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Ask HN: How best to socialize my new side project?
I'm in the process of applying the finishing touches to a new site I've developed. I should be soft-launching it next week, taking a couple of days to tweak, test, and add some initial data to it. After that, it's time to do a formal launch!

The question is... how? This is my first "startup" endeavor. The site itself is niche-focused. Technology. Primarily developers, sysadmins, and the link. Aside from posting an announcement here on HN, how else can I get the word out?

I've got a Twitter account already setup for it. It has a handful of followers, but no one influential enough to really drive traffic to the site. Where else can I turn to put the word out? Are there other social news sites I should post to? Web directories? Any advice?

Since this is my first outing on my own -- despite a 15 year career in technology -- I'd REALLY appreciate any advice, pointers, tips, etc. that you more experienced readers can provide.
I will look into this issue. Thanks for reporting :)
I suspected as much, so long as I don't have to use its tools I couldn't care less. Unless it eats resources.
Not really, fuel consumption as an input takes carrying or not carrying fuel into account...same as wind resistance of the pickup or the friction of it moving through a trough of liquid or the force of the liquid moving into the void behind the pickup, etc.
A way to give feedback to the poster on inconsequential details such as language/spelling/typos/grammar/etc that isn't displayed to anyone else would be useful.
I remember a pollution program in CA where they'd buy 20+ year old cars and junk them. Those cars made most of the pollution then.

This program was a pollution credit program. A factor met its pollution control program by cutting either its own or someone elses pollution by a statutory amount.
Thanks for sharing. Did you get any negative reactions from prospective employers when you told them?
Let's not kid ourselves, there is simply no way to ensure the promise outweighs the perils. I'm talking about superintelligence here, not artificial general intelligence, although it's almost certain superintelligence will arrive shortly after AGI.

Anyone who is not scared shitless of what's to come simply does not truly understand what AI is capable of. If you're one of those people, do not compare AI to ANYTHING that you are familiar with today in regards to computers/software.

Superintelligent AI will be like a god that knows your inner thoughts, desires, hopes and dreams as well as nearly everyone else on earth. It will manipulate people with ease - it's not even an issue. Whatever it wants to accomplish, it will, with or without human approval.
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That's a good point. But the AI could do that too, and maybe better.
1983's C++ didn't have templates.
Would it be possible to constantly scan the DOM for new iframes and add the attribute with JS? Seems like there might be a small window of opportunity though for bad things to happen, if it would even work.
First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to thoroughly review our product. I really can't tell you how helpful it is!
We put a lot of thought into how we should communicate our pricing strategy and the reason we decided to go with our approach is it's a similar approach all other giving tools take that don't charge monthly or set up fees. I think it's because if you don't specify the pricing breakdown, you end with with people asking for that information. By communicating that we charge %1 in addition to credit card fees, someone considering Spora knows exactly what the price breakdown is immediately.

Your UI comment is incredibly insightful. Our developers (Matt and Warren) have actually run into that problem and we are releasing version 2.0 in a few weeks with corrections to the mistakes you pointed out.

Just curious, what's your interest and experience with online giving tools?

Thanks again for the reply!

-Dane
Mosaic theory doesn't go that far, but in the age of widespread statistical inference, it is an important development.

Generally speaking, the public is entitled to all evidence. Certain rights, such as the Fifth amendment, protect you from being compelled to testify against yourself, but you have no right to prevent, nor does anyone else have the right to refuse, to testify against or about you, except for a very small and declining set of common law privileges, and even those only apply in certain circumstances.
Seattle needs more housing supply–not rent control
Another (rhetorical) question: did they call the secret service before or after they identified who and what was happening?
I agree it's more commerce than art, but having seen more than my share of this kind of hype presentation and after seeing the video, I think they did a decent job of acknowledging and integrating the surface/environment they were using.
US Court of Appeals ruling that NSA bulk phone data collection is illegal
>I think there's some over-anthropomorphization of the AI here, in terms of it picking up human qualities as if they were Things outside our brains that we possess.

I don't see any issue with anthropomorphization with regard to intelligent being (at any level).

To have an issue with that would be to assume that humans are more special than other life forms (and AI would be like a life form in this sense).

Animals can have empathy, anger, anxiety and other traits we associate with humans (and why wouldn't they? It's not like our brains are unique, they're just "more"), so AI could too.
I think the only way to be close to an expert is to have total control over the web development process from start to finish, and re-use the same technologies that you have experience with. For example, if you've made 100 web apps in PHP and native JS, you will be much more productive and make higher quality software than someone who keeps jumping to new languages and frameworks.
Neat, I didn't even notice this.

