skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant this comic to be a somewhat tongue-in-cheek parody of positions I have seen people take, which I intended the ellipses to hint at. Clearly there are some genetic differences between populations.
In Safari you can ask it to load certain websites with reader view automatically. If you do so, Safari will change to reader view as soon as it can render the page.

This how I deal with the annoying stuff in Medium.
42.0?
I think you raise a good point that children grow into the responsibility they’re given.
> wouldn’t that spur the giants to compete?

It does give Google incentive to try creating Google Fiber. But the incumbent ISPs already have existing infrastructure deployed that constitutes a natural monopoly. The free market is not enough to overcome the uphill battle any initiative like Google Fiber faces, and digging multiple trenches along every residential road and driveway is not the kind of competition anyone wants.
From the article:
> compares to ambulances that can legally disobey traffic rules

I continue to find it sad/funny that law governing the internet is made by analogy.
Google Buys Startup That Extends Smartphone Battery Life
No disagreement here.

As to your last sentence, I think it would be difficult to argue that automated and ongoing bulk data exports could ever fit with any definition of whistle-blowing. If he had legitimate concerns, and evidence of those concerns existed in electronic form, he could have simply walked the specific evidence out of the building on a thumb drive.

That being said, we don't know exactly what data was exported, so any speculation (including my own) is rather pointless...
So lets say the ISP does not have a business relationship with either Netflix (because its illegal under net-neutrality) or with Netflix's existing ISPs because there are others in between. But the path used to route movie packets is expensive. How does the ISP lean on Netflix to pay for its part of their operating costs?
I think many employees would be very interested in their equity compensation...wonder if employees are awarded RSU's in Alphabet or the subsidiaries or ...
August First Defense Distributed Relaunches DEFCAD to 3D Print Guns
Please have a discussion with a financial adviser or other qualified fiduciary.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiduciary.asp
I'm pretty sure some of the people involved in IOTA are going to wind up living in a commune and wearing identical tracksuits.

I do find it interesting how personally invested many people on this site are in the success of Elon Musks ventures.

I mean it's OK to be a fan; but when you start rejecting evidence of mistakes or even malfeasance and attack other people for showing signs of critical thinking on the topic. That gets to be a problem.
My current goal is to read different copies of the Bhagavad Gita. I'm on the third translation. Probably not very impressive! but a great goal for me personally.

Edit: downvotes? :(
What's with everyone using the "Make X Great Again" phrase?
Updated with more detail: Question copied from Eric Jorgenson, who posted the same question on twitter: https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson/status/1016003656787857409
I use the Unobstruct ios app to dedickbar medium. Works quite well.

https://medium.com/@tgaul/introducing-unobstruct-230e4e95cf5...
Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?
This is kind of a banal story. I'm the lead developer on a "modernization" project that's taking a lot longer than anticipated (you see where this is going). The team is great, it's just that the work is way outside their comfort zone. The business has been selling the new version pretty hard and we're not going to make the release (about 3 months to go).

Question is; as a lead how would you handle this? I think my direct manager has a healthy dose of skepticism about the timeline, but the product owner doesn't. At what point should I start sounding the alarm? I'd like to give it a couple of weeks and see if the team picks up pace but I'm not confident.
I just have a bookmarklet that removes any sticky elements.
I wonder if this is the article you're thinking of:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100221131225/http://www.thinkf...

(The text of the article is only visible at the very bottom of the page for some reason)
I really doubt that. I’ve read too much code written by some asshole with the same username as me. I spend too much time trying to keep that from happening and it still does.

> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

The loophole is be as clever as you can at making the code as clear as you can. And even then you aren’t always clever enough.
OT - I hope Ohanian does more VC stuff than show up in Serena’s matches. I’ve watched many of Williams’ matches through out, and now watching Ohanian in the friends and family box, he seems out of place. The impression I get is like he is not in the group of entourage around Serena. There seems no chemistry between them and Ohanian.

I remember something that stuck with me, think it was when she last won the Wimbledon, and the camera followed her inside the complex. Ohanian was waiting for her and it just felt so awkward the interaction between Serena and Ohanian.
In contrast watching Roger Federer be greeted by his wife it felt so natural.
The zoom button (option-click the green traffic light button, or double-click the title bar) in the (current) macOS finder is still supposed to do that, if Finder's in its "spatial" mode (turn off the toolbar and, optionally, switch to view "as Icons"-- back in the day, there was a window control that did this in one step).

