skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium?

If you care about that kind of thing and are good at it you probably shouldn't. Medium maintains its own credible brand, which is a godsend for someone who just wants to write, and not worry about design, branding or personality.

>Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But this is a factor of “Editors pick” which will soon hit flooding issues and the rich gets richer issues in the front page. Can they ensure continuous coverage at this level ?

Of course they can't ensure anything. But you have xx potential readers (in a more immediate fashion than the way you have 1 million potential readers for anything you put on the web). For some people that helps.

>Some time from now they’ll have to make money. They’ll charge you, run ads or sell to another company. This might not be in sync with your ideology. I pay $6 on prgrmr. Cheap enough. Is this acceptable to you?

I have my own copies of everything I write. If medium brings in changes a year from now and I have to move somewhere different, it's no big. That it might go away at some time is no reason not to enjoy its benefits now.

>I agree maintaining a domain is more hard work than writing on medium but the feeling of “I own it” is incredible. Don’t you feel the same?

Nope. I want to write, and to be read, but I'd be happy to do so anonymously. It's not something I do to build up my personal brand or anything like that.
They also invest much less. I'm not sure why you would need a safeguard for investing $429. Clearly you can miss the money since the starter clearly states you won't get the project until its done, and that's a minimum of 6 months away.

If the project never gets done and no one receives their reward, what's the harm done?
Shouldn't progressive enhancement be part of best practices, rather than a billable feature on the invoice? Or in other words, used by default.
Sure. Heck, the Coursera class, startup engineering, is still taking new people, and it's free and strongly supportive of working professionals.

Don't expect miracles. You will always be learning more, and people who have been doing things for longer then you will know more, even if they are younger. Measure your progress based on your own abilities.
Huh, I did not know that.

Btw, are you Turkish?
And yet, to add insult to multiple injuries, they are not even allowed to die. They are force-fed. If nothing else can be done, they should be allowed to starve themselves to death if that's their wish. I wonder if Boehner, Limbaugh, etc. would be ok with that.
Yes makes perfect sense ...
15887 days ago on 01 January 1970

why .... this was a pre-internet blog !
The problem there is that every new service needs its own glue code. I know there are companies (that I'm not shilling for) that are trying to create something like "universal glue code" but I'm not so sure those proprietary solutions are the right way. That seems to be against "the Unix way".

I openly admit that I'm not smart enough. I've thought about it for a while and I'm flummoxed. What's a good way to make glue code easier?
It's good product design to cut options that allow your used to break your product.
Take a rest and pick up one book, read it.
My advise maybe not tech-related but it helps.
I would recommend Qur'an. Yes, it is Muslims book and so I am. Don't be afraid to read it, I am 100% sure that what's in Qur'an will help you. You need hope, you will get it, you need change, you will get it. At least you will know what is Islam. I wish you the best.
> and they don't like to have even one bad loan if they can help it

I'm sorry, which banks are we talking about here?
This is coming - I've been swamped. Hear you loud and clear though.
To simplify: When 51% of the people discover that they can vote themselves the wealth of the other 49%, they will.
Not every comment on HN is intended to eventually make it unscathed onto Wikipedia.

I intended to spark discussion around the question “Why do so many people want applications to provide tabbed windows?”. I can see that people might have misinterpreted my comment as attacking the OC for wanting tabs (wanting tabs is a rational response to not having faith in the OS's window management capabilities) or as an attack on MS-Windows (I used PC as opposed to tablets/phones, which use non-windowed guis; so to include Macs/Gnome/KDE/etc; perhaps there is an obscure windowing environment that allows me to group and manage tens of windows without the aid of application-level tabs, but I am not aware of it). Never mind.

(No references: original research.)
Note that at no point in the movement the torso moves up or down, so the forces on the joints/back are much lighter. So wouldn't that make the movement a light unnatural movement like swimming is? Do people get many knee injuries from swimming? (I had a knee injury that flared up when swimming, but I don't think it caused it)
I think this is all about API & modularity, if you define a general API for your monitoring tool (eg. how should an adapter notify you when there is a new job, etc), you can then write an adapter for Hubot, and everyone that has its own solution can write an adapter for it & glue it to your code :)
Wrapping the IE rendering engine in a different UI is a different browser, but further than that, you can also embed Gekko, Firefox's rendering engine in a custom UI.

Examples of browsers that embedded Gekko: Camino (a Firefox fork for OS X that happened in a time when Firefox wasn't as polished for OS X), Flock and K-Meleon. Google's Picassa for Linux was also using Gekko.

