skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that even in the US, billboards are not universal, but a conscious choice of local voters. Four US states prohibit them: Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, and Alaska. It's possibly interesting that all of these states also have excellent reputations for scenic beauty.

Here's a Vermont Public Radio story from 2008 about how they were banned in 1968: https://vprarchive.vpr.net/vpr-news/billboard-ban-turns-40/. Interestingly, it was mostly a Republican party initiative, although it eventually gained enough bipartisan support to pass.
Joe Biden's position is a good example of what I'm talking about. He can say "personally opposed", but the pro-choice people believe he's pro-choice anyway, and the pro-life people also believe he's pro-choice anyway. The language isn't fooling anyone.
Seattle residents send their condolences.
If a lot of Amazon employees end up living in Manhattan, they'll be doing a reverse commute, which is probably a good thing for everyone.
As to LGA, remember that it can't have direct flights to the West Coast (e.g.: Seattle...) for historical reasons. Maybe this will help rectify the situation.
The same is true in climate science.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, we're currently conducting a global scale experiment (though without a control Earth) that is already showing results.
There are a bunch of situations where the autopilot in fact turns itself off. For instance, when the sensors are providing faulty readings. And, coincidentally or not, the plane had had one of its sensors replaced a day or two before the crash. So, a priori, I wouldn't be so sure that the pilots should just have let the embedded software free to do its job. It may have been the case, of course, but only the investigation could tell.
As a medical device sw developer, if doing your risk analysis, you notice that if for some reason the user miss something important, it will create a risk for the patient, the easiest (and cheap and lazy) solution is often to add a blaring alarm or scary pop-up to ask the user to confirm/check.

This way you can say that you have a mitigation, so the FDA is happy, you are happy because you can sell your product.

The downside is that it creates a horrible user experience most of the time.

This is unfortunate but this is a result of incentives of the different actors.

Another slightly related issue is that, you'd rather restrict what you user can do, because you're sure it will be at least safe. So often doctors can be frustrated because the system is not permissive enough. Most of the time, as a vendor, you prefer to sell a clumsy system that facing the risk of having a recall.
Is there no HQ at all? Even for the executive team?
Even if that were the only way people got to medium posts, when you finish a post, you see recommendations for other related medium posts/articles. Writing posts/articles on Medium means that a lot more people could still find their way to your article when they didn't intentionally go to medium specifically for your article.
I've checked couple of popular apps on the App Store and here are my findings:

- Twitter: uses SFSafariViewController

- Reddit: uses custom in-app web view, shows page title and url on top, provides "open in Safari" option through share button

- Instagram: uses custom in-app web view, shows page title and url on top, provides the built in share-sheet, interestingly disabling open in Safari, but enabling "Add to Reading list"

Your current app on the App Store embeds third party content in an in-app web view, without showing the title or original URL on top and without being able to open the link in Safari.

I suggest you to either use SFSafariViewController for the third party content or mimic something similar with a proper title bar and and share button with Open in Safari option.
Having just posted a programming related article there last night I think it’s a poor choice for technical subjects too. We need a Medium for technical people. Maybe not quite Observable (Mike Bostock’s thing) but with more tools than Medium.
My tinfoil theory is that they actually succeed. By letting the democrats win the house the division is going to be even deeper, but them losing the senate put the whole country in a spiral of division. Putting a log on the fire sort of speak.
I wasn't commenting on your runway (which at your burn rate, should be roughly 2 years), but this news piece's definition of success. If you had held your product up as your achievement (regardless of profitability), and not the fact that you're remote, I would've said nothing as the product is (mostly) solid.
In England billboards tend to be in urban areas and not, so much, on major roads. There is legislation which prevents this, on safety grounds, [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/advertisements#considerations-af...] which has led to a few innovative workarounds such as large vans parked in fields near to motorways with signs on the side.

One person used a redundant rocket transporter as an innovative alternative and got a fair amount of publicity in return.
https://www.lingscars.com/missile-truck
1) Everything gets a ticket to track it. Managers can't track "time in chair" so they need something else to track to know if you're doing your job.
2) Daily talking stand ups work really well on my team to just chat and get some "people" time in.
3) If it is a "some people work in an office and some are remote" situation, then ALL meetings need to be done on teleconferences. And, when the call is over, the meeting is _over_. No follow up chit chat about the meeting with between the people in the office. Some companies go as far as to say that you need to take those meetings from your desk rather than the conference room as it is really hard for the couple remote people to keep up with the non-verbal messages that can get passed around.
I find your assertion that hate speech be suppressed to be politically harmful.
Silicon Valley struggle sessions (2017)
You don't have to jail people immediately. Give them a stern warning. If they do it again, THEN jail them.

