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The one pivot Medium could do - and potentially reap large fiscal revenues & find profits in turn - would be to become a Writing Talent Incubator. They have the Ecosystem. They have the Banner. If they have cash, then they can get into the Rights Management sector and pursue the sources of almost every modern Media or Communication Content: Writers.

Compared to Engineers, Writers are dirt cheap. Funding in the tens of thousands of dollars per writer - or unicorn hundred thousand for some really promising ones - is the pathway to getting Content that can be monetized. If they play nicely with Writers and not make the "Indentured Servant Musician Record Label Contract" a staple of their model, it could attract a lot of attention in a good way. Mutual long term benefit = good business.

Unfortunately the Hit-to-Miss ratio isn't something I'm confident Medium wants to buy into. As in, if the most popular Writers sling pretty unappealing material (ex: Self Help, Conspiracy Theories) then it could take a lot of work figuring out where the gold might be. Having lots of data and pieces to examine through their systems certainly provides an advantage at the outset.

It's still all about risk and reward though. The big hits are what cover for the bad bets. It's a viable business model, until it isn't. Which, honestly, goes for a lot of other types of businesses too (times change, tastes change, regulations change, etc) so it's not out of the realm of consideration.

Basically I see Medium as right in the sweet spot where Netflix turned the corner. Licensing content and being the distributor is grunt work. The real money comes from owning the fountains. In a perfect world Medium would buy-up Script Revolution tomorrow, specifically the founder/creator, and begin the Content / Writer Incubator attempt with sincerity with his cultivated pool of writers, and see how it turns out.

Such a pivot definitely has some appeal to me as both a Content Creator and Consumer, and is, dare I say it, a bit more innovative than figuring out a new part of the donkey to pin the ad tail on.
Actually, it's already there. Has been since last year.
I heard it's an issue with the battery. My wife recently took her phone in and they replaced her battery because it is a known issue. Might want to take it to the store.
Yawn. Paul Graham basically wrote this article twelve years ago. I'm no fanboy, but at least he wasn't trying to coin bland catchphrases by italicizing them.
They're not "Apple’s advanced USB connectors" - they're the USB-C standard. They support (per the standard) what are called alternate modes, HDMI being one of them. HDMI 1.4b is currently supported over HDMI alt mode, which is unsurprising given that USB-C has been in the wild for a while and HDMI 2.1 is brand new.
We've banned this account for political trolling and ignoring our request not to do this.

Political flamewars are not welcome here. Taking threads on partisan or ideological or nationalist tangents and then stoking flames is not allowed.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13323786 and marked it off-topic.
Far from "everyone" - the majority of Americans are massively undersaving. If you are able to max out your 401k every year and track the market in index funds you'll be far ahead of the vast majority of people at retirement.

The first generation of people who were expected to save privately are yet to retire. 29% of 55 and older have ZERO savings, and the average of those who do is $104k, which is a $310/mo annuity (GAO, 2015). There is a generational crisis brewing.
I don't think that would have much of an impact. The focus on profits from VCs/investors isn't due to the corporate structure of the company, but the VC Firm's internal metrics -- the 10-year fund lifecycle, LP demands, etc.

Also the mechanism of leverage isn't the fiduciary duty that's placed on LLC / C-Corp management -- the idea that businesses are legally bound to chase profits is misguided. Company management must act in the best interest of shareholders, but have an incredible amount of leeway when doing so. The leverage from VCs comes from their ownership of significant chunks of the company and board representation. They can replace the management team if they don't acquiesce to VC demands. Changing the corporate mission statement won't mitigate these problems.
He recently announced that he is not an atheist any more. I'm thinking maybe this is related to his political ambition. I once had a discussion with an American friend on whether America would accept an atheist president. His opinion was that it's gonna be difficult.
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That is if I stay fixed in my position. If I lean forward to see some detail, I again profit from better resolution. And screens bigger than my viewing field (disregarding peripheral vision) may be unnecessary for entertainment but are certainly useful for work. Head movements are fast and precise and much better than software solutions for switching between windows.
10x seems to apply to a specific developer in a specific environment. I've seen corporate farms where hackers would suffer but idiots would thrive, and the exact opposite in startups. I've abandoned ship on gigs where the CTO would oppose migrating from SVN to git - but I have also saved sinking ships where the team was clueless but willing to change & learn. Reality is not a simple 1x/10x.
yea, you do it every year. its maybe ten more minutes of work than contributing to a just a tIRA, which you're doing every year anyway if you contribute to IRAs. like the above said, the only downside is hiding rolled over money in an expensive 401k or having to pay taxes on it
Its friggin unreal. I'm trying to do a cable order and have no clue what the heck to buy. I just want something that works. I swear these alternate modes and charging-only cables are going to be the end of me.
Perhaps. In fairness Ev Williams had two massively successful ventures before this one.
Onlinejobs.ph. Costs $50 a month to contact workers.
Interesting - I wasn't aware of this program even as I was writing a similar comment.
Alt+d works in all browsers also :)
> Data is pretty important to us.

