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>You will still not make any revenue unless your audience is interested in content that is shallow, vapid and limited in scope.

That's total garbage. Correct game theory when making monetized content for profit is to have it spread as widely as possible. Whether it's good quality or even factually correct is vastly less important than that it be spread widely, quickly.

The goal is not to get people to read the content, it's to park a piece of advertising in front of their face that they are willing to click on. The job of deciding which advertising they will click on is dealt with by the content network. The authors job is to get eyeballs on a page they can affix ads to. Vapidness is great, because it's cheap and non threatening, and to demonstrate this principal, I present to you buzzfeed, vice and wired:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/
http://www.vice.com/en_se
http://www.wired.com/

(I don't even need to take static shots of them, they'll be covered in shallow garbage any time of day or night)
This is why: [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lecHdtywAAU
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Are you talking about this instance, or the previous one where it failed to be updated?
This reminds me of something I told a friend of mine a few years ago when he bought a retail store: be aware you're buying yourself a job. He's since sold his store and moved back to being an employee.
My random guess is that the last I heard - Snapchat was still on AppEngine. The first results on a Google search (so I don't know with any confidence if it's true) say that the appspot domain is blocked in China.
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I have not used AWS a LOT, but I have used it some, and did run into issues with throttling CPU and what at least seemed like random times (after some quota of cycles reached or something?). That did not happen on Linode and Digital Ocean. I cannot verify that this type of thing happens for network and larger instances but I believe him if he says it does.

I'm guessing their philosophy is to be more strict so they can predict and ensure they will have available resources to spread around.

For me, AWS has some things like VPCs, S3, DynamoDB, etc. that are hard to get unless you go with something like GCE and not available in VPS provider like Linode and Digital Ocean. So far I have found the smaller simpler providers to be a much better deal and generally to perform better for the same or less money. If I need those other features though then I would have to use an AWS or GCE.
Thinking about it, I wonder where startups are likely to relocate if the big earthquake happens.
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The first sentence should always be the ask.

Give the recipient enough information in their [iOS alert | Gmail excerpt] to read it when they're in the right frame of mind to think it over.

Professional email is not flirting. Guys flirt by first trying to get your attention and interest, then follow up with an invitation. I assume this gives him an opportunity to bail if he's not getting a welcome vibe, but that doesn't apply here.

See how much information you can pack into the first few words, so they can open it when they're ready. Follow that with the context and data they need to keep reading when they're ready to consider it. End with your own introduction, because you're the least interesting part of your letter (except insofar as you're a part of the venture).
> But when you're in the position that you're an 18yo with nude pictures of a minor, you do effectively have child porn

I would like to know why you're so radical in this topic. Perhaps because I'm not American and attitude to sex here is not so puritan I can't understand it.

In the beach promenade we have a nudist beach, two meters apart, everyone, including child can see nude men and women, or other child, and nobody cares about it, they see it as normal.

I can see a lot of women breastfeeding in public and nobody cares.

The charges someone can face for peeing in the street is for uncivic behaviour (normally 30€), but they are not charged for a sexual offense.

> A non trivial number of these pictures do end up on the internet. Do you think that you should be a sex offender if as an 18yo you disseminate a picture of your 16yo partner?

You're always taking the worst case. The problem is when your 18 years old have pictures in his phone of his 17 years old partner and he/she is guilty of having sex porn.
Thanks, in the future post would also be interested in the trade offs between building internal system vs. using a 3rd party (maybe you do?) like mechanical turk and the incentive structure.
A couple of previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012827
Know of companies that do part time jobs in this industry? I went freelance entirely because I couldn't find a part time employment situation that made sense. Most people I talked to were enthusiastic about hiring full time folks, but just didn't even know how to begin hiring someone part time, or explicitly said their companies didn't do that.

I am sure if I was less picky or had a skill set with broader appeal (I'm somewhat specialized at this point) I'd have maybe found something, but part time in tech is a shockingly hard uphill battle.
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To me "extremely careless" is the same as "gross negligence", but I guess that doesn't matter.
I'm not sure what usefulness removing the warrant canary would be without receiving an NSL.. Are you suggesting that your company acts in bad practice regarding warrant canaries?

You really shouldn't be playing PR for your company unless that's your job.
> So it looks like we're in agreement that this primarily would apply to the upper levels of ibanking when there is an expectation of deal sourcing.

I've never worked in finance, but I have a lot of friends who do.

From the day they entered (ie. as junior analysts), up or out has been the mantra. You simply cannot be in a position for more than a few years. If you're not promoted to the next level, you're fired (though most of them had the sense to switch industries when it became clear they weren't going to be promoted).

