skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally do not start out with SEO or worry much about organic rankings. Depending on the target, I start with Google & Bing PPC, Facebook Ads, Reddit Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Pinterest Ads, Twitter Ads.

This does take some investment upfront but allows me to gather data and test conversions quickly. Based on the data/conversions/feedback from these sources, I fine tune and tweak.

After a few weeks, you will have a ton of keyword and search data from your PPC ads and Google Webmaster tools. If I see some low hanging fruit search terms from that data, I will then invest in trying to get them ranked organically.

Make sure and setup a Google & Bing webmaster account and analytics. I have also developed my own software that I use on all my sites that captures a ton of other data that I want to see. Google Analytics isn't always accurate and doesn't always give me exactly what I want to see to make educated decisions.
I agree with your summary, that's what the author is stating, though I don't think the conclusion is true.

The best way to start becoming an entrepreneur is to start small. The mantra 'fail early, fail often' is useful, but only if you have the resources to apply it more than once, which means that assuming you're not rich you should start small. Start a side project, do consulting work in your spare time, etc... It's not rocket science.

That being said, I understand the desire to quit a job you don't enjoy. I know that desire can override doing things rationally. I have that desire often.
Open sourcing my web remote control written in CoffeeScript and Node.js
Manning isn't the same as Snowden. Lumping them together is a disservice to what Snowden did.

Manning volunteered for the military and gave up some rights as a result. He then distributed data that put lives in danger because he didn't think to clean it up.

Snowden was a private citizen, one who felt his country was not going down the right path. He took time to hatch a plan and release data that he believed wouldn't risk the lives of others.

Snowden deserves a medal not prison.
If you want to be intellectually honest towards yourself, you must admit that Russia was going to be cheated off Crimea. They didn't accept that. That's all.
Risk taking isn't as brave when your partner pulls a few hundred thousand dollars at a Fortune 500 company.
Interesting that they're starting with a mainstream part. I hope this becomes a trend since the mainstream part is the only one I'm ever really interested in every generation (as my gaming needs are rather modest, and currently served adequately by a GTX 750 TI).

I was planning on waiting for a mainstream version of the 1070/1080 from NVIDIA to use in a Thunderbolt graphics dock with a Thunderbolt 3 compatible ultrabook, which is a setup that, I assume, will be far more limited by the ultra low voltage CPU in the ultrabook than any mainstream graphics card from this next generation anyways. But it looks like Polaris might fit the bill and release sooner.
Redesign of nix command line is a good thing. Nix should be more intuitive.

I totally agree that nix is the future of package management.
I believe that when you download only a single file from a large torrent , you still help the torrent with your file.

So if they just put torrent links in their search engines, and ask for people to install a browser torrent extention like [1], it could work pretty well.

[1]for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/torrent-torna...
Beyond Memory Safety with Types
I haven't had an opportunity to ride the NYC subway, but I was a regular user of the Shenzhen/Hong Kong subway for a few months during a long term project in the region and I would have to say its incredible/insane. If you ever get a chance, experiencing the Hong Kong system at rush hour is crazy but you will be amazed by it efficiency. Don't know if I can say the same about SF or Toronto.
For some reason scrolling that page on my iPhone 6s is insanely lagging, is it due to a plugin?
More prosecutions under the Espionage Act than every prior administration combined... I don't see a pardon in the cards. Also, a trial balloon wouldn't be Holder calling for a trial - that has been said many times by many politicians for a long time.
I'm developing NullAwesome[0] with an entity component approach, and so far it seems to be going rather well.

Using an ECS for game design actually has enormous advantages when you are coding a high-performance game in a language like C or C++: you can lay out the components of the entities however you want, so that systems on the hot path have access to as many components as they'll need without blowing the data cache. I'm not actually doing that for this game, but still, it has advantages outside of just MMOs.

[0] https://nullawesome.tumblr.com, https://github.com/bitwize/nullawesome
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You wish Apple would recognize this. But in fact my sister did this, and filled out their web form and did everything else they suggest. And Apple still does not recognize it. (On the inbound side. )

She can text me, but when I or anybody else On an iPhone try to text her it goes to iMessage and she never receives it.

Yes this is "just a bug", but it also seriously promotes lock-in. It's a very strategic bug, and if she hadn't bought a new phone she would probably be back on iMessage.

iMessage is not always a choice, sometimes it's for life whether you wanted it to be or not.
> We praise people that are “courageous” enough to quit their 9-to-5 and dive into the deep end of the exciting unknown. We idealize and romanticize the idea of being our own boss and being in charge of our own schedule. To take a risk and reap the bountiful benefits. Yet no one talks about the real sustainability or self-sufficiency of this formula when the playing field is never even.

