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This is exactly the problem users are having. Since the purpose of the site and how it works is buried in the About page, people are clueless about what to do next. I am redoing the front page to only focus on explaining what the site is about.

The idea is this :

* provide a community reviewed wiki explaining what X is about and how to go about learning it. The aim is to answer the questions how to learn X programming language/framework/platform and what are the best resources to use.

* provide a Stackoverflow like QA section for users to ask and answer questions.

* provide a forum to submit and discuss learning resources (like HN)

* provide a chatroom to replicate the IRC experience

As you can see this I have completely failed to convey this. So that's what I am working on now : to convey the purpose of the site and improve the UX and UI. Reason for completely failing at this : I focus too much on the tech, the backend, unnecessary optimizations and time wasters like load testing.
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I wondered what it would cost to get this detail for the entirety of the ocean. They say they mapped an area the size of New Zealand, which is around 250k km^2. According to a quick Google search the total area of the oceans is 360 million km^2, and according to a Guardian article I found[1] the subsurface search cost 180 million AU$.

(360/0.25)*180 =~ 250 billion AU$

That's around 190 billion USD, not even 0.1 Iraq wars, and that's before considering any economies of scale.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/17/malaysia-airli...
What I want to say: why bother with a 10% tax rate in Bulgaria (which has access to the EU, but gives you some things to explain why you are there) at 100.000 profit when you can have 1.000.000 profit in the bigger market that the US is at 35%.
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Not really... Google and Apple have had bad press in the past but they've never had wide spread employee sexual harassment.
Don't own servers in the US if not already in the US, else you get embroiled in the US tax system...
If you are distributing an early-access of your product first, the first 100 users could be beta testers. I have gathered an initial community of people using my app by posting to directories like betalist.com, betapage.co etc.
...hellbanned?
It's only anecdotal but I've seen the same (church aside). My very bright, well to do Grandparents are mostly house bound now and have gotten far slower the less active they've gotten. On the other hand my other grandmother is still the exact same as she was 20 years ago and she's constantly out and about and going on holidays/trips regularly.
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The MVP is already done and I've customers (sv companies) already.

The 100k will be used only for cover immigration costs/living costs/server costs/ some freelancers(design,copywrite etc...) until I raise another round from sv investors.
also political prisoners, religious leaders and the mentally or physically handicapped. It's often underplayed how broadly the Nazis set their targets - they really were attempting to exterminate anyone and everyone who wasn't part of their "master race" ideology.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/holocaust-non-jewis...
TIL, they have a lot of names. Immersion blender, wand mixer, hand mixer, etc. But, yes.
That's like saying that if Mark Zuckerberg had a MySpace account that they could sue him for creating Facebook. No-where in the terms of service does it say anything about creating a similar service, even my attorney agrees that there is no basis there.

"They suggest that your previous association with them gave them rights in certain intellectual property (presumably, copyright and/or patent) which you are using in your website. If your code is wholly original, they may claim copying if the design or approach is derived from a prior work they (or their predecessor in interest) created. However, that does not extend to the concept or ideas."
Not so much. With YAML it's a feature baked into the syntax that you have to go to extra effort to avoid. With JSON, it's just a specific data schema you opt in to, so a non-aware decoder will just give you a Hash with some odd data in it.
Couldn't you achieve the same thing in VR with a camera as long as the camera was sensitive to the full spectrum and the screen could produce the relevant frequencies? Just show the limited colour scheme to each eye?

I guess having passive tech is better in a lot of (most) applications.
I think I understand your perspective, thanks for these comments.
> Months since when, exactly?

Since they gained widespread popularity as a watchdogs and arbiters over the "regular media". This was long before last US elections which has triggered the "fake news" panic (well, triggered may be not the best word here, "involved" may be better, but I don't want to digress too much).

Well, I realize it's hard for me to give specific times here, mostly because I don't remember neither when exactly I started reading fact-checking sites, nor when exactly I started noticing propaganda showing up. Maybe some of them held for a year or two, and maybe some of them worked in relative obscurity for a while and managed to keep a clean record before they gained popularity that allowed prominent politicians to cite them as a proof, and thus became a target for subversion. And maybe there are others who I didn't know about and who have much better record (bad luck for me).

The underlying point is that what I observed is that once some outlet becomes widely known as arbiter of truth in any political context, and it does not have very strong independent filtering mechanism, propaganda shows up very soon. If it does have one, propaganda shows up too (e.g. there are tons of biased articles on Wikipedia and there is a lot of shoddy and biased research in scientific journals) but a bit slower.
Apparently, remembering gypsies and other groups 'diminishes the memory' of the holocaust because they were just 'political prisoners': http://nypost.com/2009/06/08/hikind-jews-only/
So this is a for-profit operation where volunteers do the work? The site is vague about such details. "People like you helping people like us help ourselves?" Not good. You can be a for-profit or a non-profit, but pretending to be a non-profit when you're not is deceptive.

