skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you read indiehackers there are a lot of stories that go like "we found a high traffic keyword, did a lot of seo and make xxxx from ads/subscriptions/sales etc"

the issue with this approach is that the top 1-3 links on google serp gets more traffic than all other links combined. I'm currently at #6-7 with 200 clicks a day and 3% ctr. Not really sure how to climb up beyond that level..
Both the search engine and the maps are open source so I am not so sure how and if I can ever make money from this aside from the Patreon page that we have set up for the project.

Sell subscriptions to companies? Companies generally like to pay for services, even if the underlying software is open source.
First off, see a doctor and get a diagnosis. Avoid the drugs. Ritalin or its time released bastard cousin Concerta are bad news...in my opinion (I'm not a doctor), they're both worse than cocaine.

Second, if you are on the ADHD spectrum, you will need to change your attitude towards ADHD. Yeah, it makes certain environments less productive, and it can create a whole world of problems in personal relationships. However, ADHD can also be extremely helpful.

For me, ADHD is my secret weapon. My brain is simply better equipped to see all sides of an issue. And, for me at least, ADHD is a big part of my creative process. When I brainstorm, my mind can move through possibilities faster than in a non-ADHD mind.

If you are going to learn to live with ADHD, you have to change your attitude towards it. Yes, it's tough, but it is also an incredible gift.

Third, while meditation is useful, drumming is likely the single best way that I found to treat my ADHD. The drummer's mindset and effortless focus are amazing training for those times when you really need to focus on one thing.

Fourth, carry around a notebook and diary out your life. Keep track of what you eat, drink, do and your moods. Make special note of times when your ADHD is worse than others and try to figure out the triggers. One of my major triggers is a lack of water. If I'm even slightly dehydrated, holy shit, I don't know who you are or what I was talking about, but a bird just flew by my window....
question for the knowledgeable: I've used AWS's ACM for my certs so far, are there any big reasons why I should be using LE instead?
It'll take some doing for anyone to beat the long conversation I had to have, years back, with a representative of a very large film studio, who were concerned that a domain I'd registered might verge uncomfortably closely on their mark.

Worked out in the end - it only took them a few minutes actually looking at the content to realize, on the one hand, that it was clearly not being used for any commercial purpose, and on the other, that there was no meaningful risk of confusion between my domain name and their mark. They were happy to wait to buy it until I was done with it. But it was a surprising call to receive at seven o'clock on a Saturday evening!
Yeah, I wish I would have done that (if they had it at the time, I don't think I even looked).

Just because you don't value the data FB has now doesn't mean you won't in the future.
I have a lot of criticism for the U.S. criminal justice system, but I've also got first-hand experience with it and I think your assertion is inaccurate. As a judge's clerk I saw the files of numerous criminal convictions on appeal. I can't think of a single one where there wasn't overwhelming evidence to support the conviction.

The felon caught with a gun in his car, or the drug dealer who tried to sell drugs to an undercover cop, or the guy who was arrested after beating his wife bloody. That's the bread and butter of the justice system. You can argue that two of those three things shouldn't be crimes (and I agree--but at least half the country doesn't) but the idea that people are routinely convicted without evidence is a myth.
Em rio que tem piranha, jacaré nada de costas.
I running uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and the Disbable HTML 5 Autoplay extensions on Chromium and can watch Youtube videos without any issues. Checked just now to see if anything changed. Still works fine. What adblocker are you using? I would recommend uBlock Origin, it's open-source and blocks more than just ads. Some of the other adblocking extensions can be shady, especially Adblock Plus. Don't use Adblock Plus, not only does it allow several suspect ad networks to pass through it will inject ads of it's own.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Direct links to extensions:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

I would recommend ditching Flash too if you have it. Youtube and most sites work just fine with HTML5 video playback. Adblockers and Flash videos with ads don't play well together.
Thanks a lot - will look it up.
Well, Google is winning in a lot of areas that Microsoft used to dominate... so they are just trying to imitate their rival. However, a better imitation might be to suddenly discontinue the product without warning.
I built an aviation scholarship aggregation and donation platform for general aviation pilots (i.e. those who may not end up pursuing a career in aviation, or those who are self-funding their education). I made a few cents from ads and donations, but nothing noteworthy. The project is long gone now.
Hmm indeed the fluff was deep then
Website Fail

"Shop" is a Stop word. You are asking for my money before offering me anything of value. Estimated time on site < 15 seconds.
Makes sense. What kind of help you are looking for in a cofounder? Technical or business?
Will Seattle figure out how to deal with its new wealth?
We run teams, consisting mostly of our 6 principals, but we hire individuals. Sorry, we haven't figured out how to hire a whole team at once either. :)
Engineering Uber Trip Distance and Duration Predictions in Real Time with ELK
What's the consequence of him being impersonated here though? Some fraudster pays his bill and gets nothing out of it?
That's solved by disputing the debt. Document the good faith attempts to pay.
While we are on the subject, here is another video from the same site on becoming a machine. Stumbled across this lecture while looking for more Curtis documentaries and thought it was a very good guide through a cybernetics roadmap of the recent past, focusing on the work of Professor Kevin Warwick, who makes this subject quite entertaining and very accessible for the general/non-technical viewer.

https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-cyborg-experiments/
In each case, your answer was essentially, "the disgusting thing in its entirety!" This is equivalent to nudiustertian's reaction toward the affiliate site.

