skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's one consistent issue that plagues startups, consultants, and even large established business it's marketing.

And that whole thread touches on a subject that I wish would get more traction here on HN: content engineering.

Content Engineering (building tools and useful online software projects) is an incredibly effective way to build an audience and awareness by helping people instead of writing yet another 500 word blog post or dumping six figures of VC money into FB or Google ads.

It honestly feels like cheating. I think tools just occupy a different part of people's brains than articles and certainly a different spot than ads.

This is a hot topic for me as I was looking through the analytics for my site yesterday and found that our Subject Line tester [1] was driving about 10x the traffic of our dozen 2000+ word carefully crafted and educational blog posts [2]. F'ing ridiculous

1 - https://sendcheckit.com/email-subject-line-tester
2 - https://sendcheckit.com/blog

Here's some other good examples:

Clearbit's Logo API
https://clearbit.com/logo

ForAGoodStrftime
https://www.foragoodstrftime.com

Atom
https://atom.io/

Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
https://pearsonified.com/typography/
It is not flawed at all. If you cannot provide a validation for your algorithm decisions when challenged then you algorithm belongs in a research lab or on your laptop, not in production.
Apple confirms it has acquired Shazam
I am missing the point you are trying to make.

For those who like -- and prefer -- GUI, Putty (or any other GUI based SSH client) will remain king. For the rest, this is very good news. It is the same client many have been using for many years under their Unix alike OS, just on Microsoft Windows.
I'm not sure how useful this is by itself. It's cool that it's there for convenience, but I think I'd rather stick to either Git on Windows or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
How did you deal with seeing family? Also, at what age/technical ability did you take the jump? I feel a bit of "impostor syndrome" when I think about going off and trying to do contracting work (I'm age 25 with a little experience making CRUD web apps and some standard backend work for a bank). Thanks!
Automatically adding untracked files would make it extremely easy to commit (and without other safeguards, push) unwanted changes. Annoying things like node_modules or binary screenshots that now bloats the repo history forever (unless one rewrites the history), or potential security breaches like passwords/keys or logs/configs with confidential information.
Anyone else notice how the <title> of this page is "Intent and product brand in a unique string of 43-59 chars including spaces | Microsoft Docs"?

Which is obviously a placeholder, so I wonder how much Microsoft really cared about this release.
Which pros? Every video editor, graphic designer, photographer, and web designer I know still uses a Mac...
I remember my tuition rising sharply while the school was building things like a new rec center with a large pool and a lazy river. (Yes, I think there is obvious irony there installing a lazy river on a college campus and making students take 6 figure loans to pay for it). In the meantime the evening college which had people trying their hardest to work and go to school was strapped for funds, couldn't afford printer paper and was printing exams double sided in a tiny font.
Non-profit + government money + charity has honestly been some of the most wasteful spending I've ever seen (as a developer, not as an accountant).

And I don't imagine humans are that different between healthcare and education industries.
... why do presidents have more of a "real job" than football coaches? Having been neither a college administrator nor a football player, I can explain to you exactly what a football coach does and what their work involves and how to evaluate them and how to figure out if they're running a program that's net profitable for the university. I certainly can't tell you what a college president does or how to evaluate them, given how highly abstracted their work is.
They profit off the labor of unpaid student athletes.
How about the owner/operator of the site decides?
Depends on how big is the data cap. Sure, if your package is 10GB, it's fine, but what if the data cap was 250 MB and you could surpass it with a "Netflix" package?
Yeah, I agree. Other red flags: he's leaving Russia with 2,000 bitcoins; Julian Assange endorsing Telegram; Telegram popular in Iran (close Russian ally); end of article says that Putin's Kremlin staff uses it. (edit: formatting)
In the area around where I live they are putting up some new major powerlines, and using new modern looking pylons. They are actually quite nice to look at (Images and info at: https://www.hoogspanningsnet.com/mastsoortenclassificatie/bi... )

While within the city's all powerlines have been underground for ages, the connections between remote areas and production and consumption area's are usually above-ground, because it's soo much cheaper.
it's going to be fun racking these, well at least we won't need kvms, hah!
I've got a phone number from New Jersey, but moved across the country years ago, never changing my number. I get calls from New Jersey all the time.. I haven't lived there in over 5 years.. no business in NJ, why would they be calling me?

Call Me Private (https://callmeprivate.com) was intended for the purposes of actually receiving calls that I want to receive because I am the one giving out that virtual number. If someone is calling it, than I know someone else gave it out or I keep track of what website or who I gave it to.. and this way I have an idea of what and who the "leak" was.
You can call someone out for being an idiot without being hostile. I think thats the true spirit of the HN rules.
More like the rick and morty episode with the sexbot...

