skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying that Medium needs to hire writers misses the point entirely. Medium is a platform--not a publisher or a content studio. SV doesn't like the "studio" business model because it doesn't scale: there is no such thing as a 100x writer, 100x animator, or 100x video editor. If you want more output, you have to hire more people.

(I used to run a post production boutique and learned this the hard way.)

Ev Williams' previous startups (Blogger, Twitter) along with other networks like FB all rely on users producing endless streams of content FOR FREE. This seems to be working when the "content" is 140-char witticisms, cat videos, or various forms of lifestyle/status/virtue signaling. The "content producers" seem to think that the tradeoff is worth it.

The math is very different when it comes to producing thoughtful, long-form, polished content. Ev Williams hoped that he could provide writers with enough incentive to do that sort of difficult work on the Medium platform.

But even assuming that there are enough writers willing produce high-end content gratis, it is still unclear what incentives Medium is offering in exchange for moving your operations into their walled garden. A better <TEXTAREA>, plus some hand-waving about the future, isn't cutting it.
The quotes about "Leninist", "Darth Vader", and "Fourth Turning" are sufficient to justify this suspicion.
This is true. But as a civilian, I'm not sure why I'd give a shit.

Moral wil sink for 20 years, but any major conflict should snap 'em out of that.
If January had the highest number of jobs since the Great Depression and we have returned to the March mean, this could still be true while there was absolutely nothing interesting going on.
The next big technology revolution is AI. Should be pretty obvious at this point. The next one after that will be consumer technology integrated with human biology. All the fitness trackers are the first primitive attempts at that, but lab on a chip and brain machine interfaces are on their way. The $6 cell phone semen analyzer is a harbinger of this.
I also suspect faulty hardware in these scenarios. I see far fewer bugs with my fully loaded 2016 MBP 15 than I did on my 3yo MBA.

I'd also be interested to know whether the folks experiencing these bugs imported the apps and settings from their old system. In my experience, it's fairly common to see glitches resulting from corrupt drivers or configuration after setting up a new machine by transferring from an old.
Whats been frustrating lately is that Apple has by far* the most profitable PC Hardware business on the planet, yet they seem to put less and less effort into it.

The battery life on the new MBP is apparently limited because the fitted sealed battery didn't pass testing, so they had to revert to a more standard (smaller) battery. Supposedly they also kept a 16 gig ram limit because they can't get the newest Intel CPUs needed for a better memory controller in enough volume.

Thats been a constant refrain the last 4 years, their volumes are now big enough that they are highly dependent on Intel release cycles and volume ramp, and Intel is always late. So they are always delaying new hardware, and in this case, releasing them in sub-par form because they decided they couldn't wait any longer.

But if you are the worlds most successful maker of laptops, it seems like you can have multiple development teams for your key products. Essentially why wasn't the old MBP being revved every year with faster CPUs so they could wait until everything came together for the new design? Instead they let the lineup get stale and forced out the new one prematurely.

Why can't they rev the Mac Pro with updated GPUS and CPUs at least every 15 months or so? Why can't they rev every product from Mini to iMac like that? What's the point of having the highest margins if you can't keep your offerings up to date? It just doesn't seem that expensive to keep an extra design team working on each multibillion dollar product so you can have more iterations.

Unfortunately Occams Razor is telling me that Apple's Mac margins aren't so good anymore, and that the finance department is tightening the screws in a misguided strategy to try to maintain them at historic levels. Their mac revenues actually declined over 2014-2016 ($24B -> $25B -> $23B) so maybe that's evidence of margin compression as well as the stale products.

It's obviously hell to be a PC maker if you aren't Apple. Margins are almost zero and now your OS maker is competing directly with you. But the downward trend continues there doesn't seem to be any hope of bottoming at any stable reasonable profits/margins, it's worse than the Airline business at this point. Maybe Apple's Mac business just gets dragged farther and farther down as well.

* The math is that Apple has a 6-7% world wide share of PC sales by units, but it's average sales price is around $1200 vs. the rest of the market's $500, so Apple gets around 15% of world PC revenues, making it one of the largest PC vendors by revenues ($23B in 2016). But Apple makes around 15-20% margins while the other PC venders are stuck at 2-3%, so Apple makes as much in profits as the rest of the market combined.

This obviously ignores MSFT's Windows revenues, and whether it includes the Surface business doesn't matter because it's not profitable yet.
Code has the advantage that functions and operators are googleable, while mathematical notation is not. I think the search problem is a fairly serious issue for maths actually.
I guess my point is that you need to know your audience. Here on HN, running your own server is not a rare skill.
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There seems to be a big jump from what could happen to what definitely will happen.

