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Ask HN: Best way to beat inferior site when youre a nobody and they dont care?
Context:
We run a website that would do anything for users with problems and we found a slightly competing website that has left caring about users in the dust. We wish to scoop up the people that need our solution the most.
They were big at one point a few years ago but went down!
All of their socials have gone dark and they have only left the site up to run ads.

Proposed method:
Figure out where the users hang out elsewhere and question them on what they dislike the most and have considered switching elsewhere before (ex. on quora, blogs, twitter)
Start reaching out to the users who frequently use the site and ask what their pain points are the most annoying/makes them want to leave.
See if our current solution sizes up to those needs else iterate on them
Burn some free keyword ad credits over common SEO terms they are associated with? (basically declaring war)
Market the values where they are weak that we do with ease (risky because they may come out of nowhere and pivot but has the greatest reward potential)
Kindly ask influence blogs who have experienced issues on their site write about our product (hoping its good enough that they will write for free)
Make sure we can make said users lives much much better than before

Thanks in advance!

(btw the other website has a plethora of other areas they are more invested in and we simply want to take this one because the users really need it!)
We use it at IKEA to use a c-based OCR library in a pwa. And other small things like that. Like a legacy integrator.
Not really; the WebAssembly work is all done within the W3C.

Specifically, it is done within the WebAssembly Community Group (open to all), then shuffled through the WebAssembly Working Group (open to paying member companies only) for advancement through the official W3C processes. This is a reasonable process hack for getting openness within the W3C structure.

That said, the "Recommendation" stamp of approval is indeed being overblown in this article. What it practically means is:

- (Pro) now all of the member companies of the WebAssembly working group (https://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=101196&order=o...) have pledged not to use their patents to sue anyone who implements the WebAssembly specification.

- (Con) now there is a static "dead standard" at some https://w3.org/TR/ URL which people will treat as more official than the actual living drafts at https://webassembly.github.io/spec/, despite the living drafts being actually up to date with implementations and the dead standard existing only for patent purposes.
In case anyone wants to know the difference it's that the third "section" on the first URL is "9adc" and the third "section" on the second URL is "9abc".
Boats and RVs do this but the cables are gigantic compared to AC cables. Also as they age voltage drop becomes a big issue, especially on boats since the environment is so corrosive.
If I'm making $100k/yr and I spend $20k cash on a second car (e.g. I don't use that often), or a pool, it's the same ratio, and people do it all the time. And that's just luxury items, not things I can justify from a business perspective. And I don't disagree for most people renting or fractional ownership of planes are undoubtedly better deals (200 hours is a lot of time in the air), but none of that is what you said.
They are also moved by barge. http://a380.boards.net/thread/824/airbus-on-board-ship
Are you using Tor by chance? Check out https://privacypass.github.io/
Still doesn't fix the inverse mapping problem, which is done immediately by Autoencoders, by definition.
This is not only about time wasted. It's about my feelings. It is about the mental effort to memorize them, update them every 90 days (by incrementing the last digit, of course) the frustration of having to type them, and the fact that maybe this is not really the best solution to the problem, yet we're still using it in 2020. I could keep increasing this list forever. Having a strictly technical view over problems always limits what you can see.
Most religions are centered around the afterlife, and you can't take anything with you when you die. The dogma of most religions states that charity is good and will help get you into whatever version of heaven they believe in, hence charity.
Every time I see a reference to the 10k hour rule I can't help but think back to this article:

https://www.inc.com/nick-skillicorn/the-10000-hour-rule-was-...
Law enforcement does not seem interested in looking for victims, even if it's easy. It seems that they are optimized for responding to complaints. Anything more proactive gets reserved for perpetrators.
Although this is probably the last website where a lot of traffic would be a problem.
Why wait for the iPhone 12? The current iPhone already charges significantly faster over USB-C than USB-A, as do all iPads released in the past ~3 years.
> But yeah, it's...evil when a religion gets transactional with it's charity.

Getting transactional with charity is the whole point. That's why religious organizations often fight against public programs instead arguing that religiously affiliated charity should take its place (receiving public funding to do so in many cases).

Utah in particular loves to under-fund programs, and let the church pick up the slack. The benefit to them is that it is both transactional, and allows them to exclude as they desire.

The Mormons might be nice, but they shouldn't be getting public money to provide public assistance. They should be cut out entirely and taxes should fund these programs directly and fairly.
I'm going to match your cynicism (and probably many other forthcoming comments) and say: what are you doing about it?

My speculation: nothing, but perhaps call for higher taxes on everyone, "generously" calling for higher taxes on yourself included. No real skin in the game, but hey, you get to feel better than religious people!

