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Decide the changes are sufficient? That seems to assume there's some basic core of SOPA that we agree is good. I'm not sure a lot of people really believe SOPA has a good core. There might be good intentions behind it from some parties, but it seems like if you get rid of all the harmful parts, you still aren't left with anything good. You need to establish that the bill is necessary and beneficial, not just that it isn't completely radioactively harmful.

Also, even if SOPA is defeated or rendered toothless, the AAs will just keep trying to ram their insane demands through Congress. Our representatives need to really understand that the cartel lobbyists don't represent the will of the people, and we won't accomplish that by shrugging and saying, "Eh, good enough."
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I think not. Human computer interaction is moving farther AWAY from this in my view. Note that the most popular consumer devices (phones and tablets) don't allow any way for the user to really accomplish this and actually require a second device to build programs.

John Siracusa talks about this very thing on the latest Hypercritical [1]. Most people, while they could learn to code, have no desire or future being terribly proficient at it. The mindset and critical thinking is not how most people want to spend their time.

[1] http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/48
How can you have a Ruby section and not mention "Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby"!
It's a perfectly rational business decision.

Business involves tradeoffs.

Most people do prefer if someone else hosts the software (which is why most web-based software is hosted).

It's much cheaper for a business to maintain one hosted version than support many customers that host it themselves.

Going for a bigger market that is also cheaper to support is exactly the kind of decision that a rational business would make.
"I can’t afford time off work to exercise"

This sounds quite scary to me. I would think that exercise is not something that goes at the expense of working, it might even increase productivity. Even if it's long walks outside. However, I don't have any references on this except for my very limited personal experience.
I believe parent was trying to express the sentiment that search engines inherently favor sites that are well-structured and present the relevant keywords in a format that is easily parsed by web crawlers.
I personally work with hundreds of artists and MANY of them have been treated terribly by customer service when trying to initiate take-downs. When urged to sign licensing deals it's all or nothing, and if they choose nothing the music remains up on the site regardless. Really — having worked with literally every streaming company I've never seen a higher rate of artist and indie label dis-satisfaction. Not an accusation but a blunt observation.

As for rude: you just demonstrated it. If you think you're giving away 70% of "your money" you don't get it. You're getting a 40% commission of THEIR MONEY. Your money has been made of the backs of creators, and to turn around and call those indie label executives shitheads doesn't endear you to anyone no matter how many concerts you go to.

The only accusations being made, not by me, are the ones in the lawsuit: which claim that Grooveshark executives were uploading content illegally to their own system. If true this is one of the more offensive things I've ever seen from a startup.
good article.

this is valuable information, as it comes from THE FUTURE:

"2012-01-16 18:00, written by Gregory Brown"
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When teaching yoga, the instructor needs to know and understand the limits of the human body. And then, at the very least, need to make sure their students know not to exceed those limits.
There's no question that whitehat SEO pays off. And referring to startups, you mention "I struggle to imagine a situation where smart people just can't read up on it themselves and execute it themselves."

It has everything to do with your opening line: "We've spent a lot of time doing whitehat SEO on our website".

It always comes down to TIME. If you're a new startup, you're trying to work on your business, not in it.

Then you need to find someone who can help you with whitehat organic SEO. And as you mentioned, the hard part is navigating your way through the 'quacks'
Does anyone know what this improvement actually is? The article makes it sound like their card is doing DMA to pinned user allocations, but that doesn't sound too revolutionary. I know next to nothing about storage controllers, but see the last many years of high-speed networking for an entire ecosystem based around that concept.
Ahahahah, I suppose I should fix that :)
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One tip that has worked for me when I was learning English (I am native French speaker) is to read in the languages I wanted to learn books I already read in my native language, and I liked. That way I didn't have to look for words in the dictionary all the time because I already knew what the author wanted to say, plus I had the satisfaction of reading the original text which is always better than a translation!
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It's not strange at all. They don't measure device units with their stats. They measure "time spent in the browser". Considering an iPad is used a lot more for web browsing than a phone, whether it's iPhone or Android, it dramatically skews the results in favor of "iOS". Plus, they measure stock Android browser usage. And many Android users don't even use the stock browser.

But the main point is they don't measure device units, so if you're looking for that, don't look at browser stats, especially not the ones from Net Marketshare. They've always been misleading like that. They've even added the iOS browser numbers to desktop Safari numbers once and said "Safari had much higher growth than Chrome" - which is just silly.

