skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fairly sad that the "script for the future" is (partly) being written by people who consider a mere 665 words a "wall of text" that is OK to comment on, but apparently too long to read.
From the article:
"The most popular user case is a customer that uses curated data from BuiltWith as a lead list."

How would I generously try and interpret this as NOT providing a list of email addresses to spam? I have lost track of the number of emails we've received via my businesses 'sales@xxx' address stating "this is not spam, because we've targeted you for a particular reason". Rubbish!
Also, supersonically=superficially and affect=effect. Jeez. My bad; autocorrect is not a crutch.
Amazon Video is not available in the Android Market -- you have to install Amazon's App Store App to install it, which is pretty obnoxious.
I started doing some research, found my way to BuiltWith and have wound up using it pretty regularly now. It's one of those tools I'd never have thought I needed until I became dependent on it. I had no idea how much time I was wasting poking around various websites' html source looking for the tech being used.

Very cool to see that its an automated single founder saas success story. Always inspiring to hear stuff like this
In a post-Alice world, anyway. Pre-Alice, patentable subject matter and nonobviousness were separate requirements.
1000 people at Nest? Hmm.
I am still not sure if fogbugz lost. In general simple systems are always hard to built.

In general while doing a project with fixed date approach Jira issue tracker is indeed not inline with the source code. So there is a discrepancy between what is in issue tracker and whats in the source tree. Moreover developers cutting corners to meet the fixed date is a technical debt for future and Jira promotes it.

Fogbugz with its probabilistic approach is better matched with the actual source code, since even though developers over or under estimate, its probabilistic distribution analysis puts standard deviation and means put in front of their eyes to do better. So in general fogbugz approach results in better source tree and less technical debt.
Apple could definitely afford to be a lot more idealistic, but it's just not (no longer) in their culture and frankly that is what a lot of people (stockholders) like about them. Also that's a lot of fallacies for one comment.
Why charge $5k? Charge $50->$100 a pop, since it'll obviously be like -at most- three minutes of work. :)
It also allows for workflows that are really hard with promise chains alone, even if what it does isn't so simple..

while (somecondition) {
try {
await sleep(1000);
somecondition = await someAsyncAction();
} catch(err) {
}
}

Doing retries, or loops against promise actions are really cumbersome with promises directly, but with async/await becomes much more clear in terms of action and intent.
You should paste the mails into the spamcop web interface. Hopefully it'll get mailchimp to shape up; that's what I do every time (in addition to clicking the mailchimp unsubscribe form and choosing "i never signed up for this list")
Selection was not the issue for me. I view on PC and streaming to a PC from Amazon Prime was essentially non-functional. Crappy Silverlight, which would buffer eternally and never play, or flash, which still paused to buffer every minute.

Netflix just works. It'll even play in in higher resolution (not full HD) without the HDMI cable. Prime just says "no" and gives the low-res stream.

There are many things on Amazon's service I'd watch, but the actual viewing experience for me is awful.
Again how is it ineffective? You are claiming something you have no method of proving.
Text-interfaces are the most direct and flexible way to get the machine to do work. When you're stuck to a consumer-friendly GUI, you can only command the computer the way the product has been designed to command the computer. You learn how to use a product rather than how to teach the computer.

That said, of course I use a web browser for 99% of my Internet actions. But being able to Alt-Tab into the terminal and run wget to quickly pull down a list of files may feel like 1970s-era, but it's still a powerful technique today, and for as long as users need to do things beyond what designers intended them to.
I'm a little sad the async/await model is winning over. I really prefer Go's CSP. It can do everything the async/await model can, plus "streaming" API's. I dig (sorta) C#'s async/await, but I still don't see why it's "winning" over other, better models...
I'm sure that people will learn a lot from doing this. But it's not going to make much difference in "cleaning up" the Canal.

