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> When people click a URL and see that it’s a Medium site, their reaction should be “Oh, good, a Medium site — this will be nice to read.”

Is John Gruber that gullible? Most startups out there are led by someone with a "messiah syndrome". They all believe they are going to change the world; but really it's all about money. Find a "niche" and then juice it till it bleeds, they have no other purpose everything else is just PR. Or worse, "rationalization" where the person actually belives all their own bullshit.

Medium's builtin design and clean UI also gives an aura of professionalism to a lot of shitty writing.

Good luck getting a feed that works for you. My feed was continuously assaulted by random feminist rants with clickbait drama titles.

I also love how they write completely meaningless update notes for the iOS app. Eventually they were called out for it on the iOS app when they posted a huge block of morse code in lieu of actual update notes. Then in the following updates, they add some sarcastic message in their iOS update notes mocking their own users who were unhappy with their random/meaningless update notes. What a bunch of losers.

Also their recommendation system sucks. And your feed routinely gets articles "recommended for you" without any reason given (some say "because you follow Such-and-such-Tag, but many don't).

And even putting my rant aside, what do we have to gain from centralizing all expression through a few controlled gates like Facebook or Medium? Who gains from this?
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Simply try to understand the incentives of everybody involved. Not just the goal of the organization as a whole.
I reckon I got most things right, but as this is specifically "what would you have done differently, what lessons have you learned?" the big one for me is: don't invest in individual stocks, invest in broad (ideally low fee, e.g. passively managed) funds instead. Growing up in an era of privatisation, reading the financial press with all their information on individual companies, seeing all the stock market pundits with their various stock picks, and so on, buying individual stocks just seemed to be "the thing to do". But at the end of the day, unless you spend an enormous amount of time on it, you are very unlikely to be able to out-perform the market. In my case there were many bad investments I could arguably have avoided, e.g. all the dot com stocks I bought on 15 March 2000 and banking stocks I bought on 25 April 2008. But I did buy a lot of BP shares on 15 April 2010 (5 days before the Deepwater Horizon explosion), and I don't think any expert could have foreseen that. Individual stocks are far more of a gamble than funds.
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Indeed, I tend to think there is no coherent definition of free will. (Or at least, not one that leaves any doubt about whether we have it.)

Often people appeal to it as an intuitive notion, but the only notion of "will" we intuitively understand is the one we necessarily have.
This might be dumb and I'm only 23 but if you live in an expensive city/area, get a roommate/SO/whatever for a year or so. Funnel all saved living expenses to loans/savings account. It's not as nice as being alone but man, it's a lot of money saved.
Any particular reading you suggest?

I grew up with plenty of Nestle products around (mainly chocolate related) so I've got a generic positive childhood nostalgia for them. Should I not?
I hope hard fork is not going to happen in the future because of them.
The title violates hacker news rules - should be the name of the paper.
I see the similarities there. However, isn't there a fundamental difference in stock valuation and a currency?

The currency can't "go out of business", as it's entire existence is a speculation. Anyone using a given currency speculates that it will be accepted tomorrow.
What about the buying power transfer issue? If Bitcoin is valued at $50 and then you pay $100, every single coin before your purchase has been bumped up by 100% value - and it will be future people that are paying for that, that money (someone's time/effort or resources) don't just magically get generated. This is only stable if there is continuous adoption and I wonder what the end point looks like for the 'late' adopters.
Mainly because us interviewers tend towards the sadism end of the spectrum /s

Personally I use it to determine how a candidate approaches a problem. Most of these types of questions have an obvious solution that has a terrible runtime, and then have several optimisation layers on top of that.

I want to see:

* can the candidate reason about a complex problem that has multiple steps.

* are they able to offer a basic solution in pseudo-code (the dreaded "whiteboard" section).

* can they analyse their own solution, for example expected runtime, optimisations, etc (also how they handle criticism)

* how would they go about testing their solution - that is, what test cases would they use to verify their solution is correct (along with this, what error checking would they do)

There are no 'right' answers to these questions - it's about the process.

> I am still to see a problem which uses advanced competitive coding knowledge

In my work I've found it's not about applying a clever hack: its about recognising patterns and learning which algorithm/data-structure is appropriate, and how to apply it effectively. Just like in a competition.
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Would you be satisfied with, "this data will be deleted once the deletion filters though the caches and backups?"
> If Intel had chosen to put an entire "real" PC on the SoC with, yes, plenty of legacy peripherals and such so that it could --- with suitable I/O interfaces attached --- basically act as a lower-powered desktop or laptop, I'm almost willing to bet it could've turned out very differently.

