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This is very cool! I love how you brought back the original Kimono UI with the checkmark and Xs for adding and removing data tags.

We built WrapAPI (https://wrapapi.com) back in the day, before we ended up starting Wanderlog (https://wanderlog.com), our current travel planning Y Combinator startup. This definitely is still an unsolved problem.

However, from a business point of view, we found that it was rather difficult to make a business out of an unspecialized scraping tool. The Kimono founders expressed a similar sentiment: ultimately, scraping is a solution looking for a problem.

Developers can often roll their own solution too, which limits your customer base and how much you can charge. Instead, vertical-specific tools that target particular industries seem to be the way to go (see Plaid as an example!)

Alternatively, you have to be good at Enterprise and B2B sales. This is a product that you need to get the word out, get a champion, and do customer success on since it has a substantial learning curve. We were not, so that was why we chose to focus on other projects to start out

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Does GIT have it's own bug tracking system? For instance, if I use SVN and Bugzilla can I kill two birds with one stone by switching to GIT?
Even back in renaissance days with the most advanced mathematics there were unknown prior art
That's the first time I've heard Linus Torvalds described as "understated".
I mean, just because it's legal to resell nintendo products doesn't mean Amazon is required to offer a marketplace for them.

First-sale just means that the sellers don't need permission from nintendo to sell the items everywhere.
This is the Times' chosen style. They almost always refer to people as "Mr." or "Ms." when not using their full name, and rarely use titles. For example, this article repeatedly refers to Bill Clinton as "Mr. Clinton" and Donald Trump as "Mr. Trump": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/house-impeach...
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We are doing well and are independently owned.

I think there are 3 things that contribute to this:

1. It is very easy to make a prototype that looks "magical" but very hard to build something that works in real applications. There are an enormous amount of quirks that a browser allows, and each site you encounter will use a different set of those quirks. Sites also tend to be unreliable, so whatever you build has to be very resistant to errors.

2. There is a technological wall that every company in this space reaches where it is not yet possible to mass-specialize for different websites. So even if you're able to build a tool that works very well on any individual website, the technology is not there yet to be able to generalize the instructions across websites in the same category. So if a customer wants to scrape 1000 websites, they still have to build custom instructions for each website (5-10x reduction in labor vs scripting) when what they really want/is economically viable for them is to build a single set of instructions that will work for all similar websites (10000x reduction in labor vs scripting). This is something that we're working on for the next version of parsehub, but is still a couple years away from launch.

3. Many of the YC startups you hear about have raised funding from investors and have short term pressures to exit.

The combination of the three makes it very tempting to give up and sell.
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History has consistently shown that the rights tend to arise after the violations, not the other way around. The Magna Carta was written in response to an awful king, the FDA was established as a response to widespread problems with people getting poisoned, slavery wasn't abolished until millenia after it was invented, and labor organization (leading to such modern niceties as the 40 hour week) did not arise until well after the industrial revolution. Give it time.
From the article

> So far there has been a lot of excitement but also a lot of crushed dreams and backtracking, when solutions giving a quantum boost were later again beaten by classical computers, e.g. Ewin Tang showed this in some cases last summer (check his paper or story in Quanta).

Minor: Ewin is a woman. The paper referred to is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.04271.pdf
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I think you completely didn't get the point of his comment.

Say you are a woman and you made an important contribution to mathematics. Now would you want it such that every article written about you did not focus on your achievement, but instead focused on your inability to get an academic position?

Lots of people know the work of Emmy Noether. Do they know know it only because she managed to get academic positions? Had she never got one do you think it would be appropriate to know she was a genius, but never talk about her contributions?
Apple has been hard-restricted for a year. The FTC is investigating the Apple-Amazon deal for antitrust concerns.
Now you just made me wonder when Ring will include a fingerprint scanner that uploads a print & checks someone's background every time they ring your doorbell.
In Apple-land, health data is synced to the cloud, but encrypted such that Apple doesn’t hold the keys in escrow; they’re peer-to-peer synced between your devices.

