skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably an ad network helps get you to the position where you can negotiate sponsorship. I am most aware of the sponsorship journey that Grey and Brady discuss on their podcast Hello Internet [0] (I can't remember which episode), where they discuss the difficulty of using an ad network for a podcast and their eventual preference of sponsors. Notably they came to the negotiating table with successful youtube channels and their established audiences.

The typical sponsorship model requires a track record, for one-off sites and gambles (whattimeisitinflorida.com ?) it doesn't really work. Maybe there is room for the equivalent of a recruiter but for sponsors?

[0] - http://www.hellointernet.fm/
I think a lot of engineers may be hesitant about appearing boring in prose, because they haven't had a lot of experience/training in writing. Also, they not be confident that external people will be interested in the project. They try to build/maintain interesting by sprinkling it with these asides, forced references, and analogies (aping the style of other popular writers/entertainers who unfortunately aren't presenting technical information in a professional environment). They're probably aware of the drab corporate-speak & aggressively alter their style away from it avoid being mistaking for it.

Writing clear, expressive prose is hard! Plus, it's not taught as part of software engineering & it's not required to be a great engineer.
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Craiglist and plenty of fish stayed a long time a one person online business while being incredibly successfull
Well, yes, it's unsustainable in the current about-to-die system of online advertising. I'm pretty sure that the death of online advertising as we know it will take a ton of small time sites down with it. That's sad in many cases, but unavoidable. Once advertising is back to a sustainable model, e.g. one where advertisers will pay reasonable money for displaying non-targeted non-tracking image ads - the possibility to have ad-sponsored content will return. Another future possibiliyt is some kind of successful micropayment network.

But until we have that, there is just no saving a small ad-network funded site.
I'm not sure if it is already possible? Is it.
Of course other developers are interested in that. That's such a leading question that you risk tripping some people's BS meter.

But still ... yes, definitely interested.
I suspect that this is not a case of Powershell "sucking" but it being a tool that is completely unfamiliar to you.

Maybe, but I still want to make the case that Powershell sucks:

- Function return values. WTF were they thinking when they decided it was useful when the result of a function is an array of every statement result within that function? And why isn't there a useful way (like, say, "return") that overrides that behaviour?

- Automatic unboxing and splatting of arrays. If I have a list of one element, I want to know that I have a list of one element. If I ask for the Length of that array, I do not want to know the length of that single element (which is not 1, in the case of a list of strings).

- Case sensitivity. Sorting in Powershell is always case-insensitive, except when it isn't (when you use a .Net sort algorithm instead of Sort-Object). Still, Get-Unique is always case sensitive, as is Select-Object -Unique. Of course, you can get case insensitive uniqueness by using Sort-Object -Unique.

- The -AsString weirdness. Multiple Powershell commands can process String lists, and know they're processing String lists, but they will still return their results as Strings wrapped in PSObject. This leads to very fun results when you're trying to use those results as HashTable keys. I've lost days debugging this madness, especially when coupled with the implicit autoboxing I mentioned above.
FWIW: The author is VP at GitLab.

Somewhat similar to: http://asyncmanifesto.org/
Having an idea for a business, and successfully executing on a business, are two very, very, very different things.
Sorry I meant 'servo' not Rust.
He hasn't removed all third party scripts.

A quick check shows Google Analytics and Disqus (which uses an iframe), there is also some webfont stuff going on.
I'll be dead on the outside eventually as Grim Death's grasping claw squeezes the life out of me. Please, my time on earth is precious and I would rather spend it with my loved ones in preference to skimming over forced references.
Gabe Weinberg started DuckDuckGo solo, as well as his previous businesses... I think it was several years before he brought on anyone else, and while other early stage investors talked about preferring to fund a small team of at least two, he talked about how he was willing to fund individual founders :-)
I am running a niche SaaS for franchisees of several buy/sell/trade retail stores. Http://ResaleAI.com

I built the entire thing myself, handled partnerships, support, sales, etc. All while still running three of these stores.

While I did all of the development, I do have a full-time executive assistant who helps me with a ton of things (email, scheduling, errands, etc).

Now I am building a team because there is no way I would be able to maximize this opportunity by myself.
This is not true. People who copy will mostly do it for money. Finally the passion for the idea trumps the desire to chase money and your product will eventually suck. On the other hand if you think you can make a better product from existing solution, then there is a good chance of you succeeding.