There are risks and then there are calculated risks. In other words, you should always know what you're getting yourself into ahead of time. A simple understanding of evidential probability will yield you the proper decision making tools in that regard.

I agree with the sentiment that privileged people have a softer landing if they fail, but there are many examples of working class or even penniless entrepreneurs becoming successful. Jan Koum comes to mind.
In e-voting you can change your vote unlimited times. I think it is pretty good approach against your example.
From technological standpoint it's not that big of a deal. But from civil rights it's horrible, if it was a reported demonstration and the demonstrators were calm.
I agree on that point. But remembering that British people know what freedom is, I believe that british people would push back harder than russians.

I believe the british government would try to get away with much more if it was in russias position. But that's my feeling and it's not founded in any facts.
I actually like SQL, but I'm glad people are willing to ask, "Can we do better?" I think for a working programmer, SQL is the only practical choice, but Tutorial D is an interesting attempt to improve (by C.J. Date, described at length in his books Database in Depth and The Third Manifesto), with an open source implementation called Rel. There is also a commercial database called Dataphor that uses D4, a cousin to Tutorial D. There is also a newer project called Andl that is another non-SQL relational query language.

Personally, although I'm not a researcher, I've become intrigued by ways we model change-over-time in relational databases. Snodgrass's book _Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL_ is a good entry point to all that, and more recently we have SQL2011's Temporal standard. I still have a lot to read here myself, but I am keen to see what happens in the next ten years in how the relational model can incorporate change.
First time I stopped, because I got stuck. I didn't have Internet at home, so I had nobody to ask for help.
Second time I stopped, because of university exams. I was studying something completely different at the university and when exams came, I dropped the programming and didn't pick it up after.
Third time was the lucky one. I made programming my most important priority and I didn't stop. Also, I had Internet, so I could ask for help.
"You can live at home with your parents and try out ideas"

You say this like it's a privilege that everyone has. Not everyone has this option.
Yes. Did you?
Ten years ago, the rhetorical buzzwords of that period had gotten really, really tedious.

Words like:

- Patriot
- Freedom
- Terrorism
- Never Forget
- If we don't do X, they win

Ten years later, and I'm glad those words are a joke by now.

But only to face new words:

- Privilege
- Trigger
- Victim Blaming
- Social Justice
- Perpetuating false narratives

Buzzwords only have currency with people who want others to stop thinking deeply about what they're reading or hearing.

When I see buzzwords, especially the politicized variety, I'm pushed away from an article, because I sense an attempt to manipulate and pander to a preferred audience, and that feels dishonest to me.
Sounds good to me. The electorate in general doesn't seem in favour, however.
Life is full of trade-offs, and sometimes the choices you make don't work out. The author sounds pissed off because they took a risk that didn't work out, so he's telling everyone that it's objectively "bullshit" to make himself feel better about his lack of success like it's someone else's fault. The fact is that both the haves and the have-nots take these kind of risks all the time, and few succeed. But some do and many still consider the chances worth the risk, despite their failure. It really doesn't have that much to do with privilege, so much as creating a mental fixture from a statement like "follow your passion" and ignoring the fact that all statements are subject to exceptions. Basically, the post reeks of bitter naive white guy problems, and I want my 3 minutes back.

The fact that I am even here is evidence that I quit my previous career to pursue a passion. I also don't assume that the same decision would work for everyone. But I'd hardly call it "bullshit".
Signalling is one of the main issues in London, as a lot of it is old and needs replacing for higher density. More tracks are being added, and the wider metro rail systems are being integrated and extended though.
>I can't see what the downside is to him of doing the right thing at this point.

It would be political suicide for the Democratic Party and guarantee a Trump victory.
Have you had any experience using a graphics dock? I was talking about it the other day and while it seems like a nice idea I've yet to encounter anyone who's actually used one and can speak to how good compatibility is.
If he didn't know, it was a lie, it is not lying.

But I don't know what he knew.
The timing of this statement from Holder is convenient, considering the VICE HBO special that aired last night about Snowden.
Install Firefox Mobile with uBlock in your tablet. I'll discover a whole new Web.
What speed reading program do you guys recommend?
Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres
I've got out of the game of upgrading PCs years ago, so have no clue.

