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Regarding the grocery stores... Layout changes from time to time, often in subtle ways such as (locally, this happened several months ago) the chilled juices being swapped with the…

Off Topic also: google still count them as backlinks, but do not pass on Pagerank juice. They might still count them as a small factor in website rankings.

Irish mobile operators(specifically 3) just began to introduce 'all you can eat', or unlimited, data plans. As I understand it, the AUP is limited to 1TB per month - more than my r…

Just a curiosity - I use news.ycombinator.org rather than news.ycombinator.com which I sometimes see linked in comments. Which one is more popular?

Instrumental music, like Pelican, God Is An Astronaut, Japanese Telecom and some Classical music for coding.

Graze.com aren't really competition to this - same idea, different niche. This seems to be more directed to people who like sweets and snacks, while graze.com is centered around he…

I've generally seen it been called white-hat. In my (limited) experience, black-hat is generally used to reference automatic link building, content spinning etc., while white-hat t…

No, black hat would be more comment backlink blasts and such, using tools like scrapebox. I think it's called "white hat" more so than "black hat" because it's usually "safe" to do…

Very common, link purchasing is a widely-used 'white hat' SEO practice.

There's a quick bit of discussion about this already here on HN[1] 1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2819709

Is there a way to block the page before loading? I see a (long) flash of the webpage before the block screen appears in chromium 11.0.696.68 (84545) Ubuntu 10.04 Otherwise, I like …

AFAIK, it is currently not a crime within the United States, although there is legislation in the pipeline to make streaming a felony[1]. These websites rely on having links to the…

Oft touted on HN here is tarsnap[1] and rsync.net[2]. They both have different pricing models, and both seem to focus on security. [1] - http://www.tarsnap.com/ [2] - http://www.rs…

The full statement is available here[1]. [1] - http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdat...

Currently reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - an OK book - and keeping Starting Strength by my side as a reference. Starting Strength is a great introduction to weightlifting…

What about if a developer were to now download the source code available here? Could they, in theory, develop with it as they've never attempted to reverse engineer it themselves? …

Zynga are an extreme 'yes' example. I have experience with some FB apps, mainly just app versions of websites. These were not monetized(by me at least). https://developers.facebook…

you forgot the TLD on showmethecurry. http://www.showmethecurry.com

The only memory-based effects of methamphetamine I've heard of have been impairment, not improvement. Do you have any citations? Also, methamphetamine has a very high addiction pot…

Ireland has a huge cost-of-living, awful healthcare, and is terribly run. It's a good place to house a corporation(the tax is very low) but for living in... You'd want to be very s…