skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course if they made it based on popularity / page views then it will just encourage click-bait articles even more so it's a somewhat damned-if-you-do scenario.

I've spent some time thinking about this (but eventually chose to pursue a project where the biggest challenge was technical rather than the business model), and there's another consideration you don't mention:

The total value that a publisher gets from a platform like Medium does not grow proportionally with the publisher's size, only a fraction of the value does. Specifically, the technical work that Medium does to scale the website, and the exposure that popular publishers get from being featured on the Medium homepage, Editor's picks, etc. However, the more popular a publisher gets, the more the balance tips in favor of leaving Medium for something with lower marginal cost to the publisher, like self-hosting. (These also tend to offer the publisher significantly more control.) As a result, to keep popular publishers on the platform, Medium has to lower their margins for them, whether by special deals or otherwise. This is the downside of Medium's platform having only a modest network effect: only modest network lock-in. (The upside was a minimal chicken-and-egg problem.)

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Also, re click-bait:

I think it's worth drawing attention to the fact that readers are discouraged from supporting publishers with one-time payments (it's presumably still technically possible by signing-up for and then immediately canceling a monthly membership). If most of a publisher's revenue is from recurring payments due to the loyalty of readers, rather than one-time payments like ad impressions or micropayments or a Reddit gold-equivalent, that helps mitigate the incentives favoring cheap click-bait.
On a recent comment thread, I talked about how rankings are inherently zero-sum - there can only be one at the top.

A non zero-sum way of saying things might just be to thank JL for all the great work she's done, huge impact she's had, and so on. No arguments about 'the top person'.
What is she getting from her parents that helps with digging up stories and vetting them? She's subsidized in the sense of receiving food, clothing, and shelter, but all businesses also provide those things to their employees.

This:

> Often journalists aren't given the time or resources to dig up stories and vet them thoroughly.

(my emphasis)

is not a response to the fact that she's publishing stories faster than they are.
And they wonder where their subscribers are all going...
How's the work/life balance for engineers at Riot?
Perhaps part of the reason is the massive wealth gap between the tech migrants (tech workers) and the local population. It causes a lot of friction between locals and the new migrants. The lower earners are being forced out of the city and they probably make a up a large chunk of the service workers.

The public transit system shuts off by 12 AM - 1PM, and most service workers would likely have to live outside of the city, as well as most people coming into SF to work. The city is forced to shutoff at a certain time because of the transit situation, even if not for any other reasons.
not sure what you mean? there is a fintech meetup in Sydney.
There's a lot of value in not having to worry about self-promotion.

I'm not saying medium is great at that - they should have implemented reddit-like discovery system, with ability to sort by top posts of a year/month/etc, transparent front page algorithm, and browsing tags you are following separately from subscriptions. But they still did a lot of things right.

A platform with already existing audience, and a convenient subscribe button can make a big difference in the number of people who follow your stuff.

Clean design and WYSIWYG editor are very valuable as well. I'm a programmer, I prefer to use org-mode and markdown for my writing, so it was surprising to me how much I enjoyed writing on medium.

Beautiful design and being able to immediately see how awesome your final article looks, is, unexpectedly, really inspiring and makes the process of writing more fun.
It's used a lot more for the kind of job you're looking for than the keywords you were using.

The point is you want to use keywords that are okay with having zero experience and that are used in job postings.

Entry level fits both of those.
>Literally the next bill passed after UBI would be a bill to limit and/or extend it somehow to some favored or disfavored interest.

It's universal. You can't extend it, it's universal. You could limit it, but then it's obviously not universal.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but by definition anything not universal is not Universal Basic Income.
Interesting. How often is the groundwater potable during an emergency situation?
Silicon Valley schools seem to be a particular type of pressure cooker for certain types of kids. Do you notice/worry about this at all? The same could be said of high performing schools in other areas of the country too I guess, but there is just so much energy and ambition in the Bay Area, sometimes it seems to be one notch up on the intensity scale than anywhere else.
But then you remember that Ed was designed to be used on what essentially was a typewriter, because dialup was so slow, that you couldn't send an entire screen worth of text at once. So you would basically be remembering the text in your head, while inserting and regexing lines.

And the great error handling when it doesn't know what you just told it to do.
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"She also publishes and distributes a print edition once a month, with paid mail subscriptions for $10 a year."

Doesn't say how many subscriptions, but it wouldn't take too many for her to contribute to rent. Impressive for a 9 year old.
Could you detail the hourly rate you can have there as senior/junior dev? Do you happen to know the rates for php programmers?
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And thus, the sad decline of our media. Beholden to CPMs, CTRs, UPVs, CPAs, CPLs, CRs, and a dozen other acronyms that mean one thing - more eyeballs == more money. So they write in the fastest, most outrageous, most viral manner possible.