> I don't have any :(

You're aware those two statements conflict with each other yeah? :(
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Basic income will come with a corresponding increase in prices for consumer goods across the board. As demand for everything beyond the most essential staples goes up, prices will be adjusted upward until supply is able to satisfy new demand.

Even if you're right, you will still want to have saved some money.
some definitions are arbitrary, for some people America is one continent, for some there are two, it's human-based, whatever is established in a culture, not math.
You'd think for that money they could have added an eyelet for attaching it to [eg] keyring. Very loseable grand's worth of gear, otherwise.
Great work. Followed your Instagram.
They've paid a lot of money to have their own content created. For example, https://backchannel.com
Did anyone notice in the About dialog that the infographic "The True Size of Africa" was done by Kai Krause?

Kai Krause as in Kai's Power Tools.
I really, really like the "what can you do with it" section on the front page. I'm only vaguely familiar with PhantomJS, so I was getting ready to close the tab, but after reading that section I realized this is something I can actually use.
That's in part because every "How to make money at home" blog lists "Start a blog, put ads on it" as one of their tips.

I tried that a few years ago. In a year, I made about $1.75 from ad revenue. I'm an awful blogger. There are a lot of awful blogs out there too, though.
> because most individuals have virtually no influence on national outcomes.

How can you say this after Trump was elected?
Ask HN: Has anyone used interviewing.io, if so what was your experience
Interviewing.io is a site that lets you interview with engineers from top companies anonymously.

If you have used the site what are your thoughts, was it worth your time what was the interview process like?
I'm looking forward to standing as close or as far away as I'd like from some sweet zooming fractals, and it looking awesome in every case. If the screen is the size of a wall, even better :)
Buy Twitter, kick Trump off both in 2017, start running in 2018. I could live with that.
The classical definition AdNauseum reproduced regarded it as fraud if it was to generate revenue or to drain revenue. Wikipedia uses the even more straightforward definition: "Fraud occurs when a person, automated script or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser, clicking on such an ad without having actual interest in the target of the ad's link"

Regardless of what a court may decide if it ever gets involved, the term "click fraud" as its most widely used and defined certainly includes clicks aimed at causing a party to lose money as well as than clicks aimed at directly obtaining money.
What python 3 features are painful and why?
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They are working on Bluetooth LE version. Should make it possible.

But its really all the fault of apple stupid NFC police, not some other issue.
I don't think it ever made sense to say it's generally hard to tell 4K from 1080p. It just really depends on the viewing distance and size of the screen.

My tiny laptop screen is almost 4K, and the difference is massive from a 1080p screen because I'm so close.

Likewise, your 55" inch screen wouldn't need to be 4K if you sit 10 meters away from it.
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I have a Nitrokey Pro in addition to my YubiKey 4. I love that it's got a much more open design and am happy to support the company for that reason, but its enclosure looks like a reasonably good generic USB key. Going only by tactile feel, I expect the Yubikey to outlast it.
May I ask what area you're targeting? I'm at a nonprofit as well and the systems / support for the whole industry are terrible. Though, companies like Fluxx (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fluxx#/entity) seem to be navigating a useful path for investment and building a good product.
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It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript.

UPDATE: I stand corrected.
whether you feel good or bad about your life depends 90% on personal and subjective perception. And this perception is almost 100% determined by the surrounding society. The other 10% are health facts.

Take a man who is somewhat wealthy in India and place him into San Francisco while conserving the living conditions - he will feel poor and inferior.

Or one of those guys who feel betrayed by the US government and hence voted for Trump - their living standard is most likely superior to that of a (very happy) king in ancient Egypt.

Today's 50 y/o men are influenced by what media communicates - and that is essentially a message conveying a hedonistic and materialistic lifestyle.

Those guys feel bad b/c they don't look as ripped as some Hollywood actor, their spouse not as hot as some chick on a magazine, they can't buy that car b/c their children are expensive etc.

Mature men and women consume less - and our society is built on consumption.
Guido has said that he wishes Python didn't have lambdas.

Also, map and reduce were removed from the standard global namespace and into the functools module.
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So essentially it's a programming language? For "scripting", why would I use it over just plain c#?
This is now the 5th time you've submitted this.
Except, like, JS isn't going to die any time soon, and realistically, implementing a new JS or WASM VM isn't actually that interesting to do: the big risk in a JITing VM that Rust cannot save you from is behaviour of your JITed code, which makes memory safety far harder to enforce.
There is no proof that any existing C/C++ implementation can produce code that is globally optimal. I wouldn't say that it is impossible for Rust to beat C/C++...there is plenty of room for improvement in compiler optimization engines.

