you code, you want to include comments, have good variable names, use reasonably-sized functions, etc. It makes maintainability and future extension much easier.
Forget about semantic purity. CSS has survived all these years because it's been very useful in a very practical sense.
It was a weird title. I did an an quick poll of two non-programmer, LOL-speak experts, and I got these answers:
- If you can read this, you can get a job in financial program (if there were any)
- If you can read this, you can get a job in functional programs/programming (if there were any)
I don't know what this proves.
Some people (myself included) like use Facebook as a mirror to their own social circles. Defriending someone from Facebook for an inappropriate post would be like defriending them in real life for an inappropriate joke. It's easier to just ask them not to do it again.
Even most of the original commentators, back in 02002, thought it was easily doable.
This issue has gone all the way to congress a couple times, but no real fix has ever come of it.
Fortunately the market has already solved it for us. With Itunes and Hulu and DVD season box sets, we've gone all the past a la carte per channel and straight to a la carte per show and per episode.
A key word missing from the HN title is "most." Most door-close buttons don't work, most pedestrian walkways buttons don't work, but some do, and it's very easy to test which ones do.
They aren't all placebos.
I think this says more about your college/university than CS education in general. I have a BS in comp sci, and I had to write functioning code in almost every computer class I took. (The only exception being one A.I. course that was cross-listed with philosophy, and even there I used automata in my final paper.)
Generalists should go for smaller companies, like small web development shops. Those jobs are always, "Programming, plus some simple web design, which means a grasp of SEO, probably Photoshop, occasionally sysadmin work, knowledge of Apache, and you'll have to set up your own version control."
Proof that love makes you blind.
I think the logic is this: Github is popular. Ruby is the most popular language on Github. Therefore Ruby and Git are connected.
Mr. Zuckerberg "is a 26-year-old man who has spent almost a quarter of his life building this company,"
Six. They could have just said six.
Good point.
For Firefox users, browse to "about:config", then search for "dom.storage.enabled".
I'm not getting no results for "Debug port", which should be no more than 3 (since it links to Xbox, which is 2).
Same for "Index of Estonia-related articles".