skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most important thing is probably to produce high quality content, and write about "stuff" that people are interested in. Do at least basic (white hat) SEO to try to make your blog as discoverable as possible through organic search. Then start marketing the blog: Tweet about your new posts, and use relevant hashtags. Add your blog to any relevant blog directories. Share your entries in relevant sub-reddits, or here on HN, or wherever makes sense relative to your content. Share posts on G+ and, again, use relevant hashtags. If you're feeling ambitious, find other bloggers who cover a similar area, and email them and talk about writing a guest post for them. See if you can get somebody who is at least a "mini celebrity" to write a guest post for your blog. Record podcasts, screencasts and/or video blogs. Share the screencast / video blog posts through Youtube. Join relevant LinkedIn groups and share your blog posts with the group. Share on Facebook, G+ Communities, etc., etc...

Setup Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools for your blog so you can get an idea of what keywords are bringing people to you, and what content is attracting the most attention. Optimize based on your findings.

Anyway, that's just a handful of basic ideas. I'm far from an expert on SEO, content marketing, etc., but there's tons of good info our there on the net. Google "content marketing", "permission marketing" and/or "search engine marketing" for more ideas.
I agree with you. The problem is that at one point you have to face the reality that the candidate you really care for can't win. How do you choose then? Do you not vote or try to mitigate damage by, yes, choosing the lesser evil?
These slides are always so out of context without hearing the audio presentation, or better, seeing the video of the presenter.. when I flip through these slideshows with the mem/macros/whatever they are called, I always imagine the audience sitting there, forced smiles, maybe a cough, and then on to the next slide.

These should be refactored after the local presentation. Like how episodes of The Simpsons will cull out really topical jokes that won't be funny in a month for the sake of syndication.

tmux is cool, and wemux is a tool we use regularly to share sessions. I am an old screen guy and appreciate that there is something similar being produced, as both products get invigorated by new features and bug fixes. I believe there is even a screenrc mode for tmux so that I can keep my muscle memory - what a great feature!
The NSA's charter is to monitor foreign communications and intelligence, so yes, the whole point of what they're doing is because the internet exists outside of the US.
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Um, yeah, scraping is bad. Got any suggestions how to stop it?
Maybe you're willing to give up your privacy to get protection from imaginary villains (what are the odds of you personally getting hurt or killed by a terrorist?), but I'm not.
this article is written from the perspective of "we"...

who is "we"?

you are NOTHING.
Of course the NSA wants to know everything about you—so does everybody else
Bloggin will get people into your network, but will not allow you to join other networks. Except you hit one guys nerve.
Trading and Exchanges by Larry Harris is a great introduction to the structure of modern financial markets.
This is great. Can anyone suggest a good place to go for tutorials or more information for writing Google Apps scripts such as this?
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> it's an embarrassment to say you are if you only vote for the lesser of two evils, and not one that cares about our country, like Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, or Jill Stein.

Its quite possible to think that, of Obama and Romney, Romney is the lesser of two evils, and to think that for any X in (Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein), Romney would still be the lesser of two evils when considering Romney vs. X.

Its also quite possible to believe that Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, or Jill Stein would be better than Romney who is in turn better than Obama but that, based on the information available at the time you go into the voting booth, that the plausible effects of voting for any of the third party candidates instead of Romney are, in declining order or probability:

1. No effect on the election outcome,
2. Increasing the probability of an Obama win
3. There is no #3

Based on this, it would be counterproductive to vote third party, and the responsible thing would be to vote for Romney.

(Note that none of this should be taken as indicating anything of my actual preferences among any of those candidates.)
The thing is, despite it being "pretty good business" it is not what most people want from Facebook. Facebook's "good business" practices are basically conflicting (inverse relationship) with the quality and usefulness of the product from the user's perspective.

That is the big difference and why people are complaining that Facebook is too much noise, because everyone goes there just to see what their friends are up to - not what they just bought on amazon.

The perfect product is one where the company's monetary interests are aligned with the user's experience. By offering the user something they want, they mutually benefit and make money. That is just not the case, at least for what I personally want from Facebook.
To be honest, the real work is done on the graphics card.
I think the evidence is that value and virtue have never correlated very well, scarcity or not. Hence quotations from two of the oldest books on the planet. Value and virtue are not orthogonal either, but it's messy.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman is an amazing book.
When someone/thing dies, it's ok to reuse their Jersey eventually.
So instead of ramen profitable, we have tent profitable now.
Sounds like anything else in life:

1) People are cheap.

2) Bikeshedding.