It's actually broken in current macOS, though-- using the zoom button on a Finder window ends up forcing some of the content underneath the title bar where you can't reach it. Guess that shows how much attention Apple's putting into the "little details" of their operating systems these days (very little, it seems).
get some quantitative measure of progress (eg. make some kind of simple burndown chart)
Hipster ladders :)
Reductionist theories don't work out that way in practice, but sure: Build it, teach it, and then I'd be happy to talk about your experience and how the difference is only "splitting hairs".
vim; I don't need a markdown editor, because markdown is (by design) readable as plain text. I tend to note things in markdown just because it's more readable than "plain" plain text.
You can now test Google’s biggest Chrome redesign in years
Garry, Alexis, and the team at Initialized are the real deal.

In a world where most investors' first question is, "Who else is in?", the hardest thing for a raw startup to find is someone with the conviction to write the first check. They've built their whole firm on being willing to bet on companies before other investors do.

Later on, when things get tough--and eventually, things always get tough--you want somebody who's been in the trenches, knows how it feels, and can help you guide the company between Scylla and Charybdis. Garry and Alexis have been there, and they do that.

If you're starting a company and looking to raise funding, I'd strongly recommend you speak with Initialized. There's a lot of talk in venture. Garry and Alexis walk the walk.
It's too far away from the oceans which provide a temperate effect on the weather. The only place more brutal in the winter time would be northern Minnesota and North Dakota.
Please fill us in.
This is a nice feature!

Edit: for those wondering, visit a website and long press the reader button on the left side of the address bar to enable.
It looks like the link is undergoing some problems:

RuntimeException (500)
Failed to read /var/www/bszyman-dc/user/pages/07.feed/listing.md: Unexpected characters near ": '/blog'" at line 3 (near "items: 'page.descendants': '/blog'").
What would the average pay-to-win game look like without the hip packaging? Basically just a collection of buttons to click with cooldowns before you can click the button again and a way to pay to click it sooner?
> Open in App

To all sites that do this(I'm looking at you, Reddit), no, I do not want to install yet another app just to continue reading. The web is already designed for reading. You hear that?
I take it you're not from North America?
I've come to realize that I am wardrobe bound to California.
I honestly don't understand why sites do this. Can someone explain it to me?
Tesla should have an internal whistleblower program. Elon Musk should run it himself with a dedicated email address that strips "From" information to anonymize the sender.

Really, any CEO of a large company should do this but he's the kind of person that would actually care to hear about problems rather than ignore them.
I don't recall seeing this explanation before, though I'm pretty sure I've read a version of it.

What I noticed immediately was what I felt was something missing in explanation of fallacy #1 (The network is reliable), something I predicted decades ago when the network gear salesmen first came around to try and convince us to replace our aging concentrators (multiport hubs) with fancy new switches: losing the backpressure mechanism of collisions would lead to bandwidth-related failures.

The article's explanation mentions the reliablity of modern switches but makes a fairly shallow dismissal of this by referencing things like pulled power cords but spends most of the text actually talking about WAN reliability.

What I've seen in practice is, including with (maybe even especially with) distributed computing environments, is the scenario I proposed to the salesperson way back when: What happens when two servers send data out of their network ports at full line speed (100Mb/s) each, at the same time, for a total of 200Mb/s, to another server's network port that can only receive 100Mb/s?

Of course, once the switch's buffer fills up, half the packets get dropped, and it's not practically deterministic which half. In a distribute environment, where the number of sources greater than 2 and the number of sinks is greater than 1, it gets even less so and often more intermittent.
Berger is a competent but aggressive journalist who has a bias, but wears it on his sleeve - much like Andy Pasztor. Worth reading, but with a critical eye. Ignore them and you'll be missing out on important scoops and original journalism.
No, syntax is not merely bikeshedding, but endless discussions about it can certainly turn into that. I don't know what qualifies as "mainstream", but anything that sprang from the head of Milner, you can be sure, put semantics first. As, for that matter, did work from Dijkstra, Hoare, etc. Lots of good semantics work out there that has often indirectly had a huge influence on the mainstream.
By clean coal standards
Just the fact that you can get a verified account and change the name to anything without the need to get verified again is a massive loophole.
I've been doing something similar for years, though the implementation method has changed some as my preferred browser and the set of available extensions has shifted. I want to browse the web with a white-list approach to which pages are allowed to display elements that are anchored to screen coordinates rather than scrolling with the page. Generally speaking, the only pages that should be permitted to pin an element in front of the main content are web apps, but most of the pages I visit are (or should be) purely document-oriented.
The irony about VC is that they don’t invest in lifestyle business (except their own). Building your own CRM isn’t really rocket science. We’ve built automation and AI into our deal flow and company tracking and a bespoke search engine to help with competitive market analysis.