"I Dated a Robot" actually has dating in it.... if we had a human or near human AI datebot that would be quite different since whilst you won't be participating in the continuation of the human species at least at that time you would also not be losing any social interaction skills.

This could be nothing and this could be the same thing as the rage against hustler in the 70's and internet porn in the mid 90's but for someone who grewup with every nasty available when I tried one of the higher end recent VR porn productions on my Oculus the feeling that you get from it is quite different.

I've tried VR porn as a joke like 1-2 years ago when the Google VR stuff started and back then it was pretty garbage it was mostly just barrel projection of a standard porn scene that wasn't shot with the intention of VR.
The new stuff is shot with proper cameras, uses 3D audio and it's just creepy how convincing it has gotten so far despite the major drawbacks of the current VR headsets.
Any measure by which Rust allows for “terse expression” has to be horribly broken. (And I don't even dislike Rust.)
Jumped ship where? If it's to Microsoft it's definitely not showing up in their numbers.
Because evidence has shown when you waste the time of people doing this, they move on. If you instantly ban them, its easy to spot, easy to automate and doesn't really solve the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning
>Intel does not want to have the 900p eat into the P4800X which is a higher margin product. As a result, this is the kind of article (Optane 900p in servers) that Intel specifically would not want us to do. Since we buy hardware, we can.

That's such a cop out and an inaccurate statement. In the article you make it pretty explicit that the 900p is unfit for production workloads (which I agree with). In what world is someone going to use a device that will lose data on power loss for their write cache?? I don't think Intel is the least bit concerned. You then go on to say the 4800 is a better fit, yet you don't show any performance numbers for it because "You will notice that we do not have P4800X results. We had good results, but off of where we would expect" - so you didn't post them??? I'm sorry, that reeks of you being TOLD not to post them by Intel or your "anonymous benchmark requester" - otherwise you would've posted the numbers with the note that you think they seem off. Leaving them out entirely with no explanation as to why is extremely questionable.
TypeChain: TypeScript Bindings for Ethereum Smart Contracts
I've created a script for this, it applies the staged changes to a fresh clone and executes the command you specify. To quote from --help:

If you have lots of unrelated uncommitted changes in the current repository and want to split up the commit, how can you easily check if the changes passes the test suite? With all the other unrelated changes it can be hard to make sure that only relevant changes becomes part of the commit, and that they don't result in regressions. This script clones the repository to the directory ".testadd.tmp" in the current directory and applies the staged changes there (unless -u/--unmodified or -p/--pristine is specified), chdirs to the same relative directory in the clone and executes the command specified on the command line there.

It's available from

https://github.com/sunny256/utils/blob/master/git-testadd

and the test suite (place it in a subdirectory below the script) is at

https://github.com/sunny256/utils/blob/master/tests/git-test...

It's stable, and I've been using it almost every day for 1.5 years. It also works with binary files.
The thread's a bit old, but I'll reply anyways.

> Scala, Ceylon, Clojure provide their own stdlibs.

On top of the JVM ones when targeting the JVM. E.g. java.lang.String (Kotlin too)

> You can write non-OOP programs in Java bytecode

Everything is still an object and all code is in methods. There is no way around that. Also, there are many other things like forced GC and what not that marry the bytecode to certain paradigms.

> it's about ensuring that if someone claims they run Java bytecode, they actually can run it.

And about their impls of java.lang and other base packages. And a way to make sure that licenses that Oracle doesn't like, such as non-OpenJDK-derived open source stdlib impls, are not given the tests. Other languages with compat tests publish them for all and yet aren't worried about losing their name. This is dangerous reasoning to apply to keeping things opaque.

It isn't just those big companies implementing WASM. I implemented a WASM backend for the JVM [0]. The core test suite, which I use and comply with 100%, is available to all [1].

0 - https://github.com/cretz/asmble/

1 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/tree/master/test
I like your attitude and had a sensible chuckle.
I am a Portuguese speaker (from Brazil) and I fail to see what the problem is or even how it undermines Net Neutrality.

You pay 4.99 euros, get 10Gb and also get free traffic in one of those uses that provide plenty of competition, no privileges for a specific provider. Seems quite a good deal to me. Kudos to Portugal.

Here in Brazil, net neutrality is protected by law. If I could get one of those Portuguese plans in here I'd jump at it. Quite better than what we have.
Precisely ... because the Simpsons is the epitome of all western animation. /s
I find it really convenient to run the same OS on my laptop, as on the servers I administrate.

Others probably feel the same, and I suspect that was the GP's point as well. :)

Also, almost nobody care about Unix certification. Linux isn't certified, and except for really niche things, Linux is all that matters (if you aren't running Windows).
Sorry for a long citation (this is from "Practical Mechanics for Boys"), couldn't help myself:

"The American method of teaching the mechanical arts has some disadvantages, as compared with the apprentice system followed in England, and very largely on the continent.

