This is pretty useful! Putting blinders on and working with a project on my laptop and knowing the folder it's in is automagically getting synced with an actual CDN as well as everything being updated in real-time as I make changes??? Sounds pretty sweet. On my last project I wasted an entire damn day dealing with setting up GH-Pages and another project with Coudflair, a regular hosting company and a few tools to automate my workflow. I really like that all of this is out of the box in this product!
I find it at the very least strange that this CDN gets submitted to HN twice today, and you post the exact same extremely positive comment on both submissions.
Hey there, a long story short, it was accidentally launched on PH a day early so we were running around a bit crazy earlier today. I submitted it earlier as a Launch with a comment/copy and paste but realized it should have been a Show. I also wanted to write the comment myself instead of the copy/paste.
You find it strange that this was reposted and when I saw it I didn't want to re-write a totally different comment once I saw it? I find this service useful. I mean what's not exciting and useful about hosting a site from within your personal dropbox on your laptop? Also, I find it very strange that you have nothing better to do than police HN.
This is pretty useful! Putting blinders on and working with a project on my laptop and knowing the folder it's in is automagically getting synced with an actual CDN as well as everything being updated in real-time as I make changes??? Sounds pretty sweet. On my last project I wasted an entire damn day dealing with setting up GH-Pages and another project with Coudflair, a regular hosting company and a few tools to automate my workflow. I really like that all of this is out of the box in this product!
The proper US response to the 2016 meddling would have been a NATSEC law that said no US based social media company could allow for 5 years any Russian IP address to connect to their services, or they would suffer massive fines. Facebook and Twitter for their role in the attack would be fined $5 Billion Dollars each and forced to provide policies within 1 year to prevent this from happening again, or face the threat of becoming regulated by the US government. All user accounts that belonged to Russian citizens as well as the Russian oligarchs and politicians were to be frozen for 5 years. US and EU Banks would be required to sanction Russians Oligarchs and Putin's interests.
Basically you would have instantly made Russian life a living digital hellscape for 5 years, at which point things could be lifted provided there were signed binding treaties and assurances that the type of attack in 2016 would never happen again. If attacks resumed the next round would last 10 years and be twice as severe.
If we're going to destroy net neutrality and impart government fascism, or have bizzaro government rulings that get throw out in court, this is how we should have done it, and this is the cause we should have done it for.
Is this possible technically? The story is about trying to block Telegram and finding out that is impossible because of VPNs, IP changes(tech details) why do you think you can prevent Russian trolls to post on social media with a law? You block eh innocent people that are not technically sophisticated at best
What are you talking about? You just searched for an SNL skit. Are you telling me you don't want to now watch every single SNL episode ever made as well as join an improv troupe?!
That was Interest-based advertising several years ago (or at least the last time I surged around without an ad blocker). I found it ham-fisted. However - the interesting thing that comes out of this is that if someone buys, say, chocolate and marshmallows, there’s a reasonable chance they want to buy graham crackers. So why not offer them graham crackers at checkout if it’s not in their cart?
More insidiously - why not offer a higher price on graham crackers if they seek them out on their own? They’ve already made a decision.
To take it a bit further, you'd probably want to mark down the checkout suggestion to not only make it look better, but also because you're only suggesting a very limited amount of options, once customers are used to trusting the checkout suggestions for a good deal, you introduce higher-margin and/or promoted products.
More or less the same tactic Amazon used for search results: Return useful/functional results for a few years to train you users to trust what is near the top, then start putting promoted products at or near the top and generally ordering the search by what increases your revenue the most, rather than for any user-oriented goal, AKA "sort by relevance".
Also the same thing Amazon did with prices in general, get people used to thinking you're the market with the best price/deal, etc.
Amazon got massive backlash in 2001 for messing with prices during shopping experience. Some companies do it, but customers and news media hate being toyed with, and loss aversion bias means they tolerate "wait! Before you go!" discounts but not price increases.
If anything they should be giving tax rebates to Uber and Lyft drivers since this is called f'ing car pooling, and it's saving additional cars from getting on LA roads.
