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If you’re "writing" about SEO, you’re doing it wrong:

It has been explained repeatedly but I'll repeat it again. Optimizing for search engines is to a great extent wasted energy.

Create just interesting content -> People will refer to it automagically -> Ranking on search engines will automagically improve -> More people will come to your site and more people will recommend it.

Optimizing things for search engines -> People don't find what they are hoping for -> You have to "optimize" more and more. This is a vicious circle.

I hope that smart people use their ability to create beautiful things and not waste it by performing tricks.
I'm guessing it was a belated attempt to stifle the inevitable social justice flame war.
You can append -site:quora.com to all your queries!
I have an HTC One also, so I was wondering if you could tell me if the keyboard being so low ever caused you to accidentally hit the home or back key.
Don't worry about the downvotes. I don't care about what the others say. I agree with you.
The insulation from the real world was underlined for me when coming to this thread immediately after an thread about young CEOs earning lower incomes where people were asking, apparently sincerely, how they could manage to live on salaries of less than $100k...
That was... unprofessional.
> Wolves do not recognize "ownership" of land, because a weaker wolf cannot appeal to the community when dispossessed of land by a stronger wolf.

A powerful wolf "owns" the best parts of a kill (whether or not they possess it) because their social system values the traits that makes a wolf powerful. Their system for determining the legitimacy of a claim involves violence, or more typically the threat of violence. Modern humans have different social values than wolves and would not consider "I am bigger than you, and male, therefore it is mine" to be a legitimate argument.

Regardless, ownership, narrowly defined as a legal (and therefore necessarily human) concept, is a red herring. Theft, the concept being discussed, exists in systems that have concepts of possession even if we dismiss the possibility that they have a concept of ownership. A beta can certainly steal from an alpha male.

If you define theft as something that can only exist in the presence of a value system that modern humans respect, and then claim that therefore only modern humans can have a concept of theft, then you are doing nothing but making an uninteresting tautological argument. I am asking you to consider the possibility of theft in systems with value systems dissimilar from your own. This includes the concept of theft in human value systems that are dissimilar to those currently codified in our laws.
While the expensive cities we live in might be expensive on a rent basis, everything else in the USA is far cheaper compared to Europe and Canada. Food, consumer goods, gas, VAT/sales tax, etc.

After a certain point the cost of rent maxes out, especially if your a single person with roommates. Also the US has lower tax rates. If you wanted to be really optimal in total profits and not move to a developing country you might work in austin, seattle or even las vegas with no state income tax and far more affordable rents.

The only thing left is 2 or 3 more weeks in vacation time, which if you adjust on a $/hour basis, the SFBA still comes out ahead. It is definitely enviable, but there are companies out there that would be fine with you taking equivalent unpaid vacations or working remotely for weeks at a time.
Unfortunately, that can not be known, since the patent list they use to extort Android device makers is still secret. When Barnes & Noble threatened to make it public, Microsoft settled and entered a billion dollar partnership (in which B&N did basically nothing)
Not really. "Ooh look, Bitcoin is deflationary, let's invest" → invest → "Hey everyone, come use this great Bitcoin thing!" is a logical chain of action.
It's not a new war on drugs, its the same old war on critical thinking.
Because nobody goes to trial for computer fraud, not if the prosecutor is seeking 70 years so you are forced to bargain for 12-20yrs and yes there is a real possibility you will get all that time if you don't plea
If they're going to price the drugs so high in India that no one can afford them, what is India getting out of the deal? All property rights (but especially intellectual property rights) are essentially a trade between the government, and indirectly the people. For real property, the Government gets tax and increased economic activity (leading to more tax) in exchange for agreeing to arrest anyone who uses your property without your permission. For intellectual property, the trade is that citizens get to use new and useful things, and there is more economic activity, in exchange for the government agreeing to arrest anyone who copies your product without permission. If the citizens can't get the new and useful thing, why should the government stop anyone who copies it?
Oh and wasn't the Facebook research based on Google trends?

Meaning: people that can't type "facebook.com" on the address bar and type it into google then click?

So... based on that, we can assume people are getting more familiar with the internet maybe?
I think newspapers and blogs are also fanning the flames. There were suggestions that this would happen before it did (economist), then the media began reporting rumor, then events started happening (albeit small) these were picked up by the national media and blogs.

This feels more like a game the media is playing with society, rather than a true reflection of how society feels about tech workers. This isn't news.
Vintage transparent Apple prototypes
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I have a theory that some of the anger at techies is driven by the fact that they are, in many cases and in popular imagination, fairly nerdy. People are used to looking down on these people, given America's school system and typical corporate makeup. Perhaps it even has evolutionary roots. And, by and large, nerdy kinda-liberal people are inclined to take it, agree, and supplicate.

