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Quora’s web page restrictions were always annoying.

You can search for something from Google, and the site allows you to view the page. Then the page suggests other links, and when you click on it, it forces you to sign in.

The trick is to copy that link, and open the page in a new incognito window.

I don’t know why they did it this way, but it’s thoroughly annoying, and I try to avoid visiting the site if I can. And I roll my eyes whenever that site comes up in a search result.
Transfers are the big issue. Many if not most trips will require at least on transfer. When you show up at the station at a random time, you have to wait on average 1/2 of the headway time, but if you miss your transfer, you have to wait the entire time. With buses and streetcars typically being delayed by traffic, you have to count on missing the transfer more often than not. If you have to make two transfers on a 15 minute headway, then count on adding 30 minutes of waiting to a trip that might have only taken 30 minutes total. There is a massive difference between a 5 minute headway and a 15 minute one.
People keep comparing this to tiktok. On paper, yes, they are similar. They are both platforms for short form video content.

In reality Byte's six second limit, and focus on loopabilty, restricts the versatility of the platform.
Please keep nationalistic flamebait off HN. It leads to nationalistic flamewars, which we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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As an exmo, I think that sub is toxic and unhealthy and a terrible way to find balanced views. Very off topic from the article but I like to put that plug in wherever I can.
Simplicity in cost and more user friendly features.

Very predictable how much you'd pay by spinning one up as bandwidth is a pooled limit among all your machines, so you won't pay until you exhaust the pooled monthly limit, and they don't charge you for disk IO and performance/cost ratio has been better.

You'd question why you'd pay more for less performance.

Will ec2 ever be able to boot into recover mode easily? Linode allows you to boot into recovery mode by attaching your disk and also easily access your console from browser in case you screw up networking or firewall to lock yourself out.

They provide easy daily/weekly backup instead of making you write script to take ebs snapshot manually.

Maybe my AWS knowledge isn't caught up but AWS feels like everything is for you to manage.

Also they don't do weird stuff like GCP resetting the hostname on every reboot but things are how you'd expect.
Correct. There could be quite a bit of fun. This more than likely could work for sites not in the top spot. If you borrow the credibility of another brand you could get a boost. This click thru boost could then translate into higher rankings over time as you outperform your spot.

I have already seen seen some ascii stars in the URLs of Googles ads. There is always abuse.
Previous post on HN, with 697 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22066177
Is there a keyword to mute the cyclic messages like "Look who you knows on twitter"?
Most biologists are not virologists. Besides, HIV, Hep. C, and even the normal flus kill far more people, and threaten more of the world's population.
Yeah I think the downfall of quora is partly due to their product managers decision making and the machine learning recommendation engine. Both of which are abysmal even with all that Harvard and Stanford talent they have
I think one of the main points is that things are f...ed up but there is no way to tell anybody who has the power to change that. I see that in my company a lot. A lot of processes are inefficient but there is nobody you can talk to about improvements. So people just get used to doing silly things.
As long as you realize the web without ads is a much smaller and less commercial one. That may be fine with you. But a lot of things hundreds of millions of people use every day would have to go away. Subscriptions can't replace ads, as individuals don't have nearly as much discretionary money to spend as companies have in their advertising budgets. We've already given them that money when we bought our groceries, and gas, and paid our bills for rent, internet, TV, phones, insurance, etc. It's not our bank accounts any more to reallocate to Google Maps or our favorite websites instead.
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We've banned this account for continuing to use HN for nationalistic flamewar after we asked you repeatedly to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Amazon Prime Video has a weird content problem
I'm in the exact same boat.

To be honest, for a long time I'd role my eyes at the DDG users in every thread, talking about how it's hey, pretty good now.

Well, now I'm that guy, because I think it's actually better than Google now. It looks crisper, cleaner, has way fewer ads, and does less fuzzing of my actual search terms. I love it -- I'm hooked.
The way I see it is that there are actually two Twitters:

* Bad Twitter: is run by Twitter Inc. and tries everything to mess with your feed, turning it into a toxic mess that's designed to clickbait and outrage you. It is disrespectful and domineering in the way the UI is designed and every now and then it slaps you around by introducing a change in the UI that increases the noise in your feed.

* Good Twitter: this is the amazing people you know and don't know who use the social network to connect, create and have fun. It's creative af and makes it easy to discover new minds all around the planet. It's also very kind in that people will try to uplift each other and offer support in more ways I can recall.
Close your Twitter account and follow it like hackers might.. Do they let anyone join now?
Possibly a related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873 (Original title: The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising)
Small thing perhaps but Linode offers new OS image so much faster than anyone else as I have seen them release CentOS 8 image pretty much on the day it was released and DO hadn't got it the last time I checked after a month or so.