Also, Firefox's UI toolkit is not GTK, but rather XUL+XPCOM, abstracting over the various native toolkits: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL

Only Firefox on Linux uses GTK. Even on Linux, there have been previous attempts at supporting Qt as the backend for KDE, but all failed because of the easiness with which you can make GTK look like whatever KDE theme you've got selected - not perfect, but the flaws where not enough to gather interest in further development.

There's even XULRunner, for easily building and packaging XUL+XPCOM standalone apps: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XULRunner

This isn't to say that XUL/Gekko are perfect as their complexity was often the subject of criticism, which is why Mozilla replaced XUL completely with HTML5 in Firefox OS and will probably do so in future Firefox versions - as they are also working on Servo, a next-gen rendering engine that doesn't do XUL anymore: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/

Imagine a browser who's every facet and functionality is customizable by HTML5/Javascript extensions that you can install with one click. That's what Firefox already is - the Emacs of browsers.

For example, if my Firebug example wasn't enough, when Chrome was released, many people loved the light download progress functionality that wasn't opening an annoying modal window. Pretty soon an extension called the Download Statusbar happened: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-stat...
Not very many by internet startup standards, but the ones I do have are very engaged. Thank you for your advice from last time, it was very helpful.
Haha, that site is still trying to load 3 minutes later. Is there a contact number listed? Maybe I can speak with him on Skype and see what the deal is. Thanks for this though.
Well, worst case, it helps to solve our overpopulation problem. /s
You may just have something different and great with the "private writing." Seriously does anyone care 1 million people read them, or a select 100, maybe even a select 10 then you can have a meaningful discussion with those. Private writing sounds more innovative to me then Medium, Sbvtle, and the likes.
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> So, the next time you’re about to make a subclass. Think hard and ask yourself — what would Go do.

I enjoy using both languages (Objective-C by day, Go by night), but I'm not sure this advice is necessarily something I would follow.

Because at the root of it all, Go is procedural and Objective-C is object-oriented. But the word "procedural" (or "imperative") isn't mentioned once in this blog post...it seems as if maybe the author missed something here? For example:

>In Go, composition of existing classes is trivial

...classes simply don't exist in Go. Composition of interfaces, yes, not classes. And maybe that's me being picky, but I think it's a really important distinction. One of the reasons I think the author found taking this further "incredibly difficult" is that the two methodologies are very different and perhaps shouldn't mix.

Maybe other people will have differing views, but I honestly don't know whether it is worth trying to impose a procedural viewpoint onto a overtly object orientated language (or vice versa). So to throw this open: am I missing something here?
I've been using KiTTY for a year or so now, and it's great.
Yep. That means...

Instead of working 39 hours per week for one job, I'll work 29 hours a week, and have to get multiple jobs.

Yay.
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Yes, Firefox is still more embeddable than IE (although that is changing, since almost no one does).

And it doesn't force you to use GTK for your UI.
Strongly disagree. Lots of the web may not degrade gracefully, but then also lots of it does.

Further, the notion of it as a lost battle is unfortunate because we're not discussing a binary choice between two opposing sides here. As an approach, progressive enhancement of JavaScript UIs enables developers to deliver an experience that degrades sanely in non-JS environments.

However, I will concede that your opinion appears to be the most commonly-held one, even among some developers. And it's probably not going to change for the better with news like this Firefox development... :-/
Am I the only one here who can see the fallacy in this?

Government does not have unlimited power. Government is accountable, mostly democratically controlled power. It is, if there is a proper democracy (which there is in much of Western Europe, not the US so much) the exact opposite of unlimited power.

Anarchy on the other hand is (slightly) diffused unlimited power. And also power only dependent on wealth. And without anyone to protect the (financially) weak, without any laws or government-backed justice, this diffused power is much worse than anything a well-functioning democracy would come up with...
> Why would you use something that is extra physical effort to use and makes you worse at gaming?

Fun.

Did you miss the Dance Dance Revolution mats, the Guitar Hero guitars, the light gun games, DK Bongos, etc etc?
These days I use MobaXterm for SSH and SFTP
http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
MobaXterm is an excellent program and that has way more features than I actually use.
Absolutely! But I still find myself having to make the case for it, when others are looking for ways to cut corners.
You mean "pre-web blog" as the internet existed in 1970 :p (albeit it was just ARPANET back then - TCP/IP came a few years later)

Anyhow, I wonder if this is a fault at with his hosts (possibly a variable not assigned a value in some managed code) as the expires age happens to be the start date of the UNIX time stamp (epoch)
Then embed Webkit (or even Xulrunner, but that's painful) and go from there. Good luck.
Feedback please: Snap Forty, simple selective e-mail archiving
Built over the weekend to solve the problem of keeping important e-mails stored in a safe place, without having to search through huge mail archives.
I'm surprised no one has posted this xkcd strip yet.

http://xkcd.com/1172/
A fair point but misleading - they're not a simple checkbox which can break your everyday experience. In fact, none of them are UI relevant at all, really.
Hmm, that requires USB booting though, if you disable that from the BIOS and password protect it, they can't really use this method. If they pull the battery the machine needs to be turned off and so the RAM will clear.
Again, blame the web designers who don't even do enough diligence how others do the same. And demands of proper, obvious labeling is one of the better tools to stop companies from putting useless crap everywhere.
I am using mRemoteNG (http://www.mremoteng.org/).