Compare and contrast with the treatment of the financial industry in the Bay Area. Even on HN, taking shots at an obviously fraudulent financial system and the people in it will get you jumped all over ("they allocate capital efficiently!", etc, etc. et-tripe-cetera) while articles like this will elicit more balanced and self-aware commentary.

My theory is that this dynamic is more prevalent in the press and non-tech thought leaders, etc. not in the middle and lower classes.
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Sassy, but I feel like Princeton was deserving of a response like this. It was a pretty poor study that had a lot of lazy data and speculation behind it.
Loss leaders are sources of revenue, but not sources of profit.
People should focus on profits, not revenue.
Do you mind explaining what's wrong with having advertising budgets? Remember that investment into marketing is tested with the same yardstick as R&D investments - revenue generated per dollar invested. If marketing isn't effective then it won't be done.
The site template is a very bland and looks just like out-of-the-box bootstrap. Also you have a typo above the signup box:

> Sign up for a free trail

should say "trial" instead of "trail"
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I think the problem is that you seem to assume that HN has one mind.
Call yourself "Data Scientist" and publish graphics without units. Congrats!
That would presume humans solve the halting problem, they don't. An intelligent machine could do it far better than a human and do exactly what we do, time out if it takes too long.
That's interesting, it was the opposite here with all the developers having workstations and spec'ed up laptops whereas sale/marketing would be given some generic thinkpad.

I would of thought Brazil may be changing as they were getting a new office there and hiring when I was at the company.
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First he is the authority on speaking about poverty and now he is the authority on speaking about privacy. Oh the irony...
Yeah, networkx is pretty good -- I actually meant that network analysis and text processing are the two areas where I'd be quite comfortable recommending Python over Matlab.

For time series data, I'd personally pick R though, or perhaps SAS if it's large enough -- at least if any statistical analysis is involved...

I need to check out Spyder.
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It applies to whatever the speaker wants it to apply to; your arguing against someone using a quote is quite simply absurd.
> witty sarcasm much?

lol - recursion.
Rattling off excuses for why "that will never work" and not even attempting will not solve anything either. Funny how design is all about problem solving until it forces people out of their comfort zone and challenges them to meet people who are not like them.
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He tried to make it pretty clear that he is talking about Silicon Valley in particular. The rest of this tweet thread is worth reading: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/426365676975304704
I can't comment for the specific headline case but quite frequently these are just made up numbers. Prosecutors make up whatever they can get away with...

Public companies are required to report damages over X but when you find their quarterlies after a hacking incident it lists damages < X.

See Sun & Kevin Mitnick. Either these companies are lying to the court, or they are lying to the SEC.
A company that sells mining hardware (AMD GPUs) accepting payments in bitcoin is a no-brainer. You save your customers the trouble of converting to USD to purchase, which makes the mine->purchase->mine cycle even more frictionless.

Even if I thought bitcoin was doomed to fail, I would do this in the short term to get more business from coin miners.
So, if this all snark, does that mean there's no "strong correlation between the undergraduate enrollment of an institution and its Google Trends index"? Because that would be a pretty interesting correlation.

I'm also curious why Princeton's search volume seems to have declined. Obviously it doesn't mean Princeton is going to disappear, but what does it mean? Could be statistically insignificant, perhaps.

EDIT: Here are some comparisons:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05zl0%2C%20%2F...

Interesting how the initial spread seems to narrow.
Nobody seems to be talking about SMTP...

SMTP is the protocol that is used for basically all email, and it does not provide encryption. There are versions of the protocol that DO, however they cannot be used in isolation. Emails hop from source to destination via a bunch of SMTP relay servers, and since nearly all SMTP servers support the legacy protocol and do not support key exchange, encrypted SMTP traffic will bounce.

When you use gmail, your connection to Google is secure. But if the recipient of your message is not @gmail.com, the message leaves Google's servers in plain text over SMTP. If the recipient is @gmail.com, the message stays inside the Google network.

The point is, all of our emails traverse the internet in plain text unless we use custom solutions (eg. PGP at both endpoints) or send emails within a network (eg. Gmail to Gmail).
That pervasiveness seems like a double-edged sword. First, what if Microsoft really does lose it in a big way (rather than just remaining stuff, boring and unimaginative)? Enterprises will really be on the hook to find replacements, and to create portable versions of all that documentation that's in .doc and .docx format. Second, does "the enterprise" and "the rest of the world" divergence have any consequences? The Sharepoint thing is a good example. Everybody else uses Apache, nginx or something, but corporations use Sharepoint because it lets them keep a thumb on their employees. Won't any innovation made by The Rest of the World just pass them by? Will Sharepoint admins end up making the big bucks because there's no easy to find, off-the-street source of those folks?
Yeah, I shouldn't have conflated big-data issues with numerical computing. Good catch.