"Intel" has such a product - called Minnowboard Turbot:

> https://www.minnowboard.org/

for which just a few weeks ago a new quadcore version was released. The reason why I put "Intel" in quotes is that formally the Minnowboard is developed/marketed by ADI Engineering/MinnowBoard.org Foundation, respectively and sold by Netgate. But it is well-known that the Minnowboard project/foundation is backed by Intel.
I understand that there still are legitimate uses for keeping a cat around for utilitarian prospective but these are becoming less and less common. Majority don't rely on cats to fight vermin, the majority employ chemicals and keep cats around solely as pets. I remember a family that actively trained their feline to stay away from rodents, especially from dead ones. They said it's in the cat's best interest, because most of the dead rodents must have been poisoned. I think now that there is also the family's interest to keep their cat as clean as possible so they won't worry when it interacts with children.
Like an ice cream truck for hot food?
Contrast this to the UK (now out of the EU)'s approach to internet encryption: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
You can have memory leaks in Rust as well. Especially if you are interfacing with a program that expects a C interface (i.e. CPython).
It's working as designed. The debate is on how to change the design, right?

Furthermore, aren't the "lite" alternatives more functional in this regard?
UK residents are getting free roaming and GDPR anyway so you're not missing out on those.

It seems tricky to reconcile Theresa May's stance on encryption with this proposal though. A real shame in my opinion.
Yes, but important will be how selective they are enforcing.
Basically the UK doesn't want the EU government forcing freedom on them.

Homegrown oppression over foreign freedom.
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You have to at least admire how openly this occurs.

You'd think in a democracy everyone involved in what's the textbook-definition of corruption would try to somewhat obscure what's going on, but nope: it's all in the open.
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I saw the heading on HN and thought "I wonder if it works with Chinese".

I saw the first example screenshot on the page was a Chinese movie and thought "Great, it does"

I saw the enlarged version of the screenshot and the Chinese subtitles contain multiple mistakes: "Nice try, but maybe not so great after all for the use case I'd personally be interested in".
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We should call Facebook AIOL in honor of this.

Delete Facebook, instantly have less problems. Especially with annoying advertisers. Simple!
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Just FYI, this case was reversed on appeal (i.e., against the government). I recall there being some buzz with the government potentially pushing for further court action, but as far as I know that's the current status.
Here's my story. Some people really like it because it's the underdog story. So here it goes:

Frustrated with tradtitional investment options, I became interested in BITCOIN a couple of months ago. I did some mining, and quickly got into exchange trading. Starting with a stupidly low investment of $5, I thought "what could go wrong?"

It took only about two months to increase that investment by over 1000%! What I learned inspired me to make a video course, because I work as producer, speaker, and consultant.

Out came this four hour video course where I want to teach people that sticking with their bank as investment is not an option going into the future. We're probably reaching another financial collapse. Who knows what's going to happen to the Dollar? Bitcoin and other crypto offer a new way to transfer value around. Please watch my video!
I wish this forced Apple to move EU developer apps to an EU App Store and EU iTunesConnect, so that those won't have to deal with the US export classification nonsense anymore just for using the built-in HTTPS support in NSURLSession.
Thank you for the thorough response!

I'm still starting my learning of philosophy, going through Plato's works.

I'm keep Kant and Nietzsche in mind :)

PS: That Stanford page is awesome.
Intel seems to be planning a Minnowboard 3. Evidence:

> https://firmware.intel.com/projects/minnowboard3
How does that fit with having a family with an Irish wife, and later a German wife. That would appear to limit the ethnicity to "European", which doesn't fit well with his anti-European actions.

He comes across in the press, to me, as an English imperialist.
Simple stuff, but useful.
Yes but the size of your position will be important. Bitmex is a real derivatives exchanges but for some contracts they are not liquid enough.
like forests? I cannot forget the statement in 'Avatar' describing the 'tree of life'. How is it that memories have not been encoded in massively networked aspen forests? Or may they're there and we just havent looked. And with large encoded memory stores, manipulation of that data is what we call conciousness.
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there are both active and passive transport mechanisms in the cell.
Nestlé have deceptively and aggressively marketed formula milk in the developing world.

It's a cynical and greedy exploitation of poor people with low levels of literacy.

This has caused death and harm.