When a company has a room to care to the detail like this, you can feel they're not crushed by support requests which may mean they're doing things right.
This brand of techno-optimism is so tired. Who today still believes the old facebook line about connecting more people? It didn't work and it enabled automated surveillance on unprecedented scale.
Better marketing from DO. There strategy of content marketing with how-to guides has been massively successful.

Personally, think DO has a more pleasant UX too.
Google is the new Evil Empire
YC class of '68.
It's too late, lasting damage has been done. This redesign made me seriously look at DDG and I'm impressed with what I found.
They might have arrived to this state of the page with meticulous A/B testing, optimizing for some function.
startpage was purchased by an ad company last year.
Not at all! The positive sum game here goes

* Company creates thing people like you want to buy.

* Company knows if you know about the thing, you will want to buy it.

* Company knows you don't know whether a thing like their thing even exists, so you have no reason to search hard for it.

* Company upfronts the money to defray your search costs, knowing it will be paid back when you buy the thing. This is called advertising.

I am constantly learning about things I would have enjoyed if I had known about them. It is damn hard to make people aware even that you are giving away free lunch. Advertising breaks down that needless ignorance.
A lot of it was inertia. But after some recent bad experiences with DO, we're planning on giving competitors a try. Looks like Linode is just the ticket; thank you for pointing it out.
As far as I know, there generally aren’t papers that contain debates between multiple linguists. Scientific papers usually aren’t written as debate transcripts. But there are certainly many papers about dead languages, and about the lines between languages. You can look at pretty much any of the citations on Wikipedia articles about dead languages like a Middle English, or creole languages.
I’m amazed that Google is essentially late 90s Microsoft at this point. It should be help in the same contempt.
Really wish they went with 8 seconds instead of 6 for the videos.

I mean 1 byte = 8 bits after all.

Missed opportunity.
Why not just allow users to generate the app from a spreadsheet? Right now it seem cumbersome to create a 'model' within Webase...
All the evidence points to everything being isotropic, so long as you can't see very far.

All the evidence the caveman could collect said the universe is isotropic. And full of air. All the evidence that you are able to collect can lead to incorrect conclusions.
I use google a lot, but I can’t escape the thought that every time I really need to find something (a book which title I barely remember, a product based on the job it does) I just can’t do it using google and that most of my queries are mostly key value lookups.

And yes, ads are annoying. Double ads in YouTube are annoying. f you google.
> You can thank them for making free DDoS protection mainstream

AWS does charge for WAF and Shield, I believe.

I also remember comparing AWS Lambda at Edge vs Cloudflare Workers (though Lambda allows for longer execution times and generally provides more flexibility like RAM, CPU, Runtimes since it runs on a Linux VM vs V8 Isolates for Workers), costs were something like 10x apart.

Can't wait for WebSockets support for Workers.
Will some refugee from the GOP write their version of this soon?
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Managed memory is more of a superfluous thing. When you have resource management, memory is among the easier to manage, and GC looks like a solution without a problem.
I still don't understand why the Java IDE has a community edition, while C++, PHP, C# ones haven't a community edition.

It would make even more users. Even Microsoft has made its long-living Visual Studio available for free.
Even discounting for the fact the results looked closer to ads, they were also very distracting from an information heirarchy point of view.

My eyes first move thorough the colourful favicons first, then the url of the page and then the real content.

This flies in the face of good design.
For ZGC on Mac or Windows, you need to use latest Java 14 (not yet released)
Relating it to humans gets far more awkward than you might guess. Ponder any implications of what Wikipedia dares to say about the matter:

The changes manifested by the tame foxes over the generations, moreover, were not only behavioral but also physiological, just as Belyayev had expected. The first physiological change detected in the tame foxes was a lower adrenaline level. Belyayev and his team "theorized that adrenaline might share a biochemical pathway with melanin, which controls pigment production in fur", a hypothesis that has since been confirmed by research.[2] As they became tamer, more and more of the foxes began showing "signs of the domestication phenotype"; Trut later recalled that in the early 1980s "we observed a kind of explosion-like change of the external appearance."[5] After eight to ten generations, the tame foxes began to develop particolored coats, a trait found more in domesticated animals than in wild ones

