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> How can platforms like Medium cultivate a culture that deprioritizes and devalues the types of spam content the article author is referring to?

There's a lot of really well run subreddits like /r/AskScience and /r/AskHistorians where the people who get the final say are usually the ones who have the best credentials.

For websites like medium, it's less about the credentials but more about how flashy your title can be. Just look at the top articles - it's usually titled something along the lines of "You're all missing the point of X" or "Elon Musk is Dangerous" or "How the Tech World Trashes Women". And these articles tend to be written by social justice warriors or "motivational speakers" who have never actually done anything but coach.
The issue is with the software the has a vulnerability not the software that exploits it. It would be fine to sell gangs guns if we could patch that pesky 'bullets kill humans' bug.
One other difference - at least in terms of perception - is that the threats you listed are relatively static over time. Terrorism is a movement that involves recruitment and contains inherent plans to expand.

To be the first to invoke Godwin's here, the Nazis did not statistically represent a significant daily threat to health and safety in 1928, either. Looking at present body counts as a gauge for what's worth "freaking out" about seems incomplete.
Fear not as we'll eventually track down these 13 people once we combine these disparate DNA data sources. They might not have identity information in this particular dataset, but if one finds that same sequence in another dataset that does have that information, it's not too hard to piece these together.

Best part is that we don't even need it to be exact! We can look for their relatives instead and use that to narrow the search: http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-...
"You could go on forever improving & polishing everything, but in the end you have to remember to just fucking ship it."

Words to live by.
All I took away from that post is that this dude is an asshole. Sure, I have noticed an influx of self-help/how-to articles, everyone has. But his insistent whining about "business types" is laughable. In his post he mentions his new blog twice and then continues to link to it in almost every comment he posts. If that's not a form of marketing, I don't know what is.

> "Medium has become overloaded with loud, obnoxious idiots"

Yes it has, and you sir, are one of them.
The variables could be static, or optimized away, or...

I'm not saying every closure can be done without allocation. I'm saying many useful ones can be though.
I don't know the degree status of any of my team. That said, getting a work visa in the US without a degree seems like it maybe very difficult.
Make is from 1977. GNU Make is somewhat younger.
If this problem is indeed about local corporations being worse than the multinational ones then it seems we have actually successfully tackled the problem on the multinational level??
> we feel it deeply unjust to allow terrorists to kill innocent people to make a political point

Our response was to go over and kill 100 of their innocent civilians for every 1 of our innocent civilians that the extremists killed in order to make our political point. I don't buy the argument that this was premised on any noble principle such as the one you describe.
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Network namespaces are excellent for containing promiscuous services such as NFS that bind to all interfaces by default.

Stick them in a netns with only a site-local address and that attack surface reduces massively. Much easier and more performant than trying to close the open doors with iptables.
Sigh Another "Why I'm leaving X" post.

You could have written the best post the internet has read all year, but I can't bring myself to read past the title.
I alternate between Emacs and Vim every 5 years or so. Emacs gave me superior customizability using a "real" programming language: elisp. Vim, on the other hand, offers a faster, more efficient editing UX. The older I get, the wider the spread becomes between the speed of my thought and the rate at which I can input editing commands into the terminal. Vim allows me achieve higher efficiency and to almost "think ahead" by quantifying my movements and jumping to specific tokens in known locations. That to me has become more important lately than scripting in a nicer language than viml.

All of the new features of Vim are super nice, but I'll still primarily use it for the terseness of its editing UX.
High performance GIF engine for iOS in pure Swift
You might want to investigate Michael DeHaan's story with Ansible? But I am not sure how to get the inside informaition.
No, but you could try data mining LinkedIn...
There doesn't seem to be documentation for the new packages feature yet. I'm curious if this is actually intended to obsolete the current ecosystem of vim plugin managers.
As if to prove his point, the 'recommended' articles below the post from 'Life Lessons' are:

* 'Whatever you do, just start.'

* 'How to build the self confidence you need.'

* 'Even a genius has to sell himself… the remarkable resume of Leonardo da Vinci'

Written in turn by a founder, a marketer, and the author of 'Massive Life Success.'

The recommendation algo seems to be serving a heavy dose of irony today.

The OP is right- Medium is drowning in trash, and kudos to him for saying it.

Edit: It's quite possible that Medium is going for the 'mullet' strategy of HuffPo. If you go to the front page of medium.com - it's okay, it's not exactly super high quality, but it's not the kind of crap that gets punted around on email and social. Maybe that's what they're going for? If so, shame.
I truly believe that the renders -> photoshop clarification was genuinely more useful than the 'renders can mean any kind of drawing (even though it's clear from context that the writer meant computer 3D rendered)' clarification. Not that the second one was useless, but calling the photoshop point 'wrong' is way over doing it.
I've been quietly advocating the mutual model for a while now.