I would even say that the room for improvement is potentially greater for rust than it is for C/C++, due to the type system. It hasn't been taken advantage of much yet, but MIR is one of the first steps to do so. It's an intermediate stage representation, like llvm's IR, but with all type resolution intact. There are plenty of known and even formally proven code optimizations that can only be used if certain guarantees are proven (such as the guarantees made by a strong type system).
My hope is that the project continues irrespective of its relationship to other organizations. It's pretty damn important.
If a big chunk of the public moves from "should I buy an electric car?" to "which electric car should I buy?", then all electric car producers win.
Investing is simply buying something you think will increase in value over time. US stocks have traditionally been an excellent vehicle due to their rates of growth. You could also invest in bonds, purchased annuities, real estate, gold and silver, foreign currencies & companies, Bitcoin/Ethereum, your offspring, domain names, collectibles...

What do you think people will value in the next 10, 20, 50 years?
Same. I've maxed my 401k since my first job. Now just breaking into 30s... decided to move some of what I would be contributing to 401k into RE investments. Huge tax advantages in this space, and with 15 yr loans you can be cash flowing pretty solidly in your 40s (the earlier you start, the better).
>On the other hand, a similar experience can be had on some modern CPUs as well.

There's absolutely no reason you couldn't constrain yourself to a subset of the instructions available on x86 and have a fairly equivalent experience as coding for a 6502.
Note that Reagan increased the SS tax in order to pad the fund and prepare for Boomers retiring. That surplus of the last 30 years is invested in special government bonds gauranteed with the "full faith and credit" of the US government.
Yahoo Answers without the Answers unless you succumb to the onboarding bait.
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What do you think Social Security is?
Not really. You can get up to about 1Mhz on a breadboard, and my wire-wrap SBC works at 4Mhz without any issues. If you did run into timing issues, you could just underclock the whole thing.
A group from CMU appears to have solved no-limit heads-up hold-em. It's only a matter of time (and compute power) for a full ring game.

No-limit is far more difficult than limit due to the risk of catastrophic failure. A Nash equilibrium robot won't make any money. A robot must identify a weakness in you, then deviate from equilibrium to exploit your weakness. So long as you're playing deep stack, you could simply play the Bertrand Russel chicken story (echoing David Hume): The farmer feeds it every day, so the chicken assumes that this will continue indefinitely. One day, though, the chicken has its neck wrung and is killed. It's the "maniac" style. Pretend to be an idiot that plays too many hands. Don't lose your shirt. The robot will learn that you're always bluffing. Eventually you have the nuts and you take everything.
Totally with you. With my grandparents and even my smart, successful sister they simply live in a different world then we do. They are being tricked (or are too lazy to care or notice) and these moves do help them. We see more and more technology companies doing things to help these users. (Like Apple with the new MBP by girlfriend says it's her favorite computer she has ever owned all of 15 seconds after turning it on).

But here if you have developer mode on they should never be allowed to do this. It's one thing to do it to a normal user (though if they really cared they would check to see if the extension was a normal non-spam extensions like this) but when a user as clicked that they are capable of understanding what extensions they have on then Google is in the wrong.

Sadly we are on HN are not the majority user of the products we love to discuss.
> Ok, you have a sponsorship model that works because you're probably very famous. That doesn't solve anyone's problem, because almost no one is famous.

He's famous, creates courses for Pluralsight, is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals (paraphrased from the page). He also runs haveibeenpwned.com, a site that focuses on security breaches. One would think that such a person would probably not want to run any kind of ads with any ad networks in the first place.

And he argues against ad blockers in another article because someone updated EasyList with references to his ad code and states that this back-and-forth war between publishers and ad-blockers is not healthy, which is a good point. But as long as publishers use ad networks that don't care a damn about tracking, malware and other issues, I'm glad we have ad blockers and people who keep things like EasyList updated regularly. Personally, I don't like the large image on his pages right at the top stretching all the way down, with almost no readable content without scrolling down (this depends on the screen size and the browser window size).
Since the city is in the middle of an economic growth, I'd say definitely yes.
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Living near heavy traffic increases risk of dementia
Patreon is already the Patreon for Writers though and for Medium to chase that type of audience is counter-intuitive. As a conduit to larger audiences, I think Patreon is about as useful as selling photocopies on a street corner. Medium has a much larger footprint which, in my perspective, allows them to be more of a Curator / Publicist / Rights Management entity than a skim-off-the-top-pseudo-serfdom-model like Patreon.
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My 401k has better funds than I could ever get in my IRA. Yes, many 401k's have terrible fund choices but by no means do all of them fall prey to that.

