skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked as an SEO for years. Quit because of this. "Good" SEO is about good content, good coding, and good usability. But in order to do that, you need great designers and writers. SEO people tended to be neither. My colleagues got into the industry by keyword stuffing and link farming. They were trying, unsuccessfully, to change their specialty after updates to Google's algorithm. We helped sites get ranked, but most of our clients would see a better return on investment hiring designers and writers.

You touched on the other issue: Even if all you do is write and design, by calling yourself SEO, you're attracting clients narrowly focused on their search ranking. That's the metric they're going to judge your performance on, and it won't matter how accessible you make their site if they don't get the #1 spot for "cosmetic dentistry allentown pa." So by selling SEO, you miss an opportunity to educate clients on creating a memorable user experience.
Over $57M Paid Out to Steam Workshop Creators
Could you provide some additional reasoning about why that would be unfortunate?
Looks neat. This also caught my eye:

"Following successful funding we will immediately open source the firmware, the electronics design files and Agent under the General Public License, version 3. We've already released the bootloaders and will also release the mechanical CAD files within 5 years of the initial release."
If you look at LinkedIn profiles of developers and designers a fair majority don't last long and go from one job to another every few months, to a year to two years.

This has been my experience too due to contract jobs, not getting along/connecting with the web agency owners (office politics) and having unrealistic demand thrust on me. Such demands being ok in 20 hours we need you to design, code, make it responsive, skin it into WordPress, configure widgets & create custom post types for a 20 to 30 page website. For, me that's not realistic, unless I'm working 12 to 16 hours a day and only putting down 4 hours a day.

My most enjoyable experiences in this field have been working at large companies (projects are not rushed due to a bureaucracy & people there are older/more mature) vs. at web agencies (get things done fast or your out and I'm king crap here I'll get rid of you whenever I feel like it).
Well, assuming that some indie devs make nothing at all, and some indie devs are Notch, I'd say, anywhere from zero to $1.7 billion.
This article isn't about keyboards. But a helpful guide to the endless niche product communities.
While it is unfortunate they don't use forward-declared structs instead of void pointers, that only means that potential type checking that could otherwise be done by the compiler does not happen, the use of void pointers in and of itself is not a bug, it just can make it more likely that code using the library won't know about bugs until too late.
I've added a brief subtext based in part on your suggestions. Let me know what you think.
Hey polynomial, I'd love to learn more about your use case. Drop me a line at jade at sandstorm?
This is exactly why I got out of SEO services. I always did quality, white hat, and ethical work and had a lot of great customers for a long time, and they started getting eaten up by these idiots. Basically the story would be:

1. I perform work for customer, they're satisfied. They would show improvement and start getting more traffic.

2. Some scam company company calls them and appeals to their sense of greed.

3. They tell me they're going with the new company who erases everything I did.

4. Six months or so later they call me back because things are worse and want me to fix it.

5. I refuse because now they're deep in black hat territory, and either deranked by Google or well on their way. Or they'd have some strange legal issues popping up from the crap the other company did.

So yeah, after a while I jumped out of the business. I know that isn't exactly relevant to your problem, but these companies are just complete scumbags in every sense of the word, and anything you can do to damage them, you should.

Call a lawyer, and protect your good name. Take a chunk out of the bad guys.
Now that's interesting because the French newspapers didn't mention it at all.

I wish we had a European press.
Why do you need Node? Can't this just be statically served?
I think Storj may have some similarities.

http://storj.io/
I use Zapier a lot for automation.

Auto sync my business contacts to Insightly, GitHub issues for an open source project to a Trello board,Gumroad contacts to my MailChimp list, to name a few
This is blogspam for the link mentioned in the article; which appears to be down.
Paxos, a really beautiful protocol for distributed consensus
First, this is common and it's not a big deal.

Layoffs happen, even to great developers. Ask about severance, but don't get pushy or threatening if not offered it (you don't want an extortion rap). Ask about a guaranteed positive reference (by contract, and with LinkedIn recommendations) and do be pushy or threatening if not offered it. Have your references checked in any case by a third party. Don't sign non-disparagement for less than 3 months' severance, although you should almost never disparage an ex-employer. Do sign non-litigation if offered a positive reference and a cash severance you can accept (which may be zero, if you have savings and confidence).

Take a week or two to recover, emotionally, but no more. Being unemployed on dwindling savings is no fun, so get yourself in the game immediately before you start getting depressed or moody or whatever. Work so hard that you don't have time to get moody. Looking for work is your new job. Job searches have a lot of latency and you can work on your side projects while you wait for emails and calls to get returned (otherwise, you'll go fucking nuts refreshing your email client).

