skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't understand the appeal.

The Medium community is pretty insular. Check out what's popular and it is a very narrow part of society - basically what appeals to someone in the Bay Area. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that but why pay money for it? If it couldn't attract a larger audience while being open, this is going to only embed that in-crowd further. And, like you said, in asking people to play money, you are now competing against more diverse free content that is both professional and amateur.

The average Medium blog post is already pretty forgettable, there are a lot more quality things to spend money on. I get just as much if not more value from HN or Reddit and don't have to pay a dime. I don't know who's going to pay for this.

edit: this is what currently shows up on the frontpage:

* An open letter to Jason Chaffetz from someone who attended his town hall

* Why did I name it “Dear White People?”

* Acquisitions, Mergers, and the Purge

* 11 Essential Movies About The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees

* Tech and the Fake Market tactic

* The Alt-Right Is A Doomsday Cult

* This May Be the Most Exhaustive Study of Manspreading Ever Conducted

etc

That's an incredibly narrow worldview that's only going to turn off people who don't come from it. It's a bunch of political op-eds. You don't have to pay money for that! You can go to any Internet forum and find it.
When I buy a coffee I also don't have to worry about it charging me $5 once a month forever unless I go through a maze of menu options (possibly involving phone calls) to get it to stop.
I don't agree, it's not like software engineering is the be-all and end-all of automation. Software engineers usually build something based om some sort of requirement. When the development part is automated, there's still a need for requirements. There will still be a job figuring out what to create in the first place.

And then there's the idea that new jobs are created when others disappear. I'm sure there will be jobs in the future that we can't imagine yet. Maybe we'll actually forcibly create new jobs in order to keep people busy.
Of course they went to GitHub, because GitHub actually works (looking over to GitLab), it doesn't suck (looking over to GitLab), the UI/UX is not fugly (looking over to GitLab) and it doesn't stop working when total users logged in > 10 (looking over to GitLab).
Really? Then the whole seed funding must make no sense to you, mustn't it? ;-)
Why is NuGet search in Rider so fast?
> Compelled confessions are already invalid.

Compelled confessions are not "already invalid" separate from the Fifth Amendment. To the extent that statutory restrictions prevent it, that arises from the same impulse of the Fifth and is most likely primarily intended to be supplementary thereto.

The right against self-incrimination is intended to establish a system of justice that requires prosecutors to obtain real proof rather than making it dependent on manipulating the accused, who may well be innocent, into believing that a confession is the only way out (that is, confessions extracted by coercion).

Similar rights existed in multiple state constitutions prior to the ratification of the federal constitution. Note also that incorporation didn't begin to occur until the late 1800s-early 1900s, so independent state statutes protecting this right would've been necessary, and their existence doesn't mean that the Fifth didn't also target this protection.

>Do you have a source for this claim?

This overview seems pretty accessible: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20....

Quote:

>The Fifth Amendment [...] was created in reaction to the excesses of the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission. [...] These courts utilized the inquisitorial method of truth-seeking as opposed to the prosecutorial, meaning that prosecutors did not bear the burden of proving a case, but that sufficient "proof" came from browbeating confessions out of the accused. [...] With the abolition of the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, the common law courts of England incorporated this principle of nemo tenetur—that no man should be bound to accuse himself. By the 18th century, English law provided that neither confessions coerced during the trial nor pretrial confessions obtained through torture could be used. This was based on the belief that coerced confessions were inherently unreliable.
Seed stage -- have you considered applying to Y Combinator?
Eurostar's the obvious one, but I've seen scanners at Gare du Nord for TGV/Thalys as well, and when we caught TGV from Barcelona Sants to Paris (Gare de Lyon, I think) we got marshalled into some sort of departure lounge at Sants. Only time I've ever seen that in Europe though. Oh and changing from Eurostar to ICE in Brussels we had our ID's checked before being able to get to the platform (this was on the 23rd of December though).
Never heard of it before, and wow, that page is seriously old-school.
With the coffee you are buying an experience, an emotion. With most non-gaming apps not so much. Doing an cost-benefit analysis with an experience is much more subjective than what you can get out of an app.
I have a similar memory from my early days of coding.

I was implementing a toy rc4 cipher. One of the steps in the ciphers involves swapping entries in an arrays of 256 elements. I thought "hey, I'm a 1337 coder, I'm going to use the xor trick".

Except it doesn't work if you're trying to swap something with itself. If you do "a[i] ^= a[j]" and i == j then you're just clearing the entry.

Taught me the valuable lesson that I shouldn't try to be a smartass while writing code and the importance of unit tests.
You will probably find people to give you better advices at Betahaus in Kreuzberg.
too tldr for me
I can see myself subscribing if the content is good and authors get paid for views (a la spotify model ?)
At the time, windshield wipers were controlled by a manifold vacuum, and the speed varied based on how much throttle you were applying. The problem is that this happened in reverse of ideal; at a standstill your wipers would be wiping furiously, and would slow down to near-uselessness as you gave the engine more gas.

