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7,550karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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I've been following the progress of https://room.sh and it looks really promising. Haven't used it much yet though.
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This also needs a companion post called "common mistakes: using kubernetes". I feel like it's a weekly occurrence now where I hear of a startup launching their mvp on kubernetes having …
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So much criticism here! I've read a lot about Kafka over the last few years and I wish I had read this article earlier -- even basic questions like "Can Kafka store data persistently?" …
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This wasn't actually in the original https://twitter.com/honnibal/status/1260544951638732801?s=20 …
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This is useful! I was hoping for something based on topic modelling [0] though. Keywords are useful, but often are out of context. e.g. I looked for "writing", and many of the matches have n…
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Hey Philip, really great to see you run with this! I know you mentioned to me that this repository[0] where I try to keep a short list of publishers that pay for this kind of writing was an early insp…
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I managed to get through skin in the game, but I didn't enjoy the writing style at all. It's much more abrasive/emotional, similar to his tweets.
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Read "fooled by randomness" if you haven't already. I much preferred it to his later work, and it introduced me to Popper (who was someone that 3 years of philosophy at university some…
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I have never heard of this before, and I'm sad that profit-driven, marketing speak has taken over even non-profit product pages. > An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system. This is the ti…
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I have a vague memory of a similar parody article which I've never been able to find again. IIRC it was in Ruby and he imported all libraries into a "god" object that could do absolutel…
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Yep. Relatedly, A/B testing is still, in a majority of cases, "run both pages until one shows an x% difference in conversion" WHICH IS TOTALLY TOTALLY BROKEN. THAT'S NOT HOW IT WOR…
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Do you know why? Let me let you in on a secret. People LIKE reading text formatted like this. No, they LOVE IT. It's so easy to read. So seductive. So .... enticing Every line like honey. So much…
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glad to hear you're still around :) I'm about to launch a content-based business (technical tutorials) and priceonomics was definitely an early inspiration! Also loved "everything is bu…
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What happened to priceonomics? I feel like I used to see their stuff around all the time and then it just stopped?
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I read 3-4 sources and none linked to the video[0] for some reason. Anyone know how these are made? In many ways it reminded me of the MongoDB is Webscale[1] one - is there some kind of popular tool o…
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I love the combination of TF-IDF and Cosine similarity! Still in my opinion one of the most underused / underrated algorithms tools in the box.
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Thank you! Yes exactly, and so far the people with the deepest pockets are the marketing people who buy millions of dollars worth of targeted advertising. I hope that I can find several companies who …
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Hey HN! I'm Gareth. I've been writing technical tutorials for years and next month I am going to start focusing on it full time. My hope is that I can solve the "readers don't want…
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Not affiliated but I've been enthusiastically watching the development and launch of userbase.com which might be just the layer of abstraction you're looking for
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Google has been downranking sites based on copyright takedown requests since 2018 at least [0]. And it's been very hard to find torrent sites or streaming sites through Google since then in my ex…
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I suggest this title be edited to remove the 'Ask HN:' prefix and changed to "Coronavirus outbreak affecting 5000 diverts Navy aircraft carrier to Guam"
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Haven't noticed issues here in Switzerland
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This feels like 4-5 random ideas that don't really fit together, combined into one post. DNS and good source IPs are mentioned and it starts off as if it's going to be fairly technical, but …
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This reminds me of Matt Levine's column from 16 March [0] "Is the coronavirus securities fraud? I wrote on Friday that, because everything is securities fraud, the novel coronavirus is secur…
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Braintree is probably the closest to stripe. I only implemented the sandbox version though. If stripe says it's the bank's fault though, it probably is. We had issues with a lot of payments …
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I'm not an expert! But my impression is labour law was pretty different then and very employer focused.