skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find a niche is the hardest part, indeed. Some people call it “Positioning”. Well, I don’t think it’s useful for you what I’m currently experimenting with, I bet it’s far more interesting how I found it.

I will share some thought that helped me a lot, your mileage may vary:

1) Think about something you can do really well, and that you can do in 1 day. Look at your past proposals, find that single task where you think you can make a difference or remember that problem you solved so elegantly. The “1-day” thing is completely arbitrary but keep in mind that the shorter it is, the better chances you'll have to test and sell it.

2) The task should be something that a fair number of people need (even if they don’t know it yet). Listen to your clients, try to remember what they asked more often in your past projects. Listening and frequency are key here.

3) The task doesn't need to be anything extra innovative or super revolutionary, actually, it should be something very simple. Think small!
For me, the biggest challenge was to fight my own ego. I think I’m very good in some areas of my expertise. In 10+ years of freelancing, I ran this race to the bigger project, the bigger client, the bigger challenge, the bigger reward. At some point, I had problems explaining why my solution was so much better and the best one for the client, who only wished someone solved his silly problem and didn’t give a damn about it, best price aside. Remember, burn out come mostly out of frustration. I felt I was tricked into playing the wrong game. Then, I found that bigger isn’t always better, many times it is just… bigger. Again, this is just me with my own story and my own experience, your situation may be different.

4) Once you find it try it out. Fast. Share it with your clients and colleagues. Make a 1-day mvp or landing page and throw some Adwords on it, leave the details for later. Don’t overthink it, don’t overdesign, don’t over-engineering, don’t over-anything, just test your idea. My rule of thumb is that if something works, it will work since day one. At least you will receive some genuine positive interest almost immediately.

Other notes:

- You will still do freelance work on ordinary projects. Your idea will act as a bait, some clients will be very happy and will ask you to solve more of their problems. Hopefully, this time it’s in your hands to choose the right project and the right client and not the other way around.

- Again, you will also find ways to upsell more complex solutions with the right clients.

Well, I think I'll stop here, sorry, if I had more time I would have written a shorter comment. Just hope some of this will help.
Oh man come join me in modded minecraft. I need someone to help me build my new elevator system and work up a mining system to amass and process ores for the fusion reactor I want to build.
> maybe some people need a nanny.

children do
Fat has good support across all platforms.
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I thought fragmentation was a non-issue on solid state storage?
Keep in mind, for those doubting the efficacy, its not necessary to know what exact pitch is coming (Fastball, curve, slider, change up,etc).

Just knowing whether it is a fastball or an off speed is enough, at which point, it simply becomes a matter of transmitting a binary signal.

Transmitting the sign, could be as easy as sending a 1 or 2, then the dugout simply yelling, "Let's go so-so" for offspeed, or "C'mon #12" for fastball.

Most major league pitchers not named, Kershaw, Felix, Max, etc, only have 2 ++ pitches,
Your post?

> every valuable project starts with an idea though

It's a tautology which adds nothing to the understanding of the reader: of course every valuable project starts with an idea, just like every great human being started with an ejaculation. I wouldn't let someone use that fact to justify cranking their hog, much less telling me all about it.

I apologise for making you feel like I was attacking that post for no reason. I intended to point out that I thought it was an empty statement which brought me no insight or enlightenment and didn't help me change my mind on the worth of ideas (in a vacuum).
Changed it now.
Droid Sans Mono is great but I like a dotted-zero variant for coding:
https://github.com/AlbertoDorado/droid-sans-mono-zeromod
i decided to give Go Mono[1] a chance when they released it almost a year ago and i love it! and to the HN commenter who said i wouldn't last a week with the font, i thumb my nose

[1] https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts
Nobody can predict where the price of Bitcoin will go.
However:

1. it's a limited resource

2. it lets people do things no other financial vehicles can

3. highly influential people behind crypto haven't had their fun yet

So - no, I don't think this is a bubble.
Apptus CPQ.

we merged with another company and they used apptus already and have a good process with using it.

i havent seen it live, nor seen anything on the configuration,implementation, support side yet.
> The second that you write a check, it should be deducted from your, (your meaning the record you keep not the banks record), balance. In this scenario, when you wrote the check, the balance would be -$1. That is the problem here. The bank can clear or not clear things in any order, but if your recording is better, you will never have an issue.

For this to work, you also have to not apply deposits to your working balance until you have confirmed that the bank has applied them to your available balance.

