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This is one of the few really reasonable comments I've seen about this issue. Most people are taking very extreme positions on this. It makes sense that they take such positions to be heard in the face of such radical opposition but here, amongst ourselves, why can't we just say that copyright has some merits to it. It isn't perfect but no copyright at all wouldn't be good. We can't be going around deciding that people in certain professions (musicians, visual artists, programmers) should no longer have any rights to their work and need to find another way to make money.

People will stop sharing their creations. I give away some open source stuff but I'd like to reserve the rights to some of my work for at least some reasonable period of time. People will always release great things for free but some people will either stop releasing or have less time or motivation to create these great things if copyright went away. This shouldn't be a choice between one or the other. Both choices put more people at a disadvantage than simply scaling back copyright would.

How about this, we all know government is broken. So do we get rid of it and become anarchists? Anarchists would say yes but the rest of us wouldn't. A better solution would be to address the issues causing the problem rather than simply getting rid of the thing that has a problem. You don't kill yourself to get over the flu. You don't stop eating completely because your fat. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. Let's keep copyright but modify it to benefit the most people.

Anti-copyright proponents would like us to think they are doing things "for the people". I say they're doing it for themselves. When you and all your friends think a certain way it's easy to think everyone else feels the same. Let's remember that "the people" are more than just consumers and ant-copyright-friendly creators. They're indie developers making awesome stuff we love, they're working at startups we drool over, and yeah, they work for the evil corporation too but are we really going to deny them everything they ask for out of spite? A good solution would work for most of the people most of the time (even the people trying to screw us but oh well). It isn't extreme or black and white and it takes into account that a creator's rights aren't any less important than a consumer's.
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Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA
I've sadly realized that almost all job offers are based on some combination of what they offer other candidates at that level and what you state your previous salary as.

Given that you're an unknown commodity, they use your previous salary to determine how other companies valued you.

Between 2001 to 2006 my salary went from 60k to 94k

2006 to 2008 I took a job at a "hot" startup and went down to 89k in return for options (I am never doing that again for a company bigger than 5 people).

2008 to 2012 I took a job that started at 95k, and I've only been able to drive the salary up to 103k even though I've gotten the highest rating possible on every performance evaluation (and I've been a key contributor to hardware development worth about 50 million in revenue -- when other products are breaking even / losing money).

I feel that the only way I can advance my current position is by getting other job offers, but I don't want to be that guy.
It's not easy getting links. More importantly, if you have a great product where everyone else has great products, the marginal benefit of having the best product with the most amount of authoritative links is huge, because the # of clicks that come from the top result over #2 is monumental. So even if you get thousands upon thousands of links, like those that rank for "cheap flights", it's the site that gets thousands and thousands +1 that will win the day, and make millions more on a long enough timeline.
What does "hacker ethics" have to do with a supposed "religion" based on free transfer of information?

There may be similarities, but a "religion" that claims to believe that information should be free would seem to have no room for private information. Keeping your private information private ought to be a cardinal sin in kopimism. If it's private, then you're not sharing it, but you claim that information should be shared.

Thus, kopimism a bunch of insincere, sophomoric rubbish.
The post is not intended to be a SEO guide. It is priceonomics's doing their SEO (getting inbound links, etc.).

Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Is there a hack to force Twitter not to convert words like ASP.NET to links?
Agree, and it wouldn't have worked for even New York a couple of years ago. Right now, one of the biggest advantages for New York startups is the terrific (& free) PR push from Bloomberg himself. Go Codecademy!
Ask HN: Most notable achievements of  web 2.0?
Apologies I hardly ever comment, prefer to absorb.

I've been thinking about this a lot myself but I figured there'd be no better place to ask than here (open to correction).

By 2.0 I mean the period post-dotcom to present.

Please don't answer in the negative thanks, there's heaps of comment on that already.
Yeah Rdio is pretty great, and they give artists access to an under-publicised affiliate program allowing them to earn money off the audience they drive to the platform. Solid iOS app. Personally my favorite of the streaming services.

I'd also keep an eye on eMusic. It's more geared towards downloads, but they offer a lot of really great editorial content for discovery plus they offer multiple streaming radio stations for members. They've got smart people so I think they might make a surge in features.