Mostly I was responding to the idea that there is a relationship between dynamic languages and IO bottlenecks. This is certainly often the case in things like web development, where dynamic languages dominate, but under the hood, Julia has relatively little in common with Python/Ruby/JS/PHP/etc, in terms of how it's implemented or, especially, what it's intended to do.
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Oh, I didn't know that. Can you share the link?
Google Trends predicts own demise?
Have you used it for note taking? I am looking for the master of text + equation + diagram note taking and I thought surface pro might be it.

Thanks
Wasn't there a ted talk by a Jewish woman who did this already?

Edit:yes Amy Webb ted talk http://tinyurl.com/ktrb2f4
And where do you suggest that all the other residents of San Francisco move? The street?
I think it was $300 million, not a billion, right?

http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/10_4_12_bks_...
Nope, as I said I rarely need to do what I described. Now if it's a habit of a particular restaurant, yeah, I'll just quit going there. But sticking to "register up front" means a lot of eating at Denny's. :-)
"There should be consequences for the people who publish these things."

Many who are published deserve obscurity. And some who have obscurity deserve more funding. Can you give it to them?

Do not be so eager to deal out censorship; for even institutional review boards cannot see all ends.
The point of the entire US atomic weapons arsenal was a murder-suicide pact against International Communism. If you don't burn the planet after a Soviet victory you may as well have not built it in the first place.
You can always add encryption on top of SMTP, as with GPG.
By "pull their punches" I'm saying to roll-back their surveillance. SO yes.

But I think you're wrong in stating that is doesn't serve Russian interests. It most certainly DOES serve their interests if the NSA gets kneecapped by its own people.
Xbox 360 is supposed to continue alongside the Xbox One. It sold well in the US in the holiday season, according to NPD, and I'd assume it still appeals in many parts of the world where the Xbox One is just too expensive.

Lack of compatibility is an obvious drawback but consoles usually are incompatible.
Is this a clever meta-troll? Or are you actually taking the title seriously?

It should be obvious that the title itself is part of the self-parody. The whole thing is a giant exercise in reductio ad absurdum. In fact, the 'joke' only works based on Princeton's reputation as an excellent university, if that makes you feel any better.

[Full disclosure: I am a facebook employee]
Bullshit. Bull. Shit.

He bought a product that clearly promised something he is not getting. That is a loss. Amazon or Samsung should be liable. (Unless they can legitamitely deny him service because he waited a year to activate it).
From an accounting perspective, it makes little sense to keep BTC, since it's so volatile. It's easier to account for your sales in USD and have a fixed value than account for them in BTC, which fluctuates wildly.
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This is great advice, imo.

The key being "most people want to help". The best sales guy I've yet known used to demand of me to "Just ask! People will tell you". It's true. Don't be a pushy ass, just ask, and retreat if someone isn't forthcoming.

Most people want to help.
What? This page is blank except for the LA Times header.
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room and close the door."
This already exists as a prototype as part of IJulia, see Leah Hanson's awesome blog post about it here: http://blog.leahhanson.us/julia-calling-python-calling-julia...

The collaboration between the scientific Python and Julia communities in recent months has been awesome to watch.
I'm not quite sure what point you're making.
India's setting a great precedent by granting exclusive rights granted by a patent only in combination with a requirement that the result be reasonable.

I think this kind of tweak to the patent system should be extended beyond medical life-or-death kind of products.

Our society grants these exclusive rights under certain conditions, because as a society we believe doing so benefits us all. There is no inherent natural right to have a patent (unlike what this bozo seems to believe), it is an artificial construct humans made up to improve society.

There is no reason we shouldn't tweak the parameters of patentability and the benefits received on an ongoing basis.
To be fair, last time I had someone close in a technical role in Brazil was a while ago. Things could have changed since they got relocated (mostly to the US).
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Any suggestions for cloud hosting for windows. I somewhere to put two virtual servers. One would be a build server which needs windows in order to compile and package our application. I also want the ability to automate starting and stopping the server when a build is scheduled and completed respectfully. Another being an application server for an ASP.NET MVC application. Any suggestions on a cloud hosting service for my needs? I have some experience with Azure, but I want to know what else is out there.
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page 3:

"The current software generated too many nuisance warnings and resulted in poor sensor performance. Further work on software had been slowed by testing required to validate earlier fixes, the report said."

