skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medium is a site I've wondered about a lot.

I'm a total outsider to that side of things, so maybe someone can explain it to me.

I see a lot of blogs and interesting articles that are on Medium. What I don't get is why they are there. It doesn't seem to be any different than any other blog site, except maybe it look a bit nicer. But that doesn't seem to be enough to explain how so many things I read are on Medium.

Is it discovery? Because I've never browsed medium. I just look on HN, and yet again there's some article hosted on Medium. Or I land on it through some other aggregation site.

I'm not sure how I'd be interested in better discovery, either. There's enough stuff on the web to read, so unless their discovery is amazing (ie fits my interests without me having to spend time searching/configuring) I don't see what the point is.

To me, the uninitiated, it just looks like yet another place to put articles. And that's why it is kinda surprising to read that hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested.
Phew!!! What a searchers. It just means fb is as or more popular than google. You dont need to go to princeton to guess that. The funny part is, you don't even need to read the article to make it out.
This is a cool product. The screenshots w/ uptime monitoring is useful on its own, but I esp. like that you provide a way to specify resolutions and locations.

After looking at the features and pricing, what's still not clear to me is if this is intended to be used for monitoring only one destination URL, or if it's possible to add multiple ones.
Might be hard to get that as a remote contractor. £450pd is not unreasonable for a contactor working on site in London - though anecdotally PHP doesn't command such a high rate as say perl or java.

When people use remote contactors they are doing it to get a cheap rate
Especially if the false statement is written in bold and the true statement is not. That could lead to remembering the myth more than the true statement, even though you know it's false.
Sports betting is one of the most ancient and most popular form of gambling, even while the actual games are, as you say, games of skill and experience.

A good craftsman can rationally choose tool A over tool B, however, for software platforms it is a major gamble whether A v2 will still be preferable to B v2 - it is (a) unknown, not decided by A being "better" than B, and (b) generally outside of your control.
It's because the infrastructure for FM is quite expensive to run. Because of all the fjords and valleys, you need many weak transmitters to avoid reflections. Also, because it's FM, they can't overlap in frequency.

With DAB, two time-delayed signals (either reflections or multiple towers transmitting the same data-fountain) will enhance the signal. This means that you can have fewer towers.
For their bias, I'd look to their November announcement of creating the Internet Archive Of Canada:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/29/help-us-keep-the-archive...

"On November 9th in America, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change. It was a firm reminder that institutions like ours, built for the long-term, need to design for change."
Doesn't work properly on Windows, you just just get a blank title bar with only the window controls at right (not even the window icon / menu on the left appears).

Does work correctly on Mac OS though.
it's hard to maintain relevance as a figure of import when you're shut in some embassy. his outlandish claims are a requirement of his position (attention).
If the power goes out because of an emergency, you can probably say goodbye to the mobile phone network - towers tend to have, at best, a few hours of battery backup if that. The sheer number of towers and the fact they're unmanned installations located mainly in urban areas where space is at a premium means there's not really any way to change this.
Just curious - what's the use case for 144 Hz? It's a multiple of 24 but not 30. 120 Hz is a multiple of both.
Dell’s new XPS 27 AIO and Canvas slab display take on the Surface Studio
Have you seen this? - https://www.highlyreco.com/
That still introduces other issues though. You will probably need larger than 200ms to be safe, which will make the setup annoying for applications such as gaming.

Or it would need great error correction. Either way, wifi equipment needs to accept interference (nothing you can do)
There you go. You're doing it. Stop it.

I used to hang around in /r/agnostic and left because of the constant trolling from people insisting this argument you're making is valid. It isn't. It is perfectly possible to say "I have no evidence to support either world view, but plenty of others do, and I would like to see more of that before coming to a decision on my own".

Do I believe in the flying spaghetti monster? No. Why? Because I know exactly how it was conceived and why. Do I believe in the miracles the Catholic church claim for their saints and figureheads such as Jesus? Literally no fucking clue because I don't have primary source evidence. Could be true, could be bullshit. I'm not going to come down one way or the other without more evidence.

Your argument that I _must_ feel one way or the other, and I'm lying if I don't, is not just lacking empathy, patronising and rude, it's philosophical nonsense.
I'm using Thunderbird and I can't wait for a mail client comparable to the old Opera's to switch. It would be fantastic.
Facebook are smart and moving with the times - no doubt the original Fb blue website is losing hits etc but they move on with Instagram and Messenger which are more popular than ever - Insta I think is going through an intense growth phase at the moment
5GHz Kaby Lake systems, Overclocked and tested before supplied
And how about Fear Driven Development.

