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Ask HN: Interested in an "SEO for Hackers" course?
I'm a web developer with a previous background in SEO.

SEO is often misunderstood and unfairly treated by hackers and it's clear _some_ of this is down to a misguided idea on what doing SEO actually involves. Considering there is possibly no better way to get free traffic to your site, it's surprising how quickly hackers are to dismiss SEO. Instead, endlessly pursuing a single Techcrunch publication.

I'm keen to get some feedback on what hackers feel they would like to know more about in regards to SEO? Onsite optimisation? Link building? Finding profitable keywords? I'm contemplating putting together a course designed specifically for hackers/web developers doing a startup.

It'd be great to get some input first on what people want to learn about.
http://jsplumb.org/jquery/demo.html is a library to make all the connecting easier. I've used it. It's pretty nice.
Awesome idea. It'd be quite fun coming up with the perks/rewards - $2,500 for a small space rock would definitely sell ha
Considering what he's up against in the industry, I'd say what he's done is fairly remarkable. My concern would be that if at any point one of the big three see Tesla as a threat they will put efforts into creating an electric car that undercuts Tesla's offerings and catapults Tesla into a high end niche oblivion. That said, if it comes to that, I will see that as a different means to the same end of reducing our gas guzzling obsession in America, and I can only see that as a positive.
The Amazing Zeta Code
Title should be "How the instruments in JAM with Chrome were drawn" not "How the instruments in JAM with Chrome were made". Or just use the original article's title. I was expecting to read something about the sound.
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If you want to track if people are reading your blog, you can use the onscroll javascript event that fires events into Google Analytics. (eg: http://cutroni.com/blog/2012/02/21/advanced-content-tracking...)

By looking at time to scroll, time to the end of the blog post, and comparing that to the number of unique page views per visit, you can tell if your content is engaging.
3 Overlooked Link Building Opportunities
That would be a useful outcome, but it's not a motivation for the people who have to live in what is in reality a freezing, extremely remote desert.
Computer Science Revisited
The one critical feature Letterpress is missing
Forget the box, you just need a web browser plugin. It could sit in the background. It could have two lists (updated occasionally like spamblockers do it), one of search engines and one of spook-luring phrases. Every, say rand(1..10) minutes, it could make a few connected queries from list B to some engine in list A. Visit a link or two from the gotten page. Stop after say rand(1..10) queries total on that theme. Throw everything away and go back to sleep.

If a million people installed this plugin, that would avg 5 queries every 5 minutes, that would be avg 1.4e9 queries per day, a tiny fraction of the intertubes.

edit: but, apology to parent, you'd never sell a browser plugin...
Is anyone using GA to track mobile apps? The mobile SDKs shows a lot of potential until you start wondering about offline usage, GA being a website tracker first. I couldn't find any final answers but from what I can see it might be a sore point: the SDK docs dodge the topic [1] and I see complaints, ie events can be batched for later but get the timestamps of when they were uploaded, instead of when they happened [2,3,4].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://developers.goog...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6618719/how-does-google-a...

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4484748/what-happens-with...

[4] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/analytics/132Eet...
Citigroup to cut more than 11,000 jobs
Totally agree on the text zoom. I like that the iOS app has text under the icons. On gmail web they don't and I have to think a bit before I click an icon. I feel the earlier versions of web gmail were much more intuitive.
:%s/^.*border-radius:[^;]*;$//g

Problem solved
I am not a big fan of white labeling. I'd prefer to keep the service standalone.
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Ask HN: Huge security hole for Mac OS X? Or am I missing something...
Isn't this a huge security hole for Macs?

http://www.rit.edu/its/services/desktop_support/mac/xforcenewadminacccount.html

Strikes me as a way of implementing the first run steps that I never would have chosen as being terribly easy to uncover and exploit... also it feels sloppy for leaving files lying around.

Not to mention this is easily discoverable through Google...

A few minutes thought leads me to a multitude of more secure solutions, and I find it hard to believe the Apple programmers are really so lazy/naive as to do this without knowing it would be fine...
formatting seemed to go wrong there..

http://www.rit.edu/its/services/desktop_support/mac/xforcene...
what a nonsense idea. nothing of my interest.
I don't know that I've ever seen the policies of CIA and NSA spies brought up in any major party political platform.
XXinTech.com domain is for sale
The http://www.XXinTech.com/ domain is for sale

I’ve decided to hive down some of my projects and reduce the number of sites I’m working on.

I’ll be listing most of them on Flippa.com however I thought this one might interest you specific
ally.

Along with the domain I will also be transferring the Facebook page admin rights and Twitter account username/password to the successful bidder.

As you know women in technology is an extremely fast growing topic and this would give someone an ideal start to build upon for a wordpress blog or drupal site or continue with it in its current form.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions but if interested in bidding please email me your name, amount being bid in the subject line, I’ll wait until Monday for bids to be made otherwise I’ll list it on Flippa to the general public with the rest next week. Payment will be via Paypal.