If you want device numbers, just listen to what the companies themselves are saying. The last numbers from Apple for all iOS devices were 250 million, and 200 million Android devices. Clearly the Net Marketshare stats don't show that at all. They show iOS being 3x bigger, which is very misleading, and what's upsetting is that they actually bank on it.
Fountain codes look very interesting. There was a project at OLPC, I think written in Forth for OpenFirmware, that used something like fountain codes to reflash massive numbers of computers. It worked like this. Turn one XO-1 on in OFW mode, insert a USB with the disk image you wanted to be on all machines, and turn it on as the source server. Boot into OFW, the other XO-1s you want to reflash, and tell them to receive a new image. I think there was a key shortcut of some kind that told a machine to receive. The server XO would continue to send packets until all other machines had received enough packets to make up a complete disk image. If I remember correctly, they used it to reflash 3000 machines in the field that I heard about. There may have been more elsewhere or since.
I think best thing is just look for something when you dont need it. Then when they ask about salary, mention any number, it doesn't matter. Then when they give you a final offer, be a hard-ass and ask for 30% more. Keep saying no until you get the offer or they don't call you back. You might get laughed at a handful of times, but there will be someone who will give in. Again, do this when you don't need a job and aren't desperate. Just keep being a hardass and douchebag. It's not hard to when you're looking for sumthing casually.
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Labels prefer people streaming over downloading, correct? AsI understand their reasoning, streaming is more inconvenient than a downloaded song, so the incentive to purchase the tracks remains.

(The logic of streaming being more inconvenient than a file makes less and less sense each year, though as wireless connectivity improves).
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A corner desk is probably not enough. You really need to have a completely separate office area that is used 100% for work. Last I checked, the home office also must be for the benefit of the employer and not only for the employee. Add in that your chances of being audited go up significantly with a home office deduction and it makes it a risk that needs to be weighed carefully. Definitely find a CPA and get them onboard before trying to claim the home office deduction.
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From a user's perspective, it seems like seeing a checkout with Amazon button would make me feel more compared to other vanilla checkout systems, not to mention it'd be more convenient already having my billing information stored with Amazon.
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Also, Trello is really easy to just close, a paper you'll have to hide it manually, going analog sometimes is good.

Funny I find I have the exact opposite 'problem'. Trello is always there on my bookmark bar on every computer I own, one click away from viewing anywhere I happen to be. On the other hand I tend to lose any paper to do list I make, and even when I don't lose them, half the time they're not where I happen to be.
I'm not sure there is necessarily a productivity hit. The tradeoff is between a smaller number of better programmers on a new technology stack and a larger number of worse programmers on some boring old technology stack.

Also, don't forget that these people have to invent the product as well, not just code it. Their productivity as inventors may be a lot higher on their preferred platform.

Obviously, it's not the same for every kind of product, but Fog Creek doesn't make medical devices.
I thought so. It shows a good way to turn a mistake into a positive PR story, valuable for startups to understand imo.

As others have pointed out the cost of this for Microsoft is miniscule compared to both the positive press from Consumerist and the, likely, positive word of mouth of the person who got the extra X-Box.

I'll admit it isn't the 'normal' fare of "Startup X lands 90 kajillion dollars to build Facebook-GroupOn-Twitter Mashup 2.0 in Ruby/Erlang/Go!!" or "New proof of Tychonoff's theorem", but you know, everyone has different tastes and I do love me some variety of time wasting stories to read while my code compiles.
I think engtech's point is they wish their work was better-recognized and better-rewarded, without him/her feeling he had to force his employer's hand by pulling a "well, XYZ corp is all lined up to pay me 20% more!" (AKA, "the squeaky wheel gets the grease").

Maybe that's realistically what you do have to do, but that doesn't mean it's ideal. It's easy to view the employer/employee relationship in a purely market-driven, antagonistic style, but I think many people who like their jobs really wish it wasn't like that.

Again, it might be naive, but that doesn't make it wrong to feel that way. It really would be great if businesses could treat their employees like friends, and not just resources.
"Yoga won't wreck your body."

So those people whose bodies were wrecked doing yoga - and several specific examples were given in the article - I assume they weren't doing yoga? Sounds like the Fallacy of the True Scotsman to me.

Those Christians who steal, they aren't really Christians, right? Those Jews who let men and women mix in the synagogue, do they "adhere to things in their true spirit"?

