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is canada still shunned? or will it launch here with the US launch?
Yet another reason for URL shorteners to be banished from the web (not that this will ever happen). Besides the arcane input requirements of Twitter and the semi-retarded behavior of certain email clients, I haven't found a good use case for them that couldn't have been solved better with proper link formatting or better content presentation.

When the web is just a sea of opaque pointers to pointers to pointers, with various hilarity like these URLs mixed in, we'll all wonder why the hell we stood by and let it happen.
Spotify has completely replaced iPod on my iOS devices and iTunes on my MacBook. Coming from Europe, I'm using Spotify in the States for over a month now so I guess that once you get a (paid) subscription it works everywhere in the world (it has no streaming restrictions). So all you need to do to try it out is create an account through a proxy/VPN and you're all set!
Is it really just UI polish? Google+ makes you choose who you're posting to on every post. Does Facebook? Isn't that a pretty big difference; on Facebook it is an optional entity that you must seek out and on Google+ it is a feature built into the posting architecture. You cannot post to Google+ without choosing a circle (even Public is presented as being a circle, reiterating the importance of the concept).
Yep, you caught me I got confused on effect & affect - guess i should open a whole new position for it. Though the idea of someone watching over our pudding & panty operating does sound appealing since that is a large part of our operations out here ;)
While I'd appreciate artisan soda, I wouldn't want to pay the premium price.

A 20 oz bottle of coke/pepsi is overpriced at $2 in NYC. I wouldn't want to pay $4?[1] for a soda jerk mixing natural syrups into carbonated water.

[1]http://brooklynfarmacy.blogspot.com/p/our-menu.html
There are far too many "official site" links for me to think it's manual... I know DDG does deep indexing of Wikipedia, perhaps it's using the target of the "Official website" link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jquery?

Edit: Yeah, I think that's the case. These searches don't show the "Official Site" badge: http://ddg.gg/?q=jenkins+ci http://ddg.gg/?q=hudson+ci, but these do: http://ddg.gg/?q=jenkins+software http://ddg.gg/?q=hudson+software

Compare those queries to the name of the wikipedia pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_(software)
There was some article or blog I read that put forth a very convincing argument that "corporate speak" (what the OP is all about, which applies not only to external comm but also internal) is actually necessary and beneficial. Something about how you can't talk to everyone the same way because they all have different perspectives/bets/goals, but sometimes as a leader you have everyone looking at you at the same time, so you have to say something.

Basically as you mature as a leader, your communication style has to evolve.
beatpanda.com is available, better go ahead and buy it
I pay for it too. Got addicted in Sweden... it changed the way I consume music. You go to a party and it's always just a laptop with spotify. You and everyone else can access your playlists or any song, anytime. It's brilliant.
Just found this too. I'll head over to Raleigh for Clojure. The programing course looks nice too. I'm just getting into the whole LISP/ARC/CLOJURE scene but I come from a Mathematica/Matlab background so this feels a bit more natural than say Ruby and Django. I'm excited. Anyway to score some free tickets?
Its fairly easy to fake PageRank via cloaking. You basically just redirect the Google toolbar queries to the real domain. Of course you're not actually fooling Google - just people using their toolbar or similar tools to check PageRank.

That's probably what happened here. The jquery.it domain has nowhere near enough link strength to get an 8/10:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.it/a!links

jquery.com, for comparison:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.com/a!links
I wonder exactly how old the "old" codebase was at the time of the rewrite? It seems like it couldn't have been too old, with PhoneGap and Moustache playing a prominent part in the original system.
I'm wondering the same thing... No word in the news about Canada
So max $300-400 cost to me on the very unlikely (for me) chance that I have to change service in the next 2 years vs. an absolutely certain several hundred $s off the price of the device? Doesn't seem that insane unless I'm missing something.
Definitely still doesn't work for me.
First off, that's just a cool picture I like. I didn't even notice any cleavage until you mentioned it - sorry - wasn't meant to offend.

I wouldn't be offended if a guy had buff arms in a picture or his shirt opened a little & you could see his abs - the picture was meant to represent me (someone my CTO would be spending a lot of time with) and I simply liked it - thought it looked cool w/ the Instagram lens I chose to use.

Again, apologies if it offended you.
I get the Zuckerberg quote, but Demi Moore endorsing the product can't be relevant to anyone who might request an invite to a just launching music service.
You cannot upload tracks to Rdio
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it is how i represent myself online & off - just me being me, nothing racy or sexual intended.
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Wouldn't more people joining your pool increase your chances of more bitcoins? I know your % in the pool will go down, but your pool has a better chance overall.
Facebook should be very worried
Mt Gox has an API:
https://mtgox.com/support/tradeAPI
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Couldn't they just notice both sites are identical, and one has way more authority?