Dunno why folks like to single out HN (or any other geek commenting venues). A lot of people wandering by are thinking the same things HN commenters are - people who are cheap or people who nitpick the easy-to-spot visual stuff... they just don't have an easy and convenient venue to talk about that. When you open yourself to feedback more directly by posting to a place like HN, all that silent junk becomes vocal. Happens the same anywhere.
Is this a Google employee? The license is Copyright Google:

Copyright 2013 Google Inc
Since everything is out anyway, and since everyone else has iterated on this point several times now, all I have to say, is:

FUCK YOU, BIPARTISAN, CORRUPT, DICKISH, TYRANNICAL, WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT.

FUCK YOU, GOVERNMENT.
Here's how I got people contacting me for jobs in the Valley and NYC. And not recruiters either, potential bosses.

1.) have a Github account, and release open-source software that helps coders be better at what they do. Basically release tools of sorts.

2.) Make the documentation for those tools absolutely stellar. Look at the .raw for the readmes of the various Github repositories you like and love. Emulate some of the stylistic choices to improve your documentation.

3.) Make a Show HN. Or, whenever your software can help a situation you notice in the comments here, promote it. Don't be afraid to do this, because this promotion is absolutely necessary.

4.) Post to the subreddit of the language that your software is for, but don't be commercial about it. You have to be honest. So write like you're talking to a friend. This is easier if you're talking out loud as you write.

==============

Doing these things will add eyes to your projects. People can see your nicely documented code, see your screenshots, and can imagine how this will help their coding. This is GOOD. If you can make the front page of HN or the frontpage of the subreddit for your language, you're in business. Basically you want to be trending on Github for the language of your choice (top 5 starred today is what you're aiming for). That is the hardest part, but from that point, it's a piece of cake. If you're trending on Github, there WILL be blog posts written about your repo, there WILL be unsolicited tweets about it, and you WILL get good feedback about your coding. The eyes on your repo have now exponentially gone up - and your coding is in front of a lot of people.

The thing is, technical directors like productive coders. If your repo/tool makes ALL coders more productive, then they will love you. It's as simple as that. You know the whole 10x engineer hoopla that's thrown around on here? You'd be doing that for other people. A multiplier of multipliers. If you do that, people will be in contact with you. Just stick with it.
"Hosts" and "Landlords" are not mutually exclusive sets.

or maybe a bit more accurately "Hosts" and "Apartment/House Owners" are not mutually exclusive sets.
This article seems to be missing a parallel that was drawn previously many times. PG has written on the subject, and so have others.

The closest parallel we can draw between "coders" and the distant past, is that with the artisans of the middle ages. Aside from the landowning nobles, the artisan class was probably the closest thing to a true middle class. Many advanced to upper-middle and later became the industrial nuevo rich.

The reason that this parallel works, is that the artisans were able to make something coveted out of what looked like a pile of junk (or less usable) to others. What a software developer creates with a few keystrokes looks to the lay person now as "magical" as creating a sword out of a pile of rocks looked to a lay person a thousand years ago. They get the general concept and see the value, but they have no idea of how it actually happened and cannot repeat it themselves.

By today's standards, most of what artisans of old made is not very desirable if it is made today (antiques not withstanding), hence only very few "artists" are actually paid well. Most people engaged in artisanal work are now in what we call 3rd world countries and make zilch. The reason behind this, is that technology has progressed and most of this stuff can be made faster, cheaper and more consistent by a manufacturing process. Today, we can take the best artisan of old, and copy him/her a million times over to produce the same trinket, with little extra expense.

Software engineering has not yet gone through a true manufacturing disruption. We cannot put software on the kind of assembly line/stamping process we can with say door hinges or other metal works that used to require a skilled blacksmith. That doesn't mean it won't happen some day.

We are constantly trying to go the direction of commoditizing complex problems. Looking back 30-40 years, the efficiency of tools we use has gone way up. Today, a developer doesn't have to write many components from scratch (unless he or she wants to). Most of what makes an application can be taken of the shelf, and modified to fit. For consumer apps, design is also where a lot of work goes in to.

This modification or molding process is a major barrier to having a true manufacturing process in place because the quality of the modifications depends on the individual skill of the person making it. A mistake made early on can bring a future company to it's knees and derail projects years after it was made. For example, a faulty data model that is let to grow to terabytes of information. Many companies choose to through money and computing resources, rather than risk a costly migration.

