skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a pretty committed Medium writer, I've been impressed by their platform and how it has worked for my purposes. Very similar to SoundCloud. I haven't ever really figured out how either intended - or will eventually - turn a profit. I'm quite familiar with the "value gap" argument and the acrimonious relationship between, ahem, content and tech heavyweights in the US.

>So, we are shifting our resources and attention to defining a new model for writers and creators to be rewarded, based on the value they’re creating for people. And toward building a transformational product for curious humans who want to get smarter about the world every day.

It is too soon to say exactly what this will look like.

Oh, I've got a guess, and it certainly doesn't involve me getting paid more per view or read than I do via Spotify or any other "Artistic Content as Commodity" platform. Medium has been a decent trade-off: They don't charge me, and I don't expect anything but "exposure" in the grand sense. Not surprised this isn't exactly rolling in dough as a business model, but I'll stick around to see how they fare.

https://medium.com/@6StringMerc/media-analytics-prtsc-beer-d...
> Then they should say nothing. "It was the Russians, trust us" simply doesn't cut it.

This would be better than releasing a report that makes no sense to technical/security people.
I think those servers have their own ranking system that does not match the "official" rankings (which I think cap amateurs at some lower dan rank)
Hypothetically, if you really believe the majority of women eschew computer science out of ignorance, why do you believe we should correct it? Here's how I think about it: if I invited a male acquaintance to go to a ballroom dancing class and his response was "no way, dancing is for pansies" -- should my reaction be to try to make the lessons a more comfortable environment for him? Absolutely not. If anyone were to avoid learning to program because they believed the field is full of sweaty nerds frankly I'm of the opinion that it's their loss.
I just don't get why people consider X to be so remarkable or innovative. It's just Y 2.0, in a prettier outfit. It's just a whole bunch of networked Z, started by a really popular Silicon Valley dude.

Not to be too unkind, but that's the reality of lots of stuff coming out of SV.
I think that Stallman is so completely transparent and articulate about his views and so totally outer field that I think he is unlikely ever to be close to an investigation into (say) documents being leaked or anything.
looks like a forked version of https://github.com/rafi/vim-config. I'd say the inspiration is mostly from this and not Spacemacs.
It's disheartening to learn that advertisement apparently isn't even profitable (enough) for a platform that doesn't even pay for its content.

Just let it sink in what that means for journalism. If the economics of the internet come to be all-encompassing, there will be no revenue model to support any professional publications.

There's obviously no shortage of hate for "mainstream media" right now, so probably many people can't await the demise of that industry. I'm just wondering which blogger we'll send to cover Ebola in Guinea-Bissau and which twitterer will file & finance 14 FOIA lawsuits[0]. But maybe democracy works just as well without people digging into "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court documents".

[0]: http://www.charliesavage.com/?page_id=303
Let's deep dive into diversity further. Why do we want diversity? Because apparently, we want people with different perspectives and experiences.

Now with "diversity", we have to specify how we split up the population into groups. We can use gender, race, country of origin, income, etc.

The media and general "diversity officers" use race and gender. However, this type of group division is not efficient for the goal of different perspectives and experiences. Female Americans have very similar experiences and perspectives compared to male Americans, as do black Americans and white Americans.

Differences in country of origin provide much higher differences in perspectives and experiences. A black American would have a more similar viewpoint with a white American than a black African immigrant. Dividing the groups by country of origin is MUCH more effective at satisfying the goal.

When viewed through the lense of country of origin, the tech field is very diverse in comparison to every other field out there. The field has a high immigrant %, and even the Americans are generally first generation Americans with immigrant parents, providing an extra boost in diversity.

Ironically, using country of origin to divide up groups shows that tech is much more diverse than fields like journalism/HR/etc. that vehemently advocate for diversity in tech.
That's not the case here and you can simply google the guy, his case is famous. He confessed voluntarily, likely because he was tipped off and knew he was already exposed. After serving his time he continued his life in East Germany. There is no doubt whatsoever he was a spy and he never disputed it when no longer under duress.
so much bullshit.

I've seen accounts disabled because they posted 'generic' views. That's nowhere in your bullsit mod policy.