Doesn't seem that hard to me, compared to the other tasks they do.
You can't really upload tracks, as in upload to the cloud. You can only import tracks into the client so that you don't need another media player to play them.
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Spotify is coming to the U.S.
That line was a joke... I like to try and be clever in my writing but obviously it often falls flat :) The strength of the position is how far we've got without a CTO - product shipped, iterations made, sales & traction - not me or my poor attempts at humor.
My favorite part of punchfork (besides Jeff) are the custom url shorteners. Check out the customize dropdown on the side of a recipe page: http://punchfork.com/recipe/Bramble-Chow

Nice little touch.
Im not sure since I've never used Rdio. But here is what I love about spotify (I am a premium subscriber for a laughable fee of £10 per month for all the ad-free music I want).

- The collection is enormous, and newly released albums become available pretty quickly. There are of course artists who are not available but there is so much out there its insane.

- The speed. Since its pretty much legalized P2P, I never need to wait for a song (well maybe sometimes there is latency but its rare).

- Its mobile, across international borders. I live in the UK and travel a lot. I can still access the service from anywhere.

And also, yes I can index my local catalogue (but the local tracks are not available on other machines/devices).
This is the part of a rewrite that scares the crap out of me. When you have thousands of users across hundreds of big clients, with millions of existing records and a decade of history, making a big switch in one go seems impossible.
Go out and talk with other nerds. The easiest way to network in our industry is to open Meetup.com and look for JavaScript, C++, whatever events to discuss technology with like-minded nerds. And where there are nerds, there are nerds that work for other companies that might be interested in hiring more nerds.
They don't need to integrate them into the MSFT culture. Just put them on the payroll.
wow -- that's a whopping 0.019% per year! [ snore ]
Twitter's URL shortener is a phishing vulnerability
Finally: an XMPP pub sub search engine is being made
A progress report on the development of an XMPP pub sub search engine from our GSoC participant Abmar
I sure hope so, it must suck to have to read insightful posts.
Are the public profiles in Google search results? (I'm assuming they are.)
Grooveshark already does everything listed. And it's been available in the USA for years. The only problem is their iPhone app has been continuously rejected by Apple so they've been forced to publish for iOS on Cydia's store for jailbroken apps. That and licensing/litigation issues with some large recording companies. They have deals with a few and have been through court with others.
This is great! Lots of fun.
A sort of, counterargument:
I think that individuals don't change that much. Most, almost all of my friends haven't changed. Change is difficult and deliberate.

We get better at sorting through "noise" over time. What is noise to one person is music to someone else.

I'd argue that hacker news is changing as it grows - what started out as an acute viewpoint of like-minded people is growing into a fairly diverse membership that agrees on principles. This increases the noise for everyone else.

Services like HackerFollow and Twitter let us find and hang on to individuals in an otherwise growing and therefore noisier environment.

[edit: Removed 'slowly' from in front of 'growing'.]
What is the readership number of hacker monthly?
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It would be hard for one company to develop a proprietary and a open source runtime.

The big company that should really look at Mono is Nokia... Mono will likely be better than Qt in providing a portable runtime for mobile applications. Qt and Mono would go great together on the Desktop too(the current bindings kind of suck). I actually don't see how Windows Phone ever takes off unless 1) They start allowing native code on their phones 2) Mono becomes extremely popular as a cross phone runtime.

Another company I wish that would take a look at mono is VMWare(who bought out Spring)...
Great API docs...some of the big boys should take note!
I've been a spotify subscriber for two years now, and it's more less the only player I use for music on my PC, mobile and ipad.

Together with the related artists feature of Spotify, Spotify social(sharing playlists etc.) and scrobbling to Last.fm, I've discovered lots of new music I enjoy. It really is fantastic. The client is also pretty quick and fairly sparesome on resource usage.

It's a bit annoying when music surreptitiously disappear from their library -- in that case you have to use local files.
Facebook has a recent history of bad products. Their last hit was the Like button and how long ago was that now?
It must depend in part on how people use your site and what you hope to happen with the move. If most of your users just go to the top front page every day to read what you've posted, you could almost certainly post the new URL on your front page (maybe not even link it and make them copy-and-paste it), a one-time slight inconvenience for your users and you start from zero on accumulating new Google juice. After a little while, you'll start showing up in Google rankings again.

If a lot of people have bookmarks and/or on-page links to your site, and you have a bunch of regular users that you want to transition, a 301 is the web-standard right way to do that; but the cost is that you'll have a longer walk in the Google wilderness. I have to assume that the "transferred from a bad neighbourhood" poison isn't permanent (especially if you take down the 301s after a few weeks or a month) but it seems like it would start you off with negative Google juice.

