1b:[[2321554,{"by":"johndlafayette","descendants":2,"id":2321554,"kids":[2321568],"score":2,"text":"$1c","time":1300084673,"title":"Ask HN: Advice on sharing articles with programmers","type":"story","url":""}],[2321237,{"by":"jason_slack","descendants":1,"id":2321237,"kids":[2321337],"score":2,"text":"I looked at Spotify today and It confuses me how they can allow anyone to play any song, anytime? What about licensing to the record companies?

What am I missing?

Are they paying licensing to the record companies or do they not have to since it is just streaming, not illegally copying the music like Lime or Napster?","time":1300074893,"title":"Ask HN: How does Spotify do it?","type":"story","url":""}],[2319914,{"by":"jermainc","descendants":4,"id":2319914,"kids":[2320506,2320337,2319991],"score":2,"text":"Since about half a year and now as the iPad2 is launching, I question myself: For how long Apple will be able to march on with success?\nWhen might Apple´s decade of decline start and what could be the reasons for that?

A part of the future scenario is of course, that Steve Jobs will hand over his masterpiece to another person. A person, that might not be able to tell the story that Steve Jobs embodies. And connected to that the brand will not be what is it today.

The second part of the scenario is, that the overall penetration with Apple related products will simply get too high someday. Apple is facing what it never wanted to embody: Mainstream. What we currently experience as a holistic matching of a wide ranging product groups, might turn into dislikes of tomorrow.

This would be, what I would call the \"microggle\" effect, as these other two giants also more and more lost their sexyness by being omnipresent.

Of course, my thoughts are very unfinished, but I would like to know your opinions.","time":1300042616,"title":"The Future of Apple.","type":"story","url":""}],[2319954,{"by":"cs_grad_2010","descendants":2,"id":2319954,"kids":[2320167,2320332],"score":2,"text":"$1d","time":1300043401,"title":"Ask HN: 2010 CS graduate here, where are the jobs?","type":"story","url":""}],[2318859,{"by":"kumph","descendants":81,"id":2318859,"kids":[2318943,2319160,2318880,2319780,2319510,2318934,2318912,2318969,2319145,2319748,2319285,2319579,2319425,2321994,2319739,2319281,2320191,2319280,2318958,2320114,2318905,2328219,2319926,2319339,2319058,2319855,2319001,2340621,2348362,2319298,2319675,2319805,2319756,2320405,2319704,2318972,2319015],"score":282,"text":"$1e","time":1300010818,"title":"New Startup Now Pulling In Over $100k in Monthly Revenues","type":"story"}],[2318341,{"by":"tchae","descendants":6,"id":2318341,"kids":[2318583,2318432,2318574],"score":1,"text":"I'm looking to relocate with my startup team to SoMA from Boston starting this May/June.

I've been looking on Yelp, Craigslist, Rent.com, etc. to find some good and affordable places to house a team of 4.

I would like to be as close to the SoMA district as possible. For HN'ers who are in SF, any suggestions?","time":1299991186,"title":"Ask HN: Good places to live/work in SoMA?","type":"story","url":""}],[2317977,{"by":"jasonlynes","descendants":7,"id":2317977,"kids":[2318020,2317999],"score":10,"text":"Here at SXSW, and I had the pleasure to attend the \"Life After YC\" session with Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Dane Hurtubise (JobSpice), Drew Houston (Dropbox), and Jessica Mah (inDinero). It was fantastic. More than any other session, I felt like I was among peers. I got thinking, screw SXSW, we need a HN Conference. Or at least a HN track at SXSW.

Make it hacker-oriented, with technical and startup topics, invite the YC partners, maybe current and former batch founders to speak, maybe some angels, maybe help for people interested in applying, maybe a hack day? Who'd be interested?","time":1299978878,"title":"Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?","type":"story","url":""}],[2317379,{"by":"Kungfu","descendants":1,"id":2317379,"kids":[2317439],"score":1,"text":"So, i am currently writing something up for a college class. Problem is everything is hypothetical. I need some proof. I believe a first impression on a website is imperative so that people actually use it and in my case, buy your product or services as well.

Basically I'm wondering has there been any studies that shows how a better web design will increase revenue for any kind of services? I don't just mean selling products like a T-shirt, but labor services as well.

If someone wanted their computer fixed and searched for companies that can do so, will a first impression on the website help them make their decision to use your company? Are there any studies like this? White papers maybe?