The intermittent wiper design not only solved that problem, but paved the way for far greater flexibility when it comes to how fast or slow the wipers should wipe. It also did so with a relatively simple circuit (just charge a capacitor to a certain voltage, then use it to power the motor; adjust the charge rate to adjust the wiper rate). Pretty neat in my book.
dude, less than 60% of people have $1,000 in their savings account. retaining a lawyer just in case is entirely out of the question.
Just pointing out that even if your Skype password is random, secure and not shared with any other service, somebody could gain access via this mechanism.
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Actually the typical Tibetan diet is heavy on grain, meat and dairy.
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I think we are thrown into "cost-benefit analysis" to avoid being the only ones who pay.

When you go for coffee, you know everyone else pays the same, nobody gets coffee for free.

With digital goods, since they are so easy to copy, you wonder, am I a dumbass for shelling out even $1 when everyone else is getting it for free?

There is no way to know if others have bought this, if they have actually payed.

On top of that, its so simple, its too simple to pay, but with coffee you have to get your card out, find coins or whatever. Customer wonders, if its so simple, am I being ripped, what if I buy this by accident for several months?
Agreed, but isn't that irrelevant here? e^i*pi has an intuitive meaning, so we shouldn't be content with our lack of understanding.
The cities where exercise does more harm than good
I wish PR's on github could be checked off per commit like in bitbucket.
The title here is inaccurate (at time of posting: Government accused of 'full-frontal attack' on whistleblowers)

This is a proposal from the Law Commission, an independent body that advises the Government, and might or might not be taken up as a policy position. The title in the article makes the distinction clear.
Wouldn't the gyroscopic effects make it really annoying to turn with that on your face?
It makes a lot of sense for people with Social Proof.
I've been wanting to do a project like this for a while. Specifically, wanting to write a basic program to visualize ALDL data from my 88 fiero on an 8 or 16 bit homebrew mini system, for extra retro goodness. Ideally I want a keyboard and serial port, a vga out, and a spot for a cf or sd card. Maybe running cp/m or similar. I've looked at rc2014 and similar and even some fpga options, but haven't settled on the right starting point yet. Ideas?
> Networking is not working. I have seen so many startups in Berlin, who had a good shot of making it, but who wasted time in "fundraising" or "networking" and therefore killed their business.

You're right. But even for a technical person, spending "24h" coding is too much

But ideally one person would be dedicated to coding, another, to the business/financial/fundraising side
Oh funny. Just like in Northern Europe (Finland).
Yes, this is disappointing on many levels. Github is proprietary, semi-monopolistic (in the way Microsoft holds semi-monopoly on desktops) and it's also nest of reactionary vipers [1].

Python community is full of cool and nice people. I guess I expected more from them.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
Welp, then you oviously have talk to the other 50%!
A skeptic’s take on Trump’s purported big data juggernaut, Cambridge Analytica
But isn't channels the Phoenix abstraction (middleware) for websockets/sockets per se?

What I mean is why not write a sockets Phoenix channels transports adapter to be used instead of the default one & continue using the existing codebase? :)
In Netherlands it is common to have rather cold temperatures in houses even if people can afford to pay for warmth. And cold requires body to spend much more energy that is coming directly from burning body fat unless one shivering from cold.

In fact if one wants to loose like 10 kilos quickly, just climb to Everest. Most of that weight will be spent on body heating, not muscular work.

That also explains why butter does not harm people in Tibet. It is not stored as body fat and goes directly into body heat.
All the particles in the simulation start at (0, 0, 0) so gravity is infinite, and the whole computation is operating on `NaN`s.

Not sure how much this affects the benchmark, but it'd probably be smart to randomise the starting positions.
e^τi = 1.

In words, this equation makes the following fundamental observation:

The complex exponential of the circle constant is unity.

Geometrically, multiplying by e^iθ corresponds to rotating a complex number by an angle θ in the complex plane, which suggests a second interpretation of Euler’s identity:

A rotation by one turn is 1.

The Tau Manifesto http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-euler_s_identity
I don't know, but I'm just saying that such articles are basically pretending that "the rest of the world probably does the same as we do in the US".

The W124 was an emblematic and brand-defining car for MB for more than a decade which also introduced this ingenious design, but they will pretend they know European car history by mentioning VW Beetle, Reliant Scimitar and Lancia Stratus.
Have you read "Religion for Atheists", by any chance?
I think you should explain step 2 in more detail.
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I found that a huge waste of time. Most of the time you'll meet people with the same problems as you have (not having the capacity nor the network to help you out). I would try to network directly through people and get as much warm intros as possible. If you can't get an intro to business angels, start with intros to CEOs, if you can't get that, start by climbing up the tree. If that means to start with "cold calls/mails"... then this is how you have to start. Just make it happen.