Here are a few, but there are literally dozens of stories over many years of Nestlé being deceptive and misleading.

2001: http://www.irinnews.org/report/16921/pakistan-dispute-over-b...

2005: http://www.irinnews.org/news/2005/08/19/nestl%C3%A9-jack-inf...

2011: http://www.irinnews.org/news/2011/06/23/ngos-flay-nestl%C3%A...

2013: http://www.irinnews.org/report/97943/pressure-philippines-en...
As others have pointed out it seems expensive. Very expensive. But I wonder how you justify the following:

Arrival services in Zurich, 1 person : 645$ ?

I specifically wonder how customers are fast tracked through immmigration, given that Emirates complained that the airport does _not_ offer any fast track immigation counters for their first - and business class customers.

As a matter of fact: There are two types of passport counters: Swiss - and EU countries (including Norway and Iceland) & All others. So how is a "fast track" offering justified and what is contained in such an offer?

Also: Whisking customers through customs at that airport seems a tad, well, marketingish. Given that you usually don't deal with customs at all. You just leave through the green entrance (if you have nothing to declare) and usually just walk out. Sure, a customs agent may check on you, but in that case your helpful solver isn't of much help.

Sorry, but charging 645$ for your services at an airport where your maximum exit time - from the plane to public transport - from a Schengen country is 20 minutes and from a non-Schengen country 40 minutes (add 15 minutes for luggage retrieval) seems breathtakingly expensive. Even for an expensive city like Zurich.

How can you justify such prices?
>Now, policy makers and media often highlight, and some programs are based on, the “core” CPI which excludes food and energy [0], rather than the full CPI

Well, yes. This is how it is

The point where the dodgy part is for example how they do weighting for things like housing rents, their criteria of non-comparable replacements, idea of product classes (an apple is not an inferior version of an apple; a car is a car invariably of it being considered luxury car or not) and so on. The CPI dynamic has real trouble reflecting real consumer spendings.
Related: "It's just Emulation - the challenge of selling old games" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWY7fCXUwE GDC2016
i was taught all the things they're saying in this press release ~20 years ago in biochem class.
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There are many things that have an inherent worth. This inherent worth stems from their utility. Land will always have a certain amount of worth because you need to put things in locations. Metal has a worth because you can build things with it.

That worth may fluctuate and it may not be worth something to you in particular, but it has a value.

Cryptocurrencies only have worth because they have demand, not utility. There is not inherent worth based on their existence. This doesn't make them less valuable, it just means their value isn't inseparable from what they are.

But one can always invalidate arguments by taking to them to the extremes. After all, you can't prove anything exists, so how can any of it have inherent anything?
Youre exactly right, I compare job ads in the US vs another country all the time.

The US job ads have such absurd expectations and requirements, and demonstrate a total lack of any holistic approach to hiring, even for junior jobs. The companies come off as arrogant and entitled in their writing, even for areas which supposedly have shortages (eyeroll).

The job ads overseas are much less rigid and more flexible. I often see ads that lack any sort of requirement bullet points.

It seems much easier to get in, get trained and work your way up in the other country.

Then, you can return to the US and compete for senior roles, which can be pretty cushy in the US, and seem much more in-demand, if you want.
It's refreshing to see criticism of Python that is not merely a rehash of the Python 2 vs. 3 whining.
The thing is, home cooking technology is improving, with home combi-ovens the same technology that is used is quality restaurants to reheat quality frozen food and serve as new. So the quality could be there. There's also the new solid-state microwave ovens which may also work well.

As for the price vs eating out ?

Well, part of this is scale and nestle can make this stuff for cheaper. But also, if this stays fresh for a week, it might fit a distribution channel like a grocers pickup service,which costs a lot less than deliveries, and marketing cost could also go way down.
True. If the Brits really wanted to undo the referendum, they should have voted en-masse for the LibDems. They didn't. Worse: the Tories remain the largest party despite their losses. Clearly a lot of Brits still support the hard-line Brexit of Theresa May.
sqlalchemy ( which i used and liked a lot) has multiple layers. query builder is the bottom one, but the most "challenging" one for go is probably the orm with things lazy loading and its parametrization ( such as eager loading of relationships).

keeping it all type safe ( not having the user cast interface{} to struct everywhere) and performant would be a challenge.
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Perform better?

I think they're demonstrably more efficient even on paper. If everyone accepted a cryptocurrency and you could prove this anytime and anywhere.