What's great is that in one tabbed interface I can do VNC / RDP and SSH connections.
It makes sense to me. You can't even do Internet banking these days without needing Javascript enabled and to disable it you'll always have the plethora of addons that allow you to disable Javascript anyway. I think this is a welcome removal from Firefox, it's 2013 not 1925, Javascript is everywhere.
"Love depends on your having caring family/friends"
This is something I have never had until recently when I met my girlfriend. Even to this day, and even if I had something really important to talk about to my parents, I couldn't get their ear for more than 1 minute without losing their interest. They've always taught me to deny my feelings, and have never really listened to me. I guess if I was smarter I would have dealt with it better, but sadly I am not. Thank you, I am keeping in mind what you said about patience and love. These are both things my current girlfriend has, and I found myself strongly attracted to her for these qualities. I cry often when I think of her because I am so grateful for her kindness and patience with me. She is the first person in the world (irl) that has actually listened to me.

You know, I think if I could earn 40k per year coding, it would take the pressure off for me. I've never started just because I never thought I could compete with the naturals that went to MIT and represented Will from Good Will Hunting, but maybe I've just been blowing things out of proportion. I've always been able to figure things out, and I did earn a degree in engineering (although not CS) and rise in the company ranks, so I must be somewhat useful. I guess I never give myself any credit either. Maybe I do have imposter syndrome like another user commented. I will make it a point to celebrate more and narrow down to just ONE thing a day for the meantime. Right now, I am so overwhelmed that I end up doing nothing. And it just perpetuated. Although I haven't properly replied to many of the comments here, it has really helped me just reading what people have suggested, and talking it out.
Mozilla is working on it. Firefox OS for example no longer uses XUL and they've got an awesome research project called Servo - a Gekko replacement that addresses its short-comings.
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Ghostery is great at getting rid of most of that stuff and Adblock removes the rest; one can also disable Adblock per domain.

Click to play on plugins is great, Firefox should also have it builtin (as Chrome does).
I know there is a few projects (http://justgetflux.com/) that accomplish this but is there any science behind it? I know some people swear by this but I haven't heard anything except anecdotal evidence.
Wow. This game is really addictive.
+1 for MobaXterm!

Excellent program, includes bash and some other basic linux tools and an X server so you can run forwarded applications via SSH.
It doesn't beat running an actual linux distro, but it's the closest thing to it that I've found.
Ah! So that's how you guys did it! I always wondered what you were doing beyond UDP hole punching.
I guarantee that you, in particular, will do a lot more reproducing if you acquire a bag of cocaine, Poindexter.
By being red at least 50% of the time (and making cars drive past fast & and making it an offence to cross the street even if there is no traffic (so in addition to watching the traffic one needs to scan the street for police...)).

Also, in many older (& also modern Dutch & UK inner cities) we have a thing called Woonerf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf), which means a ~15 miles per hour maximum speed off the main roads inside residential areas, so pedestrians and kids can actually enjoy/play on the roads...
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Yes it is possible as long as you can overcome the initial difficulties and please don't quit your Job or take unnecessary risk.

I was 29 years old when i changed from Mechanical Engineer to Software Engineer after just a 3 months study of programming in C in Singapore after I had emigrated to Singapore.

I was 43 years (2 years back) old when i decided to create my own product based company and decided to do the full coding for it individually (Foolishly) without any major experience in product development (I had enormous knowledge of what to do as a Senior Project Manager, less knowledge on how to do and did not have much practice in doing it (Programming))

Programming is hard but it gives you unlimited happiness once you overcome the initial frustrations. If you want to experience the joy of building something with your own hands as well as the sorrow of failure because it is not working as you expect, just go to a beach and build a Sand Castle near the water. You will experience the Joy of completing your Sand Castle and the sorrow of destruction of the Sand Castle by the water and the ultimate satisfaction of protecting your Sand Castle from the Vagaries of Nature.