EDIT: I spent my last year on Berlin meetups and i consider myself as pretty outgoing, eloquent and we've traction. But it simply was not worth my time.
So, what is this word2vec, after all?
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I'm glad you showed me that but unfortunately I'm required to run it by my organisation. And even if I do disable it we have VPN software that requires some sort of AV before you're granted access.
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Don't know about Berlin, but Munich/Bavaria has a pool of angels and family offices that they could connect you with: http://www.baystartup.de/finanzierungs-netzwerk/finanzierung...
I assume there's something like that in Berlin as well?

Disclaimer: have not tried this myself, no idea about the time needed or success probability.
A Beginner's Guide to X86 Assembly
The coffee also has, at best case, a one-use max.
> The money would come from "people's QE"

Oh, yet more printy printy. Wonderful.

> Would you prefer people didn't have homes? Just say it if that's what you want.

No, I wouldn't prefer that. I'd quite like an affordable home of my own at some point before I die, thank you very much. I believe social housing - free from the inflationary incentives of the PRS - has an important role to play in keeping the PRS honest, much like (AUIU) the NHS does a lot to keep the UK's private health sector honest compared to the situation in the US. But after the past few decades I don't trust uk.gov to treat social housing as an asset in the long term.

> The financialization of housing exacerbated the problems caused by the shortage of housing, they obviously didn't create them.

I don't think that's at all obvious. When some "investors" are buying houses and leaving them empty while they appreciate, that seems to demonstrate that this is at least as much a demand-side problem as a supply-side one. Where I live, new high-rise housing is going up everywhere you look, and prices for a 1-bed are still stuck at around 15x average earnings.

I know I sound negative. 20 years of watching this madness unfold will do that to you. I have a kneejerk suspicion of "just build on brownfield land" - it's the housing equivalent of "we'll improve services and reduce taxes by cutting red tape and reducing government waste" - sounds nice, doesn't frighten anyone, but if it were really that easy you'd think it would have actually happened the last 20 times someone said it.
> If I put a println!("{}", x[0][0]) at the end, I end up with 1m43s.

Yes, without that it's basically cheating. There is now a GitHub issue: https://github.com/marblestation/benchmark-leapfrog/issues/6

The submitter writes: "final output [for Rust] is 134 seconds, and also the output is [[NaN, NaN, NaN], [NaN, NaN, NaN]] (batman)"
Also, when you buy a coffee you don't have to worry that it might contain spyware or malware.
I really like hackernoon and could see myself paying for more content like that.

If they could convince some more high(er) profile tech/startup bloggers to use their platform, like Ben Thompson from exponent or Benedict Evans from A16Z, i'd definitely at least try it.
How many consumers consider marginal cost when making a purchase though?
Any examples? I can only think of one super interesting article I've ever read on Medium whereas I'll get that at least once a week from a decent news source. Medium, in my experience, is half echo-chamber half opinion from people who have little to no idea what they're talking about.
I've been to Berlin twice now and was just there for 2 weeks last year in August. The startup scene in Berlin is very good, with lots of really talented designers and engineers. I'd say #1 or #2 behind Stockholm in terms of producing high quality companies these days.

Unfortunately the investment scene in Berlin is still very conservative. There are some angel investment programs out of Berlin (Google for Project Flying Elephant for example). Howerver I'd echo the sentiment that VC's and even angel's in Berlin operate like typically every other European investor, ultra conservative, little to zero speculation, and more of a bank than investment firm. Can't beat the US where you'll find risk takers with gobs of extra cash willing to bet on longshots, outcasts, and pet projects.
For people who want to learn some concepts before (or after) they built such an app:

https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero

Also, I started blogging this year, maybe some of the (React) posts help:

https://dev.to/kayis
What's the Betteridge trigger?
That is why you need Algorithmic IT Operations (AIOps)
I'm in similar boat with the OP and with your comment I feel defeated already, but I guess it's the reality. Thanks for the bitter pill :)
Software is automation: compilers automate a large part of writing new machine code, libraries automate by reusing older code. If it can be automated, it has been automated. We have existed under the pressure of automation since the beginning of our field, we can take it.
BTW for thoses who like Complex Analysis here's how to visualize them as a 2D deformation :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMrEDIFPZY
Personally, I would find it hard to shell out money for a Medium subscription, simply because I'd detest paying for a subscription and still myself short of quality stuff by New Yorker. Imagine the same scenario in music streaming — paying for Spotify and still unable to access most of songs you'd like.

