skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it's unrelated to the content, it's to track where I am

If you're reading a lot of stuff on Medium, you stop this behavior after a while, because the tooltip is too annoying. But generally speaking: No, you're not alone with this.
Which I think leads us to a reasonable question, perhaps appropriate for a phase 2 implementation -- did anyone ASK the nurses if they would take a 25% pay cut?

Not wanting to play Masters Of The Universe with Swedish nurses or anything, but wouldn't it be possible for Gothenburg to have two nursing homes, one with 6-hour shifts and the other with 8? Set pay on an hourly scale. Then see who goes where.

But getting to the 25% pay cut point, we should at least acknowledge that tinkering with work weeks will have repercussions, some predictable (e.g. will teachers benefit?) and some not.
What do you mean by an "adverse environment over the next 2-4 years"? Please be more explicit.
"git usability discussions"
When I was in Paris, circa 2000, I came across some interesting pay toilets that were kind of like the Cadillacs of porto-potties. They were located on streets in nice shopping areas. You'd pay for the door to open. They had running water, but no water or fluid in the toilet bowl. Instead, the toilet was more like a concave shelf for peeing and/or pooping on.

When you were done, you'd leave through the door, which would lock behind you, and then for a minute or two, it would go through a self-cleaning cycle, making itself (putatively) spotless for the next customer.

They even had the same idea scaled up to entire motels. Near Lyon, I needed to catch 3 hours of zzz's before going to the airport. I found a motel called "Formule 1". It was a seemingly automated motel. You hardly ever saw an employee.

To park your car, you slid your credit card through a card reader at the parking lot gate, and it charged you $20 or so. You would be given a receipt with a combination number for the front door and for your room.

The bathrooms were down the hall from your room. They were somewhat similar to the fancy porto-poties. Though they also had showers in them. The shower was on a timer. When you left the bathroom, the door would lock behind you for a while, as it would go through its cleaning cycle.

France is strange!
It's pretty clear that what he means by "GAAP analysis" is "valuation based on GAAP revenue", as opposed to "valuation based on bullshit cooked revenue metrics", like the fanciful definitions that Groupon tried to convince everyone about.
It's interesting to think of the dynamics of developing an application (presumably) many times more complex than its host language. At a certain point, changing the language implementation becomes cheaper than making sweeping changes to the application.
My initial motivation of following Rust is because it is the only language that can integrate into and extend the traditional Linux C world seamlessly except C++, which is generally hated by the open source culture. Glad to see the initial attempt goes well, and hope the gnome people will no longer need to construct GUI with C in the second decade of twenty-first century.
Just commented about their move to their own hardware for storage no more than a few minutes ago.

This article doesn't mention anything about the investment they made in their own infrastructure. Is this on purpose? Moving 500PB isn't a small chunk of change. At the very least, the drives alone ran for $15MM assuming $125/4TB drives). Sure, chump change in terms of billions, but the article fails to mention anything about infra and hardware.
Ah, good question! No, I did not request access to the GitHub private org.
What has Google done that shows a "backbone" in China?
Can you suggest how this could be done with a non-proprietary solution at a reasonable cost?

What is proprietary here? The login? The sharing? Is that what you're complaining about?
Unfortunately for me, Dropbox has never been a pleasure as an OSX user. The number of times dropbox just spins eating up cpu while trying to index all my files has forced me to uninstall it. Also since my company uses it for all client work, and they still haven't figured out selective sync (https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Stop-auto-inheriting...) I was occasionally finding all my broadband and space getting eaten up by a new client folder.
Crowdfunding JeVois: An Open-Source Quad-Core Smart Machine Vision Camera
Tl;dr: this works because the RTL8710 is an ARM core, which is supported by LLVM and thus Rust anyway.
Its a nice how-to for working with the chip though.
Many sites work. I don't disable js in the preferences, that would be really hopeless. I use noscript and enable the scripts that make enough of the site work. There are obvious tracking scripts that I never enable. It's interesting to see the amount of cruft attached to many sites just to track people.
The complete guide to getting the Twitter handle you want – Quartz
The toilets in Victoria are some of the foulest smelling around.
Heh. Yeah, I responded to clarify that I did not grant access to that Org.
Common Rails Idioms That Kill Database Performance
Mobile literacy? Was such a research done before the Mobile and Telecom revolution? Spare me your ignorance please.

