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Minor issue but "Edit your files locally to updated the site." should be "Edit your files locally to update the site."

One positive point is I got basic idea on what the site is and how to use it in minutes.
So true. I fell into the trap of believing that working at a startup would be extremely beneficial to me as a fresher. That was the worst career decision I made, consequences of which I need to bear even till today. Meanwhile, I see multiple acquaintances who started working for large companies, gained some reputation and network and are doing well as startup founders or as leaders in startups (well paid, lot of authority) now.
A great service that I loved using, a shame to see it go.
I do appreciate the text-only export in a simple format, makes it easy to parse for future use.

I hope one of the many alternatives listed in this thread hop on providing import functionality.
Thanks for the response.

I think the challenge is more the traffic than the tool itself. I'm aware of all of those tools, but how do you get sample traffic (from an appropriate audience)?

I was hoping fore some sort of market research 'community' that allows you to specify your target audience, submit your designs or copy options, and they magically come back with the results to tell you what works best.
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Well, perhaps my post was mildly facetious. Just that going by my recollection of the period I was monitoring my food intake, 2500 calories per day didn't seem that hard. Though having consulted the spreadsheet I kept in order to double check, I have to admit that it looks like it isn't that hard to eat less either :)

Snacks can add up surprisingly quickly so if you do have a shortfall I'm not sure it's necessary to resort to eating sugar. For example, 2 bananas and a tin of salmon will be something like 500 calories. That's 20% of your budget right there.
> In practice it's easier for developers to use one toolkit instead of using 20 locked-in incompatible APIs.

Not when that "one toolkit" is worse.

You are conflating "lock-in" with "optimal suitability for a platform". Hardware matters. Your continual handwaving can't ignore that.
The basic idea is to make the 1000 customizable, and 83.3 is a pretty decent life expectancy. If you think you will live longer or shorter, you can change it accordingly.

The birth month is for marking the month in which you were born.

The setup is in local storage and the data is in local storage, that's why you can't go back.

Can you tell me more about how it broke? What number did you enter in the second input? Thanks!
There is such a thing as an Software Engineer, what you are getting confused with is an Software Developer. Engineers do require deep knowledge of the language and hardware at the register level, all the way up. Developers just download an SDK and hack off some app that is patched together. Big difference that one word makes. I would like to think myself as a Developer, working towards becoming an Engineer.
Maybe something has changed then. The only movements I see today are right wing movements that use religion to get the poor to vote against their economic interests and left wing movements that are all about maintaining high food and real estate prices in wealthy enclaves, not to mention tons of salesmanship for questionable and expensive alternative medicine products. None of it seems related to improving life for anyone disadvantaged. If anything they result in the opposite -- NIMBY induced urban real estate hyperinflation is a great example.

I see very little on the contemporary stage that in any way resembles those movements. More specifically I see almost nothing that is in any way about improving human life. It all just looks like sneaky forms of marketing or ideological wank that is irrelevant to any actual measure of freedom, dignity, or well being.

IMHO it all went off the rails in the 70s. It's interesting to me in light of Peter Thiel's contention that fundamental technological innovation has stagnated since then, a view I very strongly agree with. Maybe something really deep and fundamental broke and both these things are symptoms.
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Definitely, this is exactly my understanding based on what I've read on the subject.

Pepsi markets way more than Coke. It's adverts are usually funnier and all around 'better'. However, that only works on a raw customer who's never built an association. I like coke, I think Pepsi is too sweet. If Pepsi is half off and come isn't, sure I'll grab a case of pepsi because it's now an unequal choice.

This is the same for everything. Marketing is only brand awareness. It does not sell a single thing. I will not see an advert for ladies tights and go "oh, as a man I really need a pair of nude tights!" You can market it all you want, run it for every second of every advert break of every day, put a billboard outside every window of my house, play audio on police speakers. I'm not gonna buy a fucking pair of tights.

However, the day I'm at the store and my wife sends me a text and says "I need a pair of tights for tonight" I'm probably gonna remember the company who raided my house in swat gear and strapped me into a chair and Clockwork Oranged me.

On a perfectly level playing field, marketing is an advantage by making the field unlevel. However, between massive conglomerates where everyone on earth knows the competing sides and everyone has tried both, marketing is just maintaining the field. Whomever stops marketing risks being mistaken as no longer around.

It's no different than me picking between two friends of mine who both do roofing. If I haven't seen Bob in six months, I'm assuming he's dead and I just hand it to Joe I saw on Tuesday.