Vlad Krasnov is also a co-author of this paper on state-of-the-art P256 implementation: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/816.pdf.
weev got banned from Twitter Ads after his little stunt. Apparently the messages were considered unwelcome by the people who saw them (no surprise - that's what he was aiming for).
That one's easy to get around. Congress does budgets. If Congress has backbone (but not 2/3 majority backbone), they can pass a budget that de-funds NSA to whatever degree desired. The president can veto it. But then there's no budget, so there's still no money for the NSA...
The best content is about real content and if you are the owner of the product it should be you to at least draft the content. After that you may want to have someone to text proof your text.
Thanks, and both are helpful. I was originally going for framework agnostic because I'm still trying to answer some basic questions about JS (below, just for the sake of completeness) but I'm starting to think using AngularJS or EmberJS for an organized start will be good then I can try and generalize what I know.

Kind of like using Rails or ASP.NET MVC to learn MVC then branching out.

Some things I'm looking for examples in code instead of just blog posts are:
1 - When does someone attach a method to an object's prototype vs directly
2 - When do people use object literals vs defining a constructor
3 - How bind and apply are actually used to change the this binding

Thanks again!
Yes. Social media adoption is (high school) generational. The more successful the current round of social media is, the less the next round of high school students will want to be any where near its inhabitants.
Because it's easy to construct angels and demons in one's mind, about anything. It polarizes the mind into fear and desire, forcing forcing a person to continuously oscillate between extremes. It makes it seem like there are always only two choices, when in reality, there are many, if not infinite.

Also, there are always going to be some people who understand the machine better than the machine understands itself. Even if it means taking those gigantic tables of probabilities and abstracting over them to form some kind of representational language that can be used to predict complex non-deterministic machine behavior (similar to how we already try to predict non-deterministic behavior, or not) in complex systems.

As a corollary, I would argue that machines have already modified humans. They affect the way we think and reason. They are an integral part of our life and the machine abstraction can be projected onto that which it does not describe completely (in which, the technology that exists now can not construct the technology we envision). We program machines, machines program us. This seems obvious.
Posting using the client -- definitely the best client for iOS that I've seen so far. UI is very snappy and things are organized logically so I didn't have to "learn" the layout.

Some thoughts:

-I'd like to be able to edit my profile

-As you know, having the search feature will be an important addition

-Can't collapse comment threads. I'd like a button in the whitespace on the same line as the commenter that I could click to collapse.

-Saving draft comments would be helpful. When I was typing this I had to select all -> copy and go back to another screen to check something, then paste it back in. Some type of way of marking drafts directly in the thread would be cool. I think it would have the advent of allowing me to start a draft in a comment thread that I was interested in replying to later, and then be able to return to it when I had more time. This would be coupled with listing out "drafts" in the sections up top.

-Special coloring for the original posters posting in the comment threads. At least for the names, if not changing the background color of the comment a shade or two.

-This one is not as feasible, but saving versions of comments when I've come back to the same thread. I'd like a diff on comments in case someone edits something, so I can replay it back to the original comments I saw. Maybe only saving the histories for the last 100 threads, since if I'm returning to a thread it wouldn't be 100 thread views later.
I am doing 3-day work week (plus a day of studying) per week, so roughly equal, and it has worked great. You're more focused at work, and you get a lot of time to think about problems before having to sit down and do it.

Right now I'm working Wednesday through Friday, but if I had a choice of four days I would have Wednesdays off. The extra day in the middle to take some time off and thing about other things and get back with a new perspective worked very well for me when I had the opportunity, better than the concentrated block.

Right now I'm doing three days in a row because my boss thinks it's easier to communicate that way, and I guess he is right too, it's a trade-off.
I am sorry for that. It was a hobby project of mine when learning Elixir and I got excited about it.
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Your so right...we need to get on that ASAP.

Thanks for the input!
-Dane
There's marketplaces to hire writers.

A company I worked for in the past would often hire a writer and give them a topic to research & write about. That particular writer was a highly-knowledgeable person in the industry and put out really amazing content which was primarily used for SEO purposes.

We also wrote a lot of content ourselves--the vast majority of it, actually.
Yeah but - I like Neovim's msgpack-api, and the built-in terminal emulation. On the Neovim roadmap: attach/detach from a background session, multiple screens with different sizes.
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My wife and I also have a 3 month old daughter. I work half time and live in luxury. I moved to Mexico a few years ago and work remotely. Earn SF hourly rate, spend $280/month on rent!

