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I'm assuming I won attention whore from the tone of your comment? I'll take it, though the whore part is a bit offensive - but I usually don't bitch about things that offend me.

I'm not knowledgeable enough w/ technology - hence why I'm looking to fill that void in my new company.

Glamor shots? Any pictures you see on my site are taken via phone using Instagram - hardly glamorous. I added a picture of myself because that's who the person who fills my position will be working with - ME - not because I'm self-involved.

I've been blogging for over 2 years & have put almost 250 posts out there - whether they are quality or not is for the reader to decide but I'm definitely done my best to put good content out into the world, for no other reason than because I love what I do & I love writing.

Sorry to offend but I guess attention whore is a step up from just plain "whore" so I'll take it :)
I'm still looking around too. I just posted to the social networks to see if anybody had access. I heard they are going public on the 31st of this month. Any news?
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I'm a former Spotify user. Rdio is better. The thing I disliked about Spotify was there wasn't a way to save an album or song to a collection or library. You could only create a playlist which lived in the left pane. So if you had 1 artist you liked you might have 5 different playlists for 5 different albums. Do this for a few artists and it quickly turns into an innavigable nightmare.

Also, it doesn't have a web interface.
Thank you for standing up and saying that!

The only occasion I've ever found justified for hiding the company name is when you're hiring in a town where the unemployment rate is > 25% and you can't manage the unemployment mob that inevitably forms outside the store.

There is only one reason those anonymous job postings exist - lazy hiring managers. I really wish pg would put his foot down and tell people to start standing up for their brand rather than hiding from it.
Users already go through even more steps when getting native apps through the App Store, so I don't think that'll be an issue.
My problem with lists is it acts as a separate group rather than a filter. I want to see everyone's posts who is in a list. Instead I only see posts that have been specifically shared with a list.

With circles, it automatically filters my stream without anyone having to post to my list or group. They just share it with me.

This is a subtle but important difference for me.
Hm, seems that kchilek forgot to post our listing. In addition to the info below, you can reach me at andrew.harrison@myedu.com to ask about our development work and company culture.

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MyEdu.com - Austin, TX - Fulltime - PHP / JavaScript Developers

www.myedu.com

MyEdu is an education based company that helps college students plan and manage their college career online using our innovative suite of web applications. Our team is comprised of some of the best developers in Austin and we are seeking a few more to join the group. You must be creative, talented and a high performer who thrives working on projects that will change people’s lives.

We are seeking an experienced PHP / JavaScript Developer that has extensive experience in MVC frameworks, Object Oriented Development, agile practices and works well both individually and with a team.

Tons of experience the the following would be a major plus: - JQuery - Restful Web Services - Solr - XML/XSLT - NoSql - Document Databases - Memcached

Email keith.chilek@myedu.com with your resume and any other relevant material you have.
As a developer myself I would absolutely go with Software Dev. Much more flexibility with those skills IMO.
I've been using it for more than 3 years and have noticed lots of duplicates in searches like you mention, but the flagging feature has removed virtually all crappy songs. I bump in to way fewer of these types of tracks now than in 2008 when it was called Grooveshark Lite. The vast majority of songs are great quality. But I agree, there are lots of duplicates and bad tagging around.

Another upside to user uploaded content is that Grooveshark has a massive library of available songs. I have found the most obscure artists in different languages on Grooveshark. I listen to a lot of music and artists and there are very few musicians I haven't found on Grooveshark.
The problem with music players is that not everyone wants to consume music in the same way.

BTW you can create folders of playlists. Between that and search, it makes it manageable enough for me.
I'll start doing all those hobbies once I make a few million from my startup. If I was working at a job though, hobbies are a must.
What I'm saying is you can't compare dollar to dollar. Below $3000 in America, you're homeless or dependent on another's income in even an average city. If you're a skilled homesteader, you can get by in Wyoming on less, but at that point you need a piece of land to get started.

Yes, someone on welfare is doing pretty well by Indian standards, but that isn't available to people without children. Compare the homeless population, not someone on welfare.

PS -- I like the idea of infrastructure help for welfare, but what do we do with the 3 year old left alone at night so that mom can do janitorial work?
I've been waiting for this since url shorteners came to be. Sadly I don't think shorteners will loose popularity anytime soon and I will continue to avoid them as I've always done.
Is the solution then to legalize such intrusions? It seems like it would be far too difficult to differentiate between beneficial and malevolent operations. It would also be extremely difficult for a company to dispute falsified evidence presented by would-be hacktivists. If anon had falsified the HBGary records, would we believe Aaron Barr if he said the data were not correct? How could he suitably prove the non-existence of such data to the public without revealing an inappropriate amount of internal information?