When we have sufficiently advanced to the point where such mistakes do not depend on an individual and the automation process can take care of it, the value of the software engineer as we know the profession today will diminish greatly. But then again, I'm sure the profession will evolve as well.
Official documentation, plus the notion that a Judge actually signed off on this nonsense?
>> "According to Mueller, approximately 99 percent of the cases led nowhere, but "it's that other 1% that we've got to be concerned about""

No, it's the 99% of cases that were completely unwarranted in the first place that we've actually got to be concerned about.
I feel there is a huge difference between political organization around issues of civil rights, and organizing against the military-intelligence-industrial complex.

I've studied the history of civil rights considerably. This issue strikes me as a far different beast.

I would love to be wrong.
Really? And "go fuck yourself" is "reason" how?

I am merely a mirror for the direction you chose to take. If you want to discuss the topic with civility I am all for it so long as you don't ask me to do things with my body I am quite literally biologically incapable of doing.
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Life expectancy changes with age -- a 60yr old man should live to 81, a 70yr old man should live to 86.

This is important because I don't think that life expectancy for a 60yr old has changed dramatically ... it's just infant care is better, so fewer people die <5 yrs old, and that raises the long term average too.

This might suggest that your estimate is too liberal — not too exciting. On the other hand, we are working hard, as a society, on some gnarly medical issues, and it's possible we'll make a huge break through and figure out how to deal with obesity, heart disease, or cell aging and totally change the situation over the next few decades.
This isn't manipulating the pixels directly. Javascript is still way too slow to do that, and I don't think that will ever change. The real work is done by the graphics card. The Javascript only uploads a frame to the graphics card, makes it run a shader and then displays the adapted frame.
I visit the Ask section daily, and indeed found this thread by doing so.
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The Simpsons does this? I believe it but had no idea. Do you have a reference.
I was going to post something similar, thanks. I was really intrigued by what the HN community's reaction to this would be.
It's true that dividing labor that way is necessary to get projects of any significant size to work.

On the other hand, I think the level of understanding gained by walking in ux and graphic designers' shoes the way that the article describes would be a great boon for engineers whose work affects and is affected by the work of such folk.
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Feed 'em fish heads.
Hetzner Servers Compromised
That is the reason for the monstrosity across the valley. As far as I know, there won't be a large local contingent working on the data.
I'm curious, how many Facebook friends do you have approximately? Two years ago I removed 600 friends, and now I still have 1200 again -__-

I think none of the networks are perfect, but I don't use Google+ only for personal connections. There is quite a lot of (photographic and technology, at least) content that is interesting to read.

And not to get into any sort of Fanboy war, but which redesign are you talking about? Before Google+'s most recent redesign into the multi-column pinterest-esque layout, Facebook's timeline update is in fact quite a copy of Google+'s old design (bigger pictures in speech bubbly things out of profile pictures).
It also has a bearing on the sorry state of U.S. human intelligence, since Mormons make terrible interlocutors with foreign informants.
I totally agree with his assessment of the misuse of the term ad-hominem too.

An ad-hom fallacy is "your argument is wrong because you're an immoral moron", not "your argument is wrong for these reasons, you immoral moron".

The latter is not very nice and probably shouldn't be encouraged, but it's not an ad-hominem because the insult is not part of the argument, just an unpleasant aside.
It isn't necessarily nonsense... To some Agile is a word to describe a process that leads to quality software being delivered with a happy team. To others, it's a consulting gong show. All depends on who is leading. Just like any approach.

Lean startups are talked about a lot on HN for example but there are plenty of debacles and snake oil consultants in that realm as well.
Establishing technical credibility by tweeting/blogging/speaking is disappointing. Those are talking skills, not tech skills.

You mentions UGs, which is greay, but sad that your examples for getting recognition were all fluffy BS and not "share code, answer questions on SO/mailingnlosts.
Those two aren't all the options though.

1.) Pay for SnapPro
2.) Sit through advertisements
3.) Let people who want to pay for SnapPro pay, while you don't because you don't want to pay for it. Therefore no ads, and Snapchat is making money.

Option 3 is the best for consumers. Option 3 is possible if the price-point dictates that enough people will pay for it to remain alive and well. Not everyone will pay. But when is that not always the case?
Yeah, I don't get the "positivity only" thing. Obviously criticism should be polite and friendly and encouraging of the good parts, but you see a problem and you're being asked for feedback, you should say it.

I mean, has anybody ever been to an artist critique at an educational institution? artists. Seriously, the group of people with the worst reputation for being wishy-washy and aimless? They're freaking merciless in critique, and this is accepted as normal, because it's understood that this is healthy for your craft.
The Experts-Exchange UI, last time I saw it, is a catastrophe.
It's not surprising that some unfortunate incidents have happened with Airbnb now that it has become mainstream. Hosts should definitely take precautions, but these 5 cases should be viewed in the context of the 5+ million stays that have been positive (https://www.airbnb.com/global-growth).
You ask "is this a wise choice" but I think in fact there isn't much of a choice.