To me I'd think the average user with his drivers and different components might get a better impression what to expect if he buys the card from the first link, than your link? (which would more express what to could be expected at maximum?)
No he is saying it is disingenuous & dangerous to pretend everyone can just as easily quit everything and become your own boss, with the same risks. For someone who is "less privileged" (or however you are supposed to describe it), the consequences can be more severe if failure happens. While the rich, ivy league grad whose endeavor flops can go home to pops and rebuild his resume, hit up his network, and get a great job no problem. I agree that over-stressing this current reality (as opposed to looking forward and being optimistic) can make things worse. It is a tricky line to walk.
How many of those were legitimate though? Except for a very small handful of high profile cases, I have absolutely no idea about the rest of them so I'm genuinely curious.
"and the only way to force individual voters to vote as you wish is to physically watch them vote."

Yes, exactly.
Georgia is the only one of these that can cast Putin in a negative light - he let his personal ambition cloud his judgement. Could have stopped at the border of Ossetia, but decided to push on a bit to show Georgians who is the boss.

For both Crimea and Transnistria they had their own referendums after the fall of USSR where they wanted to separate from Ukraine and Moldova respectively - neither of which were recognized by the larger countries. Its absurd to expect a region that wants to separate to get approval from everybody else. Ultimately it resulted in an armed conflict just as we see today. There is more to the story than MSM is feeding us.
>Why is this argument not immediately raised every time some clown uses the "he broke the law, he has to face the music" argument?

Corporate media outlets exist to disseminate propaganda, not seek consistent, logical answers to important questions. They seek to frame the debate in the context constructed by Wall Street and Washington and redirect anger and angst so that people fight against each other instead of against their masters. That's why "identity politics" has become so resurgent in recent years, as the class divide has sharpened and the middle-class has withered. As long as people are polarized and can be pitted against each other on the basis of race, ethnicity, or sexuality, they aren't united against the oligarchs. Its the same exact strategy used by prison guards to maintain control of the prisons. Pit the blacks against the whites against the hispanics and the prison guards can observe safely from the walls. The guards only face a threat from the prisoners when they are united against those who keep them in bondage.

Snowden represents the greatest threat in that regards. If you support Snowden's actions, you are explicitly acknowledging not only that the law is dog shit, but that Snowden was justified in breaking it because of how incredibly repressive the government is. He represents the ultimate repudiation of the system that runs the entire country and most of the world. The corporate media is the voice of this system.
C64 :) when I was 5 years old
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"If you're based in Miami, you could easily save $$ on the tax situation - even if you're not there FT."

Lots of states offer no income tax. Favorites among full-time RVers in addition to Florida are South Dakota and Texas (I'm legally a Texas resident). But, yes, Florida is a great state to call home, if you travel full-time. But, Miami is an expensive city to do it in.

If I were gonna live in Florida for more than a few weeks out of the year, I'd probably pick St. Pete. It's maybe the best balance of "decent city, decent prices, near the ocean" in Florida. Cheaper options exist inland, but it's still much cheaper than Miami.

But, if we open it up to every state, there are tons of great cities that are cheaper than Miami. They're always smaller, and rarely on the ocean, but still provide excellent quality of life very affordably.
I wasn't anywhere near as fancy and just collected the callback methods from the Chrome docs with a snippet pasted in browser console.
So, when is HN going to introduce "reactions" so I can post a smiley face and clapping hands to this comment?
You wouldn't write a unit test to assert an object implements a method. You would test if the method works as expected. This will of course also fail if the method is not implemented at all.

You test for functionality, not types.
I'm sure these comments will be filled with Russian propaganda operatives, either the paid or "useful idiot" variety. I used to think the web would be an engine for democracy and transparency but now that view just seems naive. With powerful surveillance and propaganda tools the web is and will continue to be a powerful force for state control. And states will increasingly use it to exert power outside their borders.
> Right now those huge torrents have as few as 4 seeders

Any ideas on fixing this? I've tried offering her storage, bandwidth, or physical delivery of hard drives, but so far no bites (specifically, outright refusal).
I learned. Then realized the value of having good ideas for what to work on.
Nodding your head to such video is easy. Actually doing it takes way more effort.

Although, I think those millions of views come from people who were lured into watching those by smart marketing message that basically laid out their problem(s) and promised it can be solved "with one simple trick".

Number of views only shows that many people share the same problem.
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Isn't it a good idea to wait for models with non-reference coolers anyway?
I love that the author takes us on a tour of all his blunders, so we can learn from them the way he did.

Far too many "making of" articles present you with a finely polished end product and pretend that its evolution was child's play. That leaves us readers disheartened and reluctant to try similar things.
Speaking of media, I can't recommend citizenfour enough. An amazing historical document.
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Thought I'd submit this after leaving a comment about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802900

I'm not involved in any way, but I heard about it from the author's activity on the Postgres mailing lists, and I'm very intrigued to see where the project goes. I thought other HNers might be interested too. I'm glad to see people are experimenting with ways to take the relational model beyond SQL.
>hates everything Russian and threatens them.