You can try copying any one of those of ideas for money and see for yourself.
Nope. In space there would be even more thermal effects (due to varying amounts of sunlight). Then there's also photon pressure, uncontrolled outgassing, the variable ram pressure of the upper atmosphere due to it's changing height with the EUV output of the sun.

As of right now the claimed effect is smaller than the thermal effects even in the lab. You put it in space and it'd be impossible to untangle the tiny real effect, if it exists, from all the other forces superimposed upon it that are much larger and literally impossible to predict the time variation of.
Any experience what single point of truth is useful with such a large group?
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What the hell is going on with the DRAM and NAND market?
You should use constant dollars when you compare currency values from one period to another.
http://feinternational.com/ is a brokerage of Internet-based businesses; presumably the newsletter is something that goes out to folks who've expressed some level of interest in attempting to buy one via the website. (I've sold two businesses through FEI.)
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I hope you're right, but we're pretty light on details about what was changed for this new product. If enough changed, there could be a delay before crouton catches up...
I bet the guy with the PR agent makes more money. Funny what PR does.
I haven't used Powershell since Windows 7, but at least back then it was super slow to start. cmd.exe opens immediately, like a normal terminal emulator. Powershell took several seconds to open.

At least for me, if I'm opening the command line it's to get something done quicker and easier than I could with the GUI. Powershell wasn't that, at least on Windows 7.
I'm using Waltr[0] for this, works great.

[0]: https://softorino.com/w2
Me too, I used to spend a fair amount of time looking at the tiny amount of traffic I got in GA. But just like you I decided the extra JS wasn't worth it and I'd rather have my website be completely void of JS even if that meant I'd loose visibility from not having GA. Cloudflare's analytics is good enough for me.

As a result of being strict about JS and keeping the CSS down my website is super snappy and tiny.
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"Most of them seem to be run by good sales people and not so good IT staff."

Sounds like a good solution to me.
I would imagine you could benefit from a bit of thought about how to handle your coordinate system to avoid floating point precision problems. There are ways to avoid huge numerical precision ratio issues. It should only be a problem if you are simultaneously visualizing very large and very small objects, but in that case there are other methods (e.g. pre-rendering small objects that won't change much based on the viewing angle). If you are blindly throwing huge numerical ratios at your renderer you are bound to have problems.

It's not ideal, of course it would be better to ignore such issues and just find a system that can "handle it" but dealing with numerical issues and the need for "clever tricks" is simply a reality of dealing with numerical approximations of reality.
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I like the irony that my Chromebook works fine with all pages, but frequently crashes when I use Gmail while having other tabs opened.
As long as you still have a working memory, you can learn anything at any age, I don't go along with this 'old-dog-can't-learn-new-tricks' thinking. Though obviously when you're younger it's markedly easier to pick up a new skill.
The US legal system has this interesting "discovery phase" where the parties basically get to request all possibly relevant data from the other side. They'll try to find incriminating mails or other documents.

They could also work with statistics. Google being google, they most certainly have enormous amounts of data on their recruitment process. I'd even bet Google has algorithms to uncover discrimination in its hiring – biases are bad for business, after all. They may not have had age discrimination on their radar, but whatever they have on race/gender/dog-vs-cat-owners should be easily adaptable.
Noone will have cars any more. Especially not just parking around in a residential street. It's just so inefficient. You haul one via your app and that's it.
It's worth clicking through to the article linked near the bottom, "Ad blockers are part of the problem".[0] What he explains there is why I don't use any of the curated lists such as EasyList, but instead maintain my own personal whitelist. It's more hassle,[1] but fairer.

[0] https://www.troyhunt.com/ad-blockers-are-part-of-the-problem...

[1] Although unfortunately, it defeats the privacy-protecting aspect of using a generic whitelist to the extent that if the FBI finds the whitelist on my computer, they will have some extra info on my browsing habits. But I also don't delete my browsing history, so that doesn't really matter.
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It is not pollution, it is the noise and the low quality of sleep that causes dementia. Good sleep quality is important so the glymphatic system that cleans the brain of garbage while sleeping can work well. See this recent article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nedergaard-how-th...
We're a two person startup that is doing/growing very well. This was no overnight success... we've been at it for years now.

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NY really? Do you live on Long Island? Manhattan is so expensive. I'd be interested. I'm in LI.
In our case, we make sure that single source of truth is either a GitLab issue, for anything related to implementation or the handbook on our website for organisational matters [0].