Fuck mods
"Five figures" includes minimum-wage earners if they work full-time.
I've always wondered why BOX did their IPO before Dropbox. I know Box is two years older but it seems like age is only a relative determinant in IPO timing (FB IPO at 8 years, Google 6 years...).
Hah, I have the opposite problem, it triggers too easily for me. My roommate's name is Hugo, and we both have Android phones and a Google Home. If I say "Hey, Hugo" you can hear all 3 devices turn on.

I know the "OK, Google" detection is supposed to be linked only to your voice, but I find about 30% of the time other people can trigger it anyways.
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> Basic human needs? Food? Water? Shelter?

Meaning, accomplishments, social interactions.

> If video games satisfy me like even a run would, I wouldn't run. If I play a video game for more than 10 minutes, I feel like I'm wasting my life.

If I run for more than 10 minutes, I feel like I am wasting my life because cardio won't help me build muscle and it's incredibly boring.

> Go outside, do something actually incredible. Meet people. Make mistakes.

You can do that and play video games. In fact, in various online games, you can do both and still have insightful experiences.

> Stop living in someone else's imagined world. Learn fully how to be your own human self.

While your second sentence is trite garbage, you can learn a lot about yourself by playing video games. Additionally, living in someone else's imagined world can spark your own creativity. Look around for the art and music people have created based off video games, it's incredible. We have orchestras playing the soundtrack to games. We have people who have built businesses from playing video games.

> Videogames couldn't be more apt for the analogy of shadows on the wall. There's real problems in the world that need to be solved? Checking out and staring at pretty patterns of light is a total cop out.

What problems are you solving? World hunger? Human and sex trafficking? Domestic abuse? Drug abuse?
Sounds like you're a Johnny.

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/ti...
I'm astonished there were 150 people working at medium.

I'm still astonished there are 100 people worked at medium.
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Right, but in this instance, Medium was created by the guy who created Blogger. It's the exact same thing, just newer and prettier.
Even in a wretched flamewar like this one, this drive-by ideological potshot stands out as the kind of comment we don't want on Hacker News. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all, from now on.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13320899 and marked it off-topic.
"Surely You're Joking" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think" are astonishingly funny and poignant memoirs. Can't recommend them highly enough.
This comment made me wonder what you consider to be a complex site.
> I don't know that this makes sense for anyone but Google

I'm not sure; as a Go developer, I kind of like the idea of having access to the Python library ecosystem from Go, without being forced to create an IPC bridge and building up the requisite release-management and deploy-time goop.

Plus, I'm just not a Python developer; in the case where the only library that exists to do something is written in Python, I'd much rather write Go that calls that Python library than Python that calls that Python library.
^ This should be the real title of this post.

"Renewing Medium’s focus" is a pretty underhanded way of saying "Medium downsizes by 33%"
He was prone to 'rattling the bars' so to speak and out of boredom, learned how to break the 'secure' file cabinets/safes that all the top secret stuff was kept in.

Basically, all of the combination locks had 2 digits of leeway. So if your first code was 20, you could set the lock to anything from 18 - 22 and it would still open.

This meant that instead of the locks having 100 x 100 x 100 = 1,000,000 combinations, they instead had something closer to 20 x 20 x 20 = 8000 combinations. He would then brute force the 8000 combinations through a combination of trying the more likely ones first and if that failed, just brute forcing it over a few hours.

The locks were made easier to brute force in that unlike modern locks, the 3 combinations would be input on 3 separate dials so you can set the first two to the 'right' value, then just spin the third while attempting the handle at the same time. This meant you could try literally every possible combination in ~10 hours of work.

As for an example of easy ones would be a birthday or anniversary.

- code 1 = day 1-30(6 combos)

- code 2 = month 1-12(3 combos)

- code 3 = year 1-99 (20 combos) (This would likely be 9-10 combos if he accounted for the distribution of likely dates)

So to try every date combo, you would only need to try 360 attempts in the worst case.
I'm in your boat and was pretty disappointed by the initial incarnation of The Ringer.

I heard Bill say on a podcast that he had a different theory about where media had gone. It was faster, mobile and more immediate.

So the initial implementation of The Ringer seemed like short, trite pieces produced quickly. Like you'd get a dumb Game of Thrones piece within 15 minutes of an episode airing.

Thankfully, they seem to have backed off and gone back to long form, loving fan pieces with obscure links and embeds. For example, this Donald Glover piece:
https://theringer.com/you-have-to-take-donald-glover-serious...

