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TuxPirate··on Successful people are successful
STOP STARING AT ME DANIEL TENNER! I CANNOT STAND IT ANYMORE!

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TuxPirate··on JP Barlow: A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace
Text is nicer.
TuxPirate··on We’re auctioning ten beta Raspberry Pis
ifconfig <iface> hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
TuxPirate··on Transcranial Stimulation Shows Promise in Speeding Up Learning
I'll buy the first baseball cap that has similar EEG electrodes!
TuxPirate··on Show HN: I've created a third place. (for getting to know HNers)
_"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.

TuxPirate··on Court Says Sending Too Many Emails To Someone Is Computer Hacking
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

TuxPirate··on StalkerBot: view a HN user's recent comments and state of mind
User name not found. Might be a temporary outage. Sorry.
TuxPirate··on How to generate content without users?
broad question. what have you considered?

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

TuxPirate··on Shut up about PageRank already
>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.

TuxPirate··on Google Bot Attempts to Crawl Shortest URLs First
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.

TuxPirate··on Google Bot Attempts to Crawl Shortest URLs First
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.

TuxPirate··on Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars
You mean web search, gmail, android and other crap they produce?
TuxPirate··on Redditor Explains Why Apple Continue Making Frail Power Cables
Here is a picture that shows descibed problem on such cable: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaako/2316658032/
TuxPirate··on Reject the PROTECT IP Act
We should ban the united states from the Internet and leave them with their own will.

Simply, disgusting.

TuxPirate··on Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web
We can also see the project's creation time on http://code.google.com/p/webrtc/updates/list, Jan 27 2011
TuxPirate··on Electrons Are Near-Perfect Spheres
... and we still can't figure their areas beacause of Pi!

facedesk

TuxPirate··on What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters
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)
TuxPirate··on Brick Nintendo before they brick you
I'm very disappointed in Nintendo. My childhood friend just lost quite a bit of respect I maintained in him.
TuxPirate··on Remember the "Insecure by Design" Dropbox article? [I] automate[d] the process
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332343/
TuxPirate··on Ask HN: When will the first HN account appear on eBay?
I'm such a good liar.. On the internet.
TuxPirate··on Ask HN: Google crawled our site, and the changes shocked it. We broke up
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

TuxPirate··on Ask HN: When will the first HN account appear on eBay?
We have been maintaining a set of HN accounts used to rank stories on the first page and it has been a valuable asset in gathering instant attention of a fairly large amount of users in a short amount of time.

Works, as opposed to what some people suggested in some comments.

TuxPirate··on GNOME 3 Released
Does anyone have instructions on how to build this beast?
TuxPirate··on Testing Google's New Algorithm: It Really Is Better
We do indeed see less MFA-like sites with no content value but I find new behaviors annoying.

Google places results attempt to outrank online business directories results who are omnipresent in many local business search phrases but often also prevent legitimate business from ranking well on the first page, sometimes even from ranking on the first page -- now search results can be replaced by Google's content leaving the first page with only few web page URLs.

Amongst other things Google is being more permissive on how they display content and begin to rely on their own data to provide search with informations.

TuxPirate··on Pattern: A web mining & natural language processing system for Python
The official project page: http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Perception