Deal sourcing comes in at higher levels, but the "tournament" structure is embedded throughout.
I'm back to self-employment after a 6 1/2 year stint as a regular business-hours on-site employee. Couple of observations:

1) Having a flexible schedule allows one to get a lot more done. My personal/family life and side projects received a lot less time when I became an employee. That 40-60 hr/wk job eats way more hours than you get paid for.

2) The stress around hustling to keep work coming long-term when self-employed goes away in favor of a steady paycheck. It's odd getting paid the same no matter how productive you are. You do acquire other stresses, however. Like having to work with people you don't like or jive with. And having to work on projects that you don't like.

3) The flip side of that stress is the excitement of working on something new where you get to learn new skills. You have a lot more control over what you work on being self-employed. As employee, you do what the company most needs you to do.

4) And the flip side of the steady paycheck no matter what is the ability to generate more income by working more or jumping on a lucrative opportunity right away when you spot one.

Regarding equivalent compensation, it depends on your health insurance situation (do you depend on it? how big is your family? or maybe you are young and healthy and only need coverage for catastrophes?), your tax bracket, how much your family/outside time is worth to you, etc. There are no online calculators for a reason. ;)
No. Doesn't appear to be an add-on problem. Firefox reports "Secure Connection Failed" and chrome reports "This site can’t be reached".

Weird, just tested on Firefox for android (still connected to my local wifi) and it works fine. Debug time.
I had hoped that the FreeBSD folks would put together a locally rendered (composited?) architecture that had a test suite and clear cut API such that vendors could create their own proprietary driver and load it there.

I get that it is impossible for the free software and hardware community to design a GPU. I also get that people who do design them have no interest at all in leaving any money on the table by sharing so much of the design that their "secret sauce" gets stolen (or they get hit with patent abuses).

Because it is genetically impossible for the Linux community to tolerate, much less endorse or encourage any sort of proprietary advantage, I do not expect that Linux will ever be a functional desktop environment of the level and quality of a Mac or Windows environment. FreeBSD could be that environment but they have to design for it. So far it hasn't been a priority for them.
and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it

Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.
Change a few dates and names with the quote bellow and easily fits Zuck.

“Hey, I think the guy is truly dangerous. Bill is the most surprisingly conscience-free individual I’ve ever met, and that amount of power in the hands of a guy without a conscience is dangerous. Big Brother did not happen in 1984, but it could happen in 2004. Ask yourself, ‘If there was to be a technology-oriented dictator by the year 2004, who would he be? Bill Gates?’ ”
That's what the research under the banner security via diversity and "moving target" are doing. I recall the Hydra firewall from Sentinel did that sort of thing. OpenBSD and grsecurity do in OSS for parts of their OS. Such methods can be combined with these.

Interesting name. Reminds me of a security scheme, Symbiotes, I briefly evaluated on Schneier's blog. Injected security into legacy, embedded applications with various tradeoffs. Where did you get the name from?
It can be, it all depends on whether you can find people who want to pay you money to do work on your terms. If you can and that's trivial to do for you, then that's really it and your company will succeed. If you can't, it's not going to work out well.

There's also a middle route where it kinda works but doesn't really. And some other options for people who want to get really ambitious and start agencies.
See if you can transition into full time with one of your current clients. Having that trust already built really helps (along with not having to deal with the interview process).

You should be able to check your past financial expenses, and don't be afraid to get as much detail as you need to get a real apples-to-apples comparison. You can potentially negotiate your way into all-cash compensation, especially since you're likely wanting to continue to manage your investments manually.

As far as whether or not it's "the right time" - that's totally your call.
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I had forgotten how big a change conversation view was compared to other webmail.

Also for what it's worth, I still use the Basic HTML view because I find it a better experience, so AJAX was definitely not the selling point for me. The 1GB thing was a huge factor though.
I really like that. We are getting closer and closer to having Qt as being the dominating user interface toolkit anyway, and GTK self-destructing can only further this along.
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I wonder if this is the same for search? As a long time user of Google I must say, outside of the anglosphere, their search engine is really lacking.
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I would love for the British press to refer to me as a "mad scientist." :)
Please could you elaborate a little more on how steady income is a marketing trick. Seem pretty set in stone to me. At a set date you will get paid a set month providing you turn up for work and do a good enough job to not get fired.
I kinda like that, actually. It's more usable to me. I'm not a huge fan of current “modern” Western design trends. Asian websites do have a tendency to be a mish-mash of incompatible UI patterns though (IME, but my experience is limited to Weibo and a few misc sites). There's way more consistency in the west.