And you have to make sure you correctly account or any fees, service charges, or temporary holds (the last often catches people out.)
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I wouldn't hold the Linux kernel dev community as an example of...well pretty much anything really, least of all a meritocracy.
Apple laptop touch pads work great for Windows also. Something else is going on.
I think the vines and leaves are the parts to worry about, but even then it's not as bad as the more toxic members of the nightshade family.
> "Xen is a type 1 hypervisor that runs on bare metal, and KVM is type 2 that runs as processes in a host OS."

Is it not the other way around, that KVM runs on bare metal (and needs processor support) while Xen runs as processes (and needs special kernel binaries)?
You're right, S&H is not free in The Netherlands (although many businesses will if you buy for certain amount give free S&H, and if the company has a volume package at say TNT Post then one package more or less isn't going to cost them.)

However, if you are using Wet Kopen Op Afstand (which you generally are when you're buying from a Dutch shop and have S&H to The Netherlands) and you want to send the item back (for whatever reason, with a few types of products being excluded like underwear, unsealed CD/DVD, download services, ...) then they'll have to issue a full refund INCLUDING the S&H.

Here's one source on that:

https://www.consuwijzer.nl/thema/koop-op-afstand

"Geld terug
De verkoper moet uw aankoopbedrag terugbetalen, ook de bezorgkosten"

And I guarantee you many shops don't refund S&H at their own discretion.

The costs on sending the item(s) back ARE on you btw.
Think you might be talking about running the Docker daemon inside Docker, which is a different thing from just calling Docker from a container.
No consolas? How is that non in the top 10??
Title should read "employees".
Also ElasticSearch updates will not be in the same transactions as your DB data updates, which can create some mess.
What makes you think the new system will be sustainable, or loosely federated? If we go by the known examples of Uber and AirBnB, the new tools produce environments where power is even more concentrated, and independent contractors are squeezed to the lowest viable income levels by competition.
The catcher throws the sign after the batter has taken his stance. No more looking at the dugout.
On firefox/linux, the icons are off the grid. http://imgur.com/a/qakod They align back when hovered over
How much should you budget for Facebook ads?
I don't get this; everyone says it, but I've never seen it in smartphones. Laptops, sure, but Windows really DOES accumulate a lot of cruft, and OSX's updates never seem to improve performance.

Smartphones, though? The only slowdown I've noticed is when the battery starts to go. And then you can usually tell; the device gets hot as the battery pushes up against all the ESR it's accumulated, the CPU steps back a bit...that's what I figure, anyways. For me, it's always coincided with the same inflection point when I start really noticing things like charge cycles taking much longer and a sharp drop-off in the life of a 100% charge.
I'd like that, plus configuration of palm detection and the size of the virtual mouse buttons on the touchpad. Their drivers make things just a little bit of hell. It's one place that I would've expected the Windows drivers to shine in comparison to Linux, but my Linux partition is so much more useable.

Synaptics Windows driver: "You want to hold down control to select some files? OK, now you can't move the mouse. You're welcome."
I'm not sure it's "blinding" them (after all, the links are shared TO those platforms), but standardizing the sharing mechanism would give Google the future option to track shares (if they aren't already doing it).

Knowing what's being shared where, in near realtime, is HUGELY valuable information.
The Mallorca Theory
Though the typo'd version probably has some merit, too.
AngularDart 4
These don't fit well into what OP's doing. What company in their right mind would say "We base our decisions on ego over reason"? Even though that might be true....
I would have preferred either a minimal update extending FAT32 to FAT64 (sort of like the extension from FAT12 to FAT32), or a better filesystem with journaling/etc.
Long before the human intellect is replaced, technology will make the individual human intellect far more productive, which will itself reduce demand for employment in certain niches.

The canonical example I recall is junior legal discovery lawyers who used to pore over paper documents. Such routine tasks are automated and a smaller number of more senior lawyers who do the work of integration and interpretation.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/technology/lawyers-art...

https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21700758-will-...
Like I said, I don't think working more than 40 hours is the end of the world, I just don't think a company that expects that can list work/life balance as a core value. It's ok to sacrifice that for high salaries or other perks, but that's what a site like this is for, to help match your priorities with a companies'. If you put down work/life balance as one of the things you value most then you probably don't want to work for a place that expects you to work until 8pm.
Dr. Phil Video Leads to Novel Copyright Decision Involving Imprisonment
Nah, people will just quit soon after. Then the company is faced with all the costs involved in hiring replacements. This idea works both ways, and ideally gets the right people into the right places for the benefit of the employees and employers.
I guess I was mostly thinking about the effect of reusing the IR beam. It gets a little confusing to me in that AC units move more energy than they expend. So for example a 10 EER means an AC unit moves 10x more energy than it takes to run. So if a 10 kW AC unit becomes 8 kW to run (~20% more efficient), a the same time the panel would beam out ~5% of 100 kW of moved energy? Or 5kw. If you reuse 5kW somewhere, then you lose ~70% of the potential climate change heat savings? 5/(5+2)?

