skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Page vs. Off Page SEO
On Page vs. Off Page SEO
I read on Hubspot today that the importance of on-page vs. off-page SEO is a 25% to 75% split.

That may be the case for very competitive search terms, but I do not believe that to be the case for less competitive or even the majority of local search terms.

Certainly lawyers, plastic surgeons, real estate and some competitive technology industries may have this experience, but beauty salons, massage therapists, and many other types of business need to spend more time and/or money on content than links.

You really need a competitive Internet marketing analysis to determine what your SEO strategy should be.
24ways.org 2009 (Daily Web Development Articles until Christmas)
Really what you need to do is match the wavelenghts that our rods and cones in our eyes are most sensitive to. That should be the optimal solution in terms of energy usage.
What Really Causes Acne?
Try getting a grant proposal or publishing a paper on a novel application without a proper scientific evaluation.

Imagine for example how you would evaluate twitter in a scientific way.
How do you enforce the integrity/security of achievements?
"Newton’s earlier studies of light, in which he stuck a needle into his eye and recorded how colors changed as he pressed his retina into different shapes."

That's so unbelievable... (not that I don't believe it, but how could he??).
My co-founder and I took a different tack: "50/50 and a quarter".

- 50/50 split on equity

- Decisions are made by consensus when possible (so far, always).

- If we absolutely cannot agree, we flip a coin (a quarter)

- If either of us decides to leave the company, the other must buy him out. So, if we ever actually get to a coinflip decision, we just ask ourselves "do I care about this so much that I'm willing to walk if I lose, or will I live with it?" Whatever the answer is, the decision can go forward.
I don't think the anaesthetic has entirely worn off yet ... thanks for your patient response.
The only LED light sources in my house, besides the LEDs on some electronics, is this lamp: http://www.konceptech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&...

And a camping headlight.

I consider these two things to be of the coolest things I own. They definitely show off proper LED application.

For the camping headlight, which wasn't very cheap, I don't have to worry about disrupting the darkness too much. And the batteries will last forever.

For the lamp, same thing. It is a wonderful feeling staying up till 5 in the morning with nothing but you, the lamp, and your work. Nothing but the desk and your work is illuminated, and it is illuminated very pleasantly, which is awesome.

So, depending on the application, those negatives are strong positives. I can't imagine the LEDs being used as household lighting.
Why Google Is Killing Gears & Pushing HTML5
well, what makes an official looking device safe? ATM and gas station skimming is a big issue.

do they do restaurant payments different in the UK? would you simply hand your card over to a waiter to pay a bill? what prevents the waiter from just writing down your info? you wouldn't even see a device there.

i think that its just an issue of trust. you won't necessarily trust someone with a hacked together device on a street corner, but if its your cousin jim's glass blowing sculpture store, you'll probably trust anything they run your card through.

plus, in the US at least, we have a fairly robust consumer protection on cards. if you suspect your card to be compromised or see a charge on it you know isn't yours, dispute it and you'll probably have your issues resolved satisfactorily.
Valve does a lot of this based on testing with players - they notice that players aren't doing what they need to do, or looking where they need to look, so they alter the level with (more-or-less) subtle ways to guide/force them into doing it.
I would imagine they're stored on a server somewhere, like everything else that needs to be secure. But as tptacek says[1], there really is no way to secure flash games against score fraud,unless there is a way to replay the game server side, which is only feasible for games like Chess.

[1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/73947/what-is-the-best-wa...
300-400 euros replace welfare?
Realise it's completely off-topic - but did you know that men actually can breastfeed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation
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How does one know a great book with out consuming some junk? We learn when we do it wrong up much more often than when do it right. It is not always clear in the beginning that putting business logic in with the view or the data layer code will later be impossibly difficult to untangle. I would suggest read what you want then do what you think is best. It doesn't matter if it is completely correct. (whatever correct is) Some good peer review will keep the bad trouble away, or at least the decision to keep it will be made with the eyes open. Nothing will create a great programmer faster than untangling those darn tangles.
Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times
lol. I think the first two responses sums it up.
...and I think you've answered yourself. If you enjoy development, stay where you are. Theres no need to rush into being a manager. Having the power to create and be creative can be a lot more rewarding than being part of the "management team" (depending on how your company is structured).

A while back, I was lucky to get pulled out of the developer's chair and try out something else. I was given the opportunity to manage a small project with a dedicated team and then gradually worked with and managed teams across the states (and countries). I had to fight the fights and play the games but for me, I found that orchestrating the flow of the development process to be very exciting. I played an intergral part of developing part of the core product and was given a very fun and challenging role.