Which might be worth it, or might not. How many referrals were you getting from Google before the co.cc thing went down?
The victim of SEO?

No, the victim of a scam and Google. The site barely has any inbound links, if this is SEO, they suck.

This is a google fail, not an SEO fail.
You can upload tracks to the cloud, but you can only play them with a Spotify client.

Further: if the track is in the GraceNote database, you can share the track (via a playlist) with friends on Spotify.
I do not see a wave of Facebook users moving to G+. It just isn't gonna happen.
That doesn't mean the math is wrong. What he's saying is each day the total value of bitcoins is going up by that amount because # of bitcoins * current price. He's also saying that it doesn't make sense, he sees irrationality in the behavior. If more bitcoins are added than value created, prices should go down, but aren't, they are stable. Something seems to be out of whack, the market isn't behaving rationally. Essentially bitcoins are becoming more overvalued as more get unlocked because supply is increasing faster than demand but the exchanges aren't reflecting that (yet).
For what it's worth, Bing (and therefore DDG) gets the more specific search in question right too: http://www.bing.com/search?q=jquery+1.6.2
That's one thing that mildly annoys me about twitter. It clearly knows where a shortened link is heading because it reveals the full URL on the mouseover. Given that information, why does it need the shortened link any more?
(I just asked BigBoss about this.)

No, it's down due to an insane traffic load. It'll be up as soon as either a) traffic gets less insane (not likely to happen soon) or b) BigBoss adds more capacity. I'd also suggest to just keep trying: it'll likely work to install just that if you just keep trying to download it (eventually).

Edit: I've put up a copy of it here, you can install this with "dpkg -i" on the device (via SSH): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3177211/pdfpatch2_1_iphoneos-arm.deb
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Given that they are delta updates, they will probably be able to push a patch within a few days. Let's hope they take advantage of it.
I think as long as you can pay from an account in one of the licensed countries, it will work.
I agree with the idea in general. However, there are many cases where companies would (and should) hire people from outside their direct network. One is if the company is growing too fast (People in the direct network may be very busy & happy with their current jobs, making it harder to find enough of them). The other is if the company is looking to get diverse experiences and opinions. Imagine a social networking company formed by some employees of Facebook -- they would be better off by hiring someone from MySpace or Friendster who saw how difficult it was to compete with Facebook, and who tried to find niches to be able to co-exist with Facebook.

Similarly, for an employee, there are benefits of going out of their own network to get a job -- You get to work in a completely different setting (which may be a better learning experience for you), and you get to build a completely new network.
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I have used both and the only real difference for me has been the availability of music. However this is probably just a result of a US Rdio account and Swedish spotify account. I have found finding new music to be slightly easier in Rdio.
Am I the only one that really hates this stuff? I have a Facebook account because I have to have one in order to be a socially functional 20-something, but I don't actually like or want it. Please "social media douchebags", just stop.
I have no idea why it doesn't get more attention. Inferior marketing department, I suppose.
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You recognized the name, so that counts for something.
No real need if you don't: there's no additional vector added by the jailbreak to even try entering a password if you don't have sshd installed.
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> It also has cloned the subdomains

and http://code.jquery.it. It's an exact mirror of jquery.com, the only differences are the tld, the borked download file and ads.
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This will likely never happen.
Discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2734612
Then it might be time to explore some other hobbies. There are non-computer related things do that don't require you to be in shape and that includes actually getting in shape! Fly an RC helicopter, start hiking, volunteer at the soup kitchen. No one is going to care about some snippet of code but that's your fault for being so 1-dimensional

If all you have for work and pleasure involves sitting at a computer then you are cutting out a large part of being alive. Plus you are risking your health. You typecast yourself as a nerd but that does not mean you must handcuff yourself to a computer desk.
It's hard to completely tell from the article, but this almost sounds like they built a new product, not really a rewrite. The new product subsumed the old system, but really could be described as a different product (in the way that Word is not just a refactored version of Notepad). Nevertheless, great read.

One thing to also note is that Fred Brooks has stated that his "Throw one away" idea was wrong. He now says, "I would now recommend this for bad teams only. Now, I suggest you make schedules on previous experience of your team. My new approach: INCREMENTAL SE, i.e. build a small functionally limited but working system and then expand it."
Maybe, but if I were writing a script to scrape and clone a site I'd probably strip canonical meta tags anyways.

There needs to be an international douche law to serve as a deterrent to this kind of behaviour.
Bingo. Thus the people wondering if Google isn't a bigger threat to Twitter than Facebook.