I would say highly likely that whatever car companies are left standing, one or more of them will have fairly good margins.

How the ownership ends up working out remains to be seen. May be cities will cut deals with a specific company and all non-commercial vehicles will be controlled by that municipality. May be Google Maps will turn in to a transport marketplace and operators will bid based on destination.

Likely Uber is going to have a very tough time. Likely they can cut a lot of the excess and operating expenses and be profitable for a while but at the loss of growth and new markets.

Uber paved the way for a lot of this. There is no way Google, Apple, Tesla or definitely an established car company would have been able to plow their way in to these local markets, bypassing and ignoring regulations until the point that cities became dependent on Uber. Now it is done, and it isn't particular a moat for Uber. But they fucking did it, they are the ones who need the recognition for it.
Lack of updates on most devices, xml to define interfaces, fake java as its primary development language, messy file hierarchy, obnoxious issue wherein apps cannot be given access to entire SD card meaning you can't just have a pictures or ebook folder and have more than one app have access to said folder.

Example annoyance third party gallery app can't delete photos created by other photo app. Alternatively calibre companion can't access the same hierarchy as ebook readers.
Until recently the offline map support was crap I think this has improved but as I already have Navigon for $30 to have this basic feature so I haven't verified this.

If you don't reboot it regularly it generally becomes unusable due to memory leaks eventually.

It crashes for no discernable reason on occasion usually when I'm not even using it surprise reboot!

The obnoxious need to hack your own device to have full control of it.

As an Android user my next phone will be a dumb phone plus laptop.
This doesn't say if they will collect taxes for Merchant fulfilled orders, and I suspect by default they still won't. Their current process for collecting taxes requires the merchant to fill out a long detailed form of all the state and local taxes for everywhere you want to collect tax. It's ridiculous because they already know this information and are just making it difficult so less merchant's collect taxes. Last time I tried if you saved the form when not 100% complete it would silently delete all your work, so good luck if you need to look up a single thing and come back to it.
Agreed, and although I get that patches breaking muscle memory are annoying, the potential downsides to that are so disastrous that the arguments around it puzzle me quite a bit to this day.

In fact, the whole conversation surrounding this issue made me see for that, although hyperbolic, XKCD 1172 [1] actually isn't that contrived...

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/
There is absolutely 0 chance in the time you've written go that you haven't encountered a problem that would be best solved by generics. Chances are you're just implementing them in a different way. I say this as someone who uses Go.
I totally get your point, my concern is someone deciding that Quickbooks Pro (or whatever product) is not a good product because I was shipped something that doesn't even resemble the product. No love lost for Intuit here for other reasons but still doesn't seem right.

With no way to differentiate between product and product supplier then you're right, the review page really the only outlet I have.
A bicycle can be self-stable without gyroscopic or caster effects
I haven't had any trouble building and running projects years later without make. It has been a problem (in many languages) if I'm following a tutorial that didn't specify it's runtime and library dependency versions explicitly like an npm file or cargo file.
>""that most people use a subset of it, so it feels like many different languages glued into one", is actually a strength .. it means you can ignore some the complexity .. until you want it, or need it"

This is also in my case anywyay a barrier to entry or at least a point of intimidation. Where do I start? Which subsets are essential? Which version should I start with if I am learning today?
I didn't say they held business meetings in the bathroom but nice strawman.

I said that men meet and talk in bathrooms which excludes women at places where there are very few of them.

So it wasn't deliberately absurd it was just deliberately different to make a point about the absurdity of the argument that excluding women from being in the company with men from their company is sexist per defition.

Furthermore where in the article does it say that they were conducting a business meeting at the strip club? Nowhere what so ever. So you are basing your argument on things that didn't happen.
Interesting article on why negative news can have positive effects. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/positive-effect-negati...

Still love the idea of this kind of product, will read!
Yes, exactly. This is an actual issue.

My system is usually designed that I provide a function that generates a value of type T, a function to filter T (T -> boolean), and a way to display Ts.

So, the library now gets these functions, and does all the filtering on other threads.

So either I have to replicate the entire async code for every type, or I can’t keep type safety.
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> ... and is electronically limited to 25mph. I'd be willing to bet the majority of drivers have nearly perfect driving records in those conditions too.

Not me: I'd fall asleep if I were to be limited to 25mph all the time ;)
Are there P&S cameras that are worse than than best-of-class phone cameras? Yes. Are there P&S cameras that wipe the floor with any phone camera out there? Yes (e.g. Sony RX100, Fuji X100)
Well said.

Another example is how adding a new programming language feature can make every other feature more complicated as you consider how the interactions should work.

