skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do not really know why. It's like trying to figure out why somebody won the lotto. Statistically speaking, somebody will. Same with longevity, statistically speaking, a few will make it pass 100.

Edit: I found this about Jeanne Louise Calment from Arles, France who lived to 122:

>>An interesting side question is how Jeanne Louise Calment managed to achieve such an advanced age? She smoked until the age of 117 and reportedly ate a couple of pounds of chocolate a week. She also rode her bike until the age of 100 and lived on her own until 110. Go figure.<<

You'd think the smoking and sugar from all that chocolate would cancel out the benefits of riding her bicycle.

[1]http://www.genealogyintime.com/GenealogyResources/Articles/h...
On the other hand, this will lead to us only being able to read the blogs and personal websites of people who are able to dip into their own money and time to make and host a blog.

I'd be very interested in reading about the life of exactly not that kind of person.
There's a link at the top: https://getcoldturkey.com/pricing/
You are looking to sync bookmarks through a server you host yourself? Any other option involves a 3rd party, no?

If you don't care about sync / mobile then just use a local .html file. Maybe this could be Dropbox'd around but there's that 3rd party problem!
I wonder if it would be possible to write a JS engine in Rust that would essentially make multi-threading JS possible... Use Rust's concurrency safety to pass resources around threads running JS. Doing this without making any changes to JS. Of course Node would then also be obsolete...
Clinton 2016 campaign spearphishing analysis
I'd imagine that if it's flagged as malware, this is correct procedure; you don't want to let users accidentally side-load malware either (too many real-world examples of people falling for "Go to this dialog, click this option, NOW click the link and it should work" attacks).
You don't stop cycling because you get old, you get old because you stop cycling! :)
Hi,

Sorry you didn't like the course. I don't recall any snarky replies, but you're right. There were a few people who would have preferred a "code everything from a blank page" approach.

The problem is, how do you code up a 4,000+ line Python application with dozens of files and thousands of lines of HTML/CSS/JS together 1 character at a time?

It would take 100+ hours of video and you would want to punch me in the face after hearing me say "ok now type D I V close bracket" for the 400th time in a row.

A vast majority of people (as seen by the reviews) really enjoy the way it's presented and like seeing it get built up in 12+ stages. It's impossible to make everyone on the internet happy. The best I can do is listen to the feedback of everyone and continue tinkering with future content.
I wonder if medium could partner with Brave Browser
That's tough to justify for home viewing distances and sizes. I sit about six feet away from a 4k TV (at the closest) and feel like I'd have a hard time justifying greater resolution than that.

If I were guessing, this standard would be only for 1) large format projectors and 2) really larger and expensive boardroom/home theater LCDs.
I love what you have done ! It's a great resource for inspiration and to see how people are creating awesome things..Keep it up :)
Please don't feed trolls. Instead, flag egregious comments by clicking on their timestamp to go to their page, then clicking 'flag' at the top. (You need > 30 karma to see flag links.) We monitor the flags and take action based on them. In the present case, we banned the GP account.
Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1172/

I made updates to some of my code security reasons that ended up speeding things up a little bit (smaller binary to load + less reliance on permanent storage). This caused other developer's code to crash because he inadvertently needed my code to run slow under certain conditions (it wasn't obvious that the issue was a speed thing).
Amazon is by far the most expensive cloud for compute
Yea, but it also says a lot of people auto invest in target date funds. So essentially it's saying it works better when people just leave it alone.

But yes, I understand your point.
Ransomware on smart TVs is here and removing it can be a pain
Thanks for taking the time to reply, really interesting system you have there.

I wonder, how do you deal if a customer orders multiple items and you have to get them from different sources? Does your customer get multiple packages? I've heard about third-party logistics in China that sort this issue for you and send just a single package to the customer.

I will definitely try this out, just need to figure out which products to sell :)
I still have my MX500 - love that mouse.
I would disable AdNauseum for that website if I am unable to find a sufficient alternative.
Rent is said to be divorced from work for the wealthy people who did nothing and inherited their large dowry, buildings and land owned. The wealthy inherited person receives income without doing any "work". Sure, it's difficult getting up, taking showers and eating breakfast, figuring out what charitable function to go to that weekend, but some people don't call such folks with inherited wealth "working". Yes, having a place to rent and live in NYC is certainly useful for society. But the people with inherited wealth who own such buildings and receive income for doing nothing more than paying some firm to take care of their building aren't really achieving much. You could make a similar argument about say my investments in mutual funds in my 401k. I will (hopefully) make money off those investments. If I became very wealthy and say my grandchildren inherited them, I'd be happy my children had assets to help take care of them, but my offspring would be part of the rentier class.

Why is it a trope that some wealthy people don't do any work? It's no doubt true. Look at some of Trump's kids. Of course some wealthy people do lots of work.