Re: "[Silly that] jokes about Montenegrins being lazy are going to cause World War 3" -- A line has to be drawn somewhere. If the context is jokes, maybe let it go. But if it's part of a political rant that certain people should be discriminated against or removed, then a line is crossed.

Maybe if you had the daylights bombed out of your community like in WW2, you'd have a different perspective. Fully free speech is nice, but so is being alive. Dead people have no speech.
The team is mostly ex-Jet, and we had a good experience using F# there. Expressive type system, pattern matching, etc. etc. It has all the bells and whistles of a modern programming language. I find that it is very effective for rapid iteration: the type system protects you from bugs when you don't have time for complete test coverage, and there's basically a .NET library for everything under the sun. It makes it easier to spend our time focused on pushing out business features. Also the dotnet CLI tool for Lambda is really easy to use, and made getting something up and running a breeze.

I had also been using it daily for the past two and a half years, so it was just easy to hit the ground running with it. The second employee hire was my boss at Jet and he was on board using it, so we simply continued.
Milan Kundera pronunciation comes neat though https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/milan-kundera... , that’s how we are used over here.
Caption on the last one:

And on the world's last night,

Lo, He shall reach down His hand

To lift up each earthly church by its steeple,

Swing it thrice about His head, and fling it unto Heaven.
I spend a lot of time passing through in this neighborhood, and can mostly confirm this.

In fact, about those luxury condos and housing projects… they're _very_ new, popping up within the past two years and more coming all the time. I’ve been wondering for years what kind of people make the sort of money to afford these places and would also _want_ to live in that area… now I wonder if this decision wasn't made long ago, and word was carefully leaked to various developers to get the housing ready.

It’s not enough to store 25,000 workers, but it’s a lot. Maybe I’m naive but I feel like the immediate area can contain this, with minimal spillover to Manhattan and Brooklyn. (Like, if the workers want to. The area is definitely not the kind of hipster chic or glamour chic or any chic that people come to New York for.)
Also, their business model is “GitHub, but cheaper”.

We now know what GitHub was worth, and it puts the lie to inflated valuations in this space. When $8Bn is a huge deal for your industry, it gets hard to sell higher valuations with a straight face.
A summary, in English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917#Qu...

I take exception to your characterisation of the army as British, however, as it was unquestionably federal Canadian troops. The British were not involved. I also take exception to the idea that it is not talked about. The difference in feeling between English Canadians and French Canadians towards the war was well covered by my (English) Canadian education, particularly in the context of conscription.

[EDIT: Not that conscription was terribly popular in English Canada either, merely more justified to "help the mother country." French Canadians generally did not feel any connection to Britain and wanted to stay out of it.]
I was really hoping for Raleigh and/or Dallas. Instead, Amazon picked two places where the cost of living is worse than Seattle.
Looks like that is still true. They’re pretty open about their model of location-based pay [0]:

"Market rates for roles are different for different regions and countries. We pay market rates instead of paying the same wage for the same role in different regions."

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...
One thing that Amazon provides over others that you might find worth the hefty royalties is the "Also Bought" section. Book discovery can be a pain, and I often find myself picking books up that are suggested to me by Amazon. That engine can be pretty powerful.
> and that is not their fault

Except for some corporate environment, I don't see how it's not their fault. It's easier than ever to make an informed decision before using one's wallet and it's every living, functioning human's duty to improve, grow and learn.

Totally tired of apps that are nothing else than options-less and incontrolable browsers.
Wow, this looks amazing.

Going to check out how to process my model from keras to use with this tool.
Doesn't like that complicated.

Gonna give this a shot :)

Great work !
Ask HN: How to answer “What are your career goals in 5 years”?
I had an interview recently and the question threw me off, hard. I opted for sincerity and told the interviewer: "I see myself as a mercenary and have no career goals, I do my job, improve things and generate profits for my employer. I will do whatever is needed as long as my family is well fed."
He seemed satisfied and I got to the next stage of the process anyway.

Still, I keep wondering if that was a good answer. I truly have no career objectives, as long as my family is ok I don't care if I am building data models or cleaning manure (not a bad occupation, actually it can be quite profitable and the biology behind it is amazing, just using it as hyperbole).

On other occasions, I have tried coming up with something on the spot, but I am quite incompetent at lying and I notice they notice...