Free (Libre) Software is great where it works, but that seems to be areas where the users are also programmers. You can't really gain the benefits of software freedom if you're not a programmer, so your experience degenerates into using it because it's zero-cost and your best chance of getting a change you want is to complain on a hostile mailing list.

People say that non-developer users should be able to hire developers to sort out problems in Free or Open software, but in practice this very rarely happens.

In a software mutual, the source would be closed but with a guarantee of opening it up if the mutual could not continue. Possibly with an option of source licenses for mutual members. However, there would be two key differences from a Free project:

- users who'd not paid wouldn't recieve the benefit of the software; no free-riders (modulo piracy, obviously)

- development choices would be made by vote of paying members, not just developers.
Wherever you have a funnel, you get a queue. You have people standing outside waiting for the bus, smoking a cigarette. People gather and there is nothing that you can do about it.
Serious props to you for making a web browser. That is legitimately impressive.

However I feel like most people won't be willing to sacrifice the feature support, stability and security that a larger browser can provide for a potentially better experience.

If this was made by a single person you should really do a write up about the development process. I think many people would also be interested in that.
This is what happens when markets are run as oligopolies.

Software is bad because software has been run as a cowboy business at all levels. Power in the market is so asymmetrical that only the justice system has any hope of bringing it back into balance.

A change in consumer law to put oligopolies on the hook for negligence and consequential damages would magically improve software quality in short order.
I used to think like this, but I don't any more.

Both command line development tools and IDEs require work to get the most out of them. I used to think command line tools were better because I was more in control, then I realised if I just spent the time learning what IDEs were doing on my behalf I would still have more or less the same amount of control, especially if the IDE is customisable (which the best ones are).

So with command line tools you have the option to customise your workflow from the ground up, but with IDEs you have the option to customise your workflow from the top down. Both have advantages.
Unless you need money to live on.
I made this argument years ago, if you want to weaken a population and cause maximum disruption go after infrastructure, a lot of it isn't guarded by more than a chainlink fence and is out in the middle of nowhere (electrical sub-stations been a good example).

Modern society is incredibly dependent on lots of complex systems with moving parts all functioning at high capacity, it wouldn't take a lot to get things wobbling.
No one said that C++ is easy, you need to teach yourself about pointers even if you will not use them so often, because almost everything under the hood is connected to pointers in some way. You need to learn the language.

Watching video from ccpcon is not the way you will learn C++. Read book from Stroustrup about C++.
IBM also owns Softlayer which is a great cloud provider for the more traditional VM/dedicated servers architecture.
It needs editors (or moderators if you prefer) deleting the spam content.
I remember Anil Rash being behind Medium, if I remember correctly that should give you an indication on why there is so much trash on it. You're not wrong, just missing why it is the way it is. It makes more sense now, doesn't it?
:h usr_toc is really one of the best introductions to vim (after vimtutor), I am surprised that not that many people seem to know about it.

Get a pdf of it here: http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/usr_doc/.
if you skip saying "tomorrow" it will wake you up the same morning
I clarified a bit more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487098

Note that there's a difference between something that will cause a failure versus something that could be exploited to cause a failure.
Magnitka https://vimeo.com/12317623 is a beautiful sequence of scenes shot in Magnitogorsk by Sasha Aleksandrov
Don't forget true color support for those sweet colorschemes!
I can see that it would lead to a deluge of 'Like this post? Please consider donating so I can continue spewing forth banal crap I lifted from Internet articles about Elon Musk' quite quickly.
Gilbert seems to have seen the trend of midwesterners embracing their central cores well ahead of everyone else.

What he's done in Cleveland has been pretty smart. He started by purchasing the Cavaliers and becoming a relatively vocal owner (at least compared to the previous owner). That won him a lot of favor with public. He opened up a Quicken Loans office in the city, providing jobs. He then was able to put a deal through public election granting him a casino monopoly in the city. He leased (and later bought) a mostly empty old department store building to house the casino that conveniently connected to the Cavs' arena. He later bought the Ritz hotel that also connects to the casino and arena and just recently purchased the shopping mall / train station that is the connecting piece to all of those.

