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My HN account provides me with no financial benefits and exists purely for entertainment value.

This account got over 300 karma in 20 days. ~60-90 days is how long it usually takes me to hit 1000+.

On and off since 2010.

If you want, I could probably give you one of my 1000+ accounts. I'm not sure if that is against the guidelines tho. I suppose I could email dang. xD

If you take HN seriously enough to care, ummm, why?

No offense but this place largely acts like a more technically sophisticated Reddit with everything from downvoting factual statements to upvoting provably false opinion. That doesn't include the inherent bias in the design towards YC companies and so forth.

Please don't, it is just karma.

> Which brings me to the thought: If one of the most intelligent and open minded online communities can exhibit censorship or can determine users to self-censor, then what can be said about other communities/platforms ?

I think its an example of a problem that is difficult to solve because you want to surface the content that makes the majority happy which becomes naturally self reinforcing.

That said, I'd like to see a platform that surfaces heavily downvoted content that received some upvotes as a hybrid with purely upvoted content. [e.g. +70, -100 is a comment probably worth ranking at +35 because the downvote/upvote split is likely opinion-based rather than purely factual]

* Google

* DuckDuckGo [ Although with the Ad changes, if I don't have an Ad Blocker enabled, this tends to beat Google. As such, it tends to my default since I use JS blocking. ]

* Yandex / Bing

What is the value proposition that differentiates them from Google?

I'm sorry but Bing has no real value proposition vs. Google or even Yandex. :/

https://gogs.io/docs/installation/install_from_packages

It is what I use for my misc things at home.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/simple-acquired-for-117m-wi...

Then moved on from there and making it into "Simple, The Apple Bank". The fact they didn't move in that direction makes me think it never really occurred to them.

Yeah but honestly they are all companies I'd personally avoid and haven't been happy with.

> Though I think software devs have a unique view of Linkedin, in that we have many other avenues for professional networking AND we are heavily recruited at all levels of experience. When the only real way to network is via mutual acquaintances (as opposed to open source projects, chat rooms, etc.) and you aren't getting spammed with every "game changing startup" Linkedin can give you real value.

Yes but what value do you get out of it besides access to a network for a job search?

This being the case I think there is an opportunity for a lean site with a narrow vertical [e.g. software devs which are heavily recruited by internal recruiters] to dislodge LinkedIn. Of course they'd have to solely sell your resume to recruiters. All the other revenue streams and related issues would have to be dropped.

I don't want to have to edit your CSS just so I can read the text.

Both are in possession of large networks which allow them to mitigate DDoS attacks.

The small business with the 1gbps pipe isn't "mitigating" the attack. Their provider is mitigating the attack in return for payment.

Personally, I just built my own zsh config that solves my problems without all the framework mess. Its less than 150 lines + some related dot files for aliases, vim, etc.

I think that was largely the OP's point tbh. Using something like lodash [a utility library] is fine while using a module [for a single function] is not.

It might have gotten lost in the ranting from on high but I don't think the author truly meant more than that.

Realistic assessment of your abilities matters as an employee.

Humility is far rarer and more valuable.

A level 3 or 4 autonomous car is a true autopilot.

Tesla is level 2.

That is all I was trying to say really. The article doesn't know either and you can't extrapolate markets like that.

I didn't.

> Tesla is the height of cool in the car industry at the moment. If people will buy a brand new ~$20-25k generic car, you don't think they'll spend a few thousand extra to get the hot new thing, the 2017 car version of what the iPhone was in 2007? Especially when it means no more paying for gas, and having autopilot?

1) I said it won't be market dominant beyond the first year, at most.

2) It'll have very limited self-driving features, that isn't the same thing as autopilot.

> People said the same thing about the S. And now we have a car that's going to be $28k after tax rebate, before add-ons. Idk about you but I know a very large number of people who are willing to spend more than they ought to on a car they can only narrowly afford just because.

I'm genuinely amused how quick you are to defend the fact people exist rather than trying to provide any kind of evidence they exist in such massive quantities.

Yes but is there 175k every year such as the article implies? I'm skeptical.

I can believe there is going to be 100k in sales but that isn't a market dominating product. I could even see it hitting 200k that first year due to pent up demand but it won't sustain it.

I know a couple people in the former category who own multiple cars that cost 6 figures. They'd buy a Tesla just because they want one without cost considerations. They also have a Ferrari, a Porsche, etc. Pretty much any iconic brand of luxury car they have at least 1.

The low end luxury market are engineers, doctors, etc. and they will seriously consider buying a minivan or a SUV or whatever instead. It is a completely different market and one that [frankly] is just as likely to dip into brands like the Prius hybrid.

I'm sure Tesla will get sales but imagining some sort of dominance is silly.

People sell DDoS mitigation but that isn't anything close to a business being able to mitigate things and caring about best practices.

Just in case anyone was wondering why a large number of NPM-based builds broke today.

That could work well enough. :)

Yeah, my main concern was a power user who people wouldn't want to unfollow abusing the feature to silence critics.

That has always been the problem with competently executed DDoS attacks. You need a very large pipe as Step #1 which is simply not cost effective for most businesses. :/