The difficulty comes from trying to zoom in to a higher level of precision, as nimchimpsky requested. What exactly do you find disgusting about someone eating an eyebrow, for example? Can you explain it?
> They do not come naturally, speaking from experience.

Yes they do, speaking from experience. They aren't coming naturally for you because you're competing in a saturated market or a small market selling things people don't really want or need. Your content probably isn't useful for any reason outside of selling something, which isn't the kind of thing people will naturally link to. If your site isn't useful to people who don't want to buy something, you're not going to attract organic growth. Write interesting content people want to share, and they'll link to it without any marketing efforts. If you can't get organic growth, your content is not interesting.
A friend had this happen to him (The unauthorized person accessing it). He sells on amazon and had all his inventory removed from being sold while this was going on. Calls did nothing.

What finally worked was the amazon facebook page. He posted on there, they PMed him and he was back up and going within a couple hours where he had been getting the run around for a week or two on the phone.
This is a depressing comment. I'm assuming the parent comment is talking about GNU, Linux, the variety of userspace software from Unix times... not node.js template systems.
Some fraudster shutting down an account that should actually be kept running, owned by someone who is merely very lax about paying bills.
1$ car rental
Lets Encrypt seems like a good solution for the https cert side of things.

Wish there was an equivalent thing for signing executables. eg for the binaries of our software releases.

We'd been using StartCom signing certs (for Win binaries) up until this clusterfk. ;)
They tell him to create a new account because they think the old one was compromised? I would be furious. I have bought a number of books on Kindle. If this happened to me, I would essentially lose all of the books I purchased. I'm not sure I would ever use Amazon again.
I'm one account flag change or one password reset from being in this exact situation, and it's terrifying. I have been an Audible customer since before Amazon bought them. Somewhere in their account aggregation process, I've ended up with at least four distinct logins for amazon that all use the same email address.

One email address... And i use one password for audble, one for amazon, one for aws, and one for amazon affiliate. If I password reset on any one of those services, my accounts are all bricks. I've made that mistake once and had to frantically call audible support & climb through the support chains until someone could basically undo my password change.

During the process, they offered to try and deduplicate my accounts, but I think we're going to need a team of senior-level DBAs to sort this shit out.
This is bullshit, there's lots of ways to make coal cleaner, including CO2 sequestration. It's just expensive.
That sounds terrible, but I'm confused by this one:

> - After they had deleted the feature for support to activate your new device as a cost saving measure we were to point users to the proper procedure to do it themselves on the web and tell them that feature was broken despite the fact that leads could still do this.

Does it mean that you were told to give instructions that you knew wouldn't work, or 'just' that you were told to direct users to the hard way of doing something even though there was an easier way of doing it?
"and its tech setup" is the correct form
no one can seriously like chatbots
Context? Were there layoffs at SC?
It definitely still works that way, in my experience.
Thanks for your reply. That's an interesting stat. I have a question on:

>>>As it is, I make about the same amount of money from YouTube revenue (40k subscribers) as I do with one of the highest-rated Linux courses on Udemy (a few hundred dollars a month)

How do you promote your youtube videos?
Not always feasable.

I run my email through google for my domain, and the IP assigned to my mail server is actively used to send spam (like, daily active reports on SORBS), so I can't even fill out their form to get it unblocked.

As a result, I need to email my bank from a different email address. So stupid.
> And I can actually not remember a single time when this was actually useful [..]

This tells a lot about what is wrong with software development and why industry is constantly plagued with security issues, misbehaving systems, buggy behaviour on edge-cases, etc.

There was a thread on HN some time ago about software engineering, and I remember mentioning that if "software engineering" was really to be taken seriously, we'd be using theorem proving to guarantee software is correct.

The best analogy is the bricklayer vs structural engineer: you can build something simple very quickly without really putting too much thought about soundness, but once you go past a few floors the risks are too big to be ignored - which is why we have the latter.

It usually boils down to cost - some people like to spread the idea that formal methods are sorcery or are limited in scope, specially people outside of computer science that have no strong background on mathematical methods, which sometimes do a disservice to the efforts of researchers and the ones that had exposure to the theoretical foundations of CS.