I think I get more done now working half time than I did working full time. And I'm a lot more pleasant to be around
Possibly relevant, in case you live in CA, USA.

http://paidfamilyleave.org/

http://paidfamilyleave.org/about-us
Let's legislate the consumer end of things because regulating business which pollute the air by a factor of 1000 is wrong.
GPU-based rootkit and keylogger offer superior stealth and computing power
There's a solid number of companies out there that have been contractors for bigger companies for decades. Nobody wants to talk about them because half of the tech industry press is all about high growth trendy companies when there's a lot of silent tech businesses that churn out cash reliably and for probably pretty boring stuff.
"Tuned" is a holdover term from the days of carbureted fuel systems that doesn't have a lot relevance anymore.

Modern cars don't need routine "tune-ups." Yes, if a sensor fails or something like that it can cause an emissions problem, but a properly working engine computer tunes itself, and if it detects anything isn't what it should be, it activates the "check engine" light on the dashboard.
I completely understand your point. This is a project I created while learning Elixir.
I mean, if your question is Can I go 300 miles?

1/25 GPM * 300 Miles = 12 gallons

Which is either larger or smaller than your gas tank, so I think fuel volume over distance traveled is still easy enough to use for the range calculation, and better for almost everything else.
Don't those particulates and gases typically have a more local effect, thus being largely irrelevant when emitted out in the middle of the ocean?
Ethically? If and when you feel like it.
Legally? It's none of their goddamn business.
Personally? After start of 2nd trimester and I've been on the job 30 days.
This is how I worked till now, but it doesn't seem feasible to keep doing as I feel my time and attention will be more useful building additional features/fixing bugs, aka programming /which is the thing I prefer to do anyways/.
The article is from the Daily Mail. All of it's articles are to be considered bullshit until at least to be read with heavy lensed critical glasses on and a large pinch of salt.
Tesla to unveil the Model 3 in March 2016
Interesting approach on taking Wednesday off. I'm thinking of working M-TH with Friday off to allow for 3-day weekends for visiting family out of town.
If it was just theater, it wouldn't have been ruled this way (unless your fear is that it will be overturned on a Supreme Court appeal, or that Congress will specifically authorize this).
Promo video of the truck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhKmKug7DXM
Zoom/Unzoom is now part of default tmux.

<bind>z

So you can remove this line from your config:

https://github.com/jbnicolai/tmux/blob/master/.tmux.conf#L98
Well, look at that: http://www.dw.de/german-intelligence-agency-halts-internet-m...
That's now how ads always work. Many sites get revenue based on impressions, not clicks or conversions.
It's funny because the head of ISIS came from Saddam's intelligence services. I wonder if they have a man or two in NSA...
I haven't done a four-day work week, but I've been doing three-day for about a year. I love it. It's not so much that I work less, though I guess I do. Mostly it's the flexibility I love. Usually I work Monday through Wednesday. If I need to do something one of those days, it's trivial to say I'll just swap out that day for Thursday or Friday instead. I can do errands or spend time with my family during the day whenever I want, and not feel even a tiny bit of guilt or worry that I'm falling behind. I can take a six day weekend without consuming any vacation time, just by shifting my days around in the weeks before and after. Yes, I took a pay cut to have this, but I can scarcely imagine going back to full time now.
I recently started freelancing so I bought a standard contract for the Swiss market where I'm based. There is a clause for the copyright and licence that basically says:

- I keep the intellectual property for the code that I developed myself.

- If I use third party software or libraries, the owners of the libraries are keep all their rights.

- The client gets all rights to use, copy, and modify the software I provide. Basically, there are no restrictions on the use they can do of it within their company. I give them exclusive rights to that software and I cannot sell the same software to another client without consulting with them.

There are other clauses that are there, but those are the three I judge more important. It is important to keep the intellectual property because that way I can always reuse snippets of the software I developed in other projects.
I do not have any experience with the matter but I agree and support your decision it makes no sense for one to be at work while the different offices that people need to get done are open at the same time. It is almost impossible to get things done. GOOD LUCK!
Thanks for your question. Consider this stateful program in pseudo-code

def f x =
let i = ref 17 in
while i > 0 { i := i-1 }
return i

It is referentially transparent. The literal translation into Haskell needs the state monad, despite referential transparency.
NSA employees go home at night. They are subject to arrest when they do, if the courts need to go that far.
"We" is too many people.
Do you do it legally?
MacBook vs. iPad: Mac sales are cannibalizing tablet sales, Apple admits
I haven't taken the time to analyze the merits of that bill, but it would not revoke healthcare from victims of automobile accidents, it would restructure how it is provided. In states that do not have a mandatory no fault PIP, people buy a medical policy along with their car insurance:

http://www.dmv.org/insurance/medical-payments-coverage.php

So would many people see a drop in coverage? Probably. Would people be able to obtain medical coverage for injuries resulting from a car accident? Almost certainly.