Only thing i really found was this: \nhttp://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/blink/

Thanks!","time":1299960773,"title":"Ask HN: First impressions on website - do they help?","type":"story","url":""}],[2317386,{"by":"mopatches","descendants":2,"id":2317386,"kids":[2317429],"score":2,"text":"Hey guys -

My friend and I have been reading Hacker News for a long time and we recently decided to launch our own thing: OpenNow. It’s all about finding nearby restaurants that are open right now.

We still have a long way to go and would really appreciate any feedback or ideas you have around how to improve OpenNow.

http://www.opennowsf.com

Thank you!","time":1299960943,"title":"Ask HN: Please review my startup: OpenNow","type":"story","url":""}],[2316191,{"by":"jtesp","descendants":3,"id":2316191,"kids":[2316467,2316192,2316310],"score":1,"text":"If pageviews are consistently high, but registered users are not, is that bad? How much does it matter?

I know user data is good, but is it critical for investors? I want to understand what's critical and why.

Can someone suggest the most important/relevant stats of the following?

Registered Users, Visits, Pageviews, Pages/visit, Avg. Time on site, New Visitors.

Thanks!","time":1299911491,"title":"Ask HN: Users vs PageViews - What's more important","type":"story","url":""}],[2314509,{"by":"mcrittenden","descendants":2,"id":2314509,"kids":[2314533,2314770],"score":1,"text":"Most portfolios I've come across are for web designers or photographers, and as such they have lots of images of designs or photos as the main feature of the portfolio.

If I'm mainly a coder, what do I do in place of that? Bits of source code? Just keep it simple and link to some Github projects? How can I present my coding skills in a portfolio-ish way? Are there any developers' portfolios that stand out to you as particularly successful at this?","time":1299871180,"title":"Ask HN: What do I include on a portfolio site if I'm not a designer?","type":"story","url":""}],[2312105,{"by":"Gmase15","descendants":1,"id":2312105,"kids":[2312803],"score":1,"text":"$1f","time":1299817352,"title":"How do you define a entrepreneur?","type":"story","url":""}],[2310411,{"by":"cleancode1","descendants":1,"id":2310411,"kids":[2310499],"score":2,"text":"$20","time":1299785837,"title":"Ask HN: Where have you found your startup colleagues (friends)?","type":"story","url":""}],[2305381,{"deleted":true,"id":2305381,"kids":[2305397,2305424],"time":1299688881,"type":"story"}],[2298315,{"by":"roycehaynes","descendants":1,"id":2298315,"kids":[2298999],"score":2,"text":"What's the salary range for mobile application developers?","time":1299525825,"title":"Ask HN: Mobile Application Developer Salary","type":"story","url":""}],[2292092,{"by":"jensv","descendants":10,"id":2292092,"kids":[2292281,2294140,2292710,2293791,2292105],"score":5,"text":"$21","time":1299352986,"title":"Ask HN: Question about salary expectations, raises, and bonuses","type":"story"}],[2286288,{"by":"TimothyBurgess","descendants":13,"id":2286288,"kids":[2286401,2286322,2286323,2286309,2286494,2286429,2288490,2286368,2287350,2286487],"score":20,"text":"$22","time":1299196491,"title":"HN, please help... My host just screwed me over","type":"story","url":""}],[2286362,{"by":"misham","descendants":7,"id":2286362,"kids":[2286419,2286391,2287733,2286470],"score":2,"text":"I'm wondering what people think of using a Cloud-based IDE such as shiftEDIT.net or cloud9ide.com.

Have you found it useful? Do you like the idea? Would you use it?

I'm asking as a developer looking at different tools out there.

While the idea is enticing - being able to use the same IDE where ever I have access to Internet and browser - it seems like these IDEs are missing support for back-end technologies like Rails/Node.js/PHP/etc.

What do you folks think?","time":1299198209,"title":"Would/Do you use Cloud-based IDEs?","type":"story","url":""}],[2283645,{"by":"puente","descendants":1,"id":2283645,"kids":[2283895],"score":2,"text":"Hi there!

Where do I find “good” programmers in the Valley? Is there a newspaper, a forum, blog, cafeteria, event, etc get in contact with good programmers?

I will hopefully move soon to the Valley to found a company. I’m a programmer myself, but I will need some help. 1 or 2 good programmers that I can trust will do. They will obviously get a portion of the company! Motivation is everything, and unfortunately salary won’t be high at the beginning.

The problem is that I live abroad and I don’t know too much people there. I know a lot of “good” programmers but they all live abroad. I guess they won’t be able to come to the US due to the green card!

So how do I get in touch with “good” programmers in the Valley?

Thanks in advanced!","time":1299152946,"title":"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys","type":"story","url":""}]]

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