There are definitely some negatives to be seen from what he's doing, but I think in the end it will be an impressive improvement for that part of downtown, which was already in the upswing.
I believe the authors point was at very least the larger multinational corporations have some thin veneer of accountability as they have investors in countries where that type of behavior isn't tolerated. I've been thinking about it since I've read the article and I can't think of a good way to deal with this problem.
You may want to consider looking at Evil mode, which gives you a very close approximation to the vim editing bindings in emacs. I've been using it as part of the spacemacs distribution for a while now and find it to be the best of both worlds.
You should tell that to women and kids who were hit by chemical bombs from British Muslims in Rojava.
HN seems to do quite well with that model.
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I think I learned more from your post and your two imgur links than from poking at the site for an hour. Thanks.

Would it make sense for them to add a gallery of good solutions for each problem, or would they all basically be your second example network (no time to play and see for myself right now)?
Perhaps your expectations were misplaced? Please see: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medium/investors
Swift Android port now merged into master
Medium was a mark of "interesting, well thought out content" when it first launched and was invite only. I gained access later on (early 2013), but definitely before it was widely adopted like it is today. I stopped spending much time there once it went that way, but I wasn't angry like this guy. I don't feel as though I am owed anything by others, as he seems to believe (more power to him).
I'd say 28 is still pretty young - when you look at the workforce ages between 20 and 60 odds are that individual is probably not even a quarter through their working life.
You definitely countersteer on bicycles too!
Ask HN: How to create a simple chat app in android using Google app engine?
Please is there a tutorial I can follow in order to create an app with chat features using Google app engine or any good alternative?
vi is not Vim.
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I thought it was still invite only! You're right, I only access articles on there from HN. If they indeed are open-access like facebook now, I can completely see it being a festering cesspool of crap articles. Good riddance.
Please be clearer. Rather than these clever-clever allusions, tell us all: who's Anil Rash, what should we know about them?
A better option would be to use a plugin that yanks text to the system clipboard.
Haha, well spotted.
I agree, I just joined medium last week because I had read great articles there, but the articles curated by the medium staff as well as articles that pop out as "top articles" are really really bad. I'm particularly surprised because the goal of medium was to avoid this kind of low quality content. I guess social media just has no future...
you're not the only one, I always skip medium articles.
I've opened 5GB files in Vim, on an average 2010 Ubuntu desktop. It took some time, like 5 minutes, but it worked.
Rigetti (YC 2014) is hiring engineers to control quantum computers
I like this guy.
It's even worse since Medium's transition to a paid content (paid by the industry, not by the reader) platform.

I wonder why not more people just use a static site generator like Hugo and host their blog themselves.
Countersteering is becoming more well known know amongst motorcyclists (thanks to more rider training and the internet), but some riders go there whole lives without knowing about countersteering. This is unfortunate because learning to consciously countersteer makes you a much safer and more skilled rider. The same holds for bicycles too I suppose.
Evil mode is slower than vim. And also you are in evil mode only during the editing phase. All other menus drop you back to default emacs keybindings and that is very painful experience. I used evil mode for a couple of years and still just went back to vim.
how many developers ( companies ) other then Facebook already using Redex or any of these kinds of optimisations ?
Hi! that's awesome! I started to play with it .

I was wondering if there is any way to have predefined stories? I'm sure there is already a bunch of "weather" stories or "how are you" stories that must come over and over. I don't want to spend much time on it
Reddit has built an incredible community of contributors and moderators that's (amazingly) largely self-sustaining.

You're right - in the large majority of situations, the person voted to the top often has the most qualifications. That's an example of a social model (upvoting/downvoting affecting visibility) that's a design win.

What I'm wonder about is how to explore building a publishing/content platform with a data/interaction model that promotes the highest quality and authoritative content in a similar sort of way. Medium's automatic recommendation system is too easy to play the SEO game with.

The title examples you give are spot on; I usually avoid everything on Medium that wasn't painstakingly discovered by a human and saved for later reference here or on some other site like Reddit.

(Your reference of people who do nothing but coach reminds me of how I see politicians: they're like the people in young children's books who have a fixed position ("policeman", "man walking down street with dog", "grocer", "bus driver", etc) and don't have a life outside that position.)
> Asynchronous I/O support

I don't keep myself much up to date on these things, but wasn't this one of the main new features in NeoVim? (then code cleanup, then more language to script in)
Why composition is superior to inheritance as a way of sharing code
ca( would work for this as well.
The Air Force’s Next Chief Might Be Its Space-War General
Well, then you have a GUI - menus/toolbars and after a couple of times use - you just remember the key binding usually specified along the label.
It's built on Electron[0] which is built on Chromium, so it's very much building on the work of a larger browser and just adding a (seemingly) very different UI experience.

