skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, Medium has a problem - It's not really a product that is supposed to make a LOT of revenue (for it's size).

In all honesty, it's very easy to technically build & maintain Medium with as few as 5 engineers. Add a few more people (say 5 - 6 more) and you have a good business (not a crazy growth startup) that can generate revenue and most importantly be sustainable.

As for generating revenue: it's very easy to charge people a few $ / m for stuff I'd consider extra features (premium themes and custom domains).

It's sad those 50 people lost jobs (I feel for them - I had lost my previous job when a startup decided to downsize), but in all honesty - what do 150 do at Medium and more importantly, WTF did Medium do with ~123 Million [0]?

[0] - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medium#/entity
Link to exact quote that the OP is attempting to satirize: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Satire doesn't work if most people believe it.
what's stopping you from being a salaried employee that just happens to work 30 hours a week?
Teamkilling in an FPS is not roleplaying. It's called being a dickhead. The user above enjoys ruining other people's fun.
If you mean HN, this sort of article has always had a place here. I just checked the internet archive for the first date that popped into my head (March 3, 2009) and found one at #4:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090303070906/http://news.ycomb...
The author's conclusion that calling the Fire phones a failure and the Alexas a success is "just pos-hoc narrative" is a bit tautological. If you are evaluating the performance of something in the past and labelling it as a success or failure, you are going to be making post-hoc narrative. Why "just" post-hoc narrative? Is there something wrong with analysis of past events?

Saying that the Redkins lost too much this season including last weekend because of failure to address personnel needs on defense, thereby missing the playoffs is "just post-hoc narrative." But talking about why you think an organization did well or poorly isn't useless.

On the one hand, yes, the author is right. Fire and Alexa were experiments before we knew how they turned out, and a company making experiments can be a good thing. On the other, there were indicators that Fire might not be a good experiment and Alexa might be, and perhaps Amazon wasn't as keyed in as it could have been to these indicators.
how would HN know? no one can predict with actual certainty.

However,
It is true that as time goes on, volatility reduces. high price makes it harder to fluctuate as quickly, and as new bitcoin continue to get mined, the volume increases as well.
When you compare Medium to Wordpress (which you mentioned in another comment and which is extremely popular) you can see the value that Medium provides; the reading and curation experience is better and the addition of "# of readers" vs "# of views" is also a great metric. Another win is how easy it is to assemble articles into magazines. Because it's all on one platform, it's really easy to do.

Those are all valuable features that give it an edge over Blogger and Wordpress and other platforms.

You can also see the difference in quality of comments/discussion on wordpress vs medium. On medium, people are highlighting and sharing and discussing. On wordpress, they aren't doing that often (at least not on my blogs).
+ with child safety and whatnot, maybe it should be illegal to use your real id publicly online?
Private notes are also nice if you want an editor to do any cleanup after something has been posted.
I would imagine if you kept notice of what number series was left on the locked safe, it would leak a little bit of info. for instance, if the last number of the combo is 42, but when its locked you consistently see the number 10, its likely the person spins the dial a predictable number of times each time he locks it. all you'd need is to observe him -from a distance- locking it and count the number of spins and you'd have a good guess what the last number is.

then there's the paddle technique, not sure what its called, but after the first number is set, the 2nd number has to be at least past the point where you feel the "paddle" contact the 2nd wheel in the series. Higher-end safes counter this somehow.
My daughter does voice searches, asking it to display pictures of various pokemon. "Show me pictures of the pokemon XXXX". These things have crazy names, and she doesn't have very clear speech, but it always gets them right. It is changing it's dictionary of probable words you will say, based on what words you have already said.

If she unclearly said, "Show me pictures of Absol", it would fail miserably. But if she says "Show me pictures of the pokemon Absol", it kicks butt.

So I would say it's more than a voice to text layer on top of the normal text search.
Would you take it if the 10 hour day was 8am-7pm with an unpaid hour for lunch, and the 6 hour day was 9am-4pm (with something approaching a 25% pay reduction.)

9-6 is 8 hours + lunch, aka a standard work day.
Do you think robots will overcome emotions?
If you've ever enjoyed an ice cold Coca-Cola on a hot summer day, you'd know the world needs refreshment.
Wow, you just described my experience 100%.

I'm also a game developer, and I believe you will love the game I'm making:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/539400

It's a roguelike with various weapons and items like The Binding of Isaac, but has 4-player co-op, fantasy theme and different combat styles depend on the starting character you choose.