A lot of people are into MOG.com as well. I have issues with their CEOs attitude towards licenses and how the money goes to creators, but otherwise the catalog is strong and they offer solid access across multiple platforms.
Will Apple tarnish brand with Target 'store-within-a-store' outlets?
who recommends highly nested folder trees? i've not heard this and have certainly seen it hurt sites. all things equal, flatter is better. my rule of thumb is go as flat as you can while still having an organized, navigable URL structure.
Well, Fogbeam Labs would probably be willing to setup shop in Raleigh. Might have to talk to Red Hat about investing in us... :-)
Personally, I think it's more "two great tastes that taste great together" than it it is "Martha Stewart for Kmart"
I wonder if this type of business behavior explains some of the places in Boston I saw that were always "going out of business" only to reopen the next day, as practical the same thing. There was a rug store on Boylston that was like that. I swear it must have had 10 going out of business sales.
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What is up with Facebook ads?
I absolutely agree... that this is how it should be.

The only problem is that it isn't currently this way (despite what Google and Matt Cutt's might say). It is naive to think that this approach is going work.

Furthermore, you're competitors are going to do accessibility + SEO, and they are going to trounce you. randfish said this better than I could, so I'll leave it at that.

You can get away with what you are suggesting if you have staggeringly awesome content, but even then - why risk it. If you integrate SEO into your culture from the start, and have the right process then it doesn't have to be that hard.
I think the essential difference is that shares in a company are not pure information that can be reproduced at negligible cost.

Point is that even though "shareholder rights" are somewhat abstract, they are less at odds with the laws of physics than "intellectual property rights".
Labels don't want a service like Grooveshark to exist, which gives away their product for nothing. If they wanted it, they could easily build it themselves.
I didn't realize the process used by ICE was different than what SOPA suggests, but that makes sense now that you've explained it.

I don't understand how DNSBL is different though for the end user. I realize DNSBL is voluntary and SOPA would mandate/force, but I don't see how the effects are different. For a DNS server that uses a DNSBL, does it regard a blacklisted domain name through DNSBL differently than one that blacklisted through SOPA?

Regarding CDNs, for a user initiating request for a non-blacklisted site, why would the CDN be now less efficient in its response?

I have no idea if there is a design flaw in DNS or CDNs. My point is that if DNS and CDNs become drastically inefficient by having to ignore certain names, then it sounds like it could have been designed better to handle such cases.
> I feel that the only way I can advance my current position is by getting other job offers, but I don't want to be that guy.

I don't understand that. Who is /that guy/ and why don't you want to be him?
Not to mention whoever it gets donated to is likely going to end up spending $1000+ over the lifetime on games, accessories, subscriptions, etc.

It's a nice gesture, yes, but I still doubt they will be "out" anything for it in the long run.
Does this really need to be discussed on HN?
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That is the common meaning of the term nowadays. Many people are actually surprised when they first encounter the original usage as the name for a place where Jews were forced to live. I'm sorry if you consider it disrespectful, but I don't think we should blame the editor for using words as they are commonly understood. The modern usage does derive from the traditional meaning, though — the idea is that certain groups are forced there by socioeconomic conditions over which they have very little control.
Steve Wozniak is a true hacker. Kudos for the achievement.
Just signed up to give it a try, and after entering my email address and password I was presented with a button that took me straight to GMail. Of course I could have simply switched tabs, but this was an awesome little detail that made me smile.
As a side note (for all of you who've typed :wq in the code entry field), you can 'gem install rubywarrior' and play Ryan Bates's original locally. A little snappier, too.
You're upset that a random website on the Internet doesn't know exactly where you are?
I'd be happy to have a discussion about a possible relationship between libraries and a dissolution of secular thinking in America--I'm just saying an emotional and hyperbolic lamentation of the death of a library is not that discussion.

Not sure why that's a down vote. I just don't see the correlation.
In high school I was working at a failing grocery store that decided to go out of business. In the weeks prior to the going out of business sale we marked up everything in the store by at least 33%. Then we had the "sale".

I remember the manager telling me we were making $30,000 a day during the week-long sale. I guess "going out of business" is good business, haha.
This is an interesting point and one I haven't thought of like this. The past year, I kept telling people to start learning to program, because there will be an unprecedented increase in demand for programmers and knowing how to program (even just a little bit) will be greatly beneficial no matter in what line of life you are in.

But can it come to the point where if you can't code, you get left behind? It might not be so farfetched.
Just staying, our literally written policy was "Offer DDD": donate, destroy, or "dispose of" (a polite euphemism for "You keep it") the misshipped item. I would have added the Christmas flourish if I were saying it in December, too, but the options would have been the same in July. (n.b. The business does not care what you do. We want to convey, in the politest possible way, that we both don't want it and don't want to talk to you about it.)
I did a quick SEO analysis on priceonomics.com. Most of these tips fall into the 20% category. Maybe they can use some of these tips to perfect their SEO strategies.

