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aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
I used the price system to determine which problems were collectively the most valued and therefore tried to solve the problems that paid the most money.
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Any obvious reason for duckduckgo vs. Google speed difference on mobile?
Isn’t it to mask the search terms that you used? If you go directly to the page the current url including the query would become the referrer
aaronhoffman··on Do We Need Central Banks? (2017)
What free banking might look like http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/what-free-banking-and-why...
aaronhoffman··on Show HN: HN Domain Leaderboard
This is a little out of date but may be of interest here. This is a visualization of the top 10,000 HN posts https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/Boards/sizzle/Hacker-News-To...
aaronhoffman··on Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says
Except the poor
aaronhoffman··on Hello, world: this is WikiTribune
I'd love to see a browser extension that allows this community to mark up existing news websites with other resources/arguments against. Similar to Rap Genius Web Annotator https://genius.com/web-annotator
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Job Scheduling as a service
Something like Azure Storage Queues and Functions may be what you're looking for

https://aaron-hoffman.blogspot.com/2017/01/replace-azure-sch...

aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
This tool takes a list of URIs and crawls each site for contact info. Phone, email, twitter, etc

https://github.com/aaronhoffman/WebsiteContactHarvester

aaronhoffman··on Should Women Give Up the Power That Comes with Being Objectified?
"Why have women never tried to manipulate me?"
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: How much economics as an entrepreneur should i know?
A general understanding might help, but IMO knowing specifics is not necessary. I've known plenty of entrepreneurs that have little to no understanding of economics.

In addition, economics can get quite political. Again, a general understanding of why it's political can help here, but specifics are not necessary.

aaronhoffman··on What should follow the web?
Probably something like Johnny Mnemonic
aaronhoffman··on Heathcare.gov to Go Down for Maintenance in Middle of Obamacare Enrollment
People have jumped on this as deliberate sabotage, but do we know any specifics? Has the team changed since 2016?
aaronhoffman··on When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets
In the EU, when I ask for my data, do I have rights to "views" of my profile?
aaronhoffman··on When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets
I tried to create one once that would do this and follow the author around to other articles. Could not figure out the go to market strategy. Still have the domain betweenTheBylines .com
aaronhoffman··on When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets
Do you have a link to more info about this?
aaronhoffman··on Other ways to read Hacker News
A visualization of the front page: https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/HackerNews Easily see "hot stories", and how stories relate to each other.
aaronhoffman··on Get Rid of Equifax
Privacy WRT contracts could also be improved. Why is my payment history shared with any credit company? Perhaps people will slowly choose companies similar to duckduckgo over google.
aaronhoffman··on Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app
Those aggregators linking to the article could be counted as a "super vote"
aaronhoffman··on Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app
realclearpolitics.com would be another good source.

re: these being difficult because they are aggregators, could you just scrape the sites to find what they are linking to, then perform the same "social share is rank" logic to them?

newswhip.com is a site that does something similar, but it's very expensive. I would love an alternative!

I read many different sources, but I'm always curious what the "average" person is reading. What was the most shared/read article yesterday/last week, etc.

aaronhoffman··on A decade after the crisis, The Fed plans to shrink its bond holdings
Good podcast on this topic: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lara-murphy-show/id1...
aaronhoffman··on HackerNews Grid
Something like that, or a headless browser, would be great, thanks!
aaronhoffman··on HackerNews Grid
You could try pressing 'escape' maybe? Works for some sites
aaronhoffman··on HackerNews Grid
I have a "preview" feature on https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/HackerNews that uses OG tags, but I'd much rather use these images. Any way we can work something out?
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/ - drag-and-drop d3.js visualization tool

https://www.gmailcontactsync.com/ - sync gmail contacts between accounts

aaronhoffman··on Google Grapples with Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts
My comment was WRT the NPR headline itself.
aaronhoffman··on Google Grapples with Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts
"...After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts" doesn't seem to be an impartial headline to me.
aaronhoffman··on Americans think they live in a democracy. But workplaces are small tyrannies
You're absolutely right, I pulled $100k out of the air for it's nice-roundedness...

I don't have any reading material on it unfortunately, no. I'm mostly libertarian, so https://mises.org/ maybe?

aaronhoffman··on Americans think they live in a democracy. But workplaces are small tyrannies
I agree the issue is complex, and I wish there was more balanced discussion throughout. You can not simply ignore the control large corporations have throughout society just because it is not the "monopoly of violence" that a civil government has.

We need to think about these problems in context of time, and the decisions made over time. A stork does not drop a baby off at your door, and a company does not accumulate/generate wealth overnight (although, companies are turning over more rapidly recently). We need to make sure the correct incentives/systems are in place to ensure healthy, decentralized, competition.

aaronhoffman··on Americans think they live in a democracy. But workplaces are small tyrannies
The article mentions that the industrial revolution has made it too difficult for small business to compete with large companies.

To solve that problem, let's eliminate all taxes for everyone making less than $100k. No income tax, no payroll tax, no property tax, no sales tax, no...

aaronhoffman··on Show HN: Gmail Contacts Sync
This uses the google contacts API to sync gmail contacts between accounts. Attempts to match on name or existing email, then updates or inserts the contact.
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