Belyayev's experimental animals and their descendants have been said to "form an unparalleled resource for studying the process and genetics of domestication".[1] Brian Hare, a biological anthropologist, wanted to study "the unusual ability of dogs to understand human gestures". Hare "wanted to know if dogs' powerful rapport with humans was a quality that the original domesticators of the dog had selected for, or whether it had just come along with the tameness, as implied by Belyaev's hypothesis". He discovered "that the fox kits from Belyaev's domesticated stock did just as well as puppies in picking up cues from people about hidden food, even though they had almost no previous experience with humans."[1] In a 2005 paper for Current Biology, Hare suggested that selection for tameness "may have been sufficient to produce the unusual ability of dogs to use human communicative gestures" and that the inability of wild wolves to pick up human cues is caused by their fear of humans. While Belyayev and his team "didn't select for a smarter fox but for a nice fox", Hare said, "they ended up getting a smart fox." Belyayev's research, Hare further argues, has implications for the origins of human social behavior: "Are we domesticated in the sense of dogs? No. But I am comfortable saying that the first thing that has to happen to get a human from an apelike ancestor is a substantial increase in tolerance toward one another. There had to be a change in our social system."[5]
We've discussed this a few times on HN, but old discussions are a bit hard to search for. Here are a couple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12493059
It was Jacob Marttinen. He was an engineer on Byte.
The security issue and its appalling handling was not trivial, it'll take a long time to regain that trust. DO is more widely used nowadays, which has resulted in a larger community utilising the API integrations etc. DOs managed Kubernetes etc are also much more stable (or at least claim to be, Linodes are still in beta).
Pretty happy with spectacle overall. One thing I sorely miss from i3 however is the ability to switch focus to panes/windows/apps with the keyboard. Even something as next/prev window seems impossible on Mac (or I couldn’t work out a solution). I think you can cycle through apps(?), but not windows/panes in a logical order as far as I’m aware.
Ain’t that the truth. Without getting into details the path to many stupid heartbreaking things I’ve done began with a small compromise. A Monson quote has become all too poignant to me of late:
“ One writer said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people’s lives. If we were to apply that maxim to our lives, we could say that we are the result of many small decisions. In effect, we are the product of our choices. We must develop the capacity to recall the past, to evaluate the present, and to look into the future in order to accomplish in our lives what the Lord would have us do.”
Fortunately I’ve moved on and learned from my mistakes but it’s just eery how little things lead to the big ones.
I guarantee you will have people putting favicon looking like a check-mark or an arrow to make people click more.
> "Even Microsoft has made its long-living Visual Studio available for free."

Microsoft has other products beyond Visual Studio. People using Visual Studio are likely using other Microsoft products. The business case for JetBrains is different. JetBrains' business is selling their IDE products.
DDoS isn't free from the attacker as well, unless your service means something to competitor or someone, why would you get one?
DO has a better web interface and solid marketing, which includes writing a ton of tutorials that show in search engines when people are looking for system admin type stuff. This makes them pretty popular.

Linode has better resources for the price and really solid support, so I tend to stick with them.
Travelling is vital for bringing poor people out of generational poverty. Without it, they'll be stuck in their economically depressed places of birth and the whole rest of the world will also be disadvantaged by not having their labor used productively. That could easily be worse than climate change and disease.
Seems to benefit AWS as well when if it's not blocked, your server can respond with some payload which means useless outbound traffic for AWS to pay and to charge customer to make them unhappy but instead if AWS drops them, good for both.
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Linode gives me 1000GB of transfer for the $5 it costs me to rent a vm, while AWS would charge me $150 for just that bandwidth by itself.
I suspect it's often just the reality of the market.

If theaters refuse to show films under an hour in length, every film will be at least an hour, even if a shorter film would have been better.

In a world where people go to bookstores to buy self help stuff, people who want to publish something about self help are going to have to write books.
Wait, what? It all ends up dispersed the same way, doesn't it?
I never thought of it that way, that makes sense.
You can always use another search engine..
I assure you that the majority of users in these discussions is perfectly aware of the extent of the AWS ecosystem.
+1 and generally TikTok UX is underrated. In a way it feels like Facebook of the old days.
IMHO the ads on Duck Duck Go are much worse / harder to ignore. At least Google puts the [Ad] icons on the left so they line up. DDG puts them at the end of the title so they are all over the place. Try to use it without an adblocker.
Not GP but for me, Linode had been fine for 5+ years and it speaks but Vultr has been having choppy network at least once a month for few years now (detected by port monitoring) and that also speaks too.