They're incentivized to do things like clickbait, and outrage/yellow journalism to keep people spreading it, whether they agree with the viewpoint, or dispute the facts, because it's better to get the eyeballs than have any kind of integrity or skill at the profession.
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Her name is Hilde? The same as the heroine Hilde Johnson in the greatest movie about journalism (yes, that includes All The President's Men IMHO), His Girl Friday? You couldn't ask for better journalism parents :).

BTW His Girl Friday, directed by Howard Hawks, is not only one of the best movies of its era, it is one of the few great movies that are truly in the public domain. You can watch it on Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/his_girl_friday
Even Mathematicians. Proofs are just formalised human intuition.
Geez, I didn't mean to get everyone so worked up, but I was semi-serious. The impact of YC is going to be written about 100 years from now. There's a good chance that no individual company will be considered to have had the same impact.
Ikea made a kitchen showroom in VR
Yeah it's really sad they're not willing to put in the $10-50 more on a $100k car.
Until the next presidential candidate that Russia doesn't like has all his porn and affairs and other secrets dumped online. But yes it doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world.
There's nothing inherently bad about very angry customers. It's more about how you handle them and whether you are continuously looking for ways to decrease them in number.

In this case, the idea is these are people who tripped red flags for you, and upon investigation didn't give you any reason to believe they were legitimate orders.

If you're really worried, you can contact them and ask.
> what happens when you have a conflict

That's when you find out what/who your real priorities are. Everything else is empty talk.

You can always not schedule meetings on Monday AM if doing so means neglecting your priorities. Unless weekends with the fam aren't really a priority?

Priorities are tricky like that. They're wholly up to you to make.

And yes, not having that meeting on Monday AM might mean losing a client. Is that more important or is weekend with fam more important? That part is up to you.
What evidence do you have for the terabytes claim? Not saying you're incorrect, but I'm unfamiliar with any literature that suggests that.
> I am unable to see how an employer can take advantage of an employee when employment contracts involve voluntary free-will agreement by both parties.

You don't see how the implicit threat of being able to fire you at any time, for almost any reason, gives employers an advantage?

You don't see how the (horrible/disgusting/bullshit) law exempting IT workers from overtime gives employers an advantage.

I do tire of the endless "young people are so stupid, working past 5!" refrain. If you don't really have anything to do at home then staying an extra hour and doing some work while chatting with people isn't really a big deal. People lower down on the totem pole working more to try and move up isn't unusual either.
So will PayPal shut down their office in India? Doubt it.
What kinds of consumer goods? When I lived there, it seemed reasonably cheap to me. Groceries were about normal from a US perspective, and rent in Copenhagen was quite low for a major city (~$1250/mo for a nice 2bd in a central part of the city). Some things varied, e.g. pork was very cheap, while fresh fruits were often expensive, but that's more a question of geography than anything else. Beer was exceptionally cheap, like $4/sixpack type prices. Fast food was on the expensive side, and labor costs are probably a part of that. Nicer restaurants were normal by American standards (expensive compared to Texas, cheap compared to SF or NYC). Overall I think my cost of living was lower than when I lived in the SF Bay Area, by a not-trivial margin.
rsync would only work well if there aren't any pack files (which reduce the disk space used, and access times). Pack files break the simplicity of the basic content-addressed store by compressing multiple objects together.
The replica count seems to be three - allowing quorum with a single lost host - and the repository goes read-only when quorum is lost.
Why did Reddit remove its warrant canary?
This is pretty awesome. I've been using the LLVM disassembler. How much faster is this one?
I do. The CDC came out to the High School because the suicide rate was so high.

As a parent, I have decided to completely pull back academic pressure. In fact, I regularly talk to my kids about the fact that it's OK to not be academic superstars. They are thriving at this level, but I won't hesitate to move if it changes once we get to high school. I want my kids to have opportunities I didn't. It's not so important that I'm willing to risk their health or happiness.

Our school district has a policy against too much homework, but that goes away with honors level high school classes. I was very surprised at their lack of homework compared to what we are used to, but oddly enough it's making for happier kids that are doing about the same as far as learning and retention. I have good kids though - and it's not a parenting thing. They are just better at being good kids than I ever was.
Keep in mind that "tech hub" implies tech salaries. Shovel a big pile of money into an area and you will get inflation.
Second step, I find the main() function so I can start following references.