Describe your situation as a layoff for economic reasons (even if it wasn't) and say that your performance reviews were excellent (even if they weren't) and don't say anything negative about former colleagues, managers, or employers except in a you-or-them situation (such as a 6-month job, where someone will come off looking bad and your job is to make sure that it's not you... but even then, minimize what you say.)

What would you do in my situation (would you stay in a smaller city?)

Take your job search national. It's not about "leaving Cleveland". A good company will give you at least $5k post-tax for relocation. (Add $4-5k for NYC because rental brokers collect 15% on tenant side.) It's about going where the jobs are. Obviously some locales are better than others. Seattle, Boulder, Austin, and Chicago have strong tech markets and (relative to SF or NYC) moderate cost of living. NYC is an option if you don't need a lot of space and you're willing to downsize on furniture. If you choose NYC, include the broker fee (again, 15% of a year's rent) and loss-on-sale for your car (you'll be getting rid of it) in your relo calculations. San Francisco... some love it, some hate it, and I doubt I'd move there without a stellar offer (I'm 31) but if you find something out there, give it a go.

if you could start over in web development, what would you focus on?

Don't fret about starting over. You can't and that's a good thing. The knowledge you've gained is more transferrable than you think. But if I were to start over, I'd jump either into the Python or the Clojure stack (and maybe move to Haskell after 2+ years if I really wanted to build extremely robust, large systems).
10 minutes? The demo allows you to set up a Wordpress blog in literally 10 seconds (it's four clicks and no typing or scrolling -- not even to log in). I'm not sure why that's so onerous, even for folks with short attention spans.
Why I'm coding with Mithril
I have experience creating a very complex React app to organize a conference. It included registration, authentication, personalized schedules and calendars, news articles, up-to-the-minute updates, a store, physical pass(ID) verification, and a few dashboards for use by clients of my client. Honestly, it was a lovely experience.

Presently, 58% of users of my current client's site arrive via mobile and minified React tops 145kb, which takes a lot of time to deliver and unpack. I serve 1000 new users per week who can't rely on finding React in their browser cache. This is too much overhead. I am a little obsessed with under-one-second loading and 3 second attention spans. Non-minified React is 642kb and that's too much code for me to grok if I want to understand what my application is doing.

Then I found Mithril. It's faster than anything. It's tiny. It does only what it needs to do, no bloat. And it does most of the good stuff that React does. It's also FRP friendly, another current obsession of mine.

It's in the early stages, but it is so small and focused that it can be used anywhere. TODAY. mithril.js is small enough to understand in detail. Beyond the basic documentation is a blog and API docs written as precisely and as focused as the code. It's a testament to its quality that the earliest blog entries are applicable today. I recommend reading them from oldest to newest. They read more like a tutorial than a blog. Post a question to the Google Group and Leo will likely refer you back to a blog post because he's already covered your question.

Another sign that Mithril is of great quality: most public discussion about Mithril revolves around the philosophy and logic of app design, not code errors. When errors are discovered, Leo patches them within hours if not minutes.

Leo got so much right. Most things right. More than any other framework I know.
My point is that each of these "bailouts", like the latest $7 billion euro "loan", don't benefit any actual Greek people.

It's an ECB "loan" that goes from one ECB account directly to another ECB account as "payment" on debt. Exactly zero euros of these go to Greek people.

If I was Tsipras I'd decline these "loans" as well. They do nothing to help Greek people, and they just obscure who is really getting bailed out.
For example, donating to a hate-driven campaign to take fundamental rights away from people by popular vote. They could very easily say they donated from a basis different from the hateful people and avoid losing friends over a misunderstanding.
It sounds like you refer to the definition as it is in the USA, which is not exactly the same as it is in the rest of the English speaking world.
Footnotes for a 1 liner?
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people" - Eleanor Roosevelt

Sports, in the context of the article, is 100% people and events.

I don't necessarily agree with the quote, I just wanted to point out that the idea expressed here is the same. I don't think that intellectuals (to use the author's term) are necessarily disinterested in sports in general. However, it makes sense to me that that they would not be interested in news, drama and specific professional athletes and their performances and relationships. In many cases, that's all there is when it comes to using professional sports as a basis for making conversation or building rapport.
You're in Cleveland? Email me, I know someone local who might be able to give you advice and leads.
This document explains our basic replication architecture and might be helpful http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/architecture/

Let me know if you want to know more about a specific aspect.
Intro to Pragmatic Agility for the Enterprise
I own and have read the book Masters of Doom 4 times. I'm getting the urge to read that puppy again...
Please be aware that if you do (1) and also do (3) you may be committing Unemployment Insurance Fraud. Most states require you to not only be actively searching for work, but to be "Able and Available" to work and frequently investigations and audits turn up fraudulent UI claims on this basis. Even though much of job searching is online and can be done anywhere, the assumption is that if you are out of state, you weren't available to work in your home state that week.