Anyway, shoot me an e-mail, I'll send you a free Steam key. The address is in my HN profile.
You aren't absolved of the consequences of committing a crime just because you were hired to do it.
For some reason, Apple laptops are the only ones usable without a mouse. The trackpad simply sucks on anything else I've tried.

Just like people are used to OSes that crash all the time, they're used to unusable trackpads. Sad.
Medium is laying off a third of its staff
> We decided we needed to take a different — and bolder — approach to this problem.

I don't know what model they can come up with except the Ad-revenue model from per post views. This is not a tech issue, but an issue with the business of Internet.

Since they have got a lot of good quality publishers, they may go for a subscription model, but then it would not seem very open to new publishers/readers. They may go for a per-blog subscription model for some high-quality publishers like The Economist, Backchannel etc.

Another thing about Medium that gets me boiling is their news feed, its always populated by very popular bloggers and I have to literally scroll a mile to get any post from a new or a small blogger with less than 10K followers on twitter. So it becomes about Popularity rather than Quality(Starbucks articles about Christmas gifts is not as good as my CS Professor's ramblings). So to get those posts I would have to unfollow other popular bloggers. There is nothing like Facebook's "See it First" approach. Only reason I use Facebook these days is for its "See it First Feature" which lets me control my news feed really well.

This really looks like failing CEO's post from here. But they have got so much content from good posters like Addy Osmani, Kevin Rose etc, that it would be hard to see it go. I don't know why many posters on Medium gave up their own managed blogs. I know it makes posts look pretty, but so does Wordpress (which even gives a lot of customization options).
You have literally quoted the SV mantra.
You have a contract- what's a lawyer say about it?
Well, linux doesn't have adhoc package management.

Because there is no standard packaging format between distributions, the best people can do is release a deb that may or may not work on either debian or ubuntu. Or an RPM that may or may not work on RH/Fedora. Or a tar.gz that will contain sometimes source code, sometimes a binary, and if it has source code there's no clear way to compile it, if it has a binary there's no clear way to install it.

So instead, curl sh.

It's pretty ridiculous that it's still a problem, tbh. What we need is somebody with the right political clout at either RH or Debian to sit down with devs of the other, come up with a decently generic solution that fits both systems and a backwards compatibility policy. It doesn't have to be perfect nor the best, it just has to be good enough to support the use cases of most Linux distros.

Once both Debian and Fedora support it, Ubuntu (and its many flavors) and Red Hat will follow. And if it's a generic enough system, with a pluggable-enough backwards compatibility policy, it's not unlikely for it to be adopted in more minor distros. If it's sold correctly, distros will gladly adopt it - we've all been waiting for this a long time.
Just to call it out: innovation is a tactic, not a goal.

I'm pretty sure the goal of people at Medium is to create value and it's not obvious to me how much innovation is required.

For 15 years or more the world has demonstrated a huge appetite for personal publishing: Blogger, MovableType, LiveJournal, WordPress, Twitter, Tumblr.

And in this moment, a lot of those options have not aged well. They haven't stayed particularly current and a lot of them seem institutionally incapable of modernizing.

So, Medium can provide an enormous value just by being the same thing we already know works but done in a modern way.
The hardware - it's an attribute on the page table. You could certainly monitor that from the hypervisor as well, although there'd be some performance overhead. You can avoid all of these protections if you can inject new code into an existing privileged process or SUID executable, which is how DirtyCOW worked. The blog points out that this class of vulnerability isn't covered.
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I don't think these difficulties of Medium can be generalized to the wider industry. The CEO/founder Evan Williams is a billionaire who set out to create a good publishing platform for everyday Joes and Sues with little to no focus on monetization (as far as I can tell). Other text content based sites are more willing to sacrifice UX for higher ad revenue.
Dropbox does not cooperate well with symlinks. For instance, if you create a symlink in your Dropbox folder to My Documents on Windows, the Dropbox folder will duplicate the My Documents files. Takes up twice the space.
The issue here is mostly not ideological [1]. It's about discussions that have been had a thousand times, never lead anywhere new—and therefore are never interesting—and always turn bilious. It's impossible to pull these weeds with full consensus but I'm pretty sure most readers of HN are bored by angry tape loops.

At some point, moderation has to be opinionated or we end up with the brown you get when all the finger paints are smeared together. Except in this case it's brown battery acid, because it's so nasty.

HN can't be for everyone. The reader who wants that type of argument should probably find some other websites.