And so on. Those who claim that there is a true way walk a dangerous path.
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The diagrams remind me of the hand-drawn ones FBI agent John O'Neill created after the USS Cole incident and continually updated prior to the attacks of 9/11.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/conne...
This is probably the most beneficial Founder Story I've seen in a long time. I'd highly recommend a watch. The video proves that hard work has always been essential in the tech industry, with our without outside capital. A few too many recent Founder Stories are with relatively inexperienced people with only a few years or less under their belt, and I don't feel like I've actually learned anything from the video other than their company name. This one is different.
In case you didn't already know, all news stations are agenda driven propaganda machines, that means they get paid to cause people to have certain opinions, desires, fears and knowledge. It is a brainwashing engine that takes every measure to make sure it doesn't look like that. The same can be found in China, Russia, Iran, Japan. stations that install complete fabrications of reality in the viewers minds for profit.

Getting fox news to report sopa is a lost cause. Even if we were to riot and set half the country on fire against sopa... All news stations would have their own narratives and spin the hell out of it to make it seem like the terrorists are winning because there isn't enough censorship.
How did you get into recruiting? I assume having a tech background helps, but what other skills have been useful for recruiting?
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The Name Of The Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss

De ontdekking van de hemel (The Discovery of Heaven), by Harry Mulisch

1984, by George Orwell

Night Angel trilogy, by Brent Weeks

Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies, by Robin Hobb

Gentlemen Bastards series (first two books), by Scott Lynch

Das Parfum (Perfume), by Patrick Süskind

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Hi,

I ran your code and it does run well. However fails for large cases such as pascal(200000).

You mentioned you worked for Google and Amazon, how can you modify the code to get an answer for pascal(200000)
Sorry, I don't mean to get off-topic, but I want to start learning Python, but I'm on a Windows machine. Should I work on Linux instead? Because I fins most of the help offered is Linux-based. Thank you! (:
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2x search traffic over 6 months? That is not something to be proud of. A real SEO would have got 6x easy on a site with no existing SEO.
Not to discount your possibility, but interestingly enough it's possible there are bugs in the mapping data.

See http://testoptimal.com/ref/starwest-2006-mbt-tutorial.pdf, page 99 for a neat example.

It's sort of ironic, I remember reading a much more in-depth paper from Harry about this specific work, but I can't find it. :-/
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Obviously you're biased, but you're making it sound like working with an external recruiter is actually a good idea. Mostly I just hear that IT recruiters are terrible -- don't actually know what your skills are and just blast out your resume as much as possible, falsifying information if needed, and so on. So I've never pursued it, and ignored the occasional overtures. However after some disappointments I'm wondering if I've been too hasty there.

I know a bunch of HN posters stay in start-up land, where things are likely different, but I'm wondering if those who aren't have any other recruiter experience? My wife did have good luck with a recruiter in the law world, though the market there is quite different from the tech market.
I'm no slumlord, but the fact that people can do this analysis with public data does spook me more than a little.

Still, that's good detectivework and a great outcome!
Please ping me personally on my email and I'll be happy to connect you with the right people. More often than not, these matters are simple communication issues that can be resolved. Even though I don't work there anymore, I'd be thrilled to help out the community any way I can.

Re:"money" issue. Everyone has a hand in making an artist successful. Yes the artist produces the content and should be compensated for such. I fully agree. But Grooveshark brings the audience, the user experience, the hosting, and the analytics. These services aren't free. Do you get mad when people sell you tap water in a bottle and demand $3.00 for something that costs $0.25?
Yes, you can hurt yourself doing Yoga. More so if you do it incorrectly.

See also: running, weight lifting, swimming, biking, walking.

You can also hurt yourself while doing nothing.

Should that mean you should stop doing yoga? No, you should just be careful.
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Yeah, I remember a few years back when a lot of businesses were going out of business reading online accounts of these tactics.

One that especially sticks out is when the Circuit City chain went under. I remember reading about how they brought in an outside company to handle the sales, and the first order of business was to raise all the prices on everything in the store. DVDs that they couldn't sale at $10 were suddenly flying off the shelves at $20 (don't remember the exact numbers).

It makes you realize what a fine line (which each person has to draw for themself) there is between clever marketing and slimy, manipulative tactics.
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By the way, there's also this link up on DMN:

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2011/111512

I've spoken with a lot of label heads from the more influential names on the list and they were in no way okay with being listed, some actively upset by Grooveshark providing a bad list. The comments echo that, albeit with too much hostility at times.
> The patent, written in a combination of tech-speak and legalese, was awarded to Microsoft earlier this week.