Also, if you're maxing out both your IRA and 401k limits, even if you have a lousy 401k, you now have tax-advantaged dollars that you can roll over to Vanguard or Fidelity when you change jobs.
The Go seems to be developed for their needs (well it's coming from them). It's simple to learn, it's very opinionated, how code is stored, how it is formatted etc. It seems perfect for a company that gets a lot of college graduates.

Now with Python, they still seem to stick to Python 2.7 and don't show any effort to move. TensorFlow was released for Python 2.7 and only later Python 3 support was added. Grumpy is for Python 2.7 and first issue opened asking about Python 3 support was closed with change in documentation that only Python 2.7 is supported.

To me it seems like they wouldn't stick to Python 2.7 if they were planning on continuing using Python. It seems like it coincides with deprecating Python 2 in 2020.
Sure, but US Treasuries are considered some of the safest assets in the world.
That's a blast from the past.
If you are incorporated as a 'public benefit corporation', you can't just change the charter to no longer be so, it's part of your incorporation.

But it's unclear to me if 'public benefit corporation' is actually anything more than marketting, I don't know if it really constrains your corporation in any way.
I think with customers he meant mainly customers who customize and extend the software. Especially if you publish an API and customers can run the software on their own servers you are kind of stuck because you don't know what is being used and how. With cloud based stuff it's a little easier because you can track what people are doing.

Also, Facebook has a history of breaking things for 3rd developers. You can't really do this with enterprise customers who pay a lot of money for your stuff.
>What is a Yubikey

A yubikey 4 or Neo has 2 slots which can be configured for about 5 different things. OTP, challenge response, static password, and some other things I can't remember right now. It also has 3 slots for a PGP private key, signing key, and encryption key. It also has 4 PIV slots to use as smart card key storage for authentication (ssh), code signing, and other things I can't remember. Then there are additional PIV slots to hold expired keys you might want to keep around for some reason?

It has quite a lot of functionality for a little device. The main difference between Neo and 4 is Neo has NFC, where 4 supports 4096 pgp keys. 4 is the newer one, but nothing new has NFC yet.

I use it with luks for full disk encryption, ssh, and to store my pgp key for QTPass/Android Password Store. QTPass + passff extension for firefox is nice.

I haven't set it up as a 2FA for sudo yet, but that's possible also. I don't plan to use it for PGP encrypted email for the same reasons described here.

https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/
It might be shocking, but I don't necessarily disagree with it. Difficult topic for sure, runs kind of close to eugenics.
Yeah, that's fair. I'm doing the same thing with recipestasher.com. I lose about $400/yr on it, but I really like using it and so do a few other people. No ads, no clickbait crap. But, I realize that I'm quite privileged to be able to do it.
Managing Director. Generally the highest non-executive role in Financial Services firms.
...and, this is how search engines work, on a simple level. They request a web page then they "click" on everything and request all those other pages.

Of course, Google probably detects bots and doesn't count these clicks, but your statement that "Google created click fraud" is correct (although they weren't first) and kinda funny.
And "big hits" for authors, especially non-fiction authors, aren't really all that big. With _very_ occasional exceptions. I'm not sure this would work.
So they outright paid content creators and writers? It seems that Backchannel is owned by Wired/Conde Nast. Have they contracted them to keep Backchannel publishing on Medium?
... And you can roll your trad IRA into your company 401K before doing the backdoor Roth, thus avoiding the tax hit.
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At 24, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and those that don't.
It's called social security for a reason.

The politicians are itching to hand the pot of money over to Wall Street who will extract fees from it.
It's literally less than a century, and look at what former presidents are doing now.

Who has more power over a longer period of time: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I argue Gates.

It's just going to get magnified too, as technologies dominate everything. The government can't keep up.

The US Government is not designed such that the president or any other job "runs the country" or has crazy power. That's the whole point of the constitution. Even if you consider nukes, despite what you read in policy they aren't a one man decision. People resign instead of using them, just look at the NIxon/Kissinger conversation about nuking Vietnam.

So there is an upper limit on power in the government. There is no upper limit on power in the private sector.
Thanks for the feedback guys, the marketing+ux roles are definitely in my "fake it" category :) I will try improving this.
I don't necessarily agree. Coreboot is important. Libreboot is nice to have.
I use PingID for authentication and the manual code entry is only required as a fallback. When everything goes right, you just need to swipe to approve at the lock screen. Also, I'm doubtful there's any cause for concern about malware or physical tampering on iOS.

I do like the idea of being able to plug in to authenticate for ssh on any computer, however...