At the same time a good buddy of mine at another company was promoted to Director of Engineering. He was happy about it at first but within a few months, absolutely hated it. He was one of those stereotypical hardcore code junkies living off of an IV of caffine stuck in his veins. He was brilliant at the engineering side of things, but didnt want to/couldnt deal with the people side of things. He was stuck having to deal with grouchy execs, engineers in constant disagreement, personality conflicts, you name it! Of course as a director, you dont really code at the end of the day either. Eventually, he stepped down and took his former position back. I know he felt like a failure for a long time.

That being said, if its not your bag, its not your bag. Its ok. There's no shame in changing your mind. After all, you're the only one who can look after #1. Prioritize whats important to you and figure out what makes you happy. If you want to try it out, read, observe the goods and bads of others around you, change your perspective and give it a go. Good luck!
Donations for 2009 under $4k ; donations for 2008 under $15K ... sorry this is not a significant organization.
A question for all the male programmers here. Do you really think that the single most important fact about you is your sex? I'm going to guess, no.

So why are we trying to lump 50% of the population together into one bucket? There is no single unifying thing for every single woman out there. If there is, it will be either:

a) something all (most) humans want, such as the desire to be respected, or

b) something the woman herself considers relatively insignificant

Guess what, CS will never appeal to "the generic woman", just like it won't appeal to "the generic man". This is simply because they don't exist. This may come as a surprise, but not all women like the color pink, or cooking. And I personally don't understand the appeal of watching football on TV. Both my wife and I enjoy our video game nights together though.

So, in conclusion, don't market CS "for girls". Market "CS for smart people who want to make things". This is what's relevant, not gender.
I don't know. I am pretty fond of the right to terminate my own life whenever I choose to do so. On the other hand I don't see me going that path anytime soon.
Ask HN: How to opensource a multi-person project?
I recently worked with five other people at a Startup Weekend event where we created a product. Initially everyone was interested in continuing to work on it beyond the weekend, but after several weeks two of the people involved have decided they no longer want to be directly involved. The remaining four (myself included) are in the process of determining how best to use the current codebase that we developed. We all want to make the assignment of intellectual property clean and have all agreed that opensourcing it make sense for everyone. This allows the two people who are leaving to be able to reuse aspects of what was created (either for portfolio material or for functional elements) while allowing for the rest of us to form a company and fork the project to continue development. The project is service-based so we would not have to deal with issues of licensing the codebase in the future.

The question we have currently is how exactly to go about opensourcing the project. Do we all need to sign over our intellectual property? If so, to whom? And after that how do we make it "open source"? Does it have to be posted and made publicly available online? Or can we just attach the desired license (we were thinking MIT) to the codebase, then make sure each original member has a copy?

I understand that I am asking for advice about a legal matter and merely want information about how it could be done. I appreciate any information, resources, or accounts of how it has been done in the past.
It depends on whether you want to play music for fun, or want to make it a career.

My fiance is learning to program, through the excellent Learning To Program (http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/). She's taking at a comfortable pace so she doesn't get bored or frustrated - but she's doing it for fun and enjoyment, to round our her skill set (she's an architect), not with serious intentions of programming as a career.

All evidence points towards the fact that it takes human beings 10k-20k hours of practice to really master any skill. You'll never master music if you're practicing 20 minutes a day - and you won't be a great programmer until you've put in years of solid coding. But if you're just doing something as a hobby, it's more important to avoid getting frustrated (and giving up) then mastering it.
What sounds like a more likely explanation for them blocking yahoo pipes?
1) They make a lot of money and want to continue doing so, and feel threatened by third party services that disintermediate them.
2) Craig is "strange"
3) Craig is "evil"

There are of course other possible explanations:
4) Craigslist RSS server runs on a Pentium w/ 256MB of memory and can't scale
5) Someone at Yahoo stole Craig's girlfriend so he hates them.

Any others?
For what it's worth YQL still works (it uses a different UA, "Pipes 2.0") so the YQL module in Pipes will probably work too.

That is until they turn that off too.
People here on HN often make comments about the dangers of building your business/app/service on top someone else's business/app/service (be it Twitter, FB, etc.).

If your app depends on Yahoo! Pipes AND Craigslist, well ... that's probably extra dangerous.
"Spirits is an image-driven category,” says Branca. “We’re acutely aware of what we’re drinking in the presence of others. That’s why it’s so important to have strong on-premise promotions with influential consumers.”

"He says brand creation is simple: product, package, name, marketing plan."

"And now the most important piece of the story—the twist that brings it all together: Grey Goose costs way more than other vodkas. Waaaaaaay more. So it must be the best."
I agree. The problem I'm having is juggling the three elements of day job, family service, and plan B. Day job eats up over 12 hours of my day (include prep + commute). Then the family service thing goes on for at least 4 hours, usually more with the clean up miscellaneous house things. The majority of the days, I find my important duties finally ends around 11pm, on most weekdays. Exceptions are like yesterday where late night day job phone conferences has me up past midnight. Weekends, you can replace the time with the day job with family service. I think this is where as the kids grow older and more independent, I can reap back some time for plan B.