(My ill informed cynical assumption is that insurers are funding the push to change the system, with the expectation that they will be able to profit more under the proposed changes)
So they're getting rid of their free option for another free option that gives you only 18hrs of non-sleep time a day.

How is this not a downgrade?
Spot on. To me, It's also about constantly improving the "jack:master trade ratio" in a constantly evolving world.
I made the mistake of having the same hotkey once. I can verify the existence of said singularity.
It sounds like you don't actually think that someone ought to respect the work you did as a programmer; you had little training, little time, and weren't following good coding practices.

I think it would be healthy to approach it from an attitude of communicating that you did what you needed to to get traction, but now you're ready to learn about how to write code that scales while meeting deadlines, and you need their help and experience to do that. It is possible.

Respecting you as a person is a prerequisite, and that'll come from your sincerity to improve as a programmer and build a team that trusts each other and keeps getting better. Respecting your code isn't a prerequisite. Your code is bad. It's okay. It would happen to anyone in your situation. Rewriting a startup's codebase from scratch after a seed round is not uncommon!

Hope that helps and isn't condescending; I'm writing this comment quickly.
As far as I can tell he did it exactly right. Tried to escalate but not the point of causing trouble and getting fired. Took a bunch of documents and released them not straight out, but to journalists who had an opportunity to redact things that might directly endanger lives (like names of agents, etc).

> do we want to encourage this type of thing?

So long as the government tries to do things in secret that are illegal, yes, we do want to encourage this type of thing. The alternative is that eventually you have "turn key tyranny" where the apparatus is also used to suppress dissent and the government REALLY takes over.
In California we do it every other year but with more stringent dynamometer tests.
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<Those people> don't have the ability to learn. <Those people> are unwilling to learn. <Those people> won't let go of long-held ideas. <Those people> insist on being given money they didn't earn.

Sounds like bigotry to me.
Yes. It's really straight forward - go for an interview in the US with bank statements for the last 6 months at a Mexican consulate, then go to Mexico and 3 weeks later (after a few local visits) you have your temporary residency card.
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So what's the down side they failed to mention?

Whats the difference between a hobby (7$) dyno than a real dyno?
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I assume that you are self-employed. If you are not, then I guess it all depends on your employer.

I've been thinking of working 4 days a week during summer, but since I mostly work full-time for one client at a time, it would definitely disrupt their plans as well. So I'm still kinda thinking about it, but not doing anything about it :)

I think it works best if you have a business that doesn't depend on you being there all the time.
I don't know, the idea that Californians care more about environmental pollution than human lives seems to fit the stereotypes.
Jeff Hawkins on Firing Up the Silicon Brain
It's not surprise that "pollution" refers to anything other than CO2, it's surprise that "pollution" refers to one specific pollutant and no others.

What if I told you that Côte d'Ivoire produced more food than any other country in the world? What if you then discovered that by "food" I meant cocoa beans, and they're not even remotely close to being at the top when considering all food?
A felony conviction does not appear to have set Robert Morris too far back in life, or prevented him from changing the world.
About a year and a half (maybe two?) ago we purchased a dual socket opteron 4386 for use as a build machine. A lot of this was based on the fact that we only had like $1500 to spend and we wanted the most bang for the buck. The spec gcc benchmarks showed the CPU doing quite well against significantly more expensive intel machines. So, we jumped on it, and haven't regretted it for a minute. Its a good combination of lots of cores and fast single threaded performance (for the linking and packaging). Combined with the SSDs and ECC RAM, its quite a screamer.

We have a number of intel machines for other purposes, and it still costs probably about 2x in intel land to get a machine to beat it. Maybe closer to 3x if you buy the machine from HP/IBM.
I've got nothing against it. it's a fun little hobby app, but yeah, I've got to agree with the commenter above this is FAR from any standard definition of a "beautiful" app.
My situation is a bit different - I still work 40 hours most weeks but I only do 4 10 hour days most of the time. Personally, I love it. I don't really mind staying an extra two hours (and my evenings alone in the office are very productive - imagine 2-3 hours every day with no email from coworkers), and having three day weekends is amazing. Not only for errands, but I think it really makes a difference in my mood coming back to work to have what my culture treats as a holiday weekend most weekends.
Spotify makes fresh anti-competitive behavior claim against Apple
I am aware of figlet but, this project was created while learning Elixir and I wanted to do it myself :)
on this - the best thing you can do with your time is talking to your customers and writing down what they say about your product. Then, use those exact words in your content; in essence have your customers write your content for you. If you are really pressed for time, just pay a copywriter to write your content but definitely give them a copy of your customer's words.
Because a lump of gold would still be confiscated...

Still, they wouldn't be implicated for the Nobels at least.