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
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That's sounds friggin awesome fun! FORTH on a '6502' may be nightmarish to some but not to me. So many new 'words' to make.
Maybe. Fiat Chrysler is a 16.44B company, nVidia is a 57.15B company. Any other car group I can think of is much larger than Fiat Chrysler.
Haven't tested it, as with my level of sales it takes about 6 months to run a proper test.
The last two sentences seem contradictory. If the system cannot detect by itself when it is safe to be used, the driver will as well have to react when it becomes unsafe to use?
no, good solution would be having good IT people with good sales, nothing less
Not really -- the app is just a way to view content that's loaded from a remote server, and the remote server has also been blocked.
Would you know if she did?
It takes extraordinary privilege to even conceive of the idea of privilege. Everyone else just lives their lives.
You're talking about acquisition channels. Community, blog or webinars are great channels, but there are also organic search, paid search, traditional advertising, native advertising, bundling, paid promotions, upselling. If the copy-cat is better at these, their product will out-sell yours.
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Also, since PowerShell is able to tab-complete cmdlets, parameters, parameter values (when they're enumerable) and even object properties, you hardly have to type much most of the time.

The only problem with the tab-completing is that since everything has a standard verb prefix, you always have to type the beginning of the cmdlet name.
So as long as you've got a huge enough following, that is willing to pay for anything you give them, it should be no problem. Not realistic for majority of sites.

Reminds me of big musicians, giving their new album away for free. After thirty years of making millions. Very poetic.
I don't think bootcamps turn out lower quality developers and I don't think they will drive wages down. Currently they are web focused but I think the bootcamp style is far better at teaching programming/computer information then the current university enviroment. We might well see a bootcamp one day that does cover a different spectrum of computing then currently dominated by such schools (Realtime/Trading/Firmware/Embeded/DSP).
Have you also tried selling outside the Mac App Store? (The old Fastspring / Paddle / Stripe route?)
Same for me. I make money when people hire me as a consultant or buy my books. I started recently rewriting my sites as simple static content (and wrote about how I do this http://blog.markwatson.com/2016/12/benefits-of-static-web-si...)

I still have JS from bootstrap, and I am looking at bootstrap alternatives that are CSS only.
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The complete rewrite wasn't initially too good either. It took them years to bring it on par with Netscape 4.7, warts and all.

I've been in a talk of a mozilla developer like a decade or more ago, shortly after they had released the rewrite. His comment on starting a project like that from scratch: "don't". What they intend to do (slowly and gradually transition to Servo) seems consistent with an organization that has learned from this experience.
In terms of profit I'm sure it fine, but if you want a stable and fast ad network, free of malware and viruses then you need the best IT staff money can buy. It may also hurt profits, because you security team would reject some customers.
Aaand it's dropping fast. $960 and falling.
>It could just as easily be due to the industry being perceived as being distinctively male and that puts off young women from enrolling in CS.

Quite possibly. That perception lies 100% on the idiots that write articles/comments/facebook posts/tweets parroting the idea that the industry is sexist because of the ratio though. Every time there is an article questioning what the industry can do about "it's sexism problem", it just makes things worse.
> It turns out it isn't illegal not to hire based on previously being sued by someone.

I thought there were laws to prevent Google from retaliating against somebody who sued them, and it would be illegal for them to not hire you on that basis alone...
Patreon seems to be a better model, to be honest. It's about nine million dollars a month in total pledge, which meant over one hundred million in revenue per year if it never grows beyond that.
Small-house gardening, wherever you go in the world, is all about the compost. Get your compost working, and you can grow a house garden pretty much anywhere. Seriously! Composts are the key to all successful house gardens in rugged territory. (Disclaimer: It takes a couple years to boot up a good compost that'll fix yer soils..)

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From my experience copying a feature is about twice cheaper than trying different approaches. You may not figure out a good way to implement it until you build first version and let people try it. You may need re-iterate to find perfect implementation. The copy-cat will come later to see what you've done and will implement the good solution without iterations.

The copy-cat may have more developers too.
The architecture is called a wide and deep net

Wide & Deep Learning for Recommender Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07792
A shorter video is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96aZtk4hVJM
Not OP, but I have a cron job on a Raspberry Pi running every minute checking for known MACs with `arp-scan`. I then get an audible warning.
A threat by whom? The American legal system?

The sentence before the one you quoted explained the straightforward legal process by which unredaction may be authorized. A judge decides if this is officially released. Not the plaintiff.
Real names is really about targeted advertising. But we knew this right?
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Yes, that's how I got started. But I prefer the convenience of selling on MAS.
Add me to slack please! moura (at oko.ai).
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Nobody wants to speculate in an area where they might be vulnerable themselves.