This is especially true as you think about how all the tools (formatters, debuggers, etc) should work.
I'm not on the market, but I've not seen any change in the number of recruiters contacting me. A pretty weak signal for sure, but it's something.
DevOps/infrastructure engineer is basically a programming position, which sysadmin/IT types may not have strong skills in.
I don't think that means that buying direct from Amazon can get you third party inventory.
I can think of a few... one example that comes to mind is a video game. The communication protocol to synchronize the game could fall in scope, and I think video game companies have the right to have their own proprietary game network protocol.
Does anyone know what kind of assembly is generated when using std::option in Rust when make a similar function call?
This is actually exactly what our company (assembly.com - YCS15) does.

We're now at the stage where we provide effectively a full supply chain solution. It works like this:

1. Product company has an issue like this and contacts us

2. We work with the factory, setup our quality control hardware+software.

3. The product company defines all of the procedures for validating that a product works and is legitimate. All of those are performed by our team on the China side. Individual units are serialized with QR codes and photographed and videoed during inspections.

The combination of unique QR in our system and natural markings on products is usually enough to validate authenticity. We have a few other systems we use to further validate the product, but on a high level and as the most cost effective part of our solution, this already helps far more than doing nothing.

We've helped prevent a large amount of fraud that was previously occurring for some customers. Interesting to see this start to become a larger issue on Amazon's side.

4. We're currently working on moving the serialization and validation to more steps in the supply chain, continuing to validate authenticity + quality closer and closer to the customer.
They effectively do require a deposit in case of returns in the way they pay. When you ship a product sold on Amazon they take the money immediately, but they don't pass on your cut until a few weeks later, allowing them to issue refunds if neccesary without losing anything themselves.
For that to be true I suspect you'd also have to believe near zero nuance in the bell.
Innovation in saturated markets is different from growing markets.

When smartphones become household items, visible innovation has turned into small tricks and gimmicks. People need smartphones for their daily activities and innovation that is directed towards low cost may be more profitable.

TV, computer monitors and smartphones seem all to be riding on screen technology. If there is development VR or AR technologies that make it into mass markets, it can disrupt all these markets.
There is probably a calculation that the feds will be reticent to do that to an Amazon warehouse as they're generally major employers in the areas they're built in.
Yes it is. Mobile phones are incredibly not user friendly. They are just the best thing we have for the moment.

For consumers (not necessarily business use cases) you shouldn't have to pull your phone out every time you need direction, make a phone call, check your email, listen to a song etc...
While they're in the same general family of black box optimization algorithms, ES and GAs are not really the same, and in fact were developed independently. The historical roots of both are actually quite interesting.
What's keeping YC from accepting more applicants? What's weighing more in your decision: is it the investment or the labor factor? Would your acceptance rate increase if applicants were to forgo the ~$120k? Rephrased: Are there applicants you could have otherwise accepted were they to decline the cash in exchange for taking part in the program and still giving you the ~7% equity?

Thanks
No.

For example, the phone can start off as really dumb. It is so dumb that it's also very anti-hack: no third-party apps to access some of your data, no camera or Evernote to record your moments, no GPS to track your location and so on.

But different users have different needs. Maybe a 12MP camera is absolutely essential for some - so add a camera function. Maybe some really need Whatsapp to keep in touch with family and friends - so add Whatsapp. But all that comes at an extra cost and effort. This means that users have to very consciously decide what they actually need for their phones.
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Which turn out to be carbon-fiber tanks.
So here is my short version of this: I got burned like this (twice!) and have stopped ordering on Amazon completely even though I got refunded both times.

Amazon excels in short term thinking on this subject, I wonder how long it will take them before the coin drops.
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Sometimes ICOs are pulled off by scammers. Look for HEAT-coin for example.
> It seems like Ruby is a bit of a small community to target

Ruby is the 4th most popular language on Github: https://octoverse.github.com/

That's what you call "a bit of a small community"?
I didn't say that you did. Again: I know we disagree about a lot of this stuff, but I'm taking pains not to jab at you, and would appreciate if you'd reciprocate.

It is in fact the case that if a company has a systemic practice of making business decisions in the men's bathroom, women working at those companies will have a cause of action against that company.