Cheers,
Dean Collins
info@XXinTech.com
It does SMTP requests, trying to send mail (and aborting) to check the emails.
It first tries a bogus gqjcqjcbhkjxcg@thedomain.com to see if the server throw an error (and was not config as a catchall), then for Bill Gates, tries :
- billgates@
- gatesbill@
- bgates@
- gatesb@
- bill@
...
- bill.gates@
...

but they don't try bg@thedomain.com

The results also depends of the order of the tests. If you have bill@ that redirects to bill.gates@, as they try bill@ before bill.gates@, it will tell you that bill@ is the address.

Clever, but used by spammers and list makers for years (those who scan whois domain infos and reconstruct the email with your name and the domain).
Ask HN: Does anyone use Dzone?
Just discover Dzone.com and it looks kinda interesting. However, there doesn't seems to be any kind of activity going on the website. Maybe its because i'm in Europe...
Yeah, we just search the pages you've bookmarked. If you Google search for 'fish recipe' you'll get millions of results, if you do the same search on your bookmarks you'll get just the fish recipes you've previously bookmarked. It's no good for finding new fish recipes but great for quickly getting back the fish recipe you've used before.

That's right, we search the version of the page when you bookmarked it.
You are correct, I over-simplified. Multithreading is a way of implementing parallelism, but it will not always lead to parallelism. Multithreading always implies concurrency, but only yields parallelism if the underlying hardware allows it. (Concurrency allows for time-sharing the processor so they are not actually running simultaneously; parallelism means they are running simultaneously.)

However, I was not primarily concerned with this distinction, but with the distinction between obtaining parallelism through multithreading, versus parallelism through message passing. Multithreading implies that parallel threads will communicate implicitly through shared memory, which does not scale past a single machine.
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> UI design seems more sensitive to fashion whims these days than woman's clothing.

I'd say that this is largely in part due to the fact that so many designers base their entire livelihoods on copying trends, instead of really understanding why they should or shouldn't. Bad photographers are everywhere with awkward poses and HDR, but bad designers can mask their lack of creativity by mimicking the 'next hot thing' and get tons of kudos for it.
Is not suspend to disk in Linux normally done with a swap partition? My understanding is that the swap size heuristic is influenced by that.
Coding Error Causes SaskTel Customers to Receive Bills up to $100,000
I think you would be surprised I think Tesla's strategy has three stages.

1) Niche high cost vehicle sold in low volumes(Roadster)

2) Medium cost luxury vehicle sold in medium volumes(Model S)

3) Low cost high volume vehicle sold in high volumes. (Model ???)

Obviously this is a gross over simplification but I imagine that part of the engineering that is going on at TESLA is figuring out how to build 3 cheaper and at a higher quality then anybody else.
Our landing page is suffering from the same disease - anyone willing to help us out, we're missing a marketing person in our team :)
I agree that your tips are great, and would definitely work... but why bother?
It is much easier and satysfying to just work in _normal_ enviroment, with friendly and intelligent people. And without any nerve-wrecking office politics and soul-sucking fluorescent light.
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It is unfortunate but the problem lies in the general issue with the Indian Judiciary where actions takes lots of time and money to be executed.

Let me explain that.

Spamming is 'illegal' in India too but like most other 'illegal' things, specially in the new media, the IT and Internet, there are no quick way of punishing the culprit. As victims, we have no clear ways to tackle or resolve the problem. This escalates to an attitude of 'let it be', popularly termed "Chalta Hain" here in India, by these gullible spammers. None have seen no spammer lose anything for spamming - court orders, fine, no nothing.

So, these spammers continue to do so and we, the victims, suffer either silently or through our own ways of filtering them as spam. I was once told very blatantly by a spammer that they are doing a social call by feeding me and others 'useful information'.

Here, your email will be just added to a mailing list without your consent any-day. To this date, I receive 'Press Releases' from PR Agencies all the time with no option to 'unsubscribe'. I've been threatened for proactively suggesting to them to 'shove it up their a.' The only option is to set a filter them to spam, which is an irritating and time consuming task.

These are the notes rendering the fate of spam victims in India and I don't really see any respite anytime soon.
I started my developer career on Lotus Notes 4 back in 98. It offered a real platform at a time when web applications weren't exactly trivial to create. You could easily build database driven applications and deploy them instantly to the entire organization.

Lotus and Domino were very forward looking products. I know the conventional wisdom from users is that they were terrible, but I'll always have fond memories of working with the technology.
Smartphones Could Soon Sense Your Emotions
If you "just got out of college" then you are likely <26yo and are covered by your parents insurance.
$500M taxpayer-backed loans are available to anyone, now?
The fact that we don't choose to live in deserts shows that it's highly likely that living in deserts - and all the more in even less hospitable environments - is not sustainable given our current way of living.

