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Re:Successful people are successful on Saturday March 10, 2012 @05:43PM (#3688926)
STOP STARING AT ME DANIEL TENNER! I CANNOT STAND IT ANYMORE!

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Re:JP Barlow: A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @02:54PM (#3421044)
Text is nicer.
Re:We’re auctioning ten beta Raspberry Pis on Saturday December 31, 2011 @01:49PM (#3411510)
ifconfig <iface> hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
I'll buy the first baseball cap that has similar EEG electrodes!
_"everyone provides a brief, anonymous introduction to their life"_

It still can track your identify since it uses facebook connect. Please make this anonymous for people who wish to be anonymous.

This is the kind of strategy activists use, for instance Greenpeace uses this extensively:

To keep up the pressure we urgently ask you to send an email to the Danish minister for foreign affairs, Per Stig Møller. --http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/take-action/denmark

User name not found. Might be a temporary outage. Sorry.
Re:How to generate content without users? on Sunday July 24, 2011 @04:13AM (#2798950)
broad question. what have you considered?

you can use datasets for initial content and see how it evolves with your new users.

Re:Shut up about PageRank already on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @12:28PM (#2706011)
>Think about that—somewhere in Mountain View, someone’s tweaking the little number you see in the Google toolbar. By hand. How accurate is that gonna be?

Certainly more accurate than software failure. Here's the relevant snippet from the source to this claim:

>We have a few safety checks in place, so we say like `OH! Did we expect the page rank of MSN.com to be 7 or 8 and then suddenly dropped to 2...'

>If those sorts of things happen, then we might get an email and check into it. But for the most part the process runs with very little human intervention. People don't really need to oversee things.

The author doesn't show much comprehension of PageRank which is not intended to be a metric solely used for "site ranking" but for crawling rate amongst other things. It's common for lower PR pages to outrank higher PR pages in Google's search results let it be no secret.

Can someone remind me the point of this article because it feels like I completely missed it.

Re:Google Bot Attempts to Crawl Shortest URLs First on Saturday June 25, 2011 @12:38PM (#2695985)
Pagerank determine crawls rate amongst other things (http://techpatio.com/2009/search-engines/google/matt-cutts-g...).

I find it is also likely that short URLs (especially in the case of a directory-type site) are seen first by the spider and that this order is respected by the crawler (FIFO).

You can also ask in #seo on irc.freenode.net I know there are knowledgable SEO people in there who might be able to provide you with a decent answer.

Re:Google Bot Attempts to Crawl Shortest URLs First on Saturday June 25, 2011 @12:37PM (#2695980)
Pagerank determine crawls rate amongst other things. I find it is also likely that short URLs (especially in the case of a directory-type site) are seen first by the spider and that this order is respected by the crawler (FIFO).

You can also ask in #seo on irc.freenode.net I know there are knowledgable SEO people in there who might be able to provide you with a decent answer.

Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars on Thursday June 23, 2011 @05:26PM (#2689954)
You mean web search, gmail, android and other crap they produce?
Here is a picture that shows descibed problem on such cable: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaako/2316658032/
Re:Reject the PROTECT IP Act on Monday June 06, 2011 @11:20PM (#2627763)
We should ban the united states from the Internet and leave them with their own will.

Simply, disgusting.

We can also see the project's creation time on http://code.google.com/p/webrtc/updates/list, Jan 27 2011
Re:Electrons Are Near-Perfect Spheres on Thursday May 26, 2011 @12:20PM (#2588263)
... and we still can't figure their areas beacause of Pi!

facedesk

Re:What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters on Thursday May 26, 2011 @12:03PM (#2588202)
There are different ways to buy bitcoin. The first one worth mentioning is through #bitcoin-otc or #bitcoin-pit on irc.freenode.net (http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/Using_bitcoin-otc) other ways to buy them is through markets such as mtgox (http://mtgox.com)
Re:Brick Nintendo before they brick you on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @08:29AM (#2559875)
I'm very disappointed in Nintendo. My childhood friend just lost quite a bit of respect I maintained in him.

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Re:Ask HN: When will the first HN account appear on eBay? on Friday April 08, 2011 @12:50AM (#2422500)
I'm such a good liar.. On the internet.
Bear in mind I am not familiar with media wiki but this sounds like a misconfiguration of the web app.

As you don't provide enough details or even partial statistics about your visitors it's hard to analyse the situation with you.

> Try asking around in #seo on irc.freenode.net

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