If your grand vision is to wait for progressive politicians to substitute for religious charities, don't tear down the charities before that happens. What is supposed to happen to the poor people in the meantime?
Here is a single query to get you both solutions.
https://pastebin.com/P7LN9jMz

This was after I solved it the old fashioned way though :)
Why is your cellphone not a more useful computer?
Hypothetical question. Suppose I love calculus so much, I want to share it with the whole world. So I rent a building and announce free food to the homeless on condition that they attend my lectures on calculus. Would you bar me from ejecting people who want to come in for the free food but refuse to attend the lectures?
2019 is actually the best time to pick the 3 Best Business Books of 2009 (Yes, 2009!).
I have longed for the universe where all and every JS/CSS stuff are done on the user side. Basically the only thing that the web provide is the very basic HTML and its up to the user to colour their experiences.

One would argue that there would be bloat -- having to install multiple extensions. But then visiting random websites is completely safe, and the only ones that we have to care about is the popular ones that many people have extensions for.
Same/similar working mechanism is built-in into Windows since Vista:
1234-5678--abcd.ipv6-literal.net
This doesn't even need functioning DNS and can work offline (add s<devnumber> for link-local addresses).
I just use APL for learning, but Dyalog APL provides hooks, forks, and various other operators (like @) for supporting functional programming. Their RIDE effort supports a linux IDE, but not an Android one AFAIK.

I personally find the APL notation substantially easier to start with over J because each symbol is more mnemonic for what it does and because each operator uses a single symbol which helps a lot with mentally tokenizing.
Isn’t that sort of Esperanto? When it was made French was the dominant language in Europe so most Esperanto words come from French, then the grammar was simplified but still allows for French word orderings.
I spent nearly six years homeless. The programs holding you hostage to listen to a sermon and try to brainwash you were typically amazingly shitty programs that I didn't return to. The ones run by people simply practicing their faith and trying to do good in the world because it's an article of their faith were vastly better.

Catholic Charities had consistently good programs. In my experience, they did not ever require you to listen to a sermon to get the help you needed.

Yes, I chose to go hungry rather than attend shitty services with lousy food that put my welfare at risk with their shitty policies. Some so-called "help" is worse than nothing.

And not all homeless have literally nothing. Some have income, just not enough to support a middle class life. Some have regular jobs and live in fear of being fired if their employer learns of their situation.
Lua’s a great language; hating on it for 1-based indexing (it doesn’t have arrays) is somewhat petty.
So, in aircraft circles the conventional wisdom goes something like this: change the engines->change the wing; Change the wing->it's a new aircraft.

The fact that it doesn't look like a new aircraft and that Boeing did what they could to make it look like a 737 has as much to do with the customer demands and the regulatory hoops they were trying to jump through without re-certifying it as a new aircraft.

Now, if they had done a complete redesign from the ground up without these restrictions then it would have no doubt been a better plane in many ways, but it would not have sold so fast in these numbers, which for Boeing was very important. So think of it as a 'new plane trying to masquerade as an old one' and you're pretty close to where it's at.
I have a site that could use help tracking items, but it would be strange to have users download another app. Is an API in the works?
> ties people together

until it's used to keep people apart in "mandatory religious programs"
At least some of the queries for this domain name are coming back pointed to 35.189.102.199 (199.102.189.35.bc.googleusercontent.com), which seems to be okay on the SSL certificate (see https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=got-it.com ) even though they offer TLS 1.1 in addition to TLS 1.2.

However, other DNS queries get pointed to 146.112.61.106 (hit-adult.opendns.com), and according to testssl.sh offers only TLS 1.2, but doesn't have server cipher order, and has an incomplete chain of trust.

The latter IP address also seems to be vulnerable to Secure Client-Initiated Renegotiation, and BEAST (CVE-2011-3389), and maybe LUCKY13 (CVE-2013-0169).
They have a video explaining their video hosting platform on a competing video hosting platform?
I would suppose that many atheists see the state as the secular alternative to charity.
These non-computer machines were incredible, too.

I remember one at Grumman Aerospace. They had a model of the landing area that looked like a giant model railroad set, but it was vertically mounted. There was a camera mounted on rails that could do X, Y, and Z, motion that corresponded to how the airplane was being piloted. The view from the camera was what was shown in the cockpit monitor.
Show HN: Generate Go structs from multiple JSON objects
Ask HN: Why haven't we hosted research publications as repositories yet?
This just makes so much sense for several reasons:
1. Let's say I find errors in a very long research publication - A code repository like issue system would allow me to highlight this and notify the owner
2. Let's say I want to add to a research work incrementally in an effort to make it complete - A code repository like PR mechanism would enable me to publish my work and notify the author without "citing" the said work and having to mention all the details again
3. Let's say I want to make updates on continued research and not just stop at one publications - A code repository like version control would allow making several releases based on work that could be published, moreover it allows maintaining a timeline of all releases for better clarity.