Advertising is just a large scale way of saying "hey, I'm still here! I'm just waiting on when you're ready."

The notion advertising sells anything is absurd. The notion that not advertising costs you sales is very real.
Glyph, thanks for laying this out so clearly. I've often had the inclination the being called an "engineer" just ain't quite right, but now I really understand the basis for those feelings.

For my part, I'm not crazy about any of the labels that come in and out of fashion. I particularly don't like being called "technical." It's such a divisive term.

I generally just refer to myself as an activist. If I'm being tasked with some feat of logical expression, then I'm a logic activist.
If you find the work in cancer interesting, it's worth looking into a few commercial outfits that are doing this type of testing:

* Genomic Health ($GHDX) with OncotypeDX

* Foundation Medicine ($FMI) with FoundationOne

Both of these companies have tests on the market that analyze tumor genomes (sequencing or microarray-based) and provide information to oncologists to better treat their patients. Information like drug efficacy and tumor aggressiveness (requiring chemo-/radiotherapy).
But here's the thing. Suppose apple where lying. Assuming you're not being pursued by a nation-state, then whomever is pursing you is probably not willing to burn the knowledge apple is lying just for a glimpse on your phone. It provides you with almost as much security.

(Of course, assuming that the lying pigs involved in parallel construction get put away for perjury. What on earth does it take to get a judge pissed off? Otherwise, all bets are off.)
From what I remember the whole of TPB server + data could fit onto a 90Mb usb stick in 2012. Sure we have had many episodes of really important reality TV series and other great stuff that all needs pirating, yet, in 2014 I doubt that 90Mb has ballooned into peta bytes. We are still in the same range - let's say 1Gb might be a reasonable size USB stick to buy for it.

Alta Vista started out with a modest size index of 20 million pages. Let's imagine those pages were all of 1Kb in size, then, 20 10^6 10^3 comes to 20 *10^9 or 20Gb. So, in terms of stuff indexed, that is considerably larger than TPB. Agreed?

Well, maybe not. They could have used compression to get the vastness of TPB onto that USB stick. Around that time - 2012 - they had 1.6 million torrents. That is some way off the Gb that AltaVista indexed, no matter how you bloat the maths. Sad to say, but, in the 1990's, the internet was actually larger than your porn collection.

How useful is reqs/second anyway? By that score Google probably does very badly as a search usually returns the answer on the first page. With old-style search engines you might need to go through scores of pages before getting what you want. I found TPB to be a bit like that too, wading through results pages more than necessary.

TPB is not 'safe for work' and in a lot of jurisdictions you cannot even access it from home. In the UK (which is a small but well populated country) it is not that easy to get onto TPB - you have to have hacker voodoo skills to do that or route through a VPN as none of the main ISPs will let you on. Most of the civilised world has the same need to protect citizens from the evils of TPB so places where it can be accessed are not that common. Even if you could access it, would you? Probably...

Meanwhile, back in 1998 - a year or two before the dotcom crash - plenty of people were using search engines such as AltaVista (which was the best back then) for actual work. Maybe not everyone, but enough people knew about computers and things like AOL disks, modems and what not. The internet was big.

Which reminds me of my main point, the one you thought so important to down vote rather than give kudos for being insightful. TPB uses a constellation of computers and consumes vastly more resources than the biggest search engine of the 1990's, yet, the utility of TPB is limited to only a few fortunate enough to live somewhere where TPB can be accessed. What can be searched for on TPB is a mere subset of what was on Altavista albeit different and not so useful stuff. I would say that with AltaVista they were doing far more with what they had, reaching a better audience, doing something more useful for the world (than serving weight loss adverts) and all together performing a miracle. TPB is a slouch in comparison.
You say this could make you more competitive and that might be the case - but ultimately I get the impression you're less likely to be acquired (fair enough, maybe you definitely don't want that) and/or/thus more likely to shut down.

Realistically your pledge means nothing if you go bankrupt and shut down. Your startup could still fail and nobody really has any recourse in general. You could probably find ways around that but forcing liability on founders will probably make this less likely to catch on.

An acquirer is going to be held to these presumably, and they probably can't just go bankrupt to avoid them - so that's less likely to happen. Maybe that's what you want but it cuts a big exit path out for founders - and acquisitions aren't always terrible for users. I wouldn't be surprised if there exist acquirers for some startup that would keep users happy for >X years but not commit legally to doing so for X years.

