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Interesting, this post implements the og tags for social sharing (image and description) but skips the full og:article tags with author, date etc.

Edit: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#...

From a Gmail PM:

"Thank you to everyone who made Inbox a part of your life. We're taking everything we've learned and rolling it into Gmail."

https://twitter.com/prlambert/status/1039982667989577728

The company makes 378 real purchases then mails 378 real products to random addresses scattered throughout the US. This allows them to leave verified reviews.

There's a whole industry around this - The Reply All podcast interviewed people who make these reviews. They talk about the economics of reviews and Amazon's reluctance to admit there is a problem.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124

There is likely some degree of causation, though it would be difficult to measure.

As an anecdote, almost everyone I know moves to a less expensive area and buys a larger house when they start a family. Live downtown, have babies, move to the 'burbs. My parents did it, and I will probably do it too.

This type of situation muddies the data because we are contributing the trend but the housing price isn't changing whether we have babies. It only changes where we have babies. It's unclear whether the data shows that housing prices affect the brith rate or whether people just move to cheaper neighbourhoods when they want to have babies.

Reddit acquired AlienBlue and re-released the client as their official app in 2014.

IQ can be raised by a full standard deviation with a few months of training [1]. IQ is only stable over time because most people don't work continuously to improve it. IQ can be learned, just like everything else.

[1] Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104160801...

You wouldn't believe how helpful "areas of interest" were for wandering around foreign cities. I was wandering around a city I didn't know, unable to speak the language, and yet I could easily connect corridors of interesting shops and restaurants.

Two factor won't protect you from a spear-fishing attack.

The attacker can submit your info to GitHub the moment you submit to the malicious site. You receive the token via SMS as expected, enter it on the second page of the malicious site, granting them access.

It's a trend in sales to hire retired professional athletes. Google famously hired a cohort of olympic athletes for their Adwords sales team.

Nobel prizes are awarded for Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, Medicine, and Economics.

Cultural progress does not hinge on advances in hard science and the Nobel prize is wise to understand that.

Failing to recognize the impact of literature, peace and economics on our society is a failure to understand the entire purpose of the award.

He has a pretty thorough DIY for anyone looking to go this route: https://www.sketchcase.com/diy/

That's a great point. It's not specific to software but knowledge work and creative work are nearly impossible to do without intrinsic motivation.

Totally agree on the graphs, but the office references are bang-on. The roof of building 20 is built for strolling around and poring over hard problems. It's a 3 minute walk from the rest of campus and they have cold pressed juice up there. The MPK20 reference set a perfect scene.

Aww but there's a kitten. This must be innocent.

This works very well:

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) { select:focus, textarea:focus, input:focus { font-size: 16px; } }

It uses a css selector only available on iOS devices and enables a larger font to prevent zoom.

[Original concept] http://stackoverflow.com/a/16255670/209005

There was nothing in the story saying confidential files were stored in his AOL account. Also nothing about when the account was last used.

There was a time when we all had noisy modems and AOL accounts.

The only sensitive information listed in this article is his application for security clearance. While that may contain a lot of personal information, that file would have been compiled and sent before he had access to classified documents, and before he had a government email address.

I am guessing this kid wiggled his way into a 10+ year old AOL account containing data that was never deleted. We all probably have emails and contacts sitting in a forgotten AOL account.

This is great, it would be better if you could zoom in to a state. You would be able to see migration patterns within cities and regions.

I was really hoping this would be a native app for the collaborative/social aspects of github.

These posts are great, there are a few similar one's linked in the description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588

I think we're making the same point. I don't consider niche software that deliver's value and nails one aspect of delivery to be mediocre at all. That's great software.

The analogy was Italian food. That's a huge market. Picking a huge market would be a critical mistake if your goal is to be a small bootstrapped SaaS company.

Assuming half the costs are fixed (office, salaries, etc) and half the costs grow with revenue (Sales, Marketing, Servers etc.) than the situation becomes a little more bleak:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YoPnpFzmcpdZQh6HZ_2f...

EDIT: they would hit breakeven at 22 months - not bad actually.

This is more difficult to accomplish than it seems. If I'm hungry, mediocre Italian food can provide me some value. Mediocre software provides no value.

Doing something just a little bit better is also not going to cut it. Peter Theil gave a good talk on this recently: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec05/

Just doing OK in SaaS is harder than it looks.

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion, Mac software is priced as bait for Apple hardware. Professional recording equipment is very expensive, and high-end producers have no qualms spending a few grand on Pro Tools plugins. Logic isn't the Photoshop of recording, it's more like Sketch.

Or you could finish with "A simple yes or no is fine" and prevent the recipient from having to googling an acronym.

Documentary filmed just before Thrift Shop blew up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErUzr8GSvU&t=10m14s

That link skips to the point where Macklemore and Ryan Lewis explain why they have stayed independent. They talk about record deals the exact same way startups talk about raising capital.

The IP address and name are irrelevant. Should US citizens living in Pakistan be disallowed from making campaign contributions because they have arab sounding names?

The only thing that matters is whether the donations come from a US credit card. As far as I can tell all of these farcical contributions came from US credit cards.

I love this: the $1.1B Obama campaign uses nearly the same stack as my single page personal website.

When I read the title of this post I thought "WHOA, other people do that too?!" and clicked through to take the poll. Your poll is going to have a heavy selection bias towards people who select text while reading. People who don't select text while reading will probably ignore this poll and go read an article on erlang best practices or Paul Graham's favorite color.

I know a very talented and widely respected Canadian developer who was offered a job at a well known company but turned down at the border based on this requirement. They make occasional exceptions but it is handled case-by-case and often depends on who reviews your file.