Forget the Planning Commission of India, we have had the worst experience with a Prime Minister, who was an Economist, and had no spine to take on the corrupt or even implement his own policies. India practically lost 10 years of it's growth to this useless economist. So no please, we don't need more economists. We have more than enough Economists. We need someone who can take tough policy decisions.
I'm a lot snarkier on Slashdot, where I can click the 'post anonymously' button. I comment less on here, because I'm concerned that I won't be considered insightful or informative enough, or that someone will take issue with some principle of mine. Yes, I would probably agree with you in general that personality defects are to some degree inherent, that the change in behavior is typically in degree, not in kind. However, you fail to consider alternatives. Human behavior is pretty complex. My girlfriend picked up a box of offensive greeting cards, and if she sent one to her boss, she would probably be cleaning her desk out on Friday. Sending one of those cards to her sassy girlfriend will be received in an entirely different manner. You have to consider the context of the behavior. So while I do not disagree with the general principle that antisocial or anti-tribal behavior in one context is a strong predictor of a more general misanthropy, I don't think that you have quite enough data to support your moral judgment.
Byron Wien Announces Ten Surprises for 2017 [Blackstone]
First I thought this was Jim Dale - the amazing narrator of Harry Potter - and was pretty confused.
Smart home functions are built-in, and not a "skill".
> And if we go by the assumptions that every possible state in this set of possible states is equally likely (a common assumption in classical probability theory)

I know I am being nitpicky, but despite the fact that yes, it's common to assume equal priors, this often has no basis---especially in regards to this question. With only one observation we know virtually nothing about the distribution of possible observations other than that the state that we observed is in a region with nonzero probability. We can't conclude anything else with any certainty at all.

I was happy to see that in the article the author discusses this point in particular.
The problem is that some of us have faces best for radio and voices for silent movies.
What a lot of us want is more granularity. I'm totally fine with their per-GB pricing, but if I (as a personal user) want more than 1TB, it is literally impossible to buy it from Dropbox. I would have to upgrade to a business plan, which makes no sense as I'm not a business.

Basically, there are only 3 Dropbox tiers: 0, 1TB, or infinity.
There were - perhaps it's than just that. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13322075

Namely "Medium makes it really easy to post something that looks good across devices etc., and has good sharing integration"
spez talked about how a lot of users(myself included) do in fact browse r/all. And yes, it has been fixed which is a good thing.
Exactly. The people that think Medium is innovative are the same people that think Farm From the Box (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13309610) is innovative. Some people just live in their pretty bubbles.
Could have been an Exeloo, made by a company out of New Zealand. A guy I used to know was their US rep for a while, got a few installed in some subway systems in the US. I lost track of him and his toilet ventures, I wonder if they're still around...

http://www.exeloo.com/
that question doesn't even make sense. What is a "project"? My Rails project is going to look radically different than someone's Go project, than a Rust project, than an iOS / Swift project....

if you're talking "project" in the Atom / Sublime / Eclipse sense of the word then a "project" is just a folder. If that's what you mean by "project" then yes, you can create folders in a text-based ui, and you've been able to do so since the dawn of unix, and basically every editor out there has an easy way to either create a folder with some clicks or enable direct access to the underlying shell to create one.
> There's a small community of Linux on Mac hardware hackers because they have the slowest rate of change and fewest models to support.

Interesting; I hadn't thought how Apple's culture of minimizing complexity for users would benefit even FOSS.

> The corporate machines may be more stable, but generally they're tied to corporate sales channels that aren't built to be accessed by individual buyers.

IME: You just have to look hard for those with platform stability; it's not prominently advertised and your non-corporate sales rep will have no idea what you are talking about. But once you find one, you can buy it online direct or through many channels, at least SMB channels (e.g., Connection.com); it's just not available from Best Buy or Staples.

Come to think of it, I would think the FOSS operating system community would happily adopt them.
Was at an Alexa meetup. One of the senior Alexa developers was speaking. What was said blew my mind:

We want you to use conversational UI, on any device, Apple's, MSFT, Google, anyone you like. We think in the end, you'll have the best experience with Echo.

How often does a mega tech company encourage you to use the competitions products?

Think Amazon hit out of the park. Hey Google, just does not cut it for me.

Alexa, and that sultry voice, just no comparisons. (IMHO).
All the Math Methods I Learned in My University Math Degree Are Now Obsolete
Check out also MarI/O, very impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44
Agreed. Especially when taking commuting into account - for me, one day off means 2 hours less commuting.

During the past year, I've actually started trying this out. I've taken a couple of my vacation weeks and spread them out - instead of taking one week vacation, I've taken Fridays off for five weeks. It's been amazing. Somehow it feels like that extra day counts twice: your weekend gets one day longer, and your work week gets one day shorter!
Not OP, but my experience is that it's immensely fun but also immensely exhausting. Apart from sleep loss and new duties to fit into busy days there were also stressors, eg like many couples we moved houses when the second one was born. Timing was suboptimal as things got delayed and suddenly much too much had to happen at the same time.

Otherwise for me stressful was in particular to lose/reduce large parts of my social life (eg Toastmasters or going out to talks and discussions, theater, for beer with friends, ... Before children i was out 4-5 evenings a week, now maybe 2/month). Your life structure changes, which may or may not be easy for everyone to adapt to depending on the before & after. I have no regrets, but i do miss what used to be couple- or me-time and relaxing and simulating activities.
If privacy is an issue, maybe some kind of token or card disconnected to your identity to get in.