I'm not saying such intrusions and releases are not useful or never reveal important information. But it's sort of like a Crime and Punishment situation. Even if the releases reveal important information about government or corporate corruption which would have otherwise gone unchecked, we cannot officially and legally condone these attacks.
exactly. i think more people would use the lists if it were a more prominent feature. with G+, they are center stage, so people can easily interface with them.
My notion of change was not meant as a deep existential change, but more along the lines of what you meant:

We get better at sorting through
"noise" over time.

That was more my intended meaning. Thanks for reading and clarifying.
Social game theory is complex but not impossible to understand. If it were impossible, countries not ruled by the pope any more would be all like Somalia.
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I have a coder friend who recently moved to NYC and he reports (for the most part) the same thing. In Seattle telling people he's a software engineer does one of two things: it starts a big geek-out discussion about something, or people roll their eyes "oh boy, another one of you guys". In NYC on the other hand people regard it as just another job.
I don't think they would. Recruiting from networks is a good thing to strive for, but it would become a bad practice without room for exceptions. Even 37Signals, a big proponent of knowing the people you hire before you hire them, does put out the occasional job posting/recruitment ad on its blog.
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Not according to Spotify themselves:

http://www.spotify.com/nl/help/faq/local-files/does-spotify-...

As I have always understood it, your local music collection is included in the client. If you share playlists containing tracks from your local collection. But if they are not provided by Spotify, friends need to have the same tracks locally as well to be able to play them.
I've been paying for Spotify in the UK and been using the desktop client without any tricks in the US since moving here. The big problem is that the Spotify iPhone app isn't available in the US app store. Is there anyway around this?
Spotify feels like driving around in a stolen car and leaving £10 a month in the glovebox.

I'm a European Spotify subscriber, and I'd be hard pushed to go back to purchasing albums again. Access really does trump 'ownership', and it would take Apple introducing a similar subscription service for me to go back to iTunes now.

But I wonder how Spotify can scale and actively support musicians. It might sound strange, but -- even as a paid subscriber -- I feel guilty when I use Spotify. I can't help feeling that musicians get an even rougher deal when I listen to their music over Spotify than when I buy tracks from iTunes or directly from their websites.

There is something unsettling about having instant access to a huge array of songs and only paying £9.99 a month for the service. It is so different to the traditional model that it almost feels like stealing. It's a feeling I don't get listening to the radio; with the radio, you're a passenger hitching a lift. With Spotify, you're in control. And somehow it feels wrong. Like joyriding[1], It's hard to shake the feeling that there will be consequences.

I'm sure that won't dent your enjoyment of the service if you're in the US, but I thought it worth sharing the viewpoint.

[1]: So I'm told.
I know this is exciting to people who have been envious of UK Spotify, but we've had Rdio for like a year now, right? Rdio is pretty excellent.
Since this was a rewrite of a system that just consumed the output of the CMS, the migration was not awful. One day, we just started exporting the new data format and using the new system to create apps. Users continued to use the same CMS to build their applications -- the CMS was the target of many improvements, but didn't get replaced wholesale. Thus the rollout of the new system wasn't really impacted by the number of users of the CMS. Though the Dojo/PhoneGap system in reality exists pretty independently from the CMS, you might think of it as the presentation layer of the CMS, so this rewrite really targeted a (significant) piece of a larger system.
Very true. StumbleUpon shows a much higher bounce rate and much lower average time on our site.
Do you need a court order to legally hack, like a search warrant?
For one thing: user interface. The one of Rdio is pretty confusing, whereas the one of Spotify is, for me at least, the best UI of a music player ever.
That's the great thing about Spotify (and I think it's often overlooked): it's not only that their idea is great, but also that the execution of that idea is stellar (for the same reason I prefer Spotify over Grooveshark).
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I used to be very introverted and would always keep to myself. Then one day, while playing a game of pick-up basketball, a guy started asking me about the idea of being a CS major in college. I then went on to discuss the pros and cons of being a CS major, how easy it was to start a business in technology vs other industries, and how it appealed to my need for creating and achievement. By the end, he thanked me for helping him make a very important decision in his life. Afterwards, I realized how being shy was holding me back from positively influencing other people in the world.
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> Ah. This, maybe. But no, I'm afraid you've misunderstood and not in a way that I feel I'm equipped to address now without sacrificing brevity or comfort.