The Gowanus Canal is on the EPA's Superfund National Priorities List. The actual cleanup will cost $506 million and take until 2022. That's "the rest of the story". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal#Cleanup_efforts
Agreed. I cancelled my prime membership today due to this unsavory behavior.
...I'm missing something here. How do they not know how much they've asked to trade and not heard back on yet? Wouldn't they have to track that, to not try to trade the same exact shares the same exact way a bunch of times? Is their local system maybe just more synchronous than I'm assuming would be possible?
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Choice is a lot less relevant for this discussion than you think.
I feel like Microsoft doing this is their new attempt at trying to dominate how the web will be shaped. I know the likelihood of async/await being bundled with ES7/ES2016 is pretty high but lets say it gets delayed for further review, is Microsoft going to wait until these specs are "official" before releasing it into standard non-preview Edge or are they just going to rush it as fast as possible, pat themselves on the back and then shrug their shoulders when their syntax is completely different from the actual ES7 implementation?

async/await is important and highly desired by the community, but I would prefer if it were not Microsoft trying to blast ahead and create yet another separate fragmentation between browsers. Sure they call it an experimental feature, but how long until they decide, "well we're not going to wait for this to get finalized, we're releasing it for everyone!!!" ?
Tracking crashes, interface pain points, etc. is, in itself, a perfectly legit thing for a developer to do. There's been all kinds of software, open-source and otherwise, that asks for permission to phone home with usage logs for roughly as long as there's been broad internet adoption. Win10 telemetry is hated mainly because they're so dishonest about it: you're encouraged to use default settings on installation, they're very secretive about what info is actually gathered and about what the settings do, and they straight-up lie about some of the things you can supposedly disable.
The analogue would be Google not showing Facebook pages in their search results. Google has pitched themselves as the place to find anything on the web.

(But it's perfectly fine for Amazon's search to only show Amazon stuff, because universal search is not part of their claim.)
Yeah, I didn't mean the effects spread out of Google's stuff, just spread farther than Google's domain app.
> What? You must mean something else because unlocked devices aren't (necessarily) compromised.

I mean compromised in the sense that the malicious party now (for example) has access to the user's email, and would be able to reset a whole host of passwords for online services (assuming they don't use 2FA or something similar, which most users don't). If they wanted to install a keylogger, or get saved passwords, then yes they still have to jailbreak my device. This xkcd is relevant: https://xkcd.com/1200/
The fact that both Atlassian and GitHub intended to unveil their own almost identical competing solutions, both built in Go, in consecutive sessions at the Git Merge conference (without either being aware of the other) is pretty hilarious.
I asked on /r/vim about "Who uses folds?" Didn't get any takers. I always forget they exist and haven't used them in my workflow yet.

Tag files would be another good one.
As someone who has been playing boardgames for 20+ years and computer games for even longer I can tell you that neither Kickstarter nor DRM are relevant factors here. In fact, both came much later than these trends started.

Broadly speaking, tabletop games are divided into what are called Euro games and Ameritrash [1]. Euro games have less player-conflict and (often but not always) less luck.

Euro games either originated in or were popularized in Germany and the beginning of that trend is really Settlers of Catan and (later) Carcasonne. Both of these games were and are big but for the more "serious" Euro games, the trend really took off with Puerto Rico, which came out in 2002. Since Puerto Rico there has been an absolute explosion of games.

In the 90s we might've had 10-20 games to choose from? Now, hundreds.

Every few years there tended to be a standout game which would propel the industry in some way, often evidenced by the many knockoffs. Agricola (2007), Race for the Galaxy (2007; although it was largely a rethemed San Juan (2004), which itself was inspired by Puerto Rico) which led to Dominion (2008+), Terra Mystica (2013), etc.

Kickstarter is really feeding off this success not the other way around.

As for DRM (including copy protection), this has been a thing most of the life of computer gaming. Now is really no different other than DRM of the last 10+ years has moved towards always-on Internet connections or, worse, turning single player games into games that can only save online (eg the SimCity V fiasco).

