skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried Medium about two years ago and had good viewership, across a dozen posts. It's a very nice platform to write and broadcast your ideas. Ultimately though, there is no way that I would pay for Medium. I learnt a long time that whatever publishing medium you choose, it will most likely fold, after the buzz dies out. It's much better to host your own publications. I also don't believe they will get any business from already struggling companies. Anyone except Facebook/Google is struggling.

However, I do like the Medium's overall design practises, as well as the social practices. I hope that in the worst-case scenario, the design and relevant tech will open sourced.
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A much better link is hidden in TFA

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/chalecos-reflectantes-ent...
That's just a problem of finding the good stuff, we have many tools for that(search, recommendations, curation, etc) and i think it's the place we could improve - for example if Google(or someone else) had an option to filter for in-depth, quality content - that wold be very useful.
I took a "Computer Algebra" class in undergrad which was taught entirely in Mathematica. It was a lot of work to convert everything (and the instructor would jokingly refer to me as "sage guy") but I got an awful lot out of using Sage instead. What keeps me from using sage nowadays is that I have a great jupyter workflow, and last time I used Sage it was just a worse version of that with better symbolic support.
> The code defines the rules of the game.

You can just as easily say, "the packets sent to the client determine the knowledge the player may have."

And if these two are in conflict, it makes much more sense to defer to the latter, which is a firm, organic, physical concept, then the former, which is plastic and can be changed trivially in a text editor.
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It really depends on the library. Sometimes you look at the API of a library and you just want to wrap it because you know you're going to have to do a lot of work to get the data in and out of it in the right shape, or the lifecycle management is a pain, or the types involved aren't going to play well with tests, or it's just fundamentally relying on external state, thus preventing me writing proper unit tests of anything which might call it.

Other times, no, it doesn't seem worth it. And I don't do it for every single external library I use.

Although it does tend to end up being most of them - which seems to be a consequence of the way I've generally done n-tier application design at work. I'm not always a fan of this architecture, but sometimes it does fall out nicely.
/dev/random still exists for a reason, and I believe the reason isn't backward compatibility only.
My first startup is worth $15Bn now. My latest one failed though
Sorry, I didn't realized the op was really criticizing the casing, I though it was about AbstractFactoryGenerator kinds of names.
In the way that you can build a very similar version of it (Chromium) from source code released under OSS licenses. You can't do that with Edge, Safari or Vivaldi.
Which bothers me less, as it's much darker, contains less blue light with flux or night shift, and doesn't flicker as many bulbs from the hardware store do.
Probably they have State infrastructure, maybe it was never profitable for businesses to invest in FM radios in that geography. They still CAN do it, but they won't.
If its truly for just announcements, then evaluate several options and pick the simplest for you. Always remember that chances are very high that over time your goals for the blog will change and will outgrow your choice anyway.

If you are considering blogging for more than announcements and are new to authoring blogs, then I recommend "256 Bloghacks" by Yegor256 as a good starting point to know what to expect, and good ideas to consider. http://amzn.to/2i07fs2
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On the other hand, my phone has a screen reader built into it (VoiceOver on the iPhone) so I can use it even though I'm legally blind. Not so for practically any kiosk. Of course, I'm more likely to shop online than try to navigate a mall in the first place.
I did the same and saw an 11% improvement in battery life by removing those two apps. I had relatively similar amounts of usage initially, but eventually reduced usage to more scheduled times 1-2x per day due to lack of notifications.
>On a commercial level, industry vendors assume the 802.11 TSF's synchronization to be within 25 microseconds.

Meh. Still cool, but a far cry from the sub-MICROsecond accuracy the page suggest, which would indeed be quite revolutionary.
There's still the flicker and glare, and an unnatural "look". LEDs are not as bad as CFL's, I'll grant you that, but still not as good as an incandescent for the living room or bedroom.
Imagine there's no wars...
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Annoyingly, 1Password don't support syncing opvaults from an arbitrary location on the filesystem to allow you to use Syncthing. It's literally the only reason I still have a dropbox account.
"relatively well specified"

If these are "well specified", then the author and my boss are operating on some definition unknown to me.

Also, quite a few tasks don't seem to be obviously about AI. Stuff like:

> ￼￼￼Play poker well enough to win the World Series of Poker.

It's one thing to play Starcraft or Go well. But implementing this is either mostly a question of luck, or an incredibly lifelike robot with incredible facial recognition skills. Very different tasks!

> ￼￼￼Beat the fastest human runners in a 5 kilometer race through city streets using a bipedal robot body.

This requires no AI, just a lot of improvement in energy density and actuator technology.
> My first startup is worth $15Bn now.

If this is true then why are you here on ycombinator?

