skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
If it could be the ideas would have already been found.
It would have been cool to read an article or view screenshots comparing the old and new dashboards. As a non-stripe user, I am not going to create an account to view a dashboard (that is apparently new).
> Medium makes it really easy to post something that looks good across devices etc., and has good sharing integration. That's all.

That's... not an easy thing to do. Making anything to do with technology "easy" is no small feat; that Medium was able to do this with as big an incumbent player as WordPress (for example) is an even bigger feat.
But medium has tasteful whitespace!
Meh. It's a hard balance to strike, between being poised for growth, and knowing the growth will work. It's expensive and failure-prone, but if you don't do it that way, you get passed up or hit an upper boundary.
I can tell you weren't part of the Medium community, otherwise you would come up with better arguments and not such a simplified reality.
For that kind of money, one can get a five-pack Office 365 with one TB storage and MS apps thrown in for each user.

(Unless MS changes their mind again - they already did last year, stiffing Lumia customers, and so I bought a NAS instead of signing up.)
There really are people who would get legitimately annoyed that Tesla is abusing the "giga" prefix when they're not actually building a billion factories. Hard to tell when it's one of those or when it's actually a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Depends what you mean by qbit. If you are including a magic state factory in your architecture then lots and lots (millions). If you mean stable qbits then I've been told that 4096 bit numbers could be factored with 8000 qbits that are very stable and can be operated on frequently.
So first of all, Wordpress.com/.org is the premier blogging destination, powering some stupid number of all websites in the world. Medium is the premier platform in the Silicon Valley Techno-Bubble.

I'm not saying what they've done is easy by any means, I'm saying that what they've done is not innovative and should be considered so just because they have a lot of users. Clearly a lot of users does not solely make a business successful, as evidenced by their layoff of 1/3 of the company today.

Also, innovation is doing something in a new way, whether by customers or product. And nothing they are doing is by any definition new.
Youll be immensely happy! And exhausted. And fighting a lot. Know that it's all normal.

Work early on to get the child a proper sleep routine and don't get them used to sleeping in the big bed, that's what most people do wrong and what pays 'dividends' aka bad sleep for a long time.

Also with one child the beautiful thing is that you can split times. So each parent can get some time completely off. But this requires that you get active early on. Start changing diapers on your own and bathing the child early on, so that neither mom nor you ever have doubts that you can handle things alone. It is TERRIFYING but oh so fun and better do it right from day one so you can enjoy it from then on and you are an equal couple from early on. Too many couples hey a bad dynamic where is only the cheap replacement mom never lets go completely, leading to stress for everyone involved.

Ideally she will breastfeed at least a few times a day for 6-12 months but even then after a few weeks she can start pumping milk and you can bottle feed, or from some point you can give formula. Remember that while you'll be exhausted she'll be even more so, it's best for your relationship and mental health if mom gets some breaks as well. believe me on that, i only learned that on the second child, when things are anyway more stressful...
> What kind of business is your family in that caused "personally suffered significant monetary loss on our 100% tax paid cash"? I'm curious to know and understand.

I am a NRI, me and my family have significant amount of Indian currency in US. All of it is 100% tax paid.

Indian Government has provided us no way to exchange currency or deposit it in our account if we are outside India. Modi declared our hard earned money as black money, and labelled us as criminals.

My father in India runs a cash and carry wholesale businesses. His typical customer is a street vendor in some remote village. When they come to my father's to buy inventory, they pay in cash because that is the only way for them to accept and make payments in villages. Most of them don't even have a bank account.

When Modi announced demonetization, his business dropped to almost zero. Two months since, it still hasn't recovered much. His business is seasonal (woolen products), most of it is in winter months only. Demonetization has turned this whole year into a major loss for him and it has literally crashed their Industry, which is resulting in layoffs.

Modi ji gave immunity to Politicians, so Political parties can deposit unlimited amount of cash tax free. I thought demonetization was a scheme, but it turns out it is a major scam.
Well, it was. It bootstrapped its userbase with college students, creating an air of exclusivity and giving highschoolers something to look forward to. The profiles were clean-cut and professional, as opposed to the garishly styled HTML themes and autoplaying music on Myspace.

Once they opened up to everyone, they captured an entire generation. And once they introduced Chat, they basically killed every other IM service [1]. At this point, it was game over for everyone else.