Similar impact from a privacy perspective (assuming crypto is unbreakable), but the data certainly is synced.
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Circlejerk any harder and you're going to start chafing.
The most extreme example I can think of is probably sports. Something like Olympic running or swimming is probably about 99% pain.

You don't always have to love the work you do. But I suppose a lot of people find pride in being one of the few to push past the pain barrier.

A lot of high end coding is like that too. You still have to slog through actual books.
This seems to be the worst of both worlds. It's not easy for a human to read a square (compared to a line of text). The pixellated font is also not easily readable compared to a vector font. It's also not easy for machines to read an optical coding with no spatially distributed redundancy.

QR codes and bar codes are brilliant for machines because misreads due to some spurious reflection or spec of dust is mitigated by error correction.

I feel like this problem is already well served by bar codes which have a human readable text representation below them (e.g. serial number stickers).

That said, I can see the security advantage of the computer reading the same representation as a human, although this is probably not the best place to enforce security. As there's no integrity check, there's little guarantee the computer will read what you see though. Maybe linear OCR combined with a barcode checksum would be a better way to achieve these goals.
But I think Chrome’s example clearly shows why they feel they have to do this. The average user doesn’t understand extensions the same way you do; to them, Firefox is Firefox no matter how many bells and whistles are added on. So it’s a serious reputational risk that Mozilla currently allows unsafe code to run in an official Firefox release.

edit: Like, look at your second link. The extension was running remote code loaded from a third-party site! I'm sure you see why Mozilla can't just let that happen.
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Have you had ProductHunt launches? How they went down?
What kind of marketing or sales jobs? Did they use their gained experience in software dev and understanding software systems from a holistic level, down to the details?
Good. I'd prefer Google has it over Pebble or Fitbit.
I've had almost the exact same experience with some of my friends, when they asked about Linux.
Sprints? I love sprints...I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel day in, day out.

Seriously, screw scrum and 'agile'
How would integration with Rust (cargo/crates) even be possible?

Looking at how Go is so different in dependency management (Go modules intentionally broke from the config/lock file format)... I'm not sure it could be used there. I wonder if there are any other end cases that wouldn't work.
Re: the first point, OP is actually a link to the /about page. The front page works as you expect.
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I think all this talk about Facebook and paid political ads missing the key problem I have with ads-based businesses and that is there are certain things you just shouldn’t be able to target ads to people with, including health information.

If congress wanted to regulate big tech they should enforce certain basic standards around 1) what information can be used to target consumers with 2) the granularity of the data.

For political ads, for example, I think the right decision for Twitter and Facebook would be to allow them but limit targeting e.g. you can specify the district they would appear in (low granularity) but be shown to a completely random sample of users who live there.
Don't understand what you mean by "Fitbit's health data sucks". I find it accurate. My only grouse with them is that they don't give enough data out to be synced with Google fit or Apple health. Which might change now.
Exactly mirrors our thinking!

Our number one priority is that the programming experience on our site is flawless. We're playing hardmode though because we're dedicated to making the experience across languages the same. And that's why we create abstractions like this.

I'm hoping a project like this could at least start the conversation around standardization of interfaces.
Of course. Here are couple interesting papers by NASA leadership from the Apollo era (PDF warning):

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/197200...

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/293253main_62682main_jerry_madden_f...
...and all the Fitbit data on ~100,000,000 people.
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I don't see what first-sale doctrine has to do with this: Amazon is a private (publicly-held) company and is free to disallow certain products from being sold on its site.

First-sale doctrine means you're free to take your used Nintendo cartridges and set up a table on the sidewalk (subject to local laws about street sellers of course) and sell them to passers-by. Amazon doesn't have to provide you a venue for selling them.

Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want to sell older Nintendo gear on Amazon anyway. This is exactly what eBay is for. eBay's fees are probably a little lower too.
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I doubt this could be implemented in a way that avoids fingerprinting browsers (perhaps other than adding support for a new protocol, like ipfs directly in the browser(s)).
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The salient point of an identity group is to be angry at the other groups. This is true of all the groups, and is a very important vice to avoid. It's alluring in a way that people don't have very good defenses against.
> If your achievements came about by luck then how do you get off claiming credit for their success?

