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while true, it is super early in this disease. I'd think outcomes would improve over time as there is more experience, and more medication testing happening right now

depending on your airline, they may offer credit or let you change your flight without any fees.

https://www.delta.com/us/en/advisories/other-alerts/coronavi...

it is an SEO thing. Avoiding thin-content and adding contextually relevant text for search.

but that's not the issue here. There is no example where duplicate content is outranking his. In the quoted query, he ranks higher. Beyond that he says he doesn't rank well for "polygraph", but not that it's outranked by the spammy content.

ok. then right, it's the vaguer question of whether his site deserves to rank higher than it does for a particular term.

on brief glance, it doesn't look like he optimizes for "polygraph". He does rank #1 for antipolygraph.

I'm not saying he doesn't have a problem, but his site does appear above the others in search results for that quotation. "The consensus view among scientists is that polygraph testing has no scientific basis"

It's such a specific quotation that there aren't that many sites that have that text, so the spam sites are gonna appear.

Now if those sites outrank his site for regular search terms "what is a polygraph" ... then that's a problem. But he didn't seem to indicate that's the case.

Here's an entire article on it. Basically, they get more reach on medium then self hosted

https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-moves-to-medium-c8...

Apple usually takes their store down prior to a big event (iPhone 6s pre-orders).

This is the first major event since they integrated the store into their regular website (rather than having the store.apple.com subdomain) Clearly, this is a mistake as they are deploying all the new pre-ordering pages for the iPhone 6s.

try a different browser. Someone else mentioned that as an issue too, I suspect a plugin conflict?

People have always asked for a solid Google Adsense competitor. Maybe this will be it. Though looks like it's not wide open yet, publishers have to apply/ be certified: http://atlassolutions.com/partners/

But you could imagine this being pretty massive.

They have an ad network but it doesn't necessarily mean they are good at the ad business

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/18/apple-iad-stingy/

"Apple's unwillingness to share large amounts of consumer data is hurting its iAd business, according to Madison Avenue media buyers that spoke with AdAge. The company is said to be "downright stingy" with the information it shares, too slow at developing ad products, and "too reticent to foster relationships." "

Our original TouchArcade.com logo had a space invader in it. Taito contacted us, liked our site, and gave us a free license. We later changed the logo to avoid that long term dependency. But that was very nice of them.

Sendinc.com is an option for secure self destructing emails. As much as you trust a 3rd party.

Great article. Might be hard to get through, so I'll put out this quote which I enjoyed and compelled me to read the rest of it.

"Matthews had started a cystic-fibrosis treatment program as a young pulmonary specialist at Babies and Children’s Hospital, in Cleveland, in 1957, and within a few years was claiming to have an annual mortality rate that was less than two per cent. To anyone treating CF at the time, it was a preposterous assertion. National mortality rates for the disease were estimated to be higher than twenty per cent a year, and the average patient died by the age of three. Yet here was Matthews saying that he and his colleagues could stop the disease from doing serious harm for years. “How long [our patients] will live remains to be seen, but I expect most of them to come to my funeral,” he told one conference of physicians.

In 1964, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation gave a University of Minnesota pediatrician named Warren Warwick a budget of ten thousand dollars to collect reports on every patient treated at the thirty-one CF centers in the United States that year—data that would test Matthews’s claim. Several months later, he had the results: the median estimated age at death for patients in Matthews’s center was twenty-one years, seven times the age of patients treated elsewhere. He had not had a single death among patients younger than six in at least five years."

This is a marketing plan, not a business plan.

Accept other forms of payment. If you feel strongly about Bitcoin, that's great. Accept it as a payment form. Advertise to all bitcoin savvy users. But you are destining yourself to fail by only accepting Bitcoin.

Also, not sure your readership. But it probably makes more sense to do a subscription, cause someone that sends you a few dollars won't likely send you more. And your regulars are the ones who will pay. Not the random-google-passer-by.

is it more work? The CarPlay seems to run on the iPhone and projects to the QNX system. So the car system is just a dumb interface. Update iOS, and you update Carplay. Seems like less work.

There's been a lot of DDOS's over the past week or so. Amongst others, here's just a quick sampling

http://www.aweber.com/blog/email-marketing/from-our-ceo-abou... http://status.mailchimp.com/messages http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/namecheap-ddos/ http://mashable.com/2014/02/26/bitly-ddos-attack/

Is that really considered hiding? I expect the unsubscribe link to be a small link in the footer. If it's not, then it's an inconvenience.

your timeline is wrong. pewdiedie did it well after it was the #1 app on the app store.

Love the concept. I've thought about comments a lot, and considered this sort of design. in execution, though, it's hard to get used to.

Still feel like Slashdot might have had the best comment system yet.

Ya, but the pew pew video wasn't posted until well after the game hit number 1.

But he denies that to be the case. And if it was his goal, then why is it pulling it off the app store?

Despite how rare it is to have a true grassroots viral hit, I think that's what happened in this case.

Bad/Funny Flappy Bird reviews became a meme on its own: http://www.thechocolatelabapps.com/is-twitter-the-fuel-behin...

So I don't know if it's as simple to suggest it was a pay-for-review scheme, but rather just its own thing.

Same thing happened on Amazon milk reviews: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09milk.html

You've never heard of it, but you most people here have.

Flappy Bird is the most popular app (#1 on iOS App Store) in the world right now, and has been for a month. Realize that, and you have your answer.

Ya, hard to say. If it really isn't related to your username or identify somehow, it would be hard to think that someone would brute force you specifically. Not that it's a very strong password.

https://code.google.com/p/skype-bruteforcer/

looks like a 60 second timeout between attempts.

1. What was your password? If it's been changed, was completely random, and never used anywhere else, you should have no problem posting it here.

2. There's an Adobe Flash zero-day out there: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/04/adobe-flash-update/

Namecheap controls both the domain name settings and the dns (if you use theirs). The moment you switch the nameservers for the domain, they immediately purge the records from their DNS.

So, when you point to new nameservers, anyone pointing to namecheap's dns during propagation will get SERVFAIL.

It sounds absurd... but I've gone back and forth with support about it, with no solution.

I liked Namecheap, but have had major issues with their DNS service. you can't switch off of them without downtime. So don't use their dns, otherwise you are locked in. which is kinda shitty.

Reminds me of "RealNames". Dot-com era company. $130 million in funding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames

RealNames was a company founded in 1997 by Keith Teare. Its goal was to create a multilingual keyword-based naming system for the Internet that would translate keywords typed into the address bar of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to Uniform Resource Identifiers, based on the existing Domain Name System, that would access the page registered by the owner of the RealNames keyword.

in this case, very accurate. Rapgenius has Quantcast analytics codes on their website.