I'd have to recheck al the assumptions here because I put high odds that I constructed this back of the envelope set of numbers with some mistake in it...
FTA: "Dieselgate killed people"

What's the source for this claim?
Sharing is one thing but these third party sharing buttons all over the place where really tracking beacons for your browsing, even if you don't share anything.
Good question. As they normally serve their content as separate audio and video streams, it should be perfectly feasible to do that. I wouldn't bet on it, however.
Depends on how old the kids are. Are you necessarily assuming pre-teen?
I agree. Our past references don't apply anymore and this is what people need to understand.
It would be nice to know what methodology (if any) was used to compile this list.
The last time an evacuation was called for in Houston (Rita), over 100 people died trying to evacuate before the hurricane even hit. (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Rita#Evacuation_deat...)

In terms of life lost, evacuating would have been a disaster. You'd have had gridlocked interstates underwater.

Mayor Turner absolutely made the right call by not evacuating. Living in Houston, I'm probably a bit biased, but I find the criticism he's received for making the decision not to evacuate a bit absurd.
Certainly having the receipt doesn't actually do anything? Do you measure the volume of gas in your tank before and after filling up?

Regardless, this seems very easy to test. Just fill up a gas can and check that you're paying the right amount for the amount of gas in the can.
You might want to ask on the top Crypto telegram chat groups. Try WhalePool or WhaleClub. There are lot of big names in Crypto there.. Whalepanda, Charlie Shrem, Saj Mathieu, BTCVIX, WideSpreadBTC etc.

Can't say they'll grant your interview, but trying never hurt anyone
Not a medical professional, but...

Athletes feel aches and pain from inflammation of their muscles.

Old persons frequently have inflammation in their joints which causes pain and stiffness.

Asthma sufferers have inflammation in their lungs.

Anyone (except hemophiliacs) who receives a skin cut has inflammation at the site of the cut.

It's an immune response and is a level of abstraction away from the actual observable symptoms, hence the general confusion about what it is.
Just put 菜单 and be done with it, right?

I think a large part of the push for icons is awareness that not everybody reads English.
Also relevant is advice[1].

Same technique, though for different purposes. Or you could say that shimming is a special case of advising.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_(programming)
Releasing GMOs into the ambient environment would be grotesquely irresponsible.

But yeah, the design is kinda like a scaled-up distributed bacterium. Bio-mimetic FTW!
I've switched programming fonts about a million times in the past 20 years, and just recently settled on what I now consider to be the perfect font, and one that was hiding under my nose the whole time:

Courier New.
> a generic trackpad driver that suppliers 2-finger scrolling, 2/3 finger mouse button emulation, and _maybe_ pinch-to-zoom

On my laptop, a generic “HID-compliant touch pad” driver, made by Microsoft, does all you that including zoom. No third-party software needed, just Windows 10.

Not all touchpads are compatible, but it already works for many Win10 laptops. Mine is Acer BTW, with some Elan touchad.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/pc-oems-ditch-the-cu...
It sounds like you agree with the concept but disagree with its name..

All relationships have their ups-and-downs, and there may come a time when the only thing holding it together is a promise that was made in front of other people. You may think that's a bad reason to stay together, but the fact is that that (bad) time will most likely pass and if you're still together you may very well find your way back to each other. I know my own marriage has sometimes hung by not much more than that and then we've found our way back.

Of course if a promise you make means very little to you, then so will marriage.
TL;DR Don't chase the latest tech stack to attract developers. Hot today, dated next year.

"Access to developer talent" is a reasonable factor in selecting a tech stack (e.g. there's a reason few use COBOL, etc.) But it's one of MANY factors.
Big Housing Changes Thanks to Driverless Cars
Clever or novel often gets precedence in many of these UI collection blogs. It's easy to get caught up in busy-work with design, possibly more so than with programming.