The same way it doesn't stop gamblers, stock pickers, actors, and entrepreneurs from mistaking survivorship bias for talent.

That said, I don't think git was purely luck either.
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I would rather blame the systems we all create and enable. Our reward systems in particular. These are the systems that make the exploitation so enticing and irresistible.
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For the vast majority of realtime tasks accuracy of a few tens of nanoseconds is fine, but random 50ms delays for GC aren't.
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>Usually I’m up at 5am and can’t fall back asleep.

Do you drink alcohol regularly? Its counter intuitive but alcohol simultaneously prevents people from entering deep sleep and can cause them to wake up early.
There are no release (as in, non-Alpha) builds with updates, last I checked.

Developer edition and nighties are not release builds.

Unbranded builds don't get updates.
Crates would totally be possible. AFAICT it follows the exact workflow we're trying to standardize.
Imagine if he named it `dick`. That's what it sounds like to English people, more or less. It wasn't an accident. Maybe not the best name choice.
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> it offers certain guarantees...

Does it really, though? Unsafe rust exists, and while the language is certainly built to strongly encourage certain safer programming practices, I don't really see it as offering any guarantees at all. If a project is open source I can go and investigate for myself, but who has the time for that?

The guarantees that safe rust provides are very good for me as a developer, because it kills a large class of potential errors and will therefore theoretically make the dev process easier. But I don't really feel any trust in these 'guarantees' when I switch roles to a user of someone else's libraries or products.

Most of the rest of your points I agree with, but I also agree with the original comment that it starts to make me feel just a little bit eye-rolly every time I see "...written in Rust." (And I do like the language.)
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It seems like git can also be used as an immutable database as well. Does anyone here have experience / comments on using git as a database backend?

EDIT: I found a couple of interesting references for folks who may be curious about this as well. I especially like [2] for its diagrams.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20151158/using-git-repos...

[2] https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-databas...
> Can you expand on this. Is this something like melatonin to help reset your circadian rhythm for sleep? Or supplements to jump start your pituitary gland?

Shots. I'm seeing an endocrinologist. OTC supplements did nothing for me.

> I guess am curious is the pituitary shut down was caused by the lack of sleep, and getting the good sleep will reactivate the gland, or if the gland is an issue you are addressing with the supplements directly.

My sleep habits were fantastic prior to my illness. The issues started after I got two bad viruses in succession. In early 2018 I got the Flu followed by Hand, Foot, and Mouth. I just never really recovered; my body just kind of sputtered out. Hormone production tanked, which led to poor sleep, which further messed up my hormone production, etc.
Americans really need more vacation time. For a while I worked with only 15 days a year. This never gives you the opportunity to ever really relax. Life becomes just one endless meaningless time of working year after year that kills any kind of creativity . I can see this in a lot of workaholics. They just go through the motions of working hard but don’t get much done.

And once you have been in that machine for a while taking a little time off feels scary and unfamiliar.
I did this for years and years and developed a blister on my retina from the never ending stress. Permanent vision problems. It's not worth it!
The problem is that it's just not responsive enough and the indication that my current app will go away is not clear enough.
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Apple Watch battery lasts a day at most. My Fitbit can go without a charge for 6 days. Fitbit offers sleep tracking.. Apple Watch doesn’t natively, and even if it did, you still have to charge it at night. Fitbits are more minimalistic. They’re so nice. I don’t want a Garmin wearable. A lot of people who use Fitbits don’t use them for the fitness aspect. We use them to avoid the sedentary lifestyle by viewing our steps, and occasionally going on a run. I hope Google doesn’t ruin Fitbit. But judging by their past moves, my Charge 3 will be useless in a matter of 2-3 years
>If you have the mass media constantly telling a group of people that they're inherently evil, of course it's going to cause suicides.

So there's maybe 20-30 years of "anti-white racism", how many years did we have "regular racism"?