In any case, I don't want to go on a huge rant here - so if you don't know, it doesn't hurt to spend some time reading about modern tools and applications for this, maybe even playing with available tools, and.. who knows, maybe learn something new.
The origin of "Auto DevOps" does seem to be a product branding creation:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/2517
"while a few were still using it at their jobs as engineers or quantitative analysts"

Er... which is a good thing, surely?
At least personally as far as I can tell the spam problem has been solved by gmail. I can't even remember the last time I saw a spam message in my inbox and can count on one hand the number of times I've had to go into the spam folder to find a legitimate email.
We're having the same problem, and it's been well over a month now, and despite several phone calls with Facebook support and lots of emails, nothing is working. We've sent documents, escalated, etc. Nothing works.

We've spent over 200,000 EUR on Facebook/Instagram advertising so far (I guess that's still small fish), and still can't get it resolved.
> Then my registrar asked me to leave because they found "adult pics" on my site.

Your domain registrar? Would any of them do this?
I'm not reading into it, I'm addressing explicit statements. That's why I quoted from the article and directly refuted the quoted text.

I haven't written a "no means no" article because a million others exist, and I don't see any reason ask for dissent on that opinion.

My comments certainly are available for discussion, anyway. They're on a discussion board here, which you've used to argue that my format is wrong without actually addressing the content of my argument.
Not a comma plushie. He mentioned ICO, so cryptocurrency. Which with something of value like this behind it the comma "points" (tokens?) could be worth quite a lot if you're an early adopter.
What pitfalls does Matlab Database Toolbox with JDBC for PostgreSQL hide?
No. Quite the opposite, AWS automates certificate issuance for you. You'd have to automate the process yourself if you switched to LE.

Of course, AWS only issues certificates when you're using their stuff. For everything else, use LE :)
There is discussion on the Chromium blink-dev list: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/topic/blink-dev/e...
> any kind of order dependence is a misfeature

I think you're referring primarily to config in this case but it seems pretty standard to me, programming in general is a bit of an order dependence dance, and it seems more natural (to me) that an event that occurs later in time (matching last) should overwrite any earlier instance.
Are we closer to CO2 sequestration than a working fusion reactor?
In this context rule-based usually means rules handed down by a person/people. Tree-based algo's create their 'rules' using the data only.
How cynical and self serving does one have to be to invent terms like "clean coal/diesel" and "clear skies act" instead of accepting that the world is ready for proper environmental stewardship?

I mean, even Philip Morris eventually started saying cigarettes cause lung cancer and kids are better off staying away from them...
Cool, thanks. And right in time for my weekend reading adventures too!
> let me pay the bill and shut the account down

The account gets shut down
I had this happen because of a closed AWS account with 2FA that locked out my longtime Amazon.com retail account. The 2FA factor was a business phone number that I had given back to my former employer a couple of years ago.

The best that AWS/Amazon support could give me is start a new Amazon.com account. At least the AWS account wasn't billing anything.
That's a really cool thought. It's great that the Matrix is set far in the future, after the rise of the machines. There are a lot of possible tie-ins/mashups, e.g. with Terminator.
http://www.avclub.com/article/soundcloud-has-laid-40-its-emp...
Discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14711461
There's always GPG signing.
Ask HN: Do you know any fun science/maths books for a casual read?
I am looking for books related to maths/science which can be read in bed without a need to take notes or work on proofs.
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 7, 2017
The exact same thing happened to me. In my case I still had a t2 instance running and was billed ~15$ a month. Eventually I shut down the instance over ssh, but that didn't change the overall situation.

I was studying in Germany at the time and access to a notary public costs about 40$ USD there. I asked the AWS support on the phone if letting the payments bounce would suspend my account which they confirmed.

Unfortunately every time I disputed the payment with my bank, AWS send me a physical copy of their terms and my billing address as a proof of contract and my bank would process their payment. Eventually, 3 months in, my credit card expired anyway, solving at least that part.

They still tried to charge me for about 6 months afterwards, but I haven't heard back from them since. Interestingly, I opened a second account, with the exact same billing address, but a different credit card without problem. But I don't really use AWS anymore since then.

I totally believe that they (AWS) just stuck to their process, which was enacted in good faith. But switching my phone number should have not caused that entire fiasco.
Actually I like that, it's closer to the essential truth.

I think George Carlin nailed it with his routine about flamethrowers.

