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I'm scared of the day we block ads by default. Sure the internet will briefly be a nicer looking domain.

But then sites will support themselves through alternative means, some better, some worse, than the ads we used to have.

And the ads we will still get, on or off the internet will be less informed of our behaviours, resorting to meta-tactics to grab our attention besides simply being relevant to our interests.

As much as I hate the way ads can be displayed to me, I like it when they're relevant to my interests, I like it when I can peruse a quality site that exists because of ad revenue. And I know that I can seek out the ability to block the more annoying ones.

If that's their response it's way off the mark. Google is a huge company and yes Android is one aspect of it that is wonderful and open. However the aspect being scrutinised by the EU is its search monopoly.

It's no defence to just hold up a shield of good behaviour within another realm of business.

Personally I'm torn on the actual issue anyhow. I'm trying to see why a private company like Google is bound to any degree of public duty on its own websites. Are search engines special domains where the owners can't advertise their own products above and beyond all others?

Yes Google have search dominance, but it's a free service, there should be no pressure on Google to weaken their self-advertising on a free platform. Instead the onus is on its competitors to offer compelling reasons for searchers to use their platforms over Google's.

Article is two years old, ICO link is to a dead page. Ignore it, probably a bot spamming HN.

It's the easy option to opt for retaliation. I'd advise against if only to keep your own principles strong. If you value openness, talk to them. If they cannot find a replacement during the two week timeframe then they may ask you to stay on longer. Use this as leverage for fairer pay during that period (unless you already have to move into your new job). If they do not offer more, then stick to your principles and leave. That is the fair and just way of handling them without weakening your own moral code. And finally, good luck!

Harder to find and more worthless

Worth a read: http://www.kashflow.com/blog/the-effect-of-shorter-trial-per...

Pushbullet- https://www.pushbullet.com/

Share option on my phone lists the push near the top. Desktop notification through a Chrome extension gets them to my desktop.

Works the other way too.

So I can get texts, calendar events, links, pictures, everything to my Chrome. And then even reply to texts, or send links back to my phone from Chrome. Easy.

With the help of IFTTT I can even get smart notifications to both, like latest sales of interest to me.

Unsure if I'm doing something wrong but I just pasted in a Youtube URL and it did nothing but show a little red X in the entry bar.

Except caching a torrent like this still 'downloads' it, you're simply letting your computer clear it's cache soon after your done with the file. So no, you're not getting round any download issues here. Streaming is downloading.

Though this site is called 'Hacker' News, the word is being used to describe a person who applies techniques to make their lives and businesses better, and often in tech-related fields. There may be 'hackers' here, but they're here to read about big tech acquisitions, quaint projects on Github, marketing/SEO tips, and general tech news.

You should just break up with her if you're wiling to go that far. Your actions would be a terrible breach of trust. Even if she is cheating, you're a bad person too.

Toodu and Reddit aren't bad name. They are simple bi-syllabic words that are completely original. If you want your company to list easily in Google, this is how you do it. I suggest you think a bit more deeply about names before calling them out.

Plus it's fairly obvious that name is a small factor in success. A simple, original name (Google!) is simply best practice.

You likely have an extension that typically loads at the top of the page, like a toolbar or overlay. I've seen similar from things like VWO, SEO toolbars and even Wordpress. When they're not needed they sometimes hide themselves REALLY badly, creating a gap at the top of the page on certain sites.

I think it's a joke?

6-person strong content team headed up by an editor and a deputy. Plus a few freelancers making regular submissions for more variety.

Board with each team member's output being tracked through stages from pitching to external sites, to progress on internal pieces and projects.

Research pieces, PR, opinion, news updates etc. And now we're expanding into video too.

We run our main site which is a SaaS business, and then we also have a supporting content site, basically an online magazine pitched at our target demographic for the SaaS side. Let's us show that we're experts in our field and funnel into the business.

Not exactly unbiased... reads very pro-Palestine.

If I had that time and that money to spare I'd try my hand at selling mainstream electronics on Amazon, using their Fulfilment program. Buy items like Beats headphones wholesale, have them delivered to an Amazon depot, Amazon stock them and sell them for you essentially. Couldn't be simpler.

There are overheads for having them do so much, but I'd think profit was possible, and because of the simplicity it'd be incredibly easy to scale should it work.

Ooh a ghetto, what a great idea. /sarcasm

Let the system optimise for signal/noise ratio, not just a blanket 'voluntary' ban of April Fools gags. Don't encourage people to follow your personal opinion of 'dreading' this day, it's an abuse of your position to try to persuade people that way. You're a moderator, please remain as objective as possible.

The tech world is having a day of fun, people interested in tech have to make the personal decision of whether or not they like each individual gag. If the masses approve then it has a place on a tech news feed. If you don't like it, feel free to make your opinion heard, just don't ask others to follow your opinion thoughtlessly.