With that healthy valuation do you really need the click bait?
And for that matter, AM degrades even better than FM -- at least to my ear I prefer AM static to FM fading.
Why is that React Native's fault?
They've already lost 80% of me.
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I always wanted to do translation - but video game translator is another job that doesn't pay well since everyone wants to do it, so this pays better.

Other issue is how much thinking about code has ruined my creative writing skills. There were no sign of humanities at my school, not that anyone would've had time for electives, and the "tech writing" class I tried was more interested in how to use styles in Word than anything else!
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It seems like a lot of JavaScript developers are repeating things like "more people know JavaScript so you don't have to learn a new language, which saves you time". I don't get it. In my experience, if you find a good developer, they can pick up C#, Swift, or Go pretty quickly, and if you can't find a good developer, the fact that they already know JavaScript is not much of an advantage. Even if the developer you hire already knows your language, they're going to be spending time learning your code base and how your organization works (shared repo? PRs? Feature branches? Code review? Coding standards?)

That, and nose.js developers seem to repeat the claim that node.js makes delivery faster… but is it really any faster than ASP.NET, Rails, Django, or Go stdlib? Those frameworks are so fast for prototyping and delivering bread-and-butter apps as it is (and some of them let you do multithreading to boot).

I'm also really not interested in how things work for "typical CRUD apps" because those are so trivial to write in any decent environment.

I'm worried that node.js articles are the same kind of echo chamber that Rails articles were 10 ago.
Tiled rendering is what I'm most interested in, but I'm not aware of any easier way to go about it. The alternative would be to code something from scratch... But my graphs look so much like the road network I'm inclined to leverage what's out there already.

I'd be very grateful for suggestions.
I also have the same problem.

After 5 or 10 second I remember that wired is a hyperbolic, hypocritical* hipster rag.

* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/19/wikileaks-juli...
> I keep waiting for bookmark sync, which today is a fundamental browser feature rather than a nice-to-have.

Is it really ? I have not used bookmarks since del.icio.us and never need any bookmarks sync as my bookmarks are not in the browser but in my wallabag.

> it's probably no exaggeration to say that most users haven't used a desktop email client in over a decade. So why is such a retro throwback feature prioritized so high?

my grandma, my grandpa, my mum, my dad, ... well everyone but my little cousin who only use a smartphone uses an email client, mostly thunderbird.
This feature is prioritized so high because it is one, if not the most requested feature through user feedback

> Another example is right-clicking a link in Vivaldi, to open it in a new tab.

I don't know what you are talking about. Just click a few pixels below on "open link in a background tab" instead of "open link in a new tab", problem solved.

> I just don't WANT Opera from 15 years ago. (...) I want other browsers to mirror Chrome.

Well then Vivaldi is not for you, just use any other browser. What I like about vivaldi is that it does not try to be like chrome and instead cater to power users like me and try to fulfill needs that other browser do not because they are too busy trying to be like chrome (which I dislike and never used on my boxes).
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Are we talking about the Facebook desktop website vs. the Android/iOS app? If so:

The Facebook iOS app is snappy on my iPhone 7. Compared to that the Facebook website I access with my MacBook Pro Late 2013 does not feel smooth, and the navigation is terribly broken. Pressing the browser back button often simply does nothing even though the URL in the browser location bar changes. It is frustrating. The iOS app just works.
For me, killer application is basic usable text input. I'd love to covertly send text messages, write down some thoughts and TODO items, while still maintaining eye contact and following discussion.

For it to be usable, it should not require sight and higher typing speeds should be achievable by training. This rules out virtual querty keyboards and predictive suggestions. I think glyph recognition would be usable, but also other gesture systems would work if they don't demand supervision by sight.
No, some libraries (like React-bootstrap) export a bunch of components that don't really need a facade. But be careful. Later, when you need to modify functionality (and it can't be done via modifying the bootstrap variables via Less) it's a slight pain to retrofit.
The challenge is different: you've got way more units to control in SC2 than in Dota. And rushes can be punitive, which do not occur as frequently in Dota
> It didn’t have to be this way. Ev could have RECONSIDERED. He surely had enough in the bank from previous exploits. Started slower. Not hired 150 people before there was a path to profitability, let alone sustainability. Maybe you will.

Well the Twitter folks is not known for clever business moves. Seriously though, how do you need 150 people for that website?!
People pay attention to CES? I filter out every news article that pops up in my feed from that shitshow. "We put a computer in a hair brush!" Fuck off.
Make moves not plans
Slick.

Random idea: what about instead of the "search by algolia" text, you replace the magnifying glass icon inside the search bar with an algolia-themed magnifying glass. For example you take the 'o' of algolia that looks like a clock and add the handlebar in the bottom right. And that's your new magnifying glass icon. And make this new icon the default integration.