Meanwhile, Medium is another Tumblr, or another Blogger, or another LiveJournal, but the visual design attracts thought-piece bloggers instead of personal ones. This is a self-selecting but heterogeneous group, so there's no strong network effects. How do they grow beyond this, or adapt to monetize their existing userbase? What makes them think they won't just jump to the next free blog host?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11114518
Your analogy is flawed. There were and are plenty of other "create a blog with a few clicks that you don't have to host" services.
For those too lazy to parse this claptrap, the quote logically reduces to "all suspects are guilty".
I liked this article. A parallel three questions are ("What do I want?" "How am I acting right now?" "How do I need to act to get what I want?"). A little bit of mindfulness can go a long way.
I thought by the title it was this issue;
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=211226
I started out as an hourly contractor doing projects for a really good salesperson, and then she bought all my time that I cared to sell (about 30 hours a week), and then we formalized it as a w2 position about 10 months ago.

It's a very small company with doing web dev projects; there's only the boss (who pretty much just does sales), the "Design Dept. Head" out in SF, the "Chief Project Manager" in Az, and me (I'm an hour outside of Austin), plus a couple of off and on freelancers.

TBH, the expectation is mostly that "we get stuff done"; for example I had to meet with a client for a sub-contracted NSF gig on our NYE holiday. Or I have had to fix broken stuff in the middle of the night/ work late to make some magic happen occasionally. That has been rare enough so that, like the once or twice a year I have to travel, it's novel and kind of fun.

But between the limited sales pipeline, higher-margin clientele, and being fairly efficient the formal office hours that I agreed to are easy to maintain.

I play a lot of music, and I suspect that it's very much like being in a successful band would be like (I wouldn't know specifically what that is like, though, I only gig on the weekends at bars).
The GIL is not just for GC; it does coordinate access across threads, albeit at a very low level -- if two threads execute "mylist.append(v)" at the same time, it is the GIL that makes sure it actually works as expected, and from comments above it seems grumpy uses per-object locks for that.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/01/28/why-china...

However, this article says:

"The exit customs inspection for the Su’Man’Ou trains is done on-location in the bonded zone. The next time these containers will need to go undergo a customs inspection will be at the border of the EU, and they will typically not be opened until they arrive at their destination."

and

"These cargo relays are generally very simple procedures: the incoming train and the outgoing train are lined up side by side and a crane moves the containers from one to the other. At Khorgos Gateway, a new junction on the Silk Road Economic Belt on the border of Kazakhstan and China, this transfer can be done in just 47 minutes."
There's an openclipart.org browser built in, File > Import Clip Art ..., but I'd use your web browser, it's much better UX.
> You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

...are you serious? Yes, I could do all of those things, then I'd have a terrible Dropbox-like clone that only I can use. And I'd be responsible for running it.

Human society is literally built on the idea of us not needing to do things that we could do for ourselves. Most of the things you can do "for free", or even "for cheap", are only on that value spectrum if your time is worthless.
No, I'm not saying it's easy, just that doing something very well isn't particularly innovative.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking down Medium's product - it's fantastic. But the OP claimed that Medium has "unambiguously, objectively succeeded" in being innovative, and I just don't see it. I'd actually argue that Tumblr was far more innovative - there are some fascinating forms of content that came out of that place, not to mention the whole social network, reblogging effect, etc. etc.

But neither has shaped up to be a particularly successful business, and placing perceived innovation above that might not be wise when you're talking about user generated content. What happens if either of them fails?
Please don't post unsubstantive comments.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321354 and marked it off-topic.
> It's clear who values their time more than the founder & employees. Bootstrapping means you control the destiny and a higher chance to pocket more than a C-Suite's salary combined. So you make 100k every month from your bootstrapped business but you never IPO, you can buy the world's smallest violin.

As someone full-time bootstrapping, and who will launch having bootstrapped, my take-away is that I wish I took seed money to be able to pay a couple people to go on this journey with me. I'm a solo technical founder and while I found people willing to make (considerably) under their market value, engineering is well paid and good make-problems-disappear non-technical people are rare finds.
Love the destructive spirit on HN today!
Looks like the Chinese government would like to ensure that its citizens do not fall victim to 'fake news' and has thus taken on the responsibility of 'fact checking'.
It's not silly logic if it's true. Medium may or may not have better features / quality than alternatives. You need to actually argue why Facebook is better than Friendster or Myspace to invalidate the argument that Facebook is just like Friendster or Myspace.
Librsvg now requires Rust
It's a reference to a HN comment saying that when Dropbox was first presented on HN.
DeepMind has set their sights on StarCraft II next: https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-star...
It's almost like there was some risk in starting something new...
My question does not mean I don't believe in quantum computers
Traffickcam
Why should I be mindful when someone from Github (the company where I host lot of code) does not?
It's sad that we don't value incremental improvement or realize that pretty much everything "revolutionary" were incremental improvements on something else. iPods, iPhones, laptops, Google Search, etc.