It is too often the case that here a boy or a young man begins work in a machine shop, not for the avowed purpose of learning the trade, but simply as a helper, with no other object in view than to get his weekly wages.

Abroad, the plan is one which, for various reasons, could not be tolerated here. There he is bound for a certain term of years, and with the prime object of teaching him to become an artisan. More often than otherwise he pays for this privilege, and he knows it is incumbent on him "to make good" right from the start.

He labors under the disadvantage, however, that he has a certain tenure, and in that course he is not pushed forward from one step to the next on account of any merit of his own. His advancement is fixed by the time he has put in at eachp. 2 part of the work, and thus no note is taken of his individuality.

Here the boy rises step after step by virtue of his own qualifications, and we recognize that one boy has the capacity to learn faster than another. If he can learn in one year what it requires three in another to acquire, in order to do it as perfectly, it is an injury to the apt workman to be held back and deterred from making his way upwardly.

It may be urged that the apprentice system instills thoroughness. This may be true; but it also does another thing: It makes the man a mere machine. The true workman is a thinker. He is ever on the alert to find easier, quicker and more efficient means for doing certain work."
That Go uses curly braces instead of significant whitespace was a conscious decision. I think it was Rob Pike who talked about how he got bitten by a subtle bug in Python due to overlooked incorrect indentation. Curly braces also make it easier to paste code into the correct scope.
This article, interesting though it may be, is from January 2017.
What about click-bait titles?
Students are free to go to less expensive schools. However, as long as people underestimate debt, spending more to attract more students is simply rational behavior.
No. If Amazon expects to sell their hardware, such as the Amazon Fire TVs, Echo, and their tablets -- they heavily market these services on those hardware and it is part of their benefits proposition. Now that YouTube is no longer on the Echo and on their tablets, they better keep it alive. It's also partly subsidized via Prime subscription.
So, basically what you get for free in erlang and PHP, but not in golang?
What are the best web design courses of 2017?
Reminder: big banks were giving out 1M+ bonuses to traders / c-suite executives in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, while being bailed out by the taxpayers to the tune of trillions. We're now re-tooling the entire tax code to give them more money, but we're gonna crack the whip because of 58 -- thats fifty-eight -- college heads making over 1M in salary.
College president is essentially a sales job, where fundraising is the primary objective. These salaries, while optically horrible, should reflect the success of the president at bulking up the endowment.

Like in many industries, a great sales person can often become one of the highest compensated employees, because it's still only a portion of what they generated.

I think an important conversation to be having is what are the universities doing with the massive endowments they've built up?
Realm Scales to the Web
> what happens if the general datacap goes down, even maybe to 0?

Then I get a subscription with a bigger data cap.

The big problem with a lack of Net Neutrality is when there's a lack of competition and ISPs use their monopoly over their users as a product with which to strongarm the web services I want to use out of extra money. As long as they keep treating us as the customers and not the product, and make it clear what I'm paying for and what I'm getting for that, and I have to option to switch to a competitor that's more in line with what I want, then I'm fine.

It's true that favoring Youtube gives it an unfair advantage, but that's not as big a problem as treating paying customers as products.
Actually it just dawned on me- why didn't they try to make a "pro mini" instead with pci-ex slots and upgradable ram (and I know why- because the planned obsolescence) but that would be a better "middle ground" between a laptop and a pro machine. And better than an all-in-one if they make mini-itx form factor. I can use whatever monitor I want but i get to keep Apple blessed hardware (for whatever that's worth these days) along with macos (also losing it's luster with me).
That's a very pejorative and mostly inaccurate way of putting it.

"Non-profit" doesn't mean people can't earn good money -- it means the organization exists for a purpose other than profit and, therefore, gets some tax breaks.

Most people I know who work in non-profits are paid below-market for their skills.
I know a few folks who work in pretty reputable firms (their clients include BMW and Mercedes benz), they all use windows.

I think 3D artists prefer windows (I know c4d and maya work on apple, I wonder if Houdini works on apple)
How do they determine what sites get the free traffic? If I start a social networking site tomorrow, how does it get the free traffic that Facebook gets?
Want to put the skills you learned from those challenges to good use?

There's also a CTF at https://ctf.robotattack.org
Your argument isn't internally consistent. Webpack, Babel, TypeScript, Grunt, and Gulp are all implemented in JS (or TS for TS).

Sometimes there are npm packages that are just wrappers for other projects, but those are usually short-lived and end up being rewritten in JS (except for C/C++ libraries, which neatly compile to native extensions directly).

If anything, the common complaint is much more accurate: the tooling is rewritten from scratch too often.
SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO
Now they need to release an up-to-date laptop for professional use.
realistically, they are profit centers for the football programs. Little if any of that money makes it back to the school.