Frankly, it seems advertising is more obvious option for Medium rather than building a subscription business. Surely, it's despised, but one must wonder what chances Facebook would have had if it thought of creating a "$1 / month" social network.
You are right that being active is also very important for cardiovascular health. However, you cannot underestimate the importance of diet as it too is a daily reoccurent factor for health.
That's an interesting one I had not considered. Culturally living in a cold environment and not wrapping up warm will have an effect on calorie burn.
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Thanks for posting this. I recently saw another video about this equation than the one posted here and thought "maybe this is one of those cases where tau doesn't work out nicely", but didn't have the intuition to see if it was or not.
Other elements besides div just have a different default style. These default can be overridden in CSS. If you would like to start with a "blank slate" where all elements have the same defaults, you can use a CSS reset. There is really no good reason to not use the semantic elements when appropriate.
The difference is that if a defendant is forced to decode a unique cipher they've made up, there's no independent way to verify its contents. You can't prove that an investigator didn't say "Look, the only way you're going to ever get out of here is if you 'decode' this and make sure it says that you committed the crime."

Whereas with a well-understood, industry-accepted cipher, you can use the key and obtain the evidence exactly as it sits independent of the defendant's disposition and without requiring any unique or special tooling to be provided by the defendant. There is no opportunity to influence the contents of the decrypted disk. Ultimately, encryption may end up strengthening the prosecution's case because it can't reasonably be argued that any evidence tampering or manipulation occurred prior to decryption.

When the defendant either discloses the passphrase or enters it to unlock the disks for the police without disclosing it, the disk will either decrypt or not, and when it decrypts, it will either contain the evidence or not. Nothing said to or done by the defendant since the evidence was seized can have any influence on the contents of the disk. That means the Fifth Amendment's purpose of preserving a prosecutorial justice system dependent upon the use of objective proof rather than individual manipulation remains intact.

It would be interesting to see how this would've played out if Rawls had been using something like TrueCrypt's hidden container encryption, which uses steganographic techniques to allow the user to generate distinct blocks of cleartext from the same block of encrypted data. In that scenario, theoretically, there is no way to prove that the hidden container exists and that you have not fully complied with the police's request to decrypt.
Are tibetans generally heart-healthy, though? I took that for granted but did not actually fact check the original poster.
I think he just wanted to give an example for a rural, healthy eating society. I do not know if that was true in the past or is now, though.
I've learned so much from Khan Academy – not just whatever is explained by the video I'm watching, but different ways of educating people as well. In fact, I helped out with tutoring basic math a while back and I struggled at first because I didn't realize how much I wasn't teaching simply because it was second nature to me. After watching a bunch of Khan Academy videos on the same topics, I found different ways of explaining things, and was much more successful. Khan Academy has really challenged my own way of thinking about many things, math in particular.

It's a great resource, and while I don't use Khan Academy much these days I still donate $100 every year.
As an old Objective-C programmer who has only dipped their toe into Swift, I wonder if it's worth going straight to React instead of Swift.
Rather than creating a foreign corporation, why not create a German one?

A GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) is limited liability but requires a starting capital of €25.000. However a UG (Unternehmergesellschaft) also has limited liability and a €1 starting capital. With a UG 25% of the profits need to be retained until you acquire €25.000 and can convert to a GmbH.

You would have to consult someone else regarding the Zweigniederlassung but I would imagine so as you'll need to be able to pay into the German tax system to pay your payroll/health insurance contributions/pension.
Such a scheme could probably be circumvented by making copies of the encrypted file (or the entire disk), or denying the decryptor write access etc.
Yes, but only in London. Most of "urban Britain" elsewhere is still considered very much undesirable. Price dynamics outside London are extremely different.

This is the problem with housing policies in England: they are all designed around London and the South West, with little regard for the rest of the country.
Honestly I hope they succeed, and from the ashes, we get a Labour/centre-left party with some actual integrity and credibility, because this current one has none and wouldn't get back into power anyway. Corbyn seems okay, but he seems to be stuck in the difficult position of leading a party of delusional Blairite idiots who think the people want the Labour party to go more to the right.
One that pledged allegiance to a foreign "state" that engages in violence?

I fail to see the problem
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Yep, that's why I say "(not the transactions, that's a different matter)". A block is only truly valid when its transactions are. But if there are months of blocks after it and enough percentage of nodes are full nodes, you can safely assume it was indeed verified.
Nice catch - I hadn't though about in-place swap situations. I have always used this trick to switch two variables, but yes, I can see when you are talking about lists and matrix array manipulation, you can easily encounter an edge case which necessitates an 'in place' swap which would fail under these circumstances.
So you are going to program the computer by voice or plain english text? Looks like programming to me.
Nothing specific springs to mind (but that's true for all those sources). Most good articles there I pick up from here or reddit or the like - the only part of medium I "follow" is War is Boring and they're pretty variable. The discovery experience on medium is pretty terrible and the front page often looks like the kind of echo chamber you're talking about.