Whether or not Medium is "remarkable or innovative" is whether it becomes successful. If it's successful than it's remarkable and people will bend over backwards to determine what innovations made that possible.
They may try a central Medium subscription setup that trickles funds to authors based on some criteria, or maybe medium as a subscription manager for authors. Google played with this approach. Does anyone know if they've had success?
Right. The word filesystem has a defacto meaning for many, though. Not POSIX either...FAT, NTFS, etc are filesystems. There's implied functionality that goes with the word.

This isn't a filesystem anymore than etcd would be.
Holy crap, this factory is three times the size of K-25, which was used to enrich uranium during WWII (and was the largest building in the world during its time).
The article was a little hand-wavey on the details about comfort. But to you hypothetical. Say that instead you tell him (assuming a straight guy), that it's great way to meet women and, oddly enough, get exercise. That might convince him to attend at least one. After auditing, he might like it.

The field has an old rep. Some of it's earned. It's changing now. People are operating from old information. Correcting this information, by means of targeting marketing, might be a good thing.

Now I do see benefit for keeping the view around if it means less workers and therefore a higher wage for me, :).
On the consumption side all blog engines seem about the same. On the production side they've added a few nice things that a static blog engine doesn't have - collaborative feedback on a draft before publishing, paragraph-by-paragraph statistics on "read ratio", time spent with an article, etc. https://blog.bufferapp.com/how-to-use-medium
Great idea and actual pain point. Showing a live or even a video demo will increase sign up significantly IMHO.
Also the "get started now" should lead to the sign up page, not sign in page.

I like minimalist design, but this is a little too minimalist. More pictures, how it works, examples, pricing, will be great. Also no clue if this is an IOS app, android app, mobile web app, desktop app.

So congrats on the building and shipping attitude, but to take advantage of the flow of beta users from HN, I'd say a video / demo and more "faq" is going to increase your conversion tenfold.

Well done on the launch in any case, better launch something than wait till it's perfect.
We know that Master can figure out what it would play. We also know that its predecessor had a model for what moves a human professional would be likely to play.

What I would find truly fascinating is if Master could divide moves that it plays, which professionals wouldn't, into groups based on a similar internal categorization of the moves. And then see if human minds can look at any of groups and come up with a human understandable principle that humans had been missing about the game.

The point here is not so much to improve human play (though it presumably would do so), but as a step towards having an AI that can break down its internal model into principles that can be used to train another AI to learn those principles. Just like how a human expert can learn to turn expertise into something that can be taught to other humans.

This has several potential benefits. The first is that human experience suggests that this type of introspection tends to improve our own competency. The second is that we could have a single AI trained by multiple specialist AIs to get a compact "generalist". And the third is that this is a path towards having AIs that can discover things then teach them to humans.

The whole idea might fail horribly. But I'd like to see it given a shot.
This sounds pretty amazing. I don't particularly hate the
MS stack. I like most of it, in fact. This puts it in my list of companies-to-consider list.
> economics in general is junk and a bogus field

FTFY
This is a glorified article saying 'no one is buying our ads'
I'm vouching this comment because you're bringing a valid point into the discussion but you need to tone the hostility down.
Pro is $8.25 / month for 1TB on annual billing. I rarely see monthly pricing for under 5$. So, I don't think it's going to drop much at this point. https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison?_tk=dbv1

IMO, 1TB is completly reasonble. You can get ~10 GB of storage several places for free which covers most things and minmaxing 2-3$ per month is generally a waste of time.
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EDIT - great, I will give Dropbox another shot.
> picking political points like blood of citizens

Over 100 people have died due to demonetization scam[1]. It is not an opinion, they are not even just facts and statistics, 100 real people have died and their families have been destroyed. Let that sink in.

[1] Modi ji gave immunity to Politicians, so Political parties can deposit unlimited amount of cash tax free. I thought demonetization was a scheme, but it turns out it is a major scam.
I don't see much of a gap between "trust and respect" and "forge a bond". Are you sure you disagree?
There is: Truecaller
So, they've clearly stolen Tumblr's user base
It belongs to a friend, so I haven't trained it. But I will probably buy one soon, and then figure out how to use it well. I could always use a unique phrase...