TLDR; I'm curious what you think of the more recent Ringer stuff. Because to me, it's so much better and is exactly why I loved the old Grantland.
Question: How much lithium can we rely on being able to extract for the foreseeable future? Do we not have a shortage of any kind?
I think there's special integration for home automation. I have the same switches. Remember when you first set them up and you had to go to a special "Smart Home" section of the Alexa app? There's a special section there just for that stuff.

I'm not sure if that part is open to developers or not. It looks like it is. There's a "Get More Smart Home Skills" button that shows 59 options, so it's probably not just for the big boys.
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It is an impressively innovative way of recording value (transferring and securing, not as much, but that's a discussion for another time). Plenty of things are impressive without actually solving the problems they try to solve, though. 1990s speech recognition software was impressive, but not actually suitable for its intended purpose.

> However, on a basic level, its capability to reliably store and transfer value has only grown and become stronger in the past 8 years.

It's been pretty terrible at storing value over the past 8 years, because of the volatility (though it's been pretty good as a speculative asset). Its capacity to transfer value has grown, but that's just because the ecosystem surrounding bitcoin has grown -- e.g. something like M-Pesa grew much more over the same time frame, just because more people accept it. This has nothing to do with the technology.
OsmAnd allows you to do the same with the OpenStreetMaps.
OK, we put "30 hour work week" in the title instead. Thanks!
Except when is rule out of the law, as in Colombia where is prohibited (under the premise is only used by scammers):

http://www.eltiempo.com/tecnosfera/novedades-tecnologia/bitc...
Archive.org has the series available: https://archive.org/details/electronic-office
Yes! This is what I was looking for from Medium when I heard of their ad driven plans:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13089574

Ad driven content basically is a sham. It's a way to let companies do whatever they want with people's minds.
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Unless she is elected to or employed by government, she is a private citizen. It isnt about fame. Every buck private in the army is a public employee. Every movie star is in the private sector.
Anybody running Django uses this. It uses the pattern of specifying plugins as class paths in strings in the config, which are then looped over and instantiated at runtime.

Frameworks do lots of such dynamic tricks in order to provide nice DSLs for building apps.
When I saw their buildings I literally thought "I didn't know doors could be this big".
Url changed from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sweden-six-h..., which points to this.

Submitters: please don't submit an article that's clearly lifted from another publicly available source. Submit the latter instead. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Since AlphaGo's original training was to predict human moves, it should know how surprising a move is in addition to knowing how strong it is. My thought at the time was it could improve its game against humans by giving surprise value some weight -- when it can pick a slightly weaker but highly surprising move, pick the surprise.
Related; the factory is said to be 1.3M square meters when completed. So each employee will have 200 square meters for himself and his robot coworkers. Except of course that they are probably not at work at the same time. So maybe 600 square meters.
You could set it up to say "Alexa, tell my garage to open." Not perfect, but a little better.
The thing is, you can not use Python in production at Google. YouTube was acquired a long time ago and a rewrite of the inherited Pyton code base has not happened for very good reasons.
This sounds a lot like Ceph [1], which is much more widely used (and has the backing of Red Hat). Why would one use LeoFS over Ceph?

[1] http://ceph.com/
I don't think they'd do that. All Python 2 code I've seen uses `class Foo(object)`, at least since 2.2 came out.
Either you are a master troll, or you need to draw a network diagram. You invoked "horrific, inexplicable tragedies" because "surgeons don't properly wash their hands or mark which limb is meant to be amputated". (Frankly I'm not sure the latter qualifies as "inexplicable".) Hand-washing and limb-marking don't require internet access. If hospitals require non-internet-enabled signs to inform surgeons of these risk factors, those are available at restaurant suppliers. (Well maybe not the limb-marking...)

Life support devices also don't require constant internet access. Diagnostic equipment also doesn't require constant internet access. Local medical procedures do not require internet access. Hospital medical records do not require constant internet access. In fact no life supporting activity requires constant internet access, because designing the system to rely on something that is unreliable would be stupid. Physicians are not stupid.

It is conceivable that telemedicine sessions might have been interrupted, but telemedicine is inappropriate when life is in jeopardy. We could imagine the future invention of remote robotic surgeries that would qualify, but if that were going on it would have been mentioned in the indictment, and also a dedicated and isolated network would have been created. In fact since every federal indictment written includes everything but the kitchen sink, and this indictment mentioned only the customary ridiculous inflated monetary damages, we know that this DDoS attack did not hurt anyone physically.