Want to be different? Run a VC firm like a startup: build proprietary technology to outcompete incumbents and scale in a way not possible without technology. It does’t even sound like they have a FT engineer.... Imagine investing in a startup that didn’t have a FT engineer! But that’s exactly what they (and most VCs) are asking of their Limited Partners! Sounds like a puffy and carefully managed PR piece with a complicit journalist to prime the raise of their next fund without triggering a Reg D 506c registration..

They may have great returns, smarter than most, and have higher conviction, but it’s pretty much same old same old of catching the wave of good deal flow from your celebrity network. Nothing innovative here.
Better information on the users, you can harvest their actual location, phone number, contacts, email etc...

Instead of being restricted to a browser, you are on their device, with whatever access you want.
Banner text for me reads "TRY REDDIT'S MOBILE WEBSITE". There. is. no. escape.
Because if they can get an app on your device, they can push messages at you easier. Track your usage of the app, assign it a unique ID etc.

The app will auto-update, so as new features/tracking/things are desired, they can push these out to devices.

Basically, they get more control of the end user.
Analytics. They can get a boatload of data from the app that can't be obtained through the browser.
Set some interim goals, estimate them and measure progress. Take that progress and estimate the remaining work. There's no accounting for the unknown, but IMO it's best to raise the alarm as soon as possible. Just make sure you and the team have the ability to deliver the project, otherwise it's time for a different conversation where you look for outside help.

As much as everyone hates deadlines they are important and try your best to meet them if they're realistic.
Websites are sandboxed and make it much harder to gather data about your users (To sell them ads).

Apps have much wider permissions off the bat and can request more as necessary.

I'd assume (though I have no data to back it up) that your service would get used more if the user has an app downloaded as the barrier to access your service is much lower
You can push updates out to a web app even easier: deploy them. Boom, suddenly your user sees changes next time they visit.
If they get you using an app that evades in-browser ad, tracking blockers etc... so $$ is the primary reason, basically
To gather more details about you from your phone. It's about data and eye balls. You will get more and notifications to increase user engagement.
> How does the ISP lean on Netflix to pay for its part of their operating costs?

They don't. It's purely your accounting fiction that is attributing those costs to Netflix instead of to the ISP's customers who are using Netflix.

If streaming video increases the ISP's operating costs, they can simply increase prices, preferably through a fair metered usage model that can address all of the video streaming usage costs together, instead of just the Netflix costs.
Surveillance capitalism.
https://plus.google.com/+GregLinden/posts/TWiGesiztbj

(I'm not sure exactly if this is the present motivation. But it's the motivation for a lot of apps. Data can be sold / used for ads when collected in very large numbers, and apps collect more data than websites. So there are strong business incentives to move to an app, for many sites.)
> Why isn't he impeached for Bribery

Who is going to impeach him, exactly? If you haven't noticed, our government is corrupt from the top down. Everyone has their hand in the cookie car, from Trump to Pruitt (well, not anymore but for long enough he did) to Pai. The head of state sets the tone for what is acceptable.
You literally can't write spaghetti code in React due to one-way data flow. That's what prevents the spaghetti. UI is a function of state and props. JQuery is an imperative DOM altering library that isn't even necessary with modern browsers.
I noticed a TON of Binance related spam when searching for specific ticker symbols (Nasdaq/NYSE stocks, not coins). It's since gone away from what I search, so they're doing something right, but spam is a tough problem.
> The worst part? Even if you add it immediately, you'll have to wait 2-4 weeks to get a sufficient amount of data.

I think this was the problem a product like Heap [1] was designed to solve: just track all user actions, forever, and then assign pipelines after the fact based on what you want to check up on.

Don't work at Heap or anything, just love the team and product.

[1]: https://heapanalytics.com/
I want to install this addon, but it asks for permission to view and modify data on all sites.

Both for security and loading javascript on every page I visit reasons, I wish there was a version that only bound to medium.com. I know I could compile one from source but that's a hassle.
Since I've thought the same thing 'I've followed these people but never see their tweets'

I googled around as to whether I could change the feed filter/ algorithm

Looks like if you go Settings/ Content Preferences/ there is a box for 'Show Best Tweets First' that you can uncheck,

which looks like it might shut off their recommendation filter, and then you can just get a stream of whatever everyone you follow posts

(or at least that's what I hope it is, I've had it set on that setting for all of 2 minutes, still seeing how it works)
A number of comments here are along the lines of "I'm more informed today than I was before the web, no problem here."

You're probably more informed on the whole, but there are fewer and fewer eyes watching our elected officials and shining lights into dark places.

A strong and free press is critical in maintaining a healthy democracy. Support your local papers or hyperlocal bloggers if you see them doing good work - you and your community will benefit in the long term.
Medium, is now full of clickbaitish articles + content marketing from various people pandering their online courses. Way different from the medium, I fell into when I discovered it. Recently deleted the mobile app.
Your comment reminded me saying:

Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times.