"27ffe8a1-4cd0-4739-bc46-9ad51a9c14ba, turn on the living room lights."
If you select a chunk of text, a tooltip pops up and one of the options there, is some kind of icon that vaguely looks like a highlighter and has the CSS class 'svgIcon--highlighter'. I assume clicking that registers as a highlight?
As computers are able to evaluate positions faster (and therefore deeper), the "godlike" tactics are dominating over human-style strategy. It used to be that computers played "computer-like" moves because they didn't understand the position. Now, they play computer-like moves because "understanding" the position isn't as important as just being able to see 25+ moves ahead.

In a nutshell, positional play in chess is simply heuristics we humans use to be able to evaluate a position in lieu of being able to calculate deep non-forced lines. Computers do use this to an extent (as you point out, we coded their evaluation functions) but positional play matters less when you see all the outcomes of every possible tactic with 100% accuracy. So computers tend to play reasonably human-like in the openings, but by the time you reach the middle game they'll happily enter lines where their pawn structures are shattered, pieces appear superficially to have little coordination, and where their king safety appears compromised (all things humans rarely intentionally do), all because they've seen that it works out 25+ moves in advance.
What a great explanation! Thank you for taking the time to do so.
Are the mining farms still using ASIC miners?
Show HN: NBA Player Tracker (Android)
me too. I've migrated a big project from 2 to 3 two years ago. And let's get this straight : innovation happens on python 3. So staying on 2 would feel like riding a dead horse. I know I did the right thing.

And if Google can make an interpreter for 2, then sooner or later, one for 3 will pop up. Since Google made some restrictions on what Grumpy supports from python 2, I'm sure someone somewhere will be able to do the same stuff for three.
American Innovation and Competitiveness Act Clears Senate
2.7 haha. First Tensorflow, now Grumpy. I can't stop laughing as all the 3.x zealots try to squirm out of this. Talk about awkward.

yes yes I know tf now "does" 3 but we all know what Google really cares about.

"I'd like to support 3.x at some point" - trotterdylan.

Read: nice to have but when it gets down to brass tacks, 2.7 is where it's at for Google.
True, Ballotter very much matches the political debating scene but it is whatever users make it to be. To narrow it down to political area we would need to know many politicians to provide the content. We do not know any politicians willing to debate live yet.
I can't tell, but I feel like you're being sarcastic.
> I mean you wouldn't do that with something like MySQL.

Oh yeah? I dumped over 40TB of data from open MySQL instances. --skip-grant-tables is probably the most common advice for resetting your MySQL root password.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13308092
The Coming Tech Backlash
It's really saddening to see that the idea that humans are not a blank slate[1] is considered a "tedious flamewar topic" while articles such the one that started this thread this are not.

Not everything is a product of society and there's a mountain of science to support the fact. It's increasingly politically untenable (at least in the anglosphere) to acknowledge any biological differences between demographic groups, but that's weak reason for shutting down discussion.

1) http://stevenpinker.com/publications/blank-slate
Python 2.7 is EOL in 2020. Make of that what you will :/
My utopian society workweek is 4 days/8 hours.

That extra day off would do far more for people than one or two less hours every day. So 4x8=32 hours, vs 6x5=30 hours. I would even bargain for 4 days/9 hours, or 4x9=36 hours.

That third day is huge. It's the difference from having only enough time for some leisurely weekend activities, to having enough time to take a mini-3-day-vacation every week (short flights, etc.).
"Double-dipping" is allowed in criminal cases. If two people cooperate to murder someone both can go to jail for the full sentence; they don't split up the sentence between them.
Yes. From $10-15K to $5-7K. Just like it collapsed from $1000 to $300 in 2014, or from $270 to $100 in 2013, or from $15 to $10 in 2012, or from $30 to $3 in 2011.
dropbox lost me when i started to get hyper targeted spam to email addresses i only used for dropbox and haven't used for years. they seem to use a remarkably persistent cookie syncing technology.
This is the exact reason i didn't switch to a pro yet. I love dropbox and all the syncing, but give me a plan below $5 with a relative storage. Google Drive gives 100GB at $2, that would be an amazing start for Dropbox.
Benchling (YC S12) is hiring senior product engineers in SF
This post explains it. It's related to Medium's "Highlight" feature, not the ordinary text selection:

https://blog.medium.com/introducing-highlights-a4df69e8ed43
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You are helping them build their business by providing your content for free, as did contributors to Huffington Post.

How do you feel the balance of compensation is, and how do you feel about your control - or lack of - of your own content?
I would love to checkout this new design, but Stripe doesn't work in my country. Anyone got screenshots?