I don't think that we normal easygoing HN folks would really mind your conceptual mistakes, but the combination of those with the withering scorn you've exhibited here is probably what inspired us to keep this thread going long past the point of interest and utility. So, nice trolling!
A membrane Pipeline sloping upwards could do it..
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It's also not unknown for the ingestion of certain "chemicals" to "ruin people's lives." Exercise extreme caution.
Ad driven media has been crumbling for decades. It's good that Medium is seeing the light.

Even a startup gets blinded by the fake money that ads promise. I would hope that this move starts something in the media industry to stop thinking about ads as a revenue source.
Are you arguing that poor people are that way by choice?
> As of today, we are reducing our team by about one third — eliminating 50 jobs, mostly in sales, support, and other business functions. We are also changing our business model to more directly drive the mission we set out on originally.

This is an enormous failing on the part of management as well as Silicon Valley culture in general. These startups hire far too many people far too early, piss away a bunch of money, and then lay off half their workforce and "pivot" once they realize their business plan actually sucked balls from the start.
Ask a simple question, get a simple answer. Get a lawyer immediately and have them file. There are a number of infractions here. How you use those infractions to your best interest in a civil law case will be best decided by a competent lawyer. I would imagine you could get a consultation rather quickly on this one.

Also, it would be in your best interest to keep all documentation and call 2 - 3 laws to get a good feel for what they will do on the case.
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I still use it, but I'll likely switch once they disable the public folder.[1] It's the sole reason I use Dropbox.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16
People say this, but i actually hate it. Every time i use it i get confused, it's UI is slow and weird. I prefer Google Drive, but I might be a weird user.
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This failure seems to be one reason for them to run out of Alexas during the shopping season. They are being extra careful not to get burnt with unsold hardware like the phones.
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I just went to their home page https://medium.com/ these were top 6

1. let’s stop coddling white feelings

2. Women in Salt

3. I Have a Maiden Name - An exploration of surnames, beliefs and actions.

4. Warm Takes on Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4

5. The UBI already exists for the 1%

6. Atheism and Honesty - My atheism will not be about making believers comfortable.
> so hardly any of these posts are even cracking 10,000 view

I think there's probably a problem in these numbers, but I'm 99% certain you've misread the tea leaves.

The Ringer page views are through the roof. But those are not coming from regular Medium users who typically leave reviews. So the problem is, why don't these visitors engage more, rather than why doesn't The Ringer have any page views.

IMO, big sites like The Ringer are bets that obscure what's wonderful and working at Medium. For a blogger like me, posting to Medium is a 10x on page views. 37Signals posted something similar. All the mid-size blogs that come over are having a great time.
Agreed. I can't reply to the parent post since it's dead, but I'd also add literally thousands of hours of simple enjoyment. That should count for something.
You should email Musk and make sure he is aware of this problem in case he hasn't thought of it yet.
Ironically, "What day this week will be snow?" doesn't give me great results on Google, but Bing actually shows a weekly weather graph.
It definitively put stuff into perspective.

6500 jobs is a big number in human scale. That's more people that you know.

But that's 0.05% of the manufacturing jobs in the US alone. 0.05% of the manufacturing power of the US fitted with the latest tech match the output of the whole Lithium-ion battery sector.

Obviously that's 1 specific field and product and you can't extrapolate to everything else, but really you can't help but think that even maintaining current employment in manufacturing will require staggering increase in manufacturing output of the US. If Trump is even a bit serious about trying (and has the congress support for it), it would require a colossal disruption of the market either through regulation, taxation, investment, ...
Thanks for linking to this.

I too loved Grantland and have been disappointed with Simmons' more recent efforts, but this is good. And Atlanta is fantastic.
I just don't get why people consider Medium to be so remarkable or innovative.

The same (silly) logic was once applied to facebook. "It's just another friendster/myspace!" people said.
I would also like to see how the strength is affected by computing resources. For example, one server, versus 10 servers, versus a room full of servers, versus an entire datacenter. I wonder how close this is to playing a perfect game.

I would also like to know if two perfect players would always end up with a draw, or if they would each win 50% of the games.
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