For their math to work you have to assume that NONE of the donors who donate to sports would donate to anything else...I find that to be a fairly unlikely assumption.
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>You can't say "One thing that should remain Sacred is family, wife, and kids"... when there are families who make a living by working online. If this goes through MILLIONS of people will be fucked... I can assure you .. If this falls through, go into witness protection or some shit because you are gonna get killed. Period.﻿ 384 upvotes

>This twatwaffle needs to be burned at the stake.﻿ 301 upvotes

These are people promoting Net Neutrality. I don't support that. It is disgusting.
It seems to me---though I could be wrong---that it's only a small subset of sites that are the primary high-value targets for phishing attempts. Could browser vendors make a significant improvement simply by keeping a list of major financial institutions, government agencies, huge employers, etc. and warning users before going to a site with a URL or certificate identity similar to those entities?
This might seem crazy, but I actually think the point of a college president is to ensure that his college is teaching students effectively and for as little expenditure as possible...
My brother has been obsessed with Apple products for the past 20 years, he was the one who convinced my parents to get one in 1998. He's been a professional photographer since 2001 and has worked on different iterations of Mac Pro machines ever since. This Thanksgiving he finally gave in and asked me how to build a PC for his work studio. He just can't justify working on desktop Mac Pros anymore. He'll keep the mac laptop for onsite work, but he wants a real beast for working on the RAW photos.

I keep hearing this story from every creative professional I know. (2 digital artists, 1 painter, 2 video editors)
I can understand why president's make a lot of money. From the article:

The chart-busting payday for Hatch, who has headed up Wake Forest since 2005, was partly from compensation of more than $3 million that came due in 2015

"President Hatch's compensation over the course of his tenure reflects his exceptional leadership," trustee chair Donna Boswell said. The school has raised nearly $800 million under Hatch, she said.

So they paid the guy $3 million and got over $800 million back in return while he's the university? As a student or faculty, that would be good news for me. More endowments, better facilities, more scholarships.

The one thing I do not understand is how technology has made everything more efficient. How is it education seems to be one of those areas where despite the advances in technology, tuition seems to still go up, certain courses and majors demand more and more course materials, and the debt students have to incur is greater and greater.

When I was in college in the mid aughts, they made a huge deal about giving all the students laptops as opposed to having huge computer centers and the millions they were saving by doing so. And yet, every year since then, tuition went up. It's totally baffling to me.
You love them because you are not a startup that plans to compete with other services or a customer who wants to use apps outside of the selected ones for which you can use dedicated data.
What if one day you'd like to use a new emerging service that is better than WhatsApp|Viber|Any-other-app-that-you-currently-use but that is not in a bundle for which your provider has plans that give extra dedicated data? Will you make the switch and consume your regular data or will you stick with your current one that makes you use dedicated data for which you paid those extra €5?
There is no reason whatsoever why sending 10GB of data to one IP would be more expensive than sending it to another. So if they are offering 10GB for free if you connect to one service they’d be able to offer it for free for connecting to anyone.

If they refuse that means there is no competition. It also means they are meddling in content so they are no longer common carriers and are responsible for what happens on the line.
> Government rate setting is such a bad idea, that our oligopolies might be better. (The US has faster internet than all the big European countries: the UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy.)

And it's slower than Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and many others.

You can't blanket claim that LLU and rate setting is bad simply by ignoring examples where they work much better than the alternative.

Edit:

You might also want to include consumer prices with that comparison.

I installed fiber (from the street outside) in my house in Sweden and had a pick of 18 ISPs, of which I chose 100/100 Mbit/s for $38/month.
Assuming that package is cheaper and the people who choose it are only interested in Netflix anyway, it's fine. What matters to me is that paying customers are treated as customers, and that we get to choose what we want, rather than ISPs secretly throttling stuff behind the scenes in order to coerce extra money out of Google and Netflix.

I don't want to be ammo in their trade war.
Many urban areas in the US have them buried. None of the places I've lived in Boston have visible power lines but most of the surrounding areas do. It's nice to not worry about weather being a threat to your electricity even if it's more expensive to maintain under standard circumstances.
Thank you, that's quite useful! I was doing some light reading on it so I just started with some simple articles, but perhaps they were over simplifying.
Thought was Firefox related.
Feedlots feed out with hay/grain, molasses and silage. The grain was (nominally) edible by humans; the rest is not. Over 100 days they eat ~1500kg per head total and gain around 140kg (meat).

So when counting the grain used against the cost of meat, include the dry material as well for a fair comparison.
> PuTTy sucks

PuTTy is amazing, and my experience of using windows over the years would have been far worse without it.

However I do understand the point - compared to using a real terminal, it does indeed suck to be stuck on windows using PuTTy

For a terminal on windows, I have now taken to install cygwin, X on cygwin, and then xfce-terminal on top. It's not perfect either, but it is better.