Yahoo in its heyday wasn't beautiful but it was pretty usable.
Based on what the author wrote I suspect he would say that it would reduce the nations productivity (and ultimately peoples living standard) as less people would choose to be productive if they are not forced to.
Snapchat is banned because it doesn't give access to China's panopticon.
An ability the FBI explicitly said she didn't use. They went to pains to point out that there was no pattern of concealing evidence found.
Don't most markets have their own local apps/sites that are more popular than foreign ones?

I think Kakao is more popular in Korea than Whatsapp. In Russia Yandex is bigger than Google. In China everything is bigger because the foreign apps are banned.

> If you want to win a foreign market, you have to ensure that you meet their needs. This is just Business 101.

Beating the locals at their own game is just Business 101? Seems like an arrogant attitude.
Ha! I am almost in the same situation/history. Been running a small starup for a while with up to 11 employees then a bit of freelancing. Now, I am considering just looking for CTO position in an early or more likily a middle management position in a bigger company. Do you mind if I reach out to talk? I am in the Austin area. my email: my HN username + gmail.com
You misunderstand. The relevant base rate for my comment is the sexual offence rate in the general population.
You are aware that all data in china has to be available to be available to be randomly searched at any time, and hosted in specific locations that are regulated by the government? Your comment is absurdly naive.
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I've consulted to many people on making the jump from self-employment to employee and the other way around - probably more of them making the opposite change.

As for the right time to change, that's a question with lots of factors and most of those are related to your situation. You say you've had steady work but that self employment is "more challenging". How is it more challenging, and which of those challenges will be solved by becoming an employee of someone else?

One consideration for the right time question is the value of your skills as a self-employed person vs the value of those skills on the open market.

15 years is a long time to be on your own (for the record, I've also been mostly self-employed for about 15 years), so I'm guessing you'll get at least a bit of resistance from employers thinking you may not be accustomed to playing the game of working with others in an office environment. If you have a highly marketable skill set and are in tech, and are talking to smaller companies that may not put much value on that ability, that may not be a non-issue for you.

I don't see the difficulty in establishing salary requirements, because the market dictates that more than anything else. You need to discover what your experience is worth on the market. Talk to an agency recruiter who places people like you in your area and they should be able to give you an idea better than the average websites. That value will have some fluctuation based on a number of factors, the value of benefits likely being one of them.
You can reconstruct a lot of information with a keylogger but nowhere near all of it.
> Perhaps this makes more sense in a world where software never needs to be finished.

(warning, rant follows)

I think this hits the core of the matter. This kind of release cycle - and API design - reflects a way of thinking where the complete ecosystem is expected to be constantly change. Why bother to keep a stable API if "everyone" has automated updates and all programs that could potentially use your API have a full-time development team behind them, ready to instantly react to every announcement you do.

Backwards compatibility? Not-for-profit one-man projects? Long-lived software? Naaah, were in the era of the cloud now.

Updates are important and at least security-critical software should obviously be maintained. However I think this shift currently goes a lot further than necessary, making constant flux the new normal and articles like this show why this is a bad idea.
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Port Moresby is one of the more dangerous places to travel, no matter what gender you are:

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/papua-new-guinea/sa...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/22/population.dav...

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2012/09/20129289...

If you're male you're less likely to get raped by the local criminal gangs (who I presume are predominantly not interested in sexual relations with men), but just as likely to get stabbed/beaten/robbed and left in a ditch.
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1. The police in SF don't put people on buses to other places. Other places do.

2. The weather in the Bay Area makes us a target for homeless people everywhere.

3. Related to #1, but different: not being "anti homeless people" is a reason people come to SF and Berkeley. I don't this is the same as encouraging homeless people to come to SF and Berkeley.
What the FBI said was that her lawyers filtered out the relevant emails with algorithms based on headers rather than contents, gave those to the investigators, and non-recoverably deleted the irrelevant remainder. The FBI looked at the search filters and didn't find any evidence of attempted concealment in them.
I liked the 1802 a lot. Nice orthogonal architecture, lots of registers, made writing the emulator a snap. The only problem with it was that it was dog-slow even in its day: 8 clock cycles per machine instruction. I think you could do better today with a modern FPGA.