Further: I made clear to you downthread that on the matter of whether the trip to the club was a business matter at all, reasonable people might disagree. I conceded up front that you might have an argument there --- I strongly disagree with that argument, but it's one you can reasonably make.
if you only take Delphi the price is a little bit better
(still not great)
https://www.embarcadero.com/app-development-tools-store/delp...

and there is not Linux version of FMX either,
they just released Linux-Server-only (e.g. apache modules etc) support,
for which you have to buy the enterprise version (ugh)

but you can create Android, IOS and macOS Apps with it
https://www.embarcadero.com/docs/rad-studio-feature-matrix.p...
Could we just kill everyone in the world not like us? Would not just be how AI would work? Then ZERO worries? What do you think, makes logical sense right? /s

Never, ever have to worry again! :-)
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DDT probably wouldn't help all that much: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/02/22/no-ddt-wont-sav...
What's your point? As I said upthread: businesses that have a pattern of making important business decisions in the men's bathrooms do in fact have a gender discrimination problem, and will in fact be shouldering legal liabilities for allowing it to persist.
"I think it's wrong on a few levels to use terms like sociopath in general, and especially about someone you've never met.'

I don't :)

"When you use that word you're talking about another person's mental state, which is opaque to you"

Sorry, but that is not accurate in this case.

A number of these conditions are diagnosable and defined based on their externally presentable actions and behaviors.

In particular, the DSM-IV and DSM-V definitions amount to:
"Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes called psychopaths or sociopaths."

Note that it is described in terms of behavior and not internal mental state.

It's true that some disorders are defined by opaque mental state.
This is not one of them :)

So your argument is essentially "he may not be a sociopath just because his actions seem like those a sociopath would take".

But that is not correct.

"I'm not saying you shouldn't criticize his actions, but I'd try to avoid criticizing his mental state or making assumptions about how he perceives reality."

Again, given that sociopathy is defined in terms of behavior, i think this is not correct.

I think it's 100% completely and totally fair to say this about disorders characterized by internal mental state and not external actions.

But in this case, in large part, the DSM-IV defined sociopathy in terms of external behavior.

DSM-V is a little different, in that they cover self-functioning as well, but the self-functioning it covers are externally observable. e.g. " absence of prosocial internal
standards associated with failure to conform to
lawful or culturally normative ethical behavior." Note that the internal standard is viewed solely in terms of failure of externally observable traits.

TL;DR if you stick with the straight definitions of what these disorders are, it's entirely possible to accurately believe someone has one based only on externally visible behavior.

I understand you may not like the societal connotations, and you can reasonably argue about that, but trying to cast this into an argument about whether it's possible to judge someone a sociopath or not based on externally visible actions seems a losing argument to me:
It is possible, and you can validly do it.
> The next big technology revolution is AI. Should be pretty obvious at this point.

Unless you mean strong AI, which isn't anywhere close, I don't think this AI rush has much wider chances than the previous one, except for some narrow use cases.
This movie is so much nonsense. It angers me that I was persuaded to watch this and it's irritating to see it so heavily promoted.

It is interesting (and a bit amusing) to note that the thesis of the film, like most conspiracy theories, creates a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. When people surrender to more and more outlandish theories to explain the world then the actual events -- the facts on the ground -- appear to be more and more outlandish. Conspiracy theories therefore must become more and more extreme. It's like once you accept that vaccines are poisons you eventually have to accept that that all the world governments have gotten together to secretly poison their own citizens because reasons. Since there's no end to this it may be interesting to see if Curtis can top his own nonsense.
The more I think about it, the more I think the word "innovation" obscures thinking. If you boil it down, "innovation" just means "change in a novel manner". That doesn't mean good change, just unexpected change. It's easy to say "apple isn't innovating anymore", but what else does a smart phone need?
Jet seems to have very similar inventory to Amazon (even on obscure or niche stuff, like springs for my 2015 Ford Taurus), eerily so. What is more, several times I have been credited money to my account because Jet didn't have the product they claimed to have (the springs...). Weird.
They're shipped at 60%, though any charge cap would still be reported as 100% by the logic in the battery. I know my MacBook doesn't say 80%: Full! ;)
I would definitely take it in if this is the case. I have had no problems with the new keyboard and have come to vastly prefer it to the old MacBook Air keyboard I had been using. I feel like I type faster on it and with greater certainty.
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I don't care for leftist ideology either nor the tactics employed by some leftists.

But the comparison to slavery isn't very fair and I think you deserve a downvote for the bulk maligning of a political group. It's the same nonsense as suggesting all free market proponents are Nazi racists and young earth creationists.

Nuance. Embrace it.
> Is it really unthinkable that smart phones that you carry around in your pocket are the dominant platform for the next 50+ years?

Yes: a) dominant consumer-facing platforms don't tend to last much longer than 10 years these days, b) smartphones only really took off exactly 10 years ago with the iPhone, so it's presumptuous to think we've hit the perfect sweet spot that will last us much longer.

It's almost like arguing the ENIAC would be the pinnacle of computing for the next 50 years. A lot of evolution happened, and "phones" 20 years from now will probably be nearly incomparable to phones today, just like your phone is just somewhat different from ENIAC.