[1] I'm giving you a "mostly" because yes, everything is ideological—I did go to grad school.
Yeah, and it's the only site on that list that I know anything about. Just wanted to point out that you can't judge page views based on the number of recommends that a Ringer article gets.
All competitive-game-playing AIs ask, "What will my opponent play in response to this move?" It's possible for an AI to evaluate a move based solely on the resulting board position, but it wouldn't be very good. Pretty much all AIs play many turns out to see if the move is any good. In the case of AlphaGo and Monte Carlo tree search, they actually play to the end of the game many times. To do this, they must of course play moves for each player.
The link is to the subreddit. How do you know there will be an AMA?
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The article wasn't what I expected because having read my share of Feynman I would totally expect him to have typed up that J Edgar Hoover memo by himself, signed it himself, and mailed it to the manager of the local FBI office just to see what happens.

I would be surprised if he's the first guy to try that.

The trick with social engineering people back in those days was getting the typewritten formats identical. Being Feynman all he would have needed was one actual memo to copy from and away he goes.
Agreed, it's a great editor. The downside of the minimalism is that, when they change the design, it's not obvious when old features are just gone.

The "huge picture header" is a case in point. A few years ago Medium's default design was to have a large picture at the top, with a headline laid out in white text on top of the picture. That design is not possible anymore (I think they removed it because it wasn't mobile-friendly)... But if you took a break from Medium and came back, you'd just be left wondering how to do it.

I remember spending about 30 minutes googling for that option, until I found mention of its deprecation tucked away in a FAQ section at Medium.
That makes sense. Back before multitasking when you could have many applications open at the same time the Apple menu was really convenient for small applications like calculators.

Much later once they had a multi-user operating system and a user menu, it would make more sense to have the user's name, shutdown, logout, and switch user in one menu.

It sounds like you were just trying to get work done. I suppose if you'd wasted an hour a day for a week or so exploring, that the operating system might have revealed some advantages.
How about the following statement?

"There is no widely played game for which an Elo rating system shows a larger measurable range of skill than Go."

This is a precise and measurable statement. The standard deviation of the Elo system used in Chess is 200, and the range from the best humans to rank amateurs is 14 times this standard deviation. When the Elo system was adapted to Go, the standard deviation was set to 100, and the range is 29 times the standard deviation.

The possible skill range, of course, measures something how complex the possible strategies are. And Go trounces every other game by this measure.

I think that gives Go a pretty defensible claim to "most complex strategy of any popular board game".
For those of us unaware, the Levchin the prize is named after is famous for...?
Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

the original source has been submitted ~10 times already and is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321322
> I'll update the README to make note of them.

I managed to run into 2 trying to build a 5 line program :-)

$ cat t.py; ./tools/grumpc t.py > t.go;go build t.go;echo '----';./t
import sys
print sys.stdin.readline()
----
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'stdin'
$

$ cat t.py ;./tools/grumpc t.py
c = {}
top = sorted(c.items(), key=lambda (k,v): v)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./tools/grumpc", line 102, in <module>
sys.exit(main(parser.parse_args()))
File "./tools/grumpc", line 60, in main
visitor.visit(mod)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ast.py", line 241, in visit
return visitor(node)
File "/Users/foo/src/grumpy/build/lib/python2.7/site-packages/grumpy/compiler/stmt.py", line 302, in visit_Module
self._visit_each(node.body)
File "/Users/foo/src/grumpy/build/lib/python2.7/site-packages/grumpy/compiler/stmt.py", line 632, in _visit_each
self.visit(node)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ast.py", line 241, in visit
return visitor(node)
File "/Users/foo/src/grumpy/build/lib/python2.7/site-packages/grumpy/compiler/stin visit_Assign
with self.expr_visitor.visit(node.value) as value:
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ast.py", line 241, in visit
return visitor(node)
File "/Users/foo/src/grumpy/build/lib/python2.7/site-packages/grumpy/compiler/expr_visitor.py", line 101, in visit_Call
values.append((util.go_str(k.arg), self.visit(k.value)))
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ast.py", line 241, in visit
return visitor(node)
File "/Users/foo/src/grumpy/build/lib/python2.7/site-packages/grumpy/compiler/expr_visitor.py", line 246, in visit_Lambda
return self.visit_function_inline(func_node)
File "/Users/foo/src/grumpy/build/lib/python2.7/site-packages/grumpy/compiler/expr_visitor.py", line 388, in visit_function_inline
func_visitor = block.FunctionBlockVisitor(node)
File "/Users/foo/src/grumpy/build/lib/python2.7/site-packages/grumpy/compiler/block.py", line 432, in __init__
args = [a.id for a in node_args.args]
AttributeError: 'Tuple' object has no attribute 'id'
Nothing lasts forever. The moment Apple fails to excite people it is game over. And the apple fatigue is getting stranger.
I'd much rather do 5x6h, I suppose the difference might be if you have small children.
Ask HN: Why hasn't someone created a similar service to Parse?
This may be an obvious question but has anyone considered (or built) a similar service to Parse in wake of it closing? I know they have open sourced it but it would take the headache of managing servers etc?
Thanks! Yeah, a lot of the new Ringer stuff has been great. The Simmons model of content written by true fans is a great model. The low quality version of that doesn't work. But they seem to have figured it out and new posts have been much higher quality.
Whenever I see people asking this, or worse suggesting outright with great self-assurance that the lithium supply will soon run out, here is my thought process:

1. Musk is a seasoned business leader with 12+ years' experience running SpaceX and Tesla simultaneously, overseeing every aspect of the businesses, so far very successfully.

2. Clearly Musk knows he will need a large lithium supply, since Musk is not literally an idiot, which you would have to be in order to start the largest lithium battery factory in the world without thinking about lithium supply.

3. Clearly Musk investigated this matter.

4. Musk is moving forward as if lithium supply is not a problem.

5. QED, either lithium supply is not a problem, or Musk is investing billions into something that he has no plan for how to make work.

6. One of these seems more likely than the other.
There are multiple dan scales. The KGS scale is an amateur dan scale. I don't know how much the scales overlap generally, but I'd imagine a 9 pro-dan professional to be somewhere around 12 dan on amateur scale (pro scales also have more dense scaling). However, the scales reach the ceiling at 9 dan by convention.

Even the abbreviations differ: 9d (amateur dan) vs 9p (pro dan).
That depends on how you define the beginning of the company. For example, Zuckerberg had built quite a few different "social" websites before building Thefacebook. Jobs and Woz had been building circuit boards and other electronic devices for a couple years before they built the Apple I.
This is really rough for timed tasks that take more than 25 minutes, like meetings. Is the solution to get everyone on-board (like the meeting organizers in my example)?

I've tried this and liked it, but had a hard time sticking with it over more than a few days. The magic is not allowing interruptions, though -- and sticking with that is the hard part.

"How do get more stuff done in one easy step? Just don't let yourself be distracted/interrupted, ever!"
look at the table on the right margin of the page. it has a list of upcoming AMA's
if the founder(s) of the company got really rich, but the company is still owned by VCs, there is almost definitely "voodoo bullshit" going on.

it's customary to take some money to alleviate the everyday financial stresses of life and to maybe buy a decent house because people have families, but the original intent behind the IPO was designed to align everyone's incentives. when they aren't aligned i.e. when there is a super-class of owners that already cashed out, it's going to end badly for the people who aren't in control.

everyone who got in early is already rich or completely exited, and more idiots keep piling onto the funding rounds... hmm... what does that sound like?
Is my Medium draft any good? How can it be better?
I was initially ecstatic about Dropbox, but they seem to be at best stagnant in terms of functionality.

It was my solution for having access to all my photos on all devices, but then they canceled Carousel with the promise that its functionality would be rolled into the main app. That hasn't happened. The photos feature on iOS is pathetically limited, with slow loading times, no way to organize photos (you can't even access albums you create on desktop), and inadequate sync functionality. The web client isn't much better. What exactly are all those engineers doing with their time?

I am increasingly wary of Google, and do not wish to give them all of my photos. What solutions am I left with? I don't feel like my asks are a tall order for a company of Dropbox's size. I basically want what the old Picasa desktop app provided, except synchronized between all my devices.

I can't possibly be the only one with this problem: an ever-growing library of photos and videos, scattered across various phones, DSLRs and computers with the need to organize them and share them easily. I am happy to pay.
I am the opposite. I can work with Gimp effortlessly, but Photoshop is endlessly frustrating. Why can't I access the things I want to do with the right click menu?
I was curious myself so I just had to look it up. As far as I know, everything is ASICs now. I don't believe there are any more big steps to take from there, just refinement to chip design and fabrication.
Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you stop using in 2017?
To complement this question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310159), I would like to know what old programming languages you plan to stop using in 2017. Why have you decided to stop using it?