[0] http://electron.atom.io/
There's little difference between knowledge of a vulnerability and a tool to exploit it.
Can't seem to find the option on a freshly installed google calendar app (tablet and mobile phone).
Religious people and Academic Study are two different things. Technically this is Biblical Criticism (AKA the study of authorship, origin and sources). I am one of the people who love this stuff and still religious and that isn't as common as you would think.

Deut 34:5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said.

I think it is pretty clear someone also had their hand in writing that line and the rest that followed :) Most hyper-religious stances are relatively new. Heck their is very little literal 7 day creation support through most of the history of Jewish and Christian theology.
vim-surround is the bee's knees.

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Do you mean pay per article or pay per view? Per view would virtually eliminate the independent submitter and select for the spam and corporate shills. Who has the cash or wants to risk a penny per view (or whatever micropayment it is) except for corporate advertising? I don't think per article would fix the problem either. It is a sea of crap because of the quality more than quantity. If you are getting views then a penny or whatever micropayment per article is nothing. I doubt this guy would stick around if he had to pay per view and I doubt per post payment would limit the crap.

The most effective way would be some sort of peer reviewed limitation, but that is difficult to implement and would likely reduce medium's viewership (management says oh the horror of sensationalist articles in one direction and yes! Page views! in the other).

There will be a transition to another blogging platform that sets up the right barrier to entry / moderation. Personally I don't think it is monetary.
> So for me the question is why there are still people that enjoy working as if their computers are using a 25 year old developer experience.

Because i develop on very expensive hardware on a different continent. I also end up with a decent mental model of my code.
From the gif in the article, looks mainly like just some clever (and impressive!) Photoshop. Reading on my phone, I suspected Keyshot and a 3D modeling program at first, so that was a big surprise!
I still don't see the difference. Maybe state-military generals don't stand to profit directly, but they have plenty to gain from war - promotion, influence, status - money is attractive not for itself but for what it represents. So I don't think there's any inherent problem with one that doesn't occur with the other - either way you need to beware of principal-agent problems and ensure that your actions are actually working towards your goals.
My head turned around. I read it like Vim loads MS-DOS, and I thought, why would it do that? But then it occured to me dat this means Vim can run under MS-DOS. It's been so long since I've used MS-DOS as OS, I can't imagine it anymore. To me it's just a program that is run by another something.
I agree with some of what you're saying, and there's a whole separate debate to be had there. Today, in this thread, I'm only interested in refuting this idea that terrorism is an overblown threat. It absolutely is not. If anything, the threat is being understated by the current administration in the US, using arguments along the same lines as sametmax's.
I also like http://vimcasts.org/
It fails in a poorly set up chroot, not any old chroot.

It also fails in a poorly set up root file system in the same way. No chroot needed.

I can't remember ever running out of file descriptors unless a program had a leak. But if you want to argue that position too, make sure you mention that cputime and memory could also be exhausted, leading to... well... any other method failing in a similar fashion.

A system call definitely has some minor benefits over a file in /dev, bit the reverse is also true (access from shells, or any language really, with no built in support).

But calling /dev/urandom unreliable is a little bit intellectually dishonest.
I can't say anything about Xcode, but I can say that VS hasn't stagnated in that way, every new release seems to bring something worth having.
I don't know if I totally agree about that. Seeing his live concerts there is plenty of Musicians self love AKA He was a feature artist with Martin Guitars several times and music contest. Also in his concert are a ton of people who don't even know how to play guitar. The melody is strong enough to follow.
BBC dismisses anti-GMO complaints on Panorama documentary on Bt brinjal project
I think it also have a lot to do with a bunch of trade agreements that were signed between nations. For example, would Ireland be used as a tax haven if it wasn't part of the EU and EEA?

Also the way ownership and property rights are actually codified into law is very weird when you consider it from a global perspective. The reason shell companies work is that on some level the owners are not actually considered owners but on another level they are.
The logical extension of preventing terrorism before security is expanding security further and further away, until it's in your home
You don't need to go all the way to the end. And companies might be legal persons, but not physical persons.

Strengthening creditors rights against companies can be done without strengthening them against people.
Any idea why he lists his new blog site as www.crowhoho.weebly.com? It doesn't even land there, but rather at the more logical crowhoho.weebly.com. Do people still need to see www at the beginning of a domain to think it's something they can click on?
There is, but printing money and giving it to investors creates inflation in assets that can be bought by them. Once money flows throught credit/banks to the entire market (already happening) you have price raises in pretty much everything. Stuff you buy on credit (education, housing, cars, consumer goods etc.) are getting more expensive as well. Does it matter? For people with savings in currency - yes (middle class?). People without savings can fight for raises as unions and rich people hedge against dollar already.