Hacker News: aaronhoffman

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?"

aaronhoffman — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:37:11 +0000

I used the price system to determine which problems were collectively the most valued and therefore tried to solve the problems that paid the most money.

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Ask HN: Any obvious reason for duckduckgo vs. Google speed difference on mobile?"

aaronhoffman — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 12:57:17 +0000

Isn’t it to mask the search terms that you used? If you go directly to the page the current url including the query would become the referrer

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Do We Need Central Banks? (2017)"

aaronhoffman — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:27:02 +0000

What free banking might look like http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/what-free-banking-and-why...

Programmatically Add Google Chrome Shortcuts via SQLite

aaronhoffman — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:17:16 +0000

Article URL: https://aaron-hoffman.blogspot.com/2018/04/programmatically-add-other-search-engines-to-google-chrome-for-vsts-shortcuts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935271

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Sync GitHub Gists to Local Git Repo

aaronhoffman — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://aaron-hoffman.blogspot.com/2018/04/sync-github-gists-with-git-repo.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16755375

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Show HN: HN Domain Leaderboard"

aaronhoffman — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:54:13 +0000

This is a little out of date but may be of interest here. This is a visualization of the top 10,000 HN posts https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/Boards/sizzle/Hacker-News-To...

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says"

aaronhoffman — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:04:43 +0000

Except the poor

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Hello, world: this is WikiTribune"

aaronhoffman — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:57:24 +0000

I'd love to see a browser extension that allows this community to mark up existing news websites with other resources/arguments against. Similar to Rap Genius Web Annotator https://genius.com/web-annotator

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Ask HN: Job Scheduling as a service"

aaronhoffman — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:19:51 +0000

Something like Azure Storage Queues and Functions may be what you're looking for

https://aaron-hoffman.blogspot.com/2017/01/replace-azure-sch...

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?"

aaronhoffman — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:36:31 +0000

This tool takes a list of URIs and crawls each site for contact info. Phone, email, twitter, etc

https://github.com/aaronhoffman/WebsiteContactHarvester

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Should Women Give Up the Power That Comes with Being Objectified?"

aaronhoffman — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:59:25 +0000

"Why have women never tried to manipulate me?"

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Ask HN: How much economics as an entrepreneur should i know?"

aaronhoffman — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:49:52 +0000

A general understanding might help, but IMO knowing specifics is not necessary. I've known plenty of entrepreneurs that have little to no understanding of economics.

In addition, economics can get quite political. Again, a general understanding of why it's political can help here, but specifics are not necessary.

New comment by aaronhoffman in "What should follow the web?"

aaronhoffman — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:35:20 +0000

Probably something like Johnny Mnemonic

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Heathcare.gov to Go Down for Maintenance in Middle of Obamacare Enrollment"

aaronhoffman — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:31:59 +0000

People have jumped on this as deliberate sabotage, but do we know any specifics? Has the team changed since 2016?

New comment by aaronhoffman in "When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets"

aaronhoffman — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:19:45 +0000

In the EU, when I ask for my data, do I have rights to "views" of my profile?

New comment by aaronhoffman in "When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets"

aaronhoffman — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:54:16 +0000

I tried to create one once that would do this and follow the author around to other articles. Could not figure out the go to market strategy. Still have the domain betweenTheBylines .com

New comment by aaronhoffman in "When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets"

aaronhoffman — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:51:22 +0000

Do you have a link to more info about this?

White House commits $200M a year for computer science

aaronhoffman — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:03:24 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@codeorg/200-million-a-year-for-computer-science-6daf7e16fcc0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15337862

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Other ways to read Hacker News"

aaronhoffman — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:20:32 +0000

A visualization of the front page: https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/HackerNews Easily see "hot stories", and how stories relate to each other.

New comment by aaronhoffman in "Get Rid of Equifax"

aaronhoffman — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:49:56 +0000

Privacy WRT contracts could also be improved. Why is my payment history shared with any credit company? Perhaps people will slowly choose companies similar to duckduckgo over google.