I guess there's a bit of a cycle and it really leads to the pledge being worthless. Less likely to be acquired + can't pivot for X years -> keep doing the same product -> but it's losing money -> no viable exit, no pivot -> shut down.
i would love if this was commented through "setup your dns", "add a website" and "share a website"

however, thank you for the progress thus far.
The context is "Politics is very much at play here, as it is in any system where the prices are determined by committees or small groups instead of the free market."

My point is that politics is always at play. The only way to remove politics is to have an anarchic free market.

It's 'committees or small groups' which made it illegal to buy radium toothpaste. It's 'committees or small groups' which made it illegal to put drugs on the market without testing. It's 'committees or small groups' which put into place federal meat inspections.

Could you tell me how a free market has provisions which are more effective in terms of health outcomes, than, say, the Nordic or Japanese models? And why it was that those provisions weren't effective in the free market of the late 1800s? Since my reading of history is that the failure of free market to provide protections is what lead to the protectionist system we have today.
> This seems to be an incredibly disempowering perspective.

That depends on one's narcissism index. A sufficiently narcissistic person will see it as a challenge to be proactively engaged. Someone less narcissistic will see it as a reason to give up.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/ChildrenOfNarcissus
The term "engineering" has a place: to convince non-techie stakeholders to take us seriously and trust our domain expertise.

Outside that context, I prefer to think of myself as a craftsman for small projects, and a gardener for large projects.

Software never exists in isolation. It is interwoven with countless other hardware and software stacks, and more importantly, the humans that use and maintain it, as well as the organizations and processes those humans inhabit. And every single component in that system is constantly mutating.

The true masters of the craft are those who strive to understand and tame this chaos: weeding the garden, but also leveraging that wildness in constructive ways, allowing the garden to grow organically. By making code so readable, flexible, sharable, testable, and durable, that it exists in a non-stop feedback loop with its ecosystem. (Taleb's "antifragility" is a useful mental construct for this ideal.)

Most software projects are not run this way, whether due to a lack of expertise, budget, process, or all of the above. But given how easy it is to write bad software (or good software that decays into bad software), I believe gardening is the proper metaphor for non-trivial software systems.
Hmmm... an unknown company asking for my credit card details, even to sign up for the free account?

Nein danke!
Does anybody understand what audience systemd was meant to address, and what problems it solves for those people?

I'm a recovering sysadmin, so these days I only maintain a few personal boxes. Perhaps because of that, I'm having a hard time appreciating systemd. Having reluctantly dealt for the last couple of years with upstart, redoing init creates an awful lot of work and confusion, and I personally haven't experienced much benefit.

Perhaps systemd is better, but everything I've heard about it makes me fear the second-system effect [1] is in full force.

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html
Absolutely agreed on the mental processing speed and acute awareness of smaller details. Look at this point in the video:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nq...
He has just opened the floor for questions, and the questioner does not have a microphone and hence audience cannot hear the question. John starts answering the question, but immediately recognizes the situation and then repeats the question for his audience.
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If I understand it completely, they're trying to become a centralized blend of Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook, and they have no real idea how to make money except accepting tips for infrequently introduced features.

I wish them good luck but I have major doubts.

Personally, I think I'll stick with #pants, a light-weight blogging engine coming with a fully decentralized social network built-in. It's free, fully open-source, and embraces the principles of the IndieWeb movement, which I think is a great idea.

http://pants.social/vkk764

Full disclosure: built by my best friend. Other than that, I'm unbiased.
Very interesting point of view.

However, here is a different definition of engineering:

"Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes." - wikipedia.org

It looks like wikipedia has a bit a broader definition of engineering. I would use the term "engineer" whenever I refer to a person that exactly does this when creating software.

Further, you could say that "development" is referring to a broader set of approaches to create software; "engineering" would be a subset then.
Or you could use privco. They seem to be good. Someone in another thread mentioned MOZ. And their stated numbers are similar to what Privco quoted.
That looks like a man page from an old version. I've seen vlock -n on Ubuntu 14.04 and a two-year-old Gentoo.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vlock.1.html
Nice idea!

I'm not sure about the legal issue here though. If I see it correctly, you are downloading the songs to your server and serve the file from there. A lot of content that is uploaded is often times illegal, so you might be charged for distributing illegal content (illegal as in copyright).