Really now?

> In instances where I feel I have unintentionally caused someone to misunderstand (or really, been a shitty communicator), I'm obligated to correct and explain better.

How's this for putting words in your mouth? I have spent well over an hour writing a in depth analysis of your posts, describing my thought process, and theorizing on what I believe to be your thought process. At this point I am confident that I may flat out call you out on a lie perpetrated during this very discussion; you stated you are obligated to clear up any misunderstandings, and are now flat out refusing to do so due to "brevity and comfort." Clearly your so called obligations don't amount to much.

Oh, and perhaps you should learn to differentiate between "Asking a question" and "Putting words in my mouth." If I ask whether you will honestly consider something to be true, I'm looking for an insightful answer (Longer than one word usually), not suggesting that you do or do not. Instead, you are presenting a series of inconsistent, unsubstantiated claims, half formed thoughts, and backing all that up with an obvious disinterest in anything resembling an attempt at allowing me to understand you. After I gave you countless examples of various magnitudes you could use for counter-examples that is really quite rude.

In hindsight it should have been obvious since your original dismissive reply, but I was still holding on to the vain hope that as a poster on HN you would have slightly more dedication to communication than an average redditor. The idea that there is something to back down from really crystallizes the difference; you appear to think this is some argument which one of us could win, while I am trying my best to understand you and point out where I feel you are contradicting yourself or reality. Sure, I may be doing it in a rude fashion, but again, I do so in response to what I perceive to be a hostile tone, for reasons I described in my previous post.

In short, I don't care in the slightest whether you think you are backing down or not; I feel that this entire exchange was a complete waste on my part since you clearly had no interest in attempting to clear up any of the misunderstandings that obviously exist between us. Thank you for allowing both of us to waste our time, and I apologize for have participated in this farce of a discussion.
And if the guy running jquery.it was smart, he'd have the custom jQuery he's hosting randomly replace people's AdSense blocks with his own to make even more money.
Thanks for replying, appreciate it!
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WP7 allows native code on the phone for handset manufacturers, including Nokia. Or are you talking about app developers?
That users of HN can't properly comment about Groups or Lists without confusion is telling.
Does anyone know how Cydia licensing actually works? I jailbroke just to install RetinaPad, and I managed to buy it and install it. Cydia says "Package Officially Purchased". RetinaPad says "RetinaPad license missing!" and doesn't work. I guess the license download failed or something (due to high load?) but I don't see how to fix it.

It really makes me appreciate the Apple App Store, to be honest.
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I didn't like the idea of paying for certain features, mainly to use my own domain. I'm not sure if it'll be a permanent move yet so didn't want to pay only to decide to go back to self hosted somewhere down the line.
I just subscribed and look forward to receiving issues. One challenge you might have is consistently coming up with good stories. Hacker News started out as Startup News but in PG's words (paraphrased) they quickly got bored of just startup stories and sought to broaden it by making it about more than just startups--and renamed it Hacker News. I believe TechCrunch also started out with this mission but after the initial few months kind of lost steam and realized that they got more pageviews by attacking established companies. Arrington has been quoted saying he'd like to someday create a site about just startups. I'm not sure how he will make it successful this time.
...and users with an iPhone 2G were never given official patches from Apple, and are still vulnerable unless jailbroken. :(
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I think (1) is already somewhat true, unless they changed a rule recently. I flew in 2006 out of Boston Logan with a friend who had forgotten all of his identification (save his boarding pass and maybe a college ID.) You can bet they frisked him and patted him down to high heck, but he was still allowed on his flight.
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Not to get into an argument but when was the last time Google had a hit? All I am saying is the tech crowd is probably reacting to this more based on their dislike of facebook and love for google and not taking an objective/business view of things.
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if lulz security ever takes down another organization please let it be google. They need to learn that taking people's data is not something individuals will take lightly, nor should it be included in a bloody ToS. Nor should there be any reason why the boy's parents couldn't sign off on the contract as his legal guardians on the internet, as they are in real life. Google does not need to keep a 10 year old's email's to his grandparents because of a ToS breach. big impersonal corporations FTL.
OK, what about another form of redirect? Would a simple message be best?