I just can't help but wonder how different my life would have been if I pursued doing my own thing more aggressively 10 years ago. Ten years ago was four years before the wife and I wanted to have kids, the wife was working making good income, a time where I could have gone balls out. m'eh, enough dwelling on the pasts what-ifs.

Day job and family duties calls! I'm off to the (rat) races!
OK, seeing as I'm being downvoted, I take it back.

Debian is the greatest operating system ever made, and already solves all problems that ever have or will arise. It totally didn't crash on my computer last night, and can be installed by anyone with a pulse. Yay :)

Seriously though, Debian is a great effort to integrate and package software. This doesn't mean it's the OS to end all OS's. Also, there is no "best operating system". There is only such a thing as "the best operating system for this application, at present".
Can you kill a scratch proof HTC HD2 phone with a knife.
I heard about this, too. There's also a discussion in Germany going on. Though the level should be closer to around 800 Euros here. That's close to what you get in welfare. Finland seemed more expensive too me when I went there a few years ago. I wonder whether you could live off the 300-400 Euros. Perhaps if your flat was paid for by some other scheme?
I like this solution. A lot.

Thank you for sharing!
We've got integrity checking on all calls back to our server (eg. when unlocking achievements and buying items).

We can also ping a game developer provided secure callback URL to let them know when we have seen a purchase or an achievement.

It _is_ possible to hack the flash content while it is running to unlock the achievements etc on the client, but the vast majority of players (99.9%) don't do this, because:
a) it defeats the purpose of playing the game
b) it is hard

So in reality it isn't a problem for game developers or for us :)
Because it was a blunt needle, more akin to a knitting needle, and he didn't puncture his eye with it, but inserted it into the socket, between his eye and the bone of his skull, so that he could get it as far back as he could, and deform the back part of his eye.
Forgive me if I'm just out of date here, but last time I checked, REE offered something like a 30% memory savings per forked worker. By my math (Workers_ree = Workers_mri / 0.7) that gives you something like a 1.4X increase in number of available workers.

Now, a 40% boost in running threads within the same memory is nothing to sneeze at. It's just a far cry from a 200% increase in the same metric.

Furthermore, for many deployments running on bare hardware (or even virtualized in a private datacenter), RAM isn't really the most precious resource. An modern app server can easily be packing 16-32GB of RAM, at which point CPU and I/O throughput can easily challenge memory for "most precious resource".
I also recommend Mann’s 2005 book by the same title. Completely fascinating.
"That's the difference between producing content and producing journalism." Quite a bold, powerful statement. I wholeheartedly agree that there is a distinct difference between the two, but not that one is "bad" and the other is "good"

Instead, I would argue that they serve different ends.

Producing "content" is the quick and easy, but not "bad." Producing content to satisfy the fleeting curiosity of the masses is not "bad," it is simply not going to produce quality work. It is a perfectly valid business though. There is nothing inherently wrong or evil about producing content that will satiate an individual's quick desire to get a few facts about something topical.

On the other hand, producing "journalism" should not be considered "good" simply b/c it holds itself to a higher standard. Yes, it may produce better work, but that alone does not make it a viable business plan.

Associated Content should not be condemned simply because it does not produce quality content. AC serves a specific niche well and profits from that service. How is that evil?
This is not the first time a site has been shut down when an enthusiastic developer emailed Craig saying "Hey check out what I built!"

...nor will it be the last I suspect.
"Well, duh, if you have 3 equal co-founders you personally have just diluted by 66.66% and you haven’t even raised a penny!"

This argument is mistaken. If the third person can do as much work as each of the first two, they will each have less of a proportionately more valuable company.

If the dilution argument were correct, the optimal number of founders would be 1, and that is certainly not true.

We find from experience that 2 or 3 founders is optimal. If famous companies more often have 2 founders than 3, it's probably mostly because people who want to start their own companies are rare; obviously clusters of 2 are going to be more common than clusters of 3.
Perhaps. Still, TeX feels like an accomplishment. (Though as a programming language it's close to horrible.)
Pinker, Round Two
Sometimes the "doing nothing" part is required for your incredibly productive three all-nighters.

So may be 3months/3days is a little off balance, but you do need downtime.

Not to mention, those 3 months aren't necessarily wasted doing nothing - just different things. I did this through my mechanical engineering degree in college, and spent the rest of the time hacking on code... guess that paid off :P
I prefer the dragon fallacy example. With all the money spent on welfare, minimum income, etc, we could have create a biological viable dragon with a dedicated dragon research government agency.

Then we'll be the envy of the world for creating something as powerful and monstrous as a dragon! Muahahah!

The dragon fallacy is there to illustrate the many ways you could have used the money, including the absurd dragon research project. It ask us to think about the opportunity cost.