"It said Lockheed had delivered F-35 jets with 50 percent or less of the software capabilities required by its production contracts with the Pentagon."
The anger has nothing to do with "nerdiness". It's economic. Since tech is the one job sector that is not suffering, wouldn't it be nice for some of them to volunteer something to help the community? Seeing as they have some to spare and others have very little?
The transport thing baffles me. Here in the UK, improved public transport would be funded either by levies on new development (known as Section 106, being replaced by the Community Infrastructure Levy), or by supplemental business rates (that's how London Crossrail is happening). The commuters to the new developments get the transport they need, and it benefits everyone else as well. Why doesn't that happen in SF?
What about the Surface is unappealing to "hardcore techies"?
> xenophobic scapegoating of a group of socially awkward outsiders

I don't read Valleywag otherwise, but recently I followed a link to an article in which Sam Biddle ironically asks readers to call SV software engineers "Software Americans".

The goal of the article was to hint that comparing their hatred of "techies" to xenophobia was absurd — the whole if you have privilege you can't be a victim of prejudice etc.

* * *

Because I wasn't giving them ad impressions (NoScript), I took the liberty to skim some of their other articles.

I noticed that they really love to pick on the social awkwardness of the techies. Many implicit or explicit references to autism and Asperger's, suggested as the explanation for what they perceive to be the cultural insensitivity of tech workers.
Since there has never been a trial in US history where a prosecutor sought anything like 70 years for computer fraud, nor has there (I believe) been a CFAA case that plead out to 20 years, I don't think these are real possibilities.

Google: Popehat Whale Sushi.
I think PG should start flagging "Python 2.8" and "Python 3 sucks" posts. All that could be said, it has been said; what's left is a constant rehashing of old arguments for the sake of a good flamewar.
The PS2 continued to sell very well after the PS3 arrived as well.
I don't look down on teenagers if they are able to build websites using those languages. Maybe this type of exercise is really good or suit for them. And definitely coding is the no. 1 skill they occupy.

What I'm talking to are the hackers who are aiming for running startup companies and those who are going to grow to be software engineers.
The author came up with 5 original ideas(not even very good ones) and then accosted tech companies for having not implemented them before he/she thought of them.

Wat.
Not if you have to type that out every single time...
The choice is simple, do you want to become a software engineer or are you more interested in making a career in tech support?

If you become a software engineer you will be able to use your skills in many different environments. I got my degree, got my first job at a global enterprise solutions company, and since then I've worked in aviation, defence, information security, business intelligence and now in financial services.

If you become tech support your skills may not be transferable to other environments, as you may only get to know about the company's product.

Also, I did work for a start-up (the business intelligence company). Very high pressured, close knit team, cool work, little reward (even if the company floated - the devs wouldn't get a large reward). In my experience the high paying global companies higher the quality employees whom you can learn a lot from.
Well... the street is a pretty drastic first move. My first suggestion would be "some place you can afford." I've known several people that left the Valley (actually, California entirely) because they were finding it hard to afford stuff.
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It's very immature of me, and I'll own that, but the number one thing you can do to get me to never, ever do business with your company is to cold call me.

It's just reeks of unprofessionalism, in my opinion. If you don't care about me enough to respect my time, then why on earth would you care about me enough to provide me with a good customer service experience after you've already hooked me?

I've had companies call me before claiming to work at google, claiming that my company isn't doing enough /google something/ and that they can help! If I pay them $foo, then I will be number in the google!

It's really annoying. This is why things like this: http://www.itslenny.com/ (which is hilarious, btw) exist.
Does the licensing include the "Android Tax" ?
Americans are ranked as one of if not the most generous nation by numerous stats [0]. Americans donate more of their money as a percentage of their total income than any other citizens on earth.

Now, there's a lot one could say about why. I imagine it's a mix of the wealth and importance of religion uniquely in that developed country.

There's a lot the US could do with social programs, that's for sure but the individuals are certainly more charitable than certain European countries. Greetings from Copenhagen :)

The ideas presented in the blog are trite and solve nothing.

[0]https://www.cafonline.org/media-office/press-releases/2013/w...
Tapping a politician's phone is always more "interesting", especially if the politician is from another country. I don't think the "US citizen" badge means anything anymore. If you are a prominent subject who is even slightly important, you come under the radar.
Au contraire: I think the metaphor fits perfectly in both directions. That's why I chose it.

Ideally, your self-defense systems only attack those that are actual "invaders" but if something looks/smells/acts like an invader, it gets attacked as well, even if it's really not "harmful."

Believe me when I say I'm sympathetic to the argument that the security apparatus has started to attack "healthy tissue" (to extend the metaphor) but the alternative can't be no immune system.

It has to be better, more appropriate, more selective, and more effective.