My experience with LAN gaming was it was one of two types of games: FPSs and RTSs.

FPSs honestly haven't changed all that much in years. Sure the graphics have gotten better and there have been minor improvements but honestly an FPS is an FPS.

We played LAN Warcraft 3 (eg tower defense maps). Personally I prefer turn-based strategy games, which are a dying breed (sadly).

But what drove those early LAN gaming sessions was I think two things:

1. Novelty; and

2. Internet connections.

There was a time when multiplayer gaming wasn't possible with the Internet connections of the day. Now it is. The result is less need to drag your computers to someone elses house.

Of course the effect of that is that you can then play with anyone not just your friends, which ironically seems to mean that you just don't do it anymore. Anyone older the school age seems to hate online gaming with strangers as you have to deal with cheaters and kids who have nothing better to do than play 8+ hours a day, which is fine, but it's not fun for the casual gamer.

See why tabletop games work is that tabletop gaming is a social exercise. You get together with friends and play. If you just played online, even with your friends, I don't believe it'd have anywhere near as much stickiness and definitely less adherents.

[1]: http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Ameritrash
Moral panic. The service doesn't really adore you to do anything you can't do with a blog or website.
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CSP can be implemented on top of async/await, which itself is implemented on top of promise and generators.

What does streaming APIs have to do with CSP per se?
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> .. What used to take 100s of employees to accomplish can be done with a handful, and it's only going to get worse

IMHO this means we can do more now, so it's going to get _better_
The article mentions enough figures that you can derive the figure yourself. 2-3k paying customers, plans are $300-1k/mo and the plan breakdown is hinted at.
Not to mention that it's completely Amazon's decision not to offer streaming apps for AppleTV or Android in general release. Do they really make that much on their hardware that they're willing to continue alienating most of their customers?
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Yes, quality and looks vary by product. There are many examples.
How do you get from "unexplained" to "made up"?
Interesting how positive of an angle this article takes a la Google and Nest. ("We don't give Nest employees the same benefits because we're 'scrappy!'") I haven't heard great things from Nest employees post acquisition, just read the Glassdoor reviews.
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The article says the platform has a ‘few thousand’ users. Let's be conservative and say 2000.

40% of basic at $295 = $236k
40% of pro at $295 = $396k
20% of basic at $295 = $398k

Equals $1.03M. PER MONTH! With one staff (I think the zero staff is a stretch)

Overheads would be significant, but still, let's say they are 90%.

He is still earning $100k per month profit. Not a bad business...
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Especially if there are Creative Commons photos of the subject available, which you'd assume to be true for public spaces. Seems wasteful to put so much effort into writing up an article and then not fully dressing it.
I appreciated how easy it was to read, at least until it got to the formal proof. This might be a good interview question to pose - to ask the interviewee to come up with the trivial lower and upper bounds of "pancake flips".
> I'm interested in why you consider it shady for a retailer not to sell a product. I don't see Google or Apple selling products from anyone but themselves (mostly. Apple does sell a few accessories and Google has some pure editions which they have a hand in). Pick any retailer, and there are brands and products they don't sell.

I think the equivalent for Google would be deliberately not listing duckduckgo or bing in search results for "duck duck go" or "bing".
Yes, how can one trust a company's claims about privacy when the seemingly lose no trust over even such a high-profile incident? Celebrities phones has been targeted since at least the T-Mobile Sidekick.
Privacy implications aside, I think even if they don't create profiles without the person's consent it will still take off -- if you approach someone and tell them that someone left them a positive "review" and would they like to create a profile and share it, I would expect 80% of people will agree to that. Flattery will get you everywhere.
> Vote with your dollars then.

Usually that is said in the context of economics or capitalism.

I've never heard it apply to actual politics before.

Its almost scary in the context of actual politics.
Seems I need to get into the spam business if it earns me this much dough.
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I understand that the author doesnt like the service, but the service requires your current cell phone number to notify you.