Unless we can show that we can have a working ecosystem in the least hospitable environments here on earth we aren't going to be able to set one up 4 light minutes away on a desert planet without an atmosphere. We are going to send those colonizers to a slow death.
Facebook disables Instagram photos on Twitter
Tesla was cash flow positive, as of last week, or Tesla was cash flow positive last week?

Edit: It appears the be the latter. Not really impressive, but a good sign.
I saw a map of Mars landing sites, which I can't find anymore. The bulk were on a tiny sliver next to a mountain, and most landers were immobile. We've only had a good, constantly up to date map of Mars for a handful of years thanks to MRO. It takes time to plan new missions based on that data.
I thought that too until I read your post actually. Smells like a likely trademark issue.
Photographer's Algorithm
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It you went to a good school, and got good grades, you probably are not working this job. It seems that it has become fashionable to believe that every job should pay upper middle class wages or not exist at all. Hindsight should make it completely obvious what happened when unions forced that issue. Those jobs went away and are not coming back, they were never sustainable.
An actual relational database not bound to the SQL nightmare would be something interesting indeed.
goodness, the social signals implication that sends would never fly in any company I've ever worked at. You're elevating the developers to the status of "rock stars!". Now, many companies say they want rock star developers, they just don't want to treat them as such.
I suspect that is correct, as it seems that "NoSQL" was a glib name for an informal meeting (http://nosql.eventbrite.com/), and was not necessarily intended to live on.
It isn't so great. We tried it and went back to squid.
Should I be 'deep and narrow' or 'shallow and wide'?
SurveyAnalytics does all of the things you mentioned above, and I feel like Qualtrics does as well. Not that every system isn't limited in someway though. For examples, I've not seen anywhere that can branch based on a ranking question, which would have been great for me there for awhile.
Then we will have to find ways to make it enjoyable, or give up the prospect all together.
just got 1 last night! design's looking awesome
Cash flow positive != profitable
Based on statistics from tor exit nodes that that has been published, porn surfers is indeed using the most secure type of encryption.
The location providers on Android are not tied to any one app, but are system level services that apps register with for updates. Location that takes GPS can take longer to acquire fixes and Google Maps will attempt to use the most accurate fix possible, so if the GPS acquisition is slow, maps will be slow.

I totally understand your points, though. I use an older device with roughly the same specs, and when I was using stock 2.3 it wasn't very fast.
"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault." - Cervantes

There's only two sentences on the press42.com home page, but despite such brevity, I had zero trouble understanding their value proposition.
Like it - but price is putting ME off. Would you consider per survey, instead of per month, pricing plan?
mmap makes use of the virtual memory system. The author does not appear to be conflating anything.
Generally you should be paying attention to trends, not individual users. Either way:

Landing pages: Go to Content > Site Content > Landing Pages

What you probably want is to create an advanced segment: Landing page = something. You can use regex or an exact match term.

Then go to audience > visitor flow, select the advanced segment you used and you can visually see how users navigated your site.

Remember: Keep in mind that a user can technically visit your site using browser tabs. That would give you a report where people went from page A to page B even if there isn't a link on page A going to page B.

Hence: Use GA to gain insight into trends.
I am aware of their strategy, I just worry that the big automakers with their massive distribution and infrastructures already in place could easily come in and be 10 steps ahead of Tesla and provide a vehicle that isn't as sexy but has the same appeal to the electric car market. I could be overestimating their ability to innovate after so many years of sitting on the same old tired technology, but something tells me that they'd be willing to step up if it means they are going to be completely left in the dust of a tiny (by comparison) company.
Wouldn't it take until the end of this week to find out?

(But yeah I'm guessing it's just the latter too.)
It has become a bit of a orthodoxy among the consumer social startup crowd to do mobile first and web second.

Sorry, but that is hubris, plain and simple. I know plenty of people who read the original post on the AVC blog. Most of us didn't buy it then, and still don't.

The fact is that today there is very little you can't do in a browser app and can do to a useful extent in a mobile app. Mobile browsers are driving support for HTML5 features and Javascript tools supporting useful features like geolocation, and they do it well enough to meet a lot of needs now.

If I write a browser app then I have a few portability/degradation issues to deal with, but I'm only maintaining one code base so I can spend all my development time getting those things right. If I write mobile apps, I need a whole new app on each platform I want to support, plus I still need a browser app or a native executable for each major platform if I want to support customers on desktops/laptops as well.

If I write a browser app then I can charge however I like using a variety of services, and aside from taxes and overheads for collecting payment it's all mine. If I write mobile apps, I'm losing an absurd proportion of revenues to the likes of Apple when people buy my app, and I have to comply with all kinds of onerous rules about charging later too.