Interesting to hear about 'the Vendee'. It's certainly true that the vast majority of nobles were not like that.
DHH: Reconsider (2015)
Rust should be just as fast as C++ and C. Benchmarks are hard of course because optimizations and such. But if Rust is significantly slower, than it is a bug.
Did you use JS for anything else? Any dynamic content or even some UI ala jqueryUI?
People who have more years are expected to show either "trajectory" or have a compelling excuse. People with fewer years are judged by potential.

Interestingly, there is research that claims that in businesses women are more often judged by last performance, while men are judged more by potential.
What the Internet of Things Has to Learn from Snapchat
How confident are people that it's not actually functionally malware?

If it's simulating clicks on every ad, what is its mechanism for protecting a user's client from ad-delivered malware that has now been activated without the user's knowledge?
That's consistent with DHH's message: the product is fantastic, but the business story was artificially propped up by VC $$$.
Reading this, a certain passage from The Screwtape Letters popped into my head -- rather incompletely, so I found the passage and bring it here.

"The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour. It occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning Greek. It occurs when lovers have got married and begin the real task of learning to live together. In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing. The Enemy takes this risk because He has a curious fantasy of making all these disgusting little human vermin into what He calls His ‘free’ lovers and servants—’sons’ is the word He uses, with His inveterate love of degrading the whole spiritual world by unnatural liaisons with the two-legged animals. Desiring their freedom, He therefore refuses to carry them, by their mere affections and habits, to any of the goals which He sets before them: He leaves them to ‘do it on their own’. And there lies our opportunity. But also, remember there lies our danger. If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore much harder to tempt...."
Looking like a good person and being a good person aren't the same thing. They often conflict.
Absolutely - some of the earlier ties are more Jackson style rather than Windsor, but as most ties are made to order, I can made up any tie in a Jackson style should you wish :)

Most of the ties available at the moment are double sided, with completely different patterns either side (e.g. https://www.instagram.com/p/72rT_CmzYZ/)
While I appreciate the value that Medium has provided, I'm unclear how its product could take $132 million dollars to create. Could someone elucidate me?
Developers pick up new Git code-hosting option
How old are your laptops?

For ease of development, webrender2 is configured to compile with the latest OpenGl 4.x features. I believe there is a way to build it to target a lower OpenGl version.

Edit: Correction, its currently targeted at OpenGl 3.2. There's an open issue for bringing it down to OpenGl 3.1 which is the version supported by integrated Sandybridge GPUs. Considering 40% of people running Intel are using Sandybridge or older, that's probably why it wont run on your laptops.
It's precisely only messing with metrics, it just so happens that one of the metrics happens to be the one you agreed to use as basis for your payments. ;)
Really excited about an Indie Hackers podcast. Started listening to Side Hustle School the other day.
Feels like we'd only just forgot about Posterous. At least Posthaven is already there to accept the fallout?

Nice to see ten times as much money was raised this time though.

Such a shame though, would be nice if there was a better way of extracting value from these viable but non-unicorns.
Alexa 500k in just a year in is pretty good. What was your general audience building strategy?
Oh.. thanks for that tidbit. I didn't know there was an incentive for them.
How can they tell if the browser has this plugin installed?
I will say that it looks a bit awkward if your country would normally be prefaced with "The".

>Try unique sweets even if you are in United Kingdom

I also don't like the golden text-shadow, but that's just personal taste.
Death &amp; Bitcoin: How I Prepared My Family's Digital Inheritance
I'm not particularly interested in gender and race, I'm interested in culture. Gender and race happen to be pretty easy metrics to break up monoculture on a typical programming team.

The term diversity by itself has no meaning.

Yes it does.

There are very valid arguments for diversity in working styles/technology expertise. The same can't be said for diversity in race/gender.

Okay, thanks for the tautology.
I love the simplicity of tools like mermaid.

For complex drawings, especially graphs, I think one missing piece (in tikz and others) is to distinguish the structure vs the positioning/coloring, more or less like html and css do.

