skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes SEO is still very much relevant and effective IMO. Regardless of the paid ads, Google sends a lot of organic traffic when you rank for the right keywords. If you were to buy this traffic you would spends thousand of dollars doing it. Same for Youtube. A good video is amazing source of targeted prospects.

Just think about how you find a new service, chances are you googled it and tried the 2-3 results.

Now as for the question - is it necessary? The answer is yes. Because if you don't do it your competitor will and as the joke goes "The best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of Google".

> Are there really any "tricks" that work?

I'm no SEO expert and so I don't care for meta tags, keywords. Title and page description are still important I think. I believe the most relevant things are the time user a spends on your page and social signals (shares, etc) and unfortunately backlinks from high authority pages (this is the worst part of SEO).

The good news is that you don't have to do anything sneaky to do SEO anymore. Make an excellent page on which a user spends a lot of time (so good that he actually bookmarks or shares it) and it starts ranking. For all its evilness Google is still doing something right here.
My understanding of this isn’t that Apple is suing anyone, but that they filed a complaint against Prepear’s trademark application - and that’s it. As in, at one point in the process, there’s the equivalent of the copyright office asking “does anyone have a problem with this?” and Apple said “we’d prefer you not”. That doesn’t mean the trademark will be shot down, but that the objection will be evaluated.

Is there more to it than that? If not, this seems far different from how it’s being characterized.
I'll second this. Climbers tend to get at least half-way decent estimating the weight of other climbers because it's pretty relevant if you're lead belaying somebody.

In fairness, we're usually estimating the weight of people of fairly fit builds, but with some practice estimating people of other builds, I agree that you'd get within 10%.
> People have been raising flags about this for literally decades now and the other shoe has yet to drop in any kind of meaningful way.

Cambridge Analytica?
IntelliJ still has the same “Java stench” that GUI Java programs have had from the beginning. It just doesn’t feel right. I can’t put my finger on it.
Oh that looks great (but.. lol)

I'd lead with "Share your family's photos, access them everywhere you want them" rather the rather conspiratorial "corporations cannot be trusted". At least if you want to appeal to families. But what do I know!

I pay $99/year for Mylio which does importing, syncing & basic editing between devices, but my goodness it's slow - the only saving grace is that it's faster than Lightroom. Mylio doesn't really trade on privacy despite the impressive self-hosted cloud sync, and it doesn't trade on sharing between family members despite that being quite useful! If you want to see a very similar product, check out their forums and their very vocal customer base.

I'm also working on a solo startup (accounting) and I feel a lot of your pain - I've got 2 kids and it's mega-slow trying to work about 10hrs/week, but I'd echo what a few other people said here: however painful it feels, spend 50% of your time marketing and testing to make sure you're building the right thing. I have an embarrassing prototype of my product out right now, but it's valuable to a few users who are giving me feedback.

Good luck and keep in touch with HN :)
This is 100% speculation; but I strongly believe in web based and I also understand that some apps require hw access web based apps can't provide.

So imho I would compromise and make an app that bundles a web server. So you separate out the hw logic from the GUI with an internal API and then bundle a web server to host the apps web GUI, and have it talk directly to the HW using the apps internal API.

That way you get the wide range of ecosystems available for building web based apps, while also talking directly to hw with your internal API components.
> even telling me that he himself only sleeps 2-3 hours per night just so that he can do more physics.

It's always fascinating to see people make claims like this, despite all evidence showing that it's impossible to maintain. Some extreme genetic outliers may be able to sustain performance with around 5 hours of sleep per night, but no one is going to last very long on 2-3 hours per sleep each night.
No, I didn't conflate anything. My post specifically covered that pornography is banned, while nudity may be permissible if it does not offend modesty.
Seems more like these are narcostates with excess inventory.

Imagine landing that government contract. Imagine approving that government contract. Think about who these people are. Use your noggin.
Thanks for Mudlet. Which MUDs would you say still have a thriving community?
Arcology
It happens often on Reddit, which is really bad with their shadowbanning and associating you with other accounts that you have nothing to do with, probably because crappy ISPs reuse IP addresses for multiple users.
Many advantages as being solo.
1) If you fail, it only impacts you. Often underated but important as in startup ventures, failure will be 80% of cases. Solo : you hurt no one.
2) You can change path easily. To come to sucess, you will inevitably change of directions (technically or on the clients you are targeting, ect). I think Being alone is cool because you need no explanation. So You can go fast.

Drawback : Social validation !
Of course, your friends, your familly, many potential investors will not be friend at all with the idea of being alone here. So yes, this is tough. It was for me.