If I write a browser app then I can distribute it under my control. If I write mobile apps, then I have app stores and their infamous approval processes to get through, and if they decide they don't like me, all my effort was for nothing.

In short, mobile apps suck (from a business or software development perspective). They have exactly one redeeming feature, in that you can still do a few things with them that are harder or impossible with web apps, and even that advantage is reducing almost by the day. Otherwise, for most information consumption or communication software -- which is, let's face it, about 99.99% of what everyone is running on mobile devices anyway -- it's hard to see any reason to invest in mobile apps today.
It's a term used far more by enthusiasts than by actual PL researchers. It supposedly stands for "theory," but that confuses the wide range of PL research, some of which is theory, but much of which is not. There's a very good discussion about this from several years ago on Lambda the Ultimate:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3219#comment-47424
My idea of the mobile-first strategy (or it's younger sibling: a tablet-first strategy) is that in it's core it defines how you approach user interaction design. In the future, most of consumer internet services and a significant number of business tools are primarily used via mobile devices and tablets. In my opinion, this is a safe bet to make and startups starting today should make that bet.

However, it doesn't dictate neither your initial distribution strategies or your platform or technology choices today. For example you design a mobile user experience, but implement it with HTML 5 and Javascript and wrap that implementation to an app for distribution (and payment) purposes. Or you implement that as a native app because at the moment you can create a smoother experience that way. Or you skip the app part and build just an easy mobile web experience to make on-boarding easy. Distribution tactics and technologies change as mobile platforms evolve, but the fact you need to design for mobile usage doesn't.

Our new startup is doing serious data analysis tool, but from the surface it looks like a very simple tool. We believe this simplicity is essential to succeed in the world where our service will be mainly used via tablets and mobile phones.
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There are entire cities in the Gobi desert. The population is one person per square km: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/236545/Gobi/47958/...

In the cities, you have to stay in a hotel because you're not allowed to pitch a tent: http://www.travelmarket.com/Gobi%20Desert/a-GOBI_DESERT/trav...

Colonies on Mars probably don't make economical sense currently, but the thing to keep in mind is that there are resources on Mars that no human or animal population is using. On Earth, it seems like anywhere you start digging you ruin someone's life.

With eventual terraforming of Mars, we don't have to worry about accidentally de-terraforming China and Mongolia. We would have a free hand to change the atmosphere, melt the poles, etc. But ultimately Sterling's point on terraforming is probably true. We'll probably beat desertification long before we have the ability to terraform Mars.
Yeah, I think some people don't realize how easy it is to have a week where more money is coming in than going out, even if the company is failing.

Not that I think Tesla is failing. But having a bunch of orders/payments come through in one week that you aren't buying much stuff can easily happen. (Specifics depend on cash versus accrual accounting.)
But we have no problem spending trillions of dollars on wars and on bailouts. Awesome. Stu_pid meets mor_on.
I think startups confuse landing page with launch page. A launch page (i.e. ambiguous launchrock page) is to gain interest, quite possibly before you are certain what the MVP will do. A landing page (i.e. signup page) needs to communicate what value you bring to the person signing up. Too often the launch page turns into the landing page without much thought.
Keep in mind that this was the second time an Apple employee screwed up a serial number in a year. Obviously something is wrong with the system.
_trackPageLoadTime is deprecated. It's already enabled by default, so you don't need that line.

Place this stuff in the head tag rather than the bottom. It's async code and placing it closer to the top you can make sure you're setting up tracking the page as soon as possible.
GM and Ford can't compete with Tesla, currently, for the same reason Tesla exists to begin with. Toyota maybe, if they get their act together again.
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"We allow startups to get the right exposure to media while bloggers are able to filter the stories they get."

So what does this mean for a blogger? Filtering stories I can get? To read? Write?

Startups who are still figuring it out like to use ambiguous blanket statements in order to "capture as much of an audience as possible". They are afraid they are missing out on potential users if don't appeal to everyone.
I've left twitter a long time ago, even following ONLY 14 PEOPLE, I can't keep with it, it's a torture to try to keep up with the stream.. Even given that it has always been 14-30 people and it being a 'saner' stream, a simple "skim" on it leads to at least 1h-2h of reading/lurking(tons of links, articles, sorting stuff to read later)

main offender: Steve Klabnik, he posts interesting stuff that I'd like to check on, and that's the reason I didn't unfollow him, but it's way too much still

Twitter just feels like really, really noisy room...
It's easier to simply google @example.com to find examples of email addresses from the business on the web. 90% of the time that gives you the standard of how they construct the left side of the email address. If that doesn't work a few educated guesses will get you there.
The First Realistic Hacker Movie
Filmmaker Jonathan Schiefer is raising funds on Kickstarter to make the world's first realistic hacker movie, THE ROOT KIT. In it, rogue computer hackers discover a plot to monitor everyone on the Internet.