Their terms of use are awful.[1] Note that they want to operate under British law, where libel law favors the subject. They have an indemnification clause, so their volunteers could be compelled to reimburse WikiTribune if WikiTribune loses a libel suit. That's happened in the UK; see the famous McLibel case, where McDonalds sued two Greenpeace volunteers. That decision was overturned by the European Court of Human Rights. But, post-Brexit, that level of appeal will no longer be available.

They also appear to have plagiarized the terms of use from other sites. One section reads "We may, in our sole discretion, limit or cancel quantities purchased per person, per household or per order. ... We reserve the right to limit or prohibit orders that, in our sole judgment, appear to be placed by dealers, resellers or distributors." That exact text appears on other sites, usually ones that sell tangible goods. It's completely inappropriate here. Sloppy.

This stuff matters when the business involves pissing people off. Don't volunteer to write for this organization unless and until they work out the liability issue.

[1] https://www.wikitribune.com/terms-of-use/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case
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Ask HN: What lie to say at interview about my previous Uber-like employer?
It is a common wisdom that you should not talk bad about your previous employer, no matter what. I understand there may be very good reasons for that [1], but that also means I should be dishonest when answering future employer's questions.

Let's say my previous employer was Uber and I left BEFORE everybody knew how toxic Uber culture is [2]. Not only that - everybody knew Uber is a unicorn, successful and dynamic, using cutting edge technology, certainly a stellar career opportunity. So why did YOU left only after X months?

I can either avoid the question or lie, both put me at a disadvantage. Saying "I left Uber only after X months to spend time with family or reevaluate my priorities before choosing my next career move" [3] just sounds like a total bullshit.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/1ptqwv/why_is_talking_bad_about_a_previous_job_a_taboo/

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/07/uber-work-culture-travis-kalanick-susan-fowler-controversy

[3] http://www.wikihow.com/Discuss-a-Former-Employer-in-an-Interview
that's a funny way of saying "it's an estimate based on what we know and what we can suppose about what we don't know".
A doctor that manipulates you for some purpose that has nothing to do with your health may very well end up losing a license and go to jail. A journalists doing the same just calls it Tuesday.
Well, what IS the site about? I read your post and went to the website and spent a good 15 seconds trying to figure out what it's about.

Easy fix is just take what's on the About page, strip it down to its bare essence and slap it on the landing page, on top of the search bar but in a way that it stands out (i.e. it should be the first thing users will read).
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Unfortunately there are places where technical incompetence let email being almost completely replaced by social networks, which are a curse even for moderate introverts like me, not counting their implicit huge security problems when used for work related communications.
Both my grandfathers where professors who kept working up until their irrespective colleges forced them retire due to their alzheimers. One ran marathons up until his 70s and the other one did moderate exercise. Both did everything you are supposed to do, both got alzheimers. 80 isn't going to be a party no matter how healthy you are, it's 80.
That is a great strategy. These beta users might be less critical if the app does not work the way it is supposed to work too. So this takes a big pressure off the shoulders of the developers.

As a follow up question: Can you share some sites/sources which you would recommend.
That voice in your head is the observer. It fancies being in control, but that's mostly illusion. Effectiveness depends on getting it out of the way.
Ask HN: Do you review your sales messages?
Excuse my ignorance as I've never worked as part of a sales team.

The web is filled with countless articles/books about cold calling and cold emailing. They cover pretty much everything but there's nothing on sales review processes. Especially cold emailing. Why?

When you do outbound, do you find templates and just run with them until they stop working or do you tweak them often? If you do, how do you keep track of the changes? How do you ensure you're following best practices for converting/closing?

So here's some questions for you sales folks:

- do you do any kind of call script/email template auditing or reviews? If not, why not?
- does your team perhaps try to stick to a framework or adhere to a checklist or list of heuristics when creating new templates?
- is there anything your team wishes for in terms of perfecting script and template efficiency?

I ask because I'm unsure if I should continue building a tool that will help teams do exactly this... internal peer reviews for outbound sales. Something like a "Github Pull Requests for outbound sales messaging". The aim is to allow yourself or colleagues to evaluate messages against a list of sales and communication heuristics, custom as well as from a library of best practices.