The Joy of Programming comes from the Problem Solving aspects of Master Building (Planning, Designing, Tuning) and the pain comes from the Brick laying (Typing, Debugging, Testing) of the Implementation. Unfortunately Brick laying is an Ocean littered with multiple languages, frameworks, ides etc. Hence if you have an Objective to your learning Programming, you will easily overcome the initial difficulty in learning programming. Eg. The objective for your case can be create a website/mobile app to sell or display something. From this objective, you can measure your progress as well as choose appropriate multiple languages to master to achieve your objectives.

If you want help, please feel free to send mail to me.
I can't see any mention here, but does Medium pay their authors for the content? Or is the pertinent question, how well does it pay compared to other article sites?
The two approaches are more similar than one might think: inheritance is a special case of composition. In fact, traits (in some languages called typeclasses) unify inheritance and composition quite nicely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis
Portugal has offered to take detainees (2), http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/07/portugal.syri... and I believe other countries have also offered. I am not sure whether this already has taken place or whether it relates to the individuals still in captivity.
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Oh, and I didn't post this to bash the sincere concern about discoverable options. They could disable JS, and they still can, using an extension or going through a menu which clearly states that those configurations may break the 99% of the web.

Every change is prone to break someone's workflow. But if there is a good enough alternative and if the change is better for everyone, I think that should be left alone. If there was no way to disable JS after this update, I'd be pretty mad as well. But having an option deep enough to keep away from unsuspecting eyes is only sane.
Of course in reality you move in every direction, even perpendicular to your direction.( Omni supports side_stepping.)

I define strafing ( in games ) as running sideways at the same speed as running forward ( as in most shooters ) , which is not done in real life.
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Do you have experience with mgo http://labix.org/mgo
That's usually UDP. With this method, you "get all of the utility [TCP] provides without trying to reproduce it over UDP."
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It's a shame that they didn't push "ecmascript" as the name ~15 years ago back when it was new. Now we're stuck with problems like this...
> But that stuff is all important for the website owner.

Correct. However, this is not true for the the browser owner who owns the computer that the javascript executes on. What rights to my hardware, my electricity, and my bandwidth should the website owner actually have?

For the minority that do click on advertising, or do not get a instant distaste for any company displayed on advertising that are forcible pushed into ones face, I suggest using a opt-in system. Same goes for tracking, or the constant push for integrating different companies websites with ones personal social network profile.

Last, the golden days of pay-with-your-eyeballs or pay-with-your-personal-data supported services might be counting down. Sooner or later, tax officers will start consider those as transaction as any other, and thus enforce taxes on them.
Two reviews may be minor considering a free app (fortunately for the OP), but it can be a disaster for a paid app.
A sincere apology, along with providing counselling, free housing and a stable pension to take care of their living expenses - would go a long way.

Also, hatred grows exponentially, with each day they spend in prison and is multiplied by the international audience that's watching the story unfold. If you fear their hatred, the most rational thing to do is to release them and package their misfortune in tale with a happy ending.

Not doing that will lead to even more hatred and even bigger monsters.
One of the documented side effects of virtual reality is a mental disease called derealization , which makes people feel like real life isn't real, and causes a lot of anxiety.

Also there's the fact that military training conditions people to kill automatically without thinking and the fact that virtual reality has a proven ability to decondition people with PTSD or fear of spiders(with real results in real life), which is basically the same psychological process of military conditioning.

All this raises interesting questions about "the line" between real and virtual , that at least be tested before wide scale deployment of VR.
I wonder how many reviews are posted per day in the Apple/Google app stores.
Yea, the search engine is about the only thing. Which is why I said "nearly everything" and not "everything".
Then have another checkbox, something like "enable advanced settings (warning: if you don't know anything about cars, would you really mess with your car's breaks?)", that toggles the availability of these kinds of settings. Everybody wins.
Go is procedural and Objective-C is object-oriented

I'm not sure that Go is entirely procedural - types and type embedding mean it also has concept of tying data and functions which operate on that data together, controlling access etc.

The type system in Go fits nicely with some similar ideas in Objective C - Obj-C Protocols are similar to interfaces (though in Obj-C they are explicitly declared and adhered to, unlike Go), and Categories are similar to Type Embedding in Go (though there are differences of course). So those two ideas of duck-typing and composition work across both languages, though obviously there are differences in that Obj-C has a more traditional Object inheritance model as well.
[0] Precisely.

[1], [2] After all management does such decisions. I have warned people face-to-face, via E-Mail, through all possible channels. So if things go wild, it's their problem, not mine.
I can't stand engineers who assume that they know better than those who use their products. Not just hiding the ability to easily disable javascript, but RE-ENABLING IT AGAIST THE USERS EXPRESSED DESIRE via an update - seriously, your head is so far up your ass you'd have to shit twice just to see daylight.
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