The incognito browser will still gather some data during your session, when you end the session it will 'forget' them. You won't be able to recover the session data, whether or not there are still files from that session floating around on your computer. They are likely temporary files which will soon disappear.

Bull market bro, buy more bitcoins.

There's a vast gulf between SSL and a third-party promo code generator. The main difference being the number of professionals putting time and effort into SSL standards and the global uptake of those standards. Trust is earned.

To say something as well established as a 'Trusted Certificate Authority' equates to 'Stranger Stranger Stranger' is slightly erroneous. I may not know them personally, but to all intents and purposes my browser is incredibly familiar with the technology and has been for generations. That trust has been earned.

I've no idea what the process was for SSL to become to central, but it'd be a good example of how to reach that position with something like a promo code generator. I'd imagine a lot of time being peer reviewed, worked on collaboratively and if it's ever misused strong evidence of hotfixes in new iterations. A a track record of legitimacy. Of earned trust.

Also never trust codes generated by some stranger on the internet for free.

I think this is a necessary next step for Bitcoin. So yes.

If PDAs were inexpensive and everyone had a need for one then they would have seen the same massive growth that mobile phones did, and would likely have had call capabilities added a long time ago.

But PDAs are niche, and expensive. Mobile phones offered utility to everyone, we all loved the concept of being able to make calls form everywhere. And it could be done inexpensively, the device was simple once the infrastructure was built. Then because of this phones entered a features war, and PDA technology and features got absorbed. Nobody manipulated anybody, nobody said we should market phones as PDAs. It was just the natural progression of a highly competitive market.

If anything the driving force was the demands of the consumer, manipulating the industry into a startling pace of technological adaptation to remain competitive. Modern civilisation has it good, real good. Not because of a shrewd marketing move, but because when enough people like something that something has to evolve to keep up with our demands. PDAs never saw that attention.

From what I understand two terms you use would be inaccurate. First of all it's not an area, as it has no physical dimensions. Second of all it could not be called 'eternity' as it is composed of nothing and therefore no change to it is occurring, and change is the fundamental principle behind time.

Everything that exists, exists within the universe, there is nothing 'outside', there is no 'outside'. At least under the classical understanding, or theory, of existence. Some multiverse models posit that there may be other universes that we may one day expand into. Others yet posit that these other 'bubbles' might have differing laws of physics to us, and could destroy us on contact. Fun.

This is something I've never quite grasped. To stream a video is to download it. The difference here simply being the moving of the cached video to more permanent storage, allowing the video to be viewed offline. For a video that is available online at any time, for free, it seems that there can be no distinction between the download and the stream. If Google are trying to preserve their monetisation through ads then there is a clear disconnect between this punishment and those ads. The video content being downloaded is not a direct revenue producer for them, the ad is. This seems to boil down to content consumers being punished for ad evasion, which is completely understandable and innocent practise. If Google think they are missing out on revenue from ad evaders they really need to think about that segment's motivations (read:they don't like ads).

To then punish a site that merely mentions the downloading, and the punishment being an Adsense block is incredibly out of order. Youtube cannot dictate the content of another site. So so evil, their motto is being revealed for the smokescreen it is.

If you're posting an article that's almost a year old, chances are it's not news!

That was awesome when it happened though. Watched a video of a beekeeper complaining that the colour will affect sales negatively. I couldn't understand why, sure the clarity of regular honey can affect purchasing, but this is novelty, people would snap it up!

Site is very clean and fresh, nice job. Your colour palette is perhaps too simple, most companies go for a a few shades of three complementing colours.

Green is also a colour closely associated with greed and money, or nature and freshness. Neither pair of concepts fit well with your product really.

Content seems well written and concise. You mention an Android version which I don't think the video did.

The last section at the bottom of the page is rendering strangely in Chrome (but not Firefox). Every 'e' has a very heavy weighting on the middle bar, it looks thicker and so every 'e' stands out in that final description beneath the subscription box.

Technically this is an app, not a startup (from the looks of things.

Voice is great, if a little forced at points, she can sound a little TOO enthused.

Animation was nice, obviously not top of the line, but professional-grade nonetheless.

Fonts could do with some work, you use at least two (ignoring Votechat brand font) once looked like Times New Roman, the other like Comic Sans, neither of which are that great.

App concept is simple, but perhaps not too clearly explained. The algorithm explanation left me scratching my head as 'number of people' / 'number of ideas = 'votechat' makes no sense.

I was also left wondering about your first example of a user case: several ideas. Wouldn't it be best to have people rank their preference and have a simple algorithm work out the activity/idea with the highest combined popularity?

A situation where 5 out of 8 people want to go paintballing, but 3 really don't, but they'd all like to go to the cinema would be problematic for your app. If the 5 vote for their paintballing over the cinema, 3 people will be left out, or unhappy to attend, whereas with a ranking method, you may have all 8 doing something they like, together.