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Re:HN Replies – Get notified when someone replies to you on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:54AM (#24834562)
Another free tool in a similar vein is F5Bot. It can monitor HN for keywords and email you whenever they show up.

https://f5bot.com/

Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:17AM (#22440683)
Thirty years? Why have copyright at all? I've yet to hear a good argument that doesn't boil down to "because my business model deserves to be profitable."

Intellectual property isn't a scarce resource. I look forward to the day we all exploit that. We'll find new business models, ones that take advantage of being able to build on all proir human knowledge, and we'll all be more productive because of it.

Re:Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:59PM (#18466270)
Can you give an example of a consistent and complete logic?
Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:14PM (#13738303)
I've used vim for years with Dvorak and no remapping. Works great, IMO.

Ask HN: Best tool for tracking search engine ranking

Posted by jan888 on Friday December 02, 2016 @02:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.

What is the best tool to track search engine results for multiple domains and keywords over time?Everything I can find is either free and scummy/scamy or really expensive. It seems like there should be an open source solution somewhere, since it seems like a simple and common problem.

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Re:UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from ne... on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:46AM (#13089512)
Yes. There is no law against insider trading, just the SEC and judges thinking it's really bad so we should punish it even if Congress never got around to passing an actual law against it.

See here for one example [0]. The SEC does have rules against it, so it's not entirely on a case-by-case basis [1]. It's just the SEC isn't supposed to write law.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-12-11/whats-nex...

[1] http://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm

Re:UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from ne... on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:26AM (#13089295)
But we don't even have insider trading laws. Insider trading is something the courts came up with based on an expanded meaning of fraud.