Now, I see it more as a test : If you can accept that being alone for a while is socially painfull but not that horrible, well go on : build your software, full time or part-time if you have no more cash.

And think about it. How many people is needed to drive a car ? A Solo driver.

Solo mean YOU DRIVE the experiment --> This is good
Tips for turning a small project idea into a viable startup
First company I started was solo, second company was with a co-founder.

My perspective is that this proverb is right on: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Having a cofounder completely changed my second company's trajectory. Having someone who takes on the parts of the business where I am weak, and visa-versa, has made a world of difference.
Ask HN: Will the gas burner continue to work if it is turned upside down?
If I hold a gas stove upside down, will it continue to work normally? Because the gases will want to go "up" but they'll have to come "down" to burn and produce fire.
To bring it back to the library, the thefts occurred over 25 years.
I particularly enjoyed this anecdote (talking about the prototype 6502 based BBC Computer, not the ARM here):

Wilson: ...Hermann determined that if there was no logical reason why it didn't work, then it must be the fault of the in-circuit emulator, and that what they should do is take the in-circuit emulator out, put a native processor in it, and surely it would work then, because there was no logical reason it shouldn't. And annoyingly, he was completely right. It did work.
>Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources.

Not necessarily better data sources, but different data sources and a slightly different approach.

For organic results, the biggest different is that Runnaroo uses Google as the base for web results (similar to Startpage) where DDG uses Bing.

Outside of the organic results, Runnaroo's strategy is to integrate results from different vertical specific search engines who specialize in a niche topic. I call these 'Deep Searches' because they are essentially pulled from the database of the vertical source. It's the difference between getting an link to a website's home page vs. landing on the page and using their own search function to see the results.

For many queries, I believe this can provide higher quality SERP. For example, see the below results for "parkinson research" [0] or "react.js" [1]. The results are a lot more informationally dense than other search engines. Again, not necessarily better, but different.

DDG is still better for many queries(currency conversions, weather, etc), and definitely more polished, but I only launched Runnaroo a few months ago and new features and Deep Search sources are being added almost daily.

So TL;DR, Google results (with privacy) plus additional search results from relevant niche and authoritative sources.

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=parkinson+research

[1] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=react.js
I don't think you deserve to be down voted for this. You bring up a valid concern. Although, I don't agree that this project should be outright dismissed either.

So many times, I've run into the issue where I've wanted to chain a set of commands with a concise syntax (specifically in Python) without having to shell out to bash.

What I really like about this library is that it gives you the concise composability of bash, without having to deal with its pitfalls (eg. variable escaping, lack of Windows support, clunky interface for anything that's not a command invocation...).

Using a DSL will always come with certain tradeoffs, and it won't be the best solution for every use case, but I think this library fills a certain need very well.
And the humble layman knows that this is resolved by radiological techniques being able to date things on the scale of billions of years.
I am sure that one cell tower that reaches his office is under full surveillance. This all makes sense to me.
For not circular methods, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating#Accuracy_of...
> Left of field, but game engines have figured out translating a single set of UI APIs to multiple graphics backends already.

I can't speak for Unity, but as far as Godot is concerned, the workflow for certain things like layout and text styling leave a lot to be desired if you're not making games.

Really, that just means waiting until more suitable plugins are available.
First I've ever heard of this and I'm stunned. Who are they trying to arrest? The Incredible Hulk?
> So they give the pt 6 mg per kg. It’s not out of the range of sanity, all else equal.

Well yeah, but as I understand it the goal is not to intubate in this case, right? So in my opinion, 6 is already way too much.

In fact, I don't think we can agree on a safe standard dose in this case. Which suggests that it's not the right choice of drug for that use case...
You can easily enforce installations of extensions via Chrome's admin templates.
Actually, we should be giving patients. Ketamine is an extremely safe drug for paramedics to give for the safety of the patient and those around them. Especially in cases of excited delerium where the person may actually die because of it. In these cases ketamine is absolutely an emergency drug.
Taking one step back, this applies to coronavirus and data in general. We don't have accurate data on case numbers, because testing capacity has varied with time and between countries, and the precise specificity and sensitivity of the PCR and serology tests, in the real world, are not known. There are biases is reporting of the illness, deaths, those tested. Never before have we had so much data to deal with such a challenge to our society, and yet, the data we do have is not representative of the natural process, and often doesn't help us to understand a model of what is going on.