Lead gen is hard. Acquisition is hard. Retention is hard. Given that, I'd posit that communicating with prospects that have zero context about you (which they may have if you're cold selling), using spontaneously written emails or boilerplate templates is just throwing away revenue.

I think this is honestly the case with every sales team. People sell and some people buy. The conversion rates are always tiny due to an endless list of factors (poor segmenting, wrong recipients etc) but I can guarantee you some of those factors include miscommunication and silly copy mistakes and perceptual inefficiencies. Hence my interest in building my tool.

What are your thoughts?
I thought the same as you.

The Wikipedia page on Holocaust victims (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims) has a list of the different groups targeted by the nazis.
In addition to what other commenters have written there was also: freemasons, spanish republicans from the 36 revolution, soviet prisoner of wars, slovene and romani.

Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews.
That is not an effective strategy.

Decisions are backed by the environment (in a broad sense), so it's important to understand (for the sake of effectiveness) which changes can be done to the environment, to stimulate taking such decision[s].
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I know many really great Indnian developers. I know even more really bad Indnian developers.

I have an impression that there is huge social pressure in India to become a developer. What makes sense is because it is a good profession.

Because many of these developers have too little capacities to become a programmer, hence, there may be a stereotype of poor programmers from India.
I use this android app for recognizing plants by picture: http://identify.plantnet-project.org/

It's made by french researchers I think. It doesn't work perfectly but I did identify a lot of plants I don't know with it.

You can snap multiple pictures of the same plant, for example, 2 pictures of the leaves, 1 of a flower and 1 of the bark, and then use the combination to search. You can also submit your observations to have them identified by experts.
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To the Mac App Store, in that you can sell your software from your own website & take the payments using Paypal.

Fastspring / Avangate / Paddle are better comparisons, as they also handle license/serial keys, file hosting, subscription management & tax accounting like the Mac App Store does, and have been doing so before the App Store ever existed.
Having completely blank account means hired?:) Hard to escape google in today's internet:)
Small point of information: the European Court of Human Rights is not an EU institution and so will remain available to UK citizens after Brexit.
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Yes. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to better understand ourselves as individuals, and as the human race as a whole. We will never improve if we just ignore the shit bits of ourselves.
I’ll second the PG advice: do things that don’t scale is by far the most effective tool I’ve found for finding _and keeping_ users. I’m building small-business tools for fringe retail [0] as a side-project, and those users are usually more than willing to at least investigate new apps if they even have a chance of solving some real problem their business faces. Emailing them personally with a pitch based on a few minute’s research into their business reliably generates leads — and meticulous hand-holding through the first few weeks usually convinces them to stick around.

People are used to paying for software from Intuit or Microsoft or whatever; offering to build (tiny! like, 5-minute one-offs!) features _just for them_ sort of blows their minds. And those features almost always make the product better, usually in a way that I would never have thought of.

I’ve also had pretty great success with an old-school hack: I use an affiliate marketing scheme to turn our most enthusiastic users into mini sales reps. For every new customer they can sign up that converts, I credit their account with a few free months. It totally won’t scale, but it helps me grow into markets where I can’t physically travel out and do sales in person.

[0] https://quailhq.com
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It's a decent idea. I think a problem will be that you are trying to compete too much with stackoverflow.

* "provide a community reviewed wiki explaining what X is about": http://stackoverflow.com/tags/javascript/info

* "provide a Stackoverflow like QA section": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript

* "provide an chatroom to replicate the IRC experience": http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript
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This is good advice but I also wish companies like gitlab and github would support this for those of us who don't want to manage a site and have most reference work on git*.com anyway.
That's what I am currently working on. The home page will primarily focus on explaining what the site is about. I am thinking about using gif+text to explain how the site works.
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It's used in rugby too, but it's only player tracking involved. That's a much simpler problem and, as mentioned in the paper, is fairly easily solved.

I think the USP here is being able to measure the path, velocity and spin of an object in flight, and how this is much more easily done using instrumented equipment, rather than ultra-expensive cameras.

I can imagine this solution could also be applied to many other ball sports, eg baseball (as mentioned), golf, tennis, etc. Maybe also for T&F throwing events.

In my own sport, rowing, equipment to measure stroke angles and force curves is become ever more readily available and cheap (important in a sport with not much money flowing around). Low-cost ubiquitous IoT in sport is definitely a growth market.
More damage for the occupants, but a box that falls out of the sky has a much lower chance of hitting something meaty than a box that moves fast in the same plane as all the others. The damage zone on the ground of a flying car would be point-shaped, that of a rolling car is line-shaped. Shifting risk from bystander to occupant, that's something I could get behind.