Source: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/collecting-unemployme...
Yes, we'll have an app store much like iPhone/Android. Open source apps will have the option of using a "pay what you want" model, but we'll also allow proprietary apps with fixed prices and maybe even subscription-based.
> I believe that most people agree the Left tends to attract idealists.

No more than any other leaning.
Allowing links? This is after all the web...
It mostly is, but I need it integrating with Stripe for the proprietary-license-that-I-totally-don't-expect people-to-buy-but-why-the-hell-not.
Still sounds like the developer version of the annoying "have your people call my people, let's do lunch" cliché.
If you don't mind me asking a personal question, I'm rather curious what your exposure to computers (or electronics that you could take apart, toys with gears, etc.) was like when you were a girl (say, ages 6-16).
> German yellow press also mentioned various social programs in Greece that can only be described as frivolous even by social state standards. It's harder to be sympathetic with the Greek cause if we're paying for higher welfare abroad than we enjoy ourselves.

You are free to move there.
Heh, is there some internet rule about the mention of that car in any discussion?
Prometheus: Week of Monitoring Wrapup
I've noticed this on several sites I frequently visit (and have whitelisted in adblock). Try to do the right thing and support my favorite sites but of course a handful of bad actors make things miserable for everyone.
This actually reminds me of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Having the world-ordering code of a given brain is an interesting concept and leads me to wonder what implication it might have for intelligence. Perhaps more intelligent brains might be said to more efficiently generate and store more distinct temporal hashes that can be used to relate (in some way) to other temporal hashes and general classes of temporal hashes. There seems to be a potential tie in to Hierarchical Temporal Memory (particularly in sparse distributed representations) and AI in general.
Maybe, as long as the code doesn't confuse children even more. Perhaps a well though GUI could accomplish this more gracefully.
Exactly. I would encourage the author to put this material together as an IPython Notebook (in conjunction with nbviewer). The IPyNB is a wonderful pedagogic tool.
Oops. My comment [below] grew into a post, although shorter due to character limits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8973867
You might consider Kentucky Route Zero. It falls in the point-and-click adventure game category.

Discovering how masterfully its creators have handled the game-mechanical, cinematic, and literary elements that comprise a modern video game is part of the delight of playing it, IMO, to the point that practically any discussion of it spoils some part of the experience, but without giving too much away it doesn't contain story-branching moral choices so much as... well, they're still choices and still have a moral character and they still the affect the story in a major way, but... the choices manage to be simultaneously unimportant and of great, even supreme, import, I guess. Look, just go play it, if you haven't. Read as little as you can to convince yourself to play it, especially if you're looking for interesting angles on player choices.

Granted, it's in five acts and only three are out so far, but act four should be up before too long and the existing material will take some time to get through. There are short episodes between the five acts, so there are three of those to play as well—usually each of those comes out not long before the next episode is released, and the third one is out, which is why I'd guess act four isn't far off.
Pearmarket looks confusing, but honestly, just launch it. Remove stuff and ship.

btw, map doesn't load: https://order.pearmarket.co/map

About page is very very interesting, my suggestion: move the Offers and Needs to the frontpage, that looks like one of the most important things in the whole site.
Is this official or otherwise endorsed by Heroku?
Yeah, the article really needs to specify what its definition of "megacity" is. The YRD is a patchwork of many different cities, towns, and villages, some parts of which are substantially less urban that others. If you take the train from Shanghai to Hangzhou, you'll pass by some farmland on the way. I'm sure the Pearl River Delta is no different.
UniQL: One Query, Any Database
Super excited for this! I have other comments to this effect, but try out RethinkDB. It has been absolutely great for us and what we're doing and it's been rock solid in its reliability.

We're implementing real time features in our product in the next couple of months so this could not have come at a better time.
Leverage.

Everything you do is magnified, good and bad.
You missed the part where she argued that his approach is wrong because it's impossible to be accurate when using it:

"Also having a reliable anatomical point at which to anchor your draw, and a reliable stance, means that you have a reliable point of aim. Incredibly minor alterations in biomechanics--something as invisible as tensing your neck, or not fully broadening your back--can send an arrow wildly off course over distances as short as ten or twenty yards. Something as major as moving your draw point an inch? No freaking telling where that arrow is going."