Often time a complex graph in auto generated (structure) plus manually adjusted to make it nicer (pos & colors), and it would be great to have these two pieces clearly separated for iterating faster.
Whoops, fixed name. Thanks.
Maybe the dog in this case is protect people's incomes, but they're not a regular guard dog in the sense of protecting from intrusion. More like they're out in public, begging for food. Oh and some of them might have rabies.
Since the packets are being sent to your computer, I consider the situation analogous to a someone coming to your home and then you replying to them with bogus information. Maybe that still fits this definition of fraud, in which case I would say I don't believe such fraud should be legally suable. I think the users property rights of their computer trumps the advertiser's complaint about fraud.
Thanks a lot for that! I think that's one of the core underpinnings -- advertising that brings a benefit, and therefore shouldn't be blocked with an ad-blocker. Hopefully, this is the direction advertising goes towards.
I wonder if something like that was the reason they keep calling it "the world’s first AUTOMATED triple display laptop" (emphasis added). Is/was there another triple display laptop for which you had to manually extend the screens?
I'm pretty sure that, in the USA, choosing to click ads would be protected under the first amendment.
I created an online game called Mossms (http://mossms.com). It's a game where you breed critters, you raise the babies, and put them to work building little towns where they learn and work and play. Think The Sims plus Tamagachi. Their AI is fun and mesmerizing to watch, and our secret sauce is in reminding people about things they've forgotten about how wonderful it is to be a kid. It's something pretty much everyone can connect with, even if they have trouble identifying exactly why they're entranced. Our biggest customers are actually micro business owners that run their own farms and auction off their wares. I built tools for creating new content and handed this business off to my partner who still grows and maintains the business today. She doesn't know how to code, but she knows how to build and maintain communities.

How I got started: when I started my first game I thought the hardest part was coming up with a good idea. Then I built and launched something amazing, I realized that the real hard part is figuring out how to reach the people that would want to buy it. So when I started the next venture, I started with identifying how I was going to market it, and building relationships with the right communities even as I was starting the code. That product launched successfully, then I learned that I can't wait till the end to figure out a business model that works for myself and the customers both. It took me several different products over several years to get a mix of product, marketing, and business model that worked well.

The hardest part is knowing when you're building something that just isn't right yet, vs when you're fooling yourself and failing and just not admitting it yet. I still don't know how to tell the difference.
I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to start putting in ads once you've built a userbase
Thanks. I spend a considerable amount of time on the titles.

Usually I write out a bunch of headlines, and then eliminate the ones that are horrible.

My goal is to condense the essence of the entire post in as little characters as possible. I often ignore any type of SEO tactics, and optimize it for humans.

There's definitely way more I could write on this (there's a whole process, tons of things to research, etc.), I'll add it to a Google Keep note for a future post (if you read some posts you know what I mean!).
And they shouldn't...let's move forward... to WASM (Web Assembly)!

Which, also posted on front page of HN recently, a user's medium blog on compiling Rust to WASM. https://medium.com/@chicoxyzzy/compiling-rust-to-webassembly...
Yes. As stated elsewhere, this must be done each time the browser is restarted.
Mark Zuckerberg Is Acting Like Someone Who Might Run for President
You think the stock market will be around when you are old enough to need your 401k? I max my contributions but I have no faith they won't be wiped out in some future crash.
I launched http://ipinfo.io a few years ago. The API gets over 250 million requests a day, and is profitable. I left my job at CTO of calm.com at the end of last year to focus on it fulltime. There's more of the backstory here: https://getputpost.co/from-side-project-to-250-million-daily...
Is it just ad statistics, or is there actually risk to the client in having the extension silently forwarding client-side information to any page content that politely asks for it? Feels like that basically circumvents XSRF protection, right?

We may be overthinking this. Google may have blocked it as malware because it's malware, even if it's not intended to be.
I'm launching mine next week. Hope to be a success story on a thread like this a year or two from now!
"Among other things, the new standard will support the game mode variable refresh rate (GM VRR). Nowadays, AMD already supports FreeSync-over-HDMI using a custom mode and with the HDMI 2.1 everything gets a little easier."

Oh, that'll be nice. Now that almost every interface is using 3D rendering tech under the hood, regardless of how it looks, I've noticed tearing has spread from something only gamers see very much of to something I'm seeing everywhere. Hopefully this helps drive the tech to push this everywhere and tearing will, in perhaps 10 years or so, be a thing of the past.
I will double check category pages (those you point out) but I am sure hreflang attributes are in place for product pages ;)

I will check the XML sitemap stuff, thanks for the tip.
Rubelrollercoaster riding. Fun for the whole family - minus the house.
Ok, we've taken another shot at a more accurate title by saying "transitioning" instead of "replacing", as suggested here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328415. If anyone suggests a better title, we can change it again.
> I'm guessing the HN crowd runs uBlock or some other blocker in its vast majority, so JS-based analytics are completely untrustworthy.

Actually, the server based access logs would be more accurate. The "only" things the JS based are giving you are tracking options and user interface data, such as resolution. And yes, due to blocking, JS based will never be the as accurate as the server logs.

A long time ago I used awstats[^1] and webalizer[^2]; those will show the traffic that your server(s) actually served. However, you'll need to log it, and if you have multiple machines, you'll need to centrally log it, and store it, which is not always simple and trivial to set up, compared inserting a JS in the HTML.