Every shortcoming I can think of can possibly addressed by treating research publications as repositories instead of standalone PDF documents. What are your thoughts on this and has anyone thought of implementing this already?
Because forced religious programs are a violation of the 1st amendment.
It’s not perfect but I’ve spoken to enough Esperantists in Asia who have remarked that English is way way way harder and speakers are less forgiving.
Science Fiction’s Wonderful Mistakes
I'm not using OpenDNS myself, but it does appear that the local nameservers are. Sigh....
Thanks very much for bringing this up and looking into it for us. We're on it now!
The top of a Vomit Comet parabola is a lot higher than 15,000 feet. Having that as a ceiling is going to shorten the zero-g time a lot.
From when it was added: https://blog.imgur.com/2017/06/21/a-new-look-for-direct-link...

The article states that it's been turned back off, but I'm not sure when that edit was. At the very least, here's a report of it happening two months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/IgnorantImgur/comments/diunko/why_d...
Youtube isn't broken out from Google in their quarterlies/annuals, so outsiders can't easily know. I think the common belief is that YouTube the video service operates at some amount of a loss, supported by other parts of Google. This is justified (by Google the business) on the basis of market share, free video test data, ads, etc. This does make it particularly difficult to compete with in isolation, of course...
Same here. I volunteered at Loaves and Fishes and it was not a place where people would force religion down your throat if you didn't want it.
Does this data include Cyber Security type jobs?
Explain your downvote.
> Notably, it’s not like less religious places have devised secular replacements for religious charity

Other places in the US, you mean. They have done this elsewhere, they call it socialism.
Speaking as someone who donates a bunch of money to my church and to both religious and non-religious charities that help the poor (and makes sure it all adds up to a tithe of my AGI, in fact) and thinks that I should be taxed quite a bit higher... the religious charities don't seem to be solving the problem either. There are still poor people on the streets.

I agree we should not tear down the charities first, but I don't think that we should pretend the charities are successfully solving the problem. They are making the problem less bad than it otherwise would be, and that's valuable, but they're not actually solving it. People have been saying "Private charity will solve the problem" since Judas wanted to sell that one bottle of ointment, and the poor are still with us.
I wouldn't downvote you for this, but probably because the topic of this thread isn't Cloudflare.
Makefiles from the Ground Up
> As an aside, I really dislike that so many of the US domestic charities are religiously driven.

They happen to be more motivated to provide services. If you wish there were more alternatives, more secular people should start their own charities.
How many tech screens and interviews did you do? I cast a pretty wide net to start, so I was in the loop to some degree at a bunch of companies over the last ~7 weeks, which was exhausting. But I didn't really think I had much shot at these bigger tech companies, honestly, so I interviewed at a ton of NYC startups too. The practice was really helpful.

I haven't totaled up my stats, but this is roughly how things went:

1. Once I got a recruiter on the phone, I had a 100% chance of going to next stage

2. For take-home projects, I had a 100% pass rate (did 3-4 of these)

3. For online assessments, I had a 50% pass rate (did 2 of these)

4. For live coding screens, had about a 60% pass rate (did 10-12 of these)

5. For onsites, I had a 50% offer rate. I did 4 of these at NYC startups, and 2 at bigger tech companies, one of which made an offer. Still waiting to hear from other one, but not hopeful.

I'm still in loop at 3 big tech companies.

The point is, it's pretty random. I flopped a couple of tech screens pretty badly because the interviewer was just difficult. Some give easy questions, some give hard. Some you click with, some you don't. And you get better at this over time too.

(I've also been amused to watch startups give more challenging interviews than the big tech companies and then make offers that are 1/2 as valuable)

In terms of prep, I took a data structures / algos class at Harvard Extension a couple years ago that was really helpful, and then I've been doing some Leetcode and CTCI problems the last couple months. Not enough though, honestly. I also went through some mock interviews with Interviewing.io and TripleByte, both of which were helpful.

By far the most helpful thing though is that both of the big tech companies where I did onsites actually tested me on mostly real world iOS dev, not generalist whiteboarding algorithms. And the other tech companies where I'm in the mix have also been a little more flexible. Twitter for example offered me the option of a take-home iOS project or a traditional 1-hour generalist tech screen. Although their onsite is still whiteboard coding algorithms from what I understand. Sigh...
I think secular or non-religous would be a better choice of words, and there are plenty.