> The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.
This happened to me as well. Email jeff@amazon.com. No joke, within 24 hours I was good to go. It worked for me a few months ago.
In addition to DNS SRV records, there's also DNS URI records https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7553
This seems like a pretty good “fluff piece” about Google’s cloud strategy, which hinges on cloud-based machine learning. I’ve heared the same from Google employees I’ve talked with. Interesting quote:

> “The head of Google’s cloud business, Diane Greene, said in April that she expects to take the top spot within five years...”
Clean enough to be a more viable solution over other forms of energy generation?
The ref and the fighter: two sides of plant defense
In many west coast locations, house prices are far beyond the prior housing bubble peaks, I often come across places that are 75% to 100% more than they were during the mid-2000s bubble.

Pick any popular western location, city, or neighborhood, and you'll find prices 300% and 500% higher than they were in 2000 and often double or more what they were in the first housing boom. And no, incomes have not increased that much. Many of these areas have price-to-income ratios into the absurd of 10x-15x. Outside of San Francisco, does anyone really think that is sustainable?
> completely dejected by the quality of the code there

Please list a project of equal complexity that has been written beautifully from start to finish in your opinion.
This myth of beautiful coding needs to stop! Code is not a masterpiece from Van Gogh, it needs to ship. This determines quality, not the usage of some obscure/mainstream/unreadable/oh-look-how-cool-I-am idiosyncracy of the language.
If you ain't shipping, it's completely useless.
That's great for software that runs on your computer, it's not so great for software that runs on a car and can kill people. Regulatory bodies exist for a reason, onerous though they may be.

Edit: I'm actually curious now that I think about it. Are there any good examples of hacker projects (or specifically projects that aren't intended to make money or pay people's salaries) that had to deal with any sort of regulatory hurdles?
This makes the US military look pretty bad. They should be leading the world in cryptography, not planning to encrypt emails with 2002 tech in 2018. It just goes to show how meaningless the term "military grade encryption" really is.
Want to do a survey of how many people in that bottom tenth have an iPhone?
They should really have a demo available on the web to try out.
Forgotten? There are groups who reject the ceasefire to this day.
Site is hugged to death. I am assuming by "clean coal" we are talking about CO2 being difficult to capture, rather than just cleaning the emissions of SO2, NOx, and particulates.
Hi all! B12 co-founder here. We'd love to answer any questions you have, or help you get started in using Kinase!
His opinion on the GPL:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/vaccination.en.html
I've been working on https://docsift.com for a couple of months but have been having a hard time finding users to offer any feedback.

It's meant to make it easier for journalists and citizen activists to review bills, document dumps, etc (and on the pay side, help law firms read through and review discovery materials). A challenge has been that I'm neither a journalist or a lawyer, just someone who is motivated to help out where I can when I see something that seems screwed up; and wanted to build a tool that would make it easy for people to take 5 minutes and help read / review a bill, etc when they were on the bus or when they had some downtime. The failure mode is obvious in retrospect: I started building it without knowing people directly impacted by the problem I was trying to solve -- it was a good problem to solve in theory; but without a concrete problem to solve it's very hard to land on the right set of solutions.

I still tinker with it (uploading docs that seem interesting, messing with features), but I've mostly moved on to other projects until I find the set of people who are presently feeling the pain.
Has any work been done on this book since 2013?
Stewart Alsop's Stay of Execution is a good deal older (1970s), but I remember it as very well done.
Email jeff@amazon.com. This same thing happened to me a few months ago. I tried everything and was banging my head against the wall. After emailing jeff@amazon.com the issue was resolved in less than 24 hours.
There's a big distinction between The Wirecutter and other sites, though. The Wirecutter specifically goes out of its way to do in depth testing with set criteria and standards for their suggestions. If you look at their headphones reviews, they typically compare several models with a variety of audio experts to validate their choices.

If another site can come up with that kind of high intensity writing, that's one thing. It's completely different if it's just a random person doing it -- that's at best the opinion of one person who's done work. At worst, someone lied and wrote a recipe or an article without doing any actual testing or research.
Your yard sale analogy is a little off, unless the yard sale is in the middle of an active war zone.

How do you think this went down? "Hey, let's buy this stuff from Iraq. Iraq, Iraq... where have I heard of that before? Hmm, isn't that where those ISIS fellows are? Well, never mind, they probably have nothing to do with it."

There's also the issue of inconsistent punishment. If you or I had done this we'd probably be in prison and even the cleverest yard sale analogy wouldn't save us. These guys get slapped with a fine equivalent to roughly three tenths of a second of profits and walk away clean.
I built http://booksoverflows.com few months ago to make some money and also tried this as a challenge to build something.This site helps users to find top books mentioned on stackoverflow.com for each programming topics.It's monetized with Amazon affiliate program.

I didn't expect lot from this project, I hope it'll cover my hosting fees but it's not.Even though I tried various promotion sites to get some traction,still not achieved anything big.I am just happy that I've done something with some hard work.I am still promoting this site to get some traction on various sites(https://reads.breue.com/125-places-to-post-your-startup-prod...).At the same time I also planning to work on my second project :).