I'm doing some work on secure hardware (and software) myself. Would love to compare notes. I sent you an email.
Yes, it is. I use it (the featured meal this week is Cuban-Stuffed Pork Tenderloin), and like it quite a bit. They have menus for restrictive diets as well as menus to take advantage of sales at certain food retailers. Their menu is better than their website (which actually is better than it used to be), and they have a decent android app.. They have a free trial, check it out - https://emeals.com/account/trial.php.
A couple of things to keep in mind: If you browse other listings on Amazon, there are merchants who sell on item listings for a variety of prices. Most listings are owned by manufacturers, not merchants. All of the listings you mention here are NOT owned by us, but we do list against them.

Picking one of your examples, we have the primary URL:
https://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DW1354-14-Piece-Titanium-Drill...

Then we have our store's URL:
https://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DW1354-14-Piece-Titanium-Drill...

Clicking on https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0045PQ762/ref=dp_ol... results in a view of all merchants selling on this listing. We're on the second page of 3 pages (last page is empty). At $25.57 we are not the most expensive, nor the least expensive. The lowest listed price is $14.99 by Amazon themselves. They probably got a good deal on them.

As you note, there is little reason for someone to order that particular item from us, on that listing. The same can be said of "Home Plus Hardware" which is selling it for $33.71.

I would note that your final blaming statement appears to demand an explanation for something I said incorrectly. I'm not providing a blow by blow "explanation" here for our pricing, but I would point out that I didn't say we always had the best prices on all items. We don't.

I did, however, indicate that we tend to be able to find good listings using our algorithms. That's not to say we can always get good prices on the items we're selling. That's another problem to solve entirely!
> Large, popular Korean sites look a lot like Yahoo during its heyday.

I agree. Also a large number of the websites including government ones requires that you install Active X and have Windows machine with IE.
My take on this. This is advise for early stage investors (e.g. mostly angels and micro VCs). For A-round investments I think a warm intro is still needed.
> Beating the locals at their own game is just Business 101? Seems like an arrogant attitude.

When you recast the quote in different words, I suppose. But do you refute that you "have to ensure you've met [your market's] needs"? Is it better to ignore the market's needs instead? That seems more arrogant to me.
He didn't address one of the most important aspects of pizza making, though: the heat source itself!

Other pizzas use a variety of heat sources, but Neapolitan pizza is baked at between 750 and 1,000 degrees in wood-burning ovens. I can't imagine even an improperly-packed pepperoni wouldn't curl a bit under 800+ degrees of real flame. Of course the stuffing causes density changes, but at a certain point the surface tension/temperature differential will simply have to cause some curling. Next time i'm at my friend's house for a bonfire i'll toss a couple different forms of pepperoni in to test this.
Cruel and unusual violence is also the case for the South African townships. The crime statistics for that country are a fiction. One judge said she never met a girl over the age of twelve who had not been raped.
I think the parent is referring to the tendency of Asian design to be more ‘fun/cute’ than ‘modern/flat’. There's less infatuation with low contrast flat designs in Asian websites and apps. Ads are somewhat invasive in both.
There's some information about how to collect (and visualize!) JS compilation artifacts in the IRHydra documentation [1]. It's v8 specific, though.

The other writings on that site are worth studying if you want to learn more about how v8 optimizes code [2].

[1] http://mrale.ph/irhydra/2/

[2] http://mrale.ph
I have always thought that companies should work out the salary of a new employee in all cash then once the parties are happy allow the employee to trade in whatever percentage they liked for equity. If you value the equity at zero why should the company give it to you and if you value it very highly why should they give you cash?
I agree, eventually the military breaks up and starts fighting itself.

But you're still essentially fighting the US military. The biggest baddest military in the world. Surely the US military agrees that fighting the US military is a Bad Idea (tm).

Point is, civil war is messy. There's no clear right or wrong, good guy or bad guy, it's by definition neighbor killing neighbor, friend against friend, sibling versus sibling. Everyone thinks they are protecting the One True Way Forward to make the country great again.
This is an excerpt from a book "Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries", one of the stranger programming books I've ever owned. About half the chapters are discussions like this one -- taking a (relatively) small, practical programming task and going into detail how to address it. There's a grab-bag of subjects, and it doesn't even adhere strictly to C, as a couple of chapters discuss the use of Tcl in C programs. The majority of the book, however, discusses the winners of the first few years of the International Obfuscated C Code Contents. He not only presents the source code and explains what they do, but he also goes into some detail (sometimes great detail) as to how they work. There's nothing else like it that I know of, and it is one of my favorite programming books of all time.
It seems completely alien to me that a portion of the Federal government drafting and bidding on Federal contracts for another part could be seen as engaging in an unethical conflict of interest. Would anyone make the same claim if a department in GE was competing against IBM on a GE project said department helped spec out?