If you want to work on your idea full-time, you need time. If you need time, you have to quit your full-time job doing something else. If you don't have income from your job, you can't afford an apartment.

One could argue you could try to get funding for your idea, but what if you want to make it free and open source and owned by humans rather than any specific corporation?
Last we had a news story, the bar was as low as:

"Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?"
Security breach at Hetzner.de admin panel
Dear Client

At the end of last week, Hetzner technicians discovered a "backdoor" in one
of our internal monitoring systems (Nagios).

An investigation was launched immediately and showed that the administration
interface for dedicated root servers (Robot) had also been affected. Current
findings would suggest that fragments of our client database had been copied
externally.

As a result, we currently have to consider the client data stored in our Robot
as compromised.

To our knowledge, the malicious program that we have discovered is as yet
unknown and has never appeared before.

The malicious code used in the "backdoor" exclusively infects the RAM. First
analysis suggests that the malicious code directly infiltrates running Apache
and sshd processes. Here, the infection neither modifies the binaries of the
service which has been compromised, nor does it restart the service which has
been affected.

The standard techniques used for analysis such as the examination of checksum
or tools such as "rkhunter" are therefore not able to track down the malicious
code.

We have commissioned an external security company with a detailed analysis of
the incident to support our in-house administrators. At this stage, analysis
of the incident has not yet been completed.

The access passwords for your Robot client account are stored in our database
as Hash (SHA256) with salt. As a precaution, we recommend that you change your
client passwords in the Robot.

With credit cards, only the last three digits of the card number, the card type
and the expiry date are saved in our systems. All other card data is saved
solely by our payment service provider and referenced via a pseudo card number.
Therefore, as far as we are aware, credit card data has not been compromised.
You suggest good SEO. Ok.

Counterexample, use the power of a Botnet to do something unorthodox, dive into the grayzone, get media attention. Hustle

Hitting the right persons nerves will again trigger success or failure. If you gain respect this way you probably will get attention. Your responsibility then is to react timely. If you do it wrong, you could get negative reactions, which could be good for SEO, but bad for credit/respect.

But the first thing I would suggest you to do in order to join a network is simply to join a related network that persons inside of your desired network are in. Sports/Clubs/Organizations/etc.
I'd expect the Swedish winter will probably make a significant impact on an end-date decision. This is super cool and doable now, but when it hits 0 and is light for 7 hours a day it may not be worth it.

Still - that's in 4-5 months - plenty of time to be hugely productive while keeping living costs to a minimum.
I'm not sure you know what "broadcast" means.
What is truly a scary thought is if the vast, mindless mass of people easily swayed by consumerism, advertisement and buzz, talk about this for about two weeks and then forget the whole thing, screaming "We have NOTHING to hide!" as a logically flawed and incredibly poor excuse.

The entire premise that democracy would work is flawed. Take Turkey. A ravaged, torn, depressed state, brought back to life by a fucking dictator, Kemal Ataturk. And now? Riots and revolution are taking place on the streets of Istanbul.

I'm not saying dictatorship is the best idea, but a good, conservatively Green or Green Libertarian government is the only path to resolution. But since the United States mass public is uneducated and apathetic (unlike how it used to be 300 years ago, and also markedly unlike quite a few in Europe who actually give a fuck about their rights), don't expect it to happen any time soon.

And for those who think this is elitism:

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

- Tennyson
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> Hosts SHOULD be able to rent out their place when they don't live there

People who own or lease space that they don't live in can do that. Of course, there are a whole set of regulations they have to comply with if they want to with regard to the condition, safety features, etc. of the premises they are renting out, its zoning, notice provided to those renting, taxes, etc.

Hosts that at least purport to comply with these regulations are known as "hotel operators".
You say that a conservative libertarian approach is the only path. I find it hard to believe it is the only option, tbh, and you provide no evidence --nor I have evidence to support that it is not. But, could it be that the problem is that the US citizens have no (effectively possible) way to effect power on the government? Could it be that with a two party system there is little incentive to cater to the constituents? Could it be that there is little incentive for Democrats to be anything other than a little to the left of the Republicans, and that there is little incentive for Republicans to be other than not Democrats? ... There are examples of countries out there with more government (lefties!!!) and a better life for their constituents.

In any case, any form of goverment, big or small, if unchecked, will use it's power for self-serving interest. Governments are formed by human beings after all...