It essentially a fear of trying out best technology, or best practices or fear of visibility. situation where organization does not support a progressive environment instead everyone has been kept under some kind of fear or pressure to create shitty code.
The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
this might be relevant here - https://www.highlyreco.com/
Ah, that figures. Mea culpa. In that case, a $20 power bank should provide at least a couple of full charges - but if you're anything like me, you'll forget to top it up at regular intervals and will find that its capacity is greatly reduced when you need it... :-/ (I cheat; I have a small diesel generator for use during outages - we're typically without utility power a couple of days every winter.
the keyword is "consistently"
Great way to experiment with the language, though, even if it is a bit slow. Can't argue with a $0 price, and the Pi is fun to play with by itself. :)
On my case, I already went through the first smartwatch wave in the 80's, so I don't see any value on the current one.

I see it as a way for mobile OES to sell more electronics, now that everyone and their dog owns a mobile phone and a tablet, and don't plan to buy news ones anytime soon.
Discovery. If you cross post and get more traffic to your medium post than the version on an official company blog then it makes sense to keep doing it.
And many more, just not in America it seems! Here:

https://opencores.org/projects
> Here is a man dedicated to radical transparency, yet he refuses to appear before a Swedish court to defend himself from rape charges

o-k. fuck off bloomberg. A basic search finds the wider context suggesting that, no, he isn't refusing out of lack of transparency (on his part).

Also, it seems he has not been charged in Sweden.

so..
Secret to Lose Weight and Get Trim
What taste Sadists like?
NASA's Freakishly Accurate Look at the 2017 Coast-to-Coast Solar Eclipse
not disagreeing with you at all, more like expanding your comment.

for some definitions of 'almost', especially the vague human ones, there are very surprising results (well, not for people with CS education, but for the other ones). e.g. 2-SAT vs 3-SAT, hamiltonian path (visit all nodes on a graph) vs eulerian path (visit all edges), shortest path vs longest path, etc. like i said, the 'almost' is debatable, but for the untrained eye the problems are very similar.
I liked how this article described about monetization approaches and compared with other options (like Blendle). Any kind of content - be it writing or TV shows or movies - will remain tough to sell individually because nobody wants to spend their entire pay check on all these. Only some kind of aggregation and advertising (consumer money flowing back to producing content without the consumers realizing it or directly paying for it) have proven to work somewhat well.

I'd be interested in ad-free and ad-tracking-free options that provide more of a buffet kind of system than an à la carte option (the latter is what Blendle is trying with micropayments that don't actually look micro enough). But scaling this with millions or billions of customers to reduce base costs is not easy, especially for written content, compared to TV shows or movies (like what Netflix, Amazon and others are doing).
I haven't read the good life but this immediately reminded me of the song by Pete Seeger "Maple Syrup Time" where he mentions Scott and Helen. Looks like it's referenced in the book as well. https://books.google.ca/books?id=iumQ0TLXESkC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA...

Strangely enough, I grew up singing this song in a commune that did not fail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruderhof_Communities
We will obviously always use the url bar to tell for sure what site we are on right now. But the color thing makes it possible to much faster tell the difference. It's a very useful feature.
Gotcha: User-centric analytics and growth triggers, driven by micro-surveys
How many pixels does an input need to occupy before it's considered "visible"?
What bothers me about Medium is that they originally wanted funding to be able to create long-form, well-researched journalism.That is what they asked for on kickstarter, years back.

They got their support, reached their goal, delivered a few stories and then switched to being a blog-software company!?

That is not what I backed and paid for.
On Medium as a platform, somehow, to me it always seemed like a place for pompous people to write long articles ("Hey, look! I'm published on Medium!"). But like the rest of the web, there were many time wasters among the few gems.

I did like the typography and readability initially (and still do), but some of its design decisions, like blurred images coming into focus on scrolling, almost seizure inducing flashing GIFs and others really annoyed me a lot and put me off from visiting Medium links.

Lastly, it also bothered me that it could become one more large scale platform like Blogger or WordPress, concentrating content into one platform (many people wrote directly on and for medium.com, while a few used it with custom domains).
They're the same; at some point in history edge and level triggering somehow leaked over into operating systems through interrupt controllers, and from there into event and signal APIs for yet another set of reasons.
The amount of anti-Assange and anti-Snowden propaganda has been notable the last days.
Wasn't he recently implicated in the election leaks?
Seems his import has not suffered that much.

But in any case, there is a difference between "outlandish" and "extraordinary". Are you saying he is just some attention seeker? That he isn't being hounded by the authorities?
Isn't VF2 faster than Nauty?
That's critical for enterprise adoption!
More seriously, I guess some "design patterns" really ought to appear in a project this big..
That device must be causing the powerline voltage to dip harder than normal (or otherwise screw with the voltage waveform), more than the capacitors in the AC/DC converter for the LED lights are designed to handle. And thus uneven current = flickering light.
My favorite passages from the article:

Sometimes the spies get it wrong, like the “slam-dunk” conclusion that Saddam Hussein was concealing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Even if you aren’t persuaded that Russia was behind it, there is a preponderance of public evidence that the e-mail account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta was hacked, such as the e-mail that asked him to give his password in a phishing scam.

and the actual last "sentence" of the article:

Sad!
GeoUniq (Pisa, Italy) is hiring a Go/backend developer
Man, I really miss the skins in Opera 12, there were some gorgeous ones. I agree that the email client is not necessarily a priority, however

> Every other major browser opens the link in a background tab, keeping the focus in the tab you're currently on.