First step, I find the project's issue tracker to get a sense of what state it's in. Is it under active development? Is it half-finished, maintained? Are there giant problems unaddressed?
I am running normal Chrome on Mac (Version 49.0.2623.87) and the feature flag is there under chrome://flags/
US inversion rules threaten $160-bn Pfizer-Allergan deal
I might be misunderstanding the situation, but isn't emoji universal? Would it be ill-fitted here?
I don't know how to say this without coming off harsh, so I'll say it and ask you to use the principle of charity when reading it.

If the Russian state refuses to stamp out crime that is causing negative externalities, then people should rightly stop dealing with people inside Russia as a logical response.
Having to use a DVR is something specific to live cable broadcasts. Internet streaming doesn't need anything like that, since the Internet is inherently interactive.

Have you ever watched streaming sports on the Internet? Something like the MLB.tv platform, which is award-winning and used by millions of people not just for MLB but for other streaming media? It has rewind, picture-in-picture, the ability to watch multiple streams (home and away announcers) for the same event, the ability to either start from the beginning of the broadcast or start from live (and from live, rewind to the beginning if you so choose). You can also watch any game basically since baseball started being broadcast.

None of those things exist on cable. So I'm not sure why you're saying that cable is a better sports-watching medium. Why the hell would I ever need to rewind a local copy of the game?
"But I don't have the authority to just change the names of things."

PING!

You do now! Go for it!

-- The Naming Fairy
If I were to design this system, I'd make the language picker very prominent and have a very clear explanation saying to make sure both parties have the same language selected before comparing the words.

Alternatively, the party whose code is being confirmed would just select the language, and the other party's UI could automatically update to show the code in the chosen language. The first party would still have to pick a language both people understand but (as long as both parties have a working internet connection) there wouldn't be a sync issue.
This announcement reminds me of the part of Outliers that spelled out how Bill Gates and others became who they are because they had access to very expensive equipment before anyone else did (and spent 10K hours on it).
For me it's not so much about the design (that's obviously a matter of taste and preference), but materials and fit+finish.
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> If the police see the law being broken, they have an obligation to investigate

I have seen no reporting--not even in Detective Daljit Gill's affidavit in support of her application for search warrant (which I've read)--that police observed any violation of law related to the search. They claim to have received a tip, from 4chan, filtered through a national clearinghouse, that about seven weeks prior someone had allegedly transferred to 4chan a video of an unidentified woman abusing an unidentified child in an unknown location at an unknown time, allegedly from an IP address that they discovered was assigned by an ISP to David and that they learned prior to the search was the exit point from an anonymizing proxy network.
That should have absolutely nothing to do with it. Nothing. The only thing that should matter is ability to the job. Anything else is wrong and in most cases (rightfully so) illegal.
There is a certain morbid curiosity about it, for the same reason that people watch Big Brother obsessively. Worth watching "The Lives of Others" if you haven't already, though that deals with other problems.

There is an argument that laboratory psychology testing is prone to bias. Any study which relies on self-reporting is liable to people under or overestimating. Any study which requires consent inevitably attracts people who would be interested in being experimented on. Morality aside, performing experiments and studies on people who have absolutely no idea what's going on is the ultimate way to remove bias.

The sort of 'results' that come out of Foos' 'study' are fascinating because they simply cannot be obtained by any legal means. People behave differently when they know they're being observed. However fascination doesn't necessarily imply scientific utility...

The sex is actually the least fascinating thing about the journals - even Foos was continually disappointed by how dull his subjects were sexually. What's interesting are his observations on the minutiae in people's lives, the mundane things people do when they know they're not being watched (even something as 'weird' as sitting on a toilet backwards).
It works internally always.

It is commands at the command line that insist on the difference.
One, you said individual, not YC. Two, think of the handful of companies being written about from circa 1916. You really want to claim YC will have that kind of stature?
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> It will never matter to you if the Russian government has your data

How do you figure that? Aside from the obvious credit card data/identity theft, there is also freedom of speech persecutions that can routinely happen should a foreign actor have your data and you traveled to their country.

Example: you are openly gay on your social media posts, and want to vacation in a foreign country that bans homosexuality. Maybe you are critical of the current Chinese leadership but still want to see the Great Wall. These are just low-hanging-fruit examples.

It's misguided to be so careless with your personal data, especially with regards to foreign actors.
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I agree that there are tons of things at play distorting markets.
Maybe not in 50 years, because it seems that we have a lot of fissile material available[0] that should last us for a long time - long enough to expand past this planet if we continue the growth curve, or at least to advance and deploy renewable solutions without a hurry. But yeah, with continued growth we would hit an energy ceiling in the future too. That ain't bad if reasonably managed - we could fix all the damage done to this planet and expand to the Solar System. But then again, humanity isn't exactly known for reasonable management.

[0] - http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_162.shtml
Good luck jl. Hope you come back refreshed with new ideas.