This way, people would come to associate the fast-search with that logo, without having a "by algolia" text cluttering the UI.
This popped up yesterday, I guess we really do have short memories... here's what I said then:

Feels like we'd only just forgot about Posterous. At least Posthaven is already there to accept the fallout?
Nice to see ten times as much money was raised this time though.
Such a shame though, would be nice if there was a better way of extracting value from these viable but non-unicorns.
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I own Planetary Annihilation. It is a horrible successor to TA. No use of terrain, boring units and terrible UX. I currenlty play Total Mayhem (TA mod) and TA:Escalation.
I started the website http://www.wrestlestat.com 3 years ago. It is a college wrestling website where the main feature of the website was to be able to view common opponents between 2 wrestlers. There's no other product out there for this, so it's 100% unique. In addition to that, it provides, rosters, schedules, results, statistics, rankings, as well as 2 different fantasy platforms.

Now, is this successful? To me, yes. When I started it originally, it was just a "fun" side project, the first website that I developed once I got into web programming (10 years on client server architecture prior to). It's a 100% free site, but I monetize through AdSense. Taking out my hosting costs, it doesn't make very much money, but it IS profitable. No way I'd be able to make a living off of it though.

So in my eyes, yes it's successful, in terms of HN folks, probably not so much. But I'm having fun with it!
Same here unfortunately i was not able find an alternative to chromecast that can work with Firefox.

Its these little things and in general Video support that I keep my Chrome installed. Most of the times i end up using Chrome at home more than Firefox.
I think MIJDD is how US politics is done too.
Off-topic remark: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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And if climate change turns out to be real (which the current science seems to suggest) that minimal $360B spend will turn out to be a multi-trillion dollar profit in the decades to come.
> It's much better to host your own publications. I also don't believe they will get any business from already struggling companies

I've been mulling over some mix of the two ideas for some time now. I keep thinking it's been done or will be done soon, but I've not seen it (or... am I missing something).

Basically, some form of aggregation/curation of individual blogs. The 'planet' aggregators had an initial vision of this, but they were 'read only'. It would be far more useful if I could engage with each individual blog from the main aggregation site. Authors keep control of their own content (including comments, probably), but are aggregated/federated out to larger networks, but visitors can engage with a variety of topics without having to go register/join each site.

Has this been done and I'm just missing something?

I'd probably pay a nominal fee for a service like that, assuming that a portion made it back to the sites I engaged with (reading or commenting or sharing or whatever).

If medium was a collection of blog posts from existing blogs, and the comments were shared between medium and the host blogs, both ways, for example. Anyone doing that?
Eh, there is also, with the same Engine(https://springrts.com/) , and improved gfx and ux:

Zero-K
(www.zero-k.info)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUcqY4GfRpI

TheCursed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBh8l200oo
http://www.indiedb.com/games/the-cursed

BalancedAnnhilationReloaded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK0u2OYLubo

Evolution RTS:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/291150/

Spring:1944
http://spring1944.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76jFZvpvwoA

KernelPanic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doF7owZ0blk&fmt=18

And various Original TA Derivatives. Try some, have fun.
This is really awesome. This is now my default HN portal. Thank you.
The person submitting the URL is not the person who wrote about the startup.
I think Facebook's demise is closer than we believe, and that the main culprit will be Wall Street.

Given that the Street wants the stock price to always go up, future earnings has to go up. Hard to do with less user growth, because 1.5B already. More ads is hard if you want to keep the platform interesting. Still, room to grow in lesser FB-developed countries, with FB benefiting from economy growth and ad market growing there. But how much growth left in main earning market (US) without destroying the user experience?

With strong leadership, FB could say "to hell with higher and higher profits, I am happy to run a very profitable utility, not plastered with ads, a la Craiglist". But Zuckerberg seems all talk there. And he is trying to sell a lot of his stock. Yes, he's trying to retain control too, but that will be very hard (see current litigation on that). And employees don't like stocks that are not going up.

With less user and financial growth, less momentum, fewer interesting challenges, FB can slowly turn into Yahoo/AOL, and people may start saying bad things about the company (users + employees), creating a bad momentum. It would be hard to reverse, especially if FB is managed quarterly by earnings, as opposed to strong leadership.

Also, I get the feeling that FB got a small temporary break with Trump. A Hillary victory may have meant many very senior executives leaving to the new administration, possibly accelerating FB's loss of momentum.

Obviously, lots of talk here, many "ifs" and "maybe", and no hard data. That's why in the end I am not shorting the stock today. But wondering if I should.
Herder.