Regardless of how impractical and historically inaccurate his approach might be, do she really believe he has no idea where his arrow is going?
As the person who provided the soundbite about the Elopcalypse, I am still somewhat surprised to see it was quoted in full.

Various people came up with the term independently. I happened to be one. But I sure as hell do not claim to have been the first one. My early use of the term may have contributed to its spread among my friends and co-workers, but that's just how any meme or rumour gains its wings.

To provide some context, I am still a bit sour about the Elopcalypse. I was effectively deprived of a project we had been building towards for nearly five years. I stand by the quoted comment: the resulting destruction and turmoil were the best thing to happen to the Finnish ICT space. Best, but extremely painful.
I was one of Joystiq's first employees, before its official launch in 2005. I was a graduating high-school senior at the time, and in a bout of senioritis I played hooky almost every day in order to hang out in the A/V room and surf the internet reading video game news. I managed to find their fledgling site somehow (this was well before "blog" was a household word) and sent in so damn many exhaustively-written leads to their tip box that they eventually started publishing them almost verbatim (with attribution, of course), and then soon after cut out the middle man by hiring me outright. A great time of my life during which I met a number of great people, though in retrospect I'm incredibly embarrassed by the articles that my teenage brain managed to produce. :P

And I'll still never forget the look on my mom's face when she came into my room one night waving a $500 check from AOL. I had been told we were getting bought out, but I was completely unaware that we'd all be getting bonuses! That was the most money that I had ever had in my 17 year-old life... and straight into the college fund it went. :)
I have mixed feelings about that book. I enjoyed his writing style and humor, but the amount of beating on Excel he has to do to manipulate all that data hurts my head. I kept thinking of how much easier it would be to do with code.

Maybe it's just not a good book for developers? shrug I would love to have a copy of that book that doesn't use Excel.
Systemd and the Schtick of Destiny
Yes. Both sides of the political spectrum police language, and neither DeBoer or Chait seem to recognize this. Chait also says some things that seem to indicate that he wants to police language as well, just in a different way.

At one of the political blogs I read that have discussed Chait's piece, the commenters made the astute observation that Chait and now DeBoer are complaining about the wrong thing. The problem isn't "political correctness", it's tribalism.
This study lists Rio de Janeiro as safer than Sao Paulo, when Sao Paulo is the safest state capital of Brazil and the safest state aswell.

It's hard to trust this.
Integration Testing with Docker and Scala
Nvidias engineer comments on the vram issue of the gtx 970
I've always told myself that if I'm ever laid off in my 20s or early 30s (at the latest) and I don't have kids yet or a mortgage then I'll become a dentist.

It's something I've always wanted to do, but I can't really justify giving up a great job with a great income to go back to school. But should I find myself unexpectedly without said job, then maybe I just would, unless other obligations prevent it.

My point is simply -- is there something for you which plays the equivalent role of dentistry? If so, maybe this is your opportunity to pursue it without feeling guilty about giving up a great job. If not, then I recommend following all the other advice here.
"That's not independent verification"

Agreed. It is what it is: a black box testing of a proprietary technology that cannot be easily replicated by other researchers.
As for "hacking the instruments", read the paper; Rossi was never left alone with the instruments, and was only present twice: at the start, where he inserted his "secret sauce" into the device under monitoring, and at the end, where he retrieved it under similar conditions. He might be a con artist, but "hacking the instruments" under those conditions would require him to be something closer to a wizard.

"1.5 MWh over 32 days is a fairly small amount of energy as in 2kW * 32 days a lot of chemical processes can get you there"

No. That's more than 5800 MJ over the period, the equivalent of burning 140 kg of gasoline, produced by a ~20cm long cylinder. No known chemical process can get you there (by far). I should also add that the 1.5 MWh number is the lowest estimate of the authors, taking into account all margins of error. Agreed on the difficulty of measuring heat; experts far more knowledgeable than I have been reading the report and cannot explain such a high discrepancy.

"As to warrants further research nope, sorry the correct responce is to declare this a clear scam."

So, following the publication of another paper with an open experimental protocol & set up having reported similar findings, it isn't worth spending the few thousands of dollars required to actually verify this ? given the potential benefits and relatively low resources required, I have to disagree. Saying "it's just a clear scam" without even checking this doesn't sound like science to me.

Black swans do happen from time to time; if this effect is indeed real (and I agree that's a huge if), it could lead to unimaginable benefits and - given the fact that current science cannot explain such an effect - could also lead to genuine new science and discoveries in physics. This alone should make it worthwhile to try and replicate this new experiment, no matter how unlikely it seems.