jontsai

Oh, hi, fellow Bible geek!

I've been running OpenClaw for 3 weeks and built this to manage it at scale. Currently running 5 masters + 10 satellites + 100+ cron jobs on Mac Studio M2 Ultra.

Key features: real-time session monitoring, LLM quota tracking ("fuel gauges"), topic organization via Slack threads, advanced cron with run-if-idle/skip-if-last-run-within.

The scheduler uses OS concepts (semaphores, greedy algorithms). On $200/month Claude Code Max, never hit overage — saves ~$10k/month.

Demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/453cafab9dd142abb21559dee37785c7

Happy to answer questions about the architecture.

If the news sites want to display a different version of their sites via logged-out experience, that's one thing.

If they are sending the full article HTML to your browser, allowing it to fully display for several seconds, before covering it up with a paywall div/iframes, it should be fair use for you to view what you've already downloaded to your computer.

The plugin simply acts like as a sieve on the client-side to filter the covered-up HTML to the front.

You can already circumvent paywalls by using text-based browsers like Lynx.

That's like if a magazine company sends you a copy of their magazine in the mail. You already got it in the mailbox. And they put on the cover of the magazine: "If you don't agree to subscribing, don't read this and throw it in the trash, or mail it back to us."

Many ISPs have recently started charging for bandwidth usage. I have to pay for the data that I consume. They are forcing me to pay unwillingly for data usage by click-baiting me into wanting to view the article, then displaying the full article for several seconds, then covering it up with HTML divs.

The companies have the technological capabilities based on browser cookie info to send me a redacted version of their site. They should just do that.

I built a Google Chrome extension that removes the paywall from news websites.

It currently handles nytimes.com, businessinsider.com.

For reasons, I will probably not publishing this in the Chrome webstore. I'm open to requests to add additional sites.

Hey everyone, I'm the author of that post. Needless to say, I was wrong and ya'll were right. I made a follow-up entry in case anyone is interested: http://www.jontsai.com/security/2013/05/12/pinterest-wasnt-h...

As I mention there, there was still a minute possibility that even if this didn't belong to Pinterest, it could have been an internal tool for a small team or an employee hack day/side project that got accidentally exposed.

This was simply too irresistible to not post.

tldr;

I read through probably half of the comments and then skimmed the rest, so sorry if this was already mentioned:

What if Netflix streaming service improves A LOT, and their movie collection grows to encompass pretty much every movie out there? A lot of the discussion has assumed that Netflix would remain the same, but with their focusing exclusively on streaming, I could see how they would have more leverage to negotiate with content owners to license movies--for one, they could charge a higher subscription fee and offer more revenue share for streaming and a more comprehensive catalog, something that I'd be very happy to pay an extra $5 for (I currently only have the streaming plan)

Thanks for that clarification, it makes more sense.

Oh, one more thing to add: Google Apps is free for up to 10 users, so arguably, email and collaboration is even more important than the other infrastructure stuff. Paying for a luxury when something even more basic is free? Hmmm...

I'm building a new website, and I know that I definitely want to use Jenkins for CI.

However, with all the infrastructure stuff that's needed for a software organization, having all of these services hosted quickly becomes a nightmare to manage in itself?

By infrastructure stuff I mean all of the following and more (and the decision to run it yourself or have it hosted): - Hosting - Amazon EC2 or Rackspace - Bug and Task tracking - Bugzilla - Version control - Git (Github private costs $/month) - CI - Jenkins - Deploy - Heroku (hosted) vs Capistrano scripts (DIY)

Because I like to do pretty much everything myself and save money whenever I can (I have been hosting several websites from my home desktop on dynamic DNS w/ freedns.afraid.org for years)--I am just about to finally give in and actually rent a VPS from Rackspace.

Knowing that all of these are services will always be needed (or at least, should be best practices) for collaborative software building, I would much rather build these out and customize them for myself for the years to come.

The only reason I'd switch over to hosted solutions is if I or someone on my team got too busy to maintain it in-house, and if the cost savings were justifiable in switching over.

After using Jenkins CI at my last company, I really enjoyed that experience, and absolutely must have it for all of my future projects. On my list of infrastructure stuff, CI comes after hosting and source control as a basic necessity, so it should on average cost the same or less than those.

I hope I'm not being so cheap and parsimonious as to offend you, but I'd like to see a version of your service offered in the $15 price range without much sacrifice in quality/service.