I think most people who have been through a rough relationship and would consider themselves a "survivor" would have gone far past changing their phone number.

I dont mean to trivialize the authors experience, but this site being a way for people to post anonymous mean or nice comments doesnt open any new avenues if that person already has your contact information.
> In addition to the free version of the site, BuiltWith now has a SaaS-based membership model for users that want to take advantage of a number of services that the platform now provides around lead generation, sales intelligence, and market analysis. The most popular user case is a customer that uses curated data from BuiltWith as a lead list. For example, a business that has created a platform that allows businesses to send newsletters to customers may build a list of all companies in Australia using Campaign Monitor or Mailchimp to target for marketing activities.

Yeah, I really wish people would stop calling "lead generation" anything other than what it is. Spam.
Of course each iteration of hangouts/voice/contact makes it harder to send an SMS message to someone in your contacts... you now have to type in the number, and if you happen to do it on your android phone from a contact, it tries to send an advite to use hangouts... It's really annoying as a fan of Voice/GrandCentral for years.
"There was almost no thought around how software should be developed."

Really, Joel? So all the various software methodologies of the seventies and eighties, all the CASE tools of the nineties, Extreme Programming etc etc etc - all of this does somehow not count as "thought on how software should be developed"?!
I agree. Things for some people, they don't work for others. But you cannot blame users and say "oh its how you configured it" "its good out of the box" etc.

If its failed for 1 user, its a shit product.
If its a success for 1 user, it's a great product.

It's GOOD for a user to say they find it easy and why.

It's GOOD for a user to say they find it hard and why.

1 helps the user give a product a second chance by learning of his pitfalls.

1 helps the company improve their product to make it easier for more users.

My point is that apologists shouldn't come in here and blame users for a shitty product.
I think we must be using "unlocked" in different ways. I'm intending it in what I think is the conventional way for this context: when the device's cellular subsystem is not electronically locked to a particular cellular service provider.
My point is that stating that side-loading is a back-door that can be abused when your phone is in someone else's possession ends up not being a very good argument when that actually ends up being the harder way to accomplish getting software onto the phone, considering side-loading is both password protected (if your phone is) and still doesn't expose functionality beyond what the OS allows (unlike jail-breaking).
Peeple is nothing like individuals blogging in their own little corners of the web. It's organised and focused. People influencing and reinforcing each other's opinions in a central place that anyone can access. And the subjects of their criticism cannot opt out. The entire premise is complete bullshit and the sooner it goes away, the better.
How do his clients manage to spam the sites they find? Are they breaking spam laws or finding a way around them?

It's common to send spam from countries without anti-spam laws but surely a lot of companies using this service will be in the US, etc.
Not sure why i got downvoted without an explanation. Must be some annoyed Apple fanboy.
Another reason code needs to be idiomatic.
Or right. Take your pick - all morals are relative.

We decide what matters when its time to write the laws.
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If this really was reviewed by Dyson, I'm surprised no one picked up on this mistake: "Due to good ol’ conversion of energy". Conversion should be "conservation".
Moore's Law is a harsh mistress.

Countless breakthroughs have already been marshalled to bring us where we are. More are the order of the day.
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My opinion,FTW
https://wappalyzer.com - same from AU
Unregulated public defamation that could turn an unsuspecting user into a near-universal pariah if the app were to gain traction... sounds like something out of Black Mirror! (There's no doubt in my mind any more that Charlie Brooker is actually from the future.)

"Yelp for people" is such a simple concept that if Peeple doesn't do it, someone else will. And they're completely protected by the law as service providers under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati... ... and since abusers practically by definition disregard the risk of personal liability for their actions, the pattern feared by the post author will almost certainly emerge.

The confluence of technology and free speech brings out the best in humanity, but it also brings out the worst... and it's the already-marginalized who suffer the most from things like this. The only thing we as technologists and believers in the positive aspects of free speech can do, is to work as hard as we can to build our own visions for the future. And hopefully the good outweighs the bad...