Oh wow, that's pretty bad for every other major browser. We have two use cases:
1) I want to open the link in a new tab and switch focus (presumably to read right now).
2) I want to open the link in a new tab and not switch focus (presumably to read later).
In Vivaldi you can achieve (1) by "open link in new tab", and (2) by "open link in background tab".
In Chrome you can achieve (2) but no way of achieving (1) without touching the keyboard. And even when using the keyboard the shortcuts are clunkier (ctrl+shit+click vs shift+click in Vivaldi), which is probably not even relevant since I regularly observe Chrome users (programmers nonetheless) using "open link in new tab" and then clicking the new tab.
We should keep in mind that most browser users are not power users. Which leads me to

> but Chrome has acclimated us to some slightly different default behaviors

It's the wrong default behaviors, and ~8 years ago I could have listed you a dozen epic failures of Chrome/Firefox usability. I sincerely doubt there's some elaborate reasoning for why they behaved badly, most likely it was just inertia and "works good enough". One of my pet peeves is that Chrome/Firefox don't restore your last tab session by default, which I find extremely annoying: a regular user who doesn't even know how to open the browser options will always have to reopen the previous tabs when restarting the PC.

Nowadays I rarely use Chrome/Firefox so I can't make a detailed browser comparison anymore, but from what I've been seeing there's no reason to think they're anywhere near as good as Opera 12 used to be. I agree that the usability changes could be a shock for new Vivaldi users but it shouldn't be too hard to adapt to a better way of doing things.
So far, I've had a somewhat similar experience. I am more energized to talk to people individually on Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc. because of an interest in staying up to date on their life events, which personally feels healthier to me.
'Single domain' and 'multi domain' HTTPS certificates are the same thing
Shocking revelation – how Facebook is cheating brands and advertisers
Look for high CRI neutral or warm LED lights.
What's the point of bringing this rag here? I don't see anything new in the article and there is not even a pretense of unbiased opinion there. It's like reading Pravda
A while back I got about half of an LLVM backend for the VideoCore IV done (since completed by someone else). I eventually ground to a halt due to intractable bugs; later, someone picked it up and completed it.

This is from years ago, mind, but my recollection of the pain points were:

- enormously steep learning curve; very little of this layer is documented and there's a lot of concepts hidden behind layers of abstractions hidden behind other layers of abstractions, all of which you need to understand, but they're all cyclic. There's nowhere to start; everything you look at depends on your understanding of something else.

- very hard to debug --- the compiler's main reaction to things going wrong is to seg fault, which requires debugging through compiler internals (and understanding the compiler internals) to fix.

- holes in the tools. After generating the IR node tree, the main piece of machinery in the compiler is a pattern matcher which finds machine code instructions for sets of nodes in the tree. This is automatically generated by tablegen, but there are some patterns that it can't match, which means that along with the tablegen matcher you also need to write a manual matcher in C++ for the other patterns, which is very verbose and difficult to keep track of. Also, the tablegen matcher is pretty brittle and has a tendency to either hang or match the wrong pattern if you don't get it just right. Understanding why it's doing what it's doing is non-trivial.

The main problem, though, is that the pool of knowledge of how to write targets is restricted to a very small number of people --- it's all what an ex-boss of mine used to refer to as 'tribal knowledge'. So that when you run into a problem, you're reliant on finding one of these people who has enough time or incentive to help. Since the problems you run into tend to be complex, helping is hard, so getting good help isn't easy, and so on.

I should add that gcc suffers from exactly the same set of problems, except possibly a little more so. gcc's get better target layer documentation, but the LLVM community is much more helpful; gcc is simpler, but LLVM I think has the edge of good design. They're both much of a muchness.

It's frustrating, as compiler backends aren't that hard. There should be a compiler somewhere which combines easy porting with adequate code generation[1], for people who don't want to spend the resources needed for an LLVM or gcc port.

[1] I'm actually working on this.
Have you tried firefox with a tab unloading extension?
I found myself spending/wasting time with fb. I tried to close the account couple times but few days later reopened the account.

Last year, I tried to close the account again. First unsubscribed from all email notifications from fb. And downloaded all my content from fb. Then closed the account. But this time too I logged in twice but made sure instead of logout I closed the account both times.
That's it - its been more than 8months now. I didn't bother to login to fb. Honestly, I feel much peaceful now.