Religous groups account for "31% of all donations", so that leaves a lot for other groups.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...
Really it comes down to the present net value of future opportunity cost: of economic growth outgrows the compounded future cash flows to service the debt (particularly if debt principal and at least part of the interest due) can always be rolled over for the foreseeable future within the temporal horizon, it makes sense to accrue debt.

We’re arguably lumbering future generations with just as much when we do not invest in basic science and technology development because of debt concerns; when we do not service our infrastructure; and most definitely when we act myopically towards the environment.
>is there any massive online firm that does any of the horrible things its users have documented it doing?

The multibillion dollar one I'm currently suing for doing horrible documented things to me (Thimes Solutions Inc vs TP-Link et al, also mentioned elsewhere in this thread)

I'm not particularly pro or anti corporate. It depends on the individual case. In these cases, I know a lot about the topics from personal experience or extensive research (re Amazon, extensive personal experience, re Youtube, research: you'll note I linked a post of mine from almost a year ago that is sourced extensively on the topic).

The standard media narrative is laughably wrong in both cases, and, I assume based on Gell-mann amnesia is similarly wrong in cases I don't have extensive knowledge about. Whenever I comment accusing the media or others of getting it wrong, I try to stick to pointing out the facts that can be easily sourced. And yet, I constantly see people apparently determined to back up the prevailing narrative. Even on this thread, someone replied to my post with sources with outdated information (that money is not escrowed and that content ID can't be disputed).

Amazon does plenty of horrible things as well. The most corrupt I've seen is asking sellers for invoices purportedly to prove authenticity and using those to go around the seller and source from their supplier, but there's plenty of others. Here's links to articles I've submitted that are anti-Amazon or at least pointing out issues with or abuse of their system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484250, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21127715, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834972, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20716059, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20615756, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20404674, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19865355, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17999282

But instead of focusing on those documented abuses, all too often I see people pushing conspiracy theories about how Amazon supposedly can't track commingled inventory. And even when I point out that their policy explicitly says otherwise and that it's actually rather trivial to track, people right here on HN have asserted that they must be lying without any evidence.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
The voting system is roughly: any paying member company can submit a "formal objection", which will be considered by W3C management ("on behalf of" Tim Berners-Lee). If upheld by management then the recommendation doesn't go forward. (This is very rare; I don't know of any instances off the top of my head.)
Yes, you are missing something: S3 bucket resolves to Amazon's servers. <ipv6>.has-a.name resolves to the ip address specified in <ipv6>. You will have to install the certificate on the actual server that serves the webpage. For S3 bucket this is Amazon, so they can put their certificate. For your own IP, you need to install the certificate yourself, so they would have to hand you their private key as well, which is not allowed.
Thank you for engaging in this conversation and sharing your thoughts!
I would like to think we’re heading toward a future where people will want to pay for products and services to reclaim their attention - as opposed to using free ones that deliberately track and optimize for your engagement.

The past 15 years of social media has been a terrible experiment in attention-driven business models.

I’d like to think I’m helping buck this trend with my current project - a subscription based social network called Thread - https://get.thread-app.com
Well,I'm sure I'd be living large as well,if I was running criminal enterprise of this scale for the government...
I think you’re getting at the usefulness of the language but I’d offer a counterpoint which is the time you’d need to invest. The FSI estimates 500 hours until Spanish proficiency and 2000 hours for mandarin. Esperanto is more like 50, and studies show faster French acquisition after first learning Esperanto than learning French the whole time.
Python would be a bad choice for the web since it was not designed around events. JS was designed specifically to turn on top of a browser with an event loop to respond to events as they happen. Python would just make a slow non responsive browsing experience. Also WASM wasn't designed for "any languages goes" in mind, it was designed for lower level languages like C/Rust which have manual memory management to run high performance applications like games, and video editing tools etc.

Also as someone who uses Python regularly, Python is by no means a perfect language. I am assuming you only know Python since it's an attitude I often come across for devs who only develop in Python and believe it's the superior to every language in every way.
Ask HN: What did you do that has changed your life the most?
All it takes is for once successful interview loop. There is really no downside to interviewing. The bar is high but manageable just keep practicing!
No, but the main tenet of calculus isn't selflessly loving your fellow man.
"The economics change with insurance coverage. Once I hit my deductible, why do I care how expensive it is? At that point, might as well get my money’s worth out of my insurance company"

The money doesn't come from nowhere. If everybody thinks like this, your insurance costs more money.

If you don't pay for your insurance personally, how about just straight up being paid more by your company?
Because that DNS entry resolves to an Amazon owned servers which have the certificate and key. This service resolves the DNS entries to your own server, meaning requests would hit your server which would require your server respond with the signed certificate and have control of the accompanying private key.