But that's all just theory given the prototype depicted: with open blade horizontal rotors like that I could never think of those things as anything but killing machines. Even if accidents never happen, the mental image is just too powerful.
I tried an Occulus a while ago and found it to be quite unrealistic, digital and "fake." (And I only had it on for about 30 seconds but my eyes felt a bit sore afterwards!)

Once LCD density allows for VR with 4K (or, if needed, 8K) per eye... yeah :) we'll firmly be in the virtual reality revolution.

Obviously we'll also need tracking and rendering that can keep up but display density is one of the trickier problems right now.
yeah if you know you dont have a choice, its a duopoly that is being exploited as hell.
Used Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) for a while. But now Hugo (https://gohugo.io/).
Considering the QUIC source is available this article is a bit silly.
It's not Googles fault that other ad-networks have ignored QUIC.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/net/+/master/...
For a CSE (comparison shopping engine) for computer hardware it was simple:

- talked to friends on IRC about the website (1996-1997)

- e-mailed the scraped shops and asked for permission, some became users too

When it's obvious what the product does and how useful its benefits are, and the target audience is large, getting to 100 users is really easy.

It's also an advantage if there is a compelling and logical reason to visit the website frequently, so it stays fresh in memory and becomes a habit. In my case it had up-to-date prices collected from shops, so visiting often helped people find good deals and let them observe dropping prices until they could afford a purchase.
Thanks for reminding me about the corpus callosotomy. I think I've read about it at some point, and then it somehow merged with lobotomy in my mind, although it's of course almost unrelated. Do you have a recommendation for some good literature about the condition?
What applications can use a load balancer with WebSockets? All the stuff I've built has required the WS connection to point to the same server anyway (multiplayer etc) and I feel that's the most common case but I might be completely wrong.
> I love how everyone always words this like it's perfectly reasonable to expact a salary that has you living like a college student and unreasonable to ask for a salary that lets you live like an actual grownup

If I interpret your parent post correctly, their opinion is than it's not at all reasonable to accept such low salaries.

It's just that there are apparently more than enough fools who do it anyway, until they learn that this is both unwise and unsustainable.
I hope you got a good one!
without virtually any money .... building the next gen bank

That's awesome. Het beste, en veel geluk!
DistroWatch (https://distrowatch.com/)

https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&o...
creditcard processing - i can see plenty of alternatives.
app discovery - my app which is far better than the others by various tests. + even behind tons of apps that really just crashes on launch. How is this discovery? People who search for my app by name can't even find it. I have to send out itunes app store links to friends. sickening
distribution of files - yeah cause hosting a 19 mb file to 10 000 users is really expensive in 2017
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didn't see that. In that case, get a really really good immigration lawyer.
This doesn't work when looking at infrared images in the dark: only one eye will be able to focus, and getting a coherent 3d image will be impossible.
Somewhat related, today I read

"Researchers found that the foot's impact during walking sends pressure waves through the arteries that significantly modify and can increase the supply of blood to the brain."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170424141340.h...
Of course, any nicotine you take, you want to be getting from a process other than setting tobacco on fire.

I also read that people didn't use to have ADHD like today, they had chain-smoking coffee junkies.

I recently helped an elderly friend with Parkinson's try out drinking lots of cold brew green tea and taking nicotine patches. It did help symptoms some, especially tremors and getting to sleep at night---which was already a great triumph since he had basically already maxed out what the orthodox prescription drugs can do.

Stimulants do have an effect on your cardiovascular system. Everybody knows that caffeine can make your heart race. Nicotine is not different in that regard.

It's great, but it's not a wonder drug without any side-effects. With pure nicotine without all the tar etc, addiction is not at all a problem though as Gwern also writes.

Didn't they also take lots of other stuff in WWII (and still today)? Though I can see that the rank and file would have mostly stuck with smoking and coffee.
It was long time ago, his name is Vladimir Stwora. He wrote that number of victims were not identified and 6m is not exact number. BBC is British, but in my country I would report this article to the police.
To clarify: github already has github.io for user pages but I think you can do much more with even less effort!

If anyone from github / gitlab / bitbucket/ ??? is reading this please consider this simple way of making your site more awesome:

1. Let some special repo name (e.g. me, aboutme, cv) have a special meaning.

2. If a user has this special repo make it his front page or at least link to it from hist front page.

3. If the repo has a README.md or README.rst or READM.org make it his landing page for that repo (github and bitbucket already do this).

So next time I am curious about Joe Developer I know I will find him not on linkedin but on gitlab.com/joedeveloper/cv