1. Blog on a subdomain.

Though sometimes easier for administration, subdomains might dilute your SEO efforts. Links to a subdomain don't count 100% as links to your main domain. A /blog/ could help with the generation of incoming links and addition of fresh content to the domain you want indexed a lot.

2. Employ Canonical

www. redirects to non-www. Trailing slashes get added automatically. So far so good. But it is still easy to create duplicate URL's by adding random dynamic variables.

Without Canonical an URL like /boats/?dupe=content will point to the same resource as /boats/. Here you might introduce a canonical problem. (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-y...)

3. Optimize your site for speed

Though not that many search queries are affected by the site-speed algo, site speed remains very important for your visitors, and so indirectly for your SEO/marketing efforts. Google Site Speed plugin, Yslow or these guidelines (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html) might help you fix some of these issues and gain a few seconds.

Mostly loading javascript just before </body>, turning on caching, and compressing and combining resources.

4. Robots.txt vs meta robots

/search is disallowed in robots.txt. If you disallow it on a page basis, with meta robots, you can specify: "noindex, follow". That way if people link to your search results, link juice will keep flowing through your site.

5. Breadcrumbs

Add rich snippets mark-up. For product information and reviews, but an obvious contender is the breadcrumb. Link to your twitter (and future Google+ profile) with 'rel=me' to signify ownership of your graph.

6. Images

Add an alt-attribute to the site logo. Specify the dimensions for faster rendering.

7. Don't critique ehow.com if you fill Google's index with 245.000+ automated results.

Or put less bluntly: Write more unique content to introduce bigger categories. Add more relevant content to your listings (reviews, search/trend data, price watch).

8. Make clear if an item is "already sold".

If I click on 10 entries and I get 10 times "item already sold" I start to doubt the usefulness of the application. I compare this to a job site, where the jobs are mostly filled: You happen upon
such a site through Google, because Google still thinks these listings are relevant.

9. Quality

The site is mostly void of trust factors. Due to some listings being in ALL-CAPS, some result pages can look a bit spammy. Add more trust factors, and try to repair spammy listings.
Here's a not so quick tip: learn to steer conversations towards value for your client/employer, not just skills or abstract, hard-to-quantify achievements. When you and your potential employer are talking about millions of dollars, a 50% increase in salary becomes rather small.
Well, then please point out the flaw(s) in my logic, we're all adults here right?
Also, there are some limits that should not be exceeded, period. Like the cases in the article where they exceeded the operating tolerances of the neck and gave themselves strokes.

Yoga certifications really ought to include a basic anatomy and physiology component.
What was the final CTR% for the campaign?
Although I have to ask, why then has nature made the lower back flexible?
That was interesting.

If you like this kind of sleuthing and analysis, you'll enjoy http://sharesleuth.com/ - Which is a Mark Cuban pet project that investigates shady listed companies in search for shortable targets.
I used to work for Grooveshark and your accusations are pretty unfair. We've always complied with the DMCA and our terms are equal to what you'd find on any other UGC site. GS also signed up hundreds if not thousands of small indie labels that have loved working with us. Have you seen the Featured section or any of the Artist theme promotions? Yea, many of those are unsigned artists that we promote often for no cost. We've done great things for bands like Skyrocket Love and Tay Dizm. http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/040811grooveshark

> Their staff is rude

You're welcome to form your own opinions, but I can tell you that the people who work at Grooveshark are some of the nicest and most fun-loving individuals you'll ever meet. You have to be humble in this industry. You don't make a whole lot of money and you have to hustle to sign up every act you can. You go to every concert. You meet with every executive. And at the end of the day you give away 70% of your hard-earned money to someone else.
Sure, but it's an is-ought thing. More people may be using computers in a library than using books. More people prefer McDonald's to healthy eating doesn't mean health policy needs to follow preferences. The point of an institution is it is supposed to stand for something.