This must seriously be the first patent the writer has ever looked at.
Did you read the claims?
Disclaimer: Have not played with Dart at all, may be getting wrong end of stick on what this allows you to do.

Personally I think this sounds pretty cool to me.

I know it's easy to point at the example and go 'ugh', but the number of times I've had to jump through hoops of extra code just to pass around objects in a statically typed language I know as a programmer are fine to use a certain way I've lost count of.

Personally I can see the reason why it's there. I love dynamic languages for their compact expressivity, but find static languages to be a massive boon in terms of intellisense (as I've got a terrible memory) and basic error catching. A language that sits in a sweet spot between the two would be wonderful.

For example in C# the anonymous types are brilliant, but you still find yourself throwing together tiny structs and classes just to be able to write functions to do common operations on what you'd otherwise just use an anonymous type for. I could see this solving that problem.

And the endless casting.

And tiny interfaces.

On the otherhand I guess this could be rapidly abused.

Also, regarding the 'you might get the NoSuchMethodException at a completely different place in the program'. That's what call stacks are for.
It's the whole principle behind DMCA, isn't it?
No, of the current politicians, Nancy Pelosi is the most notable to come out against it:

http://sopaopera.org/P000197/
(entire list at http://sopaopera.org)

I'd also argue that Sen. Rand Paul is more prominent than Ron Paul because he's a Senator...at least in terms of real influence. He's 1 out of 100 votes; a filibuster of the Senate variant of SOPA needs 40 votes.
Here's a tip. Take tips from recruiters with a pinch of salt. Their goal in life is for programmers to change jobs as often as possible, and to make as big a salary as possible so that they get better commission. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but their motivations are different to those of a programmer who wants a career.

When I go for a job I take a lot more into consideration than the salary. There are the other benefits, the work environment, what will I learn, what challenges will I have to overcome, will I enjoy the work. If you change fields you may happily take a pay cut until you can perform at the same level you do now. You may take at a job that's a in a startup or at a company with financial difficulties that you think you can help turn around. In these scenarios a pay cut, deferred pay via bonus schemes or stock options maybe more important. Another issue is job security. Nobody likes to think of themselves as replaceable or average, but of course by definition most of us are. So if you negotiate yourself an extra $10k-$25k you better be prepared to deliver on that value or you will be at the top of the spreadsheet when it comes time to make cuts.
I still remember saving up for Zelda and finally opening up that gold NES cartridge. IMO the original Zelda and the follow-up SNES version are among the best games ever made.

The opportunity to explore and build your character was amazing for its time. The replay value was so high opposed to other popular NES games that required you to start from the beginning each time you turned it on. Zelda is a great case study for new game designers to learn from.
That obvious calculation will be added to your pay as a 1044, since they'll have to pay it anyway if they hired you as a W2.
He's not new to the tech field. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins.

Bloomberg's most famous product is probably the Bloomberg Terminal. A dual screen computer and OS for hedge fund manager types, that costs $1900-2500 a month per subscription.
Climbing search engine rankings has less to do with on-site SEO perfection yet much more to do with backlinks. Look at what porn and gambling kings are doing to compete with eachother.

Too many posts about SEO get everyone obsessing over marginal website tweaks/details when a single backlink to their webite doesn't even exist outside of their HN account.
So I've heard and it sounds believable.
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I think many SEO type people have done a terrible job of marketing their field, because the place they occupy in most people's minds is not a particularly nice one.

I think emphasizing statistics and analysis would make a bit better impression on some of us. It turns on a light that says "aha, there is something real there!".
They're comprised of a bunch of abstract ways of getting a route other than fastest or shortest to a pedestrian. States no inventions. Just the concept of route finding based on criteria other than shortest or fastest.
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It would be nice to have some syntax hints. I dont know ruby so I dont know what the syntax for an if/else statement would look like even if it's obviously simple to someone that's seen it before.
I dont know; its pretty nice and user friendly. I am sure they are facebook too. it integrates with facebook and twitter. plus appeal to the athlete in them.
Data export is at the top of the 'In Progress' list of the Trello Development board: https://trello.com/card/board/data-export/4d5ea62fd76aa11360...

Now that the API is 'done', it shouldn't be long until this is up and running. More about data, privacy, etc. here: trello.com/privacy
Totally agree with you Rand. My sentiment was down-voted for being too hostile, so I'm glad you're weighing in on this.