I am not sure how Ukraine threatens Russia. Perhaps you can elucidate? I can't speak to the alleged hate though I might find it understandable, given that Russia is actively annexing parts of the country.

>Russians feel sympathy[...] send them support, even weapons and volunteers

I think you mean the Russian military is sending troops across the border as has been documented many times? Also, there's the issue of the BUK that shot down the Malaysian air-liner. Perhaps those victims might not cheer too loudly for that "sympathy?"
This made me curious about London's passenger or trip numbers, and I found this: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/what-we-do/london-und...

1.34 billion passengers (I presume 'trips') per year.
Available at Cornell through Eduroam.
The glow effect is really nice. Appears to be simply good use of the text-shadow property.
DTU (Chemical Engineering) has not blocked the access to http://sci-hub.cc.

Maybe you can check if you can resolve the domain with an open DNS server like 8.8.8.8 from Google and then access it from your university network.
I'm happy to see the mention of Crimean referendum after the collapse of USSR - seems like the will of the people who are actually living there is easily overlooked if it goes against what the West (mostly US) wants.

If Scotland wanted to separate from the UK, would they need UK's approval? Of course not, its a referendum involving the Scots, people who actually live there, whether to stay or not.

To futher the matter Crimea is a military outpost, and was so for hundreds of years, since Russian Tsars took it from the Tartars, which themselves were part of the Golden Horde and the Turks. Messing with this kind of stuff brings realpolitik out real quick.
How the Supermarket Tabloids Stay Out of Court (1991)
I think the reason that many smart people don't stick with programming is because a fundamental part of the job is struggling with intellectually trivial incantations specific to some configuration/OS/Language/Tooling.

I am a programmer and I have a lot of patience for that stuff. But I don't why I do, because objectively speaking it's crazy to spend hours ingesting this kind of ultra-specific, non-reuseable information.
It's not a new idea, John Myers O'Hara expressed it well over 100 years ago:
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Bookman-1902nov-00229:19
I find Holder's remarks to be ironic. After Operation Fast and Furious [0], I would be tempted to say there's more blood on Holder's hands than on Snowden's hands.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fast_and_Furious
"We are predatorily luring working class people into an entrepreneur lifestyle as the answer to living a meaningful life and loads of money. It’s the new American Dream."

Yes.

Being an entrepreneur is about selling. Few people are good at selling. If you're good at selling, you can make good money doing it for someone else.

Expecting most people to be good at selling is a cruel fantasy.
I haven't tried eduroam, only cabled uni networks.

I just tried several Norwegian ones, traceroute indicates they are blocked by the national level academic ISP in Oslo.

The one in the UK is stopped by a university "badware" firewall.
-> "The big difference between the NYC subway and all other US systems is that it's four-track. Not only is it four-track; there are lots of switches, crossovers, and interlocked signaling to support taking a section of track out of service without affecting traffic much. That's why the system can run 24/7. Almost all maintenance is done without stopping all traffic."

Totally. I'm always surprised at the amount of planning that went into the NYC subway as far as capacity and redundancy goes. Not only in the IRT and BMT lines, which were private companies at the time, but also the IND system which was built and owned by the City. For example, the first time I took the F train to Coney Island I was socked to see it's four-track all the way to the end.

It's a huge disappointment that the Second Ave subway is going to be two-tracked.
Leading poltical figures in the other party reported that Iraq had WMDs and used such arguments to wage war on Iraq before Bush.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Iraq_%281998%29
Indeed, the political class is frighteningly relentless at churning out new versions their doublespeak vocabularies designed to balkanize the voting population.

As you rightly stated, these "power words" change with the political climate, but they all serve the same purpose: to divide and conquer. Balkanize the voter base in any way possible, and you have a fractured and easily controlled populace.

It appears modern democracy has been fully gamed.
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There are lots of startups that I considered dumb. A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. But here we are.

In trying to start my own business I'm still learning to get over my own self doubt.
But he'd do it after the election but before a new President is sworn in. Look up Bill Clinton's last day pardons.
Plus you can't work on a tourist visa and getting a work permit costs a lot of money.
LINQ to SQL ends up creating an expression on IQueryable. You can build this expression up any way you want, including in bits and pieces. You can tack on Wheres and Selects any time you like. It's more composable than pain text SQL since the parts can go in any order.

It's only after you force it to materialize (I.e. call ToList) that you can't further "compose" it.
The companies profiled in the Macro are farther along than typical companies in the batch. They're more interesting to read about than ones with no product yet.