[^1]: http://www.awstats.org/
[^2]: http://www.webalizer.org/
there's essentially no similarity at all between React's component model and the BEAM actor model, except that there's handlers. React and JS have no notion of backpressure, work-stealing schedulers, NUMA, per-actor GC, the list goes on forever.
Have you considered getting into colo or other services that might reduce the capital expenses per dollar of revenue? Seems like there may be an opportunity there. I once had a 2U FreeBSD box at a local dial-up ISP, and it was basically found money for them.
I am yet to see such benefits in action.

The fact that Google has started this project to migrate away from Python to an AOT compiled language, shows where the performance wins are.
The problem, as defined in the article: "Why are digital leaders (Facebook, Google, Amazon and friends) ten times better at rapidly delivering software than mainstream enterprise organisations?"

Then, the conclusion is "skills and talent lie at the heart of this issue".

That's not been my experience. There's usually plenty of skill and talent at mainstream enterprise organisations. It's other barriers: cultural, organizational, funding, etc, that keep the talent hamstrung.
Where do you get the binaries? Or do you build it yourself?
When it comes to whiteboard coding interviews, remember to PREP
medium is used as backend for some publications - there you see ads. Not (so far) on medium.com or users content.
A back-end registry was just sold
Senate Hearing on Russian Hacking
Would you mind posting some links to find people in this community please? Forums etc?

Thanks!
For some reason all my kit comes with HDMI rather than DisplayPort. It also works with "televisions" (which these days seem to run Android)
As the article also says, though, that's a ten percent increase. That's significant.
I wonder what percentage of 401k contributors has an IRA. General rule of thumb is to contribute enough to 401k to get maximum company matching and max out your Roth IRA contribution first. IRA is generally preferred because you can choose your own fund (e.g. Vanguard) and has more flexibility in certain situations. By having both pre-tax (401k) and post-tax (Roth IRA), you would be also diversifying your tax liability in your retirement.
Just finished about 2 minutes ago, and here's the recording
> For "highly paid employees" (i.e. executives)

Highly Compensated Employees are not just executives. Anybody who makes more than $115,000/year qualifies, which applies to a lot of engineers. Also, anybody who controls more than 5% of the business qualifies, whether or not they are an executive, and regardless of their salary.
How long before SV reinvents the paid magazine subscription? Advertising seems to have an adverse effect on content quality, mostly because it puts focus on the wrong metrics. An alternative is needed.

Medium is in a perfect position to introduce a subscription service. They have a community of both publisher and consumers, a leading platform, and the backing of VC. Turn Medium into a Patreon for writers. This does not mean a paywall. This means things like locking comments to subscribers only, direct tips to authors, chat sessions with authors.

Twitch managed to take a primarily ad based platform and layer subscriptions and donations over the top of it. Their stroke of genius, is that any subscription locked content is left up the creator (streamer) such as emotes, sub-only chat, sub games, etc. It is possible. It also helped that Twitch Prime piggy backs on Amazon Prime, but Medium may be able to find another similar service to partner with.

Also all things are cyclic. We are seeing a low point for paid subscriptions (newspapers), but that doesn't mean it won't come back in another form. Enhancing the social experience, not the content, via subscriptions may be a viable path.
PR is different from marketing, so first read up and decide which one you need. IMO marketing/sales is a core, systematic task, an engine, and PR can add much fuel to the engine. Looking for PR, have an idea of which publications, speaking events and biz dev opportunities you want to access with their help. They should be able to demonstrate -- with proof from past clients in your field -- that they have relationships with those gatekeepers. They should also be able to assist you in developing a core narrative around you/your company, and they should be perceptive, skilled and honest enough to tell you what the flaws in that narrative are and how best to address this. Some media training, too.
All "hobbyist" projects, gunned down before they could be taken by the likes of elon-musk to the runway.
For you shall not have other power-cores in a company, beside the one.
If we want to be pedantic about whether or not the Panama Canal turns North America into an island or not, we can change the argument, and ask whether or not the Americas are an island.
This is great, and now let's say I want to productize this "sponsored by X" feature so other sites can use it. I can't assume every site owner wants to deal with figuring out who's the sponsor each week, so we'll automate that with some backend that serves the correct sponsor. We'll want to know how many people see the link and how many click on it, because we (and our sponsors) want to know how well these links work.

Haven't I just re-implemented an ad network at this point? Is what I've implemented objectionable now, or only later as other bloatware features are added?
The original building looks by far the best to me. The others look silly.
Reading is fundamental. 0.6 on a rate of 6.2. That's roughly 10%. What would you do if your savings was 10% larger?
I'm in the same boat; I view my social security "contributions" as a lifestyle tax from the last generation, and I'd opt out of them in a second if I could. Instead, I'm planning my retirement around Roth IRAs and 401k savings.

I think this is definitely a common sentiment amongst us youngsters.
This is great site! i want to do the same concept but with

java + spring mvc and angular
Question how did you market your site ?