How do fellow engineers, scientists and hackers deal with this old question?
I'm not telling you because today I happen to be a jerk.
I think there is no single "secret sauce", instead it is a combination of many different things. This includes being all remote, because it does drastically affect how a company operates.
too late, github is already banned in China
Here’s a link to their calculator: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...
Developers only have themselves to blame. We allowed our technology to be used to spam, cheat and steal from our non-tech family and friends. We made tools that helped the bad-guys and did very little when our non-tech family and friends threw their hands up in confusion and cried for help. We sighed. We called them idiots and rolled our eyes.

We now have to live with a bunch mostly sensible though occasionally over-sensitive rules to make sure we don't try to trick and cheat our non-tech brethren.

We of course still have plenty of other super-techy places we can play—: Linux, Raspberry Pies, Embedded Devices, the whole of server-side internet.

Yet we still moan because someone has walled a bit of it off to protect ordinary people from charlatans.

Boo-hoo.
If you rent.
How the mafia got to our food
Was C16 BASIC different than C64?

It's always funny on C64, because its version of BASIC is terrible: two character variable names, no direct support for sound or graphics. Atari 800 BASIC on the other hand, was awesome, except for the bugs and slowness (all numbers were floats).
That's a lot of words to say that BGP is outdated.
Yeah, but some of the CEO's houses are in these two areas.
Cool dude. Why so salty?
Nope, there's only Sids house in SF that has a few desks for when people want to visit _something_.
Different methods. Same result. But sure, you can't prove a negative.
French investigators to work directly with Facebook to monitor hate speech
> On my regular browser size this looks something like this [1], which is borderline unreadable due to the width alone.

Just resize your browser window: it's not the site's job to guess how you want content displayed.

I loved browsing the web in the 90s: I had a half-width browser window on one side of my screen, an editor window in the upper quadrant of the other side and a console window the the lower quadrant. It was great! Then suddenly every website decided that I must have a full-width browser window, and was ludicrously narrow with a half-width browser. And they all stopped using and started abusing CSS. And then they all started using & abusing (but I repeat myself) JavaScript.

All I really want from the Web in 2018 is the experience I had in the 90s, and I can't get it any longer.
I’d also look east of Long Island City. Probably cheaper than Manhattan. Pick a bad area that will gentrify.

The MTA will be able to run more trains once they modernized their signaling equipment.

They are using 100 year old equipment:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mta-why-has-the-nyc-subway-gone...
Most of the reaction against modern economists for assuming rationality is just meme repetition. Yes, this is an accurate criticism of a tiny portion of modern economists, and of many economists of prior eras. One of my favorite books, Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, is a prime example of how pervasive this meme is -- he seems completely unaware that the critique has largely been integrated into the field well before the time of publication. The assumption of rationality has been replaced by assumptions around bounded rationality and cognitive bias.

Modern economic theory is not some abstraction that doesn't resemble the real world, even in cases where the empirical evidence is as-yet weak (which it's not in this case, as is apparent to anyone who reads the whole entry).
The requirement was to be cloud agnostic. This is one of the few ways possible.
Medium has this option as well.
> Realistically it's the densely overcrowded 7 train

The N is a 10 minute walk to most of Long Island City (source: used to take the N to Manhattan every day while living in LIC).
Yeah, we were all working remotely from the start. We never had an office.

We moved in together for a few months during YC.
> Here's the thing: your browser has a handy tool to increase/decrease font size.

Here's the thing: I don't want the font or the images to be bigger, I want columns to not be this absurdly long. The only way for the user to achieve it is to resize the browser window.

There is a "max-width" CSS property for that. No framework or JS required, just a modicum of care.

> Also this format works great with the browser's "Reader" function.

It still would using max-width.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12665/15-minute-cookies
It bears mentioning that services like Radio Free Asia have been broadcasting into China via shortwave and have been an uncensored source of news for decades. Tuning into a shortwave broadcast is more anonymous than the Internet will ever be and easily accomplished with a cheap common, legal device... a radio. The Chinese government has gone to great lengths to jam these broadcasts, I'm not sure how successful those efforts are in 2018. I suspect more funding for these organizations can only help however.

(Bonus fact: Radio Free Asia contributed most of the initial funding for the development of the Signal protocol!)
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even then, assuming 15k jobs in New York is $75MM/yr, which is a lot of money.
Titles like these add a level of spookiness for people to misunderstand. Not as impactful as Pixar but still a problem.
I have found that if I don't make it out of the house I am not nearly as motivated as I am when working from a coffee shop or similar.

For me, it's mostly been coffee shops and places to eat. I might start going to a university library that has many free meeting rooms, but that's the closest "large" library near me.
FYI: Instead of the "old / out-dated" Jekyll Now setup by Barry Clark (before packaged themes arrived on GitHub Pages) - you can use the Minima theme (default) and get started in 60 seconds. See Hello, Minima! Theme - Get Started in 60 Seconds @ https://github.com/henrythemes/hello-minima-theme as a ready-to-fork (live) example.