That's why I like UI changes that come with a/b test results. Although sometimes it's hard to measure the right metrics with this stuff, especially when it's entirely qualitative or highly abstract like emotional gratification.
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Case in point, does anyone really believe seeing a nipple is more harmful than seeing violence?
The Red Sox have admitted to the wrongdoing. This is not crying wolf. They are guilty.
My iPhone 6 used to be snappy, but now takes almost 10 seconds to just open an app. Perhaps new OS updates are not as well-optimized for older iPhones as they are for the latest version.

Ars Technica's Android 8.0 deep-dive has some interesting charts showing Android device performance deteriorating over time:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/android-8-0-oreo-tho...
You might wanna include more sources for your aggregation, including subreddits....

Take a look at https://cryptopanic.com
You're confusing the market of free ideas with speech...Are you suggesting that societies shouldn't have the ability to guide themselves by rejecting speech that is harmful to itself

I have seen many things which are touted as part of "the marketplace of ideas" that are really attempts to skew speech in civil society through non-governmental bureaucratic power. This is dishonest. It's not a real "marketplace of ideas" when certain things are placed in an inaccessible part of the store. We've seen this "technically not censorship" thing before. Noam Chomsky helped bring it to the world's attention.

http://a.co/658KATJ

Honestly, this all sounds like nihilism which I know is all the currently all the rage to wealthy and white Silicon Valley, but I'm sure your perspective will be altered if you should ever be unfortunate to have nazis start targeting you.

I have been racially targeted by groups of poor whites. My perspective changed when extreme elements on the left started behaving in much the same way. When your "activism" starts depending on the magnitude of horribleness of the enemy for its justification, this is a historical sign that something is out of kilter. No one who says they can do anything, because they're less horrible than some bad guys, gets to wield the special liminal power of activism in my name. Groupthink is groupthink. It feels much the same way, no matter where it is based on the political spectrum. The justified hate of White Supremacists is much the same as hateful ideologues of a different stripe.

I abhor the nihilism of Silicon Valley, however, it's not a white phenomenon, nor is it particular to one ethnic group. Shortly after I moved to the Bay Area, I got to see a drunken self-styled startup nerd spill beer all over the laptop of a cancer-patient female techie who was trying to get her life together, then try to pretend he had nothing to do with it. (Pre-Obamacare, so her life seemed pretty precarious. He thought it was a good idea to dive into his bunk at the hacker hostel I was staying at.) He was proof by counterexample that being white is not at all necessary for entitlement.

The nihilism of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area is mostly derived from the nihilism of the Postmodernist left. We have as much to fear from the radicalism of the left as the radicalism of the extreme Fascist right. Both of those groups have in common collectivist and nihilistic ideologies that reject logic and rationality. You only have to read the writings of the esoteric thought leaders of both groups to see this. Therein lies the real danger. The left-right spectrum is only incidental.
But of course the problem here is that the nanny is the corporation, which is just as inclined towards -- and far more capable of -- advancing itself to the detriment of the consumer.
Not really, you're now linking the 'inflammation' described in this article to heart attacks. Surely that'd be a bigger story?

From the 'article' you linked to:

> Obesity and its constant companion, type 2 diabetes, are at epidemic proportions in this country. One thing that connects them is inflammation.

How is this not a most blatant case of 'correlation vs causation'? We know the causes of obesity AND type 2 diabetes. Surely inflammation, a cellular immune thing ... is just a correlating factor?
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Here's an article the consequences of inflammation on the brain. http://www.dana.org/Publications/ReportOnProgress/Consequenc...
I really enjoyed this article.
Any news aggregator where I can find similar articles? (HN for marketing?)
> If the web page has some sort of carousel without lazy loading, it wouldn’t take long to use up 10% of somebody’s 1GB allowance.

If you do use lazy-loading, please be sure to do so in a way which works without JavaScript enabled (sadly, this is very uncommon). Mobile users are free to use browsers which load images on demand (indeed, I remember that approach from the 1990s), or perhaps browsers could agree on a standard for different resolutions of images, but breaking the Internet (which is what requiring JavaScript to view content is) to save some people some bandwidth is IMHO a bad idea.

https://www.robinosborne.co.uk/2016/05/16/lazy-loading-image... looks like a nice technique.

> Render as much server-side content as you can.

> Reduce/remove the third party dependencies you have on your pages.

> Lazy load images whilst maintaining page layout.

> Stop hacking fixes for your mistakes with Javascript.

All good advice, particularly the last bit.
Yes, and it's still unclear to me how it'd be applied here.
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