DO has been good on me too.
Could you explain how you got this from the comment you're replying to? Are you assuming a search engine can't find things there are ads for except when serving the ads?
just got a free flu shot last week in Finland when visiting a nurse.
Me too! I get less junky websites in the results.
I knew Quora’s time was up when they sent me a partner program email. It devolved into “yahoo answers” very quickly after that.
Another good one is Scooter Software, makers of Beyond Compare.
SF is pretty much exactly what it's made out to be. The odds of getting a high paying job in tech are vastly higher in the bay area than in Atlanta, and SF is much friendlier to non-car methods of transportations. That said, yeah it's expensive as all hell.

> The dating scene is great.

Yeah, assuming you're a dude, the gender balance in Atlanta is probably much better, plus you're making excellent money in an area with much fewer people making bank; in SF, making 250k isn't even really that unusual, that's a mid-level dev position at Google, not even senior.

Re:diversity, I find there's this thing in the states where people count the percentage of black and Hispanic people as highly relevant to diversity, but Chinese and Indian people don't count, hence all the articles about how big tech companies are "mostly just white guys". Because the bay area really isn't very white, compared to the US as a whole.
The goal of making ads and organic results look more and more similar.
Hello friend. I would advise against making these numbers so public and traceable to your name.
Lol, well that one was just ugly. But making ads look like organic results.
So can they block the google crawler? If they do not then they not really care about being crawled.

The problem is not the monopolistic and profit-driven practice. It is that consumers are not willing to pay for anything and do not mind for their data to be mined, hence the only way for B2C are ads.
Sure but atleast Quora did the hard work of building the website, getting the users, etc. They own that. I think we need to increase awareness and outcry about google stealing content from websites. They should be required to pay part of the revenue from page views to the content owners.
For those not aware of this book, I just looked it up and found a video enactment of it starring cliff Stoll on Youtube. Started out slow, but after a few minutes in when they started getting into the details I was hooked. Looks like I just lost an hour tonight, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qubEamdc4Ng
The screen may arguably be more likely to cause depression
RoughViz is awesome, and it also used RoughJS for rendering.
I don't use Chrome but you have tracking token stripper plugin:

https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper
> Google search and their new NLP technology is just extracting the question and answers from content like that on Quora, significantly reducing their page hit volumes

This frustrates me, but I think Quora's UX and marketing decisions greatly exacerbated this effect. Quora shot themselves in the foot with a shotgun thanks to their sign up walls. At one point (and probably still true), you couldn't even click a link to a related question within Quora itself without being forced to sign up.

This acts as a resistance, causing people to essentially bounce from Quora back to Google after the first click, so they can get a related question or answer, which Google provides thousands of pages of for free.

Google was on one corner selling fresh-pressed lemonade, and Quora opened a lemonade stand for 10x the price on the exact same corner. Rumor has it, Google's lemonade tasted better anyway.
So you actually want the ads to look more like the organic results?
> My eyes first move thorough the colourful favicons first, then the url of the page and then the real content.

I'm not sure this is a big deal one you get used to it. Other search engines also have favicons. My browser tab has favicons. Most internet content (like twitter) has some kind of colourful icon to the left of the text.
At least in Youtube I can (and do) pay to make ads go away, which I'm happy to do, as I get a great service in return. I just wish that I could do the same for Google search.
Lots of startups have already done this.
And then they learn how to game the benchmarks.

You just can’t win.
This surprises me. It rocks for me on mobile (Android), esp. with Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin installed its really fast
Spot-on comments.

Yesterday I got downvoted for saying the speedy response in building a makeshift hospital isn't a sign of government's superiority in handling this crisis.
'pdonis gave you the correct answer, but another way of thinking about it: because Lisp way is more consistent. It also makes it more powerful.

The math notation we commonly use is mostly a legacy notation, invented before we had computers and could do (or conceive of) symbolic processing. We write `f(foo, bar)` instead of `(f foo bar)` not because the former is better, but because it's been established before we invented trees (data structures) and figured out why they're important.
Yelp reviews are one of the biggest differentiators for me. Google reviews are always all positive.

Not that I see them much anymore. I switched to DDG and will not be switching back.
It's like r/AskReddit with a slightly different audience.
This all sounds like a japanese role-playing game.
Not trying to gaslight, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. In this hypothetical we're not excluding all, just some. The point stands and it is revealing.
That is a good point, and I agree.
Yup I used to participate there almost daily but it has gotten so spammy and hard to navigate. It's lacking proper moderation.

The constant notification/email spam and ad/suggestion riddent pages didn't help either.

I'd wish something like quora would relaunch on Federation or something - surely hosting a simple QA platform can't be that difficult or expensive.
I love i3. I wish I could get something like it for the Mac. I love it so much I might ditch my Mac for a Linux laptop. Regarding Phoenix I use magnet on the Mac which gets pretty much this. Though this is probably much more customizable. Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12
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