PS: For more ready-to-fork (open source) themes for GitHub pages, see the Dr Jekyll Themes directory / listing (200+ and counting) @ http://drjekyllthemes.github.io
> It's impossible for a site developer to know how much space to allocate to their page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

This concept is popular for more than 10 years now. Many websites do it with something as simple as

article { max-width: 60em }

> It's completely unsurprising to me that I can resize the window into a state where the website becomes silly. I just don't do that.

Take Twitter for web. Reduce the browser to something like 60% or 70% of the screen width. The <div><p>...</p></div> elements containing the tweets are chopped off on the right side. It disrupts my reading experience due to minor resizing. This is most of the web today.

> Resizing a window is trivial, it's not that you can't, it's that you won't.

That's true. I don't want to be resizing my browser up and down for every good and bad website.
Could be a good time to mention Plume [1], a Medium clone written in Rust that uses the fediverse for displaying blog posts across different instances.

Still very much a work in progress – but one can already publish articles, comment them, and follow people using RSS or a Mastodon account (because ActivityPub rocks).

Not ready ret, but quite promising.

[1] https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume
Taking a minority group and giving them a common experience of oppression at the hand of the party will create social unity but among themselves and not with the party. It might work for awhile. Acceptance of authoritarian rule goes way back in Asia. I don't think it will promote stability in the long term.
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Skipping over the little annoying facts that fully remote work is not some secret strategy, and that no Fortune 500 company (as an index of success) is 100% remote, let's just do a direct comparison of competitors:

- GitLab is 100% remote and, according the article, was most recently valued at $1 billion, 350 employees, and has an unknown/hidden (or I can't find) number of users.

- Github has a headquarters and also remote work, and was recently acquired for $7.5 billion, with 800 employees and 31 million users.

So...is remote work a secret? Did it lead to a comparative success over a competitor offering similar services but a different organizational strategy? Not really, not even close, no.

More accurately, we should say GitLab has so far managed to make remote work a success for themselves through leadership, organizational culture, and some other actually secret ingredient, which is where the real story lies. Lots of remote companies fail. What has GitLab done right? Sadly, this article only skims the possibilities.
Well, probably a majority of us agree that this can be controlled from the top and not have to cross our fingers and rely on low-informed consumers to change things.
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Out of curiosity, where do you think young well-paid techies live in the city?

Because I'm a young well-paid techie, and I live off of the G line in Brooklyn, which this move would definitely affect.
> when in fact the government official news media is shamelessly spreading fake news every single day on TV and newspaper

I lived in China and outside China both over 10 years, and I have probably read more newspapers and watched more TV in China than you. I can safely say that your statement is false.

> there are all kinds of rumors about Xinjiang in individual news media accounts

There are no rumors about Xinjiang in individual news media accounts, within China, afaik. Happy to correct my understanding if you find such evidence.

> Who should we put the blame on?

If you talking about rumors about China outside China, I think Western media is to be blamed? Not sure.
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Scary! I wonder if it was theobromine poisoning or too much sugar? I guess tootsie rolls could be related to dark chocolate.
> If YouTube is actually lobbying against this both in public and in private, then I would personally consider that extremely strong evidence this is really bad. However, I have no inside info on their private position.

If the proposed law actually is too expensive for them, I could see them attempting to weaken it to a sweet spot where it's affordable for them, but expensive enough to still keep others out of the market.
as others have pointed out flying has become even safer in the last years

Modern cars have also become much safer. Which has become safer faster, and thus in which way has the ratio changed? (Real question, I don't know the answer but would be interested in the updated numbers)
Here's the thing: It's not better zoomed in. Insanely huge lettering isn't any better just because it's suddenly 85 characters wide on your screen, or whatever the goal these days is.

At a certain point you have to recognize that even little CSS (max-width, font-size) can actually be a good thing, and when a site lacks this it doesn't make it somehow inherently better, it just makes it harder to read and I am nearly as inclined to simply hit the back button as I am on Medium articles. It's two ends to a horseshoe. The best place to be is somewhere closer to the middle.
Sure, that's fine—it's probably not my original thought, either.
It's impossible for a site developer to know how much space to allocate to their page.

max-width: a bunch of ems;
There is no headquarters, even the executive team is remote. Many of them live in the Bay Area (where Sid, our CEO moved) but our VP of Product, for instance, is in Portugal.

IThere is a boardroom dedicated to GitLab where board meetings happen. But even for each of those, there is a zoom bridge for remote executives to join: https://about.gitlab.com/company/visiting/