Maybe storytime won't always be sufficient to run a business.
I don't like the total irrelevancy of much of the ad content. It could be tailored to my browsing habits, but then I'm not overly fond of the tracking.

Not "overly fond of the tracking", but you're using Disqus for commenting.

I've got news for you. Disqus tracks you everywhere you go.

And those ads are not particularly irrelevant, because most are contextual, which means they are generated based on the page content.

What I've done for my site is stopped running AdSense (Google) ads.
With uBlock Origin I was able to see the sponsorship message by clicking the "Toggle cosmetic filtering for this site" button.
That use case seems to have been entirely superceded by Patreon. The fact that it isn't quite identical, well, that's part of why it has been superceded by Patreon.

But both Flattr and Patreon miss the relatively involuntary nature of ad networks. Certain things can not count on being supported by eager contributors, and need to more-or-less force themselves in to somehow earn revenue. I'm not all that perturbed by saying "then perhaps they shouldn't exist", but I don't have to take a survey to guess I'm in the very minority view on that.

To give a positive example of that where it's not just "clickbait" but is actually a useful thing: My wife and I get a lot of recipes off the internet. But of the several dozen she's pinned on Pinterest, I'd say I've only seen one or two sites repeated. Mostly we're wandering around hither and yon, not showing any site loyalty. If my use case is the common one, then patronage isn't really a solution. (Including Flattr, which to a first approximation, zero of the people visiting those recipe sites have ever heard of, and low single digits of them would use it if they had.) But ads aren't necessarily working terribly well either; I've seen some recipes so laden down with ads that I got tired of waiting for the recipe to stop jumping around on my phone as it loaded Yet Another Ad into the middle of the text, and went and got my computer, where uMatrix nuked the ads without even trying.
Will do:)
To those speculating as to the new monitization model: NLP. Improvements in NLP will open new opportunities for data mining behavioral trends. A company like Medium is very well positioned to benefit from this coming trend.
How does that even happen? Those are things you use all the time in C#.. Maybe it's just working at a mediocre job(s) that never really stress skill?
Or "Dainty" or "Desperate"!
Hi,
here's mine: http://mee6bot.com :) .
You can read a short article I wrote recently about it: https://medium.com/@anis.blk/the-mvp-that-got-to-480k-unique... .

Transcript:

Last March, in my little darky flat somewhere in the middle of France, I had this idea to launch a little chat bot in a platform called Discord. I was coding all day long to deliver a functional and satisfying version of what I had in mind. These were the most profitable 3 days of my life…

Discord is a slack-like application. The main difference between slack and discord is that discord is made for gamers. It’s free, easy to use and has gamers oriented features like a great and reliable voice communication feature.
The platform was crowed with a lot of chat bots. But those were very rigide, and kind of complex to setup. They were generally made from a programmer perspective. The user experience was meh…

My goal was to make the ultimate bot.
I wanted to bundle all the popular functionalities that people use. Instead of using 10 bots in your team, you’ll just have to use mine. But for that to work, I also had to make the bot fully customizable. So that you could enable/disable any feature easily.

And the coding started… After 3 days of hard work, It was time for me to find users. The first thing I did to gain some traction was to go to some big Teams and convince the owners to use the bot. I spammed a dozen of big team owners. The kick worked, the engine started and never stopped since.
First, thank you for taking the time to stick your neck out a bit and share an example.

Second, thank you for responding to someone pointing out that you were wrong without putting yourself on the defensive.

I see this entire sub-thread as a positive; glad we all could learn along with you!
Here's Pinterest without the pictures https://about:blank.
How practical would it be to recreate the charge master through crowd sourcing? If everyone scanned their invoices and submitted the hospital name and insurer, a picture would very quickly emerge that might allow consumers to get a reasonably accurate view of what line items are typically in a certain procedure and what it all costs.

There's nothing which prevents the sharing of this information, is there?
I never told you that, but now I feel that I have too, I never had any ads on my website and I removed the google fonts thing to make my page load faster. That was around 5 years ago.
facebook as well...
I am always curious about people having succesful businesses with desktop apps. There is even a thread that I started some months ago asking if there's anyone making a living out of desktop apps [0].

Can I ask you what kind of apps are you doing, and what are your prospects about the future of Mac development? I'm asking this mostly because I would really like to get back to desktop application development, but now I'm not really sure that I should target Mac natively, mostly because of all the buzz with Apple's bad decisions, etc..

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658873
Depending on the context, 'turn the wheel left two degrees' can be a non-rampant, a very rampant, or a rampage-compensating action.
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