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Myspace is still ranked 4,000 in top websites in the world. So I guess we're still waiting for "the end" of MySpace.

There's a full Khan Academy course specifically on Pixar storytelling techniques.

https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar

I don't get it. Protonmail still doesn't support PGP, yet they're working on open source libraries for other people to implement PGP? I don't understand these priorities.

You a fed?

But what if it's a few thousand $ cheaper? Like the $50 Kindle Fire tablet.

If you like stories like this and listen to podcasts, you might want to listen to Darknet Diaries (https://darknetdiaries.com). It covers true stories from hackers and stories about cyber crime.

Hey if you like stories like this, then you'd love my podcast. https://darknetdiaries.com.

I blog in markdown, I reddit in markdown, I trello in markdown, I github in markdown. I write books in markdown. It's become my writing method of choice. This is for me. I'm so glad reddit doesn't have that ugly, clunky, icon bar to let me bold or hyperlink. I'm so glad trello doesn't either.

Hey thanks for the list. Have you tried the Darknet Diaries podcast? Wondering what you think of it.

Is there an option to print yet?

Hampton Creek is the makers of "Just Mayo" which is talked about in this article. What isn't said is that they've been on the shelves at Target up until 2 months ago when Target pulled all their products for an unknown reason. Speculation has it that Hellmans was very upset that Just Mayo was disrupting the mayo business and delivered falsified claims to Target trying to get them to pull the products. It's a real slugfest right now.

On another note, Beyond Meat's founder was featured on "How I Built This", a favorite podcast for many HN'ers.

I just figured out how to use ansible and python to script out changing the passwords for all the network gear in the office. It uses a random password generator api https://passwordwolf.com to fetch a new password, changes it on everything, then sends me the new passwords. I'm changing passwords monthly now but it works so well that I might set it to weekly.

At least in the US, the Overdrive app for android let's you rent audiobooks from the library so you can play on your phone. No need to rip or convert.

But :q and :quit does in fact quit the program. It's also the command I've been using for 20 years... Why do you think it's "wrong"?

How does one view the top viewed questions on stack overflow?

I think $40/yr or $2/icon is too far out of reach for me to use these icons as a proof of concept, blog, or early website launches. I have a website idea which would use about 100 of these icons, but I can't justify the cost yet since it brings in no revenue.

Does Jekyll still use Sinatra? If so, does this mean anything cool for Jekyll?

Whoa whoa whoa. Amazon has focused on page speed load and user experience for over a decade. Their core business is their website. They have refined and improved thousands of times. You should ask "What would happen to Amazon's sales if they suddenly stopped caring about page speed?" The answer is over time they will add additional bloaty libraries and it will eventually slow down to a horrible crawl. This will likely start turning customers away who want a better user experience.

On a daily basis I have to interact with HPE's website. Now THAT's a company that could care less about their user's experience on their website. Pages take on average 20 seconds to load and sometimes up to 3 minutes! They are lucky that it's not their website that is their business but it's their products or else they'd lose business so fast. I absolutely HATE interacting with their site because of how slow it is. I can deal with bad UX if the site is quick to load, but I can't deal with bad UX if the site is extremely slow.

Another thing to think about is simple single content pages, like ones that just tell you the time, or tell you what your IP address is. The ones at the top of Google searches pay extremely close attention to page speed load times. There is so much competition in their space that they know they need to be the best and that is just another way to do that.

I think if there are two sites with the same content and functionality, people would hands down prefer the faster page.

Because Studio Ghibli continues to make films. So you don't have to 1) know when a new film is released 2) download a new data dump.

Yes. Example. I had a series of articles that I expected people to read in order, but found that the 3rd one was getting more traffic than all the rest combined. That's because people wanted to know something specific about that subject and found my page through Google. Well that page acted as a very poor entry point to the subject so I improved it by rewriting the article to look better as a standalone article instead of just making sense in a series.

The goal is to give quality content and make your readers satisfied. If they bounce off your page and go back to Google search results, Google takes note of that and thinks your site isn't serving its purpose.

I get 3,000 visitors a day to my blog. Here are some of my tips:

* The more content, the more opportunities people will have to find you

* Quality content builds brand. When people search google and remember they got something good from your site last time, they may be happy to find you can help them again

* Tons of optimization should be considered such as: Clean URLs, fast page load times, canonical URLs, A+ on your TLS score, mobile friendly, zero http errors, user friendly, only 1 h1 tag per page, number of keywords per page, no broken links, readable fonts, colors easy on the eyes, no flash, etc.

* Building your brand or blog's brand is important to spend time on. Make guest posts on other blogger's blogs, be active on social media, get other bloggers to give you quotes or stories, give talks at events, etc.

* Watch your analytics. Your most viewed blog posts should be your best blog posts. Keep improving them. Can you explain it better now? Are there typos you missed before? If your traffic is coming from specific keyword searches, does your post satisfy them?

* Spend a considerable amount of time on your title. When you look at impressions vs clicks, you'll see far more people see only the title of your page and not the actual page at all. In fact, if your page is trending on social media, many people will just share the article with ONLY looking at the title.

* I focus on long-tail or niche Google searches as the primary way to drive traffic. I write about adventures in IT type of stuff. Almost all of my content can be consumed, now or later, or years later. If you're blogging about current events, you have a small window of time where your blog post is relevant, then you shouldn't really expect traffic after that window closes.

Does Tavis get any overtime for finding a bug on Saturday?

Unless, the retaliation is done by the NSA where they don't want any more of their precious 0 days getting leaked.

Get a mentor. This takes a bit of luck to find a mentor (or great boss) but the rewards are massive. They'll teach you what's relevant to study/learn, they'll teach you what to focus on to get the most return, they'll be a back stop to technical questions, they'll be endless knowledge, they'll be a role model.

I like this a lot. When I first became engineer I went to our infrastructure team to have them explain to me what every tool we have does and how it fits into what we do. It took a few weeks but at the end of it, I could see the way the business ran much clearer than I did before. This helped me tremendously over the next few years.

How about dragging to the terminal? This is a feature of mobaxterm. Upon ssh'ing to a system, a sftp session is automatically opened as well.

Why would such a small, simple program need to be 64 bit? Exactly what changes when moving puTTY from 32 bit to 64 bit? It now takes up more memory?

I admit, the smart keyboard or IntelKey or whatever sparked my interest. I don't know what it does, but I think keyboards could use a major improvement. I'm thinking something like a stenograph machine with just 20 some keys instead of my 114 key keyboard. The keyboard would need to recognize context of my "to" and "there" in order to put the right word in. So I could see an inline rasp pi or arduino doing this task. I could then type 3 times as fast. Maybe voice controls will just take over instead. Nevermind.

If he had committed this crime in the UK, he'd be out of prison by now. But because he was in the US, he may never get out.