A library exists because of the belief that literacy, knowledge, research, ideas and creativity are good things. That some people don't see them as good things doesn't mean they are right.
DO NOT learn yoga from a book. Your body will follow the path of least resistance and trick you into doing asanas incorrectly. That's a major way people get injured or at the very least don't get full benefits from their practice. It is essential you find a teacher that knows what (s)he's doing.
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Yes, but not everyone will do this. I hardly read any newspapers and try to avoid news sites, but if something's really interesting my friends will bring it up. For now, this strategy works just fine.
I would never recommend this. Never, ever, negotiate salary. Negotiate COMPENSATION.
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Imagine how much easier this is when the subjects openly declare their connections on Facebook.
In my area, we have one of the largest spends on libraries in the country. But unlike a lot of other groups, those of us who just turn up and want to borrow books seem to not get much say in library policy. I don't think any of the community stuff is bad, and the local government needs to provide services for people, but that's not an excuse for reducing the books on the shelves, making inter-library loan services worse and so on. Libraries serve a lot of constituencies, but they sometimes forget that readers are one of them.
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Fixpoint of (λx. a photo of me holding x in my hand).
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"How to research a slumlord", from last year, has a lot more information about the process: http://drpop.org/2010/04/how-to-research-a-slumlord/
I would like to hear the other side of this story, though.

From what I understand, sellers are the ones that get stiffed in almost all PayPal disputes. As a buyer, I'm not surprised you had a good experience.

Note: As both a seller and a buyer, I've never had a problem with PayPal.
What I found weird about at case is that it did not consider the investment made by going to the theater. The time spent to go to the theater will be significant relative to that $10 ticket. And that is even ignoring travel and parking costs, and the fact that, by going to the theatre, you cut out other options of spending the night.

Because of that, I think most people would buy a new ticket.
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"Its a bit scary, in that it will force such conspiracies to become more complex (its an arms race after all)"

I'd say rather that it will push smaller players out of this kind of corrupt business. If you can't sell the business to your uncle without someone making the connection, you have to have a wider circle of trusted conspirators. If you're the mafia, that may not be a problem. If you're just a crooked family, you might just go out of business.
Agreed. He has been tinkering with and working towards this goal of his for some years now. Can't wait to see it get more exposure.

A bright mind is a bright mind is a bright mind.
I dont know why you were downvoted, because that's what I was wondering when I read this. But unfortunately, poor areas are often "high crime areas". Lets forgo the semantics for a second and consider the implications. I wonder if this is just a first step towards "Out of sight, out of mind" approach. Lets not forget that all the 99% are not equal and if we apply Pareto principle, there is a minority that is living in dire circumstances. And considering the flow of wealth this pool will keep growing. I wonder if steps like these will contribute to the escalation of problem. I'm certainly not suggesting that people risk their safety, but 'Eloi' and 'Morlocks' keep popping in my head when I assume that steps like these will only intensify in the foreseeable future..
I just added a 'Pin It' button to my friend's blog... why is this news? If anything, the design and vibrancy of Pintrest serves to highlight the lackluster design of Etsy's Treasury, their internal list-making section. The Treasury is rigidly laid out and uninspired, while Pinterest feels open and modern.
> balloons capable of traversing large distances safely and reliably.

How would you do that? Once it is in the air isn't it at the mercy of the air currents (can you control the altitude?). Then is it a matter of analyzing and predicting the flow of air currents and the weather?

Japanese for example attempted to send balloons over the pacific that were intended to drop on US and start forest fires.

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

They even claimed one human victim.
I'm glad the subhead of the article made the joke we were all thinking as soon as we read the title on HN so none of us has to make it.

Too bad it sounds like there's no actual proof that he's talking about SOPA/PIPA, although it would be pretty hard to argue otherwise. If true would Gore be the most notable politician to come out against these acts? (As much as some of us might wish otherwise, it's not all that notable for Ron Paul to come out against it.)
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Thanks!

With the macro you can use arbitrary divisors though ;)

Any desire to refactor that beast?
The difference is that when I go to my regular trainer, he is very specific about not letting me exceed my physical limits. He's also very conscientious about making sure I know my physical limits so I don't hurt myself when he's not around.

In a yoga class, the instructor can regularly instruct people to do things that are inherently dangerous (even if they aren't painful.)

Pushing the risk onto the students is not particularly helpful. The student has placed (or misplaced, depending) their trust in the instructor not to hurt them. It's the instructors job to make sure they don't get hurt, including not having them do inherently dangerous things.

You'd be surprised how much science understands about how the body works.
EVE Online would seem to be prior art. The system keeps statistics on players killed recently, and the autopilot has an option which avoids dangerous routes (or those where you are persona non grata for some local NPCs).