Anxiety makes you consider consequences of your choices and take action based on it.
Aggression helps you fight for what you think is important.
Logic programming courses
An app is sort of like a physical object, like a flyer. It reminds you of them. The place on iOS or Android's home screen has this effect. It's kind of similar to how Windows apps added themselves to the Start Menu, the desktop, and the taskbar.
They are mocking Trump
Popular Domain Privacy Guard Email Address Schemes
AI pushes beyond the tech industry, work could become fairer–or more oppressive
Its incredibly naive to think that the problem is one of government and not human nature. An infinitely powerful central government might mean an end to wars, but it would also mean an infinitely corrupt, authoritarian world. To avoid major conflicts we should move towards decentralizing power, rather than the opposite.
I thought they made people re-interview?
2 things -- Tracking and Ads.

Using the web version of the product is disadvantageous from the developer's POV as it gives a lot of control to the user over what personal data of his can be shared. Web browser extensions also allow the users to block ads and other annoying content -- this is sub-optimal for the company as it trims their ad revenue, and as a result, potential future advertisers.

It's all about controlling what the user sees based on data collected from tracking, imo.
In that era no IDE ran stable across its whole feature set. Crashing debuggers were very common. VisualAge had the most stable debugger but would crash just typing in code.

Jetbrains was the first one that was reliable. Slow, but not as slow as VA.
FPGAs Drive Deeper into Cars
That may be useful for stuff you can afford to lose, but during the same period how many spacecraft have Boeing lost.

When a mission takes a decade to plan a build, you go with the launch vehicle most likely to get you to destination successfully. Fail rates matter immensely. You don't want a launch vehicle iterating on your launch.
To grossly oversimplify, it's an electronic version of the trope:
"dust the keypad for fingerprints, and enter the last-used code".

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/11/128244/touchscreens...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/36030/touch-scr...
Yes, now here is real innovation.
On over priced drugs-- there's an episode of Dirty Money on Netflix on Valeant Pharmaceuticals' price gouging and fraud... It's mind boggling and depressing.
If they changed the default password, it would be much, much harder, FTP or not
Indian govt. approves net neutrality
Ads and tracking as others have said, but also push notifications. People accept push notifications without thinking.
> The GameCube emulator I used for testing, gcube, doesn't support reading files from the memory card

Just curious, why use anything except dolphin for emulating gamecube?
At high voltages the electricity may be able to arc between the steps. Electricity will do some pretty incredible things at high voltages. Check out this video of some idiots turning a powerline into a Jacob's ladder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBTHrXEK4U
Truth is genderless. Historic gender imbalance in scientific work is only political if you have an axe to grind.
They (e.g. reddit the company) want you to do more than read. They want you to subscribe and follow and user-generate content (and not block ads.)

They build an app because apps.

Then they compare behavior between app and website.

And there's a stupid, stupid analytics datapoint that shows "Users of the app browse/subscribe/follow/post 2x more!"

That only happens because the only people willing to download and use the app are the power users. But they just worked hard creating an app, and nobody questions analytics data that tells them their hard work was worthwhile.

So now, armed with their supporting data, they begin pushing people to the app because they think it will lead to more pageviews/subscribes/follows/posts and eyeballs on ads.
In what ways could Medium have financial income without transferring the wealth from us?
Ten replies in ten minutes. Looks like everybody wants to explain this.
melbourne has probably the worlds most extensive tram network, with exposed overhead wires and our fire department uses metal ladders
While this is a fair point for general systems of government, in this case you have to reconcile the creator's words with his actions.

You have to take the whole story here. If I create a document that describes my system of governance as X but execute it as Y isn't it disingenuous to ignore Y?
> A browser extension to make Medium less annoying.

So this just blanks out the articles or what?
Does this person have any technical credentials? The web site says “well known speaker”, but there’s nothing else there that suggests any particular expertise.
So city/state ownership and state level regulation? Sounds good, no first amendment trouble there.
Besides everything else, Push Notifications is usually the top reason.
This appears to be a link to the source: https://bitbucket.org/bszyman/classic-finder-app/

And a link to the "main site" which has a download: https://classicmacfinder.com
Why Singapore’s first Amazon Prime Day could be a game-changer
This gave me a good laugh.
In my domain (healthcare), the articles on Medium are rubbish.
I had a coworker who put on a hood with giant bunny ears when she had heads down work to concentrate on. You knew not to disturb her when the bunny ears were up - and it was very effective because you could see those huge ears from across the office so nobody wasted time walking all the way to her desk only to find her in focus mode.
Opening in incognito is usually good enough to bypass Medium's paywall.
You can do push notifications on the web too.