What I'm also wondering. How come the parsing takes so long? I know other services that are a lot faster. Is it just the speed limit of the server itself?
> We aren't in the dark ages of computing anymore. Forcing developers to use hardware specific code is backwards unless we are talking about drivers and assembly like development.

Do you think game development followed the web off the performance-doesn't-matter cliff and went "welp, we're just going to go write everything in Ruby"? What exactly do you think game development is if not intensely performance-critical low-level software development? Do you somehow think they aren't writing whacks of assembly and adding code paths for specific versions of drivers because of reasons X, Y, and Z?

> Otherwise why don't you propose writing programs in machine code like in the olden days?

You literally must be trolling. What do you think game developers do when they run into hot spots in their code? Bunches of AAA games (and every engine vendor, thanks much) have one or more gurus around who eat and sleep the assembly language for every deployable platform. I know a guy--socially, we're not friends, but we've talked about this--whose entire job is rendering optimization for iOS. He owns a big whack of stiff C where every allocation is carefully considered and which has more than a little assembly in there. Because that's what you do when you need to wring performance out of a system. He digs Metal because it makes him better at his job--at making the hardware optimally do what he very badly needs it to do.

Stop trying to conflate web development on future computers from beyond the moon with game development because what you know does not hold. These games are not being written in Node, they are not being written in environments with garbage collection--hell, a lot of the time they don't even use inheritance in C++ because of the cost and complexity of vtables (this is one of the reasons the standard collection libraries in C++ are a template soup, as it happens). It's not the "olden days," it's today, now. That's why these low-level APIs are coming about: because the abstractions you think don't fail don't cut it.

"Abstractions don't fail" is one of the most unintentionally funny things I've read in a very long time and I can literally think of a dozen places just off the top of my head in my very much non-gamedev job where the abstraction layers other people put in place screwed me hard. Quit while you're very far behind.
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Were previous year's coverage as oddly ominous sounding as this? The article pretty much went out of the way to make it not sound like a secret meeting. At least, not in the clandestine sense. More one that people keep low key.
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I have doubts that the real estate industry is to blame for urban and suburban sprawl. As someone who works in real estate tech, I'd appreciate if you could unpack that.

However, I do think you're hitting on a real constraint. As far as I know, work brokering service models like Uber have only been successful when there's a large and dependable workforce in close proximity to the consumer base it serves. In order for Uber to scale to suburbs, they don't necessarily have to get suburbanites driving for them--a Lyft driver last week told me that he commutes an hour to SF from Walnut Creek to drive. However, that guy is going to have to see more money coming in than someone who lives in Oakland because his margins will always be much thinner.

There are certain apps with P2P models that escape this supply problem by eliminating the server-served dynamic. They require each user to put in a little bit of work to get value out. Yerdle is one example of this type of model. The hard part there seems to be convincing rich people to spend time participating because they see their time as being more valuable. At the same time, the rich have the most to contribute.

As Jeff Bezos optimistically puts it, today is still day 1 of the internet. Here's to hoping for our future tech utopia!
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Extending the metaphor. A computer might not predict a perfect storm developing because the model isn't perfect. Without the human there to see it, you miss something disastrous.

A doctor would be the same thing. Sometimes things just don't follow the rules we expect them to. Medicine is full of instances where diseases cause obscure complications. I mean the series House MD is based on these, there wouldn't be a show without thousands of these instances.

I think taking human error out of mundane doctoring would be great, and allowing people to specialize into the more complex areas where creativity is as much a part of the diagnosis as anything else then I think we would greatly benefit.

What's sad is if you read many of the cases used in the show House, the patients IRL died. The condition was found in the autopsy, because the doctors just kept following routine.
This is relevant:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke...
The signaling theory doesn't make much sense. You're not invited to the secret event no one knows about. Quake in your boots!

To me the more likely theory is that Bezos likes to be a patron, like rich people have done for centuries. You exchange money for the company of artists and intellectuals.
And because they have been your guests and accepted your lavish hospitality, they end up a little bit in your debt.

I agree that private circle-jerk events like this are obnoxious, but it doesn't seem like a multidimensional chess match to me.
>No. I'm not going to hold your hand and feed you links. You'll go off and get another link and think that your link is as good as my links.

k. Who are you, random pseudo-anonymous hacker news commenter? And why are your links superior?

On the internet, anyone can claim that what they are saying is what is actually correct. And no matter how much they think what they are saying is actually correct, the burden of proof is on them, not the reader, to prove it.