But I think the face pictures could be used in some kind of public shaming for people to treat the bathroom nicely.
I have 3 modes of redditing in order of importance/frequency: 1. custom fp with many defaults removed, 2. r/all, 3. rarely, but sometimes default fp.

I find that it works. r/all is a lot of memes and time wasters, but can be fun for a quick look at what's going on outside of my bubble. I've found things(like rick and morty) that I wouldn't have found if I hadn't punched up r/all once in a while.
Coal-Fired Power Plant in India Is Turning Carbon Dioxide into Baking Soda
Alternativlos?

Yes, they must bow to local laws. But not taking some of the spoils and directing that via back channel donations into subversive software like TOR - that is a choice they have.
How can you define a sample space if there is no space? I don't see how nothingness can be treated as equally likely as somethingness.
What that car really costs to own
"People buy what you are, not what you sell". Musk seems to be putting in a genuine best effort at using capital and technology make a better, cooler future, and people are buying it.

It's how you get early adopters on your side, and it's how you build a devoted base of customers.
I did this once, by writing a small C program which sets up the seccomp context before exec'ing the Go binary. Unfortunately Go's runtime makes a huge number of system calls in the background, and the whitelist kept growing.

Switched to Rust and there was only had one hidden system call left, getrandom used to initialize the hashmap
Resource List to Learn GraphQL
I wonder what is the largest legal entity a company like Apple or Google would be willing to flip the middle finger to and say "No, you are ridiculous, feel free to ban us." At some point the demands just become so onerous that you either have to have separate SKUs for that legal region (extra expensive) or you have to put the same backdoors or restrictions in all your products (which makes the product inferior for customers outside of the legal region as well as within).
All your functions can be in a single labels block now. It's okay for a non-recursive function to be a labels. flet is really for those situations in which labels cannot be used, like defining an inner foo which shadows and calls (i.e wraps) an outer foo.
or protection from ad driven fake news
The U.S. Government thinks thousands of Russian hackers may be reading my blog
Funny to see this now. I left Amazon about 3 years ago, because there was no career path advancement for fewer hours.

I would've stayed at Amazon longer if at the end of the year instead of paying me more money they would've been willing to just make me work fewer hours.
> Now why you need 150 people to build a pretty straight forward blog platform is a very valid question

Because it’s not straightforward, and it’ not that many people? Facebook has 100x that number. Twitter has 25x. Airbnb hired almost 10x that number in 2015 alone. Stripe has almost 4x that number.
The primary innovations of medium was mixing together:

1) Easy publishing with high quality layout (your prettier outfit comment)

2) Easy collaborative publishing.

3) Extremely easy inline editing.

4) Contextual comments

It's really just digital publishing done right.

To look at a business model that works I believe much more in the Khan Academy, BrainPicking and WikiPedia models.
Wow so many negative comments on this thread.

I hope that any stereotypically white/male whatever technology professionals reading this remember back to the scorn and ridicule that many of us faced in our formative years due to our interest in technology. Many women, minorities, etc have had similar interests to yours but had few or no peers who shared them. You may have overcome hurdles but now imagine doing it alone or worse never knowing that it was even a possibility for you.

Programs like this are designed to make up for the numerous biases in our culture that stand in the way of equality. I think it speaks to the fragility of your egos that you find the idea of giving someone else an opportunity threatening. Especially when it costs you essentially nothing to be supportive.

I think one of the very worst sins is to rise to a position of power and use it against others who haven't had the advantages you've enjoyed. This is one of the thousand reasons I am deeply troubled by our near term political futures. A feeling which is more exacerbated every day by level of vitriol projected by people with the "I've got mine" mentality. Yes I've struggled, but I work to make things better so that others can avoid going what I went through. It sure beats maintaining a status quo that makes us pay our dues in futility.
..wonder when they're gonna "reveal" their secret orwellian its-all-for-the-good-of-humanity retina-scan-ml-trainingcamp(yes, reads almost like german) project from that UK-ish part of the world..
Before you try these probably best to first try and try natural methods, eg meditation. Just to be clear, I'm not making any assumptions about you, but for most that should be the first step. Don't try to change your brain if you haven't even tried to get to know it.
> They have 18k classes because they came up with a rather clever way of allowing many separate developers to all work on different features of the same app, without stepping on each others toes.