Was hoping to find some sabbatical stories in the comments. I was working 12 hours a day with no weekends and felt trapped in a state of urgency and like I was missing out on things. Took a 3 month sabbatical and it changed everything!

Sometimes you don't notice that you could have done things better or differently until you take a step back. I'm about to pass out and wish I could've written more.
Well, that's an aspect of it. But there's a heaping helping of cargo-cult superstition, too. For example, ask an entrepreneur to consider locating their office in Oakland: it's becoming more "acceptable" now that Uber has committed to a huge space over there, but a year or two ago, I had people telling me that locating in Oakland was the equivalent of wanting your company to die. For being a 20-minute BART ride from downtown SF. People have lost their minds.

Also, of course, few around here believe that there are good programmers outside of the city. Mostly, though, I think it's about 20-somethings who want to feel like they've made it because they're running a startup in the most expensive city in the country.

The cult is powerful, for such a group of disruptive, innovative thinkers.
Should you use DAOs these days and when is it appropriate?
There seems to be a lot of debate on whether or not DAOs are appropriate in modern data access layers, and from what I've searched (e.g. refs [1],[2],[3]), it seems there are good cases for using a DAO and there also seem to be convincing cases you don't want to use one (I'm very pliable in my opinion apparently). I personally like the idea of adding an extra layer of abstraction and tbh it doesn't seem like as much work as people say to code in the methods, hell we use DAOs at work and they work great but that's just one case. I'd like to hear your thoughts though on when (/if) it is appropriate to implement a DAO nowadays, and why you use it over just plain ORM or JPA or other data access patterns.

Here's what sparked this question if you're interested: RE: a PHP project, got into a bit of a debate on using DAOs and basically it came down to someone saying they had bad experiences with DAO and therefore want to just use our framework's data access implementations (ActiveRecord-based btw). I am for adding an extra layer of abstraction that allows us to constrain data access as well as increase code portability in case major version updates or framework changes occur (a fairly likely possibility in our case) so we don't need to spend as much time adapting to their data access methods. Naturally we had fun debates over what to do. Honestly I can work around either, but again, I want to know your thoughts!

refs:
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100115/i-found-jpa-or-alike-dont-encourage-dao-pattern
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3818589/java-ee-architecture-are-daos-still-recommended-when-using-an-orm-like-jpa-2
[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1748238/pros-and-cons-of-the-use-of-dao-pattern
Does anyone know if the Pascal architecture is built using stacked cores? Or is this one of those applications where thermal problems keep that technique from being used?
I keep saying it, and I'll keep on saying it..

Who is going to be the first to move? The capital or the talent?

One has to drive the other out. VC money isn't going as far as it used to, and talent has to increasingly eat more ramen just to live and keep the lights on in their company.
If high-rise development solved the problem of high rents, then why is Manhatten so expensive?

Thought experiment: Let's say we do massive high density development in SF. A bunch of people move in, but now that SF is denser it's more desirable, so demand has increased as well, which drives rents right back up. Now we're stuck where we were before: high rents.

Having said that, I still support high density development because I think it leads to better living (and is better for the environment usually). I just am not optimistic that it will actually lower rents.
I found it interesting the project was previously called "Verteron". What prompted the change to Zyan/Zydis?
The way web browser standards work, when browser-makers fail to support features big enough for polyfills to not make sense, websites start telling their users to switch browsers. In this case, Facebook is telling Safari users to switch to Chrome or Firefox to be able to use video calls within Messenger.

This is a good incentive when the technologies in question are good, but it creates a complexity ratchet: once features like this are added to the set of things browsers are expected to support, they can never be removed. WebRTC seems like a decent standard and fills a need, but I'm not sure how I feel about this ratchet dynamic.
> employers allowing friends

Your sentiment is there, but I find this choice of words a bit bizarre. Livingston is a co-founder of Y Combinator.
SFO's takeoff navigation point names are Grateful Dead-themed
I'll take 5
Honestly? Get rid of this notion that everything in a startup has to be done yesterday. Despite what people say, time is not that critical in a startup. You don't need to press everyone to live at the company. Hell, you'll probably get more done if you press your people to work more of a regular hour schedule, as they won't be exhausted and burnt out.
Interesting ... If u have a device id running on ur site , how do u tie a 'suspicious user' it flags with the orders made by that user ? I read abit about ur product and it's not clear how a web shop like candy Japan would integrate quick and dirty with this
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423411
They do, to a point, but since you are the one who bears the fee they do the amount they can cost effectively which is frankly marginally effective.
> Reading comprehension, do you need more?

I see you're new here, we don't appreciate low level snark like this here.