The real issue for Facebook is that, if Google+ is successful (my feel is that it's a strategic fire-break to stop Facebook's possible domination of social search), it limits the ways Facebook can additionally monetize their social network.

Google+ doesn't need to fail for Facebook to survive, but it does hem in their possible revenue growth.

Now twitter...
All of these arguments are the same arguments you need to think through when determining whether to make a web app vs. a native app on the desktop. They're identical, because the desktop is just another device.

I completely agree with all the arguments, except possibly that we should never use hacks. We used (and still use) hacks on the web for desktop use when browsers sucked, and we'll do it on mobile devices, too. It's the way the state-of-the-art is pushed forward; it's inevitable. I think he would agree with me, seeing that he pointed out Scrollability's use on the iPad being somewhat valid. That said, the author's underlying point examines why we use those hacks and to evaluate whether we're solving a non-existent problem.

Edit: I might clarify my hacks point. The reason they're inevitable is that they sometimes expose browser deficiencies. A current example would be web sockets. We've been using comet-type hacks in lieu of a real web socket solution (and Chrome has now implemented one).
Grooveshark is user uploaded which means duplicates, fakes, bad tagging (so the "same" song might have widely different total times). Use Grooveshark if you like trial/error in your music listening.
It is brain-damaged that both Reddit and HackerNews do this.

Their next page URL's should either be page based ("show me page 4, even if page 4 has changed") or based on the next article ("show me the page that contains article 1234"). You might see a few duplicates are miss a few articles but you wouldn't get "unknown or expired link" errors.
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Yes and not: they point to the official jquery site only, but the first result is the main page rather than the (more interesting imo) release post.
To clarify if I upload a few track from my home computer that Spotify does not have a license to, I can then play these tracks later on my phone?
When is the worst time to submit something to HN?
I remember that in Italy there were a lot of minitels and what was impressive was that there were minitel pages where you could buy services, it was pretty impressive and the "chat" page was full of people. I remember I was a bit shocked when a few years later no body was using it anymore... I wonder why it failed even before the internet started to be widely used.
But then you're increasing the barrier to entry to users. You're assuming the user cares enough about your app that they will sacrifice a spot on their home screen and will want to tap three buttons to get to it...
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I don't think Grooveshark is a very good product, but I'm not crazy about Spotify either. Last time I used Spotify (about a year ago) they didn't even have the ability save albums to a collection or library. You could only create playlists which turned into terrible UI once you had more than a few. Not having a web interface is also a major minus in my book.
Grooveshark is great and since moving the US I've used it a lot. Where I think Spotify wins out over Grooveshark is the quality of their music library. I frequently find that albums on Grooveshark are missing tracks, in the incorrect order, or are incorrectly named. I guess it's a little thing but it feels like a big difference.
I am aware. I am just wondering if an Rdio/Amazon Music mashup service exists.
The most important: Audio quality. If you have a paid Spotify subscription, you get 320kbps ogg streams (when they're available).
Guaranteed that it'll be easier for Facebook to mimic the successful features of Google+ than it will be fore Google+ to acquire the relationships that are already captured in Facebook.
> And also, yes I can index my local catalogue (but the local tracks are not available on other machines/devices).

They sync just fine to my phone and iPod, so long as they are in playlists.
I wish I had your UI skills Jeff!...
Been using PF for a while now and it's great.
I must wonder if it will have the same great success as they did in Europe in the US. After all, the US market is fairly saturated already. Is it really different from the likes of Mog, Rdio, Rhapsody or Grooveshark?

From articles I've read, it seems that tech writers call it the "Holy Grail", then describe features that the others already have. Was it just the allure of using something that isn't available stateside? I don't even think it competes on the price point, probably being the same price as everyone else.

Or am I a blind man, missing something that everyone else sees?

[EDIT: I put in an invite request, just like most of you. If it does turn out to be pretty good, I want to see it myself.]

Disclaimer: I formally worked with Grooveshark.
Some conjectures (frankly, after having just read the title):

+ Good and bad are both cascade effects.

+ Religion might be seen as a device to "generate" a good motive albeit one external to the immediate environment/circumstance, the goal being to promote "good" behavior in the face of / despite being the recipient of "bad" behavior or circumstances. (The follow on questions might be what is defined as "good" behavior and whom is it benefiting.)

+ Our actions do indeed affect others, and perhaps not just those we are immediately involved with.

+ Altruism is about bettering the environment within which we exist.

Note also that, per the link at the end of the article, this study is not behind a paywall:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0392
Hackers release new browser-based iOS 'jailbreak' based on PDF exploit
That doesn't make much sense. GoDaddy is the largest registrar in the world, with the most extensive general public advertising campaign, and manages over 45 million domains. They're the registrar for your neighbor and your neighborhood small business more often than not.