Last week decided to quit, en.lichess.org its been week . let's see :-)
I noticed that in the first picture in the article, the woman in the front-centre and the two women on the right appear to have no feet or lower legs. It doesn't seem be due to the length of the grass because the shoes of men nearby are visible. Also, the trousers worn by the woman standing sideways in the centre don't look wide enough to conceal her feet.

Anyone know an explanation?
> She was already projecting her ideological biases on her unborn son, not just fretting over his education.

We know that we are all a little bit sexist, just like we know we are inherently racist. That's a reality of the culture we live in (still affected by a history of heavy sexism and racism) and evolution (where different == bad and gender roles were necessary).

She is worrying about the very hard issue of how you deal with that. It's incredibly hard to inspect and manage your own biases. You are projecting malice onto her that doesn't exist in the article.

> Clearly imply she was going to raise her son very differently from a potential daughter. Why is the above concern any different from raising girls? "(casual and ingrained sexism, anyone?)"

Of course - because we know that there is a difference in how the world treats boys and girls (to the advantage and disadvantage both ways, in different amounts on different issues). This is the classic 'by noticing sexism or trying to change it you are sexist' argument. Clearly it is a difficult thing to understand the differences between your viewpoint and experience of the world and other people - she is talking about how to help her son with that, and it is going to be different for a boy over a girl.

> This kid is never going to be left alone.

Kids are never left alone! The point of parenthood is to support them and pass on the knowledge they need to succeed in life. You simply think that feminism is a bad thing to teach a child when it isn't.
I only read a bit of that article. Its tone from the get-go made it clear that it was biased.

It's about time that this business was sorted out. Could the Swedes not try him in absentia. Have the allegations of the accusers been tested at all yet?
No mention of Axiom: http://www.axiom-developer.org/

As far as I know, it's the only CAS to have a full implementation of the Risch algorithm for symbolic integration, and it's also written in a literate programming style.
SODD: Stack Overflow Driven Development.

The entire code base must be comprised of purely copy-and-pasted code examples from SO. No typing allowed. This actually may be an interesting challenge!

MIJDD: Machete In Jungle Driven Development.

Start down an initial path to solve the problem, and then never back-track, turn around, or admit it may be the wrong way despite how many swamps, cliffs or deadly bugs you run into. Also known as "BAWM", or "Burke And Wills Methodology".

PEPDD: Prototype Equals Production Driven Development.

If an initial attempt at writing the code compiles and seems to do the job, don't worry about debugging or refactoring, just ship it, start charging the customers, and start bolting on new features ASAP. Also known as "Additively Deployed House Of Cards", or "ADHOC".
Distract yourself from the apocalypse with this laptop that has three screens
Yahoo sending mass SPAM
This is only spam email from one hour:

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I'm a little surprised though; I'm not familiar with Bloomberg news outlets (I'm not in the US), but aren't they respected in finance, data/terminals etc?
Ask HN: Will Hackernews be changing it's firebase API to the new console URLs?
I visited https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories and noticed that the dashboard is legacy and will be shut down on March 15 [1]. Will HN be moving the console soon?

1: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/DGktiekFNeY
I knew which picture it was before i even opened it :) the Opera community used to be so amazing.
I suppose that requires root access?
This. I posed identical posts on Tumblr and Medium for a few months, and the Medium traffic was always higher. The more people read it, the more traffic it got. If you put quality content on Medium, it's far more likely to be read.
At some point I realized that my work situation consisted of a combination of "must do", "should do" and "want to do" -- only I never managed to get past the "must do" or occasional "should do" in my day job. So I frequently ended up with doing the things I wanted at non-payable time. It is better to invest that time in something you can carry away with you when you leave, which makes a good argument for having personal side projects -- granted you are not infringing on something.

I chose to switch employer and in the process got better control of the work items on my list -- to the cost of a heightened responsibility but also a better wage.
Study finds the brain is biased toward rhythms based on simple integer ratios
Author here. Short version: 'single' and 'multi domain' HTTPS certificates have been the same thing for about a decade. The only reason they're referred to as separate products are commercial:

- old systems in a stagnant industry that haven't been updated

- the chance to create arbitrary product distinctions

Pretty much everything in the article is referenced in RFC 2818 (HTTP Over TLS), the Baseline Requirements, and RFC 6125 (x509 for TLS) but if there's anything missing let me know.
> so unless their discovery is amazing

As a recent convert I have to admit that this was one of the reason I switched. It is really nice to open up the app on my phone and just start reading (for me) interesting stuff. Getting started only takes a few minutes to pick a few core interests and thats it.
> The UIs work very well.

Maybe on your top-of-the-line computer. On my two-year-old Macbook Air, browsing the web is pure frustration, because everything is slow. Don't even get me started on how inferior Slack is compared to a local IRC client.
What Trump's SEC Chairman Nominee Means for Fintech