Most likely taking care of goats.
When I saw the form factor, my first thought was Star Trek's Isolinear chips. If there are standard backplane sizes along with software defined networking, you could scale your compute cluster pretty easily.
Awesome response - are you able to give me an example of what you mean "wrap third party components"?

Thanks :)
As stated, make sure you create a free version first and put it in the WordPress plugin directory. Most of your traffic will come from there. Make frequent updates, include good keywords, and if there's a need for it, people will find it. It's also a great way to start testing for premium features.
I have a theory that since the introduction of "favorites" on HN, people more often fave something as a "Read Later [Totally Some Day, Really, Only Just... Not Today... But I Will Soo Come Back To It]" bookmark. Thus "lists of 100 interesting books", "algorithms you must know", "write yourself an OS in 99 days", etc. etc., I feel they have tendency to behave like that. (The theory is based partially on what I observed looking at myself ;). But please note it's totally just a loose theory, I don't have data or whatever, nor I'd judge this as bad or good. Only observing with curiosity.
I actually still use it because this was I can use somebody else phone or some other device if I need to. That has come in very handy before.
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Current generation are in many ways built around the limits of HDMI. With this new generation of HDMI, we might get to see 4K in each eye at a very high frame rate. High frame-rates reduce VR sickness so they are not just a nice to have, and good luck getting 4k x 2 at 90HZ over current HDMI.
TA really has had a lot of community mod work done to extend and improve it. Playing vanilla TA and then a modern mod like Escalation [0] really demonstrate that.

It's even more impressive to consider that the TA engine was never open-sourced, Cavedog, the original developer, never gave out any information on how to mod the game, and that the community has managed to do things using limited unit scripting engine and some hex-editing that even some of the original developers are amazed at.

The Hyper Viper

[0]http://taesc.tauniverse.com/
"There have been a wide variety of resource allocation mechanisms throughout history"

If you have currency, banking, credit, merchants raising capital, private property protections, rule of law, labour at some cost - towards projects ... then it's basically capitalism.

The Romans had all of that to lesser or greater degree.

There are no examples of centrally planned economies working out on any scale.

Communism is a completely dead idea, it's an effete academic concept only. That game is over.
"When the tech world moved away from me (doing mainly embedded C for the last thirty years might not have been the best idea for my career)"

Strange, why do you say so? We live in the era of IoT and everything has at least one chip inside them. I also do system/embedded programming, but never felt the lack of possibilities to advance my career.
> even though a diesel engine run on veg oil is emissions free

Nonsense.
I love this comment.

After a lot of evaluation of different js frameworks over the last year I reached the same place with Redux. The principal is sound; it's clean, simple, and incredibly easy to understand. Ultimately though, your logic can end up scattered about the codebase and I worry about what these codebases are going to look like in a year's time.

With MobX you can take a cue from Redux and enumerate all your actions. You're then free to apply the same strictness as you have with Redux in terms of the actions and dataflow.

When people compare Redux to MobX, the thing that is always missed is that MobX provides patterns for efficient calculated / aggregated state. There's no logic in there - it's just a way of transforming your raw state into a read-only structure more suitable for your views.

I guess the situation we've got now is that there are a lot of people who have gone deep on the Redux approach. And really - the code looks like Redux, which is one of my major concerns. When everyone decides that it's hard to manage the sprawling logic of a big Redux app it's going to be very hard to transition to any other pattern.
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Along the same lines, something with no multi-day projects. When I go home, I'm really done for the day. And tomorrow, I start fresh with no lingering issues.
I agree about coming up with 100 ideas first and picking one from them, but disagree with how you should get feedback from others on whether you should start or not.

You really don't know if your idea is "promising" or not until you actually start executing. A lot of startups started with mediocre ideas or even a good idea with small ambition but ended up realizing there's something big in there.

Uber didn't start out thinking "Yeah we're totally going to disrupt how humans move around". They started out as a limo service. When Snapchat first launched nobody cared. Pinterest was in hungry mode for a quite a while before it found its audience. But only because it was so hard when they succeeded it meant a lot.

If you keep asking others for "promising" ideas, you'll probably end up with the most obvious idea. You should work on something that excites you the most.
I love how many oxymorons there are in that title... "polyamorous Christian", "Christian socialist", "socialist utopia", "polyamorous utopia"
I think that problem is solved by something like Feedly. There's no integration of comments, but is a somewhat personally curated source of blogs, regardless of hosting platform.
In that case, I'd rather see the rules eased for everyone.

It's absolutely absurd that it costs over $400,000 for a cab medallion in NYC.
Lessig actively campaigning for electoral revolt left a bad taste in my mouth. I respect what he/they have done for the common good in the past, but lately he/they seem more biased vs. Trump than fighting for civil liberties and the common good.