Getting data on mobile phone adjacency is just adding to the large amount of poor quality data.
And I'd love to hear these details that paint the antihuman communists at the DNC as anything other than monsters.
It's neither an issue, nor a national security concern. All branches of the military actively try to increase the amount of minorities they recruit, and it's just rediculous of the author to claim that a group of people that is primarily one race or gender can't effectively run the military. The military is one of the best ways for someone to escape a bad situation at home, while receiving a paycheck and training that can get them a job once they get out.
poor wifi, poor cell service, complaints about standardization around power point, and then launch into some SJW diversity crap. terrible clickbait.
Wait, is this Apple the music label? They've always been litigious[1], haven't they?

/s (Not sure if sarcasm and/or humour works on hn...;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
This is technically true and misses the point. Police are ordering paramedics to inject it.

(edit: to be clear, I am saying that yes, ordering somebody else to do it is morally equivalent to doing it yourself... if it's wrong to do it yourself, it's just as wrong to order somebody else to do it)

Pointing out that the police aren't injecting it themselves is like pointing out that [insert name of murderous dictator here] didn't actually kill anybody with their own hands.
Everyone looks at automated contact tracing as an alternative to manual contact tracing, where really they should complement each other.

For a successful app a government needs to weave together both into a seamless user experience.
The whole idea that a particular card gives you monetary value is completely foreign to most Europeans I know ( I am European myself ). The only value perceived is the ability to pay in the first place.

From the perspective in NL, with its ubiquitous PIN and iDeal system ( online PIN ), it seems like a totally unnecessary tax on economic transactions. The rates are not comparable ( a couple to maybe 20 cents per transaction ).
How do you rule out if the professor is an extreme genetic outlier? Seems like the kind of place you’d expect to find such an outlier.
What FP can learn from Smalltalk
This trick has been used for a whole in VC studio's for decades and I first encountered this in the 90's. Being able to get eye-level contact with the camera when people will want to look at the screen - this just solves that. Just not cheap.

Though lighting was always key and with the two-way mirror set-up, you will want a few more lumens to compensate for loss of that mirror in front of the camera.
It's hard to get out of an engineering mindset and into a product/customer focused mindset.

We like building things, and making them fast and powerful and efficient.

The customer doesn't care about any of that though. They just want something that helps them.
You’ll have to get a job at a county fair running the weight guessing attraction to get enough data. There’s no other way to do it, it’s how we all figured out how to estimate the weight of a human. I’ll call my friend Chucky, he’ll get you a gig in a traveling carnival for the summer.
While I agree with the sentiment of #1, I would argue that sales are more important than marketing at this stage. You can spin your wheels “learning SEO” and “creating content” with very little tangible results. In the beginning, sales + product are just about all that matter.
> I wish we’d never sold that thing

I know! I feel the same way about the C64 of my childhood. I ended up buying RetroGames' TheC64 (maxi version, with the full size keyboard), which is a C64 lookalike running a tweaked up version of VICE. Not the real deal, but close enough for me.
Randy I think that's a great take. I can tell you put a lot into it, Randy. That's great. Books are great resource for learning--I agree, Randy!
Same here. I got steam when a friend bought HL2 waaay back, finished it, then gave me the game by giving me his account. All these years later, I've changed the email and built up the library, but the username is still my friends real name.
> In China there are “execution vans” with no other purpose even suggested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van

From your article

> Liu was convicted

> a reprieve after appealing

> given a retrial

Your entire article describes convicted death row prisoners, whether we agree with or respect China's due process at all.

Why did you think it bolstered your argument to talk about Chinese due process in an article about a lack of due process in the US? beCaUsE wE cAN taLk AbOut iT? that's gold, its really the icing on the cake.
Tales of the Tail:Hardware, OS, and Application-Level Sources of Tail Latency [pdf]
Is there a good way of doing SSL with this that doesn’t require hacking self signed certs into the users browser? A lot of newer web APIs are requiring SSL.
Wow, you have some interesting sources (care to share them?). Microsoft _forced_ us to change the name, threatening unspecified but dire legal consequences if we didn't. They have never sustained anything at all.
> The only value perceived is the ability to pay in the first place.

Right I get that with my (European) AmEx almost all the time... plus free (amortised) first-class flights. Why would a rational person turn that down?

I already need to carry a backup card for emergencies so it’s no extra burden.
If a process doesn't work, adding lots of people to it will not help.

A major part of the problem is scalability. "In the old days" the automated system that eats signed binary packages and outputs a usable apt-get accessible archive, couldn't do much to any individual package if we wanted it to complete in time. Times change and people seem to want more testing and automation, toss the binary packages and rebuild all archs from scratch, more automated tests, etc.