The issue is people aren't going to switch their store of value, and perhaps they shouldn't. But I'm not sure how the current legacy banking system functions better in any regard except for reversing transactions. And there is an argument to be made that this introduces more vulnerabilities.
You should perhaps look up their approach to paying cents on the dollar for exclusive rights to public water sources that they then bottle and sell to the public for huge profits. This in itself isn't too bad until you consider the fact that they've purchased exclusive rights to the water... so you no longer have free access. If you want the water, you have to pay for it from Nestlé or one of their competitors. If you continue to take water from what was previously a publicly accessible water source, you are fined, dragged to court and potentially imprisoned for losing your basic human rights. Welcome to America.

As a kid, we all have positive childhood nostalgia for them. They're the makers of the fun breakfast cereals, chocolate and candy. As a kid we weren't aware of their toxic business practices. We all need to grow up and do some critical reading about the origins of the products we buy and learn to make hard choices about what kinds of business practices we support.

I'm not saying Nestlé is bad. But like all large corporations, they have some really toxic business practices and policies that need to be exposed to the mainstream and eradicated.
That's what I took that phrase to mean, but if you look at the example in the read me, it appears to be the other way around. Writing python, defining a method, then wrapping that method in a V8 context and running it from within python.
I recommend these too:

Coding Challenge #21: Mandelbrot Set with p5.js - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z7GQewK-Ks

VEX IN HOUDINI: MANDELBROT AND MANDELBULB - https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/vex-in-houdini-mandelbrot-a...

The second link is Houdini specific but you should be able to follow along with the free version on win/linux/osx.
If "once" is a reasonable time (as defined by the regulation) then yes, I'd be satisfied.
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Is the OCR-extraction performed in the client? if its transferred to a server then people should be aware of this so sensitive data from documents/pdf is not submitted.
A lot, but a minority.
It was largely unknown, then became briefly popular among health nuts and hippie-yuppie types, which some businesses took advantage of to overcharge for a super cheap crop. It became a symbol of overpriced healthy foods marketed to suckers.
In some cases, because they don't own a personal blog or website and don't fancy the hassle of setting one up. So whenever they have an article their existing sites can't host (because it's irrelevant to the topic), they stick it on Medium.

For example, I could easily set up a personal site and post my random Medium articles there. But I already run a couple of more important ones with my time, and don't really want to spend time buying another domain, setting up my hosting, installing/customising WordPress and marketing the hell out of it when Medium can give me a decent looking place to put the content for free.

There's also a built in audience at Medium. Not necessarily a large one mind you (the platform is much better at amplifying an existing audience than building a new one), but one that may have not come across my articles otherwise. Especially if I post my work in a publication.

So that's my take on it anyway.
I get automatically redirect from https://www.dropy.com/en/ to https://www.dropy.com/fr/
This isn't tech news.

Let's just agree that everything that's not related to tech, when it happens on/through the internet, is still not tech.

It would be tech if there was a robot preparing my Freshly meals.
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Why did the employee need to fill out any paperwork to be taken off of the performance plan? Shouldn't that happen at the direction of their manager? Feels a little bit like a deus ex machina.
Probably fine for the basics, but you will find some details outdated if you buy a 20-year old copy.
Is this using TesseractOCR?
If you were trying to create a generalized getDistance function then the former would be preferred, but for this specific use case the latter outperforms the former by 2 orders of magnitude: https://jsperf.com/reduce-vs-standard/1
I for one will be glad when we free ourselves of the yoke of EU tyranny and can move Britain forward by banning crypto.</sarcasm>

Seriously, my country's going backwards. Is there a way to reboot it and see if that fixes it?
The chance you have a local farmers market/coop within 5 minute walk from your home/work is pretty slim unless you live/work at a farmers market (or downtown of a city in Vermont).
"One language does not need to win" is the majority position of the Rust community. Of course, it itself is not completely homogeneous either.
Think of it in terms of infosec: in a similar way, one could complain that having to sanitize secrets from RAM is harmful to performance (why can't we cache the result of decryption)… Yes it's an overhead but at the end of the day, we build technology to serve human goals, not the other way around.

(To be pedantic, we build technology to serve business goals, which are fulfilled within the larger context of serving human goals. Laws like these are to prevent shortcuts that would serve business goals while at the same time be detrimental to human goals.)
It's not that special, you had the bumps up in crypto currency

I think you are talking about moving average and all? I'm currently creating a bot to automate the trades ;)
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