On a serious note, this fallacy is merely a fun version of the broken window fallacy.
Quibbles:

First off, I wouldn't exactly say that Netscape lost, given that it is the grandfather of Firefox. Yet, of course, Firefox is still in 2nd place...

Atari - Come on, guys. Atari ruled that genera throughout the entire first wave of game consoles. When Atari died, so did the entire game console market, not to be revived until the NES.

Everquest - Totally not true. They ruled the genera, again, for a long long time.

Palm - Same thing. When they were hot, they were hot, and it took a long time for Windows Mobile to unseat them.

Technology goes through seasons. In that regard, NO first-to-market technologies ever "wins" forever.
Microsoft Seeks Patent For Cloud Data Migration
Agree with this 100%. People will often rise to the level of expectations of people around them.

This is very useful when it comes to management, and a great way to encourage someone to grow and develop : expect a lot from someone, and find a way to communicate that you're completely confident they can achieve those expectations.
Credit card issuers (i.e. the bank that owns your cc account) trust the track data on the magstripe more than just the PAN embossed on the front of the card. This affects interchange fees, transaction costs, etc.
Perhaps it's as simple as CL has no way of determining who is on the other side of the pipe. In Craig's quoted statement about RSS feeds, it seems that they are concerned about commercial use of CL data. If Yahoo Pipes essentially masks the origin of the request, then it makes CL's job more difficult.

As for determining motive -- profit or otherwise -- I suspect it's more about keeping others' greedy mitts off their community than cold cash. CL has been about the community of people using it since it was just a mailing list, and publicly Craig and Craigslist have been pretty clear about what they value. So, they probably see pipes as a threat to that community.
References?

[Edit:] Thanks!
Quick question, why does the iPhone dev environment seem to have so many "private" APIs? Wouldn't it just be better to make them "non-private"? It sounds like, given the kinds of apps I've heard rejected over this problem, that they seem to offer a significant set of capabilities to app developers.
This is one reason I'm afraid of improvements in automatic music transcription systems. Once it becomes easy to search any voice of any piece of music ever recorded, lawyers will be trawling music search engines day and night looking for common subsequences.

This is also another example of why I think laches should be a defense against copyright infringement. If it takes you three decades to realise your copyright is being violated by someone in the same country as you ...
Cattle rancher here.

The amount of energy it takes to run a cattle ranch is dwarfed by the amount of energy it takes to, say, air condition a moderately large office building. In this case, you'd probably be air conditioning a huge factory. And what would you feed the lab meat? Some sort of sugar slurry? I'm not sure how that's any better than corn. Or, in your posited scenario of "re-energizing" waste, are you going to cook it? That takes a lot of energy. If not, you're going to end up with serious problems if you create a closed loop protein system (think BSE).

Then the big energy inefficiencies come when you start packing, shipping, refrigerating, and then throwing away (most of it, sadly, as most people don't buy deep freezers) your protein.
Or maybe it is literally contagious (ie a pathogen):
http://www.canlyme.com/minddisease.html
Would the crank-turners necessarily be suffering? What if they were told that their crank-turning was of vital importance? Is it possible that they might then enjoy turning the crank?
'overwhelming scientific consensus'

There goes that phrase again. It's the one thing that bugs me the most about all this, particularly in the light of the emails showing the 'us and them' attitude. Can't they just say 'consensus amongst climate researchers at institution x, y and z?' It's clear to me that many other scientific fields don't agree with the climate people : geologists always seem to be disagreeing.
Google Zeitgeist 2009
A close friend... he asked me not to use his name.
Mindlessly repeating internet memes for one (except in Soviet Russia, where meme repeats you). That's at least 50% of internet humor. Obscure references, as well. It's a type of humor that makes no sense unless you're immersed in the culture.
Just be sure to get the right color `temperature' for your energy saving lights. 5000K looks nicer and warmer than the `hotter' 8000K stuff, that you normally get.
This American Life source does not appear to check out on 60k while homeless figure:

"Gregory: I was making 60 grand a year, 60 grand, not working hard. If I wanted to push it I could push it to 70. They want you to do over time on Wall Street. Wall Street judges you by your overtime. So yeah, I was raking it in. And I was spending it just as fast on alcohol. I would get up at 8 at night, take a shower, have a pint of Jack Daniel?s on me when I got into my car and drove to work."

Poetry sample:

"A Few of My (cough) Favorite Things"

Waking up achy, And out in the open.
Guard dogs are barking. Before words are spoken.
Wrought iron benches, That causes suff-ring.
These are a few of my favorite things.
Taking a shower, With four dozen others. Moving around,
In a stench that can smother. Finding that you,
Are the source of the stink!
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the bottles dry, And the smokes are gone,
And I'm feeling low

http://www.prx.org/pieces/29262/transcripts/29262