What makes you believe this is "clever" as opposed to a poor engineering decision? I strongly suspect that FB might have delivered a higher quality product through a more traditional team-ownership development model. Throwing large numbers of developers at a single app is unlikely to lead to a well-architected holistic solution.
> my experience with their high end consumer laptops made me never trust their engineering again

FWIW, the corporate products seem entirely different from the consumer ones, at least in my experience.
Woosh! He's making a satire comment about when Dropbox was first introduced to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
HRD SOFTWARE, LLC ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE OF CO-FOUNDER, RICK RUHL, W4PC [pdf]
Directly thought of StarCraft while reading this comment: never revealing your strategy and constantly attacking while being defensing and investing in economy to keep your opponent on the defensive.
Like another commenter said, StarCraft 2 is DeepMind's next bet.
More like a front door; one of the biggest problems with backdoors is that they are not supposed to allow the 'owner' to know what is going on.
In my area of Germany, we have some places where public toilets are not available as desired.
Instead of build new ones, which are expensive, the local responsible persons found a nice solution.
They pay bars to let their toilets used. Bars and restaurants, who join this initiative get a sticker on the front door.
So you don't have to sneak inside to use the restrooms.
Genuinely curious what you think has changed. Liquidity events are certainly much later than they used to be. What else has had negative effects? Late stage ratchet terms?
Microsoft SQL Server Voted Database of the Year 2016 -
Yes there are and I am a fan and built some - currently working at a bank as dev for rent - and they are doing it poorly ( I don't want to name the stack, because it's not responsible for a 4mb first page load + 1mb CSS - uncompressed ), it's their first big Js project and their cool 'kids' fresh from university... No server-side rendering and no-js fallback, concept copied from another bank... so glad I am out soon - it really makes my head hurt. I didn't think you can hurt an app so much by moving it do Spa, just for the sake of Spa. Most surprising, for me personally - UX issues, because they have no 'refresh'/change indicator and people don't expect things to change instantly - without page reload...
Yes there are and I am a fan and build some - currently working at a bank as dev for rent - and they are doing it poorly ( I don't want to name the stack, because it's not responsible for a 4mb first page load + 1mb CSS - uncompressed ), it's their first big Js project and their cool 'kids' fresh from university... No server-side rendering and no-js fallback, concept copied from another bank... so glad I am out soon - it really makes my head hurt. I didn't think you can hurt an app so much by moving it do Spa, just for the sake of Spa. Most surprising, for me personally - UX issues, because they have no 'refresh'/change indicator and people don't expect things to change instantly - without page reload...
Yep, see my latest post.
KGS 9 dan players are pros or amateurs that are professional level like former insei. The highest rank is almost 11d (it still says 9d, but the graph goes even higher):

https://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=leqi
I don't have any strong opinion about Medium, but generally when a firm lets 1/3 of its workforce go it's a Big Problem. This is hot news insofar as it tells us something about the future of the media market, but bigger point to me is that 50 jobs is such a tiny number. Of course it sucks for those let go, but 50 new unemployed people won't dramatically reshape the SF tech landscape and Medium is a well-known firm, so most of those folk will likely land on their feet.

The reason I think it's news is that it's a glaring example of how network effects leverage employee productivity so drastically. The tech industry is always looking for more people, but it's simply never going to employ the same huge numbers of people that other sectors like manufacturing have. google only has ~60k employees, which is only about 1/5 as many as IBM. Jobs are a form of political currency, and while it may be a lot harder to fill 50 tech jobs than 5000 warehouse jobs people often choose quantity over quality. I would expect the tech sector to carry much less weight under the new administration and that the next 2 years will be characterized by vicious competition and consolidation.
Would love a Quake 3 revival. That game consumed me.
It should be PyPI rather than PyPy in the parent, FWIW.
I'm interested in knowing why the Python and C components communicate with HTTP, beyond reading about the bugfix. Wouldn't it be easier to use sockets or files or some other mechanism to integrate the two languages?

Just something to think about as a developer. I would imagine that on a local machine, using HTTP as the protocol might add latency.
If we're assuming that, say, Kazakhstan is the belligerent then yes.

If it's the United States then trains across central Asia are harder to stop and require bombing a third country (unlike a shipping blockade which just requires a threat and which doesnt require pissing off a third party).
echo-system I like it! Kind of a mash-up with echo chamber, which seems equally applicable.

In case English is not your favorite language, the word I believe you're looking for is ecosystem.
Weird, it's never spun for me.
For the time being you can freely switch two different interfaces for the same backend: Prime Photos and Amazon Drive [1]. It's clunky. Cloud Drive was their first pass, Photos is their second and is barely a few months old, and I'm not whether the old interface will be disabled for Photos users at some point.

The uncertainty about the product direction is a bit off-putting, but it works decently well for my use-case [2], even if now you can't get that particular tier without Prime.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12709221#12709936
It's an interesting term that seems to mean something when in reality we understand little about the mechanism and effects. But good to keep researching it, i suppose.
It's reasonable to want to know the answer rather than to be content that Elon Musk must know the answer. Asking the question isn't an attack. I found a few reports online.