This site has moved. Please go to the new site (no href - don't let google see) www.example.com.
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How is this even possible? Doesn't PageRank work by counting links? Does jquery.it have more inbound links than jquery.com?
It would still be possible, from the javascript itself:

if(document.location.host != "jquery.com") {
document.location = "http://jquery.com";
}
I found that with the police, particularly in these strapped times (at least, in my jurisdiction), it's a matter of prioritization. If yours was a relatively low value property crime, with no injuries, you may just be too low on the list to get significant resources. The less resources your case demands, the more likely it may be to get action.

For example, I'm not recommending confronting them yourself, but if you had credible documentation that turned that IP address into a street address, with a demonstrated continued presence of the stolen property, this might get acted on if the detective thought a judge would readily generate a warrant, and/or the suspect might be a source of other/continued criminal activity, and/or whatever else.

I don't know whether this has any merit, but if you're on good terms with your insurance company, you might mention the situation. Although, again, for a low value crime (from their perspective), it may be more cost effective to simply pay what the policy says is your due, rather than to "solve" the crime.

Part of the problem for you and other people in this situation: Unless you have an insurance policy far different from the typical homeowner's policy, there is no coverage of the value of your data and so no financial incentive to foster its recovery.

(Even from an identity theft perspective, it's cheaper to sign you up for monitoring than to recover the stolen data.)

This all is just my interpretation of such situations, for whatever value it has. I may be wrong, but this is how I see it, in general.
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> I added a picture of myself because that's who the person who fills my position will be working with - ME - not because I'm self-involved.

But I'm still not getting the need for cleavage.
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I'm biased, since I have run more than one shortener/tracker myself. This isn't meant to be a rant, more of a defense for the uninformed.

It's a bit naive to think that most websites are referenced by a simple link to static content. The web has become so complex and urls now reflect that. Short urls are useful for many people for many different purposes.

For an example of how complex urls are, take a look at SEO'd blog post or newspaper urls. They have become a string on keyword rich terms that help to increase SEO. The content that is served is brought up dynamically and may in fact change over time. Ads, sidebars, and comments are brought in after the fact, often based on content or origin of the user or if they have a cookie. It's complicated - url redirection (which already may be happening in this flow) doesn't add much to it.

Advocating for "proper link formatting or better content presentation" reflects the fact that you've never had to dig deep into the complex SEO, user, customization, and other general business requirements that arise when running a CMS.

Short urls are valuable because they allow people an ability to simplify the increasingly long urls for use in many different mediums without the worry of breaking or losing portions of the url.

Yes, they often do allow the creator to change them, but that's no different than what any website operator can do natively on their website.

There are problematic situations that can arise, such as when a url shortener goes down. And this has happened, and it hasn't caused any catastrophic problems. It's inconvenient, but it often only affects old content on twitter or facebook. I'm not saying it's ideal, it definitely doesn't add value to the internet. But it's not that bad.

Regarding the 'arcane' input requirements for twitter or facebook. Somehow I think you missed the point of these networks. Twitters 140 characters is part of what defines them. There will always be short message mediums, they are there because people have a desire for short bursts of information. They aren't going away.

I hope that helps to explain why shorteners arose because there was a need, not just to add complexity or more evil to the internet.
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Almost forgot about that - my speakers don't do the service justice :)
Asynchronous or one-way sharing is fundamentally incompatible with the current Facebook friends model. They'd have to rework a lot of the privacy code. Probably all of it, actually.

It would also be a major UX shift to bring Lists back to the foreground and make it a part of every interaction a la circles. And if they did, it would be hard to do it without offending existing users.

Facebook also may have big datacenters but perhaps not currently architected to handle videochatting at the volume that Hangouts require. Google has a one-up on them there since they've offered free video chatting for years, and they also have gotten many people to already install the Voice and Video plugin by offering free phone calls in GMail for the past two years. That plugin is key to a good videochatting UX in a browser (Flash by itself has some technical and UX problems with webcam access).
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The second result is the release post, however - on Google, the release post doesn't show up at all in the first several pages, which is just weird.
It seems that we're quickly heading toward a point where all music becomes essentially free [1], and serves only as PR for boosting ticket sales. Keep in mind that, currently, most musicians can be broken into two groups:

1. Superstars that make so much money that they won't be missing your Spotify dollars.

2. Most other musicians, who don't really make that much off album sales compared to ticket sales (unless they sell physical CDs at their concerts, in which case, maybe).

I'm curious if there are any indie musicians out there with a different opinion, though.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/08/360-music-deals-become-mand...
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