Sorry, in my previous comment I was talking about both the on-the-ground engineers and also the people running the companies at the top (e.g. Jack Ma). They will also have a lot of money to buy whoever and whatever they want.

I know I'm venturing a bit off topic, but...

From what I've seen, 5 years is about the amount of time for major changes in trends to take place. A lot of companies can rise and fall in 5 years, which is the same amount of time it takes for a startup to come out of nowhere and then dominate the scene.

We haven't really seen China and India explode yet. I would even dare to say that a lot of people on HN haven't taken a close look at Chinese websites. Rhygar's comment not only applies to Samsung, but a lot of other companies we haven't even heard of in other countries. There are Chinese travel websites (e.g. qunar and huochepiao), auction sites (taobao), search engines (baidu), social networks (renren), made by really smart engineers who understand their local markets and cost a fifth to a third of what US software engineers cost--and when those companies make boatloads of cash in their own country, guess where they will start pushing out to?

I laughed when I went to Shanghai several years ago and saw all the urinals and toilets in the airport with the American Standard brand. Now, I see a lot of Toto (Japanese) branded toilets in American restaurants and public restrooms.

I would have couches and sleep/napping areas--a lot of them.

I think the best and most essential things to quality of life are: air, water/food/drink, exercise, sleep. I find that there is an unsurprising correlation that when I am healthy and fit, I am also able to perform my best at the computer.

Don't know if it's really conquering, but here's a trend that I've seen:

In the past, American products were regarded as the best and Made in USA meant quality. Next were Japanese products and consumer electronics. Starting 5-10 years ago, I began to see the well-regarded brands like Sony and Toshiba become more of a boutique brand (overpriced compared to what it offered) as they focused more on style than functionality. Most recently, products from China and Korea-based companies (Haier, Samsung, LG, Hyundai) have started to become more mainstream.

This just shows that there will always be up-and-coming competitors who will out-hustle, out-engineer, and out-build the previous market dominators if they don't keep innovating and staying fresh. The smaller competitors, given enough time, will catch up.

Ramit hits it right on the spot by being as specific as possible in your pitch and cater to a specific target audience and learn their language, and not trying to cater to everyone. That guy Ramit has a lot of hustle in him that I think every startup can learn from.

+1 Monoprice is the best place to get cables of all sorts, IMO. And overnight shipping is only $4.95!

Ohhh. I was thinking about it wrong. Probably obvious to others, but I forgot about the property that if you have primes p and q, any number n (evenly) divisible by p that is also divisible by q must be divisible by the product of p*q.

That shortcut is a result of hyper-optimization and I was thinking more along the lines of code-reusability (e.g. if the rules of FizzBuzz were changed from %3 and %5 to %x and %y) =P

Coincidentally, I happened to quit Yahoo! a few weeks ago. From a former insider's perspective, I thought Carol Bartz did a decent job in cutting costs, making org changes, and running the company with no-nonsense attitude. IMO, @blakei the EVP of Products has been doing a great job--he would definitely get my vote of confidence. Just my $0.02

Don't think you can do $i%15, still need to do that check separately. I like how you can leave out the closing ?>. you can also save 2 spaces by getting rid of whitespace between statements and symbols .

The comments on the RapLeaf blog post I linked to in this thread has a guy trying out different Ruby solutions. Very clever!

Heh, shortest I could do in Python after several hours was 62

  for x in range(1,101):print'Fizz'*(x%3==0)+'Buzz'*(x%5==0)or x

Really, is that hacking? That's more like someone chose a bad password or didn't practice good password policy.

Oh yes, this is tremendously fun! I worked on i18n/g11n/l10n for Y! World Cup and other games

Compare: http://us.wc.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ http://hk.wc.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ http://tw.wc.fantasysports.yahoo.com/

It's a tremendous amount of work, and you have to identify translatable phrases AND contexts, not just strings and words. Websites that plan on catering to multiple languages and regions should incorporate i18n from the beginning, not an afterthought, which would require going through lots of code with a fine-toothed comb =)

I first heard about FizzBuzz from Hackruiter.com and then I got an email from RapLeaf (http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2011/09/06/code-golfing-at-the-o...)

It's a very interesting concept to filter out the bad programmers using something simple like FizzBuzz. What do you guys like to give out as programming or interview questions? How effective are they?