In the long run you're basically asking why the archive automation scripts accept incoming packages with "debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week" instead of kicking those package updates back. Adding more people isn't going to fix it, adding a large system working around the process is kinda helpful, but really the archive automation scripts should just not accept packages with "trailing-whitespace" any more than they'd accept packages with invalid GPG signatures. This will result in more processing time for updates, but this can be clouded and parallelized and is fixable in 2020, even if simpler archive processing made engineering sense in 1995.
Even better, 3D screens like Looking Glass that require no contact with the display.
The point is that pretending "conservatives just hate the poor" is the broad brush. The moral hazards of vast government social programs are the part that gets fuzzy and grey: it has great benefits in the moment, keeping people housed and fed. But it also has great disadvantages: making them lose their motivation and agency and making them permanently dependent on those programs.

But if you zoom out and leave away the negatives: monsters!
How do you do this with most consumer devices? The only AP I've seen do it successfully is the AsusWRT series - Media Extender mode seems to be transparent. If I try it with anything else I'll end up with two seperate networks, e.g. 192.168.8.0/24 connected to 10.1.1.0/24 (I actually have a GL.inet AR750S in this configuration right now)
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For context, the small business lending tech space is about dead now. OnDeck and Kabbage were the two frontrunners, valued at billions in past years. Their valuations plumetted over the last few years and Covid put a nail in the coffin. OnDeck just sold for $90m, Kabbage undisclosed.
It depends entirely on the plan you get.

I'm from the UK and pay £5 for unlimited data, which admittedly is better than most plans here.
WifiManager for the ESP8266/ESP32 will do that.
Watch a fair amount of boxing and practice that way.
Some ISPs also use a carrier-grade NAT so multiple users share an IP address.
This would be great if it could be done sanely, but it can't. A quick example would be making an ntp background service in wasm that can sync time for group video playback.
> It's not actually known definitively how many people Fukushima killed, but it is known definitively that the final economic costs wildly outweighed the "cheap" energy it produced...

I think they've done their insurance calculations wrong; it seems they've divided (cost of Fukushima cleanup) by (energy produced by Fukushima) and concluded that the insurance cost is ~$3/kWh. That seems to be accidentality assuming both that Fukushima was 100% of the Japanese power industry and also that it is certain all nuclear plants end with a meltdown. Neither of those is true - insurance works by probabilities and spreading the risk.

Fukushima specifically was likely a net economic loss; when amortised over the entire Japanese nuclear industry their "insurance" estimates are far too high and nuclear power was probably a net win. Also their cost estimates are from English-language newspapers articles which is reasonable but doesn't scream careful research.

They reference an IEEE report (on pg 7) of $0.06/kWh - that is a much more trustworthy figure and roughly in line with Japan's $0.01/kWh actual insurance. Which is pretty reasonable given that probabilistically there wasn't going to be a bad plant meltdown. If Japan had been charging 0.06c/kWh they'd have been being far too conservative from an actuarial standpoint.
Yeah they were usually just a boring circle.
But there was a time around 2007 in Iraq I traveled through a combat outpost that was made with 15 meter high concrete walls and had turrets (which also held guns) on 4 sides. It was a proper little castle.

Though the enemy in Iraq did have a lot of mortars so the patrols stationed did see causalities from indirect fire.
Having people with a variety of backgrounds would help with a bit of understanding of the countries around the world where the military is engaged.
Your brazen fanboying for Google is really painful to watch.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hu3
I don't think it's completely fair.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, especially when you need one.
If you're doing Python, you may have a look at Kivy, it's not native UI, but it's quite nice, and can be run on all major platforms. On Android it's not perfect though, as you have to deal with bigger starting time (Python interpreter needs to be launched), and there is an impact on performances.
On desktop it's working really well (again, if you're OK with non native UI).

The Kivy ecosystem offers many neat things like PyJNIus to access Java class (and thus Android API) from Python, or Plyer for high level cross platform access to features like notification, vibration or GPS.

An other uncommon choice which can be interesting (and has been discussed recently here), is using Godot for UI.
If it’s not an issue, why do they “actively try to increase the amount of minorities they recruit?” It seems that their active efforts imply there is an issue.
Some of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project were certainly aware of associations with mythological themes.

> Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion, he thought of a verse from the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad Gita:

> "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one."

I'm fond of mythopoetic perspectives on technology, to find parallels in texts from the antiquities or the Renaissance.

From their point of view, we in the modern world must seem to live like magicians, communicating over vast distances, peering into our "looking glass".
I love using tcl/tk and Python's tkinter module.

The complaint that it looks old-fashioned is addressed partly by using ttk (themed tk) but also just about every aspect of the widgets can be styled using a simple xresources-style config.

It's fast and lightweight, free forever, stable as hell, and there's lots of resources online.